Government key witness recants her testimony!

Habibah Washington, Prosecution's key witness against Malachi York. She recants her false testimony and explains the entire plot to falsely accuse Malachi York of crimes he did not commit.

Habibah Washington was known by many as "Abigail". In the five years I lived on the land, Abigail was in charge, as she will confirmed in the video above. Although she's under five feet tall, she was fierced and feared by the residents of Tama-Re. She ran Tama-Re with an iron fist. Her A.E.O. name is Sakhmet Ptah Atum. She is definitely a personification of the Sakhmet as malevolent being. But she will sometimes suprise you with kindness.

Abigail have two children by Dr. Malachi Z. York. According to her, the Feds used fear tactics to create false charges agains Malachi. The Feds threatened to take her children away and also threatened her with jail time. And therefore felt that she was cornerd to work with the prosecution team. <>

Overhead Shots of Tama-Re

Below are overhead shots of Tama-Re. Once called Egypt of the West. It was the vision and product of Dr. Malachi Z. York. He referred to it as "The Holy Land" or simply "The Land" by many Nuwaubians, or Nuwaupians. It was seized by the federal government, after they won the case again Dr. Malachi Z. York.

What's strange to me is I never heard the government taking individual's property due to a child molestation case. But let David Moreland tells you, its exactly how they do things in Putnam County, Eatonton, Georgia. David Moreland is the author who wrote a book called "Chicken Come Home To Roost". Although the book is fiction, according to him, its base on his personal experience. In his interview, he explains how public officials in Putnam County have no regards of the law. For more information about David Moreland's interview visit http://www.nuwaubianfacts.com/

I do have to thank the individual or people that made these overhead shots of Tama-Re possible.  Visit them and download the high resolution images from the following link http://phreakmonkey.com/aviation/nuwaubian-air/

Video Documentary about the Conspiracy of Dr. Malachi Z. York's case

This is a new video documetary about Dr. Malachi Z. Yorks' conspiracy case. Several Nuwaubain members were interview and for the first time. Their voices are being heard without the biasness of the media.

Snipes' company may buy property

Actor's Amen-Ra films is interested in Putnam land adjacent to Nuwaubians
The Macon Telegraph,
May 11, 2000
By Rob Peecher
EATONTON - A security guard group affiliated with action-adventure actor Wesley Snipes is interested in buying land in Putnam County to build a training facility.
The 257 acres adjoins the 476-acre village owned by the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors on Shady Dale Road west of Eatonton.
Snipes' production company, Amen-Ra films, owns The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra, the company planning to purchase the acreage, according to Snipes spokeswoman Justine Hah.
Hah, however, denies any connection between Snipes and the Nuwaubians.
But a Nuwaubian representative said Thursday that Snipes is one of many "millionaire Nuwaubians" planning to purchase property in Putnam County.
Al Woodall, an agent for the nine Nuwaubians who own the 476-acre village, said millionaire Nuwaubians are not only buying the 257 acres at 290 Shady Dale Road but also the village at 404 Shady Dale Road.
"(Snipes) is actually an avid Nuwaubian, at that," Woodall said. "What I'm hearing is there are a few Nuwaubian millionaires from the music industry, the movie industry, business, finance, different aspects - but they're all millionaires, including (Nuwaubian leader) Malachi York. And from what I'm hearing, (they) are planning on buying the property in Putnam County, including the 404 Shady Dale Road."
But Hah said Thursday she had never heard of the Nuwaubians.
"I don't even know how you spell that," she said. "Wesley is not affiliated with that group on any level, even remotely."
Hah also said it is "pure coincidence" that The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra, which bills itself on the Internet as "an international, multi-level security and protection company," is looking at a piece of property that adjoins the Nuwaubian village.
Hah refused to provide details about The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra, but she did confirm the group intends to build a training facility for private security guards.
The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra's posting on the Internet site "cooljobs.com" seeks 200 people for "an elite team of highly trained men and women who will provide the following services: International and domestic risk management; intelligence and protective operations; V.I.P./executive protection to dignitaries and celebrities; special event security; counter-surveillance and counter terrorist measures."
A representative of The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra used the 257-acre property's address - 290 Shady Dale Road - in December to file an application for a permit with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the "purchase, movement, travel and storage of various weapons and ammunition nationwide to provide security, security guard and firearms training services."
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said Wesley Rudy Snipes, who identified himself as Wesley Snipes' brother and a representative of The Royal Guard, came to his office in early November to talk to him about the group's plans for the property.
Rudy Snipes is listed as the CEO of The Royal Guard on its incorporation papers with the Georgia Secretary of State's office. He compared the proposed training center to the state Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Sills said.
"I had heard rumors about it, but I hadn't heard anything lately until yesterday, when I got a call from an inspector with the BATF," Sills said Tuesday. "He was following up on the application for a federal firearms dealer license that The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra, Inc., had applied for back in December."
Rudy Snipes signed the BATF application. The permit is pending, according to Sills.
In a letter Tuesday responding to the BATF investigator, Sills noted inaccuracies on The Royal Guard application:
Snipes certified that he had provided Sills with a copy of the BATF application, which Sills said he had not.
Snipes stated that the property identified as 290 Shady Dale Road is owned by The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra, but deeds indicate that S.M. Bishop Co., Inc., owns the property.
Snipes stated that The Royal Guard has obtained a business license to operate in Putnam County, but the county has not granted the company a license, according to Sills.
Snipes stated that the business has complied with state and local laws, but does not take into account that the property is zoned for agricultural purposes and "a for-profit security company and firearms dealer is certainly not an agricultural business," according to Sills. The property will have to be rezoned for commercial activity.
Atlanta developer Stan Bishop, who owns the 257 acres, said The Royal Guard approached him last year about possibly purchasing his property, but no deal has been struck.
Bishop has owned the acreage about two years. The Putnam County Tax Assessor's office values the property at $446,963. Bishop's parents live in one of two houses on the property, and Bishop hunts and fishes there.
Bishop discounted any link between The Royal Guard and the Nuwaubians and said he believes it's the Nuwaubians who are claiming a connection with Snipes.
"(The Royal Guard) approached a real estate agent that I know. They had no idea where this piece of property was," Bishop said. "We took them and showed them the property ... and they liked it. I think all this connection between them is a bunch of trumped up crap."
The Nuwaubians, a group of followers of Malachi York, moved to Putnam County in 1993. About 150 Nuwaubians live in the village and hundreds more live in surrounding communities of Athens, Eatonton, Sparta and Milledgeville.
The group has built pyramids and other Egyptian-type structures on a portion of the 476 acres. About 30 acres is zoned residential. The remainder is zoned for agriculture.
But about three years ago, the group began to have problems with county officials about zoning violations. For more than a year, the Nuwaubians and the County Commission have been involved in ongoing court battles about county zoning and building code violations.
The ongoing legal struggle with the county has prompted Snipes, Stevie Wonder and York to begin buying property in Putnam County, according to Woodall.
"These millionaires, Nuwaubian millionaires, are actually tired of what they've been reading, seeing and hearing about the ongoing battle in Putnam County with the officials," Woodall said. " ... So they're coming in with money, ready to go to court with the best lawyers, or whatever it takes to bring about justice," Woodall said.

