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Aller au siège côté commercial Académie de bord frappé de l'étoile
Tuesday May 21, 2013
Aller au siège côté commercial Académie de bord frappé de l'étoile

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Which is Ronaldo favorite soccers in his career?
Monday May 20, 2013
 In an interview with Sao Paulo newspaper, the 34-year-old Brazilian player Ronaldo announced his decision to retire, he will also hold a press conference later today, the end of his brilliant 18-year career.

"Sao Paulo newspaper, Ronaldo said:" I hope to continue, but is now insufficient. time has come to, but my career is really great. "Ronaldo explained his reason for early retirement because of injuries reason, he said: "I want to do something on the court, but the body refused to move."
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How to choose the applicable Nike Mercurial Vapor IX?
Monday May 20, 2013
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Monday May 20, 2013
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Samma grupp, annat pris, loggar inte reseavtalet
Monday May 20, 2013
Samma grupp, annat pris, loggar inte reseavtalet

Ett medelålders par från Peking, Comfort Travel Anmälan att delta i ligan, är anmälningsavgiften 600 yuan per person, plus port serviceavgift på 50 yuan och 120 yuan per gratifikationer personen guide per person, per person, själva kostnader 770.
Louis Vuitton Väskor Från Shanghai gruppmedlemmar visade att de är i offentlig kommentar nätverk köpa på bekostnad av $ Dubbel 188 yuan, 170 yuan per person plus tips guider.

Reporter Logga offentlig kommentar nätet, fann att företagen kan njuta av gratis upphämtning av Comfort Travel City Square, det ursprungliga priset på 3980 yuan,
Louis Vuitton Sverige är föremål för 170 yuan per person serviceavgift (i själva verket, guide gratifikationer), värd 80 miljoner för företaget sponsrade Unicom telefonkort, och tillhandahållas kostnadsfritt till Hong Kong på tröskeln till boende i Shenzhen. Denna beräkning, tillhör den $ 188 pris på groupe köp av offentlig kommentar nätverket till "noll eller negativ fare".

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Billiga Louis Vuitton eller Hongkong resebyråer runt ön, var inte samma reportrar tecknat ett reseavtalet. I detta avseende kan Guangdong Guang och Advokat Luo Yu Lun Comfort Travel "Regler Resor" klar överträdelse av reseavtalet, rättigheter och intressen turister inte garanteras.
 


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UFO documentary reveals “humanoid of unknown classification”
Saturday April 6, 2013

UFO documentary reveals “humanoid of unknown classification”

Atacama Humanoid

The Atacama Humanoid as seen in the film, ‘Sirius’

A new documentary on UFOs, extraterrestrials, and advanced clean energy, hopes to provide evidence that the government has figured out how UFOs operate and are hiding advanced technology that can provide clean energy. The film also features the discovery of an alleged humanoid body whose DNA has been sequenced and found to be of an “unknown classification.” Photos of the being were released today with the announcement of the Hollywood premiere of the film scheduled for later this month. It was also announced that the film is narrated by actor Thomas Jane, who is known to have in interest in UFOs.

The new film is titled Sirius, and features the work of Dr. Steven Greer. With a similar goal as the film, Greer brought together a panel of highly credible witnesses who testified in front of representatives from all of the major media outlets at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in May of 2001. At that time he filmed hours of testimony from hundreds of credible witnesses. His work has been very influential in convincing people that the government knows more than it is sharing, and as he puts it, “Once people understand that classified projects have figured out how UFO’s operate, they will realize we no longer need oil, coal and nuclear power. This is the truth that has driven the secrecy.”

One of the most shocking claims put forth in the film is that they have obtained, “paradigm shifting physical evidence of a medically and scientifically analyzed DNA sequenced humanoid creature of unknown classification found in the Atacama desert, Chile.” According to the filmmakers the credentials of the group of scientists and the medical team behind this claim are “eye-opening.” They believe that the announcement of their discovery could be “potentially profound and historical.”

Atacama Humanoid XRay

The Atacama Humanoid X-Ray

The film is directed by Emmy Award winning Amardeep Kaleka. He won his Emmy in 2011 for his short film Jacob’s Turn, on a child with Down Syndrome.  He explained why he would chose to work on such a controversial topic:

“Given the possibility that there was something profound to explore here – something that could potentially open minds to new realms and new possibilities – we seized the opportunity to take on this project. For every story we told, we found hundreds of others. Our goal is to initiate our audience on the same journey – to open their minds and inspire them to search – and freely consider that there is more in this world than we may ever know.”

Actor Thomas Jane, most recently known for his leading role in the HBO’s Hung, also shared why he chose to participate:

“The Sirius documentary is a powerful and important film that I encourage everyone to watch with an open mind, as it truly speaks to the heart of the people who like me, are probably okay with the government keeping secrets from its people in the name of national security, but are not okay with a secret government.”

The film is set to premiere in Hollywood on April 22, and will then be followed by a limited theatrical release. It will also be launched video on demand on the Yekra video platform and Yekra’s Affiliate Connect customized social media networks. The film’s funding was mostly obtained through crowd sourcing on the Kickstarter website, and according to the filmmakers press release it has been the “highest documentary crowd-funding raise in history.”

via UFO documentary reveals “humanoid of unknown classification” | Openminds.tv.

As I wrote about this alien years ago, according to paranormalnews, Arturo Mann, a veterinarian and professor of the University of Santo Tomas said it is the creole marsupial known as “monito de monte“. That explanation doesn't really hold water if you compare the two skeletons, however. It's either a gaff (fake creation by an artist with taxidermi skills) or some unknown earth creatures ... or an alien.


Sweden affirms swine flu vaccine narcolepsy link
Tuesday April 2, 2013
 

Sweden affirms swine flu vaccine narcolepsy link

Sweden affirms swine flu vaccine narcolepsy linkThe Swedish Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket) ordered the massive study to determine if the vaccine had any connection to narcolepsy after dozens of reported cases of young people coming down with the affliction after receiving a swine flu jab.

The study, which took place between October 2009 and the December 2011, compared 3.3 million vaccinated Swedes with 2.5 million who were not vaccinated.

"We can see that over the whole study period we have 126 cases of those vaccinated getting narcolepsy," Ingemar Person, professor behind the study, said in a statement on Tuesday.

"There were 20 cases among those not vaccinated. We're talking about a threefold increase in risk."

The risk was found to be highest among the youngest people who took the vaccines. For those under the age of 21, the risk of contracting narcolepsy was three times higher for those who were vaccinated with Pandemrix, whereas those aged between 21 and 30 had double the risk.

Those vaccinated over the age of 40 had the same risk as those who didn't, according to the study.

Person added that it was "very difficult" to determine whether there was any connection with other sicknesses or diseases from taking the vaccine.

via Sweden affirms swine flu vaccine narcolepsy link - The Local.



New York police sued for pepper-spraying 5-month-old baby
Tuesday April 2, 2013
 

New York police sued for pepper-spraying 5-month-old baby

File photo of New York City Police officers and a dog standing guard in a subway station  (AFP)

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is being sued by a woman who says that officers violated her civil rights when they pepper-sprayed her entire family — including a 2-year-old child and a 5-month-old baby.

In the lawsuit obtained by Courthouse News Service on Monday, Marilyn Taylor accuses Officers ... [of] overacting when they saw her pushing the stroller through a service entrance instead of going through the subway turnstile.

According to the complaint, officers told her 4-year-old child that “everything will be OK,” but then began pepper-spraying the entire family.

“The pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting,” the lawsuit says. “Ms. Taylor was then placed in handcuffs as the minor children cried in fear and pain.”

The next day, the court agreed give Taylor an adjournment in contemplation of a dismissal, allowing the charges to be dropped if she stayed out of trouble.

But things did not turn out as well for the children, who she said continue to need medical attention because of the pepper spray.

“After the attack, mother and father suffered ongoing eye injuries and all three children suffer emotional harms, and are now afraid to ride the subways and become afraid when they see police officers,” the lawsuit notes. “The four year-old cried herself to sleep for weeks, and after the incident the two-year-old began waking up in the night crying for her mother.”

Taylor also claimed that her family has continued to be harassed by officers since the incident, “forcing them to avoid the MTA through the Atlantic Avenue stop.”

“The family seeks punitive damages for civil rights violations, assault, battery, negligence, and violations to the state and federal constitutions,” Courthouse News Service reported. ...

via New York police sued for pepper-spraying 5-month-old baby | The Raw Story.



Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China
Tuesday April 2, 2013

Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China

Outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, nearly 40 percent of the global total, according to a new summary of data from a scientific study on leading causes of death worldwide.

Figured another way, the researchers said, China’s toll from pollution was the loss of 25 million healthy years of life from the population.

The data on which the analysis is based was first presented in the ambitious 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study, which was published in December in The Lancet, a British medical journal. The authors decided to break out numbers for specific countries and present the findings at international conferences. The China statistics were offered at a forum in Beijing on Sunday.

“We have been rolling out the India- and China-specific numbers, as they speak more directly to national leaders than regional numbers,” said Robert O’Keefe, the vice president of the Health Effects Institute, a research organization that is helping to present the study. The organization is partly financed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the global motor vehicle industry.

What the researchers called “ambient particulate matter pollution” was the fourth-leading risk factor for deaths in China in 2010, behind dietary risks, high blood pressure and smoking. Air pollution ranked seventh on the worldwide list of risk factors, contributing to 3.2 million deaths in 2010. ...

via Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Deaths in China - NYTimes.com.



How your movements create a GPS "fingerprint".
Wednesday March 27, 2013
 

How your movements create a GPS ‘fingerprint’

Can you be identified only by where you take your phone? Yes, according to a new study, which finds it's not very hard at all.

While most of us are free to go wherever we want, our daily and weekly movement patterns are pretty predictable. We go to work, to school, to church, to our neighborhood gym, grocery store or coffee shop, and we come home -- all quietly tracked by the GPS in our phone.

And with nothing more than this anonymous location data, someone who wanted to badly enough could easily figure out who you are by tracking your smartphone. Patterns of our movements, when traced on a map, create something akin to a fingerprint that is unique to every person.

Those are the findings of a report by researchers from MIT and elsewhere, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports.

They say that, throughout history, people have always yearned for some degree of privacy, and there have always been others who wanted to keep an eye on them. With modern technology, they say, tracking people is easier than ever.

"Modern information technologies such as the Internet and mobile phones, however, magnify the uniqueness of individuals, further enhancing the traditional challenges to privacy," they wrote. "Mobility data is among the most sensitive data currently being collected. Mobility data contains the approximate whereabouts of individuals and can be used to reconstruct individuals' movements across space and time."

The growing push to track your location indoors

For the study, the research team studied 15 months of anonymous mobile data for roughly 1.5 million people. What they found was that, if they got accurate hourly updates on a person's whereabouts, tracked by their mobile carrier's cell towers, four "data points" were all they needed to figure out the person's identity 95% of the time.

That's the sort of thing that has privacy advocates, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, worried.

In a wrap-up of last year's developments in mobile privacy, the group's Hanni Fakhoury and Marcia Hofmann noted that, in multiple cases, law enforcement has approached wireless carriers for mobile data to track users. At least one court has ruled that users have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their cell phone data.

"(T)he government claims that cell phone users give up their privacy rights because they have voluntarily disclosed their physical location to the cell phone providers every time a phone connects to the provider's cell tower," EFF said in a statement related to an October court case. "... However, this theory undermines privacy in nearly any networked communication."

Increasingly, the makers of mobile operating systems are opening up anonymous location data to developers designing apps that do things like target local advertising to the users. Apple, for example, states in its privacy policy that it can share anonymous mobile data with "partners and licensees."

The study's authors said keeping data anonymous is not necessarily enough to ensure real privacy.

"A simply anonymized dataset does not contain name, home address, phone number or other obvious identifier," they wrote. "Yet, if individual's patterns are unique enough, outside information can be used to link the data back to an individual."

So, for example, say that you wake up at home every morning, head to the office five days a week, then hit the gym on three of those days. That's three data points already. Then maybe you go to the same church, or restaurant for brunch, every Sunday. There's the fourth -- plenty to figure out who you are, the authors say.

Every additional location you hit regularly just makes it that much easier.

Like EFF, the study's authors said that has troubling implications.

"These findings represent fundamental constraints to an individual's privacy and have important implications for the design of frameworks and institutions dedicated to protect the privacy of individuals," they wrote. ...

via How your movements create a GPS 'fingerprint' - CNN.com.

Knowing who and where everyone is a great first step to an apocalyptic genocide ... or just highly targeted advertising.

I now, reluctantly, accept that it is possible with drugs to remove a person's free will and also to wipe their memory of having being drugged. I know this sounds absurd, but check out this video documentary about scopolamine.

The drug is dangerous, however, and can result in death if the wrong dose is used. It seems logical, therefore, that a weaponized non-deadly way to remove free will has already been investigated using this drug along with brain scans. The goal would be to figure out what areas need to be stimulated to remove the person's will and turn them into a human drone. Research on humans is not cool. Since some die during testing, so it would have to be done in secret. Secret research on humans has never been a problem for governments, however. I have no doubt that this practice continues today.

Have they already figured out how to get scopolamine effects without the drug? If they could send out commands via cell phones, what do you supposed they'd have people do?

If you have drones, it is important to know where they all are so you can turn the right ones on at the right times.



"Fra stjernesystemet Mirach til Jotunheimen og Skagerak for 6000 år siden"
Tuesday March 26, 2013


"Fra stjernesystemet Mirach til Jotunheimen og Skagerak for 6000 år siden".
http://www.nyhetsspeilet.no/2013/03/fra-stjernesystemet-mirach-til-jotunheimen-og-skagerak-for-6000-ar-siden/

Fra faxluri:

Mangemilliardær Robert Bigelow er en merkelig fyr. Han eier nå "Skinwalker Ranch", en plass som er kjent for både ufo og paranormale fenomener.
Ranchen er nå nesten like godt bevoktet som Area 51. Det sies at noen av vaktene har blitt skadet og drept på denne ranchen, av utenomjordiske!

Mr. Bigelow bygger sin egen private romstasjon!

Ufo-observasjoner i USA skal ikke lengre rapporteres til FAA, men til Bigelow Aerospace Advaced space studies (BAASS)!  :-o

 Kjøpte mr. Bigelow MUFON til taushet?

Jesse Ventura har etterforsket denne saken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkTTNKh26Q

Se alle kommentarer:
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Wikileaks: The Government Is Spying On You Through Your iPhone
Tuesday March 26, 2013
 

Wikileaks: The Government Is Spying On You Through Your iPhone

The FinFisher Trojan is government spyware that is installed via a phony iTunes update. Image by Gamma International UK Ltd.

Your iPhone could be spying on you, according to the latest trove of documents from Wikileaks, which looks like it could be the biggest scandal yet.

Called the Spyfiles, it’s a trove of documents about the “mass interception industry” — the massive post-9/11 surveillance community that electronically snoops on entire populations.

The industry is selling software to government agencies — some of it delivered by Trojans — that can take over your iPhone. It can track its every use, follow your movements (even in standby), recognize your voice, record conversations, and even capture video and audio from the room it is in.

It’s not just limited to iPhones, of course. There are various spyware packages that run on PCs, Android and Blackberry. The uses are mind-boggling. The CIA, for example, is using phone-tracking software to target drone strikes in the Middle East and Central Asia. It recognizes the subject by their voice print, but the actual targeting isn’t terribly accurate.

One of the most sophisticated spying packages — The FinFisher program, produced by the British company, Gamma International — is delivered via a phony iTunes update. The Wall Street Journal has more details on the FinFisher spyware, which is sold to police and government agencies. (Der Speigel has afascinating article about how it is marketed).

Apple just patched the vulnerability in iTunes update 10.5.1. (The vulnerability appears to be Windows only, but it’s not clear. It’s claimedApple knew about the problem for three years).

FinFisher says the spyware is legal and the company doesn’t know of abuses. But there’s evidence spyware was used to monitor political activists in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya during the Arab Spring, according to a big story about the latest Wikileaks leak in The Washington Post.

Read more

http://www.cultofmac.com/132782/if-you-thought-carrier-iq-scandal-was-bad-wait-till-you-see-latest-wikileaks/



Let No One Speak for Me.
Tuesday March 26, 2013
I Am a Tri State  Father on the East Coast of North America.
I'm 66 yrs old now and have learned how history distorts the facts and truths. I've covered 3/4 of the globe , by age 20 and if I was to write a book as many others have !  I 'd consider myself stupid. 2013 is proof that if your not a computer user, your place in time has left. Even if your a habitual reader, with a Masters ,P.h.d. and a Freemsonic hidden knight priest rabbi C.E.o. director.. Experience is and always will be, the best teacher. I have seeded 13 children 7 son's  6 daughters 9 from my loins with my D.N.A. and many more that I have Mentored and Fostered. guided and watched over.  " Whoa ! ye are son's of God the most high, But you die like men." I Arrived hear in 1947 In a golden ship , transferred into a silver Vessel  called "Maa"..She who made me from a "Egg" into a reptilian like body. cycles of 9 and I was so formed in the images 7 sounds of what she cared about the most.Love is what she wanted ,but so much intake of her wants ,made me so big I had a magnetic head shift and the trauma just ended the safe security of . the dark water,s which  ran dry one day. The atmosphere strangely twisted my mind and my new body so bad , I had to find relief from the the pressure and that was strait down,because I was being crush , forced into a black hole. I lost time and memory for decades after the discharged .EVICTED me. (none payment of rent I suppose )

Suddenly As all time was slowly being taught to me,  I woke up,I realized I was being treated differently. I was being raised by a Immigrant " Cape Verdean  Grandmother & Grandfather  from Islands off the coast of West Africa. She had knowledge of Secret things and was the Matriarch of 100's of People. she prayed for them and did rituals handed down and told story's in a unwritten language called criola surely not the same as the Moorish brothers and sister of Louisiana .. but the langauge the was kept in the family to keep memory of each family tribe. We have all but forgotten to speak Creola these days. People in this generation do not know a blue sky like we did or clean water like we did, they don't eat real food,nor breath clean air. they have completely lost the knowledge of themselves and are living a beats life. Before I go on with story I would like to ask this one question to any readers. Could you kill or hurt a child ? I know you could or even have if you've been taught to ,during wars and enforcement careers you picked, You may have made by mistake. but can you kill another human being ?   If so !  YOU have been infected . and there is no cure. But if you have done so, in the orders of another higher force. then you MUST " Return to the Source" or die.  I've watched 25,000 video on You tube and other social networks. HMmmm !
I've posted over 250 video's.... Hmmmm? I own 2 domains in Cyberspace World Wide ,   Oh and I have giving speeches in universities and Museum's even "The Prestigious Harvard Club" I am so Eminently Qualified  to Sustain the Mission.. just understand this.I'm 100% masculine Power as you easly can figure out ,if you visit my main webpage. or do the research yourself. Don't think you can rock my flow. I'm speaking to the So Called rulers of this world. and of course you little worker bee's as well. But This is Art & Facts that I'm telling for those who comeby my works & deeds. 3/25/2013 9:50 P.M. eastern standard time Earth. 

The Book/ Parting Ways Project
Tuesday March 26, 2013
 

What the heck is this little alien creature?
Thursday March 7, 2013

What the heck is this little alien creature?

Dr. Greer is associated with some very interesting finds. This, for example:

I've seen something like this before. Compare to the images of a little "alien" I posted some time before April 2007. Is this a different creature?

Consider the little insectoid creature found alive in the Southern Chilean city of Concepcion on Oct 1, 2002. The child who found it in some bushes claims it stayed alive for about eight days, and sometimes opened its eyes. "It has a relatively large head, two arms with long fingers, and two legs." It is hard to see the legs in the pictures.

Click alien pics to enlarge them, here for story.

According to paranormalnews, Arturo Mann, a veterinarian and professor of the University of Santo Tomas said it is the creole marsupial known as "monito de monte". If so, it would have to be a deformed one.

http://www.xenophilia.com/zb/zb0015/comparison.jpg

What if ET resembles a bug? Would our government hide it from the people and make deals to obtain technology?



Long Island man faces jail for laughing too loudly in own home
Thursday March 7, 2013
 

Long Island man faces jail for laughing too loudly in own home

A man from Long Island, New York, is facing up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine after a neighbour complained to police he was laughing too loudly, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Police issued Robert Schiavelli, 41, two tickets for disturbing the peace for laughing out the window of his home in Rockville Centre on Long Island at about 6 p.m. on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13, his lawyer said.

Schiavelli said the neighbour regularly mocks his disability, and the best response to those taunts is laughter.

"He just ridicules me all the time and the only thing I can come up with is laughing," Schiavelli said in a telephone interview.

His lawyer, Andrew Campanelli, said his client has frequent seizures as a result of neurological impairments but denied his laugh is loud or boisterous.

"He's like a big teddy bear, he's got a low laugh," Campanelli said.

Schiavelli lives with his mother, Suzanne Schiavelli, who said in an interview on Wednesday that he had a "fairly loud" laugh.

"I think it's infectious. It's cute," she said. "When my husband died, we said to ourselves, "We're going to make sure to laugh every day and make the most of life.""

Daniel O'Hanion, the neighbour who made the complaint, could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

O'Hanion and Schiavelli live in adjacent private homes about 20 feet apart, separated by two driveways.

The Rockville Centre Police Department said they issued the summonses after receiving complaints about an ongoing pattern of noisemaking.

"On two occasions, police actually observed this individual creating a disturbance directed at neighbours and in violation of local law," police said in a statement.

Schiavelli's mother said O'Hanion often calls her son a "retard," parodies his speech and mocks his walk. Relations worsened when they had builders in to renovate their house over O'Hanion's objections, she said.

Campanelli said that a judge declined a motion to dismiss the case at a village court hearing on Tuesday....

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2013/03/06/20634591.html


THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Obama has signed 923 Executive Orders in 40 months!
Saturday October 20, 2012

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Obama has signed 923 Executive Orders in 40 months!


What did Congress do in those 40 months?

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates theof all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.

-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.

Feel free to verify the “executive orders” at will… and these are just the major ones…

I’m sure you’ve all heard the tale of the “Frog in the Pot”… you all comfortable???

Watch Obama’s actions, not his words! By his actions he will show you where America is headed.

http://www.amrpt.com/2012/10/16/obama-has-signed-923-executive-orde...



Dear rdavm: Your Youtube account is terminated
Thursday July 26, 2012

Dear rdavm:

We have disabled the following material as a result of a third-party notification from The Resonance Project Foundation claiming that this material is infringing:

3.0 Crossing the Event Horizon - Everything is a Black Whole clip4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbkBvuUjiI

This is the third notification we have received alleging copyright infringement in one of your postings. Consequently, your account has been terminated.

If one of your postings has been misidentified as infringing, you may submit a counter-notification. Information about this process is in our Help Center.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material was disabled due to mistake or misidentification may be liable for damages.

Sincerely,

— The YouTube Team

Does not matter, the video can be found on almost all bittorrent sites on the net and the easy way to find this is to use the program named Bit Che.

As well the claim is made without any papers to back it up by, I want to see papers on copyright before I do any deletion here on Planetseeder. Not just a empty statement with are not backed up by proof.

Videos can be found here http://www.planetseeder.com/watch.php?mdid=3221


Roswell UFO Was Not Of This Earth And There Were ET Cadavers: Ex-CIA Agent Says
Tuesday July 10, 2012

Happy anniversary, Roswell, N.M. It was 65 years ago today that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming local military officials had captured a flying saucer on a nearby ranch. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened.

"It was not a damn weather balloon -- it was what it was billed when people first reported it," said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran. "It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don't doubt for a second that the use of the word 'remains' and 'cadavers' was exactly what people were talking about."

