life on saturn moon titan?

NASA has called for a 2pm press conference this Thursday, making reference to "astrobiology finding" and "search for extraterrestrial life". The Daily Galaxy article speculates a team working on a NASA funded program, may have found evidence of bacteria using arsenic for photosynthesis on Titan.

bank computer glitch really a hack?

Chris Groothoff, an IT professional, believes somebody hacked the National Australia Bank computer system, as reported at Canberra Times. ''We know that there are all sorts of requirements for special systems like banking systems that have very many precautions and safeguards built into those systems and the ability to recover from a failure within minutes, basically,'' he said. Grothoff is clearly annoyed. ''I think they are pulling the wool over our eyes by saying it's just a computer glitch.'' Is this cyberwarfare?

stuxnet damaged centrifuges at natanz?

A frontpagemag.com post by Rich Trzupek may provide the best description of havoc wreaked by computer worm. Stuxnet, introduced most likely by flash drive, hopped computers at Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz until it reached its target. The computer worm then went to work by targeting the programmable logic controller (PLC) that controls thousands of centrifuges at the facility.

The PLC fooled centrifuges into changing speeds, and at the same time, not reporting the change or triggering alarms. "Operators were surely puzzled, for their control panels told them everything was running normally, but centrifuge after centrifuge was being wrecked by the severe changes in rotation speed. The result, many experts believe, is that thousands of the centrifuges were damaged over the course of the year..." It's widely believed only a rich nation could provide the resources for a computer worm of Stuxnet's sophistication. Ralph Langner, a computer security expert,compares it to the "arrival of a F-35 into a WWI battlefield". The scary thought is: now that the code is public, where will it turn up next?

bank blames human error for outage

National Australia Bank (NAB) spokesman George Wright would not provide technical description of bank's computer difficulties in AUSTRALIANIT article. Wright denied rumors of a botched mainframe upgrade, hackers or virus as reason for glitch. NAB does batch processing for other banks and delivers files daily. "On early Thursday morning, IT departments at financial institutions such as Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ, HSBC, Citibank and Bank of Queensland went on high alert when they did not receive the files." It's one of Australia's biggest banking bungles. NAB is placing blame on human error as "...someone from NAB's IT department who had access to the system inadvertently uploaded a file that 'corrupted' the system." Many NAB bank customers were caught without cash as salaries did not make it into their bank accounts.

the emp threat

"EMP Threat: fact, fiction and response", an article by Yousaf Butt at The Space Review, examines the threat of a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse. The present writer finds, in recent years, attention to this issue noteworthy. "Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagntic Pulse (EMP) Attack", published in 2004, provides the recommendations of an EMP Commission. Butt's Space Review article addresses the commission's concerns about damage to the infrastructure, electronics and reviews results of high altitude nuclear explosions from 1955-62. The US series of tests called Starfish Prime and Russian series, which includedTest 184, are specifically reviewed.

Butt breaks down three properties of a gamma ray burst from nuclear detonation and resultant pulse: E(1-3). E-1 and E-3 are most damaging to electronics, while properties of E-2 resemble lightning. A terrorist group could detonate a low yield nuclear device at an altitude of 40 to 100 km, which would be crippling to a nation's infrastructure and electronics. A low yield device would result in a pulse low in E-3 but still deliver sufficient E-1 energy to prove damaging. Today's electronics based on integrated circuits are one million times more vulnerable to pulse damage than the vacuum tubes used in the cold war era at the time of the high altitude nuclear detonations.

illuminati symbolism surrounding nrol-32 giant spy sat

Vigilant Citizen points out the symbolism right before our eyes. It's been on the dollar bill for how long? Official badges and insignias of the NROL-32 Mission, launched a week ago, scream illuminati symbolism!  The short piece is worth a look-see.

sumerians and the annunaki

The late Zecharia Sitchin, whose work includes 13 books on ancient astronauts, was featured in a short 1999 film, "Phenomenon--Lost Archives--Genesis Revisited".  It's a nice starting point for those interested in alternative theories of human origins. The present writer finds the much criticized work, which threatens current creation dogma, a rather compelling reframing of human history.  Sitchin established his theory from the gleanings of cylindrical seals from ancient Sumer. 

