on the brink of blue beam: 'war of the worlds'-style hoax imminent?

from the intel hub: The fact stands that there are patents and military technologies available to project 3D holograms including light and sound onto a background composed of barium and strontium (the very components that make up chemtrails, or aerosol sprays typically used in stratospheric geoengineering applications).

Yes, geoengineering/chemtrails are a reality — in fact there is a Presidential Budget kept basically secret from the civilian population of the United States, and yes plans for a staged ET/UFO invasion on the masses’ could be the next trick up the secret sinister governments sleeve. Is the stage set for Project Blue Beam to commence?

An excerpt from the Examiner reads: "An Albuquerque, NM, witness reports looking skyward after hearing four jets taking off from nearby Kirtland Air Force Base and then watching a 'V-shaped object' appear in front of and below a plane with five lights under it on October 19, 2011, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database."...

The Intel Hub has also received similar reports from various locations in the CONUS (Continental United States) and is requesting additional information/sightings to be sent to us (tips@theintelhub.com).

october 24 auroras seen in half of states

Auroras seen as far south as Arkansas on October 24 after solar flare hits Earth. The geomagnetic storms included rarely seen red auroras. This image is from Ozark, Arkansas, and according to Intel Hub: "these rare all-red auroras sometimes appear during intense geomagnetic storms. They occur some 300 to 500 km above Earth’s surface and are not yet fully understood."

2005 yu55: latest threat or more crying wolf?

Is Asteroid 2005 YU55 just another hysterical outburst by alarmists who never rest from 'crying wolf'? We can be reminded of the purpose of such repeated alarm bells by revisiting Aesop's Fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf? The Wikipedia entry reports Samuel Croxall, author of "The Fables of Aesop", once observed, "'when we are alarmed with imaginary dangers in respect of the public, till the cry grows quite stale and threadbare, how can it be expected we should know when to guard ourselves against real ones?" This is something to keep in mind when repeated efforts seem to desensitize any and all dangers, a real danger may be among all the apparent hysteria!

Bad Astronomy dismisses Asteroid YU55 and compares it to similar hype of Asteroid 2007 TU24. Does anyone remember Asteroid 2007 TU24? Physicist Michio Kaku believes on Friday 13th, 2036, Apophis will be "Our First Real Threat From A Giant Asteroid". 99942 Apophis covered in previous post here, reminds us threat of near Earth objects, may be little more than excuse for weaponizing space.

The present writer wonders about unusual test on November 9 of the FEMA emergency broadcast system? This coincides on same date with Exercise Pacific Wave reported by the Intel Hub, a tsunami preparedness drill. A You Tube video "Tsunami Forecast 11-9-2011 (Asteroid?)" reminds viewer Earth will on same date pass through tail of C/2010 X1 AKA Comet Elenin. Are we reading too much into it or is worn threadbare staleness the goal of sounding too many alarms?

jupiter moon io: hotspot in outer solar system

Scientists are excited about possibility of life in outer reaches of solar system. Three moons attract much interest: Europa, Titan and Enceladus previously covered here. Europa with its global-wide ocean hidden beneath a frozen shell of ice. Titan with an appearance similar to Earth once below the clouds obscuring it. Enceladus, a small Saturn moon, attractive with visible geysers near its south pole. Some scientists argue that Jupiter's moon Io (pictured) deserves attention as possibly harboring extreme life forms! Io is the fourth largest moon in the solar system and closest to Jupiter of the four large Galilean moons. An article at The Daily Galaxy, "Jupiter's Io - Volcanic Hotpsot of the Solar System," reveals a moon with an incredible amount of volcanic activity a "...global magma ocean about 30 to 50 kilometers (20 to 30 miles) beneath Io's crust [that] helps explain the moon's activity... The energy for the volcanic activity comes from the squeezing and stretching of the moon by Jupiter's gravity as Io orbits the largest planet in the solar system..." Io's high volcanic activity,  the possibility of protection provided by lava tubes below its surface, give scientists hope for life there. Life in the fiery depths of Io would likely be different and an extreme form. The search will continue for life--and extreme life! Io pictured with Jupiter behind it - just spectacular!

insulin pump hack delivers fatal dosage over the air

from theregister.co.uk: In a hack fitting of a James Bond movie, a security researcher has devised an attack that hijacks nearby insulin pumps so he can surreptitiously deliver fatal doses to diabetic patients who rely on them.