Brandon served as an undercover, covert operations officer in the agency's Clandestine Service for 25 years, where he was assigned missions in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He spent his final 10 years of CIA service on the director's staff as the agency's first official liaison to the entertainment and publication industries. It was during this time, in the mid-1990s, that he walked into a special section of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., called the Historical Intelligence Collection.

"It was a vaulted area and not everybody could get in it," Brandon told The Huffington Post. "One day, I was looking around in there and reading some of the titles that were mostly hand-scribbled summations of what was in the boxes. And there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell.

"I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf and said, 'My god, it really happened!'"

What exactly did the box contain that had such a powerful impact on Brandon?

"Some written material and some photographs, and that's all I will ever say to anybody about the contents of that box," he said. "But it absolutely, for me, was the single validating moment that everything I had believed, and knew that so many other people believed had happened, truly was what occurred" ...

via Roswell UFO Was Not Of This Earth And There Were ET Cadavers: Ex-CIA Agent Says.



Youtube player acting strange
Wednesday July 4, 2012
Youtube error or Flash error?Youtube player has resently been acting like shit, I post this here to ask if there are more youtube users than me that has the same problem. This problem I get from all browsers installed so I wonder if this are a real player problem, Flash problem or windows problem?


GOVERNMENT ORDERS YOUTUBE TO BLOCK PROTEST VIDEOS
Tuesday June 19, 2012


GOVERNMENT ORDERS YOUTUBE TO BLOCK PROTEST VIDEOS

Mike Velten
Planetseeder.com

June 19, 2012


In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos.


Any protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.

You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group Lawful Rebellion protest,  during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.

The British government doesn’t want this kind of information going viral in the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay.

This is one of the reasons why Planetseeder.com was put together. Intel came our way in 2011 that this would soon happen.

“Between July 1 and Dec. 31 (2009), Google received 3,580 requests for user data from U.S. government agencies, slightly less than the 3,663 originating from Brazil,” reports PC World. “The United Kingdom and India sent more than 1,000 requests each, and smaller numbers originated from various other countries.”

You Tube’s behavior is more despicable than the Communist Chinese, who are at least open about their censorship policies, whereas You Tube hides behind a blanket excuse and doesn’t even say what law has been broken.

Become a member today and set yourself free from the globalist run youtube.







Blocked by Planet.infowars.com
Tuesday June 19, 2012



Blocked by Planet.infowars.com

Mike Velten

Planetseeder.com

June 19, 2012

Planet.Infowars.com was put together by Alex Jones and his team at infowars.com. Yours truly tried to log in today after posting a video and found out that I am blocked as a spammer.

I have posted some stuff about planetseeder.com on the website. I thought this was okay because Alex has said many times that we all should work together.

I now wonder what he truly means about that in the first place. I posted and open invite to Alex Jones to join planetseeder and use it for what it's worth. Free to sign up and free to use.

After today's event I resigned my membership at infowars.com.

Personally I think this is lame from the infowars team. I "know" that Alex did not block me himself. They have of course admins overlooking the site but still the ground for blocking yours truly is taken out of context.


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VENUS WOBBLES in orbit - Unknown object inside the solar system (Planet X?)
Sunday June 17, 2012
 Go here and check this out http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/venus-transit-wobble-more-new-zetatalk

 It seems this is the first hard proof of Planet X (or something else massive) already in our solar system... 

See zetatalk.com for more awesome info!

Planetseeder.com Blocked by Planet.infowars.com?
Saturday June 16, 2012
Planetseeder.com Blocked by Planet.infowars.com?



Mike Velten
Planetseeder.com

June 16, 2012


Planetseeder.com is hosted in a privat residence in Norway. This means that the owner of the residence share the same IP adress as the video site. Has this confused the staff at planet.infowars.com?


Planetseeder.com came to life when two friends had a conversation about the changes on the Internet. Freedom of speech is under attack on the web and taking peoples rights away to express themselves freely. In less than 24 hours the first concept that became Planetseeder.com was put together.

Freedom is the main driving force behind the concept. The owners of the site are fans of Alex Jones and infowars.com. Planetseeder even stores some of the Alex Jones videos and films. 

When the owner of the residence and server room tried to sign up at planet.infowars.com he got the message that he had no permission to enter the site.

Planetseeder is not in any way a copy of that site. Planetseeder was put up in it's BETA face early in 2011 and has undergone a lot of construction work sense that time. Behind the scenes a lot of construction work is still being done.

I hope that this matter can be solved without any hassle so that we can work together to maintain a free and open world. We don't need more control and certainly not between people fighting for the same goal.

We at Planetseeder.com sends out and open invite to Alex Jones to join the site and to use it for what it's worth.

I hope that this block or whatever it is will be solved as soon as possible.







 






Tractor Beams No Longer Pure Science Fiction!
Monday June 4, 2012

Science fiction meets real science! “Tractor beams” – fascinating invisible beams that can push and pull objects, leave science fiction domain.

The idea of “tractor beam” employed in science fiction films and books to haul spaceships and capture floating capsules gains scientific focus.

It’s not just science fiction writers who are interested in this technological phenomenon. Haifeng Wang and co-workers at the A*STAR Information Storage Institute producing long term generation technologies, have now demonstrated how a tractor beam can in reality be recognized on a little scale.

These rays of light are frequently shown pulling objects towards an observer, seemingly violating the laws of physics, and of course, this kind of beams have but to be realised in the actual world.

Haifeng Wang at the A*STAR Information Storage Institute and co-employees have now demonstrated how a tractor beam can in fact be realized on a tiny scale.

“Our work demonstrates a tractor beam primarily based only on a single laser to pull or push an object of interest toward the light source,” says Wang.

Based on pioneering work by Albert Einstein and Max Planck a lot more than a hundred years ago, it is acknowledged that light carries momentum that pushes objects away.

In addition, the intensity that varies across a laser beam can be used to push objects sideways, and for example can be used to move cells in biotechnology applications.

Pulling an object in the direction of an observer, nevertheless, has so far verified to be elusive. In 2011, researchers theoretically demonstrated a mechanism in which light movement can be controlled utilizing two opposing light beams — though technically, this differs from the concept behind a tractor beam.

Wang and co-workers have now studied the properties of lasers with a distinct kind of distribution of light intensity across the beam, or so-referred to as Bessel beams. Generally, if a laser beam hits a tiny particle in its path, the light is scattered backwards, which in turn pushes the particle forward.

What Wang and co-workers have now shown theoretically for Bessel beams is that for particles that are sufficiently modest, the light scatters off the particle in a forward path, which means that the particle itself is pulled backwards towards the observer.

In other words, the behaviour of the particle is the direct opposite of the typical scenario. The dimension of the tractor beam force depends on parameters such as the electrical and magnetic properties of the particles.

Even though the forces are not really significant, such tractor beams do have real applications, says Wang.

“These beams are not very likely to pull a human or a auto, as this would demand a massive laser intensity that could damage the object,” says Wang. “However, they could manipulate biological cells due to the fact the force required for these doesn’t have to be large.”..



World Involvement
Monday May 28, 2012
HuHub 2012 Humanitarian Software

In its' embryo stage, HuHub presents a new paradigm for humanitarian progress towards science, computing and computers bringing Humanity the option to relate to and renew our world together with unprecedented user participation.

User Experience –
Exciting humanitarian computational software puts people in touch with the future of designing and shaping their world.

Utilizing 'Intelligent Living' software with user input, HuHub gives optimized choices for the world on employment, technology, agriculture, energy & global businesses with optimized distribution of resources. Users will be given the availability to determine the wisest choices for their financial savings in their daily living coupled with mood enhancement software on a customizable dashboard featuring real-time local-to-worldwide statistics with optimized choices & user polls. Conceptual Engineer Brian Prater said that "HuHub is designed to be the ultimate decision software based on real-time input variables."

HuHub is the world's knowledge pool of efficiency methods, “where you plug in your data and start getting optimal results,” said Prater. “The main goals are to integrate efficiency with user participation to ultimately help save as many lives as possible, to live efficiently and in abundance by participating in good merit, to deliver such a world.”

Through an engaging and uniquely-interactive website, real-time statistics dashboard focuses on all areas of human life-saving needs for emergency situations, resource management, energy management, optimized product distribution, environmental & weather information, and safety & crisis concerns, also including housing, food, employment and financial support. Computations made with highest percentages of sustainability factors–spanning all areas of world involvement–is optimized for maximum sustainable outcome, and then, provided to users as the wisest, most viable choices on all matters of energy-savings, environmental solutions, important places & maps of their area, best up-to-date traffic routes, daily health advice, and intelligent shopping for consumer products, local services & supplies; and all this is integrated with common social networks. It is the "People's Choice Website for All."

Users may earn HuHub Merits and income for their suggestions for more efficient communities & cities based on local resources, or HuHub engineering concepts. This is one of many examples how HuHub is designed to make a difference with this world-changing software. “Before & After” statistics encourage everyone about our bright future, as we watch worldwide changes from the dark ages into a time, where people will ponder how humanity ever survived without this technology.

"What a wonderful site to get paid and help improve the world!!!” This project will bring world relief and prosperity via a knowledge pool of optimization software data delivery service with the most efficient methods available and distribution through the internet. “We are limiting ourselves for not already using the most optimal computational methods, as well as not adopting such procedures,” said Prater.

HuHub: THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOR ALL.

SIGN HuHub Petition to Pres. Obama: http://wh.gov/6kH

This is a world challenge for everyone to POST YOUR PARTICIPATION on Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. FOR BROADCAST.


DONATE & SPONSOR HuHub!

Calling on Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas and related companies like Yahoo and Twitter:

This is an Open Invitation: to the worldwide web and companies with similar missions, to BECOME SPONSORS to help humanity and the world, through our combined efforts and technology, and to do our duty as citizens of Earth to progress towards sustainability.


 
 
Together, we make great changes by “Bringing our world online allowing us to make changes.”

SIGN THE PETITION: http://wh.gov/6kH

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Science & Technology


By gathering information, user input, world feedback and real-time statistical data, HuHub core engine will become self-assimilating, intelligently programmed by users. User-integration for internet content, simulation software and implementation software are in the core engine of HuHub that supply the predictability of the most optimal procedures.

In its' stage of bloom, it will make this human era be compared to the Dark Ages seen with Before and After Huhub comparisons as we watch ourselves evolve. The intelligence will flourish towards sustainability by the process of integrating the world and all of its' aspects, while also adding new aspects by users and predicting software; and all of its' aspects go into Huhub systems for the optimal outcome while continually adding new aspects, of integrate-ability of all diverse fields for: humanity, food, shelter, predictability; maximizing decisions for the world towards a maximal outcome within as many real time scenarios allowing the best possible outcome. The best possible outcomes for all situations will be maximized in this system.


This computational theory may seem simple, as if it should have been here already. However, it took many years and much formalization from numerous aspects to derive a system that will work, which combines real world solutions for environmental crisis intervention, global network emergency response, resource management, communication tools, business & employment solutions, education and cognitive restructuring techniques with marketing & advertising.

It is based upon the Polymath way, which expands our collective expertise far-reaching on many subjects of different areas, like the branching software embedded in this system. We give this great concept to the world, in our Polymath way, in order to 'pay it forward,' to get the ball rolling towards a sustainable future of goodness. This is called "Alternative Giving," of which, Benjamin Franklin said, it is the act of "doing a good deed with little money."

“Run it through HuHub: Social Scientific Data on Demand” –
HuHub is a great concept driven towards intelligent computational decision, planning and distribution methods, so that it may: provide huge advances in scientific research; help optimize government spending; make alternative energy solutions and energy-savings products available to consumers; create financial incentives (prizes, awards and special ad placement) for local businesses that offer sustainability solutions, Eco-friendly products and services; offer optimized business solutions for all businesses and global business, and optimized trade; and offer users good choices for sustainability. "This is is an unity perfection machine geared toward perfecting all things," said Brian Prater, HuHub Systems Engineer.

HuHub will utilize a sticky site to involve users in an evolving decision-making network, which is comprised of ideas gathered throughout the internet, user input, statistics and data. A.I. software & concept-mapping offers users amazing interactive experiences as they make more efficient choices based upon large amounts of variables for the best outcome.

On your Huhub homepage, which is customizable for your expansive preferences, you login at your local Hub, which is within your Nethood; and the Nethood is clustered for that location and attached to other Nethoods, which deliver the proper information to the user directed from the main Hub (or the Central Hub cores). The Nethood also is branched into other Nethoods, such as: Business Nethood, Family/Geneaology Nethood, and other people-related Nethoods, which is part of the expansive preferences of user action panels, perhaps evolving into millions of categories of user definitions. This is like a Nethood Dashboard for the user's location so that they can participate in any updates, which are displayed as real-time statistically-driven analytical output of your local information and methods of correct decisions supplied by Huhub. Huhub could, upon user request, the user fill out a small form and the Hub can custom page for their area, their preferences to ease the burden and maximize user integration. The statistics are designed for that location. The user can have direct information on what products are going to be at that location as well as: news tickers display latest updates for that area, interactive user polls, data for most efficient statistical data, etc.

Huhub is like your daily oracle software. Real-time statistical data for best methods of procedures for maximized results towards sustainability in all areas. Together we can accomplish this by utilizing the best amount of efficiency to help the world in all areas of integration, such as feeding the poor, and supplying them with optimal methods to end poverty situations. Millions of applications could be listed for integration towards helping humanity; and by user's input, billions to build a proficient knowledge engine.


Huhub has optimal cognitive restructuring in mind; and the user will evolve through the experience.  It will be the most intelligent stickiest site ever for supplying the correct decisions for your Hub.  Website features to "Expand My Search" like a jump button takes the users from their Hub to the Nethood, showing them what products and things to do in their specific location, which will best benefit the consumers, also what companies need to be built for that area for the proper amount of maximal efficiency based upon real world events.

HuHub's quantitative computing query software delivery system may provide someone who asks "What needs to be done so that I am not depressed?", their wisest choices and solutions, one of which may be: "a park should be built on such-and-such block wherein this region has shown high levels of depression."  In other words, all of the maximized correct answers are supplied and stimulated by HuHub and users input to help maximize the system.


“HuHub is a social technical system, where the users can tell us how they think; and the end product is generated by the last user's input, updating and creating an evolving system,” Prater said, explaining the neuro-network. “HuHub may be the biggest leap towards goodness ever implemented on Earth through people and computers, problem-solving in all areas with an active knowledge portal in real life-impacting situations delivering the best possible outcome and procedures. It is truly a life-saving technological decision implementation network for solving world problems through users supplying updated answers.”

HuHub's slogan is "Cover all angles to comb through all possibilities for all humanity." It is to be an Intelligent Delivery Software. It has the potential to be more efficient, which will deliver users a new way to think for optimal thinking. "This is the reason for inventing computer science and computers." ~ Brian Prater, May 3, 2012


“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking.
It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

Albert Einstein

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Sponsorship & Merit Programs

Ecotechnology


Financial & Employment Opportunities –
You can become a sponsor now, be a part of our optimal future and the next human-technological destination. Efficiency is in our timing, and this message needs to spread fast. HuHub's mission is to give back to the people; and the heart of HuHub is always dedicated to helping the people.

One of the cornerstones of this project has always been job creation. High priority will be placed on local employment, as well as paid online participation through HuHub's Merit program integrated with HuHub sponsorship and Mentor & Apprentice systems. Local and online job creation programs will be integrated with HuHub Approval.

Money from sponsorship will be used to launch HuHub. Sponsorship will be coordinated with HuHub's Mentor & Apprentice system so that sponsors and users can earn HuHub Merits. Eventually, users, programmers & ad sponsors can get paid daily based upon their HuHub Merits accrued by participation.

User input will be compared with HuHub's software analysis, configured to present, recognize and deliver the most viable wisest choice-- and deliver HuHub Merits to users based upon statistically-driven answers that Huhub finds outstanding. Users will be able to input their suggestions for city improvements and local needs for government spending in their areas. Users may also participate in worldwide business and politics easily through this system of polls and statistics made available from a user dashboard and preference settings. This sticky site intends to be the place "Where One Click Can Save the World".

Immediate job openings are available in HuHub for research teams, programming teams and marketing teams. Comparisons of “Before & After HuHub” will be one of the center focuses of HuHub's dynamic website to help everyone envision the future, and watch ourselves in action make improvements in our world.

This is the only project of its' kind developed so that the sponsors and users can financially profit from their online participation. User-integration standards are set high with long-term scalability in mind as technology evolves allowing more functionality and fast, high-quality graphics.

Already, HuHub is bigger than other social networks because of the potential to create jobs and critical changes for positive results throughout the world, and HuHub has the potential to progressively spread faster than any other social application ever before by offering real financial income, competitive ad sponsorship and a vital website that supports user participation.

HuHub is far more advanced than what other organizations and related project concepts have considered so far. We feel that other competitors do not offer any similar product, concept, website or scalable model that is integrally designed to help humanity at such fundamental levels, educate the users and allow computers and humans both adapt together through a natural evolution process. Concepts and user features contained within HuHub are built with people in mind. For such a social-technological system to work, it must have certain balances embedded, which HuHub has incorporated with an expansive user-integration, HuHub Nethood, and training programs that allow users to learn and grow in positive ways that can excel humanity and intelligence.

Only HuHub has such a strong user-integration system to attract interest and user involvement from both users and sponsors, while also yielding substantial earnings. HuHub profits will be distributed to programmers within HuHub's Merit system, as well as, TV & billboard marketing & advertising; and HuHub intends that ten percent will go to help the poor based upon statistics for optimal results. "This is truly a potential engine for good." ~ Brian Prater, May 4, 2012
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Higher Law


Introducing a World Challenge based on Higher Law –
HuHub is a ground-breaking concept that takes everyone into account, making it equitable, volunteer-based and able to accommodate changes for in the future. In this era, we may already see similar types of technologies on the rise, yet all are looking for ways to integrate in a manner that are sustainable, just and fair for all people.

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The take over of our great land
Wednesday May 23, 2012
Our country has endured many hardships but we are now faced with a very different Coup De'tat, its a bankers coup, this is my plea to all Americans, to take the time and realize that these things I make video's on are not just conspiracy theory, they are conspiracy fact. Our country is being taken from us without a shot ever being fired. This is why I'm asking you to all take careful look at my last video entry it sums up in short some of our country's blood shed that has taken place during the dates of April 19 - May 1.
   These dates to most have no meaning but they are the dates of the "Black Mass" or black sabbath, on those dates we have the BP oil spill, Waco Texas, Oklahoma bombing, The American Revolution, and first blood of the Civil War, and also the Pope who should have known better than to take office on the first day of Black Mass, April 19th. Take heed everyone our world is run by this shadow government and for this Preacher I am finding that it is all leading to the one person I am hunting for and that would be the antichrist! It is our goal at www.prophecies.spruz.com to hunt, find, and expose this evil as soon as we can. I bid you all peace.

Fossils discovered in China hint at new human species
Friday March 16, 2012
The most recent fossils ever found of a human-like species in southeast China have presented scientists with a mystery about what may be an unknown Stone Age culture, researchers said today.

Sometimes called the “red deer people,” the remains are about 11,500 to 14,500 years old and appear to show a mix of modern and archaic peoples, said an Australian and Chinese team of researchers in the journal PLoS One.

The remains, including skulls and teeth, of at least three individuals were found in 1989 at Maludong, or Red Deer Cave, in Yunnan Province, but the fossils went unstudied until 2008.

A fourth partial skeleton was found in 1979 in a cave in the village of Longlin, in the neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, but it remained encased in rock until it was eventually extracted in 2009.”These new fossils might be of a previously unknown species, one that survived until the very end of the Ice Age around 11,000 years ago,” said lead author Darren Curnoe, a professor at the University of New South Wales.

“Alternatively, they might represent a very early and previously unknown migration of modern humans out of Africa, a population who may not have contributed genetically to living people.”

Most relics and remains of ancient people — like the Neanderthals who died out some 30,000 years ago — have been found in Europe and Africa, but fossil finds in Asia have been more rare.

Before the red deer people, no fossils younger than 100,000 years old were found in mainland East Asia, but the latest discoveries suggest the land may not have been vacant of our human-like cousins after all, the researchers said.

“The discovery of the red-deer people opens the next chapter in the human evolutionary story — the Asian chapter — and it’s a story that’s just beginning to be told,” said Curnoe. …

via Fossils discovered in China hint at new human species.



Missing Cat Hunter Finds Buried Spececraft?
Thursday March 15, 2012
Hundreds of people are flocking to a field at Neuhofen im Innkreis in Austria after a mysterious perfectly round hole appeared overnight, leading down to a metallic construction 25-foot underground.

Farmer Franz Knoglinger, 47, discovered the hole while looking for his missing cat and after a report on local television he was flooded with curious visitors, as well as geologists, archaeologists and even UFO experts.

He said: “I was looking for our family cat Murlimann when I noticed the hole. I didn’t know how deep it was then so I dropped the stone down there, and heard a metallic clunk.

“From the time it took for the stone to reach the bottom I realised it was very deep.

“I managed to get a big magnet which I dangled down there and it clearly fastened onto something at the bottom – so there is something large and metallic about down there. It also sounds as if there is a hollow space around about whatever the metal object is – it sounds as if there is a room underneath.”

He said they needed 25 foot of rope to lower the magnet down and the local plumber who had tried to use a special camera to view the object had failed to get an image.

He said: “There seem to be disturbance on the line – maybe it was some sort of electrical field. Either way the camera didn’t bring a good result.”

Archaeologists suggested the hole could have been left by a wooden timber from an underground burial chamber that had rotted away.

Locals speculated it might have been a bomb as the area had been heavily targeted during the war.

But alien watchers have also been attracted by the find and are speculating about a buried spacecraft.

One man had even turned up with a sandwich board and the words “Beware – The Doorway to Hell”.

Geologists from the local council are expected to visit the site on Monday to carry out further tests.

In the meantime the family cat has appeared again, she had been sleeping in an airing cupboard at the family farm and the door had been closed – shutting her in. …

via Missing Cat Hunter Finds Buried Spececraft? – General News – Austrian Times Online News – English Newspaper.



Did SETI hear from aliens back in 1977?
Thursday March 15, 2012

Did SETI hear from aliens back in 1977? For three and a half decades, the ‘Wow!’ signal – detected via a large radio telescope in Ohio – has tantalised alien hunters, but it has never been rediscovered or duplicated in searches since. But it certainly has now become somewhat of a touchstone, inspiring those questing after alien contact in the 21st century.

Late one night in the summer of 1977, a large radio telescope outside Delaware, Ohio intercepted a radio signal that seemed for a brief time like it might change the course of human history. The telescope was searching the sky on behalf of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and the signal, though it lasted only seventy-two seconds, fit the profile of a message beamed from another world. Despite its potential import, several days went by before Jerry Ehman, a project scientist for SETI, noticed the data. He was flipping through the computer printouts generated by the telescope when he noticed a string of letters within a long sequence of low numbers—ones, twos, threes and fours. The low numbers represent background noise, the low hum of an ordinary signal. As the telescope swept across the sky, it momentarily landed on something quite extraordinary, causing the signal to surge and the computer to shift from numbers to letters and then keep climbing all the way up to “U,” which represented a signal thirty times higher than the background noise level. Seeing the consecutive letters, the mark of something strange or even alien, Ehman circled them in red ink and wrote “Wow!” thus christening the most famous and tantalizing signal of SETI’s short history: The “Wow!” signal.

Despite several decades of searching, by amateur and professional astronomers alike, the “Wow!” signal has never again been found. In his new book, The Elusive Wow, amateur astronomer Robert Gray tells the story of the “Wow!” signal, and of astronomy’s quest to solve the puzzle of its origin. It’s a story he is well-positioned to tell. …

via Daily Grail Frontpage | TDG – Science, Magick, Myth and History.