The theory is based on the existence of a 12th planet Niburu set in a highly eliptical orbit whose return crosses near the asteroid belt--every 3,600 years.  It was during one of these crossings Niburu collided with a planet, which displaced it into a new orbit, resulting in the present planet Earth and debris from the collision--the asteroid belt.  Niburu inhabited by an advanced human race, who stood nine feet tall, came to Earth after detecting gold there.  The gold was intended to repair breaches in Niburu's atmosphere in an attempt to save the planet.  Those sent to Earth to secure the gold came to be known as the Annunaki.  Mars became a way station.  The oppressive labor of mining in the Abzu, near present day Victoria Falls in southern Africa, resulted in protest.   They decided to create a primitive worker, the result of mixing their genes with the primitive Homo Erectus, called the Lullu, the one that is mixed. 

Sitchin remained critical of present theories of evolution by his references to the "endless beginning" of early man.  You can get to know the man by reading this New York Times article, from earlier this year, prior to Sitchin's passing in October.  It's an interesting theory of human origins and worth a look.

mission to dark side of moon by 2016?

Lockheed Martin engineers want to send astronauts into stationary orbit above the dark side of the Moon, according to recent article at www.dailymail.co.uk. The orbit attained with the combined gravity of the Earth and Moon at the second LaGrange point, making a stable synchronized orbit above the far side possible. This is the L-2 designation. They intend to use remote controlled rovers to probe the South Pole-Aitken basin. A second goal is deployment of a low-frequency radio telescope shielded from the Earth's radio noise. The six month mission would also measure the endurance of astronauts and equipment to space radiation as a warm up for a trip to Mars. The aerospace giant is selling its L-2 Farside Mission Orion (pdf) spacecraft as the right vehicle for the job. The mission could take place as early as 2016 with NASA's approval.

The South Pole-Aitken basin is one of the oldest, largest and deepest basins on the lunar surface. Scientists are interested in obtaining rock samples at the bottom of the basin in hopes of learning more about the moon's history and formation.

gary mckinnon extradition on hold?

Gary McKinnon, a cyber-cult hero, who hacked into Pentagon computers years ago, is nearing the end of his appeals to prevent his extradition from the UK.  The US military wants to make McKinnon an "anti-hacking poster boy" as Gary summarizes it.  "Every one of us has, at one time or another, fantasized about staying up all night, smoking weed and hacking into top-secret U.S. government computers," as Geoffrey Wansell writes in a recent Our Strange World article, "The UFO Hacker's Last Stand". You have to like the style.  McKinnon is, perhaps, even an anti-hero raging against the system.  The UFO hacker's extradition, at last check, is on hold due to a review of McKinnon's medical condition, Asperger's syndrome. What did he see:  lists of non-terrestrial ships and crew members, also, material on free energy. Let Gary tell you in his own words in a very cogent interview on hacking into Pentagon computers. McKinnon makes it sound easy just a software package such as Remotely Anywhere and a Perl script pasted into a hacking program to search for default passwords. Gary did this on a 28K modem connection!  Wow!  A person wonders what will ever come of this case since McKinnon's rearrest in 2005? There are efforts to defeat the extradition in the UK, one website is www.freegary.org.uk. A timeline of the UFO Hacker's saga is available here.

11/25 defcon: sick, switch, risks

US launches giant eavesdropping satellite*
govt focusing on cyber warfare, armed forces chief reveals*
study says wifi makes trees sick*
3rd eye: nyu artist gets camera implanted in head*
should obama's 'internet kill switch' power be curbed?*
cyber shopping poses fraud risks*
wikileaks diplomatic cable dump reportedly imminent*

stuxnet role in stoppage at natanz?

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report says uranium enrichment halted at Natanz facility in Iran on at least one day this month.  Space Daily website article, "Stuxnet could add to Iran's enrichment problems: experts" suggests it's experts' belief Stuxnet computer worm, which infected the facility's computer system months ago, may be contributing to stoppage?  Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies cites, on the other hand, chronic technical problems, "the Stuxnet malware appears to have contributed to these problems, but the P-1 centrifuges have intrinsic problems anyway."  Is this an early battle in cyberwarfare or just broken outmoded tech?

x-37b initial mission near end?