Nuwaubian land sale sparks little controversy

Macon Telegraph,

February 4, 2000

By Rob Peecher

(EATONTON - The talk of the town here Thursday wasn't really the talk of the town at all.
In fact, most people didn't care one way or another that the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors has put a hand-painted sign on the front gate of its 476-acre village offering "Land for sale."
"If they stay, it's fine," said Kimberly Lee, a waitress at Rusty's Restaurant in downtown Eatonton. "If they leave, it's fine." Lee said no one was talking about it at lunch Thursday.
But at least some people are taking notice of the sign. Al Woodall, an agent representing the nine individuals who own the property, said Thursday he has received a number of calls. Woodall's number is the one painted on the "for sale" sign erected Tuesday afternoon.
"I'm getting about 30 (calls) a day," Woodall said. Some of the calls are people interested in buying the property hailed as "Egypt of the West." Others are just calling to see what's going on, he said.
Woodall said the property's nine owners are not ready to make any public comment about their decision to put the land on the market. And he said a price for the property has not been disclosed .
Malachi York, the founder of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, bought the property for $975,000 in 1993. The village has become home to about 150 members of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, and hundreds of other Nuwaubians live in the surrounding communities of Eatonton and Milledgeville.
Several acres of the property, which front Shady Dale Highway, are adorned with Egyptian-style statues, two pyramids, a sphinx and other structures, many with Egyptian-style facades.
Ralph Perdomo, chairman of the Putnam County Commission, said he had heard the property was for sale but questions the sincerity. "We'll see if that's legitimate," he said. "I also heard that if 100 citizens can come up with $10,000, we're all going to buy it." Perdomo said he doesn't know why the Nuwaubians would consider selling the property.
"They haven't taken me into their confidence," Perdomo said. At Wooten's Barber Shop, some folks have been talking about the sign, owner Sammy Wooten said.
But "most people just laugh," Wooten said.
Wooten and his customers also wonder at the offer of land for sale. "Who's going to buy it? Who would want that? I think it's just for show," he said.
The Nuwaubians aren't saying much about the land going on the market. Woodall declined to say how much the property owners want for the property. Renee McDade, a spokeswoman for the Nuwaubians, refused to say if the group is planning to move from Putnam County.
After buying the land in 1993, York deeded it to a trust in February 1999. Woodall, acting as manager of the trust, deeded the land in June to the nine individuals now listed as property owners.
Since 1998, the Nuwaubians and county officials have been engaged in a series of legal battles about what the county claims are numerous violations of the county's zoning and building codes.
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills has issued citations to various Nuwaubians alleging zoning violations. In literature distributed by members of the group, Sills has been the target of accusations and criticism.
Thursday, the sheriff had little to say about the land going up for sale but said he has been "inundated" with calls from people curious about the sale. And if the price is right, the sheriff said he'd be an interested buyer. "I wish I had enough money to buy it," Sills said, "because I certainly would, because it would be worth it to me."

Religious sect plans gala event

Nuwaubians' leader will hold private New Year's celebration in Athens' downtown Classic Center

Morris News Service

December 31, 1999

By Jim Thompson

Athens, Ga. -- More than 1,000 members of a quasi-religious sect led by a man who has claimed to be from another galaxy -- and has said ships will descend from the sky in 2003 to claim a selected 144,000 people for "rebirth" -- are expected to be at the Classic Center in downtown Athens today for a private New Year's Eve observance.
The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, which has operated compound in the Putnam County town of Eatonton since 1993 that has housed as many as 400 people at one time, has reserved part of the Classic Center for a $100-per-ticket event that Classic Center officials are describing as a private social affair.
Citing the private nature of the event, the only information Classic Center officials would provide Wednesday were the number of people expected and the fact that the event would not involve food service.
The Nuwaubians' leader, known as Malachi York and, more recently, as Chief Black Eagle -- the deed for the group's 476-acre Putnam County compound identifies him as Dwight York -- has been living in Athens since sometime last year, according to law enforcement officials and other sources. Mr. York is not listed in the Athens telephone book.
The group also operates at least two bookstores in Athens under the name Holy Tabernacle Ministries. One of the bookstores is located at 1072 Baxter St. The second is located on Gaines School Road near Lexington Road. The Nuwaubians also had a float in this year's Black Men of Athens parade. The identity and beliefs of the group have shifted periodically since Mr. York emerged in New York in 1970, in his late 20s.
One of the group's more recent names has been the Yamassee Native American Nuwaubians.
In the early days in New York, Mr. York's followers were known as Ansaar Pure Sufi, the Nubian Islaamic Hebrews, the Ansaaru Allah Community and the Ancient and Mystic Order of Malchizedek.
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, who has closely tracked the group's activities since its arrival in his county six years ago, said he does not believe the New Year's Eve event at the Classic Center will involve any type of millennial ritual.
"I would not anticipate any sort of problem," Sheriff Sills said. "It certainly would be counterproductive to him (York)."
Sheriff Sills believes that the event will be something of an homage to Mr. York from the sect's true believers.
"I imagine this is going to be his gala event," Sheriff Sills said. According to Athens-Clarke Mayor Doc Eldridge, the Nuwaubians have held similar events at the Cobb Galleria in metropolitan Atlanta, and representatives of that venue reported no problems with the group. While Sheriff Sills estimates that only a few hundred Nuwaubians have occupied the Eatonton compound at any one time, he estimates that Nuwaubian adherents in north Georgia could number "in the thousands."
>From a law enforcement standpoint, the Nuwaubians have not been an inordinate problem in Putnam County, according to Sheriff Sills, although a number of Nuwaubians have been arrested for possession of "bootleg audio and video tapes."

