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December 31st 2011

 

Fortean

 

The Paul Freeman Bigfoot Footage: Another Look

 

Science as Junk Catastrophe

 

Beware scientific 'breakthroughs'

 

AI

 

Representations of Artificial Intelligence in Cinema

 

 

Drone News

 

Air Force buys an Avenger, its biggest and fastest armed drone

 

The new radar-evading aircraft, which cost the Air Force $15 million, has a maximum takeoff weight of 15,800 pounds and can fly at 460 mph. The drone, built near San Diego, is for testing purposes.

 

 

Apocalypse

 

VIDEO: Skeptical of "Cold Shutdown" at Fukushima

 

Orwelliana

 

North Korea not the only offender: 6 official photo fudgings

 

As state manipulators of the media go, few can compare to North Korea, which this week is mourning the death of Kim Jong-il. But even with all the careful orchestration of the ceremonies, the North Korean media still found it necessary to doctor an official photograph of the funeral procession.
Just as governments are finding it easier to use technology to manipulate images, so too is the public finding it easier to spot such digital trickery. Here are six noteworthy attempts by governments to shape media coverage through image manipulation.

 

UFO

 

Field Investigator Continues UFO / Entity 'Bio-Form' Research

 

 

The Sun

 

Flying cloud sparks UFO mystery

Plus spectacular video!

 

 

Apocalypse

 

2012: The year that could bring a U.S. strike of Iran

 

It is obvious that recent Obama administration rhetoric is not intended only to win re-election. It is also intended to signal to Iran that the United States stands by its word.  The poster below shows some of the typical gung-ho sentiments which are now current. Yossi Melman, writing in Haaretz, comments:

 

"The questions surrounding Iran and the decision of whether or not to attack its nuclear facilities reminds me of Israel and Egypt from1970 until the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. After Anwar Sadat gained power in the wake of Gamel Abdul Nasser’s death, he would, from time to time, declare that if Israel would not return the territories it conquered in 1967, Egypt would return them by force. At the time, Israelis laughed at Sadat’s statements. Even flyers advertising Israeli New Years Eve parties called on people to “celebrate the year of reckoning,” directly referencing Sadat’s oft-used expression. 1971 passed without any reckoning, as did 1972. With the passing years, Israel’s self-confidence skyrocketed, along with its complacence and euphoria. And then it happened. 1973 was the “year of reckoning.” Anwar Sadat stood by his promise, and retrieved what we took from him by force –Sinai.

Intrigue

 

Bradley Manning: Right or Wrong?

 

In 2005, General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "It is absolutely the responsibility of every U.S. service member [in Iraq], if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to try to stop it."

Chase Mader writes in HuffPo that soon after deployment to Iraq, Manning:

"soon found himself helping the Iraqi authorities detain civilians for distributing "anti-Iraqi literature" -- which turned out to be an investigative report into financial corruption in their own government entitled "Where does the money go?" The penalty for this "crime" in Iraq was not a slap on the wrist. Imprisonment and torture, as well as systematic abuse of prisoners, are widespread in the new Iraq. From the military’s own Sigacts (Significant Actions) reports, we have a multitude of credible accounts of Iraqi police and soldiers shooting prisoners, beating them to death, pulling out fingernails or teeth, cutting off fingers, burning with acid, torturing with electric shocks or the use of suffocation, and various kinds of sexual abuse including sodomization with gun barrels and forcing prisoners to perform sexual acts on guards and each other...
Like any good soldier, Manning immediately took these concerns up the chain of command. And how did his superiors respond? His commanding officer told him to "shut up" and get back to rounding up more prisoners for the Iraqi Federal Police to treat however they cared to..."
Manning also found a video and an official report on American air strikes on the village of Granai in Afghanistan’s Farah Province (also known as "the Granai massacre"). According to the Afghan government, 140 civilians, including women and a large number of children, died in those strikes.

For an opposite point of view, see:

The Strange World of Bradley Manning

 

Science as Junk Catastrophe

 

Mainstream Medical Pharmaceutical ‘Science’ Goes Against Nature

 

"Is it possible to thrive without antipsychotics, high-powered painkillers, and statin drugs? More importantly, are natural alternatives really as ‘dangerous’ as mainstream health officials claim? Sure, there have been some great advancements in the field of medical science in this field, but profit mongering and a blatant disregard for public health has driven big pharma giants to throw science to the wind and unleash a variety of harmful yet profitable pharmaceuticals.

It is thanks to this motive that pharmaceuticals have now led to more deaths than traffic fatalities in the United States. Killing at least 37,485 people nationwide in 2009, the mainstream medical structure continues to not only ignore natural alternatives but actually goes as far as to label them ‘dangerous’ and completely deny their effectiveness. Vitamin D, which can be obtained by simply stepping outside, has been found to slash your risk of cancer, obesity, and the flu. Of course unless
dependence on prescription drugs Dear Big Pharma, What Have You Done For Us Lately? Sincerely, Canceryou are supplementing thousands of times over the safe limit of vitamin D, there are virtually zero side effects to accompany these benefits.
Meanwhile, statin drugs have been linked in peer-reviewed research to more than 304 diseases conservatively.
This information directly challenges and disproves the claims of many supposed health ‘experts’ that pharmaceuticals and invasive mainstream medical interventions are the only answer to treating (certainly not curing) disease. If we were to see a medical paradigm shift into natural, or at least integrated medicine, we would see a dramatic slash in cancer rates simply from educating the world about the benefits of free vitamin D. Some estimates place 70% of U.S. children in the vitamin D deficiency category, as well as a large number of adults. Imagine if health officials were to adopt more integrated health principals, such as the consumption and supplementation of a spice known as turmeric.

 

December 30th 2011

 

Orwellian Politics

 

'Orwell Rolls in His Grave' - Full Documentary

 

Religion

 

Nigerian Islamist Terrorists Wage War Against Christians

 

The prayers of faithful Christians in Nigeria were interrupted by bombs detonated by Islamic militants during worship services on Christmas Day — attacks that are becoming perennial in a nation that rests on one of the theological fault lines between Christianity and Islam.
Last year, bombings in the Nigerian city of Jos killed dozens of people and wounded nearly a hundred more; this year the attacks by the Muslim group Boko Haram killed approximately 40 people. Bombs were detonated in the cities of Madalla, near the capital city of Abuja, Jos in central Nigeria, and in Damaturu and Gadaka in northern Yobe state, where fighting between the government and Boko Haram has been particularly fierce.

 

Cosmology

 

Star Makers


"A hyper-advanced civilisation may command such unimaginable power that it can fashion worlds and consume whole suns. But it would still be bound by the laws of physics."

Is that so? CB


 

ASK THE AVERAGE SCIENTIST about the possibility of an encounter with an extra-terrestrial lifeform, and it's likely you'll find you've prompted 'the giggle factor'. After rolling their eyes, they remind you that the distances between stars are so vast, it's virtually impossible for any aliens to visit us. But a potential flaw is assuming an extraterrestrial civilisation would be only a few hundred years ahead of us in technology. How about civilisations that may be a million years ahead of ours?
The late scientist and author Carl Sagan once asked: "What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque."
This question is no longer just a matter of idle speculation. Soon, humanity may face an existential shock as we discover Earth-sized twins of our planet orbiting nearby solar systems. This may usher in a new era in our relationship with the universe, so that we will never see the night sky in the same way. Realising that scientists may eventually compile an encyclopaedia identifying the precise coordinates of perhaps hundreds of Earth-like planets, gazing at the night sky, we will forever after wonder if someone is gazing back at us.

 

Apocalypse

 

Positioning for war with Iran?

The United States Navy's USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)

 

"There are some distinct geopolitical rumblings occurring in the general region surrounding Iran that is quite concerning for someone like myself and I’m sure Tehran as well.
This includes a major sale of cutting-edge F-15SA fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, Iran spotting the John C. Stennis aircraft carrier entering the Strait of Hormuz, a sale of advanced missile interceptor systems to the United Arab Emirates, warnings from the Russian envoy to the United Nations of global destabilization in 2012 and new awards for Raytheon for the AESA radar system and contracts for US/NATO missile systems.
After Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if the West continued to push for sanctions on Iranian oil exports, the United States’ Fifth Fleet out of Bahrain countered with similar sabre-rattling."
 

Science as Show business

The Great Lego Game Continues

 

Chance or Necessity?
Bioenergetics and the Probability of Life

 

Look at the language here, look at the moves on the Creation board-game. This is psycho-social mystique with a vengeance! CB

 

"The emergence of life is probable on any wet, rocky planet. Serpentinization gives rise to alkaline hydrothermal vents that form: (i) simple organics; (ii) catalysts that direct primordial metabolism (iii) micropores with cell-like properties; and (iv) proton gradients equivalent to the proton-motive force. Thermodynamic constraints dictate that all anaerobic chemolithotrophic cells must depend on chemiosmotic coupling, explaining the near-universal use of proton gradients today. But proton gradients also limit the evolutionary potential of prokaryotes. Only a rare and stochastic event, an endosymbiosis between prokaryotes, permitted the evolution of morphologically complex life on Earth, as only such an endosymbiosis made it possible for chemiosmotic coupling to be controlled by multiple small genome outposts across a wide area of internal membranes. This leap in bioenergetic capacity in turn enabled the expansion in cell volume and genome size characteristic of eukaryotes. The origin of life and evolution of prokaryotes is therefore deterministic and probable (necessity), while the evolution of more complex eukaryotic life is stochastic and improbable (chance). These bioenergetic principles are likely to apply throughout the universe."

UFO

 

Strange Lights over a Nuclear Missile Base

 

On the early morning of October 24, 1968, following several weeks of watching strange lights maneuver across the night skies above a nuclear missile base in Minot, N.D., Smith got an expanded world view. A mobile “camper team” unit reported UFO activity near a launch control facility designated Oscar-6. Smith took a look for himself, saw the reported “large glowing object,” and phoned it in to security control with the 91st Strategic Missile Wing.
For the next hour or two, Smith and colleagues would watch the light — or lights — as it changed color, changed direction, and dipped behind a treeline. Exasperated over his superiors’ ostensible indifference to this blatant incursion into restricted air space, he tuned in with at least a small measure of relief to radio chatter from a B-52 crew, which confirmed the bogey from above as it made a joke of military security. No culprits were ever held to account, in a complicated case that would also involve trace effects of radiation, an unlocked inner perimeter gate, and a wide open — but unmanned — personnel hatch at an Oscar launch control center. Although Smith filed an AF-117 report, he was ordered never to discuss the incident outside the chain of command.

 

Fortean

 

Just the Facts?: MoD Hid Big Cat Sightings -- El Salvador Alien Encounter -- 'Ball Cutter' Fish

 

Mammon

 

Video: Fed secretly bailing out Europe?

 

Arab Spring

 

Seventeen dead as Syrians stage mass protests

 

Trouble

 

Next Year's Wars

 

 

Tesla

 

The World Of Free Energy

 

Israel News

 

Israel kills al Qaeda-linked chief in Gaza strike

 

Robotics

 

Some Fortean Thoughts from the Museum of Mysteries

 

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/12/30-dollar-android.jpg

"I have always been afraid of robots. But now that I am all grown up, I think I mostly worry for them. It seems that one day in the future we will quite possibly create artificially intelligent life – but what then? Will these creatures live and then die? Will they have souls? Here we are still fumbling with the concept of our own human souls, wondering if we will maintain our consciousness in some way after we die – when we are slammed with an overlapping question: Where do the artificial lifeforms go when they die? And if they have souls, are those souls going to be included in the circle of life and rebirth? And, even more mindboggling is this intense question:
Is it possible that one day you and I could possibly be reborn into the body of an artificial lifeform?
Artificial life ‘could be created within five years’: researchers from the USA have claimed.
"
 

Apocalypse

 

Latest #Fukushima I Nuke Plant Video (12/14, 15/2011)



Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was damaged by earthquake 8

 

Fun

 

Hole in the Head from Charlie McGrath

 

Aren't you glad you don't have him as a brother-in-law?

