activist post erased: internet censorship or cybermetrics psyop?

Was the removal of Activist Post (AP), a week ago, only an attempt at clumsy internet censorship? The website released a statement regarding its takedown. The following response from Blogger, who hosts Activist Post, was provided: "I'm an engineer on blogger. I'd like to apologise on behalf of the team for the removal of activistpost.com. The removal was caused by an automated process, and we restored the blog as soon as the issue was brought to our attention." New World Next Week (NWNW) provides a great take on AP's takedown, beginning at 10:50 mark of broadcast - a must see! NWNW suggests a relationship with growth of internet as a news source and apparent censorship of AP, a popular alternative news site! Could it also be a cybermetrics psyop to measure support of alternative media?

9/29 defcon: cookies, retention & a heavenly palace

facebook tracks you even after logging out*

australian tech expert discovers faCIAbook cookies*
facebook to form its own political action committee*
after outcry, onstar backing down on vehicle data collection*
'retention periods of major cellular service providers':
secret memo reveals verizon stores your data the longest*
state dept employee faces firing for posting wikileaks link*
manning & assange nominated for nobel peace prize*
video: anonymous hacktivists go hip-hop*
video: ice official who 'fights' child porn arrested for it*
sun unleashes two massive x-class solar flares*
earth in cross-hairs of huge solar storm caused by sunspot 1302?*
'heavenly palace 1': china set to launch its own space station; mission: unknown*

net neutrality rules published, lawsuits soon to follow

from threat level: The FCC has finally officially published long-delayed rules prohibiting cable, DSL and wireless internet companies from blocking websites and requiring them to disclose how they slow down or throttle their networks. The so-called Net Neutrality rules (.pdf), passed along party lines in late December last year in a 3-2 vote, were published in the Federal Register Friday and will go into effect on November 20.

update: free press files lawsuit on fcc's net neutrality rules*

uars located without space agency assist

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) final resting spot located! Satellite retrieval was quick by "Men In Black" without personal injury or radiation exposure, in other words, no liability to NASA. You Tube video, "NASA Satellite Falls On Car," seems as factual and much more entertaining than the space agency's press release. Clyde Lewis is right, NASA should be called down over misleading reports released by agency about UARS reentry! "It's unlikely anyone actually observed reentry," offers Nick Johnson, chief scientist for orbital debris, in their video press release. Was there a liability concern over plutonium aboard satellite? Or, was it just a psyop to get us to look up in the sky but for what? The only obvious conclusion were the lies offered up by NASA for public consumption!

moon to have 'no-fly zones' by october?

from thehindu.com: According to Science, by the end of this month NASA is expected to come up with a set of “recommendations” for spacecraft and astronauts visiting the “U.S. government property on the moon.” Of course, these recommendations will not be legally binding as the 1967 Outer Space Treaty makes it clear that the lunar surface has no owner. Despite the lack of ownership, NASA is hopeful that other countries will respect the U.S. sentiments. Incidentally, the restriction list contains more than the historical sites. For instance, the list includes studying discarded food and abandoned astronaut faeces.

iss streaming time-lapse view of flying over the earth!

"A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica." A satellite makes an appearance at 55 sec, if you can spot it. It's an experience!

asteroid 4 vesta: factoids and vestoids

Asteroid 4 Vesta is the brightest object in the Asteroid belt, sometimes, viewable with the naked eye. German Astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered Vesta, on March 29, 1807, the fourth "minor planet" as they were called to be detected after Ceres, Pallas and Juno. Olbers gave honor of naming Vesta to mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. In mythology, Vesta is goddess of the hearth and sister to Ceres.

Vesta has a differentiated interior with a crust and mantle, as a result, classified a protoplanet. The asteroid's dark regions reveal basaltic areas a direct result of lava flow. Astronomers believe Vesta's close proximity to Jupiter and the giant neighbor's gravitational pull, possibly, prevented further development into a full planet.
Vesta is surrounded by small asteroids (Vestoids), possibly, due to a collision with another heavenly body as evidenced by the large crater at the asteroid's South Pole. Vestoids have reached Earth. Other Vesta factoids are listed below:

330 mile diameter

5 hour and 20 minute day and 3.6 year orbit around Sun.

over 200 million miles from the Sun

An excellent Space.com article provides more facts about Vesta and its formation. One last factoid: Richard C Hoagland believes Vesta also has ruins on it!

living in a radioactive world: c.h.u.d.