Georgia Sect Alarms Neighbors

Associated Press,

July 27, 1999

By Patricia J. Mays

EATONTON, Ga. (AP) - A sect founded by an ex-convict has built two 40-foot pyramids and a giant sphinx amid the pines and red clay of middle Georgia, alarming some with its armed guards and prophecies of deliverance by spaceships from another galaxy.
The sheriff and the sect had an armed confrontation in April when he tried to escort a building inspector onto the property, and tensions are running so high that mediators from the U.S. Justice Department were called in earlier this summer.
The members call themselves the Yamassee Native American Nuwaubians and claim to have created a utopian society on their 476-acre compound of Egyptian-style architecture.
Many people in and around Eatonton - a rural community that was the birthplace of Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple,'' and Joel Chandler Harris, creator of the Uncle Remus tales - fear the Nuwaubians are similar to Heaven's Gate, the cult whose 39 members committed mass suicide in 1997 in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and the People's Temple followers of Jim Jones.
"This group here has a combination of all those schools of thought,'' Sheriff Howard Sills said.
About 100 Nuwaubians live in trailers on the compound. An additional 300 to 400 reside elsewhere in Putnam County. The Nuwaubians, most of whom are black, claim to be descended from the Egyptians and the Yamassees, a tribe of Indians indigenous to this part of Georgia.
Past the armed guards at the compound's entryway, Nile River Road stretches between two rows of statues of Egyptian royalty. A gold pyramid serves as a mini-mall, with a bookstore and clothing store. A labyrinth leads to the black pyramid, which serves as a church. Inside, an Egyptian-like chant hums over speakers 24 hours a day.
The group's lodge houses busts of King Tut and Queen Nefertiti and a glass tomb holding an alien-like creature with a huge head and bulging eyes.
Members say they pay no dues and are free to come and go. And they insist that suicide is not in their plans.
The group's founder, Dwight York, who calls himself Malachi Z. York, served time in New York in the 1960s for assault, resisting arrest and possession of a dangerous weapon.
York has claimed to be from a galaxy called Illyuwn and has said that in 2003 spaceships are going to descend from the sky and pick up a chosen 144,000 people for a rebirth. Most recently, York has referred to himself as Chief Black Eagle, a reincarnated leader of the Yamassee Indians.
"It's a constantly opportunistic evolving ideology,'' the sheriff said. "We've gone from an extraterrestrial to a Christian pastor to an Indian leader with willful and wanton resistance to legal authority time and time again.''
The group's spokeswoman, Renee McDade, and Marshall Chance, who is referred to as the Nuwaubians' leader, distance themselves from the space prophecies of York, who lives on the compound and refuses to give interviews.
"We're all awaiting the coming of the real Messiah,'' Chance said. "We are a biblical people. If it's not in the Bible, then we're not concerned about it.''
The group moved to Georgia in 1993 from New York, where it had operated under other names, including the Ansaru Allah Community. A 1993 FBI report linked that group to a myriad of crimes, including arson and extortion.
Until recently, the Nuwaubians pretty much kept to themselves. Then last year, the county rejected a request to have the property rezoned from agricultural to commercial. Since then, the Nuwaubians have been at odds with county officials.
Shortly after the building inspector was denied access, the sheriff and his deputies tried to enter.
"The armed guards literally stood in front of my car,'' Sills said. "It was obvious to me that this was provocative and they wanted to provoke some sort of armed confrontation, so I decided to leave.''
When the sheriff returned two months later, "we were served with this cockamamie lawsuit that said we'd be fined $5 million if we went onto the property,'' Sills said.
The Nuwaubians said they have met all the permit requirements. "We feel they're trying to impede us from our progress here. It feels like they're trying to put us out of our land,'' Chance said.
Mediators from the Justice Department's Community Dispute Resolution unit were asked to get involved after the Nuwaubians leveled charges of racism against officials in Putnam County, which has about 17,000 people, more than one-third of them black.
"The Nuwaubians felt they were being harassed, the county officials said they were being harassed,'' mediator Ernie Stallworth said. "Everyone was pointing a finger and that has lessened, but I still believe we have work to do.''