The Air Force's X-37B space plane may be near end of initial mission, reports CS Monitor article.  The spacecraft, also known as Orbital Test Vehicle 1, launched April 22nd and built for 270 day flights, suggests it may be on homestretch.  The mission of the secretive X-37B is still a subject of much speculation.  Ted Molczan, a veteran skywatcher, observes  "ground tracks that nearly repeat after two, three or four days have long been a feature of U.S. imaging reconnaissance satellites, which leads me to suspect that X-37B is carrying experimental sensors for that purpose". The spacecraft may be testing experimental sensors before they are placed on expensive satellites?  X-37B will land at Vandenberg AFB if the mission is completed as planned.

ancient knowledge of sirius b

An African tribe, the Dogon, may have possessed ancient knowledge of the white dwarf companion star, Sirius B, not discovered in contemporary times until 1978. The west African tribe is known for their cosmogony. A Daily Galaxy article reports the Dogon, who live in what is present day Mali, knew precise information of the Sirius star system for 3,000 to 4,000 years. Robert Temple, a Royal Astronomical Society fellow, read some of the material on Dogon cosmogony in the sixties and asked the question, "...how the isolated Dogon could have known for hundreds of years that Sirius, one of the brightest stars in the sky, has an invisible companion: Sirius B"? There are critics on whether information given to the Dogon was by a race of people from the Sirius star system, but there is evidence the Dogon were aware of the binary star for hundreds of years.

oregon senator wyden effectively kills internet censorship bill

from raw story: It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet.

A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor the Internet will not pass this year thanks to the Oregon Democrat, who announced his opposition during a recent committee hearing. Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation, in this case meaning proponents of the bill will be forced to reintroduce the measure and will not be able to proceed until the next Congress convenes.

Even then, its passage is not certain.

The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) would have permitted a blanket takedown of any domain alleged to be assisting activities that violate copyright law, based upon the judgment of state attorneys general.

"Deploying this statute to combat online copyright infringement seems almost like using a bunker-busting cluster bomb, when what you need is a precision-guided missile," Wyden said.

growing up digital, wired for distraction

from nytimes: On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer? By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” his summer reading assignment. But he has managed 43 pages in two months.

He typically favors Facebook, YouTube and making digital videos. That is the case this August afternoon. Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework.

On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.” Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.

myth: nazi ufo technology?

Polish artist Hubert Czerepok fascinated over the years by Nazi myths of Nazi UFOs, the Antartic base called New Swabia and the US Navy's unsuccessful 1946 Operation High Jump, explored his artistic concepts in an art exhibit, last year, in Peenemunde, Germany, where the V-2 rocket was developed on the Baltic coast.   "Myths Of Nazi UFO Technology" is a nice recap of the myths surrounding Nazism.  "He feels artists often occupy the gray area between fact and fiction.  As an artist, you are in a position to reconstruct things which did not exist, things which are not certain." Czerepok impressed by the detail of the information available on the flying discs, "according to believers, the disks were up to 71 meters (230 feet) in diameter and could reach speeds of up to 5,000 kilometers per hour (3,100 miles per hour"), so Czerepok attempts in his exhibit to deconstruct the myths. 

The peculiar structure above outside of the village of Nowa Ruba in Poland’s Owl Mountains , whose purpose remains a mystery, is of particular interest. “Some believe it was some kind of storage facility or an ammunition factory. Others believe it was used for an anti-gravity engine.”  Czerepok believes his exhibition is about history, some people view as science fiction and others historical facts. It’s open for all possible interpretations and different audiences.  Are the Nazi UFOs only comic book myths?

Do questions remain?  Why was the Antartic expedition Operation High Jump cut short?  What became of the detailed plans and models for the Nazi UFOs that grew out of the Haunebu project?   Was anti-grav tech taken underground into black ops?  There is, at least, one more Nazi myth Czerepok missed, which is the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the moon.  A new sci-fi movie, "Iron Sky" is in the beginning stages of production and will be based on the myth the Nazis return to invade the Earth in 2018?  Is there something more to the Nazi myths?

timeline of chinese censorship, cyber attacks

An article at "The Telgraph" provides a 21st Century timeline of censorship and cyber attacks by China. Cisco, a US networking company, sells 200 routers to China in 2003, which enables the government to censor internet traffic. In March 2009, Chinese government blocks You Tube after video showing police beating Tibetan Monks is posted. In June 2009, China requires all computers be equipped with Green Dam monitoring software, which creates a storm and plan dropped in August. The US begins testing tech to assist computer users in China and Iran to bypass firewalls. US explores "feed over email"(FOE) system to deliver news that evades web screening technology.

