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The Bering Strait Bridge Idea

For a number of reasons, the idea to build a bridge across the Bering Strait, connecting Alaska and Eastern Siberia, has come up again. Here you some general background info like:


	What and where is the Bering Strait? What’s going on there? What’s the weather like? Who would go there? Whose idea was that in the first place?

Israel - The Frontline Is Everywhere
Lloyd Howell

In mid-November of 2003 I had the opportunity to participate in a task force as part of a Peace Rally in Israel, which was organized by the Inter-religious and International Federation for World Peace [IIFWP]. The purpose was to advance the Middle-East peace process with the underlying idea that peace would not come through political or military means but that there is also a religious and spiritual side of the peace equation; that religion, at its best, brings man outside of himself and the confines of his nationality to see the brotherhood and oneness of all people as God’s children. The goal was to tap into these powerful currents and direct them toward solving the problem.

I learned and experienced many things on my brief trip to the Land of the Prophets, Priests and Messiah. I met the limitations of today’s religions and their followers and also met some of my own limitations. I saw how badly intermediaries are needed; people who could steer the antagonists to reconciliation and appreciation. I saw the need for vision and leadership.

One of my conclusions is that making ’peace’ is not like buying ’fast food’. It is a ’process’ more like making fine wine - one that requires the investment of sweat and tears and sometimes life itself.