The Philadelphia Experiment Revelations!: An Update on The Philadelphia Experiment Chronicles - Exploring The Strange Case of Alfred Bielek & Dr. M.K.
IN 1942, AN EXPERIMENT TO MAKE A NAVY SHIP MAGNETICALLY INVISIBLE, TURNED INTO A SOUL-SHATTERING NIGHTMARE THAT BREACHED THE VERY WALLS OF TIME AND SPACE In This New, Updated Edition, Based on The Philadelphia Experiment Chronicles, The Story of a Highly Classified - ABOVE TOP SECRET - Project Conducted By The U.S. Navy, Can Now Be Told According to survivor accounts, the Philadelphia Experiment involved the teleportation of the U.S.S. Eldridge a mega-ton Destroyer Escort from its dry dock in the Philadelphia Naval Yard to Norfolk, Virginia - a distance of around 400 miles. During at least part of the time, the Eldridge was 'missing' from the City of Brotherly Love, the destroyer was said to have been transported into another dimension. Upon its return, most of the vessel's hand-picked test crew - all of whom had been left totally unprepared and unprotected - either 'caught on fire,' became literally frozen into the hull of the ship, went stark, raving mad, or vanished, never to be
The Connections World
A central feature of modern Asia that trumps differences in economic and political systems is the web of close relationships running between and within business and politics; the connections world. These networks facilitate highly transactional interactions yielding significant reciprocal benefits. Although the connections world has not as yet seriously impeded Asia's economic renaissance, it comes with significant costs and fallibilities. These include the creation and entrenchment of huge market power and the attenuation of competition. They in turn hold back the growth in productivity and innovation that will be essential for further development. The connections world also breeds massive inequalities that may culminate in political instability. The authors argue that if Asia's claim to the 21st century is not to be derailed, major changes must be made to policy and behaviour so as to cut away the foundations of the connections world and promote more sustainable economic and
Unsung
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