The attack on wireless insulin pumps, made by medical devices giant Medtronic, was demonstrated Tuesday at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami. It was delivered by McAfee's Barnaby Jack, the same researcher who last year showed how take control of two widely used models of automatic teller machines so he could to cause them to spit out a steady stream of dollar bills.

Jack's latest hack works on most recent Medtronic insulin pumps, because they contain tiny radio transmitters that allow patients and doctors to adjust their functions. It builds on research presented earlier this year that allowed the wireless commandeering of the devices when an attacker was within a few feet of the patient, and knew the serial number of his pump. Software and a special antenna designed by Jack allows him to locate and seize control of any device within 300 feet, even when he doesn't know the serial number.

related update: fda rejects medtronic heart device

wikileaks halts publication over cash flow issues

from threat level: For the second time in two years WikiLeaks announced it was suspending publication of secret documents due to financial difficulties.

The site has already failed to make good on months-old claims that it has a cache of new secrets to unleash, including internal documents from Bank of America, and the new announcement would postpone their publication even longer. WikiLeaks announced on Monday that it was halting publication because it was running out of cash and needed to focus on fundraising.

At the same time, the site announced that it planned to launch a new submission system on Nov. 28, a year after it began publishing a cache of more than 250,000 U.S. State Department cables. The site didn’t say how it planned to publish new submissions if it was experiencing financial problems.

”In order to reclaim the organization’s future survival, WikiLeaks is now forced to temporarily suspend its operations and move into a phase of fund-raising,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement.

The announcement comes just days after Assange told an audience that his organization had sustained itself over the last 11 months solely on cash it had already raised from donations.

google cracks 'unbreakable' code of 1866 secret society manuscript

how revolutionary tools cracked a 1700s code

from daily mail: The Copiale cipher is an 105-page coded document found in an East German archive, and dated to 1866 - but the code used to shield its mysteries has remained unbroken, until now. The international team that cracked the cipher this year found that automated translation techniques - familiar to most of us from the often-wonky Google Translate - can help to crack encrypted documents by 'guessing' their contents. It works even when they use a cipher as baffling as the Copiale's 90 symbols, and the original language is unknown. The team, led by computer scientist Kevin Knight of USC, aims to use their technique on other encrypted texts. Their work also unearthed a fascinating document that may shed light on the secret societies of the nineteenth century. The Copiale Cipher proved to be about induction into a secret society - speaking of 'secret teachings for apprentices' and a bizarre initiation rite for disciples.

update: the good google giveth, the good google taketh away...
feds order youtube remove videos for 'government criticism':
US authorities hit google with 70% rise in takedown orders*

nasa considering fuel depots in the skies

from nytimes: By considering a proposal to put filling stations in the sky, NASA is looking to accelerate plans to send astronauts to distant destinations. The filling stations — NASA calls them propellant depots — would refuel a spacecraft in orbit before it headed out to the moon, an asteroid or eventually Mars. Currently, all of the fuel needed for a mission is carried up with the rocket, and the weight of the fuel limits the size of the spacecraft.

rosat re-entry, elenin & m7.2 turkey quake (updated)

Huffington Post reports ROSAT reentered Earth atmosphere on Sunday somewhere over Southeast Asia? The Intel Hub will continue to cover Comet Elenin up to 11-9, when government takes control of nation's television during a drill. M7.2 Turkey earthquake noted as coincidental with Elenin entering Earth's orbital path.

updates: sky lights up red & green as reports of fireball entering atmosphere conflict with cme, northern lights report*
'doomsday' comet elenin is dead, nasa says*

mars hale crater civilization

Mars Anomalies Researcher Joseph Skipper long-convinced images of Mars are doctored, some time ago, had an image come into his possession that revealed more! A viewer sent him a Mars Express Hi-Res Stereo Cam image (pictured), where obfuscation techniques were defeated with some work. In "Hale Crater Civilization Evidence," Skipper discusses his experience with Mars Express images from the European Space Agency (ESA)," ..the ESA imaging is so heavy with map type carpeting image tampering obfuscation that quality anomalous discovery information can very rarely be found in it."

"This problem is so prevalent in the ESA imaging as released to the public that I long ago came to the personal conclusion that it generally just isn't practically worth me devoting much of my very limited time to trying very hard to find something in it. Yet, no matter how diligent the tampering, mistakes are still made in its application and such mistakes can produce discoveries providing some real information. That is the situation we have here in this report with this image."