Is predictive programming as significant as so often stressed? Alan Watt gives a concise view of role played by predictive programming and its recognized importance since the time of Plato. Watt also makes clear Hollywood's (the Magus' holy wood) primary role in the process. A review of C.H.U.D., a 1984 B-grade flick, seems prophetic - or just predictive - when its storyline of corrupt officials who dispose of radioactive waste in a clandestine program dubbed, "Contamination Hazard Underground Disposal," seems uncomfortably close to our present reality!

Wayne Madsen adds several new tie-ins to our nuclear dilemma in a recent Opinion Maker article. Madsen just blows readers away in an expose of dark world of black ops and nuclear smuggling, which ties the death of CIA asset Roland "Tony" Carnaby on the streets of Houston, TX in 2008 to the movement of plutonium out of the United States. The Opinion Maker article describes Israel's need to ramp up old smuggling networks, as a result, of an equipment failure at their Dimona facility in the 1990s. Israel located target by tapping US government networks through AMDOCS, an Israeli communications company. The Pantex nuclear facility near Amarillo possesses high grade plutonium, which Israeli smugglers trucked and shipped out through the Port of Houston.

Carnaby determined through video surveillance of the port, the Israeli operation shipped more than needed to replace Dimona's lost production. The Israelis were selling plutonium on the black market to Japan! Japan discovered, in turn, they were stiffed by paying top dollar for old plutonium, which provided them with only short-lived nuclear weapons! The Japanese planned on blowing the whistle, but Israel and the United States set Stuxnet to work that resulted in Fukushima disaster! Wow! C.H.U.D. made viewers familiar with high corruption and an expectation of nuclear crimes with radioactive fallout!

'faster than light' particles may be physics revolution

from reuters: Leading scientists said on Friday the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos if independently confirmed. Jeff Forshaw, a professor of particle physics at Britain's Manchester University, told Reuters the results if confirmed would mean it would be possible in theory to "send information into the past... In other words, time travel into the past would become possible...(though) that does not mean we'll be building time-machines anytime soon."

9/22 defcon: secure boot & game transfer phenomena

onstar tracks your car even when you cancel service*
windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' linux*
comcast's $9.99 internet for low-income families goes nationwide*
what will video games be like in a few decades?*
video games intruding on reality: 'game transfer phenomena'*

denver drill 'operation mountain guardian' near elenin alignment dates

from the intel hub: On Friday September 23rd, a large scale terrorism drill involving 81 agencies will take place in Denver, Colorado. The drill, made possible by a FEMA Homeland Security grant, has been dubbed “Operation Mountain Guardian” and will include military personal. Residents have been warned to expect loud noises and smoke as well as many different emergency and military vehicles.

The fact that most major terror attacks have coincided with “drills” used to confuse and distract first responders not privy to the inside plan has been heavily documented, with the 7/7 attacks in London and 9/11 attacks in New York City being prime examples.

Due to how close this drill is with a documented Elenin alignment date(whether or not you think Elenin will cause destruction or not, the alignment is confirmed by NASA) speculation has run rampant over whether or not this drill will either go live to distract from the 27th or be used to plan for the disaster that will be caused on that day.

This full scale terrorism simulation is planned just 4 days before the much talked about and feared Elenin alignment date. Elenin will apparently be in exact alignment with the Sun, Mercury, and Earth. Past Elenin alignments, though heavily debated, do seem to correlate with major earthquakes around the world. It should also be noted that the idea that comet alignments can cause 6+ earthquakes seems to have been proven multiple times yet mainstream science continues to ignore this valuable warning tool.

Coincidentally, NASA is currently in Denver holding a new exhibit related to the International Space Station and space based research. NASA, an agency started by Nazi party members secretly brought to American under a once top secret program called Operation Paperclip, has a long history of corruption, cover ups, and outright deceptions.

Further adding to the mystery and conspiracy is the fact that President Barack Obama is scheduled to be in Denver on September 27, 2011. What are the chances that 4 days after a full scale terrorism drill and on the day of a major alignment, the president of The United States will be in a city known for its secret bases and eerie symbology?

Strangely enough, leaders throughout the world are on or will be on recess during this alignment date. Do these world leaders as well as U.S. officials know something that most of the public is completely unaware of?

A report originating from Sorcha Faal claims that the real reason for Obama’s Denver trip is his plan to oversee a DEFCON1 'Cocked Pistol' maximum readiness drill.

alien invasion imminent? summer sees a spike in ufo sightings

ufo sightings ramp-up as government plans staged invasion?*
from pcmag: Is an alien invasion imminent? The past six weeks have seen a spike in UFO sightings in the United States, according to an organization that tracks reports of unidentified flying objects. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) reports that there were 1,013 such sightings in August, up from an average of about 500 per month nationwide. "It's pretty exciting," Clifford Clift, the international director of MUFON, told Life's Little Mysteries last week. "[T]hat's an interesting spike in sighting reports."

bluebeam flashback:
tv fakery, holographic projections & audio spotlights*

christian newswire update:
hubble discovery confirms god created the universe*

defunct uar sat: friday est. reentry

The 6.5-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, projected to fall back to Earth on Friday, reports the Telegraph. UARS carried into orbit in 1991 by the Space Shuttle, operated for 14 years, collecting measurements of ozone and other chemicals in atmosphere. NASA believes 26 parts are large enough to survive reentry somewhere over North or South America. A 6.5 ton object would jump start any space junk recovery business, where's our Fred Sanford of Space?

china on the cyberattack!