Reaction to Nuwaubians mixed in Putnam County

Macon Telegraph,

August 8, 1999

By Rob Peecher

EATONTON - Wooten's Barber Shop encompasses all that a small town is. Trophies from Sammy Wooten's hunting expeditions hang on the walls. Wooten has also hung documentation certifying his ability to tell tall tales, and it's the same place where many of the men who come here got their hair cut when they were boys.
On Thursday Hillary Clinton's possible bid for a New York Senate seat was the topic of discussion as Wooten trimmed a man's hair and others waited their turn. In addition to national politics, hunting and local rumors, the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors has been a topic of conversation in the barber shop since the fraternal organization moved to Putnam County six years ago.
"That's all they talk about," Wooten said. "You tell me any town that wouldn't. That's been the biggest concern in the last year, the Nuwaubian situation."
Some Fear Group
Wooten said his customers once joked about the Nuwaubians, a group that claims in at least some of its literature that its leader, Malachi York, is from another planet and a space ship will be coming to take York and his followers away.
But over the course of the last year, the jokes have died down. Some locals are concerned, others are afraid, Wooten said.
Wooten cites a series of pamphlets as the cause of Putnam County's concerns. Those pamphlets have been handed out around town by members of the fraternal organization for more than a year. Two groups take credit for producing most of the pamphlets, the People Against Violence in Eatonton and the Concerned Citizens of Eatonton. In the literature, the groups claim to be made up of Nuwaubian members and others, though most in Putnam County believe the pamphlets come straight from the Nuwaubians.
The pamphlets have attacked numerous public officials. J.D. "Dizzy" Adams, Putnam County's building inspector, and his children have been targeted; at least one pamphlet insinuates the sheriff was responsible for a motorcycle wreck that killed a man; a tabloid-sized newspaper offered a $500 reward for information on past criminal history of several county officials.
"To start with, it was kind of a joke. People laughed about it. But paying $500 just to get some dirt on people, and the way they treated Dizzy's children - that was terrible. ... People are getting afraid of what's going to happen," Wooten said.
Going Public
Many Putnam Countians don't want to talk publicly about the Nuwaubians, and some that do aren't comfortable providing their names. One woman, who wished to be identified only by her first name, Dixie, said the Nuwaubians have brought disruption to the county.
"This was a hometown community. It was a small town, and to me it was a very peaceful town. They have disrupted that," Dixie said.
Some Nuwaubian women have come into Dixie's downtown shop in the past, and she said she's never had any problems with them. But she believes the group is refusing to obey the county's laws, and she believes the national spotlight that has been cast on Putnam County and the Nuwaubians has portrayed an unfair view of the county.
"It's making our county look like it's a bad place to come, and that's the furthest from the truth. They're the ones who moved into our community, and they should have to obey our laws," Dixie said.
Pleasant Customers
Ray Saltamacchio, who owns the photography studio Moments to Remember in downtown Eatonton, said he shares some of the concerns with the rest of the community, but Nuwaubians often come to him for their Nuwaubian-passport photos and have always been pleasant customers.
"They've always been nice, never given me any problem whatsoever," Saltamacchio said. "As long as they don't come into town causing problems, I don't have any problem with them."
Others in the community, like Vanessa Bishop, believe the Nuwaubians have already caused problems.
"I think that they are arrogant know-alls who are out for self gain. Everything for them is race, and everything against them is race," Bishop said. "I'm sure not all of them are like that. I'm sure there are some good folks within that realm, but some are not."
At The Courthouse
Putnam County's Clerk of Superior Court, Sheila Layson, said employees at the courthouse are sometimes afraid to come to work, and when one of the pamphlets targeted a deputy clerk of court, claiming she had "sold her soul to the devil," employees at the courthouse took it personally.
Layson said that pamphlet was hand-delivered to the deputy clerk. Like Dixie, Bishop believes the press has treated the county unfairly.
"People on the outside are only going by what the Nuwaubians are saying and not talking to the people who live here. I don't believe Putnam County has been given a fair shake," she said. "If you don't like the way things are, you don't come in and try to change them. You leave."
Intent To Change
Other Putnam Countians expressed similar sentiment. They complain that the Nuwaubians are not like many emigrants who move to a place because they like the place. The Nuwaubians, people say, have moved to Putnam County with the intention of changing the place.
"Malachi said himself on TV that 'We're going to change the color of politics in Putnam County,'" Wooten said. "I don't know what it's going to come to."