In December 2009, Chinese government offers 10,000 yuan reward for turning in websites that feature pornography.

In January 2010, China announces plan for compulsory registration of users' real names, before, anyone can make comments in chat rooms and other forums. Google threatens, also, in January, to pull out after attacks on its servers targeting gmail accounts of human rights activists.

In March 2010, Google redirects Chinese users to its uncensored Hong Kong site and shuts down its search engine in China.

In April 2010, China directs 15 percent of world internet traffic through is state-owned ISPs.

In November 2010,  US Congress warns hijacking of 15 percent of internet traffic, in April, may have been malicious.

mystery contrail was from chinese missile

Two military experts say "the billowing plume emanated from a single source nozzle of a missile, probably made in China". World Net Daily (WND) article "Experts: Mystery contrail was from Chinese missile" by Joseph Farah offers more expert opinions on the plume spotted last week off the coast of California. Wayne Madsen, a former naval officer is quoted, "...isn't the first time U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare sensors have failed." Dr. Lyle J. Rapacki of Sentinel Intelligence Services, LLC, states in article the decision to attribute all the excitement to an airplane's contrail, could only come from the commander-in-chief! WND provides an audio version of the article as well.

launch of x-37b revisited

David Axe writes in "US Starting Asia Space Race?" April 22nd launch of X-37B robotic spacecraft into orbit by US Air Force counters China's anti-satellite capability and goes a step further. "The X-37B, built by Boeing, could also be used to spy on and even disable other nations’ satellites, all without them necessarily knowing that it’s even happening."

Eric Sterner, a Washington-based analyst, says, "the smoke probably exceeds the fire." Sterner believes most likely the spacecraft will be used to put satellites into orbit more cheaply. Russia, China and India find the inspection capabilities of the X-37B most worrisome. The US defied a consensus among the other countries by launching the 30 foot long craft. Further, the US is the only nation with the ability to comprehensively track foreign spacecraft, which clearly gives the US a tactical advantage.

The Air Force's intentions aside, the X-37B with its satellite inspection capability represents an escalation of the space race with China. Finally, since the launch, the X-37B changes orbits frequently and evades tracking by amateur spotters, which only adds to the speculation about its celestial activities!

US fingers china for cyber-jacking internet traffic

Should the incident be called eighteen minutes in April? Guardian.co.uk article reports China Telecom, a state owned company, had access to emails from NASA and US Army for a brief time earlier this year. The access could be used for malicious activities by China. China Telecom denies any hijacking. According to an annual security report, "the US report said that some 15% of global internet traffic was routed through Chinese servers earlier this year, prompting worries....US commissioner Larry Wortzel raised concerns on Wednesday that China would now 'get the internet addresses of everybody that communicated' with the US armed services' chiefs of staff... Online security experts say the capture represents 'one of the biggest hijacks' of sensitive information in the history of the internet." Is this a volley in a mounting cyberwar of finger-pointing between the two countries?

end of the internet as we know it?

US Senate Committee in a lame duck Congressional session passed recently the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, calls it an 'internet censorship bill'. "Clearly this was funded by media cartels, but this has a lot more to do with Internet censorship as it does about copyright infringement," says Activist Post entry.

In "Stop the Internet Blacklist", Rhode Island State Representative David Segal writes: "COICA creates two blacklists of Internet domain names. Courts could add sites to the first list; the Attorney General would have control over the second. Internet service providers and others (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the first list. They would also receive immunity (and presumably the good favor of the government) if they block domains on the second list." Welcome to the Brave New World!