Skipper, a dedicated researcher, expressed his gratitude to viewer for her effort and let the picture speak for itself, " but, it was plenty good enough for me to see by her graphics work that defeating the Hale Crater image tampering covering was possible in the image she had found, at least to a greater extent than heretofore in my experience...The civilization evidence is so thick here and in such variety that I have elected not to obscure anything with arrows and labels under the assumption that most of you can recognize much of this evidence for what it is." Skipper feels the image is a powerful argument and reflects human activity! It certainly seems so!

russians want moon cave for lunar base

A cave makes for a ready-made dwelling - no digging! Russians are considering a moon cave to house a lunar base. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) released photo (pictured) taken by their lunar orbiter, as reported at The Daily Galaxy: "In 2009...lunar orbiter, Kaguya, spotted a big hole in the moon - sixty five meters across and at least eighty meters deep shown above, and potentially part of a much larger 'lava tube'." The prospect of a porous moon makes it a more interesting destination as caves provide shelter from radiation and meteors.

martian sky is blue

BBC One program, The Sky At Night, released a promo video recently with a provocative view of Mars! What's so interesting about Mars Rover pancam investigator Cornell Professor Steve Squyres with large monitors behind him? It's those views in the background of Martian landscape that reveal blue sky and normal terrain colors! Joseph Skipper, at Mars Anomalies Research, suggests also in, "The True Mars Sky?", Squyres may not be viewing raw images but already doctored data. Skipper writes, "...some of the terrain in the right monitor appears to be smudged. That could suggest that what Squyres and company receive is not the true original terrain data but data already obfuscated...Even so, note that beautiful blue sky and the much more normal terrain color (from our point of view) in both of those big monitors even though they are displaying different Mars surface scenes." Skipper implies public only sees heavily obfuscated pictures and researchers such as Squyres may not receive raw data! A BBC One viewer alerted Skipper to their observation. It's certainly possible a slip in secrecy occurred! It's worth a look at the Sky at Night website as well! Good Stuff!

10/20 defcon: ops, apps & agony

top egypt 'facebook revolutionary' advising #OWS*

'anti-cheating boyfriend' app forced to change*
video: theater review of 'the agony & the ecstasy of steve jobs':
the moral issues behind iphone & its makers*
was 1883 astro-mystery a near-miss billion ton comet?*
does future hold 'avatar'-like bodies for us?*
russians wants to build colony on the moon;
backs united nations-controlled space shield to protect earth*

galileo sats provide more global security

A pair of Italian-built Galileo GPS satellites will launch from French Guiana, tomorrow. A giant Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane delivered the satellites, last month. The launch will be the first for a Russian Soyuz rocket outside of Kazakhstan. A recent Spaceflight Now article reports launch "...scheduled for Oct. 20 at 1034 GMT (6:34 a.m. EDT) from the new Soyuz launch pad at the Guiana Space Center, France's spaceport positioned on the northeastern coast of South America." It sounds like advancement, but towards what end? An Occasional Paper of the European Union Institute for Security Studies, "The Galileo Satellite System and its security implications", co-written by Gustav Lindstrom and Giovanni Gasparini and published back in 2003, reveals the global nature of the venture. On page 9 of the Occasional Paper, the military applications of another Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are cited for use with allies. Lindstrom served formerly with Rand and the World Bank. The present writer views with suspicion any institution with "security" in its title and simply implies control or fascism!

life in the outer solar system

Europa seems high on a short list of worlds to explore. The Jovian moon has a global-wide ocean underneath a surface of solid ice, the prospect of finding life seems promising. Mark Elowitz's Europa Exobiology page provides excellent pictures and even suggests an explanation for the reddish spots, which may be warmer ice rising near the surface? There are practice sessions already underway for a possible Europa mission as revealed in Space.com article, "Antarctic Diving Robot Practices for Europa Mission". Europa, slightly smaller than the Moon, is not the only moon in the outer solar system to draw attention.