 

Cyber

 

Stuxnet may have up to 4 malware siblings made on the same platform

 

 

December 29th 2011

 

 Apologies for late update...it was the wife's birthday, one of the cats  was sick, there was a knife-fight on the second floor and a mini-riot outside the Electric Cinema. Another bracing day in Ladbroke Grove! CB

 

Ted Rall

 

 

UFO

 

 

Filer's Files # 53 - 2011 Happy New Year!

 

Lakewood, Colorado photo taken on December 12, 2011.

 

Robotics

 

Scientists striving to put a human face on the robot generation


Scientists striving to put a human face on the robot generationThe CONCEPT project monitors how people engage with and react to the ‘LightFace’ robot when given the task of teaching it the meaning of words and concepts, just as they might a young child.
The robot is capable of producing a range of subtle and naturalistic expressions thanks to its computer generated responses which are projected onto its ‘face’.
The £200,000 project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is proving so influential that a number of overseas institutions are now using the technology – including an experiment in Qatar to create the world’s first robot receptionist.

 

Science as Show Business

 

In Search of the "God Particle"

 

 

Scientists at Switzerland's CERN research center
say they have found signs of a theoretical subatomic
particle believed to be the basic building block of the
universe.

 

Cyber

 

Hacked Stratfor security think tank keeps site offline

 

Hacked US security firm Stratfor has told its subscribers that it may take a week or even longer to restore its website. The site went offline on 24 December. Hackers have posted credit card details, email addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords which they said were taken during the attack.
Stratfor has said it will pay for a credit card fraud protection service for members whose payment details might have been compromised by the breach.

 

Arab Spring

 

US 'deeply concerned' after Egyptian forces raid NGO offices in Cairo

 

Syria: scores dead as Arab League expands mission

 

Members of the Free Syrian Army fire at a convoy of government security buses in the

 village of Dael Photo: REUTERS

 

Israel News

 

Gaza and Israel: Unlikely Trade Partners

 

December 28th 2011

 

Brentford Science

 

Members of small monkey groups more likely to fight

Do scientists get paid for this kinda crap?

 

Drone News

 

U.S. officials blame drone crash on mechanical failure
 

UFO/Fortean

 

Inquiry: Possible Alien Implants

 

Orwelliana

 

US Govt Blocks Deadly Bird Flu Study

 

 

Mammon

 

China Insolvency Wave Begins As Nation's Biggest Provincial Borrowers "Defer" Loan Payments

 

"Remember, back in the day, when a bankruptcy was simply called a bankruptcy? Naturally, this was well before ISDA came on the scene and footnoted the living feces out of everything by claiming that a bankruptcy is never a bankruptcy, as long as the creditors agree to 99.999% losses at gunpoint, with electrodes strapped to their testicles, submerged in a tank full of rabid piranhas, it they just sign a piece of paper (preferably in their own blood) saying the vaseline-free gang abuse was consensual. Well, now we learn that as the global insolvency wave finally moves to China, a bankruptcy is now called something even less scary: "deferred loan payments" (and also explains why suddenly Japan is going to have to bail China out and buy its bonds, because somehow when China fails, it is the turn of the country that started the whole deflationary collapse to step to the plate). After all, who in their right mind would want to scare the public that the entire world is now broke?

Cyber

 

Anonymous 'Robin Hood' hacking attack hits major firms

 

Arab Spring

 

Bomb kills three NATO troops in Afghanistan

 

Rights Group Says Syria Hid Prisoners Ahead of Observer Visit

 

A protester in the flashpoint central Syrian city of Homs throws a tear gas bomb back towards security forces, on December 27, 2011.

  1. Photo: AFP

  2. A protester in the flashpoint central Syrian city of Homs throws a tear gas bomb back towards security

  3. forces, on December 27, 2011.

Apocalypse

 

After Nigeria's Church Bombings: The Advent of Christian-Muslim Conflict?

 

 

A security barrier marks the scene of a car-bomb explosion at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Suleja, just outside the Nigerian capital of Abuja, on Dec. 25, 2011.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103163,00.html#ixzz1hmKS3mdO

 

Cyber

 

A year of Malware and Internet Spying Ahead

 

The cyber-security industry warned internet users of a drastic rise in the rate of cyber-spying and reported that the hackers would use the most advanced kind of malicious software to tap data in 2012. 2011 saw a series of data loss from security agencies, fortune 500 companies, human rights organizations and few governmental organizations worldwide.

 

December 27th 2011

 

Porn

 

These .xxx domains are ready to hook up

 

 

"If you always fancied your very own .xxx domain name, it's not too late: plenty of real estate in the Internet's official red light district remains unclaimed, CNET has learned.
Kentucky.xxx and NYC.xxx are taken, but Alabama.xxx and Nashville.xxx are not. WhiteHouse.xxx and NASA.xxx are reserved, but USDOJ.xxx, Treasury.xxx, DARPA.xxx, and USEmbassy.xxx could be yours for a mere $100 a year.
High-quality university names also remain unclaimed. Stanford.xxx, Harvard.xxx, and Princeton.xxx may be off-limits, but Cornell.xxx, UPenn.xxx, and Tufts.xxx aren't. (Playboy, which recently published a "Girls of the SEC" feature, take note.)
That's according to a new analysis by Elie Bursztein, a Stanford University researcher who found that of the 50,000 most popular Web sites in the world, only 24 percent have their .xxx counterpart registered.
"There's been a lot of news about people rushing to buy .xxx," Bursztein told CNET today. "But after the dust settled, it turns out that the data don't agree with the hype."
Early reports suggested that companies and schools were snapping up .xxx domains to prevent them from being used for pornographic purposes -- especially, perhaps the types of hardcore parodies the adult industry is known for."

Cyber

 

Dazzlepod Offers Stratfor Customers a Way to Check on Anonymous Hack

 

Postmodern

 

The Beach Animals of Theo Jansen


 

 

Fortean

 

The Yeti, a severed finger spirited from Nepal, and a famous film star. DNA tests will finally solve a truly bizarre mystery

 

Zone of Silence: Mexico's Bermuda Triangle

 

Bacteria unleashed in sewers to feast on Christmas dinner fat

 

9/11 Anomalies

 

As seen in the "rods" phenomenon, anomalous video artefacts relating to the digital chips and/or tape used in a given camera, combined with lens refraction can lead to a less "true" picture of distant high-speed events, when the footage is slowed down, frame-by-frame and when the pixels are blown up...or *does* it?
In these two shots of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center towers, the second airplane, especially looks more like a holographic phantasm than a solid object. In both cases, the explosions relating to the planes' collisions appear to occur prior to the planes' impact...(?!)
There is a sector of the "Tinfoil Hat" community that alleges that *no planes* crashed into the WTC, at all; that some kind of high-tech holograms were used to create these illusions. This has bred resentment among the families of those who lost loved ones on those flights. 
Having formerly lived one block from the WTC for 8 years until FEMA told me to leave, I am too traumatized to comment further. My heart goes out to everyone who lost family and friends on that tragic day.

 


 

Consumerism as Totem

 

A New Political Anthropology: the Nike Revolution

 

 

The moment police Tasered a bystander as they try to regain control of Oxford Street crowd in frenzy over stabbing

 

Ted Rall

 

 

Warplanes

 

F-35 problems multiply

 

 

There are 56 F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters being assembled at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth. But because only 20 percent of the testing for the most advanced fighter-bomber in U.S. history is completed, each will probably have to get million-dollar-or-more fixes later.
The F-35 is already the most costly U.S. weapons program underway at about $385 billion. But that figure may go higher with overrun of the per-plane contract price for the 56 craft being assembled — along with the future multimillion-dollar fixes likely to be required for them — and the 15 F-35s completed but not yet delivered to the military services.

 

Israel

 

Israel Cannot Wage a War against Iran without a "Green Light" from the US

COMBAT DIARIES: Although this article is a typical Leftish sneer against the Israel/US relationship, it contains nevertheless interesting information about weapon systems now installed in the Middle East. These left-wing journalists aught to think about how long they would last in some of the Muslim states they appear to love.

 

In late December 2008, coinciding with the onslaught of Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" directed against Gaza, the Pentagon dispatched some 100 military personnel to Israel from US European Command (EUCOM) to assistIsrael in setting up a new sophisticated X-band early warning radar system as part of a new and integrated air defense system. (See defense.gov/news/, December 30, 2011). The project had been approved by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in September 2008. 
With media attention focussing on Gaza, this crucial military initiative in the area of US-Israel Air Defense passed virtually unnoticed. The official story was that Tel Aviv had requested this aid "to help defend against a potential missile attack from Iran". 
What was at stake, however, was a new threshold, a fundamental turning point in the structure of Israel's Air Defense system and its relationship to the US global missile detection system. 
Casually heralded as "military aid", the project consisted in strengthening the integration of Israel's air defense system into that of the US, with the Pentagon rather than Israel calling the shots: 
"Once fully operational, the system will be capable of tracking and identifying small objects at long distance and at very high altitude, including space, according to U.S. Missile Defense Agency officials. It also will integrate Israel’s missile defenses with the U.S. global missile detection network.
 

Legend

 

A Christmas Eve Visitation?

 

Consumerism

 

Pharmageddon: America’s bitter pill

"I pop therefore  I am"

 

"The United States has a passion for pills, being the world’s biggest users of psychotropic drugs, consuming 60 per cent of them. And pharmaceutical firms are keen to keep cashing in on the multibillion-dollar market, even if it costs people’s health.
America is regarded as a country with a prodigious appetite for consumption. Today, a widespread fondness for pharmaceuticals has turned the US into a nation of pill-poppers.
With over $14 billion in annual sales, antipsychotics remain the top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the US."
 

History

 

20 Years Since the Fall of the USSR

 

 

Arab Spring

 

Mass Murder as a Political, Religious and Moral Philosophy


Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts

 

Five Killed in Latest Baghdad Bombing

 

 An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that ripped through markets, cafes and government buildings in Baghdad on a single day last week, killing 69 people and raising new worries about the country's path.
The coordinated attacks struck a dozen mostly Shiite neighbourhoods on Thursday in the first major bloodshed since U.S. troops completed a full withdrawal this month after nearly nine years of war. They also coincided with a government crisis that has again strained ties between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites to the breaking point, tearing at the same fault line that nearly pushed Iraq into all-out civil war several years ago.

 

Mind Control

 

It was only a matter of time: Study shows how scientists can now 'read your mind'

 


 

Jewish News

 

Germany to Compensate Jews who fled the Nazis in the Soviet Union

 

Hacking

 

Merry Christmas, Stratfor!

 

Hackers hand intel outfit own head on plate

 

On Christmas Eve, attackers announced that they had broken into Stratfor’s systems and obtained access to 200 GB of e-mails. They then extracted information, including Stratfor’s customer and donor lists along with credit card data on Pastebin. Clients identified in the list include Goldman Sachs, derivatives trader MF Global, Apple, and the US Air Force. The successful attack has been confirmed by Stratfor founder George Friedman in a letter reproduced at Zero Hedge. While the Zero Hedge post captures IRC announcements made during the attack that link the break-in to Anonymous, the collective has posted a statement to Pastebin denying responsibility. The statement attributes the attack to “Sabu”, stating that “Sabu and his crew are nothing more than opportunistic attention whores who are possibly agent provocateurs. As a media source, Stratfor's work is protected by the freedom of press, a principle which Anonymous values greatly.”

 

Arab Spring

 

As Reports of Deaths Mount, Syria Observers Urged Toward Homs

 

 

 At least 30 people were killed in fighting in the rebellious Syrian city of Homs on Monday, spurring France to join with residents and opposition figures in urging observers from the Arab League to quickly visit the city.

 

December 26th 2011

 

Video Documentary

 

'Dark Side of the Moon' - Part 5

 

Kubrick's Film for NASA?

Uploaded by OvergrowDaGovernment 
March 30, 2011

"This film illustrates how the truth can be twisted by the manipulation of images."

 

 

With use of 'hijacked' archival footage, false documents, real interviews taken out of context or transformed through voice-over or dubbing, staged interviews, as well as, interviews with astronauts like Buzz Aldrin and others, 'Dark Side of The Moon' navigates the viewer through lies and truth; fact and fiction. This is no ordinary documentary. Its intent is to inform and entertain the viewer, but also to shake him up - make him aware that one should always view television with a critical eye.
'Dark Side of The Moon' is written and directed by William Karel and co-produced by Point du Jour Production and ARTE France.