11/18 defcon: extra staff & virtual property

fbi brass ask google, facebook to expand wiretaps*
google vp issues stark internet warning*
youtube hiring extra staff to tackle al-qaeda videos*
state-led cyberterror set to rise: report*
gates: huge threat of cyber attack*
cyber experts have proof china hijacked US-based internet traffic*
searching for news is riskier than searching for porn, study says*
man made 1/2-a-mil on virtual property*
x-37b secret US space plane may be too mysterious*

when cyber command pulls the plug?

dead drops: when cybercom pulls the net
Is there a dead drop in your future when Cyber Command pulls the plug on the net? Aram Bartholl suggests a how-to build an offline network using those old usb flash drives around the house. 'Dead Drops' is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. It's 21st Century ingenuity and coolness all at once! Please check out the Dead Drops video on You Tube and add your dead drop to the list of locations and make your .pdf for the time when the net is no longer at your fingertips. There are dead drops in Melbourne, Paris, Ontario, New York and Germany.

x-ray flares illuminate huge object near sun

Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA video reveals a very large solid object at close proximity to the Sun. The sphere is clearly visible near mid-line on the left side at 5-8 seconds and 33-34 seconds as the Sun rotates past and flares illuminate area. It appears to be a solid planet-like object? The Big Wobble reports the object stayed motionless for weeks! It is captivating to watch!

selling haarp to the pentagon

Noah Shachtman writes, in a Wired article online, "Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames", a superficial tale at times of how HAARP arrived at its full potential 30 acres full of antennas a "bionic forest" able to inject 3.6 megawatts of energy into the ionosphere*. The article redeems itself by providing nuggets of fact not seen elsewhere. Bernard Eastlund, a physicist who worked for Atlantic Richfield, an oil company with rights to natural gas under the North Slope, suggested using the gas to power an ionospheric heater in the mid-eighties, instead of worrying about the logistics of delivering the commodity to port. Radio scientists liked the idea of a new heater in Alaska. "In those upper latitudes, the ionosphere intersects with Earth's magnetic field and becomes scientifically interesting." The late former Senator Ted Stevens made room for federal funding of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in the late eighties.

The selling point to win the Pentagon's favor is the idea ultralow-frequency waves could knock electrons out of their natural spin, sending them tumbling to the lower atmosphere. This would protect satellites theoretically, who are vulnerable to nuclear explosion. The research could only be done at the HAARP facility. "You could actually see the lightbulb flick on," says Ed Kennedy, a former Haarp program manager. "This was something Haarp could actually help solve." There is, also, a 30-page pdf file linked in the article, HAARP Joint Services Program Plans and Activities (1990), which is very readable and interesting!

*(Please note, Brooks Agnew, a physicist, while searching for oil in Oregon in the eighties, identified what was below ground with high accuracy with just 30 watts of radio power.)

nasa may have found remnants of black hole at galactic center

from technoccult: NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50k lightyears and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized blackhole at the center of our galaxy... One possibility includes a particle jet from the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. In many other galaxies, astronomers see fast particle jets powered by matter falling toward a central blackhole. While there is no evidence the Milky Way’s black hole has such a jet today, it may have in the past. The bubbles also may've formed as a result of gas outflows from a burst of star formation, perhaps the one that produced many massive star clusters in the Milky Way's center several million yrs ago.

related update: nasa schedules press conference regarding shuttle woes (nov22 at johnson space center *wink*)

operation argus

Operation Argus may seem an oddity, but an article at Air & Space Smithsonian, "Oldies & Oddities: Homebuilt Radiation Belt", makes clear it still has implications today. Nicholas Christofilos, a greek elevator engineer turned nuclear physicist, often referred to as "the Crazy Greek", theorized how a shield could be artificially made by nuclear explosions. "He suggested that an atomic explosion in space could generate a vast flux of electrons, which would form a shell of energy over Earth, a phenomenon that became known as the 'Christofilos effect.'"

Christofilos's theory resulted in Lockheed X-17A three-stage missiles, carrying 1.7-kiloton warheads being fired from the USS Norton Sound in the south Atlantic on August 27, 30 and September 6th, 1958. "The electron belts created by the experiments were too weak and transitory to do much damage to enemy missiles that would pass through them at thousands of miles per hour." The research proved disappointing and possibly a source for Christofilos's nickname.

Fifty years later, strategists are revisiting the research and the Crazy Greek doesn't seem quite so crazy. The article concludes even a rogue state could launch a low yield nuke and detonate it over its territory, creating a Christofilos effect to cripple satellites of technically superior rivals! You may enter the Cold War-Era of Dr. Strangelove by viewing Operation Argus 1958 vintage Atomic Bomb Film on You Tube.

nasa says solar flare will strike earth nov 14 or 15

Sunspot 1123 hurled a C-4 class solar flare in the Earth's direction just south of the Sun-Earth line, sometime, in the early hours of Nov. 12, 2010. The coronal mass ejection (CME) could glance off the Earth's magnetic field on either Nov. 14th or Nov. 15th to create auroras. Full article is at Before It's News. "Earlier last week, active sunspot 1121 has unleashed one of the brightest x-ray solar flares in years, an M5.4-class eruption at 15:36 UT on Nov. 6th." Please follow link to brief You Tube video of sunspot 1121. A C-4 class solar flare is of mediocre strength. Present observer finds prevalence of news on solar flares curious.

mystery missile may have been an errant launch?