Has the Mayan Crystal Skull Mystery Been Solved?
Thursday March 15, 2012
Australia, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Gemstone dealer with over 20 years’ experience investigates the mysterious Mayan crystal skull.

Wayne Sedawie, founder of Gemrockauctions.com, has been wholesaling and has cut over a million gemstones, has sold over 1,000 crystal skulls, and has an experienced understanding of all aspects of how a crystal skull could have been carved.

With in-depth gemstone knowledge and practical experience he has researched and investigated the crystal skull mystery and used his experience from operating gemstone cutting factories, opal mining operations, international gemstone wholesale and a recent trip to Chichen Itza in January 2012 to investigate the Ancient Mayan sites.

Firstly by studying the geography of the area he analysed where the quartz could have been formed. This led him to some exploration findings and to the conclusion that the rough quartz had to be outsourced out of the Mayan regions. The trail for the sourcing of quartz led to the investigation of the Mayan trading system and trade routes, the amazing and chilling rituals and religion of the ancient race, the ideal environmental conditions for the creation of quartz, analysing what countries could have supplied the quartz and where the crystal skull could have been made in the start of the century.

Other researchers failed to investigate how a crystal skull could have been made. With his knowledge and research he found out how at the start of the century craftsmen had existing techniques and were capable of cutting a crystal skull.

A skilled craftsman understands how to analyse rough quartz in a process called “stress test.” This test eliminates any faults in the rough before carving commences, and then with the use of pointers or calibrators the craftsman could obtain an exact copy from a human skull and also use abrasion materials that were available at the time, so that a skull could be cut and polished. Through this information he has concluded with a high probability of who made the skull.

Website: http://www.gemrockauctions.com

via Has the Mayan Crystal Skull Mystery Been Solved? – MarketWatch.



Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist
Thursday March 15, 2012
Look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of California scientists — that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye — and consider its implications: Time travel may be feasible. Doc Brown would be proud.

The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe — a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that traveling through time may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.

And it’s all because of a tiny bit of metal — a “paddle” about the width of a human hair, an item that is incredibly small but still something you can see with the naked eye.

UC Santa Barbara’s Andrew Cleland cooled that paddle in a refrigerator, dimmed the lights and, under a special bell jar, sucked out all the air to eliminate vibrations. He then plucked it like a tuning fork and noted that it moved and stood still at the same time.

That sounds contradictory, and it’s nearly impossible to understand if your last name isn’t Einstein. But it actually happened. It’s a freaky fact that’s at the heart of quantum mechanics.

How Is That Possible?

To even try to understand it, you have to think really, really small. Smaller than an atom. Electrons, which circle the nucleus of an atom, are swirling around in multiple states at the same time — they’re hard to pin down. It’s only when we measure the position of an electron that we force it to have a specific location. Cleland’s breakthrough lies in taking that hard-to-grasp yet true fact about the atomic particle and applying it to something visible with the naked eye.

What does it all mean? Let’s say you’re in Oklahoma visiting your aunt. But in another universe, where your atomic particles just can’t keep up, you’re actually at home watching “The Simpsons.” That may sound far-fetched, but it’s based on real science.

“When you observe something in one state, one theory is it split the universe into two parts,” Cleland told FoxNews.com, trying to explain how there can be multiple universes and we can see only one of them.

The multi-verse theory says the entire universe “freezes” during observation, and we see only one reality. You see a soccer ball flying through the air, but maybe in a second universe the ball has dropped already. Or you were looking the other way. Or they don’t even play soccer over there.

Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and a popular author, accepts the scientific basis for the multi-verse — even if it cannot be proven.

“Unless you can imagine some super-advanced alien civilization that has figured this out, we aren’t affected by the possible existence of other universes,” Carroll said. But he does think “someone could devise a machine that lets one universe communicate with another.”

It all comes down to how we understand time.

Carroll suggests that we don’t exactly feel time — we perceive its passing. For example, time moves fast on a rollercoaster and very slowly during a dull college lecture. It races when you’re late for work . . . but the last few minutes before quitting time seem like hours.

“Time seems to be a one-way street that runs from the past to the present,” says Fred Alan Wolf, a.k.a. Dr. Quantum, a physicist and author. “But take into consideration theories that look at the level of quantum fields … particles that travel both forward and backward in time. If we leave out the forward-and-backwards-in-time part, we miss out on some of the physics.”

Wolf says that time — at least in quantum mechanics — doesn’t move straight like an arrow. It zig-zags, and he thinks it may be possible to build a machine that lets you bend time.

Consider Sergei Krikalev, the Russian astronaut who flew six space missions. Richard Gott, a physicist at Princeton University, says Krikalev aged 1/48th of a second less than the rest of us because he orbited at very high speeds. And to age less than someone means you’ve jumped into the future — you did not experience the same present. In a sense, he says, Krikalev time-traveled to the future — and back again!

“Newton said all time is universal and all clocks tick the same way,” Gott says. “Now with Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity we know that travel into the future is possible. With Einstein’s theory of gravity, the laws of physics as we understand them today suggest that even time travel to the past is possible in principle. But to see whether time travel to the past can actually be realized we may have to learn new laws of physics that step in at the quantum level.”

And for that, you start with a very tiny paddle in a bell jar.

Cleland has proved that quantum mechanics scale to slightly larger sizes. The next challenge is to learn how to control quantum mechanics and use it for even larger objects. Do so — and we might be able to warp to parallel universes just by manipulating a few electrons.

“Our concepts of cause and effect will fly out the window,” says Ben Bova, the science fiction author. “People will — for various reasons — try to fix the past or escape into the future. But we may never notice these effects, if the universe actually diverges. Maybe somebody already has invented a time machine and our history is being constantly altered, but we don’t notice the kinks in our path through time.”

via Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist | Fox News.



CIA Admits Faking A Few Bin Laden Videos
Thursday March 15, 2012

Just because the CIA faked *some* bin Laden videos doesn't mean they faked the confession video, but yes, they did make fake bin laden videos according to the Washington Post.

... in a scenario more the preserve of careless Hollywood starlets such as Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, the CIA appears to have plotted to undermine Saddam Husseinwith a gay sex tape.According to the Washington Post's security blog, some of America's spooks believed that shooting a fake video of Saddam cavorting with a teenage boy might destabilise his regime in the runup to the US-led invasion in 2003. "It would look like it was taken by a hidden camera. Very grainy, like it was a secret videotaping of a sex session," the Washington Post quoted one former CIA official as saying.

Nor was the Saddam sex tape the only idea floating around the more bizarre corners of the CIA's Iraq Operations Group. Other ploys involved interrupting Iraqi television with a false newsflash that would announce Saddam was handing over power to his hated and feared son Uday. The presumed idea was to shock the Iraqi people into rising up against their leaders and thus make the invasion a lot easier.

Perhaps thankfully, the tape and fake news broadcast were never made and the Post reported that top CIA brass repeatedly rejected the ideas. But that did not stop a CIA video being shot of a fake Osama bin Laden sitting around a camp fire, drinking booze and boasting of his own gay conquests.

The video apparently used some of the CIA's "darker skinned" employees as extras playing the terror chief's henchmen. It does not seem to have been released. The Post said an anonymous US official had declined to confirm or deny the accounts. "If these ideas were ever floated by anyone at any time, they clearly didn't go anywhere," the official said. ....

via Guardian

Bin Laden, right after the attacks, said he was not involved in 9/11.

October 16, 2001-- An interview with Osama bin Laden was published in a Karachi-based Pakistani daily newspaper, Ummat, on September 28, 2001. In this interview, bin Laden says of the September 11 attacks in the US:"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. - publicAction

His statement concurs with the fact that Osama does not mention 9/11 in any of the large number of audio tapes of Bin Laden that the FBI released.George Bush just six months after 9/11 was not concerned about him:



Obama Tries to Take the Spotlight Off Gas Prices
Tuesday March 13, 2012
The White House started the week by promoting a progress report on its energy goals that’s full of feel-good factoids President Obama will no doubt use on the campaign trail to counter Republicans, who blame him for high gas prices.

Consider oil imports, which fell 10 percent in 2011. As the report notes, domestic oil production is at its highest level since 2003 and natural gas production is at an all-time high. Last year, the U.S. refining sector was a net exporter for the first time in 60 years.

Republicans call Obama hypocritical for claiming to be tapping into all available energy resources while abandoning the Keystone pipeline. GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney has said he will approve the pipeline on his first day in office. But the administration has indeed been opening up more public lands for exploration. In December, the Department of the Interior held the first oil- and natural-gas-lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon spill, and is planning to hold a dozen further sales in the Gulf and in Alaska. The White House says it plans to open more than 75 percent of the estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources to development.

That might sound like anathema to the President’s liberal base. But there’s something in the report to appease them: progress in renewable fuel development.

Renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources has doubled since 2008, thanks in part to public investment and approval of projects, the White House reports, and the Environmental Protection Agency has put in place tougher fuel economy standards for heavy duty trucks. (They require an average performance equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.) …

via Obama Tries to Take the Spotlight Off Gas Prices – Businessweek.



Jupiter, Venus set to put on stunning show for astronomers, according to NASA
Tuesday March 13, 2012
Venus and Jupiter are set to dazzle stargazers with a stunning display, according to officials at the U.S. space agency NASA.

Space agency officials say the pair of planets will present amateur astronomers with a stunning view of the gas giant and the Earth’s neighboring planet. The duo will be within 3 degrees of each other, providing amateur and professional astronomers with a rare view of the two brightest planets in the sky. The celestial action peaks this Thursday (March 15), and will continue through the weekend when Venus and Jupiter align in a planetary conjunction.

The Venus-Jupiter conjunctions are fairly special events, occurring roughly every 13 months, according to NASA officials. However, this month’s viewing should be one of the best for astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere, experts say. At mid-nothern latitudes on Thursday, the pair of planets should be visible for nearly four hours after sunset. Experts at NASA say this year’s occurrence is especially impressive, noting that it could be the best show for years to come.

“This will be the best Venus-Jupiter conjunction for years to come. While bright to the unaided eye, they’re even better when seen through a telescope,” the space agency said in a statement released Monday.

The view of the planets will leave stargazers with a interesting perspective on the pair of planets. By mid-month, the planets will be so close to one another that stargazers will have the ability to block them with a single finger. NASA officials say the alignment is likely to provide astronomers with a clear picture of the planets that could allow for detailed views of both Jupiter and Venus.

“The two brilliant planets surrounded by evening blue is a beautiful sight,” NASA said in statement. The pair of planets will serve as “a spectacular double beacon in the sunset sky,” the space agency adds.
Both Venus and Jupiter seem to have captured the imagination of amateur stargazers, according to NASA. In a statement released ahead of the event, NASA officials noted that the starlight emitted by the planets has the ability to create the illusion of a high-definition view of the planets.

“Your eye is a bit like a digital camera,” explains optometrist Dr. Stuart Hiroyasu of Bishop, California. “There’s a lens in front to focus the light, and a photo-array behind the lens to capture the image.”

“Whatever you see, you see in high-definition,” Dr. Hiroyasu says. The fovea is critical to reading, driving, watching television. The fovea has the brain’s attention.”

Scientists at NASA say the event will have worldwide audience, adding that the combined brightness of the planets will outshine any cloud coverage.

“This arrangement will be visible all around the world, from city and countryside alike,” says NASA. “The moon, Venus and Jupiter are the brightest objects in the night sky; together they can shine through urban lights, fog, and even some clouds.”

While Jupiter is about 11 times wider than the roughly Earth-size Venus, Venus shines much more brightly than the gas giant from our perspective — about eight times more brightly this week, according to astronomers. The reason has to do with the fact that Venus is much closer to us than Jupiter is. On average, Earth orbits 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from the sun, a distance defined as 1 astronomical unit (AU). Venus zips around our star at about 0.72 AU, while Jupiter is found roughly 5.2 AU away from the sun. …

via Jupiter, Venus set to put on stunning show for astronomers, according to NASA | The State Column.



Honey bees study finds that insects have personality too
Tuesday March 13, 2012
A new study in Science suggests that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure. The brains of these novelty-seeking bees exhibit distinct patterns of gene activity in molecular pathways known to be associated with thrill-seeking in humans, researchers report.

The findings offer a new window on the inner life of the honey bee hive, which once was viewed as a highly regimented colony of seemingly interchangeable workers taking on a few specific roles (nurse or forager, for example) to serve their queen. Now it appears that individual honey bees actually differ in their desire or willingness to perform particular tasks, said University of Illinois entomology professor and Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene Robinson, who led the study. These differences may be due, in part, to variability in the bees’ personalities, he said. The study team also included researchers from Wellesley College and Cornell University.

“In humans, differences in novelty-seeking are a component of personality,” he said. “Could insects also have personalities?”

Robinson and his colleagues studied two behaviors that looked like novelty-seeking in honey bees: scouting for nest sites and scouting for food.

When a colony of bees outgrows its living quarters, the hive divides and the swarm must find a suitable new home. At this moment of crisis, a few intrepid bees – less than 5 percent of the swarm – take off to hunt for a hive. These bees, called nest scouts, are on average 3.4 times more likely than their peers to also become food scouts, the researchers found.

“There is a gold standard for personality research and that is if you show the same tendency in different contexts, then that can be called a personality trait,” Robinson said. Not only do certain bees exhibit signs of novelty-seeking, he said, but their willingness or eagerness to “go the extra mile” can be vital to the life of the hive.

The researchers wanted to determine the molecular basis for these differences in honey bee behavior. They used whole-genome microarray analysis to look for differences in the activity of thousands of genes in the brains of scouts and non-scouts.

“People are trying to understand what is the basis of novelty-seeking behavior in humans and in animals,” Robinson said. “And a lot of the thinking has to do with the relationship between how the (brain’s) reward system is engaged in response to some experience.”

The researchers found thousands of distinct differences in gene activity in the brains of scouting and non-scouting bees.

“We expected to find some, but the magnitude of the differences was surprising given that both scouts and non-scouts are foragers,” Robinson said.

Among the many differentially expressed genes were several related to catecholamine, glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) signaling, and the researchers zeroed in on these because they are involved in regulating novelty-seeking and responding to reward in vertebrates.

To test whether the changes in brain signaling caused the novelty-seeking, the researchers subjected groups of bees to treatments that would increase or inhibit these chemicals in the brain. Two treatments (with glutamate and octopamine) increased scouting in bees that had not scouted before. Blocking dopamine signaling decreased scouting behavior, the researchers found.

“Our results say that novelty-seeking in humans and other vertebrates has parallels in an insect,” Robinson said. “One can see the same sort of consistent behavioral differences and molecular underpinnings.”

The findings also suggest that insects, humans and other animals made use of the same genetic “toolkit” in the evolution of behavior, Robinson said. The tools in the toolkit – genes encoding certain molecular pathways – may play a role in the same types of behaviors, but each species has adapted them in its own, distinctive way.

“It looks like the same molecular pathways have been engaged repeatedly in evolution to give rise to individual differences in novelty-seeking,” he said.

More information: “Molecular Determinants of Scouting Behavior in Honeybees,” Science (2012).

via Honey bees study finds that insects have personality too.



Virgin Oceanic’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Tuesday March 13, 2012
Image: Remarkably, there is no definite measurement for the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. Measurements taken from the surface using sonar are calculated using the speed of sound traveling through water—but that speed varies depending on the water’s temperature and salinity. The best sonar reading to date, taken in 2011, put the trench’s lowest point at 10 994 meters.

As the battered little boat slides down a 3-meter ocean swell into the next trough, Chris Welsh grits his teeth and peers out into the storm. Sheets of rain pummel the dark windows of the bridge, and a Micronesian sailor wrestles with the wheel. It’s past midnight on a July night and we’re bobbing over the almost 11 kilometers of water that fill the deepest abyss on Earth, the Mariana Trench. Welsh is leading a small party of engineers, scientists, and adventurers under the banner of Virgin Oceanic; they’ve chugged out here aboard a 20-year-old ferryboat to test some unmanned deep-diving probes. It’s the first step in what they hope will be a glorious high-tech adventure, in which a man—Welsh, specifically—will visit the bottom of the trench before the end of this year.

But right now, most of us would be happy just to make it back to Guam, 130 km (81 miles) to the north. Another wave breaks over the boat and crashes down on the cabin house, dousing the upper deck. I recall a plaque mounted on a table in the main cabin that admonishes, “No passengers more than 20 miles from shore.” This 20-meter-long vessel is what oceanographers call a “ship of opportunity,” which means it was pressed into service for the mission basically because it was available. Welsh turns to the captain, who lives in the Mariana Islands, and asks, “In your experience, what usually happens in a storm like this? Does it get better? Does it get worse?”

The captain keeps the boat’s prow pointed firmly into the waves. “I don’t know,” he says. “I’ve never seen it like this.” It occurs to me that if the boat sinks, it will take 3 hours to reach the seafloor.

Of course, it wouldn’t be real adventure if there wasn’t any danger. Like the South Pole, the peak of Mount Everest, and the moon, the Mariana Trench is a singular place that looms large in the human psyche. Countless ordinary people have imagined what it would be like to be there, and a very few extraordinary people have actually managed to go. Of all those singular places, the bottom of the Mariana Trench has had the fewest visitors—precisely two. In 1960, U.S. Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard rode down in a primitive vehicle called a bathyscaphe (essentially a small metal sphere attached to an enormous bag of buoyant gasoline). No one has been there since, although three unmanned vehicles took the plunge in the 1990s and 2000s.

If Walsh and Piccard’s bathyscaphe was a dirigible, the sleek experimental vehicle being built for Welsh is a fighter jet. Welsh plans to pilot it on the world’s first solo dive to the trench bottom. He’ll be accompanied by an entourage of robotic landers, the prototype of which we’re now testing in this stormy sea. We dropped the lander 6 hours ago, and by now it has completed its round trip to the seafloor and is bobbing somewhere out there on the dark waves. The researchers on board dearly want it back, with its payload of deep-sea water samples. But the radio beacon attached to the probe isn’t sending out its location signal, and there’s no sign of the instrument’s flashing strobe light in the storm. If an unmanned probe carrying only electronics can run into this much trouble in the Mariana Trench, what difficulties will confront the actual sub, with its cargo of human life? …

via Virgin Oceanic’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea – IEEE Spectrum.



Researchers Capture First-Ever Images Of Atoms Moving In A Molecule
Tuesday March 13, 2012
Researchers at Ohio State University and Kansas State University have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving in a molecule. Shown here is molecular nitrogen. The researchers used an ultrafast laser to knock one electron from the molecule, and recorded the diffraction pattern that was created when the electron scattered off the molecule. The image highlights any changes the molecule went through during the time between laser pulses: one quadrillionth of a second. The constituent atoms’ movement is shown as a measure of increasing angular momentum, on a scale from dark blue to pink, with pink showing the region of greatest momentum. Image courtesy of Cosmin Blaga, Ohio State University.

Using a new ultrafast camera, researchers have recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule.

Key to the experiment, which appears in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, is the researchers’ use of the energy of a molecule’s own electron as a kind of “flash bulb” to illuminate the molecular motion.

The team used ultrafast laser pulses to knock one electron out of its natural orbit in a molecule. The electron then fell back toward the molecule scattered off of it, analogous to the way a flash of light scatters around an object, or a water ripple scatters in a pond.

Principal investigator Louis DiMauro of Ohio State University said that the feat marks a first step toward not only observing chemical reactions, but also controlling them on an atomic scale.

“Through these experiments, we realized that we can control the quantum trajectory of the electron when it comes back to the molecule, by adjusting the laser that launches it,” said DiMauro, who is a professor of physics at Ohio State. “The next step will be to see if we can steer the electron in just the right way to actually control a chemical reaction.” …

Beyond its potential for controlling chemical reactions, the technique offers a new tool to study the structure and dynamics of matter, he said. “Ultimately, we want to really understand how chemical reactions take place. So, long-term, there would be applications in materials science and even chemical manufacturing.” …

via Researchers Capture First-Ever Images Of Atoms Moving In A Molecule.



The Children Who Bore Witness to Roswell: Their Tragic Stories Finally Revealed
Monday March 12, 2012

… For many what was seen at Roswell cast a shadow the length of a lifetime. And for the two children who innocently happened on strange things fallen from the sky in 1947 that did not belong, their lifetimes were short. It is telling that the ‘first-on-the-scene’ witnesses to the unearthly crash materials were the ones who would say the very least. They were troubled by secrets that were held in their hearts and to their graves. The original and untainted witnesses were ranch manager Mac Brazel and two New Mexico boys, Dee Proctor and Vernon Brazel.

But suffer the children. And these two indeed suffered. Theirs is a story of silence and of suicide. It is a tortured tale of drink, divorce and dying young. It is an incredible account of stolen alien metal and of frightening threats to juveniles. And the brief but stunning confession of one of these Roswell child witnesses is related on the internet for the first time ever, here and now…

We now realize that Dee Proctor is to be considered an historical figure who saw what none of us ever will. But it was a “privilege” that Dee never sought and a sight he wished that he had never seen…

Dee was with Brazel when he first discovered the debris field. But he was also with Brazel, he told his mother Loretta, when he discovered “something else” at another site 2-1/2 miles to the east that left him deeply traumatized for the rest of his life. He never told her exactly what he saw there but he did take her to the location in 1994 saying, “Here is where Mack found something else.”

The only other time that it is known that Dee spoke of the event was by “accident.” Author and researcher Kevin Randle indicates that on two occasions in the 1990s, when phoning for Loretta Proctor, her son Dee had answered. Realizing that these would be “missed opportunities” not to talk to Dee directly, Kevin engaged him both times in very brief conversation before Dee’s mother got to the phone. Dee quickly and reluctantly confirmed to Kevin some astounding information:

- He was indeed with Mac at the crash site that week in July of 1947 and remembers it
- Military authorities had come to “visit” him to discuss the crash
- He and Mac came upon a large field of metal-like debris: remnants of a craft
- He did not believe the material that he saw to be from earth or made by man
- He said that he later took some friends out with him to later visit the site

This last item is confirmed by Roswell resident Sydney “Jack” Wright, who told researchers Tom Carey and Don Schmitt that two sons of rancher Thomas Edington and one of rancher Truman Pierce’s daughters got to “the other location.” This author is currently trying to locate the Edington sons and the Pierce daughter….

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Warning on space attack devastation
Saturday March 10, 2012
Britain’s critical national infrastructure could be crippled in a high-altitude space attack by a rogue state or terrorists, MPs have warned.

A nuclear device detonated up to 500 miles above the earth’s surface could generate an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) with a “devastating” effect on power supplies, telecommunications and other vital systems, the Commons Defence Committee said.

It warned that countries such as Iran – which is resisting international pressure to end its nuclear programme – and even eventually some “non-state actors” could acquire the technology to mount such an attack.

Terrorists could also build a “crude” non-nuclear EMP weapon, with the power to cause disruption over a more limited area. But despite the vulnerability of the UK to such an attack, the committee accused the Ministry of Defence of appearing “complacent” and “unwilling to take these threats seriously”, and added that ministers should start work on “hardening” the infrastructure to protect against an EMP attack as a “matter of urgency”..

The committee said the Government currently rated the probability of a high-altitude EMP attack as “low”, although it acknowledged that the impact would be severe. However, an official EMP commission in the United States found “rogue states” such as Iran and nuclear-armed North Korea were well aware of the potential for such an attack.

The Iranians in particular were reported to have conducted missile tests which appeared to simulate the effects of an EMP nuclear strike. The Americans concluded that in the event of such an attack, the widespread collapse of the electrical power system was “virtually inevitable”.

It is not only EMP weapons that have the power to wreak havoc. The committee said a naturally occurring “space weather event” caused by changing conditions in the sun’s atmosphere could have a similar effect.