 

Robotics

 

The Future of Moral Machines

 

Robots bake, fly and kick in US labs

 

 

Entertainment

 

Boxing Day sales: 'it's madness in there'

 

Selfridges on Oxford Street

 

Politics and History

 

Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

In this classic interview, Professor Anthony Sutton makes clear the point that the text books on history have been sanitized to hide Wall Streets fingerprints in the creation of our old cold war enemy, the Soviet Union. 
Antony Sutton taught economics at California State University, and was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

 

Science as Junk Catastrophe

 

Are "Humanzees" Possible?

 

 

Web/Internet

 

The Terrible Truth About Facebook

 

 

Evolution

 

Fossilized cells found in China may challenge Theory of Evolution

 

911

 

Judge: Iran, Taliban, al Qaeda liable for 9/11

 

Fortean/Crypto

 

Winged Enigma

 

 

 

Unknown Visitors and Outsiders: There’s a Folk Devil in Every Crowd

Modern Mysteries by Micah Hanks

 

"The long sordid history of Forteana is rife with tales of chance encounters with unsettling weirdos and beasts whose very existence seems impossible, at very best. Due to the nature of these strange sorts of visits, it becomes difficult to discern how much of the mythos that surrounds such beings from the twilight world of the unexplained is based on pure fact, and how much could stem from the surreal archetypal realms of the human mind.
There are curious reports of creeping strangers the likes of the infamous “Grinning Man,” described by John Keel in his volumes pertaining to supernatural lore and oddities. There are reports of “Mad Gassers” that sneak noxious fumes into the homes of the middle class citizenry through pinhole-sized crevices along the edges of windows. There are also tales of demons, devils, and otherworldly goonies that lurch at the unsuspecting as they wander suburban roadsides during the still moments after the sun has gone down. While many of these denizens of the shadow realm might be attributed to various goings on of the physical realm (if not misidentification or outright hoaxes), one of their curious propensities relies on their odd tendency to court ill fortune and disasters… and for many readers of this blog, such creepy creatures of the night do have a particular name…"

 

 

Wikileaks

 

Online 'coaching' of Bradley Manning may sink Julian Assange

 

Arab Spring

 

13 more deaths reported in Syrian unrest

 

Afghan Bombing Kills at Least 19, Including Lawmaker

 

Iranian woman to face death by stoning or hanging

 

Syria: Fresh violence 'leaves 23 dead' in Homs

 

Military battle against militants in Yemen kill 9

 

Cyber

 

Anonymous Hackers target security think tank

 

 

December 25th 2011

 

Fun

 

VIDEO: A Day Made of Glass

 

 

Robotics

 

U-2 Holds Out Against The Robots

 

 

 

Santa

 

VIDEO: Magic Mushrooms & Reindeer

 


The hallucinogenic fly agaric mushroom is one of the favorite foods of the arctic circle reindeer (domesticated caribou) in Scandinavia. Reindeer are central to the lives of the indigenous Saami peoples who herd them. The shamanic traditions of the Saami include eating the mushrooms and contacting the "Great Reindeer Spirit."
Ingesting fly agaric mushrooms can produce a sensation of flying. It is thought that the 19th century 
myth of Santa Claus may have its roots in older Saami traditions.

 

 

Israel News

 

Second Temple Era Seal Unveiled

 

 

Tech

 

MIT's got a way of using encrypted data without decrypting it, next stop, traveling without moving

 

"Excepting Jersey Shore participants, people generally value privacy and it's a bigger issue when so much data is stored online. Ethical data controllers will keep it encrypted, but much like leaving food in a fridge, you have to take it out if you wanna use it, which is when it's most at risk. A team from MIT, thinks it's found a solution: a database that allows you to ask it questions without taking it out of the fridge... wait, what? CryptDB works by turning data into "homomorphic" information: strings of numbers, which you can then calculate against one another to get the answers you require. The frankensoftware is comprised of other encryption services, layered like an onion -- but capable of switching between processes instantly. The project was funded by Google and Citigroup and has been so successful that DARPA might be rolling some tanks up Massachusetts Avenue to offer the team a $20 million bounty. Head on down to our source link to read the paper that's so complex it made our eyes go cross-eyed."
 

UFO

 

UFO Documentary

 

'The Secret: Evidence We Are Not Alone'

 

Politics
 

2011 YEAR of the DUPE: One Year into the Engineered "Arab Spring," One Step Closer to Global Hegemony

 

 

"December 24, 2011 - In January of 2011, we were told that "spontaneous," "indigenous" uprising had begun sweeping North Africa and the Middle East in what was hailed as the "Arab Spring." It would be almost four months before the corporate-media would admit that the US had been behind the uprisings and that they were anything but "spontaneous," or "indigenous." In an April 2011 article published by the New York Times titled, "U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings," it was stated:

"A number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a non-profit human rights organization based in Washington."

 

 

Fortean Phenomena

 

Esoterica: Mormon Theory of Bigfoot -- Return of the Jedi -- Condemned on the Noose

 

 

Postmodern

 

Consumerism: the New Revolution

Not about politics, but design of new trainer shoes. It was exactly the same during the British summer riots

 

Arrests, pepper spray, gunshots, brawls and doors pulled off hinges: Chaos at stores across U.S. as thousands of shoppers scramble for new Nike Air Jordans

 

 

Mammon

 

A Diabolical Partnership:
Crooked Banks & Corrupt politicians

 

Rare Moment of Sanity

 

The Christmas Truce of 1914

 

 

Arab Spring

 

Suicide Bombings Target Security Sites in Damascus, Dozens Dead
 

13 dead from attack on Yemen protest

 

Suicide bomb kills at least 20 in northern Afghanistan

 

Korean Spring

 

Kim Jong-un uncle shown in military uniform with general insignia

 

Doesn't look promising. One son disappeared whilst on "illegal" visit to the Disney Wonderland in Japan, another was "too effeminate" to govern, and the youngest (below) has severe learning difficulties. Any resemblance to the British Royal Family is purely co-incidental.

 

A real bundle of laughs...should be on at the Palladium with Morecombe and Wise

 

Hypocrisy

 

Christmas shopping culture condemned by Pope Benedict XVI in Christmas Eve Mass

 

Talk about the kettle calling the pot...he looks like something from an ASDA drag-show bargain-shelf. And what's that he's got on his head? As for the record of homosexual  abuse of children by priests, well I ask folks to draw their own conclusions about this high-camp extravaganza, which is just about as phony as silicon tits. It was kitsch like this ruined the Music Halls.  Probably the best piece of old Nazi junk-theatre available for commercial breaks, Nissan dashboards, and Julie Andrews toilet-paper.

CB

 

 

 

African Spring

 

Nigerian church bombed by Islamists during Christmas prayers

At least 10 people killed in explosion in Catholic church in Abuja suburb but rescue efforts hampered by ambulance shortage

 

Science as Show Business

 

The Large Hadron Collider has been recreated in Lego

And its just about as useful!

 

 

 

December 24th 2011

 

African Spring

 

Nigeria conflict: Boko Haram sect battles kill 70

 

Cyber

 

Hidden Dragon: The Chinese cyber menace

 

Cybercrooks and patriotic state-backed hackers in China are collaborating to create an even more potent security threat, according to researchers. Profit-motivated crooks are trading compromised access to foreign governments' computers, which they are unable to monitise, for exploits with state-sponsored hackers. This trade is facilitated by information broker middlemen, according to Moustafa Mahmoud, president of The Middle East Tiger Team. Mahmoud has made an extensive study of the Chinese digital underground that partially draws on material not available to the general public, such as books published by the US Army's Foreign Military Studies Office, to compile a history of hacking in China. His work goes a long way to explain the threat of cyber-espionage from China that has bubbled up towards the top of the political agenda over recent months. The first Chinese hacking group was founded in 1997 but disbanded in 2000 after a financial row between some of its principal players led to a lawsuit. At its peak the organisation had about 3,000 members, according to Mahmoud. The motives of this so-called Red Hacker group were patriotic, defending motherland China against its enemies.

 

UFO

 

FEMA Makes Preparation For UFO Attack

 

Fortean/Crypto

 

Bigfoot From Yesteryear: The Sobby Savage -- Cohomo Monster -- Winsted Wildman

 

Yonaguni: "The Greatest Discovery in
Underwater Archeology"

 

Fun

 

Santa Sessions

 

Arab Spring

 

Troops Open Fire on Protesters in Yemeni Capital

 

Egyptians Rally for and Against Military Rule After 17 Killed

 

Mammon

 

Enron, Taliban & Warburg

 

In 1985 Drexel Lambert S&L crook Michael Milken helped Houston Natural Gas merged with Internorth to create Enron. Kenneth Lay headed Houston Natural Gas and became chairman and CEO of the new company. Enron was the biggest corporate contributor to George W. Bush’s campaign to become Texas Governor. [1]
Bush won and Texas led the way in a nationwide deregulation of energy markets which Lay advocated.Deregulation allowed Lay to pioneer energy trading. By 1999 Enron monopolized online energy trading via Enron Online. Throughout the political career of George W. Bush, Lay was his largest financial supporter, personally giving Bush $650,000.
In 1993 Wendy Gramm, wife of Senate Banking Committee Chairman Phil Gramm (R-TX), joined the board of Enron where she was chair of Enron’s Audit Committee. Wendy Gramm came to Enron straight from her job as 12-year chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where she ostensibly aided in the cover-up of BCCI, Capcom, Mena drug trade and S&L scandals. At CFTC Gramm’s main task was to oversee the complex derivatives market, a favorite haven for drug money laundering due to its opaque nature.
While Wendy was covering tracks at CFTC, husband Phil was busy blocking key money laundering legislation and pushing for bank deregulation. He pushed passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which severely reduced government oversight of the derivative and futures markets.
Enron, where Wendy Gramm now collected a $200,000 per year stipend, received exclusive regulatory exemptions through the legislation. Section 101 of the Act granted regulatory exemption to on-line energy traders. There was only one such entity – Enron OnLine. One CFTC official stated of Section 101, “everyone called it the Enron exemption”. [2]

 

Conspiracy

 

Is Facebook run by the CIA?

A blonde in a pencil skirt and some nice gosh-golly click-clunk editing.

 

DEBKA Report

 

Iran starts building a nuclear weapon: US and Israel tighten cooperation

 

Iran has embarked on "activities related to possible weaponization," said American sources Thursday, Dec. 22, thereby accounting for the dramatic reversal of the Obama administration's wait-and-see attitude on attacking Iran. The change was articulated this week by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey.
debkafile's Washington sources report that the Islamic Republic crossed the red line President Barack Obama had set for the United States, i.e., when Tehran begins using the technologies and fissile materials (enriched uranium) it has amassed for assembling a bomb or missile warheads. This marks the moment that Iran goes nuclear and only a short time remains before it has an operational nuclear weapon.
Washington has always claimed that when the order to build a weapon was given in Tehran, the United States would know about it within a short time.
The US stealth drone RQ-170 was sent into Iranian airspace for the first time to find evidence to support this suspicion. On Dec. 4 the Iranians downed the unmanned reconnaissance craft by intelligence or cyber means not yet fully clarified. The US - and most probably Israel too - then turned to other intelligence resources to find out what Iran was up to. According to debkafile's military and intelligence sources, they found evidence that Iran has in fact begun putting together components of a nuclear bomb or warhead.

 

Jewish News

 

Israel to pump life back into sacred river Jordan

 

The New Ufology

 

An appreciation of Colin Bennett's work by Micah Hanks

 

Spying on the Saucer Seekers by Nick Redfern

 

Mind Control

 

Inception becomes reality: People can teach themselves new skills in dreams

 

Brentford Science

 

Psychological need drives prejudice in humans: Study

Do scientists get paid for this crap?

