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This file is a 1999 set of email records from a federal records system, possibly released through FOIA. Most of the emails are broadcast messages from Joseph P. Firmage promoting his online book The Truth and the International Space Sciences Organization, which he founded to study propulsion, energy and consciousness. One message, from Ed Yardeni, concerns a World Economic Forum Y2K panel at Davos and notes that Firmage was originally on the panel. None of the emails describe a specific UFO sighting.
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ARMS Email System Page 6 of 11 courage to question not simply the direction of funding for existing world military machines, but the forward-looking adequacy of the aging social programming informing their very charters. Second, positive new priorities for our industrious activities will have to be identified which can go to work quickly. Without coercion, they must truthfully invite harmony among the ethical compasses of individuals across strata of world society, in resonance with the gifts, needs and limits of Nature. These new priorities must soar above the relevance of old grievances 'and individual profit, giving us real comfort that unlocking our doors in faith one day is right. Secretly, I think we are coming to know that this is'the only sustainable path for the long term. Since our cultural dialogue increasingly evolves in Internet time, I imagine that wi'thin startlingly few years we will be asking , ourselves what ways we can find to drastically redirect military' spending. Other simpler approaches to sustainable prevention of military conflicts will be emerging. We'll be tell~ng our parents, spouses and ~hildren to come home, with gratitude and admiration for their courage and sacrifice, hopefully ready and able to use their tremendous skills more rewarding quests than war. "Beautiful but hopelessly naive vision, Joe::. the rest of us live in the real world," many will likely say. We'll see. The candidates in the elections of the next 20 years are going to be faced with precisely this 'scale of challenge to their stewardship.'I hope their visions can stretch into the hearts of the people of all nations. God help us if they can't. Enlisting Bugs in the War on Drugs Focusing the question of military confrontation on another kingdom of life, we find a creature described by Rep. Bill McCollum as "a silver bullet in the drug war". A strain of the fungus called Fusarium oxyporum is beingcultivated in cannabis sativa, coca, and poppy plants. It has been reported that the Drug Czar under Governor Jeb Bush's administration in Florida wants to try it out. It is not a great secret to ordinary Americans that those components of the U.S. War on Drugs focused on interdiction have failed to significantly curtail availability. While there are frequently small and infrequently ~large busts of traffic and traffickers, the supply of certain plant substances demanded by the American consumer has fostered an underground economy of production and distribution that will forever morphto confound the obstacles confronting it. The distribution sy~tem itself smells of the decay of the,tens of thousands of children it consumes: Both proponents and opponents of the War on Drugs decry the catastrophic costs'to society of the overall situation. But, that is as far as total agreement goes. Representing a prevalent view on corrective strategy, General Barry M. McCaffrey noted years ago, ','the elimination of illicit coca and opium
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 30 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.