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EarthPortal.org Announced Today, Launching Tomorrow!

Dear Friends,

A dream has finally come true.  After four years of hard work, the first of what will someday be thousands of the most trustworthy, educational portals on the Web, is about to launch. It will be free of corporate/commercial bias, and FREE to the public forever!

http://earthportal.org is the result of 650 of the world’s top scientists in 49 countries (so far) coming together to produce the highest quality, non-commercial, non-profit resource for information about our planet anywhere in the World.

Please go there and enjoy the vision video announcing the official launch this Friday.

The portal will be previewed in a press conference in Washington DC at the Press Club beginning at 1 p.m. EST today featuring Jane Goodall (by video) , Robert Corell, and Ambassador Richard Benedick among others.

And after the launch tomorrow, please go back and  register there to show your support for this breathtakingly ambitious effort.

Our children deserve no less. Our planet deserves no less.

Please also pass this on to everyone you know who cares about science, the environment, education, truth, knowledge…

The Earth Portal is a non-commercial destination on the Web for news, learning and debate about the state and future of our environment. There will never be any advertising on Digital Universe websites and it will always be free.

The Earth Portal will facilitate the emergence of a new community to emerge, directly connecting educators, scientists, journalists, policy makers and you.

Join us and bring your children on April 27th (tomorrow) at http://EarthPortal.org.

This is a project of:
The Digital Universe
ManyOne Networks
Salt Lake City Office
801.274.0882

You may also view the Vision Video at:

YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zgqTTNzOY10

Google: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2250726429896198491&hl=en

Helen Thomas speaks in Salt Lake

Helen Thomas, long time White House Correspondent and Journalist, spoke last night in Salt Lake City. People who went to hear her speak had to be turned away because the venue quickly filled up to the point of standing room only. Thomas is frequently referred to as “The First Lady of the Press.”

Journalist Helen Thomas lived up to her reputation Saturday in Salt Lake City, delivering a fiery speech to a standing-room-only crowd of hundreds that a tent-revival minister might be proud of.
“Reporters were gullible to the White House spin,” she said. “Our much touted standards of fairness, and above all truth, the holy grail of our profession, took a holiday.”
Of Bush, a man she calls a staunch conservative who views the world in blacks and whites, she said, “He wanted to be known as a war president. He is.”
Thomas, who has covered nine presidents in her 57 years as White House correspondent for United Press International, criticized Bush for thinking he is “above the law,” citing his secret authorization of domestic wiretapping and the treatment of detainees.
“I believe people can handle the truth, and deserve no less,” she said.