 

Ufological Exopolitical Entertainment Bollox

 

Andromeda Council: Comet 17P Holmes as prelude to 4th dimensional Earth

 

"In an exclusive ExopoliticsTV interview released Dec. 23, 2011, the human representative of the Andromeda Council revealed reported cosmic astronomical processes relating to the sudden explosion of Comet 17P Holmes in our solar system on October 24, 2007, when the comet became the largest object in our solar system with a diameter of 870,000 miles making it the larger than the sun.

 

According to a statement (below) by Tolec, a spokesperson for the reported Andromeda Council, “the comet came from, was 'ejected' if you will, from the central core of our universe and was purposefully sent toward us to this specific area of space... to directly participate & progress our transformation into becoming a 4th dimensional world. It’s a key part of our planned celestial transformation, upgrade & evolution."
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 23rd 2011

 

Internet

 

Angry geeks fire back at SOPA supporters

 

 

Fortean

 

Deadly Chemistry: The Case Of The Toxic Lady

 

Bigfoot Attack Prompts Man to Build Flamethrower

 

Return of the Wicked Priest

 

The Gods must be crazy: Metal ‘Teletubby head’ falls near Namibian village

 

Wikileaks

 

Prosecutors say Manning collaborated with WikiLeaks’ Assange in stealing secret documents

 

 

Communist Mammon

 

The Red Royalty: A Look at China's Elite - An FP Slideshow

 

 

An Art Form in Crisis

(since when wasn't art form in crisis?)

 

Who Polices Political Cartooning?

 

Arab Spring

 

At least 40 dead in Damascus attack

 

The Deepest Past

 

The Ancient Alien Question: A New Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors

 

Philip Coppens is an internationally renowned investigative journalist, author, and regular contributor to magazines such as Atlantis Rising and NEXUS Magazine. He is labeled a skeptic by the believers, and a believer by the skeptics--a unique position which makes him a well-recognized voice of reason. He is the author of six books, including The New Pyramid Age, and is one of the leading contributors to The History Channel's popular series, Ancient Aliens. He lives in Edinburgh and Los Angeles, California.

Erich von Daniken is arguably the most widely read and most-copied nonfiction author in the world. He published his first (and most well-known) book, Chariots of the Gods, in 1968. It was a worldwide best-seller and has been followed by 31 more books including the recent hit History Is Wrong (New Page Books). His works have been translated into 28 different languages and have sold a total of 63 million copies. Several of his books have also been turned into films, and Erich's ideas have been the inspiration for a wide range of TV series, including the History Channel's smash hit special, "Ancient Aliens." He is an ever-present figure on the international lecture circuit. He lives in Switzerland. 

 

Apocalypse

 

Bill Clinton: Iran Might Give Fissile Material to Terrorists

 

Science as Junk Culture

 

 

New research may explain why serious thunderstorms and tornados are less prevalent on the weekends

Do scientists get paid for this crap?

 

Robotics

 

Robots get social network of their very own

 

Video Documentary

 

How Violent Are You?

 

Arab Spring

 

Atrocity scouts on the ground in Syria

 

You Are The Battlefield

 

 

Fortean

 

Creepy Cloud Over Southern England

 

 

December 22nd 2011

 

Mind Control

 

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Still Bringing Illuminati Symbolism to Kids

 

 

"After giving us a WTH moment with her video PONPONPON, J-Pop singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is back with another Illuminati-drenched video. The video appears to be based on Alice in Wonderland. How many times can that fairy tale be referred to in popular culture? I believe I personally mentioned Alice in Wonderland about a dozen of times in the past few months on this site. The story and the symbolism surrounding it is obviously of a great importance for the Illuminati industry – maybe because it is a staple in actual MK programming."

 

Cyber

 

Iran moves websites to avoid cyber attacks

 

Drone News

 

Drones: invisible to radar but vulnerable to primitive viruses

 

 

Iran GPS Spoofing and the RSA Cipher

The very best of  state-of-the-art technical Intelligence

 

Postmodern

 

 

Dreyfus on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Artificial Intelligence

(more fun than it sounds!)

 

Science as Show Business

 

Mathematicians Discover Secret Formula For Writing A Hit Song

 

Though math is usually used to tell you if a song was a hit based on sales, scientists from the University of Bristol believe they have "The Hit Equation." A group focused on artificial intelligence developed machine learning algorithms that mined the characteristics of top hits to develop a formula for key musical features that determine whether a song will be a hit.
The lads at the Intelligent Systems Lab, armed with the power of math, identified 23 features that were considered important from tempo and loudness to harmonic simplicity vs. non-harmonicity.
Features Included in the Hit Equation
The results are 60% accurate in predicting a top five hit or below 30 non-hit. They noted that their Hit Equation must be adjusted somewhat as tastes shift but it's apparently a fairly gradual process. This particular group of scientists aren't discussing commercial applications however their public site, Score a Hit!, suggests entertainment may be a key outcome.
Mark Brown discusses Score a Hit! and related services and points to Hit Song Science and their site uPlaya. They offer not only hit analysis but related marketing services designed to leverage that analysis. I don't know how Hit Song Science does its magic, but they claim to analyze "fundamental characteristics of all music" including brightness, tempo and changes over time, to identify hit potential in relationship to changing trends. They also identify markets where each song would be most likely to succeed.
Though I can't recommend the service, the idea of analyzing songs to identify markets and then providing marketing services is an interesting application.
MORE: Why Justin Bieber Is Such A Big Hit, a guest post by FutureHitDNA author Jay Frank.
Hypebot contributor Clyde Smith maintains his freelance writing hub at Flux Research and blogs at All World Dance and This Business of Blogging. To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.

 

Israel News

 

Israel, Turkey resume air force cooperation

 

Israeli Arabs enter Jewish classrooms

 

 

 Quantum

 

Parallel Universes: The Idea that
Made Science Uncomfortable

 

 

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Mysterious Deaths

 

Dr David Kelly

 

Interview with Retired Surgeon David Halpin

 

 

 

VIDEO: Russian Sasquatch or Secret Weapons Test?

 

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March 23, 2010
During the Cold War, a group of Soviet hikers disappeared in the Ural mountains. When they were finally discovered, it was clear that something had killed them -- but what, exactly?

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Fortean/Bigfoot

The Sykesville Monster, Carroll County, Maryland

 

Sykesville, Maryland - The fear and uncertainty that has gripped residents here the past two weeks has been intensified by two new reports of monster sightings received by police Friday.
The "Sykesville Monster" was seen Friday evening by an out-of-state truck driver who described him vividly.
Of high significance is the fact the 1,400-population town, 20 miles North of Baltimore, Maryland in Carroll County, has jumped into nationwide headlines in the National AFRO and other news media. Following the Baltimore zoo assistant director Dr. Ted Roth called to say that he went to Sykesville and determined the footprint is by a large human foot "with fallen arches." He said he would report after he takes another trip to Sykesville to determine "what the balance of the body may be."

TRUCK DRIVER'S REPORT
According to the truck driver, (who requested anonymity), the "it" stood approximately seven to eight feet tall and appeared to be dark brown in color." It could have been a man on stilts." he said.
The driver stated that whatever it was seemed to be "caked with mud from the waist down." Although he was unable to pinpoint the exact location of the sighting, the driver said it appeared to be sitting down. According to the driver, the "thing", which was evidently minding its own business, stood, turned around and sensing danger, dashed into the woods.
As the result of the AFRO story Friday, an investigating organization, Odyssey Scientific Research, Baltimore, is on the scene. John Lutz, director of Odyssey, talked to the truck driver, and said there is an additional witness in Anne Arundel who reportedly saw the monster.

Korea

 

A Tourist's Perspective of North Korean Life

 

The Wonders of Science

 

Deadly strain of Super bird flu created in a lab

 

A super-strain of bird flu that could infect and wipe out millions has been developed in a laboratory. Dutch scientists who created the ‘Armageddon virus’ say it is ‘probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make’. Their research focused on what it took to convert bird flu – which can kill more than half of those infected but does not spread easily – into a highly contagious virus. They said this knowledge would be vital for the development of vaccines and drugs to prevent a possible pandemic.  But others argue the virus should never have been created – and warn the potential if it escaped from the lab is ‘staggering’. There are also fears the recipe will be seized on by terrorists looking for a biological weapon. 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2076422/Bird-flu-scientists-DELIBERATELY-create-Armageddon-virus-lab.html#ixzz1hAzOEOHM

 

Arab Spring

 

Worst violence in months hits Baghdad

 

Scores dead as explosions Rock Baghdad

 
A wave of coordinated explosions ripped across Baghdad early on Thursday, killing at least 63 people, wounding more than 180 and jolting a country already unsettled by a deepening political crisis and the absence of American troops.  Using car bombs and improvised explosive devices, insurgents attacked markets, grocery stores, schools and government buildings in a dozen neighbourhoods in central and eastern parts of the capital. 
 

UFO

 

 

In Part 1 of By Their Works Shall Ye Know Them, James Carlson guided us
through the blurred reality of the Robert Hastings “Reuters” Press Release,
along with a thorough explanation of the F.E. Warren AFB hoax and the
methods used by Hastings in order to further his agenda. Displaying an
eerie resemblance to the methods used by Scammers Inc. in their attempts to
propagate the discredited Project Serpo story, James now continues with his
explanation of why Anonymity must be examined in accordance with its
purpose – that purpose being the creation of a myth.

 

 

Part 2

 

Part 3
 

 

 

December 21st

 

DARPA

DARPA to start checking your email for threats

  1. Troops’ emails will be under surveillance as part of a new Defense Department project to help detect potential “insider threats,” or potential traitors or terrorists inside the military. A new project backed by the Defense Advanced Research Agency aims to create “a suite of algorithms that can detect multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data — including email, text messages and file transfers — for unusual activity,” according to a statement from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which is helping develop the system.
    The aim is to identify threats similar to that posed by Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence specialist who allegedly leaked thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks, or Nidal Hasan, the Army major accused of killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood in November 2009. Authorities say Hasan had contacts with Islamic extremists overseas before the shooting.

Postmodern: Lost Time and Decay

 

The Phantom Time Hypothesis

 


A few fringe professors have caused rumblings with their controversial claim that three hundred years of human history have been entirely made up. But why do they believe in phantom time, and how do they think it happened?

 

Decay


"The decay of the built environment has become a subject more of aesthetic fascination than of fear for many twenty-first-century Americans. Real communities such as Detroit, pictured in Time’s 2010 photographs and Julian Temple’s documentary “Requiem for Detroit?” (2010), and Gary, Indiana, seen in David Tribby’s Gary Indiana: A City’s Ruins (2009), have become fodder for photographers, bloggers, and artists. Meanwhile, fictional decayed landscapes are used as a spectacular backdrop to countless recent apocalyptic movies, from “I Am Legend” (2007) to “The Road” (2009), even undergoing transformation into animated form in the children’s film “Wall-E” (2008). But people who live, or once lived, in the real landscapes of decay often resent the intrusion of visitors following a podcast tour through Baltimore neighbourhoods used as locations for “The Wire,” or the presence of the urban explorer, wishing that such touristic interest might be followed by political action aimed at transformation of the material environment where their communities are based. How can scholars interested in visual and material culture address the aesthetics and ethics of this fascination with deterioration? Possible topics to be addressed in this panel include the ethics of the representation and simulation of decayed environments; the role of the urban explorer as proto-archaeologist; historical perspectives on the visual and material cultural presence of the decayed landscape; decayed landscapes and their function in filmic narrative; and decay and its relationship to discourses of consumer culture."
 

Cyber

 

How hackers gave Subway a $3 million lesson in point-of-sale security

 

 

Jewish News

 

US commander visits Israel to finalize missile drill

 

History of Chanukah

 

 

May the Gods Help Us

 

IBM is Thinking about Mind-Reading Phones

(The Manipulators always want to get those probe things around your head...)