The most severe example – known as the Carrington event after the astronomer who observed it – occurred in 1859 when a massive solar flare sent enormous electrical currents surging through telegraph systems causing shocks to telegraph operators and setting fire to papers.

The likelihood a severe space weather event occurring over the next five years is currently assessed by the Government as being “moderate to high”, the committee said. The National Grid has estimated that if there was another Carrington-sized event, there was a 91% chance that an area of the UK would be left without power for two months or more while essential satellite systems could also be damaged

It said ministers should also consider the practicability and cost of establishing resilience against a widespread loss of transformers, as could occur in an EMP attack.

via Warning on space attack devastation – Yahoo!.



Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood
Saturday March 10, 2012
I recently gave a lecture, screened on the BBC, about quantum theory, in which I pointed out that “everything is connected to everything else”. This is literally true if quantum theory as currently understood is not augmented by new physics. This means that the subatomic constituents of your body are constantly shifting, albeit absolutely imperceptibly, in response to events happening an arbitrarily large distance away; for the sake of argument, let’s say on the other side of the Universe.

This statement received some criticism in scientific circles. Not because it’s wrong, because it isn’t; without this behavior, we wouldn’t be able to explain the bonds that hold molecules together. The problem is that it sounds like woo woo, and quantum theory attracts woo-woo merde-merchants like the pronouncements of New Age mystics attract flies – metaphorically speaking.

For the record, the reason that everything being connected to everything else does not allow us to be, (selects randomly from a pit of drivel), at one with the Universal consciousness, is that the subtle interconnectedness in quantum theory cannot be used to transmit information. Quantum theory, in other words, describes a counterintuitive world, but not a mystical one.

Despite this, the informed critics gave me pause for thought, because there is certainly a widespread misunderstanding of quantum theory in popular culture. Just type “quantum healing” into Google and the energies of your body mind will soon be vibrating in harmony with the standing waves in a giant Olympic-sized vat of cosmic bull. Given that none of the purveyors of this cataclysmic tosh can possibly have the faintest idea how to use quantum theory to calculate the energy levels in a hydrogen atom, the origin of the misunderstanding – if not purely financial – may be in pronouncements like the one I made in my lecture.

For some scientists, the unfortunate distortion and misappropriation of scientific ideas that often accompanies their integration into popular culture is an unacceptable price to pay. I share their irritation, but my strongly held view is that science is too important not to be part of popular culture. Our civilization was built on the foundations of reason and rational thinking embodied in the scientific method, and our future depends on the widespread acceptance of science as THE ONLY WAY WE HAVE to meet many, if not all, of the great challenges we face. Is the climate warming and, if so, what is the cause? Is it safe to vaccinate children against disease? These are scientific questions, in that they can be answered by the analysis of data, and therefore the answers are independent of the opinion, faith or political persuasion of the individual. If you would like to see the scale of the problem faced by those who wish to champion science and reason above rhetoric and knee-jerk prejudice, have a glance at the comments that are no doubt proliferating below this article because I mentioned climate change and vaccination.

The key words in the above paragraph are “widespread acceptance”. In democratic societies, progress is made through persuasion, and science has a most persuasive story to tell. Quantum theory tells us that the universe we experience emerges from a bewildering, counterintuitive maelstrom of interactions between an infinity of recalcitrant sub-atomic particles. To understand something as simple as a rainbow, we have to allow each single particle of light to explore the entire universe on its journey through the rain. This is magical, and there is plenty more in the library of science. We have landed on a world where the faint sun glints off methane lakes, seen stars the size of cities spin hundreds of times a second, and taken photographs of light from the beginning of time that has journeyed for over thirteen billion years to reach us. This is true wonder, with the power to deliver a dizzying feeling, the craving for which might be seen as the very definition of what it means to be human.

Recognizing the innate human desire to be dazzled is the key to understanding why some people are drawn to pseudo-scientific drivel; it delivers wonder, albeit chimeric. But herein lies a clue as to where the cure for irrationality lies, because reality is strange and beautiful enough to satisfy the most veracious imagination. In order to build a more scientific society, therefore, I argue that scientists must not be afraid to speak of their discoveries in language that fires the imagination and satiates the innate human need for wonder, because wonder is a doorway to a deeper appreciation and understanding of science. This is the language of popular culture, which is by definition the dominant source of information for the majority in society. If we can persuade enough people that science is as wonderful as it is useful, then we will be far better equipped as a civilization to face the great challenges of the 21st century.

Brian Cox is the co-author, with Jeff Forshaw, of the new book The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does), published by Da Capo Press.

via Why Quantum Theory Is So Misunderstood – Speakeasy – WSJ.



Yosemite waterfall turns to ‘flowing lava’ in rare February spectacle
Saturday March 10, 2012
Fiery illusion: Mid-February sunsets in Yosemite National Park lights a natural firefall from Glacier Point illuminating one of the park’s lesser-known waterfalls so precisely that it resembles molten lava

via Yosemite waterfall turns to ‘flowing lava’ in rare February spectacle caught on camera | Mail Online.



Alien programming language used in Duqu Trojan
Saturday March 10, 2012
Malware experts from Kaspersky Lab have asked the programming community for help identifying the programming language, compiler or framework that was used to write an important part of the Duqu Trojan, in the hope that it could reveal clues about who created it or why.

“When we checked Duqu it looked totally unknown and that was very curious, because it’s unclear why something very custom was developed and used,” said Vitaly Kamluk, chief malware expert with Kaspersky Lab’s global research & analysis team.

Understanding how a piece of malware was created can offer clues about where to look for it next or the level of resources required for its development, the security expert said.

Some parts of the Duqu payload DLL, the component responsible for interacting with the command and control servers, downloading and executing additional modules, and performing other tasks, were written in standard C++, but a big chunk of it was not.

“This slice is different from others, because it was not compiled from C++ sources. It contains no references to any standard or user-written C++ functions, but is definitely object-oriented,” said Kaspersky Lab expert Igor Soumenkov in a blog post that describes the particularities of the unfamiliar code.

Kaspersky researchers refer to this portion of the Trojan as “The Duqu Framework” and believe that it might have been created by a different programming team. The unusual code is also particular to Duqu and doesn’t exist in Stuxnet, unlike some other parts that were directly borrowed from the infamous industrial sabotage malware.

“The mysterious programming language is definitively NOT C++, Objective C, Java, Python, Ada, Lua and many other languages we have checked,” Soumenkov said, adding that Kaspersky’s research team has spent countless hours analyzing the code.

The company’s researchers even discussed it with third-party experts, but didn’t get any closer to solving the mystery. “It looks absolutely alien,” Kamluk said.

Finally, Kaspersky Lab appealed to the entire programming community in the hope that someone might recognize the code constructions and figure out what was framework, toolkit or language was used.

The company has received various suggestions in comments on its blog, that range from F, D, Iron Python, High-Level Assembly, Common LISP, Forth, Erlang, Vala, to more exotic tools like RoseRT, which one user claims was used in secure government projects.

“It took us several weeks to check commonly used programming languages and various compilers,” Kamluk said. “So, I guess it may also take some time to check other suggestions.”

via Researchers can’t identify programming language used in Duqu, ask for help.

Duqu authors sprinkle humor in dangerous code

… For all of the concern around Duqu, the most discussed piece of malicious software since Stuxnet, the latest analysis of its code shows its writers have a sense of humor.

Wrapped in the code used to infect computers is an “Easter egg,” or a hidden message. Easter eggs have long been inserted in computer code, often seen only by those who enjoy browsing computer code.

Duqu’s exploit, the code used to take advantage of a software vulnerability, contained the line: “Copyright (c) 2003 Showtime Inc. All rights reserved. DexterRegularDexter.”

The reference to the television show “Dexter” is meant as a joke. The shellcode of the exploit is contained in an embedded font called “DexterRegularDexter,” which is processed by Windows’ Win32k TrueType font parsing engine, wrote Aleks Gostev, a senior analyst with the Global Research and Analysis Team for Kaspersky Lab.

“This is another prank pulled by the Duqu authors,” he wrote.

There actually is no font called Dexter, though, and it is just a name the malware authors assigned to the file, said Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team.

Kaspersky and many other computer security companies have been analyzing Duqu since it surfaced. Duqu shares some similarities with Stuxnet, the malware believed to have been created with the intention of disrupting Iran’s nuclear program by tampering with centrifuges used to enrich uranium. But experts remain uncertain if there is a connection between the developers of the two pieces of malware.

Gostev’s latest write up is an analysis of a version of Duqu that came from Sudan’s CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), which had a sample of Duqu from an unnamed organization that was infected.

Victims are infected by an exploit delivered via a tampered Microsoft Word document, which, if opened, delivers Duqu. Gostev’s post includes a screenshot of the simple email purporting to come from a marketing manager, “Mr. B. Jason,” requesting that the receiver open a Word document and answer a few questions such as “Do you supply marine shipping?”

Other clues in the code have indicated that Duqu could be as much as 4 years old. A driver loaded by Duqu’s exploit into the Windows kernel has a date saying it was compiled on Aug. 31, 2007, Gostev wrote. But that may not be accurate, since Duqu has different components that could have been created at different times.

Another oddity discovered by Kaspersky is how often attacks occurred on Wednesdays.

“The Duqu gang has an affinity for Wednesdays,”Raiu said. “They have repeatedly attempted to steal information from these systems on Wednesdays. This probably indicates a strong routine, almost military type.”

The attackers also took a lot of care when they struck to avoid being detected. They used separate command-and-control servers for each unique set of files. They also crafted a unique Word file for each victim and sent the malicious files from anonymous e-mail accounts, probably on compromised computers, Gostev wrote. They even modified the shellcode for different attacks….

via networkworld



Worlds deepest land animal found
Friday March 9, 2012
Scientists have recently described the deepest terrestrial animal ever found, together with 4 new species for science. These animals are springtails (Arthropoda, Insecta, Collembola), a minute primitive wingless insect with six-legs and without eyes that live in total darkness.

Described by Rafael Jordana and Enrique Baquero from University of Navarra (Spain), they are known for science as: Anurida stereoodorata, Deuteraphorura kruberaensis, Schaefferia profundissima and Plutomurus ortobalaganensis. The last one is the deepest arthropod ever found, at the remarkable depth of 1.980 meters (2,165 yards) below ground surface.

These animals were collected during the biospeleological works of Sofia Reboleira, from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and Alberto Sendra, from the Valencian Museum of Natural History (Spain), both who were members of the Ibero-Russian CaveX Team Expedition to the World’s deepest cave, during the summer of 2010.

The World’s deepest cave, Krubera-Voronja, reaching nowadays the remarkable depth of -2.191 meters below ground level, is located in Abkhazia, a remote area near the Black Sea in the mountains of Western Caucasus, being the only cave in the World with more than 2 kilometres of depth.

The discovery of life in such deep systems launches new insights about the way we look at life on Earth. In total absence of light and extreme low food resources, cave-dwelling animals have unique adaptations to subterranean life. They lack body pigmentation, they have no eyes and have been developing morpho-physological strategies for survival at such depth, during millions of years. One of the species has, for example, a spectacular chemoreceptor, a highly specialised type of the habitual post-antennal organ of the springtails.

via Scientists describe the deepest terrestrial arthropod ever found.



‘UFO Phil’ Says He Can Assume Presidency Without A Single Vote
Friday March 9, 2012
 
 
Ufophil

UFO Phil, a self-appointed intergalactic frontrunner for president, announced today he has been granted authority to assume the job without waiting for the November election.

“I’m going to become your new president. … Don’t worry, [Barak] Obama, Mitt Romney and whoever else can still have their little election. That’s not going to affect me,” said UFO Phil, whose real name is Phil Hill.

A published composer, comedy songwriter, documentary filmmaker and self-proclaimed “man of science,” Hill has even appeared on the small screen alongside actor and comedian Tom Green. His single “Listening to Coast to Coast” serves as a theme song for “Coast to Coast AM” on the Premiere Radio Network.

In interviews with Peter King of CBS, The Huffington Post and other media outlets, Hill revealed he is in possession of secret scrolls that are written by beings from another planet. Those documents, Hill claims, give him the authority to assume presidential leadership without a democratic election.

Once he assumed presidency, Hill said he would establish a “Senate for Terrestrial Alien Relations,” to welcome the arrival of “brothers from space.” Hill also said he will decommission all military ships at sea, in favor of a new fleet of flying discs with spaceports in major cities around the globe.

In addition, Phil wants to build a giant stone pyramid behind the Hollywood sign. The pyramid would be similar to the ones he wants to build on top of Pikes Peak in Colorado and on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

The pyramids, however, won’t be the only change coming, Hill said.

“The Statue of Liberty has to come down,” Hill told HuffPost. In its place, Hill said he will erect a much taller “Monument of Zaxon.” Zaxon, according to Hill, is the leader of the good aliens. “He has very nice skin and will look phenomenal as a statue,” Hill said.

If UFO Phil’s campaign promises sound a bit over-ambitious, it’s because he plans to become president of earth, not just the United States.

Hill also plans to hold a live concert for extraterrestrials on June 10, 2012, to correspond with the arrival of aliens on Earth, an event foretold centuries ago by the Mayans, he said. The show will take place in California at the site of the legendary 1967 Monterrey Pop Festival.

“When I’m president we’ll finally have full disclosure,” Hill promised. “I’m going to release all the top secret government UFO files to the public on DVD and Blu-ray, with special features.” …

via ‘UFO Phil’ Says He Can Assume Presidency Without A Single Vote.



Why it might not be surprising to find life on Mars
Friday March 9, 2012

 

 

A few days after the successful launch of NASA’s behemoth Curiosity rover with its Mars Science Laboratory instruments on November 26th 2011, a somewhat muted piece of news came out admitting that the strict biological planetary protection rules had not been adhered to quite as everyone expected. What this meant in practical terms was that the rover’s drill bits were not sealed up for launch with quite the same protocols for sterility as everyone had expected. Thus there is an added possibility that alien invaders from Earth are heading for Mars.

The reasons for trying to keep Curiosity and all of its bits and pieces effectively free of any Earthly biological microbial contamination are twofold. First, you don’t want to get to Mars, start sniffing for interesting organic chemistry and end up detecting someones nasal microbiome, or some other bits of our rich and soupy broth of organisms. That really messes up one’s ability to find martian life, whether extinct or extant. The second reason is that we don’t want to forward contaminate Mars, unleashing our alien fauna on what might be a pristine or ecologically fragile world. Even the landing site of Curiosity has been chosen to avoid any obvious water-ice deposits within 3 feet of the surface, for fear of contaminating the Martian hydrological system.

The minor breach in protocol for Curiosity’s drills is unlikely to spell impending biological apocalypse for Mars, but it does raise some fascinating questions, including whether humans have already contaminated Mars, and whether Nature has beaten us to it by hundreds of millions of years anyway.

… there is another route for biological alien invasion, one that has nothing to do with us, and which has been active for approximately 4 billion years. This is known as “impact transfer”, the ejection of material from a planetary surface during collisions with asteroids or comets, and its subsequent travel through space until sometimes falling into the gravity well of another planet or moon. The chain of events may go like this: a large kilometer scale asteroid hits the Earth’s continental surface at an oblique angle. During the moments of impact a “spall layer” of Earth’s crust can be accelerated to escape velocity, thrusting a mess of rocky particles and chunks up out of the atmosphere and into space.

Although this material experiences severe g-forces and temperature fluctuations, experimental studies indicate that conditions would certainly allow for hardy microbial or microscopic hitchhikers to be carried aloft.What happens next is a fascinating result of celestial mechanics. The range of velocities and trajectories of impact ejected material result in a multitude of pathways. Some of the spall will fall back to Earth promptly, some will fall back over weeks and months, some will enter orbital routes that carry it away for tens of thousands of years before it too returns to Earth a pathway that could put terrestrial chemical and biological material into “cold storage” during an episode of apocalyptic destruction on the homeworld. Other chunks go much further, entering what can be thought of as a very slow and very inefficient orbital conveyor belt. Some of this material can traverse interplanetary space only to be swept into the gravity well of another world or moon, including that of Mars, where it can rain down onto the planetary surface.Simulations of these impact ejecta “transfers” indicate that over billions of years collisions will have resulted in bits of Earth as well as other solid bodies being spread out across the solar system, even arriving at places as distant as Europa or Titan.

In these cases the ‘hit rate’ is low, perhaps one in ten million bits of Earth ejecta might ever make it to Europa or Titan over a million years, a smaller number would make the journey significantly faster. For Earth-to-Mars transfers the rate can be much higher, one in every thousand chunks of material ejected in a single impact event will make it to Mars in every million year interval after that initial dispersal into space. So over time the flux of transferred material adding up all impact events can be very significant. …

via Astrobiology: We are the Aliens | Life, Unbounded, Scientific American Blog Network.



Space ball: UFO shocks Brazilians
Friday March 9, 2012

Space ball: UFO shocks Brazilians

Photo: Lelé Vamos, Mr Notícias An unidentified metal sphere has plunged from the sky on unsuspecting villagers in northern Brazil, causing an uproar. According to eyewitnesses, the UFO weighs about 50 kilograms and measures roughly one meter in diameter.

The sphere fell on Wednesday in a village of Riacho dos Poços in Brazilian Maranhão state. No casualties were reported apart from an unfortunate cashew tree that was severed by the object as it plunged to the ground, according to MR Notícias, a Mata Roma news site.

Valdir José Mendes, 46, told police the sphere landed several meters from his house leaving a one-meter-deep hole in the yard.

“I heard the noise and I went out to see what caused it. I thought it was a plane that had fallen, or an earthquake,” he said.

The noise was such that Mendes was too scared to go outside. However, curiosity got the better of him and he headed outside to find the cashew tree’s trunk snapped in half by a mysterious metal sphere lying in a hole nearby.

Some 20 villagers joined Mendes to help him extract the object from the ground and examine it. Mendes says the sphere is hollow and if shaken some sort of liquid can be felt swishing inside. Locals quickly spread the news, as they reached the town of Mata Roma over 2,000 people flocked to see the “UFO”.

“It was a huge uproar here. Some feared it was the beginning of the 2012 end of the world, others said it was ‘alien’, but I think it is a piece of satellite,” said Max Garreto Mauro, 25, a resident of Mata Roma.

Peter Costa, the meteorologist at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), agrees with Garetto, saying the object would probably be part of a satellite. “I’m sure this is not a weather balloon or part of it,” he said as quoted by O Imparcia.

Military police confiscated the sphere and took it to the barracks in the nearby Mata Roma. They have not specified what the UFO’s possible future will be. In a statement the Air Force Command said it “does not have specialized structures to perform scientific research on this type of aerial phenomena, which prevents the institution to submit an opinion on these events.”

via Space ball: UFO shocks Brazilians (VIDEO, PHOTOS) — RT.

Space junk. Similar to this:

A large metallic ball has fallen from the heavens and landed in a remote region of Namibia, spurring a lot of speculation about its origins and spurring local authorities to get NASA and the European Space Agency on the horn. No one is sure where the hollow metallic object came from, but it definitely came down hard–it was found 60 feet away from its landing site, a hole more than a foot deep and 12 feet across.

Made of a “metal alloy known to man,” the 13-pound ball is about 43 inches in circumference and landed roughly 480 miles from the Namibian capital of Windhoek. And it turns out it’s not alone. Apparently several similar objects have fallen across the southern hemisphere (in Australia and Latin America as well as elsewhere in Africa) over the past couple of decades.

So far, it has not exploded, hatched, or started to glow with a faint, eerie white light. Nor has anyone descended from the sky looking for it. …



Fearful Israel to attack Iran unless US stops it?
Friday March 9, 2012

“If you don’t want me to attack now, I want guarantees,” an Israeli official quoted Netanyahu telling top Obama aides who visited Jerusalem last month. “If you’re saying, “we’ll take care of you”, you’re not saying that clearly enough.”

US, Britain urge Israel not to attack Iran

The White House has signaled that Obama, who has pledged to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon but has been vague on how far he is prepared to go, will resist pressure for a public policy shift.

Time running out?
Instead, amid growing signs that U.S.-led international sanctions are starting to take a toll on Iran, he will seek to persuade Netanyahu to hold off on any military strike to give those measures and diplomacy time to work, U.S. officials say.

But Israeli officials say they fear that time is running out for an effective Israeli attack as Iran buries its uranium enrichment program deeper underground.

Monday’s meeting was supposed to have been a defining moment for the American and Israeli leaders, a chance to present a united front as international pressure on Iran intensifies.

Calls for a tougher approach on Iran are also coming from Republican presidential hopefuls, who see Obama as vulnerable on the issue as he seeks re-election and will seize on any public rift with Netanyahu.

Netanyahu will be pushing not only for Obama’s acceptance of whatever action Israel decides to take but for stronger language against Iran that goes beyond the “all options are on the table” mantra on U.S. intentions, Israeli officials said.

Fears grow of Israel-Iran missile shootout

Washington has been working to convince the Israelis that a go-it-alone attack would cause only a temporary setback to Tehran’s nuclear ambitions while possibly plunging the already-volatile Middle East into chaos.

And Obama’s aides insist that an explicit U.S. military threat would be counterproductive right now, especially due to the potential for further spikes in global oil prices and the risk that Tehran might backtrack on overtures seen as opening the door to renewed nuclear talks with world powers.

But a source close to the administration’s thinking on Iran told Reuters the president might try to placate some of Netanyahu’s concerns in private and could also pledge even more sanctions to tighten the vise on Tehran.

The White House has proposed the two leaders issue a joint statement after they meet, but the idea has yet to be firmed up, an Israeli official said. A show of solidarity on certain issues might help keep differences under wraps on others.

An administration official also would not rule out the possibility that Obama could harden some of his rhetoric on Iran when he addresses the largest U.S. pro-Israel lobby in Washington on Sunday, the day before he sees Netanyahu.

Israel wary of Washington
Despite that, U.S. officials doubt that Netanyahu will go as far as providing assurances that Israel will consult Washington – its biggest source of military assistance – before launching any strikes on Iran, which has called for the destruction of the Jewish state.

Religious, political hard-liners face off in Iran election

Even if Obama privately reassures Netanyahu that the U.S. has the firepower to deliver a devastating blow to Iran’s nuclear program further down the line, the Israelis have made clear they cannot rely on that commitment alone.

“Anyone who thinks that Israel is not going to make its own decision, particularly on an issue they view in existential terms, is kidding themselves,” Obama’s former Middle East adviser, Dennis Ross, told Reuters.

One line of thinking within the Obama administration is that keeping it in the dark about any Israeli military plans might be best for the United States since any sign of complicity would inflame anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world.

But even without a direct U.S. role, there will be deep suspicion across the Middle East that Israel would not act without a green light from Washington.

Still, it remains unclear whether Netanyahu will pay much heed to Obama’s words of caution.

Some Obama aides remain suspicious of Netanyahu’s motives. They are convinced that he would prefer to see a Republican take control of the White House in 2013 for fear that Obama’s re-election would give him a freer hand to push anew for Israeli concessions to the Palestinians during a second term.

It’s all a game by war financiers and arms dealers: Make neighbors fear each other then use that fear to extract large amounts of money. Neither side wants a nuclear war.



NASA Laptop Stolen with Command Codes that Control Space Station
Friday March 9, 2012
A laptop stolen from NASA last year was unencrypted and contained command and control codes for the International Space Station on it, the agency’s inspector general told a United States House subcommittee yesterday (Feb. 29).

In his testimony before a Science, Space and Technology House subcommittee, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin said the notebook computer stolen in March 2011 “resulted in the loss of the algorithms” used to control the space station. This particular laptop, Martin said, was one of 48 NASA notebooks and mobile devices stolen between April 2009 and April 2011.