In a recent Universe Today article, "A Tale of Three Moons: Is There Life in the Outer Solar System?", Paul Scott Anderson writes about Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, previously thought unlikely to harbor life, "but then Cassini saw the geysers, plumes of material erupting from the south polar region through large, warmer cracks nicknamed “tiger stripes.” Cassini has now flown directly through the geysers, analyzing their composition, which is mostly water vapor, ice particles, salts and organics. The latest analysis based on the Cassini data indicates that they almost certainly originate from a sea or ocean of liquid water below the surface. Warm, salty water loaded with organics; could Enceladus be another possible niche for extraterrestrial life? As with Europa, only further missions will be able to answer these questions, but the possibilities are exciting."

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, long perceived as too cold to sustain life is receiving renewed interest. Once, the Cassini lander probe Huygens dropped below cloud cover, Anderson writes, "Titan is like an eerily alien version of Earth, with rain, rivers, lakes and seas, but being far too cold for liquid water (not much heat here), its “water cycle” is composed of liquid methane/ethane. Appearance-wise, the surface and geology look amazingly Earth-like..." Scientists have considered whether methane-based life exists on Titan? "Future proposed missions for Titan include a floating probe to land in one of the lakes and a balloon to soar over the landscape, pursuing such mysteries as never before. How cool is that?", writes Anderson. It is pretty cool!

supreme court of canada rules internet links not libel

supreme court ruling big victory for internet freedom

from cbc: Hyperlinking to defamatory material on the internet does not constitute publishing the defamatory material itself, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Wednesday. The ruling will alleviate fears that holding someone liable for how they use hyperlinks on websites, personal ones or others, could cast a chill on internet use. The responsible use of the internet and how traditional defamation law applies to modern technologies were at issue in this case, which was watched closely by media organizations and civil liberties groups.

national cyber security bulletin on anonymous

from the hacker news: DHS has analyzed the likelihood of Anonymous attacking industrial control systems (ICS) after the hacktivist group showed such intentions earlier this year. "Assessment of Anonymous Threat to Control Systems" that was drafted by the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) back in September. The document is not classified, but it is intended for official use only. The report describes an interest within Anonymous to target industrial control systems.

US weighed use of cyberattacks to weaken libya

from nytimes: Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government’s air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes.

While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have been to break through the firewalls of the Libyan government’s computer networks to sever military communications links and prevent the early-warning radars from gathering information and relaying it to missile batteries aiming at NATO warplanes.

But administration officials and even some military officers balked, fearing that it might set a precedent for other nations, in particular Russia or China, to carry out such offensives of their own, and questioning whether the attack could be mounted on such short notice. They were also unable to resolve whether the president had the power to proceed with such an attack without informing Congress.

In the end, American officials rejected cyberwarfare and used conventional aircraft, cruise missiles and drones to strike the Libyan air-defense missiles and radars used by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s government.

xnihilator celebrates one year of posts

Xnihilator celebrates year of 350 posts on Oct 16, 2011. There is still hope for life beyond a constant Orwellian surveillance state. To prod people in predetermined manner from cradle to grave will erode the human spirit and be its end - only a facsimile will survive!

microbes from outer space

Everyone learns in school outer space is a near total vacuum - a lifeless void. Scientists suggest, otherwise, in an article at The Daily Galaxy, "Microbes Found Preadapted for Life in Space". Scientists surmise microorganisms on Earth, could only have received radiation-resistant genes from space-voyaging ancestors. Research reveals microbes mixed with a little sandstone can survive space, at least, a few years. It's, also estimated, bacteria are capable of surviving with only the protection of a rock in space for a million years. There's life in outer space - if only microbial!

1966 michigan sightings

Multiple UFO sightings in March, 1966 in southeast Michigan provide a classic episode when J. Allen Hynek dismissed the sightings as "swamp gas" in marshlands outside Ann Arbor. The Hynek entry in Wikipedia gives some sense how his vain attempt, entered popular culture, when Hynek's "swamp gas" became focus of 'national derision" and repeated "ad infinitum". The present writer attests the commentary was everywhere! You can relive mid-sixties pop culture with a Walter Cronkite narrated CBS REPORTS in either short version or in its entirety: "UFO: Friend, Foe or Fantasy". An interesting aspect is the public's reaction to Frank Manor's report of an UFO with ridicule and vandalism. It appears to be an ignorant reaction, but was certainly the predominate one of the period. You had to be a kook to see a UFO! Was it a psyop at work on the public? Manor is asked by a reporter in the CBS show, "are you sorry now that you did tell people what you saw?" Manor clearly regretted ever making the UFO report. The exchange encapsulates the sixties reaction to UFOs in a nutshell. A bit of Americana in a retro-UFO show, provided for your viewing pleasure!