 

“While much of the brain remains a mystery, progress has been made in understanding and reading electrical brain activity were we can use computers to see how the brain responds to facial expressions, excitement and concentration levels, and the thoughts of a person without them physically taking any actions,” wrote Brown.
In 2009 one of Brown’s close colleagues suffered a stroke leaving him completely paralyzed. Brown introduced him to the EPOC from Emotiv. Using head sensors, the device can read electrical brain impulses, and can be trained to take action based on particular thoughts.
For example, within 8 seconds of testing the device, Brown’s colleague could move a digital cube on a computer screen with his thoughts alone.
“The concentration needed whilst operating the headset is quite a lot, however, so more development of the technology and more training in using the headset may be needed to make it entirely effective,” wrote Brown.
According to Brown, scientists at UC Berkeley have designed and developed a special MRI scan that can model visual thoughts while subjects are awake or even dreaming.
“By 2017, like all technology, the EPOC or other similar technologies will probably get smaller,” Brown wrote. “So I can imagine it will have completely dry sensors, and I'd be wearing it all the time, perhaps embedded into a baseball cap, and with a finer range of thought patterns detected and connected directly to my mobile phone - allowing me to interact with the world just by thinking particular thoughts.”
Other innovations included on this year’s list are facial recognition devices that eliminate the need for passwords, technology to capture human kinetic energy to power a home, more affordable mobile devices, and the end of junk mail.

Arab Spring

 

US warns Damascus to implement Arab League plan after loyalist troops mow down scores of defectors

Demonstrators protest against Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus

 

The Syrian army is continuing to hunt down deserters near the northern city of Idlib after troops on Tuesday killed close to 150 men who had fled their base. The toll marked the deadliest day of the nine-month uprising and has rekindled fears of an imminent civil war.
The high numbers of dead and ongoing battles in the north came as an advance party of Arab League observers arrived in Damascus in a bid to implement an agreement signed by Syrian officials to stand down troops and enter into talks.

 

Ted Rall

 

 

Fortean

 

Graham Bell Speaks & TV Cannibalism

 

 

The Bulloo River Encounter: Humanoids in Business Suits

 

  

Von Braun and his Peenemunde Staff

 

Wikileaks

 

 Bradley Manning Faces the Hacker Who Turned Him In

 

Jewish News

 

The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis

Abdol-Hossein Sardari, Bern, 1931

 

Arab Spring

 

Syria crisis: 'Nearly 200 lives lost' in last two days

 

In Libya, death and disappearance still stalk the land

 

People are vanishing in broad daylight in Libya, as the country’s new rulers continue to settle accounts with their opponents. Widespread insecurity means the families of the kidnapped can do no more than hope that their loved ones are still alive. Libya’s conflict is over, and the man who stood in the way of Western-style democracy is dead. Yet atrocities against Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists continue. The images emerging from Libya are disturbing.

Proletarians Marching and Weeping

 

 

North Korea's Worker-Peasant Red Guard

(John Pilger and Ken Livingston can be seen in the front rank below)

 

(And I thought they were all watching X-Factor)

 

Israel News

 

Livni Links Gender Segregation, 'Racist' Laws

 

Tzipi Livni
Tzipi Livni
Israel news photo: Flash 90

 

Ufological Exopolitical Entertainment

 

 

 

"I used to firmly believe that we as predators were at the very top of the food chain. Then, others who also claimed to be abductees, some of whom I met through Budd Hopkins and his house "get-togethers," told me horror stories about abductions.
They had seen, met onboard craft, an alien race, frightening beings who radiated rage and hatred, reptilian alien overlords of many alien races who abduct humans and who pilot UFOS.
Muscular, winged, sentient, highly technological, upright standing to seven or eight feet tall, sentient UFO monitor lizard reptilians who looked upon us, as we fancied veal.
You see, these abductees had somehow also gleaned what reptoids regular diets consisted of.
It was a chilling story I was to hear repeatedly echoed elsewhere.
 

 

Drugs

 

'Inside Cocaine Submarines' - Full Documentary
National Geographic Channel

 

Drone News

 

How Iran Landed Our Drone On Their Runway

 

December 20th 2011

 

Cyber

 

Russia Likely Unleashed Stuxnet, Says USA’s Cyber-Defense Expert

 

Iran

 

US: Iran a year away from nukes, strike ‘not off the table’
 

Scientific Conspiracy

 

Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians

It's just a family row. folks!

 

AI

 

Chess robots have trouble grasping the game

 

 

Drone News

 

The Life and Death of American Drones

 

Orwellian Kitsch

 

The Dear Leader's Bizarre Obsession

 

"Despite Kim’s creative influence on the industry during the 1970s (when he served with the country’s Art and Culture Ministries) and the fact that he literally wrote the book on communist film production (1973’s On the Art of the Cinema - Kim Jong Il), North Korean movies were still terrible. Frustrated, Kim sought help by forcing 11 Japanese “cultural consultants” into servitude during the late 1970s and early 1980s, only to have several die inconveniently on the job (some by their own hands). But coerced consulting can only get a film industry so far, and North Korea was still in search of its 'Orson Welles'. Then, in 1978, respected South Korean director Shin Sang Ok suddenly found himself out of work after he angered his own country’s military dictator in a spat over censorship, and Kim Jong Il saw his chance to harness Shin’s artistry.
Kim promptly lured Shin’s ex-wife and close friend, actress Choi Eun Hee, to Hong Kong to “discuss a potential role.” Instead, she was kidnapped.
A distraught Shin searched for Choi, but found himself similarly ambushed by Kim’s minions. After some “convincing” (by way of chloroform and a rag) he was whisked away to North Korea. Choi lived in one of Kim’s palaces, and Shin, having been captured after an attempted escape only months after arriving, lived for four years in a prison for political dissidents, where he subsisted on grass, rice, and communist propaganda."

 


 

Conspiracy

 

Is Your Phone Tapped?
Carrier IQ and Your Privacy 
 

Military

 

Fatal problems plague the F-22 fighter jet

 

Capt. Jeff Haney was headed back to base in his F-22 Raptor fighter jet, ripping through the frigid Alaskan night beyond the speed of sound at more than 1,000 mph, when things started going terribly wrong.
Packed tight in cold-weather gear to protect him from the bitter temperatures, the Air Force pilot pulled back on the control stick at about 38,400 feet to gain altitude. Then Haney saw his plane was beginning to fail him.
A caution light glowed green through his night vision goggles, alerting him that a section of the aircraft was overheating. Almost instantly, the F-22's onboard computers detected an air leak in the engine bay and began automatic shutdown of various systems — including the main oxygen supply.
Gasping for air, Haney set the throttles to idle and began lowering the plane to the snow-covered valley below. About 35 seconds later, Haney's plane began to roll upside down. He couldn't recover. There amid the Talkeetna Mountains north of Anchorage, Haney, 31, crashed and died.
The crash was another grim episode for the controversial Lockheed Martin Corp.-made F-22 fighter jet that has been in service since 2005, yet never called into combat despite conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. The plane, the military's most expensive fighter jet, has continued to experience equipment problems — notably with its oxygen systems.
New details from an Air Force report last week drew attention to the November 2010 crash and raised questions about the F-22 and the way the Air Force has dealt with the plane's ongoing oxygen problems.
 

Apocalypse

 

Panetta: Iran will not be allowed nukes

 

Decay

 

Is religion in Terminal Decline in Britain?

 

 

Arab Spring


Art as Politics of the Impossible

 

 
 

Conspiracy

 

The conspiracy to make us fat

Postmodern

 

Postmodern and Religion

 

frieze issue 144 out now

Bomb Culture

 

Turkey aims for the bomb, slips from America’s grasp
 

Magic and Mystery

 

Is the Shroud of Turin "supernatural?"

 

 File:Turin plasch.jpg

 

Italian government scientists have claimed to have discovered evidence that a supernatural event formed the image on the Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
After years of work trying to replicate the colouring on the shroud, a similar image has been created by the scientists. However, they only managed the effect by scorching equivalent linen material with high-intensity ultra violet lasers, undermining the arguments of other research, they say, which claims the Turin Shroud is a medieval hoax. Such technology, say researchers from the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Enea), was far beyond the capability of medieval forgers, whom most experts have credited with making the famous relic. "The results show that a short and intense burst of UV directional radiation can colour a linen cloth so as to reproduce many of the peculiar characteristics of the body image on the Shroud of Turin," they said. And in case there was any doubt about the preternatural degree of energy needed to make such distinct marks, the Enea report spells it out: "This degree of power cannot be reproduced by any normal UV source built to date." A statement by lead researcher, Dr Paolo Di Lazzaro, said: "If our results prompt a philosophical or theological debate, these conclusions we'll leave to the experts; to each person's own conscience," he said.

 

See also http://thekatycapsule.com/wordpress/debate-italian-scientist-claims-shroud-of-turin-fake-re-creates-replica-as-proof/

 

Brentford Science

 

Study: Eating less keeps the brain young

Do scientists get paid for this crap?

 

Cyber

 

Cyber war leads to capture of CIA spy in Iran

 

 

December 19th 2011

 

Arab Spring

 

More deaths in Cairo as police crackdown intensifies

 


 

Robotics

 

Chinese Academy of Sciences names CMU's Veloso an Einstein Chair Professor

 

Manuela M. Veloso who this summer will become president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), is the only AI and robotics researcher among this year's Einstein Chair Professors. Her lectures will focus on symbiotic autonomy, a concept she is pioneering in which robots are aware of their perceptual, physical, and reasoning limitations and proactively ask for help from humans.
Symbiotic autonomy is employed by several robots, called CoBots, that her research Manuela M. Velosogroup has deployed on the Carnegie Mellon campus. The CoBots can navigate on their own through hallways while delivering or fetching messages and packages, but must ask people for help when confused or for performing manipulation tasks such as opening doors or pushing elevator buttons.
Veloso is well known for her work on robot soccer, which is an important research tool for studying how autonomous agents can work cooperatively in complex, uncertain environments. She is past president of the International RoboCup Federation, which sponsors annual world championships in robot soccer.

 

Computers

 

Alan Turing: Mathematician, master codebreaker and father of computer science, Alan Turing was a genius touched by tragedy

 

COMBAT DIARIES: Tragedy? Rubbish!  Instead of giving Turing a University Department and a open cheque, les anglais (who hate cleverness of any kind) smashed his machine (Colossus) to pieces in 1945 and tortured him to death.

 

"Alan Turing was one of those remarkably brilliant men who had a profound influence upon the development of several fields. He was a talented mathematician who, during World War II, used his prodigious abilities and skills to break German ciphers for the British government's Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. To do this, he invented a number of electromechanical instruments to help narrow down possible solutions to these ciphers to a manageable number for further investigation. These instruments are recognised as the foundation of computers, which are essential foundations of current civilisation.
Dr Turing then became interested in artificial intelligence and devised the so-called "Turing Test", to define whether a machine is "intelligent". In short, this test is based on the idea that, if a human could not distinguish a machine from another human being by talking to it, the machine was defined as being "intelligent". Besides being useful in the field, the Turing Test is generally useful, often being applied to politicians and to commenters on the internet."
 

Orwellian

 

The Leader is Dead, thank Fuck!

 

Kim Jong-il is gone - another billion Communists to go!

 

Ted Rall

 

 

Talking to the Future Humans - Dr Jack Sarfatti Thinks I'm an Idiot

 


Dr Jack Sarfatti (right) with Uri Geller

 

Communism/Fascism

 

North Korea's Secret Prison Camps


Uploaded by AmnestyInternational
May 4, 2011
Amnesty International has published satellite imagery and testimony that shed light on the horrific conditions in North Korea's network of political prison camps, which hold an estimated 200,000 people. The North Korean government denies their existence. 
Kim Jong-Il, the nation's "Dear Leader," largely seen as one of the world's worst despots passed away on December 18, 2011.

 

Mammon

 

Secrets of the Federal Reserve
 

Drone News

 

 

Air Force Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress

 

Did Iran hijack the 'beast'? US experts cautious about bold claims. (Video)

 

 

UFO

Ramifications of the 2011 F.E. Warren AFB UFO Hoax
 

Disney's 'Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland' (1995)

 

Featuring Disney CEO, Michael Eisner 
Uploaded by StephenHannardADGUK 
October 19, 2011
This rare Disney UFO documentary was only broadcast once in five US states, then it was shelved and never broadcast again. This version is the complete uncut feature, recorded to VHS video when it was first broadcast on UPN.
More Information:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0235174

...abduction, Alien, Andrew Thomas, Apollo, astronomy, Budd Hopkins, Canada, CEO, Clifford E. Stone, cloud, CME, Disclosure, Disney, Disney World, Disneyland, Donald R. Schmitt, earth, Edgar Mitchell, false flag, flare, galaxy, Germany, Harvard, invasion, John Mack, keep out, Kevin D. Randle, Korea, Kwangju, Mecca, Michael Eisner, Moon, NASA, Norway, outer, planets, predator, restricted, Robert Urich, Roswell, Saudi Arabia, secret, solar, space, Stephen Hannard, Steven Schiff, sun, The Walt Disney Company, Tomorrowland, Toronto, UFO, universe, walt disney...