Is it the law of the jungle or just payback? China internet buzz set off rumors of cyberattacks on Japan commemorating, on Sept 18th, 80th anniversary of the Manchurian Incident.

The Telegraph article reports: "the attacks took place on Saturday and Sunday... and affected the sites of the National Personnel Authority, the Cabinet Office and a government video distribution service...Hackers also targeted Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., which has admitted that computers and servers at eight of its plants across the country had been compromised." Is China turning predator, jumping on a weakened foe and who is next?

how a troubled wv lawyer foisted a 'teen anal nightmare' on the nation

from arstechnica: In September 2010, West Coast Productions—maker of such films as Teen Anal Nightmare 2 and Juicy White Anal Booty 4—paired up with West Virginia lawyer Ken Ford to file a set of mass lawsuits against online file-sharers. Ford was the brains behind the Adult Copyright Company, which promised to help the porn industry cash in on the epidemic of piracy. His business model involved suing thousands of people at once in "Doe" copyright infringement lawsuits, even though the defendants lived all over the country, the film producer was in California, and the court was in West Virginia. After filing suit, Ford would try to turn lists of IP addresses collected from BitTorrent into real names and addresses, then attempted to settle each case for a few thousand dollars each.

sony forces gamers to promise they won't sue en-masse for hacks

from threat level: After being spectacularly hacked multiple times earlier this year, Sony has decided it’s tired of being sued for its security failures and other issues and is requiring gamers on its Play Station Network to sign an agreement saying they won’t join class-action lawsuits to take the tech giant to court in the future.

Sony quietly updated its terms of service (.pdf) last week to require online gamers to agree to waive their right to any class-action lawsuit in order to log in to their network accounts. Updates to the 21-page, 10,000-word agreement would force current and new players alike to take any grievances to an arbitrator instead. An exclusion exists for disputes that would normally be filed and resolved in small-claims court.

Players have 30 days after signing the agreement to void the arbitration agreement and retain their right to file a class-action lawsuit, but only if they send a letter to Sony, via regular post, asserting they do not consent to the arbitration clause.

fifties finest sci-fi movie doubleheader

You think you have problems? Take in fifties finest sci-fi doubleheader and forget your own worries! Ray Harryhausen supplies special effects in 1956 film, "Earth vs the Flying Saucers," starring Hugh Marlowe. Humans misunderstand and fire upon aliens, who are monitoring Project Skyhook, which leads to retaliation and full scale invasion! Wouldn't an alien invasion make you forget your own difficulties? Didn't a President from Hollywood express a similar sentiment? In the 1953 film, "It Came From Outer Space," plot has humans assisting aliens until their malfunctioning craft is repaired.  The movie stars Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush. The quaint mood music of these films seems enchanting at this remote date!  Wikipedia entries for both movies, here and here, add to their enjoyment. Admission is free!

soyuz lands safely, rattles nerves

from ap: A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station touched down safely Friday in the central steppes of Kazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after a breakdown in communications. NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev landed some 93 miles southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan at 10 a.m. local time after 164 days in space.

comet elenin 2011 video roundup

Elenin videos abound on You Tube many are well-done. You may await your fate, on the autumnal equinox, by watching videos. "Comet Elenin is coming (2011)", "Comet 2010X1, Elenin, 3Day Eclipse!!!! Urgent!!!!", "Comet Elenin Update"  and "Comet Elenin on Swiss Bank Note and MORE!!!" are set to music, entertaining and all under five minutes.

elenin and three days of darkness prophecy

Will there be three days of darkness as in Bible prophecy? Is September 25 - 27 alignment of Comet Elenin a fit? A You Tube video asks whether the comet's 40 million mile wide tail, can reflect enough sunlight, to leave Earth in darkness? The video asserts not since the time of Moses has such an event occurred! It seems, a little comet hysteria crept into the discourse, as in 1910, Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet. David Morrison, NASA astrobiologist and their chief debunker, calls idea silly a comet blocking out the Sun. A recent post at the Miracles and Prophecies website, includes idea, object's gaseous tail may contain deadly hydrogen cyanide. The poison gas will fan over the planet as Earth passes through its tail! We'll meet our fate, soon enough, in less than two weeks!