Some of these thefts resulted in the leak of sensitive data “including export-controlled, Personally Identifiable Information, and third-party intellectual property,” as well as Social Security numbers and data on NASA’s Constellation and Orion programs, Martin said. [NASA Computer Hacked, Satellite Data Accessed]

The actual number of stolen and compromised devices could be much higher because NASA relies on employees to self-report incidents.

In an email, NASA public affairs officer Trent Perrotto told SecurityNewsDaily that “at no point in time have operations of the International Space Station been in jeopardy due to a data breach.”

“NASA has made significant progress to better protect the agency’s IT systems and is in the process of implementing the recommendations made by the NASA Inspector General in this area,” Perrotto added.

In 2011, NASA, which Martin rightly called a “target-rich environment for cyberattacks,” was the target of 47 advanced persistent threats (APTs), 13 of which successfully compromised NASA computers.

These attacks are part of the 5,408 cybersecurity incidents in 2010 and 2011 that resulted in unauthorized intrusions or malware being planted on its systems and cost the space agency an estimated $7 million.

“These incidents spanned a wide continuum from individuals testing their skill to break into NASA systems, to well-organized criminal enterprises hacking for profit, to intrusions that may have been sponsored by foreign intelligence services seeking to further their countries’ objectives,” Martin said.

An example of one of these “skill-testing” hacks is the attack perpetrated by “TinKode,” a 20-year-old Romanian hacker (real name Razvan Manole Cernainu), who tapped into a computer server at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in April 2011.

Martin continued, “Some of these intrusions have affected thousands of NASA computers, caused significant disruptions to mission operations, and resulted in the theft of export-controlled and otherwise sensitive data.”

Martin’s testimony highlights the difficulties NASA information technology officials face in securing the agency’s laptops and mobile devices. As of Feb. 1, 2012, only 1 percent of NASA portable devices and laptops have been encrypted.

“Until NASA fully implements an agency-wide data encryption solution, sensitive data on its mobile computing and portable data storage devices will remain at high risk for loss or theft,” he said.

Martin said software vulnerabilities in NASA computers are often left unpatched, a problem stemming from an IT chain of command in which the chief information officer “has limited ability” to fully implement mandated IT security programs across the agency. …

via NASA Space Station Codes Were On Stolen Laptop, Inspector General Paul K. Martin Says.

Related: Hackers had ‘full functional control’ of Nasa computers

Ah, that’s why the space station has been following me around all day. You kids knock it off!



Frosty blue dunes on Mars
Friday March 9, 2012
This picture was taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which takes extremely detailed images of the surface of the planet. It shows wind-driven sand dunes on Mars, rippling in a similar way as on Earth. The sunlight is coming from the upper left direction, and where the light hits the surface you can see the familiar reddish cast; that’s actually from very fine-grain dust laden with iron oxide — rust!

But the shadows, where the Sun doesn’t reach, it’s cold enough that carbon dioxide in the Martian air freezes out, forming a thin layer of dry ice on the surface. In this image — where the colors have been enhanced so you can see the effects better — this shades the dunes blue. You can see the frost not just covering the dunes in general, but hiding in the troughs of the ripples too (which I think is why the sunward facing parts of the dunes can look blue; that’s from the ripple shadows). The non-color-enhanced version showing the entire dune region can be found here — and is stunning in its own right. …

via Frosty blue dunes on Mars | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.



New twist in antimatter mystery
Friday March 9, 2012
Physicists have taken a step forward in their efforts to understand why the Universe is dominated by matter, and not its shadowy opposite antimatter.

A US experiment has confirmed previous findings that hinted at phenomena outside our understanding of physics.

The results show that certain matter particles decay differently from their antimatter counterparts.

Such differences could potentially help explain why there is so much more matter in the cosmos than antimatter.

The findings from scientists working on the CDF experiment have been presented at a particle physics meeting in La Thuile, Italy.

CDF was one of two multi-purpose experiments at the now-defunct Tevatron particle smasher in Illinois.

Physicists think the intense heat of the Big Bang should have forged equal amounts of matter and its “mirror image” antimatter. Yet today we live in a Universe composed overwhelmingly of matter.

Antimatter is relatively uncommon, being produced at particle accelerators, in nuclear reactions or by cosmic rays. Getting to the bottom of where all this antimatter went remains one of the great endeavours of particle physics.

The latest results support findings from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, which were announced in November 2011.

Both CDF and LHCb have been looking at the process by which sub-atomic particles called D-mesons decay – or transform – into other ones. For example, D mesons are made up of particles known as charm quarks, and can decay into kaons and pions.

Our best understanding of physics so far, known as the Standard Model, suggests the complicated cascades of decay of D-mesons into other particles should be very nearly the same – within less than 0.1% – as a similar chain of antimatter decays.

But the LHCb team reported a difference of about 0.8%, and the team from CDF have now presented data showing a difference of 0.62%.

Getting such a similar measurement as LHCb was “a bit of a surprise”, according to CDF’s spokesperson Giovanni Punzi, because it is a “very unusual result”.

He told BBC News: “That two separate experiments have found this using different methods – different environments – is very interesting.”

Prof Punzi, from the University of Pisa and Italy’s National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN), said this was likely to “change the minds of many people about this being just one of those effects, to something that will be considered a confirmed observation – because of this independent result”.

He explained that when the results from CDF and LHCb are combined, the statistical significance almost reaches the four sigma level of certainty. This equates to roughly a one in 16,000 chance that the observation is down to some statistical quirk in the data.

Dr Tara Shears, a particle physicist from Liverpool University, who works on the LHCb experiment, told BBC News: “We don’t know yet if we are seeing the first signs of new physics, or are starting to understand the Standard Model better. …

via BBC News – New twist in antimatter mystery.



Warp drives may come with a killer downside
Friday March 9, 2012
Planning a little space travel to see some friends on Kepler 22b? Thinking of trying out your newly-installed FTL3000 Alcubierre Warp Drive to get you there in no time? Better not make it a surprise visit — your arrival may end up disintegrating anyone there when you show up.

“Warp” technology and faster-than-light (FTL) space travel has been a staple of science fiction for decades. The distances in space are just so vast and planetary systems — even within a single galaxy — are spaced so far apart, such a concept is needed to make casual human exploration feasible (and fit within the comforts of people’s imagination as well… nobody wants to think about Kirk and Spock bravely going to some alien planet while everyone they’ve ever known dies of old age!)

While many factors involving FTL travel are purely theoretical — and may remain in the realm of imagination for a very long time, if not ever — there are some concepts that play well with currently-accepted physics.

The Alcubierre warp drive is one of those concepts.

Proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the drive would propel a ship at superluminal speeds by creating a bubble of negative energy around it, expanding space (and time) behind the ship while compressing space in front of it. In much the same way that a surfer rides a wave, the bubble of space containing the ship and its passengers would be pushed at velocities not limited to the speed of light toward a destination.

Of course, when the ship reaches its destination it has to stop. And that’s when all hell breaks loose.

Researchers from the University of Sydney have done some advanced crunching of numbers regarding the effects of FTL space travel via Alcubierre drive, taking into consideration the many types of cosmic particles that would be encountered along the way. Space is not just an empty void between point A and point B… rather, it’s full of particles that have mass (as well as some that do not.) What the research team — led by Brendan McMonigal, Geraint Lewis, and Philip O’Byrne — has found is that these particles can get “swept up” into the warp bubble and focused into regions before and behind the ship, as well as within the warp bubble itself.

When the Alcubierre-driven ship decelerates from superluminal speed, the particles its bubble has gathered are released in energetic outbursts. In the case of forward-facing particles the outburst can be very energetic — enough to destroy anyone at the destination directly in front of the ship.

“Any people at the destination,” the team’s paper concludes, “would be gamma ray and high energy particle blasted into oblivion due to the extreme blueshifts for [forward] region particles.”

In other words, don’t expect much of a welcome party.

Another thing the team found is that the amount of energy released is dependent on the length of the superluminal journey, but there is potentially no limit on its intensity.

“Interestingly, the energy burst released upon arriving at the destination does not have an upper limit,” McMonigal told Universe Today in an email. “You can just keep on traveling for longer and longer distances to increase the energy that will be released as much as you like, one of the odd effects of General Relativity. Unfortunately, even for very short journeys the energy released is so large that you would completely obliterate anything in front of you.”

So how to avoid disintegrating your port of call? It may be as simple as just aiming your vessel a bit off to the side… or, it may not. The research only focused on the planar space in front of and behind the warp bubble; deadly postwarp particle beams could end up blown in all directions!

Luckily for Vulcans, Tatooinians and any acquaintances on Kepler 22b, the Alcubierre warp drive is still very much theoretical. While the mechanics work with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, the creation of negative energy densities is an as-of-yet unknown technology — and may be impossible.

Which could be a very good thing for us, should someone out there be planning a surprise visit our way! …

via Warp drives may come with a killer downside.



In-Your-Face: Can Computers Catch You Telling a Lie?
Friday March 9, 2012
A popular school of thought, dramatized in the recent TV drama Lie to Me, is that a careful study of facial expressions—especially eye movements—tells investigators if a perp is dissembling. Reality is neither as dramatic nor as decisive. Even experienced investigators average only about a 65 percent success rate, according to researchers. Could computers do a better job?

Researchers at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (U.B.), claim their video-analysis software can analyze eye movement successfully to identify whether or not a subject is fibbing 82.5 percent of the time. The researchers, who first presented their (still unpublished) results at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition a year ago, believe they have laid the foundation for a more extensive study that will include a larger sample and take into account body language in addition to eye movement to determine whether new technologies can help interrogators in their search for the truth.

The 40 interviews were conducted by Mark Frank, a U.B. professor of communication and a study co-author, and included a diversity in age, gender and ethnicity. Prior to the interview, each subject was given the opportunity to “steal” a check made out to a political party or cause that the volunteer strongly opposed. Afterward, subjects sat down with a retired law-enforcement interrogator. The interviewer first posed conversational questions unrelated to the possible theft, to establish a baseline of normal eye movement, and then asked whether the interviewee had taken the check.

Those subjects who successfully lied received a monetary reward for themselves as well as for a group they supported. Those caught lying received nothing and were told that money would instead go to the party or group they opposed. The software compared each subject’s baseline eye movement with those observed during the questions about the check. If the computer detected a large deviation, the researchers noted this change and flagged that person as a potential liar.The work of Paul Ekman, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine served as an inspiration for the study. Ekman’s specialty is the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions, and his work formed the basis of the techniques used by fictional psychologist Cal Lightman in Lie to Me. Frank performed postdoctoral research at U.C. San Francisco’s psychiatry department under Ekman’s guidance.

Ekman’s focus on brief, involuntary facial expression is not without critics. One former FBI special agent finds a fundamental flaw with the Buffalo study: “One problem with this research is its overreliance on the face as the only place to evince information from the body,” says retired FBI counterintelligence special agent Joe Navarro, who spent 25 years with the bureau and was a founding member of its Behavioral Analysis Unit. “I can tell you as an investigator and somebody who’s studied this not just superficially but in depth, you have to observe the whole body; it can’t just be the face,” he says, adding that a failure to take body language into consideration could lead to “an inordinate amount of false positives.” …

via In-Your-Face: Can Computers Catch You Telling a Lie?: Scientific American.



Asteroid heads towards Earth with one in 625 chance of hitting planet
Friday March 9, 2012
The 460 foot ball of rock named 2011 AG5 is potentially on course to hit this planet on February 5, 2040.

The United Nations Action Team on near-Earth object has begun discussions about how to divert the asteroid, amid fears that the likelihood of a collision could increase over the next few years.

While the object has the potential to wipe out millions of lives if it landed on a city, it is far smaller than the nine mile wide asteroid which is believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Scientists have only been able to observe half of 2011 AG5′s orbit, and are hoping to obtain more information about the asteroid’s course between 2013 and 2016, when it will be possible to monitor it from the ground.

This will allow them to decide whether action needs to be taken to attempt to alter the course of the object.

NASA has said that options include deflecting the asteroid by attaching a probe to it and using the extra gravity this would create to steer it away from Earth over the course of millions of light years.

Nuclear weapons could also be used to break up the asteroid, although this would probably create a potentially deadly shower of rocks.

According to sky scans carried out by NASA, there are around 19,000 “mid-sized” asteroids of between 330 and 3,300 feet wide within 120 million miles of Earth. All have the potential to destroy an area the size of a city were they to strike.

The Aphophis asteroid, which is the size of two and a half football pitches, is on course to pass close to the Earth in 2036, coming within 18,300 miles of this planet. Scientists expect that it will be visible from most of Europe, Africa and Asia.

via Asteroid heads towards Earth with one in 625 chance of hitting planet – Telegraph.



Grandma returns from the dead, fixes lunch, scares family
Friday March 9, 2012

A 95-year-old Chinese woman terrified her village by climbing out of her coffin after being ‘dead’ for six days.

Li Xiufeng was found motionless and not breathing in bed by her neighbour more than a fortnight after tripping and suffering a head injury at her home in China’s Guangxi Province

When he failed to wake her up, Chen Qingwang assumed the frail grandmother had passed away in her sleep, at her home in the village of Liulou, in Beiliu..

Recounting his daily visit to bring the elderly lady breakfast, Mr Qingwang, 60, said: “”She didn’t get up, so I came up to wake her up.

“No matter how hard I pushed her and called her name, she had no reactions.

“I felt something was wrong, so I tried her breath, and she has gone, but her body is still not cold.”

Because Mrs Xiufeng lived alone, Mr Qingwang and his son made preparations for her funeral, which included keeping the coffin in the house for several days for friends and relatives to pay their last respects.

The ‘dead’ woman was laid in her coffin on February 19, two days after she was discovered. However, Mr Qingwang chose not to nail the coffin shut ahead of the planned burial on February 24. The day before the funeral, Mr Qingwang arrived at his neighbour’s house to find the coffin empty and the corpse gone.

“We were so terrified, and immediately asked the neighbours to come for help,” he said.

After searching for the missing body, the villagers were stunned to find Mrs Xiufeng sitting on a stool in her kitchen cooking. She reportedly told villagers: “I slept for a long time. After waking up, I felt so hungry, and wanted to cook something to eat.

“I pushed the lid for a long time to climb out.”

A county hospital reportedly believes Mrs Xiufeng suffered an artificial death, during which the person has no breath, but the body remains warm. A doctor at the hospital was quoted as saying: “Thanks to the local tradition of parking the coffin in the house for several days, she could be saved. But, despite ‘cheating’ death, the same local tradition has left Mrs Xiufeng with nothing as, according to tradition, after a person dies, all their belongings must be burnt.

 

via MirrorGrandma returns from the dead, fixes lunch, scares family – msnNOW.



Nephelim: Aliens? No Neanderthal
Friday March 9, 2012
… the first and, arguably, most famous appears in the passage from Genesis that directly precedes the story of Noah and the Great Flood (an area of particular interest to Scott Roberts in the present text):

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

This passage is relatively vague, of course. We’re told that these Nephelim were with us in ancient times, resulting from the “sons of God” who took a liking to human women and proceeded with intermingling, as well as procreation with them. Many interpret the actual word Nephelim to mean “giants,” and this idea that beings of enormous stature were the offspring of godlike beings from ancient pre-history has been used as a phenomenological parallel to a number of modern day curiosities, including giant skeletons found at Native ritual mounds and burial sites throughout the Americas, especially toward the end of the nineteenth century. Reports of creatures such as the Sasquatch, Yeti, and Almasty seen throughout the world have also had proponents who insinuate this origin rooted in Biblical accounts. Even within various translations of ancient epics such as Beowulf, we recall that the beastly Grendel was believed to have descended from the Biblical Cain, a parallel that ties in with Scott Robert’s own rendition of the mystery. Granted, such overtly Christian perceptions of Grendel and other folkloric beasts likely had their roots in earlier traditions being “colored” somewhat by religious practices that were adopted later. Thus, our understanding of a Hebraic lineage of any sort is likely the result of Christian belief systems becoming prevalent with time, and then imposed upon later translations of Beowulf and other legends. What cannot be argued, however, is the intrigue that these alleged “giants” have maintained throughout history, and the influence they have had on mankind through our various mythologies.

But gigantism isn’t the only interpretation to be had of these beings, nor is it the only approach Roberts chooses to address in his book. In fact, Ronald Hendel, noted scholar and Professor of the Hebrew Bible and Biblical Literature at the University of California at Berkley, has offered that the term Nephelim is actually a passive form, and that its literal meaning would thus be closer to “ones who have fallen.” Here, of course, we think of angelic beings that, having fallen from grace, renounced their divinity to walk among the daughters of men and, eventually, impregnate them with their proverbial star-seed. The modern interpretation of beings who have “fallen”—that is, arrived here potentially from some place above—almost can’t escape being filtered somewhat through our modern notions of paleo-contact with extraterrestrial alien beings. …

via Intrepid’s own Scotty Roberts delivers a powerful look at an ancient mystery | Intrepid Blog.



Machine dated at 400 million years found in Russia
Friday March 9, 2012
In the remote Kamchatka peninsula (map below), 200 km from Tigil, University of St. Petersburg archaeologists discovered a strange fossil. The authenticity of the find has been certified. According archaeologist Yuri Golubev, occurs that, in this case the discovery surprised scientists by its nature, at least – unusual, able to change history (or pre-history).

It is not the first time that is an artifact, an ancient object, something like this is found in that region. But, surprisingly conserved, this specific artifact is – at first glance, inlaid in rock (which is understandable since the peninsula is home to numerous volcanoes). Subjected to analysis, the conjunct showed to be made of metal parts that seem to form a mechanism, a gear which may be of a type of watch or computer. The astonishing is that all the pieces were dated in 400 million! of anos.Yury Gobulev commented:

We got a call from the prefec of Tigil. He told us that hikers that were walking in place, found these remains in rock. We went to the place indicated, and initially we not understand what we saw. There were – hundreds of toothed cylinders which appeared to be parts of a machine.

They were in perfect state of conservation, as if they were frozen in a short period of time. It was necessary control the area, because soon the curious began to appear in large numbers. Other scientists, americans geologists, defined the piece as an amazing and mysterious artifact. …

via Brazil Weird News: Machine dated at 400 million years found in Russia.



Mayan ruins pic captures light beam “shooting out of the top” of pyramid
Tuesday March 6, 2012
There’s no sense in denying it anymore, boys and girls. Get under your desks and put your heads between your knees, because the Mayans were right and we’ve only got months to live. Don’t believe us? Check out this 100 percent real photo of a Mayan pyramid with a column of apocalyptic light shooting out the top!

OK, so the photo is actually from three years ago, and the column of light is (probably) not a sign of oncoming Armageddon. We hope.

What happened was this: Hector Siliezar took three photos of these two kids standing in front of Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in 2009. Only one of the photos shows this pinkish tower of world-consuming energy, and Siliezar claims he only saw it after looking at the photo, not while taking it.

So, if it’s not a sign that the Mayan gods are calling us all home, what is it? A Lovecraftian Great Old One waking from a maddening sleep to send us all into

frenzied worship? A mad scientist attempting to reanimate an ancient South American mummy? Someone building a really big lightsaber?

If we’re to believe science, it’s just an iPhone glitch.

“Of the three images, the ‘light beam’ only occurs in the image with a lightning bolt in the background,” said Jonathon Hill of Arizona State University’s Mars Space Flight Facility. “The intensity of the lightning flash likely caused the camera’s CCD sensor to behave in an unusual way, either causing an entire column of pixels to offset their values or causing an internal reflection [off the] camera lens that was recorded by the sensor.”

via It’s over: WTF Mayan ruins pic captures the start of the apocalypse | Blastr.

If the beam also continues faintly over the front of the pyramid, which it seems to, faintly, then that is further evidence that it is a camera artifact. Still awesome.



Nikola Tesla was Murdered by Otto Skorzeny
Friday February 17, 2012

Otto Skorzeny’s  Deathbed Confession

… edited by  Sir Vojislav Milosevic,

Director, Center for Counter-terrorism & World Peace

Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest and most gifted men ever to have walked this Earth.

A huge amount has been written about the prodigal genius of Nikola Tesla and so there may not be a great need to say more here about his life, his brilliance, his vision, and his achievements.

But in brief, Tesla was an extraordinary, intuitive, creative genius who, among a great deal else, invented alternating current (which powers the the modern world) and radio (for which Marconi is often falsely given credit).

Contemporary biographers of Tesla have deemed him “the father of physics”, “the man who invented the twentieth century”, and “the patron saint of modern electricity”.

Much of his life’s work was about providing for the world free (i.e. zero-cost) energy, which Tesla envisaged would be broadcast wirelessly through the air or through the Earth itself with no need for powerlines – but despite years of trying, he never obtained the funding to achieve this, one of his dreams.

It has long since been rumored that he invented or developed a significant number of electrical and electronic devices which were decades ahead of their time and would have been of special interest to US military and intelligence circles. Around 300 patents were issued to Tesla in 25 countries, many of them major and far-reaching in concept.

The reality of Tesla’s murder was brought home to us after listening to this Youtube presentation. Eric Bermen tells Greg Syzmanski how he discovered his former girlfriend was the daughter of ex-Nazi SS Commando Otto Skorzeny, and thereby quite by chance met the elderly Skorzeny who had been living for years in the US, working as a carpenter with a new identity supplied by the CIA after WWII.

Bermen (who sometimes uses the pseudonym Eric Orion) heard a full confession from Skorzeny, who was nearing the end of his life, and was given a shoebox full of over a hundred photographs to substantiate his claims.

Among a number of other highly significant revelations, Bermen heard from Skorzeny that he had personally suffocated Nikola Tesla on January 6, 1943, assisted by fellow-Nazi Reinhard Gehlen. Tesla was then 86 years old.

According to Skorzeny, he and Gehlen had tricked Tesla the previous day into revealing the full details of his most important discoveries. After the murder, they stole the contents of Tesla’s safe, which were delivered to Hitler. (Note, of course, that the US military would have fully repatriated this treasure trove of innovation through Project Paperclip at the end of the war.)

Otto Skorzeny was Hitler’s bodyguard & also an assassin, one of the many Nazis who ex-filtrated to the USA after WWII, as part of Project Paperclip. Many of these Nazi scientists ended up working for NASA, the CIA, and other US secret services.

Although he supposedly died in 1975 in Spain, Skorzeny resurfaced in 1999. Otto Skorzeny described how (“contrary to the CIA-written history books”) he helped Hitler escape to Austria in a plane flown by a female pilot, Hanna Reitsch.

“Hitler did not commit suicide,” Skorzeny recounted. “His double was shot between the eyes, and the dental records proved he was not Hitler. The Americans kept it a secret, worried the truth might anger the Russians.”

A Young Tesla

Despite conflicting literary and historical accounts, Nikola Tesla, a Serb, was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Lika Serbian province, Austro-Hungarian Empire of that time, or what is now modern-day Croatia. Prior to World War I, Smiljan was on the border of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

The son of a Serbian Orthodox priest who rose to the rank of Archbishop, Tesla had the opportunity to study a variety of topics contained in his father’s personal library. As a young boy, he accompanied his father on trips to Rome, where he was able to study the lesser-known works stored in the Vatican’s vast scientific repository.

Upon completing his studies in engineering and physics at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria, Tesla attended the University at Prague. He demonstrated, early on, an innate ability to solve mechanical and scientific problems, especially in the area of electricity and its applications in power production.

After working for Edison Telephone Company subsidiaries in Budapest, Paris, and other cities throughout Europe, Nikola Tesla went to America, to meet the man whose company gave him his first job, Thomas Edison.

Tesla found it difficult to work for Edison (due to Edison’s reneging on financial promises), but soon found backers to finance his research and development projects and his new inventions.