 

Hopes and Fears of All the Years

 

Esoterica: Your Sixth Sense - Satanic Abuse -The Unconscious Mind

(try beating that for an Xmas package)

 

 

 

Junk Nirvana

 

The Quest For Life, Freedom and the Afterlife

 

 

Junk Leader

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies aged 69

(Sometimes good things happen)

 

 

Now the little prick has gone, they'll all  be watching multi-channel screens, texting whores,  jerking off to Spankwire, watching X-Factor and guzzling Porky White sausages. Best of luck!

 

Junk Science, Junk Kids, Junk Culture

 

Has your child got Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome? New condition 'makes children unable to cope with ANY demand'

 

Israel News

 

Unholy Row In Jerusalem Over Status Of Women

 


 

NASA

 

2012 Apocalypse Fears Unfounded, NASA Says

 

 

Arab Spring

 

Atrocity: Egyptian military police more than brutal (VIDEO)
by Madison Ruppert

 

Science as Show Business

 

Can science predict a hit song?

 

 

Ufological Exopolitical Entertainment

 

Mars visitors Basiago and Stillings confirm Barack Obama traveled to Mars

 

By Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

 

Two former participants in the CIA’s Mars visitation program of the early 1980’s have confirmed that U.S. President Barack H. Obama was enrolled in their Mars training class in 1980 and was among the young Americans from the program who they later encountered on the Martian surface after reaching Mars via “jump room.”
Andrew D. Basiago, 50, a lawyer in Washington State who served in DARPA’s time travel program Project Pegasus in the 1970’s, and fellow chrononaut William B. Stillings, 44, who was tapped by the Mars program for his technical genius, have publicly confirmed that Obama was enrolled in their Mars training class in 1980 and that each later encountered Obama during visits to rudimentary U.S. facilities on Mars that took place from 1981 to 1983.
Their astonishing revelations provide a new dimension to the controversy surrounding President Obama’s background and pose the possibility that it is an elaborate ruse to conceal Obama’s participation as a young man in the U.S. secret space program.

 

December 18th 2011

 

Conspiracy

 

The Internal Intelligence Explosion: A New Kind of Conspiracy

 

What happens when we bear witness to technology and other “phenomena” here on Earth that we can’t explain? Science fiction writer and mathematician Vernor Vinge, credited with initiating the concept of a “Singularity” or intelligence explosion awaiting us in the near future, has often made statements along these lines, alluding to circumstances that would represent the arrival of the new super intelligent future humanity, or artificial intelligence, or maybe even a complex combination of the two.

Of course, among the readers of this blog, most of us are already thinking, “wait, what do you mean when that happens? Those kinds of things are happening right now!” In truth, this has been happening for quite some time… but what, pray tell, could this actually mean? Have the aliens landed, or have interdimensional invaders finally bridged the gap between worlds? Or just perhaps… could it mean that there is a sort of divergence of intelligent species right here on Earth?

 

Decadence

 

While Americans shopped,
the Constitution was shredded

 

Cheetos Pet

 

 

UFO

 

Timothy Good: Secret Space Program Conference Amsterdam 2011

 

Israel News

 

 

 


Israel and Italy practice air exercises together in Israel

 

Italian Typhoon takes off from somewhere in Israel

 

Mind Control Fun

 

From Mind Control to Superstardom: The Meaning of Lady Gaga’s “Marry the Night”

 

 

"Lady Gaga generated a great buzz among her fans when she announced that the video to Marry the Night would reveal a part of her past. Did her fans expect the video to begin with a traumatized Gaga inside a psychiatric ward with a bunch of lobotomized girls? Probably not. But from that strange starting point, the video proceeds to depict Gaga’s rise to super-stardom. How does all of that tie in together? To most, this doesn’t really make any sense. However, to those who understand the relation between trauma-based mind control and the entertainment industry, it makes perfect sense."

 

911

 

VIDEO: Trauma and denial, why people resist the truth

 

Books

 

Action Camus, the Superman of Nihilism

 

Posted by ralphon December 14, 2009

 

Was reading Boldtype’s “10 Awesome Books to Give Your Nonreading Friends” where I came across the work of cartoonist R. Sikoryak. Here’a an article about him from The New Yorker:
For twenty years, the cartoonist R. Sikoryak has been creating parody strips of literary masterpieces, casting familiar cartoon characters in classic roles — Little Lulu as Pearl Prynne, Little Nemo as Dorian Gray, Charlie Brown as Gregor Samsa. If you’re like me, and you sometimes like your serious literature with a side of Beavis and Butthead (see Sikoryak’s take on “Waiting for Godot”), you will probably laugh out loud over Masterpiece Comics, a collection of thirteen of these strips, just out from Drawn & Quarterly.
 

December 17th 2011

 

Conspiracy

 

Space Planes, Psyops, Secret Prisons: Covert Military Programs

 

UFO


Unknown lights over Marble Falls, Texas 13-Dec-2011

 

Budd Hopkins and Alien Abduction

 

 

Hacking News

 

Hackistan: Indo-Pak rivalry takes on new frontiers

 

Drone News

 

What Do Drones of the Future Look Like? Pentagon Crowd-Sources Next UAV -- VIDEO

 

Israel killer drones to counter Iran S-300?

 

The S-300, dubbed as the "game-changer", is feared by US and Israeli weapons experts as an element that can effectively rule out a successful attack against Iran. 
"If Tehran obtained the S-300, it would be a game-changer in military thinking for tackling Iran," says long-time Pentagon advisor Dan Goure.


U.S. worried China, Russia will gain access to RQ-170 drone 
 

 

Iran

 

Iran-bound radioactive luggage seized at Moscow airport

 

Cyber

 

Anonymous declares cyber war on Congress over indefinite detention act

 

Murder

 

Russia shooting: Dagestan journalist Kamalov shot dead

 

A gunman has shot and killed the founder of a newspaper that reports on corruption and police abuses in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan. Gadzhimurat Kamalov was hit by a hail of bullets outside the offices of his newspaper Chernovik late on Thursday, in Dagestan's capital Makhachkala. Violence is rife in Dagestan, where police have been battling Islamist insurgents since the 1990s. Chernovik staff have been "persecuted", a US-based media watchdog says.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called Kamalov's violent death "a massive loss for independent journalism in the North Caucasus, Russia's most dangerous place for reporters". The CPJ says Russia has one of the worst records in the world for attacks on journalists, with 18 unsolved press murders since 2000. The weekly Chernovik - meaning "rough draft" - was founded by Kamalov in 2003. He was its editor for several years and remained its publisher until his death.

 

Mammon

 

Credit ratings agency Fitch downgrades Barclays, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs

 

Fitch has slashed the credit ratings for a handful of major banks in the U.S. and Europe, sparking fears over the outlook for the world economy. The mass downgrade heightened concerns of a new credit crunch as the global banking system struggles with massive levels of debt.

 

DARPA

 

 

 

DARPA’s Shredder Challenge Solved With the Help of Crowdsourcing

 

 

Disc-Rotor Compound Helicopter

 

The Disc-Rotor is a collaboration between DARPA and Boeing. Hoping to marry the best features of a helicopter and an airplane, the Disc-Rotor program aims to develop a new type of aircraft capable of a seamlessly transitioning from hovering like a helicopter to flying like a plane.
The design is propelled by rotor blades that extend from a central disc, letting it take off and land like a helicopter. But those blades can also retract into the disc, minimizing drag and letting the Disc-Rotor fly like a plane, powered by engines beneath each wing.

 

Drone News

 

Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer (Video)

 

Arab Spring

Eight Dead in Second Day of Egypt Clashes

Egyptian protesters carry an injured fellow protester during clashes with military police near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011.

 

Israel News

 

Speaking to Jewish Audience, Obama Reiterates Record on Israel

 

Washington, Dec. 16 – President Obama strongly defended his administration’s “unshakeable” relationship with – and support for – Israel in a speech today to a major American Jewish group.
“No U.S. administration has done more in support of Israel's security than ours,” Obama told delegates to the Union for Reform Judaism’s Biennial convention. “Don' let anyone else tell you otherwise. It is a fact." 
Before the speech, Obama met on the sidelines of the conference with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who had already spoke at the convention, for about a half hour.
The President has used similar lines to rebut critics in the past, as in late November at an exclusive fundraiser with Jewish donors in New York City. “This administration – I try not to pat myself too much on the back – but this administration has done more in terms of the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration,” he said then.
 

Seasonal Fun

 

North Korean Ecstacy

 

 

Cyber

 

Congress Authorizes Offensive Military Action in Cyberspace

 

Science as Entertainment

Images and story-lines, prat-falls and delicious stupidity

 

From: The TransTemporal SuperLuminal NonLocal ZeroPoint CollectiveAgency 
Organization: Silicon and Siliceous Structures in Biological System Bollocks in your step

 


 

 

Israel News

 

34% of factories to move activity abroad 
 

Drone News

 

Debka: Whoever hacked the drone, hacked the CIA

 

Debka has close connections with the Israel intelligence community and in the past has been known for correctly reporting on issues of importance to the American intelligence community before US outlets

 

December 16th 2011

 

Military Conspiracy

 

Report: China building electromagnetic pulse weapons for use against U.S. carriers

 

Are US Troops Deploying on the Jordan-Syrian Border?

 

According to first-hand accounts and reports provided to Boiling Frogs Post by several sources in Jordan, during the last few hours foreign military groups, estimated at hundreds of individuals, began to spread near the villages of the north-Jordan city of 'Al-Mafraq', which is adjacent to the Jordanian and Syrian border. According to one Jordanian military officer who asked to remain anonymous, hundreds of soldiers who speak languages ?other than Arabic were seen during the past two days in those areas moving back and forth in military vehicles between the King Hussein Air Base of al-Mafraq (10 km from the Syrian border), and the vicinity of Jordanian villages adjacent to the Syrian border, such as village Albaej (5 km from the border), the area around the dam of Sarhan, the villages of Zubaydiah and al-Nahdah adjacent to the Syrian border.
 

Nuclear Conspiracy

 

Trial announced for Swiss nuclear smugglers said to be CIA agents -

 

Switzerland has officially charged three Swiss citizens with assisting the nuclear smuggling network of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, who gave nuclear information to North Korea, Libya and Iran. But the scope of the trial will be severely limited under a peculiar plea bargain struck with the three defendants, which will prevent the court from examining their claims of having worked as agents of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

 

Scientific Conspiracy

 

Seventh International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing, Rome, Italy

This is what leading elements of New World Order are working at...a truly Frankensteinian labour.

 

Dark Networks

 

Dark Plasma Theory - Neural Networks 
Are We Living Inside a Brain? (Neural Architecture of the Akashic Records)
Penfield, Life Reviews and the Akashic Records


Dark NetworksIn the 1930s and onwards, neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield developed a surgical procedure for epileptics in which he operated on a patient’s exposed brain while the patient remained fully conscious. When an electrode was placed on the patient’s temporal lobe, the patient had a complete flashback to an episode from earlier in his life. (Applying the electrode to other parts of the brain did not produce this.) The scenes always moved forward, and only forward. If music was involved, this followed the precise original tempo; the full score of which the patients would be able to hum with total accuracy — much as an autistic savant would be able to reproduce music with almost complete accuracy — like a recording on a video or compact disc. 
Penfield, in his book The Mystery of the Mind recounted, “They were electrical activations of the sequential record of consciousness, a record that had been laid down during the patient's earlier experience. The patient ‘re-lived’ all that he had been aware of in that earlier period of time as in a moving-picture 'flashback'.” He said, "Each time I re-stimulated, she heard the melody again. It began at the same place and went on from chorus to verse." Penfield concluded that the brain stores everything its owner has ever experienced in its original form. The flash-backs seemed to play themselves out in their proper order like scenes in a movie. "Since the electrode may activate a random sample of this strip from the distant past," he reasoned, "and since the most unimportant and completely forgotten periods of time may appear in this sampling, it seems reasonable to suppose that the record is complete and that it does include all periods of each individual's waking conscious life". 

