Clock counts down as Google privacy change looms

from cnet.com: For the congenital procrastinators out there--and yes, you know who you are--don't complain about not being warned. In less than 24 hours, Google will hit the switch and start linking your data across the company's e-mail, video, social-networking, and other services... CNET's Sharon Vaknin has a good explainer on what you can do before the big changeover. Sign in to your account on Google and head to www.google.com/history. Once there click on the tab that says "Remove all Web history" and then hit the "OK" button. That disables the history of sites you have visited or the searches that you've performed. Also, here's a primer that the Electronic Frontier Foundation compiled on what else you can do to protect your Internet privacy.

Galactic Core Explosions and Superwave Theory

Dr Paul Laviolette made several predictions in his PHD dissertation in the early eighties, Prediction No. 4 about interstellar dust confirmed by data from Ulysses spacecraft in 1993. Laviolette predictions and subsequent verification, can be read here. Prediction No. 1 is the most fascinating and alarming, which ties in myths and geological findings. The prediction states: "... galactic core explosions recur about every 10,000 years and last for several hundred to a few thousand years. He was the first to suggest such a short recurrence time for galactic core explosions and that our own Galactic core undergoes Seyfert-like [Seyfert Galaxy pictured] explosions with similar frequency." An appearance of a Blue Star as in Hopi Indian legend, according to LaViolette, marks the event - our galaxy core exploding - sending a volley of cosmic rays towards Earth. The Blue Star (activated core) can remain visible up to thousands of years. The sky becomes obscured by interstellar dust that drifts in from disruption of the heliosheath to provide appearance of an ominous eye.  An excellent presentation of Superwave Theory can be viewed on You Tube, "Earth Under Fire." It's an amazing theory presented in thought-provoking manner - a must see!

Phoenix Lights still talk of town 15 years later

Dr Lynn Kitei sustains interest in the Phoenix Lights mass sighting of March 13, 1997 with her book and video. A recent Kitei interview by a local Arizona station, covering International UFO Congress from Feb 22 - Feb 26, is available here. Kitei affirms while signing books, "it's hotter than ever." An article of an anonymous pilot's account, provides fascinating record of events. The pilot related several strange events from evening, including different voices on her frequency, military flare shot up just off plane's wing and a close flyby of a fighter jet! The pilot clearly felt an effort to intimidate was made that night. The article appeared in UFO magazine on page 37 for 10th anniversary, "Two Witnesses Look Back at the Phoenix Lights." The present writer leans towards a black project, especially, in light of, little concern communicated from government sources!

Weekend Sci-Fi: The Time Travelers

What's a weekend without a little distraction?  You can enjoy 1964 science fiction film, The Time Travelers.  The film inspired sixties series, The Time Tunnel and a 1967 remake of Journey to the Center of Time.  The plot "...involves a group of scientists who find their time-viewing screen allows them to travel through time," according to Wikipedia.  The scientists led by actors Preston Foster and  Philip Carey  find a "a sterile slag in space" due to nuclear holocaust. 2071 AD City leader played by John Hoyt, attempts to build craft to travel to distant star with aid of scientists while fighting off mutants.  You may watch to discover scientists' fate!

Strange Metal Boxes on Oregon Beaches Debunked?

A story on a local, Oregon website - "Strange boxes spark UFO rumors," written by Terry Dillman - reports with obligatory dismissal on the sightings last week of the "mystery boxes" on Bray's Point and Stonefield beaches. Dillman insists the boxes were "wood-framed, fiberglass-covered dock floats," he dismisses the phenomena as internet rumor gone viral. Hong Kong reporter Yoichi Shimatsu believes the metal boxes are stepping transformers which floated from Japan. The strange heavy metal boxes float because the fluid inside is lighter than water. You can hear Shimatsu's take on the strange, metal boxes here: he suspects that the reason they were removed so quickly is that the boxes contained contaminants.

Michigan Congressman Says 'No Emergency Plan for Alien Invasion'

Congressman Fred Upton answered the question, on a local Michigan program called The Trifecta, about whether an emergency plan is in place for an alien invasion: "Chuckling, Upton replied, 'I can tell you, on scout's honor, I have had many classified meetings, and none of them include an alien invasion plan. So the answer is ‘no’.' According to Upton, because there is no publicly documented history of extra-terrestrial visitors to Earth, it would be difficult for the United States to formulate a “plan” to deal with an alien invasion."

#Obamessiah Fights to Retain Warrantless Wiretapping

DOJ Tells SCOTUS Don't Fight Warrantless Eavesdropping

from @ThreatLevel: The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The FISA Amendments Act (.pdf), the subject of the lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and others, allows the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is outside the United States. The communications may be intercepted “to acquire foreign intelligence information.” The administration is asking the Supreme Court to review an appellate decision that said the nearly 4-year-old lawsuit could move forward. The government said the ACLU and a host of other groups don’t have the legal standing to bring the case because they have no evidence they or their overseas clients are being targeted.