Eatonton site raises a lot of questions

Macon Telegraph,

August 8, 1999

By Matthew I. Pinzur

EATONTON - There is a 473-acre plot outside Eatonton that has brought unheard of conflict and dissent to the rural community, and no one can even agree on what to call it.
To visitors, it is called a curiosity, memorable for its colorful Egyptian monuments, stories-high pyramids and the medley of music that pours past the gates.
To some in local government and law enforcement, it is called a compound, stirring images of the cultish separatists in places like Waco and Ruby Ridge.
To the hundreds of people who live on or frequent it, this is Tama-Re, or simply, The Land. The Nuwaubian Nation of Moors came to Putnam County in 1993, believing the area is equal parts native birthright, religious shrine and natural homeland.
Whatever it is called, it has given rise to tension in Middle Georgia. A rural Southern community with shared deep roots, Southern traditions and a population that's about 63 percent white and 37 percent black, Putnam County now is forced to confront its own feelings about change and outsiders.
The Nuwaubians - a predominantly black cultural organization that blends elements of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and ancient Egyptian religion - are discovering the complexity of large-scale development in a new place, and are doing it behind walls patrolled by armed guards and surrounded by locals who wonder about the newcomers' intentions.
The legal battles between the Nuwaubians and the Putnam government have largely centered on the use of their land - zoning, building codes and inspections. But one thing both sides do agree on is that zoning disputes only paper over the real discord: Can these two groups of people - the newcomers and the long-time residents - accept each other enough to peacefully coexist?
Permits And Zoning
Nuwaubians lived in their village and the surrounding cities of Eatonton and Milledgeville for years before serious problems developed, and growth on the land was largely ignored.
That changed last January when occasional skirmishes over zoning and permits escalated into a lawsuit in which Putnam County officials charged Nuwaubian leaders with illegally operating a nightclub in a building zoned only for storage.
By the middle of March, a Putnam County judge halted all construction on the land in the face of charges that the group was building without permits and operating an unlicensed landfill.
On June 15, Putnam Sheriff Howard Sills acted on a court order and padlocked five buildings in the village, including two pyramids identified by the Nuwaubians as a church and a holy temple.
Today, the Nuwaubians still have permit applications pending with the county inspector, and little has changed. Nuwaubian spokespeople claim the county is deliberately hindering development in the village, while county officials said they are only enforcing well-established laws and ordinances.
"I have nothing against the Nuwaubians; all they have to do is abide by the law," said Putnam County Commissioner Robert Poole. "If they do what they say they're going to do, we won't have any problems."
But communication between the groups has ranged from strained to outright threatening, and it is difficult to know exactly what has been said in closed-door meetings this year.
Renee McDade and Marshall Chance, national spokespeople for the Nuwaubians, said county officials routinely reject permit applications on technicalities. When they address those concerns, McDade and Chance said, the county finds new reasons to reject them.
"We keep being put off," said Chance, Tama-Re's spiritual leader and an ordained Baptist minister who dresses in black with a traditional clergyman's collar. "They say it's lawful, we say it's obstruction."
The group's most recent applications were rejected earlier this month because the plat, a detailed map of the land, did not meet the county's standards. They have received permits for some of the monuments, including a tall obelisk and a statue, but the pyramids and other buildings are still padlocked.
"This is something that is asked of every citizen, including myself," said Sandra Adams, also a county commissioner.
Beyond the individual buildings on the Nuwaubian's property, commissioners said they are concerned about long-term development and the impact it will have on the rest of the county.
Chance said he envisions diverse facilities including a recording studio and theme park in Tama-Re's future as it grows into a significant cultural and residential center. Estimates from different sources placed between 100 and 300 people living full time in the village, and as it expands, Chance said, surrounding cities will reap the rewards.
"We want to help the town grow and help the economy to flourish," he said, explaining that members would continue to shop, work, bank and dine in Eatonton and Milledgeville.
But county officials questioned whether unchecked growth was desirable or possible, saying the impact on infrastructure and utilities may be more than the county can carry.
"A lot of planning has to be done before there's large growth there," Poole said. "And I don't see where the county's going to benefit too much from it."
Distractions
Side issues have created fear and distrust.
Putnam officials have been distracted by a flood of newsletters and fliers that berate and sometimes threaten public figures, including offering a $500 reward for embarrassing information about people like Sills. The documents have been printed by groups with names like Concerned Citizens of Eatonton, but county officials believe they are run by Nuwaubian members.
"They took it upon themselves to exercise their freedom of speech," said McDade, who added that the publications did not come from the official Nuwaubian organization.
"We're not going to be intimidated in any way, shape or form," Poole said. "When they put a bounty on somebody's head, that's not very Christian of them."
McDade said prominent members of the Nuwaubians have also received death threats. A Putnam County minister, Robert Lee, publishes a vehemently anti-Nuwaubian newsletter condemning the group as satanic and has led marches protesting their development.
The Nuwaubians founder and retired leader, Malachai Z. York, has been a colorful and controversial distraction himself.
Before purchasing the Putnam County land in 1993 for $975,000, York lived in Sullivan County, New York, and was known as Dwight York. He founded the Nuwaubian nation there as early as 1970, after serving three years in prison in the 1960s for resisting arrest, assault and possession of a dangerous weapon.
"He moved here to retire," Chance said.
York has become something of a recluse, rarely appearing in public and, McDade said, moving around from place to place.
His absence became its own issue this year when he did not respond to judges' requests that he appear to answer to various charges. A formal court order was later drafted, ordering him to answer contempt charges in Putnam Superior Court.
He answered that order, but his hearing was scheduled during the Nuwaubians' annual summer festival, which draws thousands of supporters to the village. They announced that more than 30,000 protestors would descend on the courthouse before York's hearing, prompting Sills to have some 200 law enforcement officers - including a helicopter and armored personnel carrier - stationed within a few blocks. When only a few hundred York supporters arrived, they accused Sills of mustering an overwhelming and threatening police force, and both sides launched into another round of defensive rhetoric and name-calling.
Accusations Of Racism
Throughout the legal disputes, the Nuwaubians have lobbed accusations of racism and religious persecution, leaving county officials angry and defensive.
"It's a group of black separatists who believe white people are genetically inferior mutants," said Dorothy Adams, an attorney for Putnam County. "They try to make us look like a bunch of big-bellied rednecks."
McDade called those claims ridiculous, saying that although the group is predominantly black, it includes members who are white, Asian and of other descent.
"We don't see this as a black-white issue," McDade said. "It's a matter of religious persecution."
But despite what is said in interviews, commissioner Sandra Adams said the Nuwaubians have repeatedly made race an issue. Adams, who is black, said she has been called a "house nigger" by Nuwaubian protesters.
"They do not want to solve these problems; they want to call attention to themselves," said Sandra Adams, who is not related to the county's attorney. "When the racism card is played, everybody stops what they're doing and converges on little old Putnam County."
National publications from Time magazine to the New York Times have covered the Nuwaubian issue this summer.
And while she believes racism still exists throughout the United States, Sandra Adams said it is not an issue in the Putnam community.
The four voting members of the Putnam commission are evenly split - Poole and Steve Layson are white, Sandra Adams and Jimmy Davis are black. Chairman Ralph Perdomo is white, but votes only to break ties.
"It is not my concern who they pray to or what color they are, just that they are citizens of Putnam County," Perdomo said. "I will bend over backwards to assist any citizen, but I won't break the law."
But the commissioners are aware of just how different the Nuwaubians are from traditional Putnam residents.
"There are going to continue to be ripples all along the way because they are a cult," Poole said.
"I don't care what they say, that's not the norm in a society, and we're a small town."
Chance said it is difficult to continue to believe that county officials are supportive in the face of the legal stalemate they have reached. In the case of the alleged nightclub, which the Nuwaubians call the Ramses Social Club, Chance said the group spent months trying to have the building rezoned, but were never given clear directions from the county.
"They gave us a list of 19 violations of the club," Chance said, "then padlocked it before we could fix them."
Keeping The Peace
Sills sees himself as the man in the middle, charged with keeping things cool.
"I have been willfully obstructed and opposed by armed individuals, and I have simply turned around and left, even with court orders," Sills said. "It is my professional opinion that they are desperately seeking a confrontation."
Sills said he has overridden department policies, forgone arrests and not responded to threats and behavior that would land other citizens in jail, all in the interest of preventing a showdown. He said he has ordered his deputies not to stop Nuwaubian drivers for minor violations such as license plate problems, or for speeding at less than 75 mph.
"There are lots of things I could arrest them for that I have not," Sills said. "I accept responsibility for not doing that, but police discretion is something I have. I don't want an armed confrontation ever."
But Sills is losing patience with the group that, despite his pains, has called him a "demon" and, he said, threatened him. Sills takes the threats so seriously that he no longer lets his children stay in his home overnight. "I've done it under an onslaught, never seen in this state, of propaganda slandering me, and I've never raised my voice," Sills said.
Sills has however appeared in a New York television news report about the Nuwabians and has compared the group to other well-known cult organizations. Sills said the group - which he calls "the so-called Nuwaubians" - presents no real threat to members of the public, outside of law enforcement.
Political Threat?
Government officials, however, do perceive a potential political threat from the Nuwaubians as their numbers continue to grow in the region. In a taped speech, York said the group would establish an independent nation with passports, taxes and laws on the Putnam County land. Members already carry those passports, which grant them access to the land.
"I have a problem with them wanting to take over," said commissioner Sandra Adams. "If they're not going to follow the established laws, do I have to follow the laws they put in place? Does that leave me at their mercy or do I have to pack up my little bongos and boogie out of town?" The Nuwaubians, whose published literature extols American government and demands loyalty to the country, deny any desire to establish a sovereign nation and said York's comments were taken out of context. Chance said York was speaking of creating a theme park similar to Disney parks in Florida or California.
"We did not come as a political threat," Chance said. "We have had the FBI and GBI here. If we were lawbreakers, we would not ask for help from the federal government."
One of their cornerstone publications, "Little Guide Book for Nuwaubians," reprints the entire U.S. Constitution. The same book, which includes rules for Nuwaubians, forbids disorderly conduct and demands total cooperation with police.
Perdomo dismissed concerns of a political threat. Tama-Re is in the same voting district as Lake Sinclair, which Perdomo said is the fastest-growing district in the county and therefore unlikely to feel much political impact from the Nuwaubians.
But they have already made their presence felt in local political groups. Some 125 of the 550 members of the Putman County NAACP are Nuwaubians, giving them a voice in the group.
"If they do take over," Poole said, "a lot of people will move out."
Endgame
The heart of the problem, according to Poole and Perdomo, is that the Nuwaubians lack the technical expertise to build and win approval for their developments.
Progress has been smoother when the Nuwaubians have enlisted the help of expert contractors and engineers, but commissioners said those experts have not been used on a consistent enough basis to solve the disagreements. The Nuwaubians are still petitioning for permits that would legitimate the padlocked buildings and clear the way for future building. But McDade is concerned that there may not be an end in sight.
"What is the next reason for saying 'no' to the Nuwaubians?" she asked. Whenever it does come, Perdomo said there is only one possible outcome. "It's going to end with them obeying our laws," he said. "That's the only way it can end."

