what happened to telstar?

Whatever happened to Telstar? The first communications satellite (COMSAT) to relay television signals launched from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962. A video of the launch can be viewed here. Telstar's Wikipedia entry reveals the COMSAT was a victim of the cold war. "The day before Telstar 1 was launched, the United States had tested a high-altitude nuclear bomb (called Starfish Prime) which energized the Earth's Van Allen Belt where Telstar 1 went into orbit. This vast increase in radiation, combined with subsequent high-altitude blasts, including a Soviet test in October, overwhelmed Telstar's fragile transistors..." The satellite went out of service permanently on February 21, 1963. The AT&T-owned satellite inspired The Tornados to a number one hit in the UK and the US also named after the satellite, 'Telstar'.

related update: 3 russian satellites crash in pacific near hawaii

video barbie: camera streams download to computer

FBI warns 'Barbie Video Girl', a doll with camera in necklace and LCD on her back, can be used for child porn! A Mail Online article, "FBI issues warning over Barbie 'Video Girl' which could be used by paedophiles to make child pornography", supplies the details. Wow! "Video Girl can capture up to 30 minutes of footage and the video can be downloaded and streamed live to a computer. There is no indication it can be streamed directly to the internet." There is nothing to see here please move along!

we're ripe for a false flag event

Zen Gardner, at Before It's News, believes circumstances are set for a false flag event, in other words, "we're ripe". Gardner sees, as an ominous sign, Geraldo Rivera's recent reconsideration of Building 7's collapse as questionable. "This may seem like a drop in the bucket to some, but when he confesses he wouldn't listen to anything before and shouted down challengers to the canned govt explanation, and then says he's now open to the subject, that's significant. Something's up." Gardner compares it to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's press conference on Sept. 10th, 2001 about the missing billions from the Pentagon budget.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a powerful oligarch, may have revealed the roadmap in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Feb. 7, 2007: "then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a 'defensive' U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan". Gardner believes so and makes an even stronger case by noting the larger framework, where the world government agenda is stepped up, the plug continues to be pulled on the world economy and restricting world food supplies. We're ripe!

mission accomplished: x-37b lands at vandenberg afb

X-37B landed December 3, 2010 4:16 am EST at Vandenberg AFB in California.  The report is at Space Daily. "'We are very pleased that the program completed all the on-orbit objectives for the first mission,' Lt. Col. Troy Giese, X-37B program manager, said in a statement."  The next unmanned mini-shuttle is scheduled to launch next spring.

12/2 defcon: fingerprints, arsenic & oxygen

feds warrantlessly tracking credit cards in real time*
google admits street view trespassing, hit with crippling $1 fine*
race is on to 'fingerprint' phones & pc's*
xbox-modding case dismissed mid-trial*
who'll win the battle for control of web?*
most popular yahoo search in 2010 was 'bp oil spill'; first time for a news story*
nasa created buzz with 'e.t.' tease*
nasa finds new arsenic-fed life form*
oxygen detected on saturn's moon rhea*
ufo's welcome in hooper, colorado*

wikileaks: cyber-cointelpro?

cablegate: wikileaks unveils secret state dept cables
Wayne Madsen reports Asian intelligence sources feel strongly Wikileaks is linked to US computer espionage operations. Wikileaks cries persecution by US intelligence when it is intelligence itself, according to Madsen's sources. Madsen writes in "CIA, Mossad and Soros behind Wikileaks", his sources also view Wikileaks as part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign as proposed by President Obama's information czar, Cass Sunstein. Article provides an amazing detailed history of Wikileaks from making the CIA unhappy by diverting too many funds to the MOSSAD to its move to Iceland, and how it's believed, George Soros is behind it. It's a must read article to appreciate how speculators like Soros operate on the world stage.

government seizes domains alleged to infringe copyright

bittorrent based dns to counter US domain seizures
from pcmag: The U.S. government has shut down several sites apparently suspected of either linking to or providing access to copyrighted materials. Visitors to Torrent-Finder.com and other sites were met with a notice that the site's domain name had been shut down by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Homeland Security Investigations department, pursuant to a seizure warrant that would apparently be issued by a judge in the future.

It was unclear how many sites the ICE took down or otherwise took over, with TorrentFreak publishing a list of sites that had been taken down. If that list is accurate, only a few apparently disseminated links to BitTorrent trackers, the master index for distributing a given file across the Internet through the BitTorrent network. Such sites included Torrent-Finder.com, but also mydreamwatches.com and nfljerseysupply.com, among others. Others apparently distributed rap music.

"ICE office of Homeland Security Investigations executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names," ICE said in a written statement to the UPI. "As this is an ongoing investigation, there are no additional details available at this time."

The move appears to be completely independent of COICA, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act making its way through the U.S. Senate.

related: in the wake of 'cablegate' -
why hasn't the govt seized the domain name wikileaks.org?*
uk police to get major new powers to seize domains*

update: dhs seizes more domains; this time for linking to copyrighted material