Topic: Culture & Society

Breaking the "Silents" - how generational factors could help America elect a 72-year-old president.

If elected, Senator Clinton would be the first woman President of the United States; if elected, Senator Obama would be the first African-American President; and if elected, Senator McCain would not only be the first President from his generation - the Silent Generation - he would represent the new face of how America is redefining age.

Saith the people behind this move: "Each member of the Canadian Parliament has been provided with a copy of the full length feature film documentary 'Fastwalkers Congressional Update' DVD, labeled 'Top Secret.' For the first time in Canadian history, elected officials will be able to personally view documented evidence that, when investigated by Parliament, will pave the way for a serious examination of the UFO matter.

Exopolitics Toronto announces that in cooperation with Executive Producer/Writer Robert D. Miles, the full length feature film documentary Fastwalkers Congressional Update DVD, labeled "Top Secret" has been delivered to all 308 members of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada.

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UFO over urban apartment building.

Campaign will support tree planting efforts in the Atlantic forest of Brazil.

On Friday The Nature Conservancy launched the "Plant a Billion Trees Campaign" at www.plantabillion.org to restore and plant one billion trees by 2015 in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.

"Miles to Go" by Laurel-Rain Snow is the story of two women whose friendship helped them survive one of the most radical decades in American history.

Laurel-Rain Snow's page-turning Miles to Go is an intensely moving novel about love, loss and sisterhood, written by an author who lived through it all.

This book would seem to have it all, a British trance channeler, the Akashic records and royalty. What more could you want?

The Queen’s oldest grandson, Peter Phillips, will marry at Windsor Castle on May 17, 2008 in what will be the first British royal wedding in nearly ten years. Prince William will be best man. Charles and Camilla will no doubt be in attendance - possibly even Kate Middleton.

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Back in the 1960s, we all felt that groups like The Beatles, Spirit and King Crimson were channeling their material from a mystical realm. Writer Brian Joseph agrees, and offers evidence that these artists thought so too.

In his Apology to the Athenians Socrates tells of coming upon a group of poets who do not understand the meaning of their own poems. In his Republic, Plato said that all good poets were inspired and possessed when they created. Plato also said that "it is God Himself who addresses us through them" and that God takes away the minds of these poets and uses them as his ministers. Some of the Sufi speak of poetry and prose that comes to them while in an ecstatic state and refer to it as shathiyat. Joseph Campbell spoke of poetry that comes from a transcendent source and how poets can be unaware of what they are talking about.

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Cover of Beatles album Abbey Road.

"The Adventures of Nick the Ecologist and his Robot O-Zone: The Mystery of the Missing Trees" is an illustrated children's book for readers ages 7 to 11.

The Adventures of Nick the Ecologist and his Robot O-Zone: The Mystery of the Missing Trees, an illustrated, educational book teaches children about ecology and astronomy.

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Buddy G, the title animated character in "Buddy G, My Two Moms and Me" has become a member of COLAGE, an organization for children with a gay parent or guardian.

COLAGE has welcomed Buddy G as the organization's newest member. The organization is a national movement of children, youth and adults who have one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) parents.

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Buddy G with other youth members of COLAGE.

This feature length documentary takes an up close look at the town that became the home of the world famous Witch School in 2003.

The New York Underground Film Festival (NYUFF) has announced that the independent documentary Hoopeston will be included in the lineup for this year's event. Known as the "King of the Indies," the NYUFF has a long-standing tradition of showcasing some of the world's most cutting-edge contemporary films, from full-length features to video shorts. In its 15th and final year, the festival promises to deliver one of its strongest lineups ever.

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Still photo from the feature length documentary Hoopeston that will premiere at the New York Underground Film Festival.

In 2004 Andrew Chugg published the hypothesis that the corpse identified as St Mark the Evangelist, which was shipped to Venice from Alexandria in the early ninth century, might actually be the remains of Alexander the Great. At that time this suggestion rested mainly on circumstantial evidence, but now a large block of sculpture found embedded in the foundations of St Mark's Basilica in Venice just a few metres from the Saint's tomb has been independently identified as a funerary relief from a high status Macedonian tomb of the 3rd century BC. Stone tests have revealed a fossil mix which seemed at first to suggest a Roman quarry near Trieste, but it has recently transpired that the stone used for the core blocks of the pyramid of Cheop's son at Abu Roash in Egypt is also remarkably similar. This pyramid began to be quarried for sculptural stone by Alexander's successors in Egypt, probably in order to embellish their monuments in Alexandria, including Alexander's tomb. Alexandria lies just 100 miles down the Nile from this mostly destroyed pyramid, which would have been the most convenient source of good quality stone for the city at the time.

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The anciently sculpted block discovered in the foundations of St Marks in Venice. The front face depicts a shield embellished with a central starburst symbol with a spear slanting above it and a pair of greaves to its right. On the left-hand side are the remains of the "Sword in the Stone", an ancient kopis slung diagonally from a tasselled sword-belt: such swords were among the most prominent props in Oliver Stone's 2004 movie biography of Alexander.