Los Angeles Times article suggests, according to aerospace experts, mystery missile "...appeared to be an errant missile launch." The article from last Tuesday reported Pentagon's cryptic response to the fiery incident, "...[Pentagon] officials said the event was not a threat to national security. They also said it was not a launch by a foreign military... Each branch of the military has denied involvement..." Aerospace experts "...believe it originated near Naval Air Station Point Mugu in Ventura County, where missiles and missile defense exercises are regularly carried out... The military also operates a floating ocean platform and regularly carries out tests at San Nicolas Island, one of the Channel Islands." Aeropace experts shared their opinion after viewing the video on what could have been the source of the plume, "...a large military rocket or missile." An errant missile launch is a possibility.

michael rivero: mystery missile US live fire test

Michael Rivero of WhatReallyHappened.com, in his article "Chinese Missile Sub Launch? No, Probably US Live Tests", wants to put a stop to Chinese sub rumor. Rivero points to a Notice to Mariners booklet on page 55, which contains a reference to missile tests in the area. The talk show host believes Monday's missile sighting off the California coast, was likely a live fire missile test by the US military. The article makes points to dispel idea of a Chinese missile launch, perhaps, the strongest is the flat response of the US military. "The Navy did not act like the source of the missile was unknown to them." Rivero goes on about a dubious source seeding the rumor of a Chinese nuclear sub over the blogosphere and believes, "...'Chinese sub' story is being planted to give the US Government a scapegoat when they come back from the G20 with their tails between their legs." Again, the mind reels digesting the offered explanations and must ask which story is the psyop?

11/11 defcon: brain drain & smart viruses

'vendetta' hacker strikes washington state u*
fcc probing google wi-fi spy scandal*
google's brain drain - employee fired for leaking pay raise info*
'cyber europe 2010' proves successful stress test for public bodies*
new cyber attack linked to fake nobel prize email*
smart viruses threaten global peace*
congresswoman says chance of cyber attack against electric grid is 100%*
oregonhumane.org: lure kittens to play online with (computer) mice*

wayne madsen: china fired mystery missile

Infowars.com article "Wayne Madsen: China Fired Missile Seen in Southern California" reveals a Chinese nuclear sub most likely traversed a course from its base on south side of Hainan island along South Pacific, where US anti-submarine capabilities are not as strong, to arrive in international waters off of coast of Southern California. KCBS news helicopter cameraman Gil Leyvas, at around 5:00 pm Pacific Standard Time Monday, videotaped the missile plume directly off coast of Los Angeles. "WMR (Wayne Madsen Report) has learned that the missile was likely a JL-2 ICBM, which has a range of 7,000 miles, and was fired in a northwesterly direction over the Pacific and away from U.S. territory from a Jin class submarine. The Jin class can carry up to twelve such missiles... Navy sources have revealed that the missile may have impacted on Chinese territory and that the National Security Agency (NSA) likely possesses intercepts of Chinese telemetry signals during the missile firing and subsequent testing operations." Missile firing follows another incident during military maneuvers in South China Sea, where a Chinese Song Class sub surfaced within firing range of US carrier Kitty Hawk.. The Chinese sub evaded detection by surrounding US ships, running on nearly silent electric motors. The two incidents make strong statements about Chinese capabilities. It seems, a world war draws ever closer?

mystery missile from chinese property at sea?

Monday's mystery missile launch off the coast of California is still generating rumors.   What's circulating in the ether is less than reassuring!  Doug Hagmann writes in, "Of missiles & money -- don't ask, won't tell" at Canada Free Press,  "according to one source within the Pentagon, many of the top brass were in unscheduled, high level meetings throughout the day... The rumors circulating 'within the [Pentagon] rings' suggest that it was a deliberate launch of a missile from "Chinese property at sea" intended as a warning to the U.S." The article seems a commentary on the sad state of economic affairs in the United States as the author wasn't certain what was meant by "Chinese property"? Hagmann adds with a touch of black humor, "I can only assume that it did not originate from Catalina Island or U.S. military ships in the area, as we still own those, at least to my knowledge." Is it Sun Tzu 101?

missile launch off california coast a show of force?