elenin extravaganza: next window sept 22 - oct 1

A weekend Elenin extravaganza begins with 9Nania's forecasts, who made her name with 3-9 forecast two days ahead of Japan's 3/11 quake. A fan compilation of 9Nania greatest hits can be viewed here. A recent video takes viewer step by step through previous Elenin alignments, dating to Feb. 27, 2010, which coincided with Chile quake. The ten year researcher observes quakes and pole shifts occur during spring and fall alignments (approx. every 188 days), she also suspects a large dark object following behind Elenin. The most recent prediction of a quake to coincide with fall alignment, did occur in Fiji on Sept. 15th. 9Nania warns of window from Sept. 22 to Oct. 1 because of next alignment with Elenin (pictured). Obama's scheduled visit to Denver on Sept. 26th, may be to seek shelter under Denver International Airport in Deep Underground Military Base there, according to 9Nania, who also points to NASA now projecting reentry burn of large decommissioned satellite in the same time frame. 9Nania has her detractors, but anyone with a rational facility, wants to consider coincidences between alignments and quakes!

george van tassel and the integratron

The UFO conventions in Roswell, NM are popular and well-known, but few know about the  UFO Spacecraft Conventions held at Giant Rock in CA. George Van Tassel , a contactee, hosted conventions there from the 50s through mid-70s. In 1959, ten thousand UFO enthusiasts braved desert heat to attend, which seems remarkable today.

An article by Kathy Doore at labyrinthina.com provides insight into Van Tassel's contacts. "On August 21, 1953, a ship from Venus landed and a man wearing a jumpsuit stood at the foot of his sleeping bag, announcing I am Solganda, and I would be pleased to show you my craft...He [Van Tassel] was taken on a tour of the ship and told that he had been chosen to bring a message of peace and interplanetary brotherhood to his fellow earthlings. He was shown the principals of cell rejuvenation which later led to the creation of The Integratron." Van Tassel wrote "I Rode a Flying Saucer" (pdf download) as a result of his experiences.

The very existence of The Integratron and Giant Rock Airport , located in the Mojave Desert near Landers, CA, depend upon a chance encounter of an eccentric "prospector", Frank Critzer, who sought car repair at the garage of Van Tassel's uncle circa 1930 in Santa Monica. George and his Uncle impressed by Critzer's intelligence "grubstaked" the would-be prospector with money and a trunk full of canned goods with the promise of a share of future claims.

"The prospector" ventured to Giant Rock and carved out 400 square ft of living space beneath it and graded a runway. Critzer, an enigma and suspected Nazi sympathizer, met a violent end in 1942, when - as legend has it - law enforcement threw a tear gas canister into the dwelling space and set off a cache of dynamite! Van Tassel later rented the area from the government, in the late forties, opening a restaurant and reopening the airport. Van Tassel, who worked for Lockheed, Douglas and Hughes Aircraft in the thirties and forties, along with the curious Critzer seem characters worthy of further examination. Is it perhaps a psyop?

There is a rare interview circa 1964 of Van Tassel on You Tube. UFO researcher Greg Bishop interviews Barbara Harris on Radio Misterioso, who chronicled local history of Giant Rock and the Integratron. Bishop has also written about the Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions here. Giant Rock proves as fascinating as Roswell with many stories in its past.

9/15 defcon: virgin, havoc & white space

virgin aims for first space launch within a year*

US military plane forced to land after north korean electronic attack in march*
netflix for books? amazon is considering*
cry #havoc! and let slip the tweets of war*
white space database system, would manage unlicensed broadband devices, to face its first trial*
google purchases big blue patents to defend android*
twin towers on mars*

hacker ring appears to make good on promise to expose celebrities

from threat level: A ring of hackers that boasted it would pry into celebrities’ phones and e-mail accounts appears to have delivered on that promise. Reported hacks of actresses Scarlett Johannson and Mila Kunis led to racy photos posted on the web. The FBI is reportedly investigating the alleged hack involving Johansson, as well as intrusions into the phone, Twitter and e-mail accounts of some 50 other celebrities, including Vanessa Hudgens and Jessica Alba. A group calling itself Hollywood Leaks, self-identified as an offshoot of Anonymous, boasted last month in a YouTube video that it would be targeting celebrities and the “Jew-controlled media” over the next weeks.

