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Which secret government documents will be declassified on December 31 and other news…….

AUDIOMIND / December 29, 2006

December 23, 2006

This New Year’s Eve, at midnight on the dot, hundreds of millions of pages of U.S. government secrets will be revealed. Or at least they’ll no longer be official secrets — it may actually take months or more for the National Archives and Records Administration to make those pages available for public consumption. The NARA is already dealing with a multi-million page backlog.

But in theory if not in immediate practice, what was set in motion by the Clinton administration in 1995 is coming to fruition. Executive Order 12958 declared that in 2000, every classified document 25 years of age or older would be automatically declassified unless the classifying agency had already sought and received that document’s exemption (anything that could cause an “identifiable” risk to national security, would violate a person’s privacy or involves more than one agency is exempt).… Read More...

666: Sign of the Devil?

From the apocalyptic fictional series, “Left Behind” (with a video game to match), to numerologists, scholars, theologians and Hollywood blockbusters, theories about “666” abound. But what is “666” all about, anyway?

The number finds its origins in the last book of the New Testament, Revelation. The book is the apocalyptic vision of the Apostle John on the island of Patmos. The story goes that the Roman government exiled John to the Greek isle for preaching about his faith. At the time, Christianity was an underground movement the government saw as a potential threat to the stability of Roman rule. After an unsuccessful attempt to kill him in boiling oil, the Romans sent John to Patmos for the remainder of his life, where he died an old man.… Read More...