10/13 defcon: outage, buyout, lineup

video: fbi makes arrest after johansson emails hacked*

mitsubishi heavy, japanese defense contractor, targeted by over 50 computer viruses*
fake netflix app poses data-stealing risk*
blackberrys buzz back to life after long outage*
dennis ritchie, father of 'c' programming language, dies at 70*
microsoft skype buyout is officially official*
faithful line up as apple's new iphone 4s hits stores friday*

moon mining: new possibility or four decade old reality?

The recent reports of large titanium deposits (red areas) on the Moon, seems a spark of enthusiasm for future mining operations. However, there are rumors such as forwarded by John Lear of ongoing and decades old mining operations on the Moon. An incident occurred in 2009, where Bill Penn of California reported spotting structures and crains jutting above Endymion crater through a telescope. A Coast to Coast interview of Lear can be heard here, where he shares his beliefs of structures and mining on the Moon. Is it pure over-the-top tin foil hat or a peek at a breakaway civilization, funded by unaccounted for billions of dollars in the federal budget? It's very entertaining even if it's disinfo purported by a CIA asset!

space junk #3: another large satellite reenters by month's end?

Will space junk warnings become routine? ROSAT is predicted to reenter Earth's atmosphere before the end of October. The disclaimers flow in Mail Online article to hedge future liability, "Professor Heiner Klinkrad of the European Space Agency assured: 'Until now in the more than 50-years of space history not a single person has been harmed [by pieces of falling satellites].'" Did you catch the phrase, "no one harmed"? Lottie Williams became the first person to be hit by space junk in January 1997, while she strolled in a Tulsa, OK park. A piece of super-heated fuel tank insulation from a Delta II rocket struck Williams' shoulder. The advice given the public on ROSAT, and similar to UARS,  reports 30 individual pieces that weigh 1.6 tons may survive reentry. Authorities speaking out of both sides of their mouths note, "odds are long of anyone being hurt, but emergency services in Germany are practicing drills to deal with debris injuries just in case...". Debris from ROSAT may include glass shards from heat-resistant mirrors! The article points out ROSAT and UARS are "...far smaller than the 135-ton Russian space station Mir, which fell to Earth in 2001 or the 100-ton Skylab that fell in 1979". Don't you feel better?

megatsunami 2011 watch: real threat or predictive programming?

Is the unstable flank of Cumbre Viega volcano in the Canary Islands ready to plunge into the ocean? The hype is at a crescendo about an imminent mega-tsunami resulting from a landside into 4,000 feet of water. The heightened concern is due to 9,300 tremors experienced in the Canary Islands since July. A tsunami threat to the East Coast of the United States is well-known as reported in a 2004 Rense article. The threat is real but timing seems convenient for a desperate oligarch class? Media hype only builds expectations of tragedy for the East Coast! Is it predictive programming?

amateur rocket launch onboard camera takes you for ride!

Wanna go for a ride? It's amazing video for an amateur rocket launch. "On September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Derek Deville's Qu8k (pronounced "Quake") launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000' before returning safely to earth. Above 99% of the atmosphere, the sky turns black in the middle of the day and the curvature of the earth is clearly visible. The rocket motor produced 4,000 lbs of thrust for 8 seconds accelerating the vehicle to over Mach 3 at over 10,000'. After that, momentum carried the rocket skyward for another 84 seconds to a peak altitude of 121,000'." The video provides a visual experience!

coronal mass ejection: causal link to earthquakes and volcanoes

A strong Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) may transmit energy directly into the Earth's core, heating surrounding magma - a direct cause of increased volcanic activity. A CME may also cause breaches in the Earth's magnetosphere as reported in a previous post, "Earth's Magnetic Fields Cause of Birds & Fish Die-off". It's suspected that the birds blacked out when they quit breathing, since they rely on magnetic fields to help regulate air intake while in flight. The implications are potentially horrific with the loss of protection from a CME that might reach the Earth's surface, in addition, to an increase of earthquakes and volcanoes. You may listen to a discussion of CMEs and their implications on the Sept. 30th Nutrimedical Report.  It's an enlightening discussion that includes tsunami concerns originating from the Canary Islands.