Accusations Of Racism

The Macon Telegraph,

August 8, 1999

By Hilary Hilliard and Rob Peecher
Throughout the legal disputes, the Nuwaubians have lobbed accusations of racism and religious persecution, leaving county officials angry and defensive.
"It's a group of black separatists who believe white people are genetically inferior mutants," said Dorothy Adams, an attorney for Putnam County. "They try to make us look like a bunch of big-bellied rednecks."
McDade called those claims ridiculous, saying that although the group is predominantly black, it includes members who are white, Asian and of other descent.
"We don't see this as a black-white issue," McDade said. "It's a matter of religious persecution."
But despite what is said in interviews, commissioner Sandra Adams said the Nuwaubians have repeatedly made race an issue. Adams, who is black, said she has been called a "house nigger" by Nuwaubian protesters.
"They do not want to solve these problems; they want to call attention to themselves," said Sandra Adams, who is not related to the county's attorney. "When the racism card is played, everybody stops what they're doing and converges on little old Putnam County."
National publications from Time magazine to the New York Times have covered the Nuwaubian issue this summer.
And while she believes racism still exists throughout the United States, Sandra Adams said it is not an issue in the Putnam community.
The four voting members of the Putnam commission are evenly split - Poole and Steve Layson are white, Sandra Adams and Jimmy Davis are black. Chairman Ralph Perdomo is white, but votes only to break ties.
"It is not my concern who they pray to or what color they are, just that they are citizens of Putnam County," Perdomo said. "I will bend over backwards to assist any citizen, but I won't break the law."
But the commissioners are aware of just how different the Nuwaubians are from traditional Putnam residents.
"There are going to continue to be ripples all along the way because they are a cult," Poole said.
"I don't care what they say, that's not the norm in a society, and we're a small town."
Chance said it is difficult to continue to believe that county officials are supportive in the face of the legal stalemate they have reached. In the case of the alleged nightclub, which the Nuwaubians call the Ramses Social Club, Chance said the group spent months trying to have the building rezoned, but were never given clear directions from the county.
"They gave us a list of 19 violations of the club," Chance said, "then padlocked it before we could fix them."
Keeping the Peace
Sills sees himself as the man in the middle, charged with keeping things cool.
"I have been willfully obstructed and opposed by armed individuals, and I have simply turned around and left, even with court orders," Sills said. "It is my professional opinion that they are desperately seeking a confrontation."
Sills said he has overridden department policies, forgone arrests and not responded to threats and behavior that would land other citizens in jail, all in the interest of preventing a showdown. He said he has ordered his deputies not to stop Nuwaubian drivers for minor violations such as license plate problems, or for speeding at less than 75 mph.
"There are lots of things I could arrest them for that I have not," Sills said. "I accept responsibility for not doing that, but police discretion is something I have. I don't want an armed confrontation ever."
But Sills is losing patience with the group that, despite his pains, has called him a "demon" and, he said, threatened him. Sills takes the threats so seriously that he no longer lets his children stay in his home overnight.
"I've done it under an onslaught, never seen in this state, of propaganda slandering me, and I've never raised my voice," Sills said.
Sills has however appeared in a New York television news report about the Nuwabians and has compared the group to other well-known cult organizations.
Sills said the group - which he calls "the so-called Nuwaubians" - presents no real threat to members of the public, outside of law enforcement.
Political Threat?
Government officials, however, do perceive a potential political threat from the Nuwaubians as their numbers continue to grow in the region.
In a taped speech, York said the group would establish an independent nation with passports, taxes and laws on the Putnam County land. Members already carry those passports, which grant them access to the land.
"I have a problem with them wanting to take over," said commissioner Sandra Adams. "If they're not going to follow the established laws, do I have to follow the laws they put in place? Does that leave me at their mercy or do I have to pack up my little bongos and boogie out of town?"
The Nuwaubians, whose published literature extols American government and demands loyalty to the country, deny any desire to establish a sovereign nation and said York's comments were taken out of context. Chance said York was speaking of creating a theme park similar to Disney parks in Florida or California.
"We did not come as a political threat," Chance said. "We have had the FBI and GBI here. If we were lawbreakers, we would not ask for help from the federal government."
One of their cornerstone publications, "Little Guide Book for Nuwaubians," reprints the entire U.S. Constitution. The same book, which includes rules for Nuwaubians, forbids disorderly conduct and demands total cooperation with police.
Perdomo dismissed concerns of a political threat. Tama-Re is in the same voting district as Lake Sinclair, which Perdomo said is the fastest-growing district in the county and therefore unlikely to feel much political impact from the Nuwaubians.
But they have already made their presence felt in local political groups. Some 125 of the 550 members of the Putman County NAACP are Nuwaubians, giving them a voice in the group.
"If they do take over," Poole said, "a lot of people will move out."
End Game
The heart of the problem, according to Poole and Perdomo, is that the Nuwaubians lack the technical expertise to build and win approval for their developments.
Progress has been smoother when the Nuwaubians have enlisted the help of expert contractors and engineers, but commissioners said those experts have not been used on a consistent enough basis to solve the disagreements.
The Nuwaubians are still petitioning for permits that would legitimate the padlocked buildings and clear the way for future building. But McDade is concerned that there may not be an end in sight.
"What is the next reason for saying 'no' to the Nuwaubians?" she asked.
Whenever it does come, Perdomo said there is only one possible outcome.
"It's going to end with them obeying our laws," he said. "That's the only way it can end."