Financiers, such as John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan, George Westinghouse and John Jacob Astor were among those who saw the potential in Tesla’s pioneering, entrepreneurial spirit to capitalize on his technological discoveries in electricity, wireless communications, and physics.

The only official documentation of Nikola Tesla’s arrival to the United States was, again, produced at the Port of New York. [9] On April 7, 1882 a 25-year old Tesla arrived via the SS Nordland, which departed from Antwerp. He had returned, on this trip to the U.S., after lecturing in Paris.

Tesla’s destination: New York. Tesla immigrated as a “laborer,” though this label hardly befit the man who would become the most prolific inventor in history, with some 700 technological patents to his credit. Previous accounts of Tesla’s association with Thomas Edison’s projects place him in the United States in the 1870s.

Tesla in Colorado Springs Lab

His many technological discoveries were certain to have drawn the attention of those hungry for world domination and superiority.

By and large, Tesla’s inventions and his career were excluded from our history books because his inventions and patents were stolen and then weaponized.

It was never intended for us to learn about the suppression of Tesla’s advanced scientific discoveries, nor about those who profited from their theft—the orchestrators of the master plan.

Though much has been written about Tesla’s successes and failures, few have detailed the behind-the-scenes financial activities which disclose a Nazi plot to acquire his technology, while research and development costs had largely been paid (unknowingly) by U.S. taxpayers.

Many of Tesla’s patents fell into Nazi hands prior to and during World Wars I and II. As a result, Tesla continuously found himself in litigation over patent rights and other issues.

Although he had succeeded in winning the majority of his patent lawsuits, his technology had been repeatedly stolen and sold to the German Nazis and other foreign governments, so he never achieved the financial success he deserved.

The embezzlement of his capitalization went unchecked throughout Tesla’s career. At the time of his death (by murder, according to Skorzeny) on January 6, 1943, Tesla died virtually penniless.

On Good Friday, Ortodox Christmas Eve, he was found in bed, dressed in solemn black suit, arms folded on his chest. They say that a great mind felt his death is coming , he put on the solemn black suit – and then died. An incredible lie and mission impossible, even for a great mind as it was Nikola Tesla.

Tesla's Ashes are preserved in a Gilded Sphere - His Favorite Shape

This is the ultimate proof that he was murdered and his killers dressed him in a suit and left him in the bed! His killers: Otto Skorzeny and Reinhard Gehlen. Nikola Tesla’s successes in discovering new technologies did not go unnoticed by many industrial capitalists and world governments.

In fact, many of his inventions were developed through secret government programs which began soon after his discoveries in alternating current (AC), electromagnetic energy, electric motors, generators, coils, radio transmission, energy-saving devices, and wireless transmission technologies.

Since Tesla was often buried deep in research at remote labs, many of his financial and legal affairs were supervised by his closest associate, George H. Scherff.

Scherff often advised Tesla about pending patent litigation, contracts, proposals, demonstrations, and financial affairs.

As any trusty associate would, Scherff stood beside Tesla through all the ups and downs of his financial nightmares, sometimes arranging for extended credit at the Waldorf-Astoria, where Tesla often resided, or by obtaining a cash advance toward research he had been contracted to perform.

Near the end of his career, Tesla was evicted from the Waldorf for an outstanding bill which exceeded $20,000 — a rather large sum for those days.

As Tesla worked on secret U.S. government projects at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Scherff communicated to Tesla the status of his business affairs. Tesla spoke of hopeful, future financial successes, though Scherff repeatedly delivered the news of dwindling funds. Tesla had begun construction of a wireless power transmission tower (“Wardenclyffe,” Shoreham, Long Island) with funds invested by J.P. Morgan.

Tesla's Tower

When Morgan discovered that the tower would transmit free electricity and radio waves, he cancelled the project and had the tower dismantled, then sold for scrap. Morgan was not about to allow Americans to receive free electricity, television and radio.

Tesla was devastated when he received the news, but continued on with his new inventions. The Rockefeller Connection Records show that 17 Battery Place is the Whitehall Building and was owned by Frank Rockefeller, who, with his brothers William and John D., also owned many of the companies with offices located there.

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) had its world headquarters there, as well as a variety of oil, mining, and chemical companies.

Though Union Sulphur Company was run by its president, Herman Frasch, a German chemist who patented extraction methods for sulphur and petroleum, Frasch also worked for John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company (in New York, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio), developing similar extraction methods.

Frank Rockefeller was also an investor of Buckeye Steel Castings in Columbus, Ohio. Buckeye manufactured automatic couplers and chassis for railroad cars owned by the Harrimans, the Rockefellers, and J.P. Morgan. Eventually, Samuel P. Bush was promoted from general manager to president of the company after producing gigantic profits.

Samuel P. Bush’s association with the Rockefellers and his subsequent position as Director of the War Industries Board afforded him the opportunity to create contracts with Remington Arms during the war, courtesy of Percy Rockefeller. Nikola Tesla’s trusted assistant (sometimes referred to as “accountant” or “secretary”) George Scherff, Sr., worked at Union Sulphur Company.

Normally, this association would not set off alarms, considering the state of Tesla’s affairs. Scherff had every right to earn a decent living in order to support his family. That was “the American Way.” But a careful examination of Union Sulphur Co. might reveal that someone was being deceived — Tesla, and Scherff was at the root of this deception.

Who was George Scherff? Who was George Scherff? Better yet, who was George H. Scherff, Sr.? There exists no legitimate record of a George H. Scherff being born in the U.S. from the late-1800s through 1925, yet, George Scherff was Nikola Tesla’s assistant/accountant.

Only one photograph in public circulation records the face of George Scherff, Sr. -at the Association of Radio Engineers banquet of 1915 (above). Tesla is seen standing tallest in the middle of the back row, while Scherff stands at the end of the same row to Tesla's left, his hands visible at his sides.

If he was born in Germany, could his birthplace shed some light on this mystery? Probably—if they exist (it has become apparent that individuals associated with the Nazi Party commonly have all or parts of their genealogical records expunged—we will explore this further in the section of this article dealing with the “Bush” family tree).

In short, Otto Skorzeny claimed that the true identity of George H.W. Bush was “George H. Scherff, Jr., the son of Nikola Tesla’s illegal-immigrant, German-born accountant, George H. Scherff, Sr.”

Worth a thousand words: But this was not the only bombshell Otto Skorzeny delivered that day in late-1999. Skorzeny, producing a shoe box full of 60-years worth of his personal photographs, showed them to Berman, describing each one in great detail.

The collection featured a photo of a young, majestic Skorzeny in full S.S. Nazi military dress, next to his Fьhrer, Adolph Hitler. Then there were photos of Reinhard Gehlen (S.S. spy and assassin) Dr. Joseph Mengele (the “Angel of Death”) Martin Bormann (Hitler aide and S.S. assassin) .

 

Eric “Orion” (Berman), in a live radio interview on Republic Broadcasting Network, January 17, 2006, detailed how:

“Skorzeny died on December 31, 1999. His body was cremated, I have a copy of his death certificate, and I saw his ashes. After the war, he helped George Bush found the CIA through Operation Paperclip and ODESSA.”

Berman recounted how Skorzeny was found “not guilty” at the Nuremburg trials, and then ushered into the CIA. “Some 50,000+ S.S. Nazi war criminals, not just rocket scientists, were brought to America after the war.”

Skorzeny, about age 90 at the time, was described by Berman as “very focused and very lucid, and he was still very mobile. He was still able to walk around—he was still very impressive and he had about the biggest hands I have ever shaken. He was 6’-4”and was a giant for his day. He towered over me, and I’m 5’-8”.”

When asked why he thought Skorzeny entrusted this information to him, Berman responded,

“I was dating one of his daughters. He knew that I’m Jewish, first of all, I’m an honest guy and he thought that I would really try to do something about this and bring some justice, yeah, to these wanted Nazi war criminals.

His whole goal was…. they had screwed him over, including George Bush, they screwed him over….. and out of large sums of money over the years. This was his one last way of… you know, getting even with them.”

A biographical article about Nikola Tesla appeared in the Tesla Tech, Inc. magazine, “Extraordinary Technology,” Volume 4, Number 3, Aug., Sept., Oct., 2006. The article, written by Dustin Wallace, spoke of Tesla’s childhood, some of his inventions, and his last days. Wallace wrote (pp. 21-22), “The Yugoslav Monarchy in Exile was summoned to visit Tesla in the fall of 1942.

However, Charlotte Muzar, a secretary, paid Tesla the visit. From his condition upon her arrival she felt as though he may not live through the night. Another friend of Tesla’s, Kenneth Swezey visited him during the time and noted that he was existing on warm milk and Nabisco crackers alone.

It was apparent that Tesla was nearing the end of his time. By late December of 1942, Tesla began meeting with two U.S. government agents in order to share some of his most sensitive discoveries. These men carried away many of his documents for microfilming.”

“On January 4, 1943, Tesla’s faithful assistant, George Scherff, visited Tesla for the last time, Tesla was found deceased in his hotel room on the morning of January 8. 1943. He had passed away between those four days since Scherff’s visit.”

The article continued, “Following Tesla’s death the United States Office of Alien Property, under the instructions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confiscated all of Tesla’s papers and property. This was an interesting maneuver considering that Tesla was a United States citizen.”

The significance of this benign description of Tesla’s inventions and his last days has a direct relationship to the previously unknown claims of Otto Skorzeny. As Skorzeny described (to Berman) in detail his involvement with George H. W. Bush (George H. Scherff, Jr.) in organizing the CIA by absorbing Nazi S.S. agents,” he intimated that it was Reinhard Gehlen and himself who murdered Nikola Tesla on January 6, 1943 by strangulation/suffocation.

Prior to the murder, Skorzeny and Gehlen “spoke in great detail to Tesla about his most-advanced technologies and then stole the blueprints of his best, most-secret inventions.”

Were these the “two U.S. government agents” about whom Dustin Wallace wrote? The timing of George Scherff’s last visit to Nikola Tesla was suspicious, as well.

Skorzeny did not stop with these soul-cleansing disclosures. He went on to describe the aliases of himself Frank Edward P_ _ _ _ _, of south Florida (according to Berman, who claims he is trying to protect Skorzeny’s daughter), Reinhard Gehlen (Hank Janowicz, Wayne, N.J.), and Dr. Joseph Mengele (Steven Rabel).


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According to Berman,

“Gehlen was tipped off by the FBI about Skorzeny’s unveiling of his identity and location, and Gehlen (Janowicz) then went into hiding. Mengele (Rabel), through a series of anti-aging hormone injections, a black hairpiece, and ‘cannibalism’ has maintained a youthful appearance.”

Having investigated some of Skorzeny’s claims, Berman had contacted the U.S. Justice Department to inform them that Nazi spies were being harbored by certain factions of the U.S. intelligence agencies, in particular, the CIA. “My thoughts were that, uh, I needed to try to bring these wanted SS Nazi war criminal, holocaust killers—terrorists, basically—to justice.

I wanted to call our government and tell ‘em, ‘Hey, that they’re still alive.’ I wanted to bring ‘em to justice. That was my whole intention. I initially had contacted, or tried to contact Eli Rosenbaum, who was the Director of the United States Justice Department, Office of Special Investigations.

Basically, they, uh, thought it was a hoax and they told me that I was mistaken, and that according to the CIA, ‘all of them were all dead and I was mistaken.’ That’s what they told me. I was wrong.“



Research: Protein found that starves HIV
Friday February 17, 2012

A protein that protects some of our immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV works by starving the virus of the molecular building blocks that it needs to replicate, according to research published online in Nature Immunology .

The finding comes from an international team of researchers including scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, several institutions in France – and a graduate student who who is a political refugee from Africa and is now at work in a Rochester laboratory, intent on helping his people who have been devastated by the HIV epidemic.

While researchers hope the work will one day lead to a way to make anti-HIV drugs more effective by increasing their potency against the virus, they’re also excited about its implications for our knowledge of other pathogens, such as herpes viruses, which use the same machinery within our cells that HIV does to replicate.

“The findings may explain why certain anti-HIV drugs used today are more effective under some circumstances and not others,” said Baek Kim, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and one of three corresponding authors of the paper. “It also provides new insights on how many other viruses that afflict people operate in the body.”

The work centers on a protein known as SAMHD1, which is found in white blood cells known as macrophages and related cells known as dendritic cells. Last year scientists discovered that the molecule makes it difficult for HIV-1 to infect macrophages – cells that specialize in gobbling up and destroying invaders like viruses. …

http://news360.com/article/42224979


Researchers produce brain tissue from a few scratches
Friday February 17, 2012

SCIENTISTS are claiming a major breakthrough after generating brain tissue from human skin.

British researchers have for the first time generated a crucial type of brain cells in the laboratory by reprogramming skin cells. They say it could speed up the hunt for new treatments for conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and stroke. Until now it has only been possible to generate tissue from the cerebral cortex, the area of the brain where most major neurological diseases occur, by using controversial embryonic stem cells, obtained by the destruction of an embryo.

This has meant the supply of brain tissue available for research has been limited due to ethical concerns and limited availability. …

Via news360.com


400-year-old witchcraft trial resumes in Germany
Friday February 17, 2012
Katharina Henot suffered her fiery fate in Cologne in 1627 after being found guilty of practicing black magic. Arrested, and tortured to such an extent that the right-handed woman had to scrawl her last letter of defence with her left hand, she was eventually paraded through the city in an open cart before being tied to a stake and burnt.

Now the panel on the city council whose predecessors found her guilty of witchcraft hundreds of years ago will review the evidence. It is suspected that Henot, head of the city’s post office, fell foul of a deadly game of political intrigue orchestrated by her rivals and detractors.

The fact that Henot’s name has a chance of exoneration is due largely to the efforts of Hartmut Hegeler, an evangelical pastor and religious education teacher, who has championed the woman’s cause in Cologne.

“We were taking about the witch trials in class and my students asked me if whether the judgment against Henot had ever been cancelled, and the answer was ‘no’,” said Mr Hegeler.

“Katharina had her own reputation in high esteem; she would want to have it cleared.”

Between 1500 and 1782 at least 25,000 Germans, mostly women but also some men and children, were executed for witchcraft. Many were made scapegoats for natural disasters or faced accusations because of personal vendettas or just because they failed to fit in with the people around them.

In one of the most infamous cases, a three-month burst of bloodletting in the small town of Oberkirchen in 1630 claimed the lives of 58, including those of two children, as accusations of witchcraft spread like wildfire.

Now across Germany towns and villages are beginning to rehabilitate the names of the executed in an attempt to bring a belated form of justice.

via 400-year-old witchcraft trial resumes in Germany – Telegraph.



German health experts left baffled by village where almost every household has resident suffering ca
Friday February 17, 2012

Health experts in Germany are baffled by a small village where cancer has hit almost every household.

Wewelsfleth, which has a population of 1,500, has been labelled the ‘village of the damned’ as new cancer cases are 50 per cent above average.

Researchers from the University of Lubeck who investigated the phenomenon, which includes breast, lung, oesophageal, womb and stomach cancers, could find no defining cause – although residents are blaming three nearby nuclear power plants and a shipyard where vessels used to be sprayed with highly toxic paint.

The villagers are now demanding a government inquiry. They think authorities over the years have remained silent as wind and rain blew in cancer-causing particles into their homes.

But experts say this is not the case. Research by academics at the University of Lübeck probed the various cancers that had struck down the villagers.

As well as probing the nuclear plants it also looked into the nearby shipyard, asbestos sheeting used on garage roofs, electro-smog from power lines and the lifestyle of those who fell victim to the cancers.

The study could find no defining link to any one cause. The villagers are now asking health authorities in Berlin to commission another study to get to the bottom of the ‘plague of cancers,’ as they call it.

Wewelsfleth mayor Ingo Karstens, who lost both of his wives to cancer, said: ‘It feels like a curse.’ …

via German health experts left baffled by village where almost every household has resident suffering cancer | Mail Online.


Milky Way humming in mysterious haze
Friday February 17, 2012
A European space observatory has discovered previously unknown islands of star formation and a haze of microwave radiations in our galaxy, the source of which is a complete mystery.

The Planck space observatory was launched in 2009 to analyse small fluctuations in the omnipresent cosmic microwave background (CMB) – complementing data gathered by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

To understand the structure of the CMB is to open a window on the conditions immediately after the Big Bang. This extremely faint radiation is the ancient “echo” of the creation of the Universe over 14 billion years ago. The Discovery News reported.

However, Planck’s toolkit is not limited to measuring ancient microwaves from the dawn of time, it is also building an all-sky map of Milky Way. To remove the microwave radiation being emitted from our galaxy, a very accurate survey of microwave sources within our cosmic backyard is required to be conducted.

And it is this survey that’s bringing up a number of surprises.

On Monday, at an international conference in Bologna, Italy, Planck scientists presented the intermediate results from the mission ahead of its first cosmological dataset expected to be released in 2013.

“The images reveal two exciting aspects of the galaxy in which we live,” said Planck scientist Krzysztof M. Gorski from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Warsaw University Observatory in Poland.

“They show a haze around the center of the galaxy, and cold gas where we never saw it before.”

This microwave “haze” is being emitted from a region surrounding the Milky Way’s heart.

Typically, this kind of emission would be expected from regions that have experienced supernova activity. However, the microwaves detected have a “harder” spectrum, basically implying that the microwave emission is unusually energetic.

When contrasted with the microwave radiation elsewhere in our galaxy, the galactic core’s emission is a real peculiarity. …

via Milky Way humming in mysterious haze | Discovery Online.


Report: 2 ICE officers killed, 1 wounded at federal office building in Long Beach
Friday February 17, 2012
Three immigration officers were involved in a shootout at the Long Beach federal building on Thursday evening, police said.

Two officers were pronounced dead at the scene and the third, reportedly shot in the upper torso, was sent to a nearby hospital, according to aerial communications from Long Beach police, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.

One of the agents is believed to be the suspected gunman, police said, but suspect’s condition was unknown.

A Long Beach police official told the Associated Press that the shooter killed one person, wounded another with a shot to the stomach, and then was killed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the case.

The third officer is being treated at St. Mary’s Medical Center, and his vital signs were positive, said Francine Marlenee, speaking on behalf of the hospital.

The incident occurred shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday on the seventh floor of the building located on the city’s oceanfront at 501 W. Ocean Blvd., police said.

Initial reports described two people involved in the shootout, including a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.

More than a dozen police vehicles and at least two fire trucks lined the sidewalks surrounding the heavily secured building. …

via U.S. News – Report: 2 ICE officers killed, 1 wounded at federal office building in Long Beach.

A confrontation between law enforcement agents erupted in gunfire Thursday evening at the federal building in Long Beach, leaving two dead and one seriously injured, authorities said.

The incident involved agents from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency in the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building along the city’s oceanfront.

The shooter is believed to have opened fire on his supervisor over an unspecified dispute, law enforcement authorities told The Times.

As the supervisor lay wounded, another agent jumped in and tried to subdue the gunman. Another round of gunfire broke out, authorties said.

Officials were investigating whether the gunman turned his weapon on himself, the sources said. The extent of any wounds he may have suffered was not immediately clear.

via LA Times


UFOs disabling nukes
Friday February 17, 2012
It would be great of aliens would save us from ourselves. If they have been watching and can disable nukes, I wonder why they didn’t disable the second nuke we dropped on Japan. Why did they allow on 8/9/1945 at 12:02 pm the bomb known as “Fat Man” to explode at 1,849 feet with a force of 22,000 tons of TNT killing 39,000 people and injuring another 25,000? Surely they saw us kill 66,000 people with the bomb dropped earlier on Hiroshima?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3jUU4Z8QdHI

Department Of Homeland Security Tells Congress Why It’s Monitoring Facebook, Twitter, Blogs
Friday February 17, 2012

BY Neal UngerleiderAt a Congressional hearing this morning that veered into contentious arguments and cringe-worthy moments, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spilled the beans on their social media monitoring project.

DHS Chief Privacy Office Mary Ellen Callahan and Director of Operations Coordination and Planning Richard Chavez appeared to be deliberately stonewalling Congress on the depth, ubiquity, goals, and technical capabilities of the agency’s social media surveillance. At other times, they appeared to be themselves unsure about their own project’s ultimate goals and uses. But one thing is for sure: If you’re the first person to tweet about a news story, or if you’re a community activist who makes public Facebook posts–DHS will have your personal information.

The hearing, which was held by the Subcommittee on Counterintelligence and Intelligence headed by Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA), was highly unusual. Hacktivist collective Anonymous (or at least the @AnonyOps Twitter feed) sent a sympathizer to the visitor gallery to liveblog the proceedings under the #spyback hashtag.

Interactions between the DHS officials and representatives were often strained–both Chavez and Callahan were scolded and chastised by Representatives from both parties. Reps. Billy Long (R-MO), Meehan, Jackie Speier (D-CA), and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) all pointed out issues relating to what they variously saw as potential First Amendment violations, surveillance of citizens engaged in protected political speech, the fact that an outside contractor handles DHS’ social media monitoring, DHS’ seeming inability to separate news monitoring from disaster preparedness, and a massively unclear social media monitoring mandate on the DHS’ part.

Video footage of the hearing has already been made available on YouTube, and the written testimony of both DHS experts has been made publicly available. Privacy watchdog group EPIC also filed a formal disclosure to Congress on the results of a FOIA lawsuit. DHS appears to have also stonewalled EPIC regarding their social media monitoring project. The results are staggering.

According to testimony, the Homeland Security Department has outsourced their own social media monitoring program to an outside contractor, defense giant General Dynamics. General Dynamics was the sole party to the original DHS contract, which was not offered to any outside parties–and Chavez was caught misleading the Committee about General Dyamics’ sole status. …

via Department Of Homeland Security Tells Congress Why It’s Monitoring Facebook, Twitter, Blogs | Fast Company.



The planet Venus is slowing down
Sunday February 12, 2012

ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbour spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosphere in the infrared, the orbiter found surface features were not quite where they should be. …

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Venera and Magellan orbiters made radar maps of the surface of Venus, long shrouded in mystery as well as a dense, crushing and poisonous atmosphere. These maps gave us our first detailed global view of this unique and hostile world.

Over its four-year mission, Magellan was able to watch features rotate under the spacecraft, allowing scientists to determine the length of the day on Venus as being equal to 243.0185 Earth days. .

However, surface features seen by Venus Express some 16 years later could only be lined up with those observed by Magellan if the length of the Venus day is on average 6.5 minutes longer than Magellan measured. …

This also agrees with the most recent long-duration radar measurements from Earth.

“When the two maps did not align, I first thought there was a mistake in my calculations as Magellan measured the value very accurately, but we have checked every possible error we could think of,” said Nils Müller, a planetary scientist at the DLR German Aerospace Centre, lead author of a research paper investigating the rotation.

 

Scientists, including Özgur Karatekin of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, looked at the possibility of short-term random variations in the length of a Venus day, but concluded these should average themselves out over longer timescales.

On the other hand, other recent atmospheric models have shown that the planet could have weather cycles stretching over decades, which could lead to equally long-term changes in the rotation period. Other effects could also be at work, including exchanges of angular momentum between Venus and the Earth when the two planets are relatively close to each other.

“An accurate value for Venus’ rotation rate will help in planning future missions, because precise information will be needed to select potential landing sites,” noted Håkan Svedhem, ESA’s Venus Express project scientist. …

via ESA Portal – Could Venus be shifting gear?.


Swiss Build the World’s First Solar-Powered Ski Lift
Friday February 10, 2012
In the tiny mountain village of Tenna, a farming village in eastern Switzerland not far from resorts such as St. Moritz and Davos, big green ideas have been introduced.