 

Apocalypse

 

Guardians of the Apocalypse

 

For the uninitiated, existential risk is a broad term covering catastrophic events that could wipe out the human species. Some existential risk devotees agonize over nuclear wars, climate change, and virus outbreaks. Others, such as Rick Schwall, put more energy into worrying about the potential downside of information technology. They fret about a super-powerful artificial intelligence run amok and hordes of killer nanobots. “There are a number of people who have knowledge in this field that estimate humanity’s chance at making it through this century at about 50 percent,” Schwall says. “Even if that number is way off and it’s one in a billion, that’s too high for me.”

Illustration by Asaf Hanuka

 

Cyber

 

China’s Cyberwar

 

Book Review

 

Intervention Theory

 

A New eBook By Lloyd Pye
 

Intervention Theory challenges Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution, by offering plausible explanations for many of the conundrums left unanswered by those other theories. The new eBook takes the same aggressive approach as EYKIW, showing how and why so much of what mainstream science professes is not just wrong, but blatantly, willfully wrong, often in the face of evidence that would be overwhelming in any court in the world. Its revelations are astonishing, but they are presented in simple terms and concepts easily grasped by anyone.

 

A Basic Guide to the Intervention Theory of Origins—of the Universe, of Life, of Hominoids, and of Humans
Since Lloyd Pye published his seminal book, Everything You Know Is Wrong (EYKIW), in 1997, his fact-based, no-nonsense explanation of origins has developed a devoted international following. In the years since EYKIW was written, there have been so many advances and new discoveries that rather than updating it, Lloyd decided to break his update into several completely new eBooks, starting with Intervention Theory Essentials. It details Lloyd's alternative views about Origins---of the universe, of life itself, and especially of humans and hominoids, all of which are inextricably linked together in ways nobody fully understands, least of all the scientists who claim to understand precisely that.

Read a Sample on the Web
Download PDF Sample
 

 

Mind Control

 

'Downloading' new skills into our brains like characters on The Matrix set to become a reality, say scientists

 

Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves: In The Matrix they become super-powerful just from being plugged into a computer program that teaches them new skillsLearning a martial art, how to fly a plane or how to speak a new language without even being awake is set to become a reality, say researchers.
Scientists at Boston University and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, believe that in the future learning a new skill might involve nothing more than sitting in front of a computer screen and waiting for it to ‘upload’.
They have been studying how a functional magnetic resonance machine (FMRI) can ‘induce’ knowledge in someone through their visual cortex by sending signals that change their brain activity pattern.
 

The Drone Show

 

Cyber war on US drones? Another spy craft crash, now in Seychelles

 

Navy Drone? Webb City, Missouri Photos

 

"I live in Webb City, Missouri. Last night on December 13th, 2011, I noticed police lights out my window. I went to the front porch to get a better look. There was a flat bed truck with a very large craft on the bed. It was entirely shrinkwrapped so that you couldn't see what was underneath. There were approximately 10-12 highway patrol in the back and the front of this truck blocking off the road. The news that evening stated that it was a drone for the Navy. I am very familiar with all of our military drones and this craft looks like nothing that is of public knowledge. It had no wings, like all of our drones do. It was shaped just like a disc, and was stablized with bars that were also shrink wrapped so it would stay on the truck. In my opinion, who ever issued the statement made a mistake. Because saying that it is a drone, ackknowledges that it flies and to my knowledge our military has no craft like this that flies. I have 3 pictures of the craft, from various angles."
Info


2011 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Encyclopedia: UAVs, Drones, Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), Weapons and Surveillance - Roadmap, Flight Plan, Reliability Study, Systems News and Notes
 

Comment
 

No, it's not a UFO
A U.S. Navy drone making its way through the Four States has prompted calls to our station about a "UFO" sighting. One reluctant caller simply said "it must be a movie prop".
Actually, it's a Northrop Grumman X-47B naval unmanned drone (see below) and it's en route to a naval air station in Maryland. When we spoke with officials the drone was under a tarp and on a trailer near Asbury, Missouri.
The drone is a tailless, autonomous, unmanned aircraft developed by the U.S. Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration program. This is a demonstration program only, with the drone being tested for technical issues.
The drone is being designed to operate from an aircraft carrier at sea. - koamtv

 

 

Cyber

 

In less than 24 hours Congress could vote to change the internet forever
 

December 15th 2011

 

Strategic

 

US satellite gives first glimpse of China's aircraft carrier

 

 

Taliban

 

My week with the Taliban: Amazing pictures of militants in boot camp learning how to become suicide bombers and wage jihad

 

Associated Press reporter, photographer and videographer Ishtiaq Mahsud spent six days with fighters from the Pakistani Taliban close to the Afghan border. His following account of their travels through South Waziristan offers a fascinating insight into an area that the Pakistani military claimed had been brought under control after an army offensive two years ago. For 15 hours, we walked with Taliban fighters through territory supposedly controlled by the Pakistani army and frequently pounded by U.S. drone strikes. Avoiding roads and towns, we easily evaded soldiers and were shown recruits drilling with weapons, militant positions and - from a distance - a compound used by foreign fighters. The rare trip to South Waziristan revealed the resilience of militants in the northwestern tribal areas, some of whom are also battling American soldiers across the frontier in Afghanistan.
 

 

"commander vows: 'Our suicide bombers will use their bones as bullets and their blood as fuel' "

Be my guest, punk!
 

Corruption

 

New Banksy anti-Christian artwork goes on display to highlight 'lies, corruption and abuse of Church'

 

 

A sculpture of a 'vandalised' priest by the underground artist Banksy has gone on display today alongside 17th-century Old Masters. The artist, known for his graffiti on the streets of cities across the world, has created Cardinal Sin, a replica of an 18th-century stone bust which has had the face sawn off and replaced with a mosaic of bathroom tiles. The effect is to replicate the pixellation techniques used in the media to prevent identification of victims of sex crimes.  It is believed Cardinal Sin is a comment on the sexual abuse scandal which has engulfed the Catholic Church. The sculpture has been placed alongside works by Van Dyck and Poussin at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

The Walker unveiled the priest sculpture to the public today after it was given on indefinite loan by the artist. It has never been seen in public before. In a statement issued by the gallery on behalf of the mysterious artist, Banksy said: 'I love everything about the Walker Gallery - the Old Masters, the contemporary art, the rude girl in the cafe.
'And when I found out Mr Walker built it with beer money, it became my favourite gallery.
'The statue? I guess you could call it a Christmas present.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074602/Banksy-sculpture-targets-lies-corruption-abuse-Church.html#ixzz1gdmZaAnd



Futurist

 

Crowdsourcing to predict the future of computing

 

Summary: An experiment in predicting the future using crowdsourcing has predicted advances in technology, wireless, cloud intelligence, artificial intelligence and the mutation of super viruses. When do you think that cars that drive themself will be the norm, or that you will be able to have a continuous wireless connection to the Internet through your brain? When will computer viruses spontaneously evolve? When will we be able to use some form of ‘Universal Translation tool’ to communicate with your peers across the globe each speaking in your own language?
The New York Times imagines that the ‘future’ will actually begin in 2020, and has been running a crowdsourcing experiment. Science Times has been running an experiment, asking its readers to predict when events will occur
.

 


 

Conspiracy

 

Conspiracies Old and New

 

Mammon

 

The Biggest Company You've Never Heard of

 

Drones

 

The curious case of the downed drones

 

 

Cyber

 

Cyber war accelerates between Iran and US

 

DHS releases cyber strategy framework

 

 

Stuxnet virus crosses the species barrier

 

Brentford Science

 

A brain's failure to appreciate others may permit human atrocities

Do scientists really get paid for this crap?

 

Fortean

 

China’s Deserted “Fake Disneyland”

One pirated copy that didn't work. Looks like Detroit.

 

 

Apples fall from the sky over Coventry

Apples fall from the sky over Coventry

 

Apocalypse

 

Preparedness or Paranoia?

 

 

"The last ten years have woken most thinking people up to the fact that if there is ever a serious breakdown of systems and/or society  locally, regionally, or nationwide - we're on 
our own. 

The difference between having a positive outcome and a negative one in these kinds of situations is knowledge and skill, most of all skill."

 

 

 

 

Isaac Newton

 

Newton's Original Notebooks Now Online

 

 

Newton

Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection of Newton's manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months we will be adding further works until the majority of our Newton Papers are available on this site.
Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. He came to the University as a student in 1661, graduating in 1665, and from 1669 to 1701 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Under the regulations for this Chair, Newton was required to deposit copies of his lectures in the University Library. These, and some correspondence relating to the University, were assigned the classmarks Dd.4.18, Dd.9.46, Dd.9.67, Dd.9.68, and Mm.6.50. In 1699 Newton was appointed Master of the Mint, and in 1703 he was elected President of the Royal Society, a post he occupied until his death.
 

Science as Show Business

 

Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud

 

"Researchers have spotted a giant gas cloud spiralling into the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's centre. Though it is known that black holes draw in everything nearby, it will be the first chance to see one consume such a cloud."

COMBAT DIARIES: In real time? WOW!

 Simulation of cloud path around black hole (ESO/MPE/Marc Schartmann)

  1. Do scientists really get paid for producing such metaphorical crap? Or is it to provide

  2. opportunities for hungry graphic artists? Why do they use the Present Tense for cosmic events when what are "seeing" may have disappeared billion of years ago?

December 15th 2011

 

Strategic

 

US satellite gives first glimpse of China's aircraft carrier

 

 

Taliban

 

My week with the Taliban: Amazing pictures of militants in boot camp learning how to become suicide bombers and wage jihad

 

Associated Press reporter, photographer and videographer Ishtiaq Mahsud spent six days with fighters from the Pakistani Taliban close to the Afghan border. His following account of their travels through South Waziristan offers a fascinating insight into an area that the Pakistani military claimed had been brought under control after an army offensive two years ago. For 15 hours, we walked with Taliban fighters through territory supposedly controlled by the Pakistani army and frequently pounded by U.S. drone strikes. Avoiding roads and towns, we easily evaded soldiers and were shown recruits drilling with weapons, militant positions and - from a distance - a compound used by foreign fighters. The rare trip to South Waziristan revealed the resilience of militants in the northwestern tribal areas, some of whom are also battling American soldiers across the frontier in Afghanistan.
 

 

"commander vows: 'Our suicide bombers will use their bones as bullets and their blood as fuel' "

Be my guest, punk!
 

Corruption

 

New Banksy anti-Christian artwork goes on display to highlight 'lies, corruption and abuse of Church'

 

 

A sculpture of a 'vandalised' priest by the underground artist Banksy has gone on display today alongside 17th-century Old Masters. The artist, known for his graffiti on the streets of cities across the world, has created Cardinal Sin, a replica of an 18th-century stone bust which has had the face sawn off and replaced with a mosaic of bathroom tiles. The effect is to replicate the pixellation techniques used in the media to prevent identification of victims of sex crimes.  It is believed Cardinal Sin is a comment on the sexual abuse scandal which has engulfed the Catholic Church. The sculpture has been placed alongside works by Van Dyck and Poussin at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

The Walker unveiled the priest sculpture to the public today after it was given on indefinite loan by the artist. It has never been seen in public before. In a statement issued by the gallery on behalf of the mysterious artist, Banksy said: 'I love everything about the Walker Gallery - the Old Masters, the contemporary art, the rude girl in the cafe.
'And when I found out Mr Walker built it with beer money, it became my favourite gallery.
'The statue? I guess you could call it a Christmas present.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074602/Banksy-sculpture-targets-lies-corruption-abuse-Church.html#ixzz1gdmZaAnd



Futurist

 

Crowdsourcing to predict the future of computing

 

Summary: An experiment in predicting the future using crowdsourcing has predicted advances in technology, wireless, cloud intelligence, artificial intelligence and the mutation of super viruses. When do you think that cars that drive themself will be the norm, or that you will be able to have a continuous wireless connection to the Internet through your brain? When will computer viruses spontaneously evolve? When will we be able to use some form of ‘Universal Translation tool’ to communicate with your peers across the globe each speaking in your own language?
The New York Times imagines that the ‘future’ will actually begin in 2020, and has been running a crowdsourcing experiment. Science Times has been running an experiment, asking its readers to predict when events will occur
.