related updates:
nbc twitter hacked in anti-corporate attack by
anonymous splinter group 'the script kiddies'*
threats posted on white house facebook page*
hackers are the new mob: white house gets serious on cybercrime*
actor to plead guilty to leaking black swan to bittorrent*
hotfile turns tables, accuses warner brothers of dmca abuse*
cbs using interactive billboards to promote 'person of interest'*
video: issa declines investigation into news corp. phone hacking*

scientists discover tattooine-style world 200 lightyears off

two suns, yes. captive princesses in gold bikinis, unlikely...

from theregister.co.uk: Scientists have discovered a planet that orbits two suns, like Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in Star Wars. Two hundred light-years away from Earth, gaseous Kepler-16b is similar to Saturn in both size and mass and – like the desert planet that nurtured the young Skywalker – enjoys a double sunset.

future nasa rocket to be most powerful ever built

from ap: To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago. But with a price tag that some estimate at $35 billion, it may not fly with Congress. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and several members of Congress on Wednesday unveiled the Obama administration's much-delayed general plans for its rocket design, called the Space Launch System. The multibillion-dollar program would carry astronauts in a capsule on top, and the first mission would be 10 years off if all goes as planned. Unmanned test launches are expected from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in six years. Calling it the "largest, most powerful rocket built," NASA's exploration and operations chief, William Gerstenmaier, said the rocket will be tough to construct. But when NASA does it, "we'll have a capability to go beyond low-Earth orbit like no other nation does here on Earth," he said in a telephone briefing Wednesday.

'wi-fi refugees' shelter in west virginia mountains

'technological lepers' seek refuge in mountains of west virginia*

from allgov: For those physically affected by wireless signals, the place to go is in a remote part of West Virginia made possible by the U.S. government.

In the small town of Green Bank (population: 143), residents can live free of wireless signals. Exposure to Wi-Fi and mobile phone communications can cause a variety of ailments to about 5% of Americans who suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS).

Although the cell phone and Wi-Fi industries insist that the condition is purely psychological, sufferers of EHS insist that its symptoms range from acute headaches and skin burning to muscle twitching and chronic pain.

But in the Allegheny Mountains, Green Bank’s populace doesn’t have to worry about EHS. That’s because they live within the National Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless is banned across 13,000 square miles to prevent transmissions interfering with several radio telescopes, including those of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and others used by the military and spy agencies at the U.S. Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC) at Sugar Grove. The quiet zone was established in 1958.

For anyone not living in a place like Green Bank, they must resort to staying indoors, literally separated from the rest of the world using a Faraday Cage, built of wire mesh that blocks out radio waves.

comet elenin debunked!

Comet Elenin hysteria transits into darker skies! Stuart Robbins devotes the Comet Elenin Special on Exposing Pseudoastronomy podcast to dispelling claims. "For some odd reason, there are a lot of crazy claims out there about Comet Elenin. In recognition of its closest approach to the sun on September 10, this bonus episode addresses many of the common claims out there about the comet including an exposé into Richard Hoagland's magical numerology that apparently proves it's a spaceship." You can read along with Comet Elenin Special shownotes. Robbins, a PHD in astrophysics, lectures on critical thinking and takes on the Moon Hoax and Apocalyse 2012 as his subject matters in some other presentations. Will Stuart Robbins fill the role of space skeptic as Michael Schermer has as 9/11 skeptic?

1 in 3,200 odds of being hit by uars sat upon reentry

Space junk crashing to Earth in late September, provides huge 6.5 ton example of issue. In "Look Out Below! Huge Satellite Coming in for Uncontrolled Rentry," Universe Today provides actuarial odds of being hit by UARS, but the reentry point is much less clear! “'We do know with 99.9 percent accuracy that it will re-enter the atmosphere somewhere between 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south, which means it will be anywhere from northern Canada to southern South America,' said Major Michael Duncan, deputy chief of space situational awareness with the Air Force’s U.S. Strategic Command. 'That is truly the best estimation we can give you at this point in time.” There are about 26 components that are big enough to survive and make it down to Earth, the largest weighing more than 150 kg (330 pounds.)"

Is it too audacious to believe NASA can provide a better estimate of reentry point? A simulation of UARS orbit and most recent article available at Space.com. Are you feeling lucky? Odds of being killed in an auto accident are 1 in 6,500. Odds of being struck by lighting in your lifetime are 1 in 10,000. Will the future bring a new standard of comparison? What are the odds?