Although larger, well-known ski resorts overshadow it, when their aging ski lift needed replacing, locals raised enough money to update it and then went a step further: They invested in building one of the world’s first solar-powered ski lifts. This tiny Swiss town with a population of about 110 inhabitants is now home of the world’s first ski lift powered by a chain of 82 solar “wings” that trail up from the base station to its mountain peak.

On sunny days, the lift produces twice as much power as it consumes, according to Andina. In the springtime when ski season ends, it becomes a mini solar power plant. The investment wasn’t cheap: $1.5 million, but the lift is expected to produce 90,000 kilowatt hours annually – well beyond the 21,000 kilowatt hours needed to run it during the season! So, about three times more solar energy than it needs to power the lift providing surplus power that is sold to the regional power company’s grid.

So what happens to the 82 solar “wings” when it dumps? Not a problem, because they rotate to follow the path of the sun in the sky and can be tilted to perpendicular during a storm, so there’s no load and the snow slides right off. …

via Swiss Tiny Mountain Village of Tenna Build the World’s First Solar-Powered Ski Lift | Holiday 4 U.


Lake Vostok: Russian scientists drilling into ‘alien’ Antarctic lake buried for 20m years
Monday February 6, 2012
Russian scientists drill into Antarctic lake buried under the ice for 20 million years, amid extraordinary claims the Nazis may have got there first

Russian scientists have finally drilled down through four kilometres of Antarctic ice to a lake that has been sealed for the last 20 million years.

Veteran Antarctic researcher Professor John Priscu says that he expects to see ‘unique organisms’ in the lake.

But it was revealed this may not be the only surprise from sub-glacial Lake Vostok, a body of water as large as Lake Ontario.

As scientists began the search for new life, a state-run news agency in Russia claimed that an extraordinary cache of Hitler’s archives may be buried in a secret Nazi ice bunker near the spot where yesterday’s breakthrough was made.

‘It is thought that towards the end of the Second World War, the Nazis moved to the South Pole and started constructing a base at Lake Vostok,’ claimed RIA Novosti, the Russian state news agency.

It cited Admiral Karl Dontiz in 1943 saying ‘Germany’s submarine fleet is proud that it created an unassailable fortress for the Fuehrer on the other end of the world’, in Antarctica.

According to German naval archives, months after the Nazis surrendered to the Allies in April 1945, a U-530 submarine arrived at the South Pole from the Port of Kiel.

The crew are rumoured to have constructed a still undiscovered ice cave ‘and supposedly stored several boxes of relics from the Third Reich, including Hitler’s secret files’.

A later claim was that a U-977 submarine delivered remains of Hitler and Eva Braun to Antarctica in the hope they could be cloned from their DNA. The submariners then went to Argentina to surrender, it was claimed. …

Microbiologists say that the lake could offer a glimpse of unique life forms. The project has been closely watched by both NASA and the Russian Space Agency.

One hope is that it will give a glimpse of conditions on Jupiter’s moon Europa where water is also believed to exist under a thick ice cover.

‘The discovery of microorganisms in Lake Vostok may mean that, perhaps, the first meeting with extraterrestrial life could happen on Europa,’ said Dr Vladimir Kotlyakov, Director of the Geography Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences. …

Geothermal heat under the ice keeps the lake liquid, and its conditions are often described as ‘alien’ because they are thought to be akin to the subterranean lakes on Jupiter’s moon Europa.

‘I think we’ll find unique organisms,’ Professor Priscu, a microbiologist at the University of Montana, and a veteran Antarctic researcher who is on the trip told Scientific American.

On January 13, Mr Priscu said the team was progressing well, drilling 5.7ft a day. He said they had switched from an ice drill to a thermal drill to melt through the last 16 to 32ft of ice.

‘This was the plan, but when you’re in the field, things can change,’ Priscu, who had been communicating with the group from his office in St. Petersburg, said.

‘This has never been done before,’ Priscu told OurAmazingPlanet. ‘It’s a one-of-a-kind drill, a one-of-a-kind borehole, and a one-of-a-kind lake, so I’m sure they’re making decisions on the fly all the time.’

The team had a deadline of Tuesday, before already ice-cold temperatures in the desolate spot drop another 40 degrees centigrade.

Valery Lukin, chief of the Russian Antactic Expedition, said last month: ‘We do not know what is waiting for us down there.’ …

Environmental groups have criticised the work on the site – and the chemicals used such as kerosene to keep the hole open.

Others have said the site should not be explored but instead left in pristine condition.

via Lake Vostok: Russian scientists drilling into ‘alien’ Antarctic lake buried for 20m years | Mail Online.

Rather thank just getting there first, one story I read says the Nazis created the lake during the course of building flying saucers in a base under the ice.

 

The magnetic anomaly at the north end of Lake Vostok poses some interesting questions.

“This anomaly is so large that it cannot be the product of a daily change in the magnetic field,” stated Michael Studinger, one of the researchers involved in the mapping endeavor.”

“Also significant was the sheer size of the anomaly: 65 by 46 square miles. According to the mission’s geological team, the anomaly’s size and severity pointed to the fact that geological changes had taken place under the lake, suggesting the possibility that it was a place where “the earth’s crust was thinner’”
We have the classic NASA involvement indicative of a Nazi project.

They were going to drill down to it and then suddenly everything went dark.

You see, if you are going to locate a secret facility in antarctica you have one problem. What do you do with all that heat? If you located it on a nunatak or on the ice the heat signature would give it away immediately to any satellite.

Even if you put a facility in a mountain you still have to deal with the heat. You see, granite doesn’t transfer heat very well so if you are generating electricity particularly if you engaged in manufacturing saucers you are going to be creating a lot of heat and that heat has to be exchanged somewhere.

But if you go under the ice a couple of miles then that heat just melts the ice and makes a big lake and you cannot see the heat or facility at the surface. And there seem to be several such lakes in addition to Vostok. Lake Vostok is now the sie of Lake Erie.

A similar situation existis in the Andes where it appears the cooling systems have been located underneath the water of the lakes.

- ATS Forum


Strange Sounds and Triangle UFO Filmed
Monday February 6, 2012

A triangular UFO, accompanied by the strange sounds phenomenon, was filmed over the skies of Dublin, Ireland and posted as a video on YouTube.

A familiar shape to North American skies, a triangle object with three glowing tips and folding over on itself, was taped as the witness wondered aloud what it could be he was seeing and his dog barked nervously off camera.

Suddenly, the strange sounds which have been heard in dozens of other videos began to sound aloud as the dog got noticeably more agitated.

The combination of the weird noises phenomenon, plus a triangular, unidentified flying object, are the elements which have not yet been videotaped together, making this short video a very unusual entry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y1ly1kcM1VA
via Strange Sounds and Triangle UFO Filmed Over… | Gather.


Close Encounters of the Giant Kind
Friday February 3, 2012
For decades, within the annals of Ufology, countless types of apparent alien entity have been reported by startled witnesses to UFOs and their other-worldly crews. The list of extraterrestrial life forms is truly bizarre and includes beings that resemble (a) huge, flying jellyfish; (b) oversized bananas; (c) the Michelin Man; and (d) long-nosed, scrawny humanoids with glowing red eyes. But, such beings are most assuredly not typical of those reported in the vast majority of close encounters of the ufological kind. Indeed, they are firmly in the minority. Dominating the UFO scene are without doubt the human-looking Space-Brothers, the insect-like Grays, and the sinister Reptilians. But, there are a surprising number of reports on file describing giant-sized aliens, too…

While the tales of alien giants most certainly do not attract the same sort of attention and acclaim as their long-haired cousins did way back in the Contactee-driven era of the 1950s, and the emotionless Grays do today, that does not mean such issues are ofno consequence. In fact, one could convincingly argue quite the opposite!

Two such notable cases emanate from with the British Isles; the details of one of which were given to Charles Bowen, a former editor of Flying Saucer Review magazine, and that were duly published in a classic book on alien entities that Bowen edited himself, The Humanoids.

The year was 1958 and the location was very near to Balmoral, Scotland. As part of their basic training, an Aberdeen-based unit of the Territorial Army had been dispatched to the area in question to take part in a weekend of maneuvers.

During the course of the exercise, two of the group were deployed to guard a small hilltop and, fully equipped, set about digging themselves a trench for cover. On the first morning, just as dawn was breaking, both heard what they later described as a strange “gurgling” sound that seemed to originate from behind a dense group of trees, several hundred yards from their position. Unsurprisingly somewhat curious, they set out to investigate, when two giant, humanoid figures suddenly emerged from the shadows and proceeded towards them in ominous, lumbering fashion.

Naturally overcome with overwhelming terror, the pair hastily retreated. As they ran in panicked style, they heard a “swishing noise,” and glancing over their shoulders saw a gigantic, disc-shaped object in the sky above which appeared to be following them. Reportedly “pulsating,” the UFO swooped low over their heads and – to the complete and utter relief of the pair – quickly disappeared, curiously trailing a shower of sparks as it vanished from view.

A similar case, involving the Schwab family, who was then living in the English city of Bath, occurred late one weekend night in mid March 1978, while they were attending a family get-together in the county of Wiltshire. While driving past the legendary Stonehenge around 11.00 p.m., they were shocked to the core by the startling sight of a “twelve-foot-tall thing, like a giant man,” standing in the middle of the road.

Not surprisingly, Mr. Schwab brought the car to a rapid, screeching halt, and he, his wife and son watched amazed as a bright light from above suddenly enveloped the mighty being, and which ‘”lit it up and we could see it was like me and you, but twice as tall and in a silver suit and two big eyes [sic].”

Even more startling, the huge creature then began to slowly rise into the beam of light – which, the three could now see, was “coming out of the bottom of a big square-shaped object in the sky, and black [in color] that hummed so loud and made us all feel sick.”

Within seconds, the giant and the beam of light were gone, and the mysterious craft duly soared into the heavens, leaving the Schwab family wondering what on earth – or, very possibly, off it – had just happened.

via Close Encounters of the Giant Kind | Mysterious Universe.


‘Cat-Eye’ Boy Video Said To Show Chinese Child Who Sees In Dark
Friday February 3, 2012

According to a news reel from China, a young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a Siamese cat's, his sky-blue eyes flash neon green when illuminated by a flashlight, and his night vision is good enough to enable him to fill out questionnaires while sitting in a pitch black room — or so say the reporters who visited Nong Yousui in his hometown of Dahua three years ago.

The footage of Nong and his strange-looking eyes originally surfaced in 2009; it got little attention at the time, but is now making a splash all over the Web. If the boy really does have a genetic mutation that confers night vision, then he would be an interesting subject for analysis by vision scientists, evolutionary biologists, and genetic engineers alike — but does he?

The experts we shared the video with say Nong does have unusually colored irises considering his ethnicity, but he's not the next step in human evolution.

Night vision is made possible by a layer of cells, called the tapetum lucidum, in the eyes of cats and other nocturnal animals. This thin layer is a "retroreflector" — when a beam of light hits it, it reflects the light directly back along its incoming path. The reflected beam constructively interferes with the incoming light beam, amplifying the overall signal that hits the retina and enabling the animal to see in very low-light conditions. Retroreflection also causes cat eyes to flash when they are lit upon at night, and experts say Nong's eyes, if they are truly catlike, should do the same. [Red-Green & Blue-Yellow: The Stunning Colors You Can't See]

"It would be easy to test the boy’s eyes for retroreflection (eyeshine), which would be indicative of a tapetum lucidum," said Nathaniel Greene, a physicist at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania who has studied retroreflection.

In fact, such a test is run in the video.

In the footage, Nong's teacher claims the boy's eyes flash when shined with a flashlight in the dark, but the reporters don't seem to be able to catch the effect on camera. When Nong's eyes are illuminated in the dark, they appear normal. James Reynolds, a pediatric ophthalmologist at State University of New York in Buffalo, noted, "A video could capture [eyeshine] easily, just like in nature films of leopards at night."

Furthermore, there is no single genetic mutation that could produce a fully formed and functioning tapetum lucidum, Reynolds explained; such an ability would require multiple mutations, which don't just happen all at once. Evolution happens incrementally, he said, not by leaps and bounds. ...

via 'Cat-Eye' Boy Video Said To Show Chinese Child Who Sees In Dark.

I disagree with Reynolds. Multiple genetic mutations that result in major functional physical changes are quite rare, but they do happen.  I'm not saying Nong Yousui can see in the dark. Perhaps he can. But I do want to point out that evidence shows generally held ideas about evolution, even among experts, needs updates and refinements. Most experts, for example, would probably still tell you that identical twins are genetically identical, which is false in several documented proven cases.

www.youtube.com/watch

NASA Kepler Telescope Finds 26 New Alien Planets in 11 Solar Systems
Thursday February 2, 2012

Image: This is a shot depicting all 1,235 potential alien planets located by the Kepler space probe to date. The planets are actually just the tiny black dots though, the big balls are the stars they orbit, to scale. – link
 

NASA announced on Friday that its Kepler telescope has discovered 11 new planetary systems that include 26 confirmed alien planets.

The new planets vary in size from one-and-a-half times the radius of Earth to bigger than Jupiter. Their orbital periods range from six to 143 days, and they all orbit closer to their stars than Venus does to our sun.

The discoveries nearly double the number of alien worlds — or “exoplanets” planets — found by Kepler outside our solar system and help astronomers better understand how planets form. However, scientists still have to determine the make-up of the planets, such as whether their surfaces are rocky or gaseous.

“Prior to the Kepler mission, we knew of perhaps 500 exoplanets across the whole sky,” Doug Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement. “Now, in just two years staring at a patch of sky not much bigger than your fist, Kepler has discovered more than 60 planets and more than 2,300 planet candidates. This tells us that our galaxy is positively loaded with planets of all sizes and orbits.”

via NASA Kepler Telescope Finds 26 New Alien Planets in 11 Solar Systems.


Bournemouth resident mystified by ‘blue sphere shower’
Thursday February 2, 2012
A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden.

Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm.

He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: “[They're] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar.”

The Met Office said the jelly-like substance was “not meteorological”.

Mr Hornsby, a former aircraft engineer, said: “The sky went a really dark yellow colour.

“As I walked outside to go to the garage there was an instant hail storm for a few seconds and I thought, ‘what’s that in the grass’?”

‘No smell’

Walking around his garden he found many more blue spheres were scattered across the grass.

He said: “The have an exterior shell with a softer inner but have no smell, aren’t sticky and do not melt.”

Mr Hornsby said he was keeping the balls in his fridge while he tried to find out what they were.

Josie Pegg, an applied science research assistant at Bournemouth University, speculated that the apparently strange phenomena might be “marine invertebrate eggs”.

“These have been implicated in previous ‘strange goo’ incidents,” she said. “I’d have thought it’s a little early for spawning but I suppose we’ve had a very mild winter.

“The transmission of eggs on birds’ feet is well documented and I guess if a bird was caught out in a storm this could be the cause.” …

via BBC News – Bournemouth resident mystified by ‘blue sphere shower’.


Mona Lisa copy reveals new detail
Thursday February 2, 2012
A painting thought to be the earliest replica of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been discovered at Madrid’s Prado Museum.

The Prado said it did not realise its significance until a recent restoration revealed hidden layers.

The artwork features the same female figure, but had been covered over with black paint and varnish.

The painting is thought to have been created by one of Leonardo’s students alongside the 16th century original.

There are dozens of surviving Mona Lisa replicas from the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Art Newspaper, which reported the discovery, said the “sensational find will transform our understanding of the world’s most famous picture”.

The original painting, which currently hangs at the Louvre in Paris, is obscured by several layers of old, cracked varnish.

However, cleaning and restoration is thought to be too risky because the painting is fragile.

The Art Newspaper said the removal of the black paint on the replica had revealed “the fine details of the delicate Tuscan landscape”, which mirrors the background of Leonardo’s masterpiece.

via BBC News – Mona Lisa copy reveals new detail.


Treasure hunter claims $3bn WWII-era find off US coast
Thursday February 2, 2012
A Maine treasure hunter says he has discovered a WWII-era shipwreck filled with platinum, now worth $3bn (£1.9bn).

Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research says a wreck sitting 50 miles (80km) off the US Atlantic coast is the SS Port Nicholson, sunk in 1942.

The Port Nicholson, a British merchant ship, was torpedoed by a German U-boat in an attack that killed six people.

Some have expressed doubts the wreck holds platinum, and maritime law would complicate ownership claims.

Anthony Shusta, an attorney representing the British government, says it is unclear if the ship ever carried platinum.

“We’re still researching what was on the vessel,” Mr Shusta told the Associated Press news agency. “Our initial research indicated it was mostly machinery and military stores.”

The United Kingdom will wait until salvage operations begin before deciding whether to file a claim on the cargo, he added.

‘I’m getting it’

Mr Brooks says a US Treasury Department ledger shows platinum bars were on board, as part of a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.

He also has underwater video footage he says shows a platinum bar surrounded by 30 boxes that he believes holds platinum ingots.

He has not yet brought up any platinum but says he and his crew hope to begin raising the treasure later this month.

“I’m going to get it, one way or another, even if I have to lift the ship out of the water,” he said.

The treasure hunter said he held off the announcement of his find for four years while he negotiated salvage rights. Ownership rights are still unsettled.

via BBC News – Treasure hunter claims $3bn WWII-era find off US coast.


Afghanistan: Leon Panetta signals end to US combat role
Thursday February 2, 2012
A Police Mentoring Team and members of the Afghan national police patrol through a poppy field near Combat Outpost Castle, Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 29. PMT routinely patrol the area searching for improvised explosive devises, looking for Taliban influence, and interacting with the local populace while mentoring the ANP. – link

The US will seek to wind down combat operations in Afghanistan during 2013, more than a year before a deadline for withdrawal, the defence secretary says.

Speaking while travelling to a Nato summit, Leon Panetta said the US hoped to switch to a role training and supporting Afghan forces.

His comments are the first time a senior US official has given a timetable for transition.

Some 68,000 troops are due to remain in Afghanistan after the end of 2012.

There are currently some 99,000 US troops in the country, with 22,000 scheduled to return home during this year.

Until now, though, there had been now word on how the Pentagon planned to manage the main bulk of the drawdown, committing only to a full withdrawal of troops by the end of 2014.

“Hopefully by mid- to the latter part of 2013 we’ll be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advice and assist role,” Mr Panetta said en route to Brussels, site of the Nato summit.

He stressed that dangers would remain while Afghan forces were trained up to take over security duties in many areas currently wracked by conflict. …

via BBC News – Afghanistan: Leon Panetta signals end to US combat role.

A U.S. Marine with the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, patrols a poppy field in the Garmsir District of Helmand province. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Mark O’Donald/Released)

These photos have been released by the Department of Defense and ISAF over the last few years. Some of the photos discuss instances of troops helping with the destruction of poppy fields. Many of the photos do not mention anything related to destruction or removal of poppies.  Instead, they describe how troops “patrol” through and around the fields. In one instance, a US soldier even seems to be even helping with cultivation. In a recent report from Geraldo Rivera which aired in late April on Fox News, a USMC Lt. Col. indicated that US forces encourage the Aghans to grow different crops, however, out of fear of losing stability poppy cultivation is tolerated and even supported. In November 2009, the Afghan Minister of Counter Narcotics General Khodaidad Khodaidad stated that the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada. He also said that NATO forces are taxing the production of opium in the regions under their control and that foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.

via PublicIntelligence.Net

Afghanistan now supplies over 90 percent of the world’s heroin, generating nearly $200 billion in revenue. Since the U.S. invasion on Oct. 7, 2001, opium output has increased 33-fold (to over 8,250 metric tons a year).

The U.S. has been in Afghanistan for over seven years, has spent $177 billion in that country alone, and has the most powerful and technologically advanced military on Earth. GPS tracking devices can locate any spot imaginable by simply pushing a few buttons.

Still, bumper crops keep flourishing year after year, even though heroin production is a laborious, intricate process. The poppies must be planted, grown and harvested; then after the morphine is extracted it has to be cooked, refined, packaged into bricks and transported from rural locales across national borders. To make heroin from morphine requires another 12-14 hours of laborious chemical reactions. Thousands of people are involved, yet—despite the massive resources at our disposal—heroin keeps flowing at record levels.

Common sense suggests that such prolific trade over an extended period of time is no accident, especially when the history of what has transpired in that region is considered. …

via rawa.org | AmericanFreePress.net, November 24, 2008


Chile: Man arrested over glacier ice theft
Thursday February 2, 2012
Police in the south of Chile have arrested a man on suspicion of stealing ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier.

Officials in the town of Cochrane found five tonnes of ice in the back of his truck.

Scientists say the glacier, in the Patagonia region, is retreating faster than any other in Chile.

Police suspect the ice was destined for the capital, Santiago, to make gourmet ice cubes for use in upmarket bars and restaurants.

The BBC’s Gideon Long, in Santiago, says tourists in southern Chile are often served whisky chilled with glacial ice – which has an extra kudos because it comes directly from the glaciers.

According to El Mercurio, the driver is accused of theft, but prosecutors are also considering bringing charges under the national monuments act.

The paper says the ice found in the back of the vehicle was worth about 3 million pesos ($6,100; £3,900).

The shrinking glacier is in the Bernardo O’Higgins national park, the largest protected area in Chile. …

via BBC News – Chile: Man arrested over glacier ice theft.


Self-steering bullet researched by US weapons experts
Thursday February 2, 2012
A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the US military.

The bullet uses tiny fins to correct the course of its flight allowing it to hit laser-illuminated targets.

It is designed to be capable of hitting objects at distances of about 2km (1.24 miles). Work on a prototype suggests that accuracy is best at longer ranges.

A think tank says the tech is well-suited to snipers, but worries about it being marketed to the public.

Work on the project is being carried out by an Albuquerque-based subsidiary of defence contractor Lockheed Martin on behalf of the US government.

The current prototype involves a 4in (10cm) bullet which includes an optical sensor in its nose to detect the laser. This information is then processed and used to move motors within the bullet which steer tiny fins, altering the ammunition’s path.

“We can make corrections 30 times per second,” said researcher Red Jones.

“That means we can over-correct, so we don’t have to be as precise each time.” …

via BBC News – Self-steering bullet researched by US weapons experts.


Stealing in virtual world is theft in real life, top Dutch court rules
Thursday February 2, 2012
The amulet and mask were a 13-year-old boy’s virtual possessions in an online fantasy game. In the real world, he was beaten and threaten with a knife to give them up.

The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the theft conviction of a youth who stole another boy’s possessions in the popular online fantasy game RuneScape. Judges ordered the offender to perform 144 hours of community service.

Only a handful of such cases have been heard in the world, and they have reached varying conclusions about the legal status of “virtual goods” — and whether stealing them is real-world theft.

The suspect’s lawyer had argued the amulet and mask “were neither tangible nor material and, unlike for example electricity, had no economic value.”

But the Netherlands’ highest court said the virtual objects had an intrinsic value to the 13-year-old gamer because of “the time and energy he invested” in winning them while playing the game.

The court did not release the offender’s name, only his year of birth — 1992. It said he and another youth beat and kicked the boy and threatened him with a knife until he logged into RuneScape and dropped the objects in 2007.

One of the thieves, who was also playing the game, was then able to pick up the items, making them his virtual property. Both were convicted by a lower court in 2009, but only one of them had appealed to the Supreme Court.

via Stealing in virtual world is theft in real life, top Dutch court rules | The Chronicle Herald.


LAPD cracks down on drone aircraft use by real estate agents
Thursday February 2, 2012
The Los Angeles Police Department is warning real estate agents not to use images of properties taken from unmanned aircraft, saying the flying drones pose a potential safety hazard and could violate federal aviation policy.

The warning was issued this week after officers saw a television news report showing a basketball-sized object with multiple rotors hovering over an expansive Westside residence.

“We are just trying to inform the public to ensure that before hiring these companies to operate these aircraft in federal airspace, that they are abiding by the federal regulations to ensure safety,” said police Sgt. George Gonzalez.