Robert Ellsworth, former Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Ford Administration, speculates on mystery missile launch off coast of California.  Ellsworth offers, maybe, it's a show of force?   Ellsworth solicited for his opinion as reported by KCBS, seems to entertain possibility--with Obama in Asia.  The former ambassador to NATO  compares Monday evening's display to similar launches in the Atlantic, which have occurred  in the past for the benefit of Russia.  "It's a big missile...a test firing of a intercontinental ballistic missile from an underwater submarine, to demonstrate mainly to Asia, we can do that."  A display of force is less insulting to the reader's intelligence than other lame explanations served up for public consumption such as sophisticated amateur rocketeers or an airliner contrail's distorted appearance due to distance and the horizon's proximity! Is the display meant to acclimate the public to unannounced launches--so similar incidents no longer, as the octogenarian Ellsworth observed, "...takes your breath away"?

cyber command seeks to expand battefield

Gen. Keith B Alexander, NSA Director and Cyber Command chief, seeks to go "full spectrum" with offensive measures in cyberspace. Cyber Command reached full operational status just within the past month, looks to push boundaries according to Washington Post article.  "But current and former officials say that senior policymakers and administration lawyers want to limit the military's offensive computer operations to war zones such as Afghanistan, in part because the CIA argues that covert operations outside the battle zone are its responsibility and the State Department is concerned about diplomatic backlash." Does this mark the twilight of the internet as we've known it these past few years?

conspiracy theory area 51

Conspiracy Theory Area 51 episode with Jesse Ventura provides little known facts about the secret base in Nevada's desert. Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) director Clifford Clift believes there are approximately a dozen alien spacecraft in human hands. Area 51 has thirty levels below ground and most employees fly in from Las Vegas daily. There's also reference to the Area 51 Lawsuit filed by attorney Jonathan Turley for employees exposed to toxic substances, which resulted in the public learning more about the secret base. Randall Fitzgerald, a former editor at Reader's Digest, makes perhaps the biggest impression, when he relates witnesses reported "a wavy distortion in the sky" during the 1997 Phoenix Lights phenomenon. This account of the UFO(s) over Phoenix transits the episode into entirely different direction, following a psyop theme. Fitzgerald adds documents were declassified not long after the event, admitting the government deceived the American people about UFOs, encouraging the belief. Fitzgerald wonders if the lights were holographic in nature, i.e., planes equipped with holographic projection equipment and makes clear the source, in his belief, is Area 51? Your mind reels, asking yourself, which is the psyop?

nasa believes once-in-a-century solar flare overdue

Telegraph.co.uk article, "Airline frequent fliers 'radiation poisoning risks' from space 'solar flare' storm activity", presents risk to airline pilots and frequent fliers of radiation exposure and cancer risk from a big solar storm while flying at 40,000 feet the equivalent of dozens of x-rays at once. "NASA scientists believe the earth is facing danger from a once-in-a-century 'solar flare', a disturbance on the Sun's surface that could cause geomagnetic storms on this planet... One in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system and many scientists believe another is overdue." The scientific community raises concerns as the solar system approaches the galactic ecliptic. An increase in solar activity seems plausible as the greatest mass in the galaxy is around the ecliptic and increased gravitational pull on the sun may be expected. Is it also predictive programming?

jack blood reports on false alarm or drill gone live?

Jack Blood reports on shooting at NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park, Ohio next to the Cleveland Airport on his Deadline Live Nov. 5, 2010 broadcast. Blood adds alleged shooting was quickly amended to a false alarm and all clear broadcast over the base's public announcement system by 11:50am, Friday.

There were reports at 9:50 am of a man with a gun in Building 77 and of shots fired. Building 77 was placed on lockdown. Local ambulances and SWAT teams were dispatched to the base. The false alarm was, later, announced by officials as caused by a message sent in error to someone at Glenn meant for an employee at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where a test (drill?) was in progress. "An employee at NASA Glenn with the same last name as a person at the other center mistakenly received a call at about 9:30 a.m. from an automated system with the message that there 'is a shooter in the building'. The employee did not realize it was a test."