Black Sect Pledges To Cooperate

The Associated Press
June 30, 1999

EATONTON, Ga. (AP) - A mostly black religious group whose spiritual leader claims to be an extraterrestrial pledged greater cooperation with anxious neighbors and local authorities.
The United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, who claim to be descended from Egyptians, occupy a 476-acre tract in Putman County east of Atlanta. After a two-hour meeting on Tuesday, called by a judge hearing a contempt case, group leader Dwight York said he is optimistic he and county offiicials can resolve their disputes over zoning and other matters.
"Peace is made,'' York said to cheers from hundreds of supporters who filled the courtroom or stood in the rain and prayed on the courthouse lawn. Hundreds of law enforcement officers were also on hand, as well as a helicopter and an armored personnel carrier.The Nuwaubians have said their difficulties with the predominantly white county stem from discrimination.The group arrived in 1993 from New York City and has since constructed a 40-foot-high black pyramid with statues of Egyptian gods and goddesses on the grounds.York had been charged with contempt of court after armed guards prevented the sheriff and county building inspector from entering the community to carry out a court order in April. The county had filed several lawsuits accusing the Nuwaubians of violating zoning and building regulations.Hostilities intensified to the point where representatives from the Department of Justice tried to intervene to mediate, and Gov. Roy Barnes called the sheriff for a briefing on the situation.At Tuesday's court hearing, York declined to answer where he lived and invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. That prompted Judge Hugh Wingfield III to ask everyone but the principals to clear the courtroom."I want to move beyond the contempt hearings and get to the meat of the matter,'' Wingfield said.Ralph Goldberg, one of York's lawyers, said the Nuwaubians would go forward with the permitting process."We agreed to stop attacking each other, and, for lack of a better word, we aired some concerns,'' he said.Wingfield did not rule on the contempt charge against York.York has claimed he's from another galaxy and promises that ships are going to descend from the sky in the year 2003 to pick up a chosen 144,000 people for rebirth as supreme beings.Such predictions about spacecraft remind some of the group's neighbors of the Heaven's Gate sect in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who committed mass suicide in 1997.

Tensions Simmer Around a Black Sect in Georgia

New York Times

June 29, 1999

By Tom Lassete

When members of a black religious group moved here from Brooklyn in 1993, their purchase of 438 acres of pasture about 10 miles outside town stirred up gossip and some apprehension, but residents were more curious than frightened.A few years later, with the completion of a 40-foot-high black pyramid on the land that belonged to the group, which is known as the Yamassee Native American Nuwaubians, most neighbors in this small dairy-farming town east of Atlanta scratched their heads and figured it would be best to keep their distance.But in 1997, when the Nuwaubians declared themselves a separate nation and began issuing passports and organizing armed security patrols of their property, Sheriff Howard B. Sills of Putnam County decided to take a closer look. A copy of a 1993 Federal Bureau of Investigations report he received, linking the Nuwaubians' New York operations to welfare fraud and extortion, also concerned him.Then, Sheriff Sills learned that the group's spiritual leader, Dwight Z. York, was a convicted felon. Mr. York has admitted he served three years in prison in the 1960's for resisting arrest, assault and possession of a dangerous weapon.He is known among the Nuwaubians as the Master Teacher Dr. Malachi York, who founded the Nuwaubians sect on a combination of Islamic, Christian and Hebrew teachings. Mr. York says he is an extraterrestrial being from the galaxy Illyuwn. He and many in his group say they expect a spacecraft from Illyuwn to visit Earth in 2003 and to take with it 144,000 chosen people, a number they do not explain.The front of the compound, which Nuwaubians refer to as the Egypt of the West, contains eight-foot-high statues of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses placed among columns covered with hieroglyphics, and a sphinx and several smaller pyramids about 24 feet in height.''These are the last days, and we Nuwaubians have created God's kingdom right here on Earth,'' said Marshall C. Chance Jr., president of the group's Holy Tabernacle Industries.The similarities between the Nuwaubians and the 39 members of the Heaven's Gate sect in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who committed mass suicide in March 1997, were too close to ignore, Sheriff Sills said. The Heaven's Gate group, like the Nuwaubians, said they believed that a spacecraft would come to save them.At least 150 people live on the Nuwaubian property, and tensions between Putnam County authorities and the Nuwaubians have steadily increased in the last two years. In the last few months, there have been several standoffs between Nuwaubian guards and the sheriff's department, when deputies were barred from the property. In April, for example, when Sheriff Sills tried to deliver a court order concerning zoning violations, two Nuwaubian guards, wearing 9-millimeter pistols on their hips, stood in front of his car and would not let it pass, Sheriff Sills said.The confrontations stem in part from three county lawsuits filed in the last year against the Nuwaubians, charging the group with zoning violations and violations of building regulations. The Nuwaubians were operating a large nightclub on their land, zoned for agricultural use, and were planning to open, among other businesses, a health-food store, a bar, a recording studio and a taxicab company.
Mr. York refused to appear in court and was ordered to be tried for contempt of court on Tuesday for not appearing at previous hearings on zoning violations.He declined to be interviewed.Over the weekend, thousands of Nuwaubian followers drove by the dairy farms, fruit stands and bait shops of Eatonton to attend the annual Savior Day's Festival at the Nuwaubian compound, which celebrated Mr. York's birthday on June 26. Because Sheriff Sills padlocked some of the compound's buildings, acting on a court order in the zoning disputes, the event, also known as the Djed Festival, was held outdoors, in continual rainstorms.''It's a utopia,'' said Mr. Chance, who wears a priestly black shirt and pants with a white collar. When asked if he was ordained by any particular denomination, Mr. Chance replied that he was ''ordained and called by God himself.''That sort of religious fervor has raised concerns among state and Federal officials. Department of Justice representatives from the community dispute resolution offices in Atlanta have been in Eatonton since last Wednesday, trying to bring the county and the Nuwaubians to the same table to reduce tensions.The conflict in Putnam County, and its potential for disorder, even violence, led Gov. Roy Barnes to call Sheriff Sills last week to discuss the situation.Last Wednesday, a bench warrant for Mr. York's arrest on contempt of court charges, was withdrawn when Mr. York's lawyer promised that his client would appear in court on Tuesday, June 29.''There is an atmosphere of tension,'' said Ernie Stallworth, a mediator for the Justice Department. ''The Nuwaubians feel they have been unfairly harassed since they've been down there.''A lawyer for the Nuwaubians, Leroy B. Johnson, said he thought local, white government officials should be more tolerant of the group's endeavors, but he acknowledged that predominantly white Putnam County might not be the most suitable place for a black religious group to build pyramids.Driving into the county, motorists see signs inviting people to join the local chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the county has an annual 10-kilometer race, once known to locals as the Tar Baby Run in celebration of Joel Chandler Harris, a white native of Eatonton who wrote the Br'er Rabbit folktales.''There has to be a realization by the Government there that the situation is a powder keg, where the drop of a hat or a miscalculated word can incite violence,'' Mr. Johnson, a former state senator, said in a telephone interview.At the festival, people from as far as Trinidad and London came to honor Mr. York. Visitors walked the small labyrinth surrounding the main pyramid, praying with tracts written by Mr. York, who has written at least 200 of them.Many in the crowd were wearing clerical robes and ancient-Egyptian-style headdresses, spoke in bits of Nuwabic, a blend of Arabic and English also invented by Mr. York, who appeared briefly on Saturday, surrounded by five guards and hundreds of admirers.
None of those living on the property, other than a spokeswoman and Mr. Chance, would comment on their organization. Many of the women had shaved heads, with a single braid on the right side, in honor of a Mother Nature-like deity.The Nuwaubians' move from Brooklyn, where the group was known as both the Holy Tabernacle of the Most High and the Children of Abraham, Mr. Chance said, was driven by rivalries with Islamic organizations in New York that objected to the group's borrowing of several Muslim traditions, he said.When asked how the group managed to buy its land and finance the construction, Mr. Chance gave a faint smile, and said, ''We attract people who already have something with them.''