tracing canals of mars

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), mapping Martian surface the past five years, has captured images indicating water, according to article via Mars Daily! "Last August...scientists found dozens of slopes across the southern hemisphere of Mars where previously undetected dark streaks come and go with the seasons. When the planet heats up, the streaks appear and expand downhill, and disappear when it gets cold. Scientists think it may be evidence of melted, salty water running down slopes during the Martian summer." Could this be a revival of the canals of Mars a la Percival Lowell? The article gives a nod to the amateur astronomer, "...Lowell was far and away the most influential popularizer of planetary science in America." You can read one of Lowell's books by clicking link, "Mars and Its Canals" (1906). But, Lowell is excused at the same time for "...the fact that his 'canals' and elaborate descriptions of Martian civilization turned out to be the product of self-delusion (though not a deliberate hoax), Lowell's name remains honored in the annals of astronomy." The question arises in a reader's mind, whether Lowell was unfairly discredited?

virus infects creech afb systems piloting attack drones overseas

An attack drone killed Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American citizen, late last month. Now, computer systems at Creech AFB, NV, which run drone missions overseas, are infected with a virus, reports Danger Room article, "Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet". "'We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,' says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. 'We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.'” The security status of the drone operation is summarized, "...specialists don’t know exactly how far the virus has spread. But they’re sure that the infection has hit both classified and unclassified machines at Creech. That raises the possibility, at least, that secret data may have been captured by the keylogger, and then transmitted over the public internet to someone outside the military chain of command." What's next? A false flag op with commandeered drones, remote piloted by Islamic terrorists?

updates: air force insists drone cockpit virus just a 'nuisance'*
in the wake of wikileaks, white house orders new computer security rules*

10/6 defcon: nsa, b of a, acta & siri

#phonehacking: news corp faces more than 60 claims*

homeland security dept puts its websites in the cloud*
hayden to congress: let nsa monitor public nets for threats*
bank of america website disrupted for 4th day in a row*
gps inventor urges scotus to reject warrantless tracking*
video: americans offered sleep-monitoring datatouch card*
video: US signs acta, the internationa anti-piracy accord*
an infection that produces a glazed look:
new book 'worm' on conficker*
video: introducing siri, darpa's ghost in apple's machine*

visionary apple co-founder steve jobs dies at 56

from msnbc: Steve Jobs saw the future and led the world to it. He moved technology from garages to pockets, took entertainment from discs to bytes and turned gadgets into extensions of the people who use them. Jobs, who founded and ran Apple, told us what we needed before we wanted it. "To some people, this is like Elvis Presley or John Lennon. It's a change in our times. It's the end of an era," said Scott Robbins, 34, a barber and an Apple fan. "It's like the end of the innovators." Apple announced his death without giving a specific cause. He died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a statement from family members who were present. He was 56.

update: apple met with palo alto police days before death*

nasa to recruit fresh batch of astronauts

from theregister.co.uk: Ever wanted to get into space, armed with your three PhDs or test pilot's licence, but nothing suitable comes up in the Jobcentre search? Well luckily for you, NASA is hunting for a new class of astronauts - but, be warned, new recruits may wait a long time to get into space.

dhs warns that hackers may be motivated by #occupywallstreet

from mediaite: The “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been a way to fuel people’s anger at Wall Street, and the Department of Homeland Security is concerned such high-profile events may inspire hackers to once again target big financial institutions. Members of the group Anonymous have been seen at the protests, and those who have work the infamous Guy Fawkes mask have been arrested due to an obscure New York law banning masked gatherings. But a few days ago, hackers managed to collect the personal information of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. So Homeland Security issued a warning to big businesses that they could be next.

"While the DHS warning doesn’t mention Wall Street protests in particular, it did say that 'publicized events' like Occupy Wall Street may motivate the group. Nevertheless, the agency wouldn’t weigh in on the ways it might monitor Anonymous’s involvement in Occupy Wall Street. 'We don’t have any role in someone’s right to public protest,' said a DHS official.