Blood jumps on the similarities to the Fort Hood Shooting and rightfully so, exactly one year ago! Blood asks, "could the same thing have happened?" You have to ask, "how far did the drill go?" We will never know! Two days earlier, there was a similar incident at Vandenberg AFB. It's a sad commentary that nearly everyone misses these reports, present writer included, and fail to see the similarities right down to the dates! It's a tip of the hat to Jack Blood!

canals on mars?

Cecil Adams wrote "Whatever Happened to the Canals of Mars?", as a response to the popular myth.  Adams believes the lines spotted on the planet were an optical illusion.  In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer, was first to widely circulate observations of  "canali" which means channels in Italian.  The English translation of Schiaparelli's work became canals, implying a source of higher intelligence however. "This idea was taken up a few years later by the amateur American astronomer Percival Lowell, who had built an observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell made detailed observations of Mars and published several popular books about the planet, notably Mars and Its Canals (1903), which included elaborate maps of the canals and outlined the theory that they were waterways used for irrigation."

 Lowell is the principal source for the longevity of the myth with Lowell's 1909 map of Mars.  Adams concludes the Mariner 9 satellite, which took close up pictures of Mars in 1971, dispelled once and for all "the canals myth" as an illusion, but at the same time, refers to many channels formed by some liquid that appear to be of natural origin.  Adams, an obvious debunker, brutally concludes his response with throwaway lines, "...the old theory that one of the Martian moons is an artificial satellite is out the window, too. As for that business in recent years about a "face" on Mars … please, let's say no more." 

Pictures taken by telescope of Mars such as this one by the Air Force as recent as 1962 along with a mapping history of the Red Planet can be found at the Planetary Blog.  The pictures would seem to push the idea of canals at least into the sixties as the present writer remembers?  Were the Mariner program pictures air brushed (no Photoshop) and why only map projections shown in this blog, which distort the planet's surface? The blog states the inelegant map projection is great for storing data but makes features far less apparent!  Is the Red Planet really red or a tint added? Do you trust NASA?  Please move along there is nothing to see here!

11/4 defcon: cybercom, holograms & chatbot

it begins: military's cybercom is fully operational*
military ready for war in cyberspace*
russia to wikileaks: we could break you*
china takes supercomputing lead*
myanmar hacked before election*
denver voters reject tracking space aliens*
insider claims US govt funds 'the event'*
groups fear huge health database*
hologram messaging coming of age*
prize-winning chatbot steers the conversation*
'internet of things' is on the way*

large hadron collider 'set to create a mini-big bang'

from bbc: Since 2009, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter. But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead. The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks.

The LHC is housed in a 27km-long tunnel on the Franco-Swiss border and is managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern). The collider consists of four different experiments and one of them, ALICE, has been specifically designed to smash together lead ions.

The goal of these collisions is to investigate what the infant Universe looked like. Colliding protons at high energies was aimed at other aspects of physics, such as finding the elusive Higgs boson particlesupersymmetry and signs of new physical laws, such as a framework called.

Cern's spokesman James Gillies told BBC News that besides ALICE, the ATLAS and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments will also be temporarily colliding ions.

how secure is your vote?

J. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan computer scientist, helped produce ten minute video demo of vote flipping in Diebold machine, some time ago.  Halderman made a name for himself by accepting  the DC area internet voting challenge just last month to test security of internet voting.  The computer scientist led team took control in a matter of hours of most of the voting system, including database username, password and encryption key. Halderman, who believes it's virtually impossible to make internet voting secure, changed all votes and installed a backdoor to surveil votes cast after the attack.   A vote-hacking hero for our times is born and hats off to Professor Halderman!

vote flipping in fort wayne, in

Indiana voter selected straight Republican ticket on voting machine but when checking ballot, showed marked all Democrat. "He called over an election judge, who reset the machine, which then worked correctly. The viewer tells us he was then able to vote the way he wanted." It just goes to show how easy and innocent fraud may look on the surface! How many voters are too hurried to double-check? Rumor has vote fraud leaning towards benefiting democrats this political season, possibly, making up for lost ground in past elections? A brief article and video are available at www.indiananewscenter.com.