Space Invaders

Time Magazine
July 12, 1999
By Sylvester Monroe/Eatonton

Strangers from the North send a Southern town into a tizzy"I am the lamb, I am the man," declares Dr. Malachi Z. York, 54, on his website. "I am the Supreme Being of This Day and Time, God in Flesh." And by the way, says the native of the planet Rizq, a spaceship is coming on May 5, 2003, to scoop up believers. The believers have been making quite a spectacle in the tiny town of Eatonton, Ga. (pop. 5,000), seat of the not much larger Putnam County (pop. 17,000). There, the man born Dwight York, of Sullivan County, N.Y., decreed the founding of Tama-Re, Egypt of the West, a 19-acre evocation of the ancient land, complete with 40-ft. pyramids, obelisks, gods, goddesses and a giant sphinx. It is the holy see of the Nuwaubians.

But don't call them a religion. The Nuwaubians describe themselves as a "fraternal organization" of people of different religions, including Christians, Muslims and others who just happen to share a few extra tenets.

Says Marshall Chance, head of the Nuwaubians' Holy Tabernacle Ministries:

"The main thing that brings us together is fellowship and facts." Among those facts: that black people are genetically su-perior to whites and that the Nuwaubians are direct descendants of Egyptians who, having walked from the Nile Valley to the Americas before continental drift separated the landmasses, are actually the original Native Americans. York and several hundred of his followers wandered from New York to Georgia in 1993, buying up 476 acres of land on the perimeter of Eatonton for $575,000. And now, as a tribe of Native Americans, the Nuwaubians believe they can argue for being a sovereign people not subject to local or state jurisdiction. Not so fast, say officials in Putnam County. They have just emerged from a long wrangle with York over building-code violations in Tama-Re. And prominent citizens are smarting from the words of a leaflet campaign the "fraternal organization" inflicted on them. Among those criticized was county commissioner Sandra Adams, whom the Nuwaubians called a "house n_____." "They feel because I am black and they are black I should be in their corner," says Adams. "But I have to obey the law, and so do they." Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, another object of Nuwaubian ire, says he fears that young people are being held against their will. "No one in Georgia has ever dealt with anything like this," he says. "You only draw parallels to Waco, and I don't want a Waco. This is a cult." A Nuwaubian spokesman scoffs at the idea:

"There is no one being held on Tama-Re against their will. No one is allowed to move to Tama-Re that is under 18. The children that are here belong to grown adults who have made the choice to be Nuwaubians. Nuwaubians are insulted when they are confronted with accusations that they are brainwashed or are being told by one man what to do." But don't they believe in the spaceship? Says Minister Chance: "Some of us do, and some of us don't."

Few Nuwaubians speak to the press on the record. Those who do are proud of the group. "You are here on the land," a Nuwaubian man said pointedly to a reporter in Tama-Re. "Do you see a cult or a compound? We are just people who have come together in love and peace." Still, the Nuwaubians, who now call themselves the Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation, are increasingly high profile in local politics. They have enrolled their children in public schools, registered to vote and joined local branches of civil rights organizations en masse. About 125 of the 550 members of the Putnam County N.A.A.C.P. are Nuwaubians. The people in the county, 30% black and 70% white, expect the Nuwaubians to flex their muscle at the polls any time now. "They're the nicest people," says a young white waitress at Rusty's, a small diner in downtown Eatonton. "But I'm afraid they are trying to take over the town."

Michael Jackson dies at 50

The King of Pop, Michael Jackson dies at 50. According to CNN, Michael was found not breathing at his Los Angeles home around noon. He was later transferred to UCLA Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. but not officially. because of federal privacy law.

I wonder did Michael ever regreted how he manipulated his face to look more aqualine. Was this a case of "Not loving yourself or kind". Wasn't being rich, famous, and adorn by millions enough? But like Solomon, I'd rather have wisdom over wealth.

Talk about a Mummy Cat-Scan

Four Egyptian mummies from New York City are getting ready for their close-ups. Brooklyn Museum officials say the mummies will undergo sophisticated CAT scans on Tuesday at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.

Researchers hope to gain further knowledge about their identities, cause of death, and ancient funerary practices. Egyptian art curator Dr. Edward Bleiberg says the bodies embalmed for burial by the ancient Egyptians have been packed to survive the 18-mile trip during rush hour.
The mummies range in age from more than 3,000 years old to just over 1700 years old.
Bleiberg said a 2007 hospital scan of a mummy showed the man was 30 years older than estimated and had died from an infected gallstone.
On the Net: Brooklyn Museum: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org

Dark Matter Research Facility

Dignitaries and board members applaud South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, at the podium, during dedication ceremonies Monday, June 22, 2009, at the future site of the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. The event occurred at the 4,850 foot level of the former Homestake gold mine at Lead, S.D. In the near future, scientific experiments dealing with dark matter and numerous other ideas will be set up in the mine shafts nearly a mile underground, shielded from cosmic rays.

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Wow they want to spend $550 million dollars on dark matter when we don't even know if we're going to make it through global warming.

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