'find my car' app for mall zombies also handy for police

from smh: Westfield's new app means you'll never lose your car in the shopping centre again - and police now have at their fingertips technology to track down stolen and unregistered vehicles. Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney recently added to its iPhone app the functionality for shoppers to find their parked car by entering its license plate number.

retro-vision: anti-grav effect suppressed by von braun

Did American space program trip unexpectedly over an anti-gravity effect of spinning rockets with Explorer I satellite? Richard C Hoagland, with the benefit of hindsight, takes a long look into rearview mirror in essay, "Von Braun's 50 Year Secret: The US Explorer I Discovery that Could Have Saved the World...". Young readers don't realize what kind of world it was in 1958, where one telephone line connected Explorer I launch mission leaders with Washington DC and there were no professional tracking stations on opposite side of the world! In the essay, Hoagland suspects Von Braun was baffled by unexpected high orbit obtained by Explorer I satellite (orbital apogee of 1592 miles compared to 1000 mile expectation).

Von Braun came to rely on, as a result, brute force Saturn V and proposed Saturn Nova booster rockets, in order, to have ability to correct course numerous times to compensate for "anomalous orbital dynamics". Hoagland wonders, also, if this was a reason if not a cause of great number of early failures? The ability to dismiss Explorer I's high orbit as a simple miscalculation, allowed real reason - an anti-gravity effect of spinning top stage - to go undetected, according to Hoagland.

An examination of early Moon misses by Luna 1 and Ranger missions are fascinating! Hoagland suspects Von Braun solved "non-Newtonian" physics problem of unpredictable trajectories quietly in 1962 when a "direct ascent"to Moon Mission was replaced by Lunar Orbit Rendevous solution. The successful impact of Moon by Ranger 4 cited as support of this view. "Was von Braun's sudden, dramatic "turn around decision" regarding LOR because, the "non-Newtonian dynamics problem" -- still standing firmly in the way of all reliable space rendezvous -- had finally, quietly, been solved?; had Ranger 4 been merely the final, visible demonstration of this in-space celestial-mechanics resolution (with the publicly-presented aspects of the mission merely a convenient “cover”)?!"

A discussion of physics behind anti-gravity effect includes the Allais effect, an electrical engineer's belief rotating objects have a neutralizing effect on gravity, and Nazi Bell torsion physics as revealed by friend and writer, Joseph Farrell. The Phoenix Lights, 2000 Southern Illinois sightings and 2008 Stephenville, TX UFO case, possibly, represent this kind of anti-gravity tech! Hoagland believes the suppression of non-Newtonian physics by Von Braun has had a dramatic impact and says so! It's a fascinating essay!

secret access: ufos on the record

A new documentary on the History Channel,"Secret Access: UFOs On The Record," provides nice summary of well-known cases but nonetheless still officially suppressed. A Herald Tribune article by Billy Cox via NHNE PULSE, "History Channel Gets It Right," "...'Secret Access” report by The History Channel — 'UFOs On The Record' — is the sort of crisp advocacy journalism one might easily envision in PBS’ 'Frontline' rotation. Focused (if not a tad overproduced), expertly sourced, and devoid of the tripe that too often characterizes network programming on this issue, 'UFOs On The Record' is a foundational model for jump-starting a national conversation so desperately overdue."

"The 96-minute documentary, built upon Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record...For Kean’s readers, the “Secret Access” treatment covered familiar turf: the Phoenix Lights, the Rendlesham Forest incident, the 1989-90 Belgian wave, etc. But watching many of the players in the book — like former Federal Aviation Administration accidents division chief John Callahan, and retired Belgian Gen. Wilfried De Brouwer — as they physically reconstructed complex interactions between UFOs and jet planes brought the enormity of the transactions to life. And, fan though I am of the written word, there is no substitute for listening to audiotapes of air traffic/ground crew chatter trying to come to grips with a UFO idling over Chicago’s O’Hare International in 2006."

Are we building to a disclosure crescendo? The hints are there but could still be years off? You get up to speed on a number of well-known cases in just an hour and a half and it's free!  You can't go wrong by watching Secret Access.

successful liftoff for nasa 'grail' spacecraft

from redorbit: After multiple delays, including one earlier in the day, NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday morning... The primary objective of the GRAIL project is to “determine the structure of the lunar interior, from crust to core, and to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of the moon,” according to a Saturday morning post to the launch news section of the mission’s official homepage.

9/9 defcon: i9/11, sources & sat crash

cybercrooks aiming to cash in on 9/11 anniversary*

mars rovers carry 9/11 tributes*
cia, mossad also targeted in massive diginotar cert breach*
scientist stewart nozette pleads guilty to attempted espionage*
the spy who tweeted me:
intel community wants to monitor social media*
video: google raided by south korean anti-trust officials*
sources exposed as unredacted state dept cables unleashed*
disturbing iphone5 incident has apple acting as secret police*
skype is microsoft's $8.5 billion identity tool*
yahoo pondering sale; what might microsoft make of this mess?*
huge defunct satellite to plunge to earth soon, nasa says*
video: lunar orbiter finds footprints on the moon*

the moon has two faces

Our moon's near and far sides differ in thickness and composition. Two researchers propose a collision theory to account for the highlands on far side in a recent Nature article, "Early Earth may have had two moons". The theory proposed by planetary scientist Erik Asphaug and co-author Martin Jutzi, relies on Lagrange points to speculate a second moon orbited around Earth in the remote past. The researchers suggest a smaller moon (1/13th the size of our known moon) broke free of its Lagrange point and collided with the far side in a relatively slow impact, which resulted in an accretion of matter to form highlands instead of a crater.

