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Behind the environmental lobby: it may seem stranger than fiction, but it's a documentable fact: the eco-socialist movement is financed by the super-rich as part of a comprehensive agenda for global control.(Environment)(Interview)
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April 04, 2005 |
Grigg, William Norman |
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Homer Hickam was a 14-year-old living in a tiny West Virginia mining village called Coalwood when he learned that the Soviet Union had placed the Sputnik satellite into orbit. Like tens of millions of Americans, Hickam was at once inspired by the opening of a new frontier and alarmed to discover that the Soviets had taken an early lead in the Space Race.
Driven by the desire to explore the skies, rather than spending decades toiling in the bowels of the Appalachian earth, Hickam and his friends began to design and build their own rockets. In 1960, Hickam's rocket design earned him a gold medal at the National Science Fair--and put him on a trajectory leading to a ...
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