One member of the protests quoted in the above article expressed his doubts at the effectiveness and outcomes of Anonymous’ actions, but it’s clear its members only represent a fraction of the protestors.

i survived comet elenin 2011

Comet Elenin disappeared without a whimper from the media, when predictions about a Sept 26th alignment went unfulfilled! Was it strictly a disinfo campaign? Is the threat over? Where are the "I Survived Elenin 2011" t-shirts? Clyde Lewis writes an article, "Elenin's Requiem," a title that may be a bit premature? Lewis points out Earth has yet to pass through Elenin's tail in November and will be at closest approach on October 11th. Marshall Masters hosts a program on Elenin and the Hopi Blue Star Kachina Prophecy, which helps explain some anomalies--such as discrepancies in Elenin's reported size--with possible rational explanation. The video's contributions such as dielectric properties of hydrogen cyanide, which Elenin is composed and what may happen to comets as they encounter solar system's ecliptic, make it a worthwhile 40 minutes! The video makes clear with a FEMA-type danger meter there's still concern in weeks ahead! Masters fascinated by Hopi Prophecies, examines the topic at length. It's good stuff!

quantum access time travel and 9/11

DARPA conducted top secret time travel experiments under banner Project Pegasus, according to Andrew Basiago, who reveals his involvement as a child in the late sixties and early seventies. Alfred Lambremont Webre reports in an Examiner article, "Secret DARPA time travel program may hold key to understanding the deep politics of 9/11," Basiago attests former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in the early seventies as attache to the project, learned of 9/11 thirty years prior to the event. Basiago reveals images of 9/11 were stored "...using chronovision to capture remotely and record on film a vast amount of footage of past and future events". Basiago also claims in a related April 19, 2010 radio interview, Rumsfeld changed the location of his office in the Pentagon a short time prior to 9/11!

Webre, has written, other articles in series on time travel available for reading here. You can get more information on time travel here. The present writer remains open, wondering if Webre is primarily a disinfo agent to muddy the waters? Or, is there a growing secret world or breakaway civilization, leaving us in the dust? It's an interesting read either way!

uvb-76: inside the russian short wave radio enigma

from wired: From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting roughly a second—a nasally foghorn blaring through a crackly ether. The signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a voyenni gorodok (mini military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps once every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: “Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman.” But the balance of the airtime was filled by a steady, almost maddening, series of inexplicable tones.

The amplitude and pitch of the buzzing sometimes shifted, and the intervals between tones would fluctuate. Every hour, on the hour, the station would buzz twice, quickly. None of the upheavals that had enveloped Russia in the last decade of the cold war and the first two decades of the post-cold-war era—Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika, the end of the Afghan war, the Soviet implosion, the end of price controls, Boris Yeltsin, the bombing of parliament, the first Chechen war, the oligarchs, the financial crisis, the second Chechen war, the rise of Putinism—had ever kept UVB-76, as the station’s call sign ran, from its inscrutable purpose. During that time, its broadcast came to transfix a small cadre of shortwave radio enthusiasts, who tuned in and documented nearly every signal it transmitted. Although the Buzzer (as they nicknamed it) had always been an unknown quantity, it was also a reassuring constant, droning on with a dark, metronome-like regularity.

But on June 5, 2010, the buzzing ceased. No announcements, no explanations. Only silence.

supercomputer predicts revolution through 'culturomics'

from singularity hub: A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining the news for the past 30 years the software indicates points at which the likelihood for a revolution is high. When put to the test – bingo! – the software showed spikes just before the recent Egyptian and Libyan upheavals. It was also able to sift through world news to retrospectively pinpoint Osama Bin Ladin’s location to within 200 km. In the emerging science of ‘culturomics’ that tracks cultural trends through the written word, the software was the first to demonstrate that news coverage can be used to predict future events.

The software sifted through news reports from nearly every country in the world. Major sources were from the global news databases such the US government-run Open Source Center which provides foreign open source intelligence, Britain’s equivalent BBC Monitoring, as well as the New York Times’ archive that dates back to 1945. In all, the body of data included over 100 million news articles. The story elements were woven together into a mind-boggling web of 100 trillion relationships. To crunch the massive amount of data the SGI Altix supercomputer Nautilus was enlisted. Its 1024 Intel Nehalem cores give it a total processing power of 8.2 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second).

The strategy for pulling out relevant information included two main techniques. ‘Sentiment mining’ involves counting the number of words in a document that are categorized as positive, such as “good” or “nice,” or negative, such as “terrible” or “horrific.” Changes in the tone of a regions’ news documents over time correlates with the sentiment of the people in that region. A major dip in tone, as when the frequency of negative terms rapidly increases, means the natives are getting restless. An unprecedented dip could spell revolution. The second technique, called ‘full-text geocoding,’ matches sentiment to geographic locations.