The article introduces idea, the GRAIL mission's gravity survey may help explain far side's 50 km thicker crust and more mineral rich near side. "NASA's upcoming GRAIL mission, designed to probe the Moon's interior using precise measurements of its gravity, may help figure out what happened billions of years ago." The GRAIL launch is rescheduled for today, Sept. 9th.

The present writer wonders whether this story is a distraction from other reasons for looking beneath Moon's surface? Wernher von Braun's comments about the Moon "ringing like a bell" after impacts of Lunar Module and third stage of Saturn V rocket during Apollo 12 and 13 missions, seems a more compelling motive? There are also rumors, propagated by NAZI myths, of a German Moon Base, the Schwarze Sonne, a military base established on the dark side. The myth is reinforced by Operation High Jump and an Antarctic jumping point, Neu Schwabenland, both, prominent storylines in coming movie, Iron Sky.

sunspot 1283: three solar flares earthbound

A solar flare alert issued by Spaceweather.com. The website reports third significant flare from sunspot 1283 since Sept. 6th. "All three eruptions propelled CMEs in the general direction of Earth. Not one of the CMEs, however, will hit our planet squarely. Glancing blows from the three clouds will commence sometime on Sept. 9th and continue through Sept. 11th..." High latitude skywatchers will likely see nice auroras for next few days!

sun's great conveyor belt

Does the Sun's Great Conveyor Belt of circulating hot plasma control 11 year solar cycle of maximums and minimums? "The Great Conveyor Belt is a massive circulating current of fire (hot plasma) within the sun. It has two branches, north and south, each taking about 40 years to complete one circuit. Researchers believe the turning of the belt controls the sunspot cycle." A Daily Galaxy article asks very question, "Sun's "Great Conveyor Belt" --Does this 40-Year Cycle Control Sunspots?". Physicist David Hathaway and Lisa Rightmire measured speed of flow with SOHO data and found a relationship,"...as the number of sunspots increases on the Sun, the speed of the Great Conveyor Belt decreases, and vice versa: fewer sunspots and the faster the speed of the Belt... It's the 40-year circuit that scientists think is the controlling mechanism for the approximate 11-year solar cycle—when a lot of sunspots occur (solar maximums) for about half the cycle and when only a few (or no) sunspots occur (solar minimums) for the other half of the cycle." Reader is left to assume a straightforward four solar cycles per completion of circuit made by the Great Conveyor Belt? It's more input for your mind!

iapetus: is saturn moon artificial?

Is Iapetus an artificial moon? Saturn's third largest moon orbits at a much greater distance 2,213,000 miles than the planet's other large moons, Titan and Rhea. Richard C Hoagland examines unusual and baffling physical characteristics of Iapetus in a 2005 article, "Moon With a View: Or, What Did Arthur Know...and When Did He Know It?". The rings of Saturn would be clearly visible from Iapetus, appearing about four times the size of our moon in its sky. The Moons of Saturn are named after Titans of Greek Mythology. Iapetus, whose parents were Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth), is considered a Titan of mortal life and father of Prometheus and Atlas. Prometheus is the creator of mankind.

Hoagland cannot get past 12 mile high and 12 mile wide ridge rising above surface and spanning over 800 miles. The huge ridge and mountains at the moon's equator give Iapetus an appearance of a walnut. One side of the moon is ten times brighter than the other and some suggest it was done intentionally to bring attention to the satellite. An elliptical shape to the regions makes the moon look much like a ying and yang symbol. There are also pictures of apparent ruins on the surface.

In Part Two, Hoagland observes Iapetus craters are hexagon-shaped that suggest they are manufactured artifacts. Hoagland believes the moon to be modular in design and built by adding units to each layer or shell. Yes, the hexagons fit a tetrahedral pattern!