Drones can range from as small as model airplanes built by hobbyists to as large as a commercial jet. Nationally, there has been an intense and growing debate about the safety of allowing drones to operate in airspace used by passenger aircraft.

Federal regulations prohibit the operation of unmanned aircraft in U.S airspace without specific permission

The Los Angeles Police Department is warning real estate agents not to use images of properties taken from unmanned aircraft, saying the flying drones pose a potential safety hazard and could violate federal aviation policy.

The warning was issued this week after officers saw a television news report showing a basketball-sized object with multiple rotors hovering over an expansive Westside residence.

“We are just trying to inform the public to ensure that before hiring these companies to operate these aircraft in federal airspace, that they are abiding by the federal regulations to ensure safety,” said police Sgt. George Gonzalez.

Drones can range from as small as model airplanes built by hobbyists to as large as a commercial jet. Nationally, there has been an intense and growing debate about the safety of allowing drones to operate in airspace used by passenger aircraft.

Federal regulations prohibit the operation of unmanned aircraft in U.S airspace without specific permission, though the rules do allow hobbyists to fly model planes in designated areas.

Real estate agents have been posting aerial photos and video of homes for sale in the Los Angeles area, according to the LAPD. The pictures have been taken from several hundred feet off the ground in the city’s crowded airspace — an altitude at which police helicopters often fly.

Seeking to maintain the safety of their pilots as well as people on the ground, LAPD officials are first notifying those who are in the market for photos taken by drones “so they make informed decisions and don’t hurt anybody,” Gonzalez said.

The LAPD knows who was operating the “spider-like” drone shown on TV, but hasn’t yet contacted the operator, Gonzalez said. …

via LAPD cracks down on drone aircraft use by real estate agents – latimes.com.


Small alien mummy in Peru?
Thursday February 2, 2012
PERU. November, 2011. In South America, newspapers published in their headlines: Descubren momia con características no humanas en la ciudad peruana de Cusco (Discovery mummy with not-human characteristics in the Peruvian city of Cusco IN Tribuna Latina); and – Cusco: estudian osamenta de momia con características “no humanas” (IN La Republica).

The news were about the of two small mummies discovered in the district of Andahuaylillas, Quispicanchi province, Cuzco region [or Cuzco], Peru. It happened two years ago. The mummies were in a “Apu”, that is a mountain sacred belonging to a deity, at a place located more than two thousand meters above sea level. In this case, the mountain, a domain of the god Viracocha, is scenery of frequent UFO sightings.

Recently, the finding was publicized to the press by the director of the museu Ritos Andinos (Andean Rites Museum), Renato Davila Riquelme which, on occasion – described one of the mummies as having characteristics of non-human. He said that: The bones of the ribs and lower limbs are very thin, delicate. It (one of the mummies) has an opening at the top of the forehead and the molars are of an adult

A spanish doctor and two russian scientists* examined the mummy and they observed that ‘it is not a human being.’ A definitive proof or at least, significant, would be a DNA analysis of mummified remains. * (Mrs. Andrianova and Mrs. Popova)

via Brazil Weird News: The small mummy alien of Peru.



Breakthrough in mind-reading technology
Thursday February 2, 2012
Scientists may one day be able to eavesdrop on our thoughts, after a major breakthrough which allowed researchers to decode brain activity.

The finding could eventually allow neuroscientists to “hear” the thoughts of stroke sufferers or other patients who have a functioning mind but are unable to speak.

Researchers from the University of California, in Berkeley, have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in a region of the human auditory system known as the superior temporal gyrus.

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In research published in the PLoS Biology journal today, they explained how they were able to reconstruct words that subjects listened to in normal conversation.

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UC Berkeley Robert Knight, said the development could benefit thousands of people.

He hoped that one day scientists could reconstruct imagined conversations from brain activity.

“This is huge for patients who have damage to their speech mechanisms because of a stroke or Lou Gehrig’s disease and can’t speak,” he said.

The researchers were able to match spoken sounds to the pattern of activity in the brain, allowing them to predict the word a patient was hearing based on electrode recordings.

The finding has raised ethical concerns that the technology might lead to mind reading devices, but researchers said the fears were unjustified.

Jan Schnupp, professor of neuroscience at Oxford University, said the patients who took part in the research willingly allowed a large array of electrodes to be placed on their brains.

“No non-invasive brain scanning technique in existence is able to provide the very fine temporal and the spatial resolution needed to make proper mind-reading possible,” she said.

“Perhaps luckily for all those of us who value the privacy of their own thoughts, we can rest assured that our skulls will remain an impenetrable barrier for any would-be technological mind hacker for any foreseeable future.”…

via Breakthrough in mind-reading technology.



First: Alien Particles Found Invading Our Solar System
Wednesday February 1, 2012
For the first time, a NASA spacecraft has directly observed alien particles that came from beyond our solar system, astronomers announced today. The discovery not only gives us a glimpse of what exists in the so-called interstellar medium—the matter between stars—but also offers clues to the anatomy of our local galactic neighborhood. Orbiting Earth some 200,000 miles 322,000 kilometers away, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer IBEX spacecraft was able to snag samples of hydrogen, oxygen, and neon that came from interstellar space.

It s exciting to be able to have these first observations of alien matter—stuff that didn t come from our sun or the planets, but came from the outside of our solar system, from other parts of the galaxy, David McComas, team leader for the IBEX program, said during a NASA news conference Tuesday. We think these are really important measurements, because these elements are the fundamental building blocks of stars, planets, and people.

Related: Solar System s Nose Found; Aimed at Constellation Scorpius. IBEX Find a 15-Billion-Mile Hole-in-One Since its launch in October 2008, the IBEX probe has been mapping the boundary of the solar system, called the heliosphere. This bubble in the Milky Way galaxy is created by solar wind, which is the stream of charged particles that s constantly blowing out from the sun in all directions. The edge of the heliosphere lies about a hundred times farther from us than Earth does from the sun, and it shields the inner solar system from deadly cosmic radiation. That s because the heliosphere and its associated magnetic field push away damaging charged particles. These particles—remnants from supernovae that are dispersed through interstellar space—flow toward us at 50,000 miles 80,000 kilometers an hour. Also see Frothy Magnetic-Bubble Sea Found at Solar System s Edge.

But half of the particles in the interstellar wind are neutral, and these uncharged atoms can make it into our solar system. A few of these neutral hydrogen, oxygen, and neon particles then made it all the way to Earth, where IBEX was able to detect them, McComas said during the conference. I like to call it the 15-billion-mile 24-billion-kilometer hole-in-one, he said. …

via Alien Particles Found Invading Our Solar System—A First.


Filmet UFO på nordlys-himmelen
Tuesday January 31, 2012

Det skulle bli en nordlys-film, men fotograf Terje Nesthus også festet en UFO til film. Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard vet ikke hva det er.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d_INh9XUuAA

‘Cloaking’ a 3-D object from all angles demonstrated
Tuesday January 31, 2012
Researchers have “cloaked” a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time.

However, the demonstration works only for waves in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

It uses a shell of what are known as plasmonic materials; they present a “photo negative” of the object being cloaked, effectively cancelling it out.

The idea, outlined in New Journal of Physics, could find first application in high-resolution microscopes.

Most of the high-profile invisibility cloaking efforts have focused on the engineering of “metamaterials” – modifying materials to have properties that cannot be found in nature.

The modifications allow metamaterials to guide and channel light in unusual ways – specifically, to make the light rays arrive as if they had not passed over or been reflected by a cloaked object. …



Native Americans Hailed From Siberian Highlands, DNA Reveals
Tuesday January 31, 2012
For nearly a century now, most scholars have agreed that the ancestors of Native Americans likely hailed from Siberia, trekking across the Bering Strait to Alaska via a long-gone land bridge. But certain aspects of the historic migration—including the settlers’ specific region of origin, when exactly they left it and what drove them to seek new lands—remain matters of debate to this day. A new DNA-based study published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics offers new insight into these questions.

Russia’s mountainous Altai Republic borders China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Inhabited since the Paleolithic, the region is barely larger than Maine but served as a vital gateway to Siberia and the cradle of widespread human lineages found across northern Eurasia. “It’s a place where people have been coming and going for thousands and thousands of years,” said study co-author Theodore Schurr, an anthropology professor at the University of Pennsylania. According to one prevailing theory, it is also the area where ancestral Native Americans lived before peopling the New World.

Schurr and his team took blood samples from Altai residents and examined their mitochondrial DNA, which is maternally inherited, and Y-chromosome DNA, which passes from father to son. Their analysis showed genetic distinctions between northern and southern Altaians, who also differ from one another both linguistically and culturally. The team then looked for markers known to exist in Native American populations, including a mutation known as Q that is “seen ubiquitously across all the Americas,” Schurr said. “Our goal in working with these communities was to explore their own history in relation to each other but also to other Siberians, as well as the possible links of these groups to Native American population,” he explained.

The results revealed genetic ties linking Native Americans to all Altaians, with a significantly stronger relationship connecting the migrants to residents of southern Altai. The researchers also dated the last common genetic ancestor shared by Native Americans and southern Altaians to between 20,000 and 25,000 years ago, an indication of when the New World’s earliest settlers left their homeland and headed for the Beringian landmass. “We were able to better define the founding lineages of native Americans,” said Schurr, who hypothesized that the settlers’ arrival in what is now Alaska took place some time later, between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago.

This timeline for ancestral Native Americans’ departure adds to a growing body of evidence that humans colonized the Americas earlier than previously thought. …



Judges try to speed up Gary McKinnon extradition case
Tuesday January 31, 2012
Two judges attempted to speed matters up by listing it for a hearing in July.

They acted after hearing that the Home Secretary is ”considering afresh” whether Asperger’s sufferer McKinnon should be extradited to the US to face trial for hacking into top secret US military computers in 2002.

Edward Fitzgerald QC, appearing for McKinnon, told the judges it was hoped Theresa May would now block US government extradition moves so there would be no more need for court action.

The evidence of medical experts before her showed McKinnon, 45, was ”suffering from a serious mental disorder and there is a serious risk of suicide if extradited”.

Mr Fitzgerald said of the marathon case: ”We hope it will never come back to court.”

McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, claims he was looking for evidence of UFOs when he hacked into 97 Nasa and Pentagon computers from his flat.

Just before Christmas, his mother Janis Sharp called for her son to be tried in Britain and said attempts to remove him to America had “destroyed” his life.

She said he was facing his 10th Christmas since his arrest and suffering severe depression amid predictions that he could receive a sentence of 60 years for hacking into top secret US military computers in 2002.

American officials have demanded that he is tried in the US despite expert opinions obtained by McKinnon’s legal team warning that his mental condition could lead him to commit suicide.

Ms Sharp said in her latest media interviews: “Our argument is to try Gary here and to be given a proportional sentence.”

Another argument is that his removal should be delayed until his current treatment programme for his medical condition is completed.



IRS To Collect on Italian Cruise Ship Settlements
Saturday January 28, 2012
One night during dinner, your cruise ship crashes into a reef. Amid the pandemonium you must climb into a lifeboat leaving all your possessions, passport, money – even your high-heeled shoes. Then the cruise line offers you $14,000 to settle. If you take it, is it taxable?

The Costa unit of Carnival Cruises is offering uninjured passengers €11,000 ($14,460) apiece to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma. Costa will also reimburse passengers for their cruise, travel and medical expenses. This deal only covers those who suffered no physical harm , not the roughly 100 people injured or families who lost loved ones.

Of course, there will be lawsuits. Passengers are free to pursue legal action on their own if they aren’t satisfied with the deal. Two U.S. law firms are said to be launching a class-action against Costa and Carnival hoping for a considerably richer recovery per passenger. …

But Is It Taxable? Maybe. Although the wreck happened in Italy, every U.S. citizen and permanent resident must report worldwide income. See New IRS Offshore Amnesty Announced: Third Time’s A Charm. What’s income? Generally everything.

Fortunately, damages for physical injuries (say, broken bones from an accident) are tax-free. What if you only suffer emotional injuries? Physical sickness is also tax-free but not physical symptoms caused by emotional distress—say, headaches. Neither the IRS nor Congress has clarified what’s physical and what’s not, so tax disputes are common.

In 2010, the U.S. Tax Court overruled an IRS decision to tax a $350,000 settlement a man received after suing his ex-employer for intentional infliction of emotional distress. See Parkinson v. Commissioner. Why? The distress led to a heart attack, the court said. See Tax-Free Physical Sickness Recoveries in 2010 and Beyond.

Still, the $14,000 cruise deal is solely for passengers with no physical injury, which could mean it’s taxable. If passengers get post-traumatic stress disorder, is PTSD physical injury for tax purposes? I argue it should be.

Property Too! What if the $14,000 covers all passenger possessions too and they were worth more? If you lost $11,000 worth of clothes, cameras, luggage and personal items you should be able to recover your basis before you have income. That could mean only the excess is taxed. What if you lost $18,000 worth of items but you accept the $14,000? You probably have no income on the settlement and perhaps can claim a $4,000 casualty loss.

Yet proof problems can be severe—who keeps receipts for personal items? For tips, see Need A Tax Receipt? How the settlement is reported to you (on IRSForms 1099) can matter. You have more flexibility to reduce taxes if you negotiate your settlement with an eye on tax rules. The IRS isn’t bound by an agreement’s wording, but it can help.

Forbes.com

http://news360.com/article/40765844


Space Weather Center to Add World’s First ‘Ensemble Forecasting’ Capability
Saturday January 28, 2012
After years of relative somnolence, the sun is beginning to stir. By the time it’s fully awake in about 20 months, the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., charged with researching and tracking solar activity, will have at their dispoal a greatly enhanced forecasting capability.

Goddard’s Space Weather Laboratory recently received support under NASA’s Space Technology Program Game Changing Program to implement “ensemble forecasting,” a computer technique already used by meteorologists to track potential paths and impacts of hurricanes and other severe weather events.

Instead of analyzing one set of solar-storm conditions, as is the case now, Goddard forecasters will be able to simultaneously produce as many as 100 computerized forecasts by calculating multiple possible conditions or, in the parlance of Heliophysicists, parameters. Just as important, they will be able to do this quickly and use the information to provide alerts of space weather storms that could potentially be harmful to astronauts and NASA spacecraft.

“Space weather alerts are available now, but we want to make them better,” said Michael Hesse, chief of Goddard’s Space Weather Laboratory and the recently named director of the Center’s Heliophysics Science Division. “Ensemble forecasting will provide a distribution of arrival times, which will improve the reliability of forecasts. This is important. Society is relying more so than ever on space. Communications, navigation, electrical-power generation, all are all susceptible to space weather.” Once it’s implemented, “there will be nothing like this in the world. No one has done ensemble forecasting for space weather.”

The state-of-the-art capability, which Hesse’s group is implementing now and expects to complete within three years, couldn’t come too soon, either.

Sun Growing Restless

Since the sun reached its solar minimum in 2008 — the period when the number of sunspots is lowest — it has begun to awaken from its slumber. On Aug. 4, the sun unleashed a near X-class solar flare that erupted near an Earth-facing sunspot. Although flares don’t always produce coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — gigantic bubbles of charged particles that can carry up to ten billion tons of matter and accelerate to several million miles per hour as they erupt from the sun’s atmosphere and stream through interplanetary space — this one did.

The CME overtook two previous CMEs — all occurring within 48 hours — and combined into a triple threat. Luckily for Earthlings, the CMEs produced only a moderate geomagnetic storm when solar particles streamed down the field lines toward Earth’s poles and collided with atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere. Even so, “it was the strongest storm in many years,” said Antti Pulkkinen, one of the laboratory’s chief forecasters.

However, the repercussions could be far worse in the future. As part of its 11-year cycle, the sun is entering solar maximum, the period of greatest activity. It is expected to peak in 2013. During this time, more powerful CMEs, often associated with M- and X-class flare events, become more numerous and can affect any planet or spacecraft in its path. In the past, solar storms have disrupted power grids on Earth and damaged instrumentation on satellites. They can also be harmful to astronauts if they are not warned to take protective cover.

“No one knows exactly what the sun will do, Pulkkinen said. “We can’t even tell in a week, let alone a year or two, what the sun will do. All we know is that the sun will be more active.” …


Radical theory explains the origin, evolution, and nature of life, challenges conventional wisdom
Saturday January 28, 2012
Earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects — for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA — are animate, that is, alive. With its broad explanatory power, applicable to all areas of science and medicine, this novel paradigm aims to catalyze a veritable renaissance.

Erik Andrulis, PhD, assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology, advanced his controversial framework in his manuscript “Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life,” published in the peer-reviewed journal, Life. His theory explains not only the evolutionary emergence of life on earth and in the universe but also the structure and function of existing cells and biospheres.

In addition to resolving long-standing paradoxes and puzzles in chemistry and biology, Dr. Andrulis’ theory unifies quantum and celestial mechanics. His unorthodox solution to this quintessential problem in physics differs from mainstream approaches, like string theory, as it is simple, non-mathematical, and experimentally and experientially verifiable. As such, the new portrait of quantum gravity is radical.

The basic idea of Dr. Andrulis’ framework is that all physical reality can be modeled by a single geometric entity with life-like characteristics: the gyre. The so-called “gyromodel” depicts objects — particles, atoms, chemicals, molecules, and cells — as quantized packets of energy and matter that cycle between excited and ground states around a singularity, the gyromodel’s center. A singularity is itself modeled as a gyre, wholly compatible with the thermodynamic and fractal nature of life. An example of this nested, self-similar organization is the Russian Matryoshka doll.

By fitting the gyromodel to facts accumulated over scientific history, Dr. Andrulis confirms the proposed existence of eight laws of nature. One of these, the natural law of unity, decrees that the living cell and any part of the visible universe are irreducible. This law formally establishes that there is one physical reality.

Another natural law dictates that the atomic and cosmic realms abide by identical organizational constraints. Simply put, atoms in the human body and solar systems in the universe move and behave in the exact same manner.

“Modern science lacks a unifying, interdisciplinary theory of life. In other words, current theories are unable to explain why life is the way it is and not any other way,” Dr. Andrulis says. “This general paradigm furnishes a fresh perspective on the character and meaning of life, offers solutions to protracted problems, and strives to end divisive debates.”

One debate swirls around the scientific merit of James Lovelock’s popular Gaia hypothesis. By showing that Earth is theoretically synonymous with life, Dr. Andrulis’ paradigm substantiates the Gaian premise that all organisms and their surroundings on earth are closely integrated to form a single self-regulating complex system. …



ACTA: The new threat to the net
Friday January 27, 2012
Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! -- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good.

ACTA -- a global treaty -- could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties -- even prison sentences -- against people they say have harmed their business.

Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. We know they have opposed ACTA before, but some members of Parliament are wavering -- let's give them the push they need to reject the treaty. Sign the petition -- we'll do a spectacular delivery in Brussels when we reach 500,000 signatures:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?vl

It's outrageous -- governments of four-fifths of the world’s people were excluded from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime. ACTA would initially cover the US, EU and 9 other countries, then be rolled out across the world. But if we can get the EU to say no now, the treaty will lose momentum and could stall for good.

The oppressively strict regulations could mean people everywhere are punished for simple acts such as sharing a newspaper article or uploading a video of a party where copyrighted music is played. Sold as a trade agreement to protect copyrights, ACTA could also ban lifesaving generic drugs and threaten local farmers' access to the seeds they need. And, amazingly, the ACTA committee will have carte blanche to change its own rules and sanctions with no democratic scrutiny.

Big corporate interests are pushing hard for this, but the EU Parliament stands in the way. Let's send a loud call to Parliamentarians to face down the lobbies and stand firm for Internet freedom. Sign now and send to everyone you know:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?vl

Last week, we saw the strength of our collective power when millions of us joined forces to stop the US from passing an Internet censorship law that would have struck at the heart of the Internet. We also showed the world how powerful our voices can be. Let's raise them again to tackle this new threat.

With hope and determination,

Dalia, Alice, Pascal, Emma, Ricken, Maria Paz and the rest of the Avaaz team

More information:

If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/23/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta/

ACTA vs. SOPA: Five Reasons ACTA is Scarier Threat to Internet Freedom
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/286925/20120124/acta-sopa-reasons-scarier-threat-internet-freedom.htm?cid=2

What's Wrong With ACTA
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.1/whats-wrong-with-ACTA

The secret treaty: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and Its Impact on Access to Medicines
http://www.msfaccess.org/content/secret-treaty-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta-and-its-impact-access-medicines

Nick Redfern Explains how the General Accounting Office got involved in Roswell
Friday January 27, 2012
“…GAO spokeswoman Laura A. Kopelson said the office’s investigation…stemmed from a meeting in October between Schiff and GAO Controller General Charles A Bowsher. Schiff complained then that the Defense Department had been ‘unresponsive’ to his inquiries about the 1947 incident…’I was getting pretty upset at all the running around,’ Schiff said, adding that at his meeting with GAO officials, ‘they made an offer to help.’… ‘Generally, I’m a skeptic on UFOs and alien beings, but there are indications from the runaround that I got that whatever it was, it wasn’t a balloon. Apparently, it’s another government cover-up,’ Schiff said. He called the Defense Department’s lack of response ‘astounding,’ and said government accountability was an issue ‘even larger than UFOs.’…He added, ‘If the Defense Department had been responsive, it wouldn’t have come to this.’”

As a result of Schiff’s efforts, (A) the GAO duly launched an investigation and on 28 July 1995, a report surfaced from its National Security and International Affairs Division that disclosed the results of that same investigation; (B) the Air Force trotted out its controversial “Mogul Balloon” theory for Roswell; and (C) the UFO research community was faced with more data, more questions, but still no hard evidence of what it really was that happened at Roswell…


ROSWELL “MEMORY METAL” FOUND ON OFFICIAL FILM OF B-2 STEALTH?
Friday January 27, 2012
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is an advanced military aircraft that has unique capabilities that are far-ranging. Introduced in 1997 (with an alleged first flight in 1989) there are just 22 of them in the world. They incorporate low observable stealth technology. Some have speculated that they may even utilize anti-gravity technologies or that they possess other exotic features that are kept from public view.

But it may not always be possible to keep such features from outside detection. One officially released film of the B-2 Bomber in flight that is very “revealing” may have somehow escaped the scrutiny of US Air Force censors. A recently-discovered segment of this video appears to show another of the B-2 Stealth’s capabilities: The ability to Morph.

This brief clip seems to demonstrate the craft’s “morph” of the metal skin of its outer hull. This would allow it to “intelligently” perform critical functions (and perhaps to “self-heal” if damaged by enemy action.)

WHERE THE FILM COMES FROM

The remarkable film shown below comes from a broadcast by the Military Channel. The Military Channel is a distinguished specialty cable station that is owned by the media corporation that also owns the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet (as well as the “How Stuff Works” video series.) Started in 1999, the Military Channel is known to maintain a cooperative relationship with historical societies and with the US Government in obtaining original footage that relates to the military, warfare and military history. The “legitimacy” of their programming and the authenticity of their broadcast information is without question.

Re-broadcast on YouTube, the footage is entitled “B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber” and simply shows views of the Stealth on the ground and in flight from various angles for about 4 minutes. It is a “PR” film. But despite its garnering over 1,800,000 views, nobody appears to have made any mention in the “comments” section about the morphing metal hull.

View on Youtube

… At approximately the 2:40 second mark (and for a duration of about three seconds) one can clearly observe a “gape” or “opening” on the topside front of the craft that seems to “self-close” in a seamless and almost surreal way. If one looks very closely it appears as though the skin of the craft is “self-directed” and “intelligent” as if it were “remembering” its original shape, like Roswell’s memory metal or a Nitinol actuator!

read the rest on http://bragalia.blogspot.com/


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