Hoagland makes good case for evidence of artificial construction of Saturn moon. Iapetus does resemble the Star Wars Death Star and pictures are placed in juxtaposition in Part Three. There is another questionable "natural satellite" in our Solar System far beyond Phobos, which orbits Mars. You have to read article for the Arthur C. Clarke connection. It's a must read!

eyes on the solar system: free astronomy software

Astronomy software application, Eyes On The Solar System (EOSS), an amazing 3-D visualization tool is available free online! The first step is download a Unity Web Player plug-in and you're ready to go. You may select a number of tours of the Solar System, which includes more than just planets to see such as spacecraft missions. It's sophisticated stuff and makes you wonder if the Jetsons Space Age may have finally arrived? You can get up to speed by taking in an intro to EOSS, provided by JPL Astronomer babe Amy Mainzer. You are at the controls - and there are many - to customize your own tour of the virtual Solar System. Thanks goes to Universe Today for the invaluable link. Come on, let's go Space Truckin'!

amazon ceo bezos' rocket fails during test

from pcmag: Space tourism was dealt a setback this week after a spacecraft funded by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos was lost during a recent test.

japan disaster: radiation update

American somnambulists live as if radiation is a far away problem. An Inspector unit records 178 times background radiation on August 20th, 2011 in St. Louis, MO. The reading dispels wishful thinking; perhaps there's no problem. We're living in a radioactive age. Americans conduct themselves as if our leadership will look after them? In reality, our government is attempting a huge dodge, unwilling to face the catastrophe! A recent article by P F Louis, "Nuclear expert says Fukushima radiation coming to USA, massive cover-up under way," believes our government will pretend absolutely nothing is wrong! A clue to the dimensions of our dilemma comes when this article points out: "Geiger counters formally measured with Rems (Roentgen equivalent man) or millirems. The figures on Geiger counters now represent mSv units per hour. There is always a low level of measurable background radiation in our environment from celestial bodies and earthly elements...Whenever Geiger counters measure more, there is concern. Putting concerns into perspective, smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes (tobacco leaves absorb radioactive isotopes) daily causes an annual exposure level of 13 mSv per year."

The article confirms, also, present writer's concern, "many experts have questioned why the sarcophagus solution was not employed or even considered." The simple hideous explanation is they do not want to contain spread of radiation. It's more toxicity in our environment to act as a soft killer over time. It's also plausible deniability. Governments employ the label of "natural disaster" as a cover, but lack of any effective response reveals their true intent! The missing response blows their cover!

An echo reverberates, from ten years ago, when EPA poser Christine Todd Whitman advised New Yorkers that the air was safe to breath just days after 9/11! Don't believe them and start looking after yourselves! Leadership won't be there when you need it!

the real cowboys and aliens

New Mexico historian John LeMay and Texas UFO researcher Noe Torres, the authors of "The Real Cowboys & Aliens: UFO Encounters of the Old West", the book that explores "fourteen bizarre incidents, including the reported recovery in 1897 of a spaceship and its alien pilot in the Texas frontier town of Aurora."  Clyde Lewis interviewed Torres and LeMay on Ground Zero Live and wrote the accompanying article called "Aurora". The featured incidents, taken from over a thousand compiled cases, include: an underwater UFO that nearly electrocuted two men in 1893 near Tacoma, WA., a UFO explosion in 1891 over a Texas Cotton Gin and Bigfoot from Outer Space, a 1888 incident related by Native Americans. It seems, in retrospect, that Hollywood missed an entire genre completely: cowboys and aliens!

aurora, texas crash of 1879

The Aurora, Texas Crash of 1897 was part of a wave of mystery airship sightings that swept across the United States. The original story, as reported by S E Haydon, an Aurora resident, states that "about 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before...It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill... The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world." The 'pilot' was given a funeral and buried in the local cemetery. The story faded away until Bill Case, a Dallas Times Herald writer and state MUFON director, revived interest with a 1973 investigation.

The Aurora crash illustrates how a small town's attitude can impact objective appraisal. Some residents maintained "it never happened," while details are bandied about such as Judge Proctor's windmill and the alien grave. Barbara Brammer, a former Aurora mayor, suggests Haydon wrote a hoax article in an attempt to save a dying town. Author Jim Marrs, who resides in the area, cleared up some issues in a 2009 presentation. Marrs, an able storyteller, clarified Judge Proctor didn't have a windmill, per se, but a windless windmill. There was, in fact, a headstone and Marrs shows pictures of it before it disappeared in the seventies. A cigar-shaped ship with windows on its side was etched on the headstone much like Reinhold Schmidt's 1957 sighting near Kearney, NE. A 2008 UFO Hunters episode, called First Contact, provides a nice viewable summary of the facts.

Many articles leave the 1897 Aurora Crash as an unresolved mystery. Kevin Randle provides a debunker's argument with good points. But a charred and disfigured tree with embedded metal on the Oates property, which was formerly Judge Proctor's farm, certainly gives the opposite impression: that something did, indeed, hit there.

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