 


 

Conspiracy

 

Conspiracies Old and New

 

Mammon

 

The Biggest Company You've Never Heard of

 

Drones

 

The curious case of the downed drones

 

 

Cyber

 

Cyber war accelerates between Iran and US

 

DHS releases cyber strategy framework

 

 

Stuxnet virus crosses the species barrier

 

Brentford Science

 

A brain's failure to appreciate others may permit human atrocities

Do scientists really get paid for this crap?

 

Fortean

 

China’s Deserted “Fake Disneyland”

One pirated copy that didn't work. Looks like Detroit.

 

 

Apples fall from the sky over Coventry

Apples fall from the sky over Coventry

 

Apocalypse

 

Preparedness or Paranoia?

 

 

"The last ten years have woken most thinking people up to the fact that if there is ever a serious breakdown of systems and/or society  locally, regionally, or nationwide - we're on
our own.

The difference between having a positive outcome and a negative one in these kinds of situations is knowledge and skill, most of all skill.
"

 

 

 

 

Isaac Newton

 

Newton's Original Notebooks Now Online

 

 

Newton

Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection of Newton's manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months we will be adding further works until the majority of our Newton Papers are available on this site.
Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. He came to the University as a student in 1661, graduating in 1665, and from 1669 to 1701 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Under the regulations for this Chair, Newton was required to deposit copies of his lectures in the University Library. These, and some correspondence relating to the University, were assigned the classmarks Dd.4.18, Dd.9.46, Dd.9.67, Dd.9.68, and Mm.6.50. In 1699 Newton was appointed Master of the Mint, and in 1703 he was elected President of the Royal Society, a post he occupied until his death.

 

 

 

Science as Show Business

 

Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud

 

"Researchers have spotted a giant gas cloud spiralling into the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's centre. Though it is known that black holes draw in everything nearby, it will be the first chance to see one consume such a cloud."

COMBAT DIARIES: In real time? WOW!

 Simulation of cloud path around black hole (ESO/MPE/Marc Schartmann)

  1. Do scientists really get paid for producing such metaphorical crap? Or is it to provide

  2. opportunities for hungry graphic artists? Why do they use the Present Tense for cosmic events when what are "seeing" may have disappeared billion of years ago?

 

December 14th 2011

 

DEBKA Retrospective

(November 26th, 2011)

 

US carrier strike force enters Syrian waters. Russian carrier en route
 

Israel News

 

Israeli Air Force to Host Greeks and Italians for Training Session

 

 

Conspiracy

 

US troops surround Syria on the eve of invasion?

 

A former official from within the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reporting that US and NATO forces have landed outside of Syria and are training militants to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, formerly a translator with the FBI, wrote over the weekend that American soldiers are among the NATO troops that have mysteriously and suddenly landed on the Jordanian and Syrian border. According to her, several sources internationally have confirmed the news, although the US media has been instructed to temporarily censor itself from reporting the news.
Additionally, Edmonds says that American and NATO forces are training Turkish troops as well, to possibly launch a strike from the north of Syria.

Cyber

 

China's Cyber Heist

 

CHINESE espionage, especially cyber espionage, has reached extraordinary levels. ''They're stealing everything that isn't bolted down and it's getting exponentially worse," says Mike Rogers, chairman of the US permanent select committee on intelligence, in a report just released by Bloomberg.

Richard Clarke, former cyber security adviser to the White House, says China has been "hacking its way into every corporation it can find listed in Dun and Bradstreet". This theft of commercial intellectual property constitutes the greatest illegal transfer of wealth in history, says Scott Borg, director of the US cyber consequences unit.

Orwellian

 

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) EXPLAINED
by Derren Brown

 

Uploaded by AlphaMindControl
August 26, 2011

Derren Brown gives an elegant demonstration of a "script," as its known in the neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) community, which (apparently) convinces British actor Simon Pegg to spontaneously express his lust for a BMX bike.
NLP is a well-known technique in advertising and sales, as well as within a cottage industry of how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people fast-talkers, some of whom are just trying to pick up dates. NLP is subtle suggestive device used to convince you to buy products or befriend others.
 

Description: http://www.combat-diaries.co.uk/diary30/OK_dees.jpg

Russian Moves

 

Russian aircraft carrier seen off Moray Firth

HMS York and Admiral Kuznetsov. Pic: Reuters/Royal Navy/MoD

The crew of a Russian aircraft carrier has been accused of dumping waste off Scotland's north coast after seeking shelter from winter storms. Elements of the Baltic Fleet started arriving 30 miles (48km) off the Moray Firth on Monday. The SNP's defence spokesman Angus Robertson said there had been reports of crew throwing waste overboard. Portsmouth-based Royal Navy destroyer HMS York has been shadowing the vessels. The warships, including aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, were still off the Firth earlier, but moving slowly.

Ted Rall

 

 

Trouble

 

'If the world wants to make the region insecure, we will make the world insecure': Iran threatens to shut Strait of Hormuz with military exercise
 

UFO

 

'UFOs: The True Story of Flying Saucers' (1956)
Full Film

 

Arab Spring

 

More Than 30 Are Killed Across Syria as Sectarian Tensions Grow

 

Cyber

 

FBI says hackers hit key services in three US cities

 

The infrastructure systems of three US cities have been attacked, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At a recent cybersecurity conference, Michael Welch, deputy assistant director of the FBI's cyber division, said hackers had accessed crucial water and power services. The hackers could theoretically have dumped sewage into a lake or shut off the power to a shopping mall, he said.
Industrial control systems are becoming an increasing target for hackers.
 

Science as Trash Consumerism

 

Here come the quantum-dot TVs and wallpaper

Do scientists get paid for producing this crap?

 

December 13th 2011

 

Arab Spring

 

Police rescue 50 boys from Karachi madrassah torture dungeon

Police have rescued more than 50 boys, some in shackles, from a warren of rooms beneath a madrassah in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.

 

Orwellian

 

VIDEO: Mass Surveillance and Control

IBM and the Holocaust Revisited
 

CIA

 

CIA Use of Nazi War Criminals was more Extensive than Most People Realize

 

 

Media

 

Propaganda in the Cinema - You're Being Attacked

 

Military

 

Perception of the Military in America Today

 

Conspiracy

 

The Trilateral Commission:
Stuff They Don't Want You to Know

 

 

Bilderberg Owned Publication The Economist: Yes, Powerful “Globocrat” Elites Are Running Things, It’s Not A Conspiracy!
Agenda for global centralized control system is public and out in the open
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
 

Cyber

 

US needs to do more to deter Chinese hackers

 

 As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyber-attacks stealing critical data from US companies and government agencies, according to US cybersecurity analysts and experts.
The attacks, which steal billions of dollars in intellectual property and data, often carry distinct signatures allowing US officials to link them to certain hacker teams. And, analysts say the US often gives the attackers unique names or numbers, and at times can tell where the hackers are and even who they may be.
 

Ufological Exopolitical Entertainment

 

ET Agenda 2012: Time Travel allows Elites to Visit the Past, Plan Future

 

DEBKA file

 

Nuclear knowhow, S300 are Iran's price for Russian, Chinese access to US drone?

 

Iran is driving a hard bargain for granting access to the US stealth drone RQ-170 it captured undamaged last week, as Russian and Chinese military intelligence teams arriving in Tehran for a look at the secret aircraft soon found. debkafile's Moscow sources disclose that the price set by Revolutionary Guards commander Gen. Ali Jaafari includes advanced nuclear and missile technology, especially systems using solid fuel, the last word on centrifuges for enriching uranium and the S-300PMU-1 air defense system, which Moscow has consistently refused to sell Tehran.
This super-weapon is effective against stealth warplanes and cruise missiles and therefore capable of seriously impairing any large-scale US or Israeli air or missile attacks on Iran's nuclear sites.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent Russian-speaking Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to Moscow on Dec. 7 to try and dissuade Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from letting Iran have the S-300 batteries as payment for access to the captured US drone.
Sources in Washington report that before sending Lieberman to Moscow, Netanyahu first checked with the White House at the highest levels.
Although he had his hands full with stormy demonstrations in Moscow protesting alleged election fraud, Putin received Lieberman at the Kremlin. But the interview was short. The Russian prime minister refused to discuss the episode with his Israeli guest or even confirm that Moscow was engaged in any deal with Tehran.
In answer to reporters' questions, Lieberman commented: "Russia's positions on the Middle East were not helpful."

 

December 12th 2011

 

Arab Spring

 

UN says death toll in Syria exceeds 5,000

 

Syrian opposition: Massacre could follow deadline

 

Saudi Arabia still in the Dark Ages, beheads woman for sorcery

 

Cyber

 

Aspurger's Hacking

 

According to Enfield MP David Burrowes, there have been many cases where situations similar to that of Asperger’s-sufferer McKinnon have resulted in short term imprisonment in the UK.
Another young Brit with Asperger’s, Aaron Caffrey, was blamed for “the biggest computer hack to hit the United States” back in 2001 but was not sent to the US. “He was not extradited to the United States, but was tried in this country and found not guilty,” Burrowes pointed out.
Burrowes also pointed to another man who “was said to be doing ‘more harm than the KGB’”, and was labelled the “'No.1 threat to US security’”. This individual was also prosecuted in the UK and fined £1,200. Another example was $5.5 billion worth of damage allegedly caused by Andrew Harvey and Jordan Bradley, who received six and three months’ imprisonment respectively.
With so many clear cases demonstrating the disparity between McKinnon and others, Burrowes wondered why McKinnon has been awaiting extradition for a tenth year with a lengthy sentence ahead of him across the pond.

 

A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft

 

Stuxnet 2 makes Middle East organisations rethink their cyber security

 plans

 

For the cyber world, 2011 will be remembered for the serious high-profile cyber attacks on major organisations including IMF, AT&T, Citibank and the US Pentagon that shocked the world. With many still struggling to recover from the damage caused by Stuxnet, the recent discovery of Stuxnet 2 ensures that 2012 will not be an easy one for cyber security experts – or indeed other organisations. Popularly known as ‘Duqu’, it does not target automation or PLC gear - instead it's used for reconnaissance - and collects various types of information from infected systems for a future attack. It's possible we'll eventually see a new attack based on the information gathered by Duqu. With many organisations still trying to consolidate preventative measures against Stuxnet and hacktivist groups, the discovery of Duqu has caused them to reassess their current and future cyber security plans.
 

AI

 

Developing artificial intelligence systems that can interpret images

 

 

Fortean

 

 

Esoterica: Broadmoor's Most Crazed Inmate -- The Lewiston Hermit -- Little Red Man

 

Bad Dreams Or Worse?

 

The World of Grim Christmas Creatures

 

Scientific Conspiracy

 

Angioplasty, Bypass Surgery Myths and Chelation Therapy Facts

 

Military Intelligence

 

Developing Story: Hundreds of US-NATO Soldiers Arrive & Begin Operations on the Jordan-Syria Border

 

Postmodern

 

Cyber Attack: Who Attacks Who?

 

Israel News

 

Super-rich Israelis no longer ashamed to flaunt their wealth

 

 

Documentary Video

 

The Ghost in Your Genes

 

Epigenetics: "You Are What
Your Grandmother Ate"

 

"Can the air your parents and grandparents breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw directly affect you decades later, despite your never having experienced these things yourself? Epigenetics says, yes!
At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea: your genes are triggered to express differently, depending on your environment and your actions during your lifetime. These genetic expressions could, in turn affect your grandchildren. This documentary, 'The Ghost in Your Genes,' says biology stands on the brink of a shift in the understanding of inheritance."

COMBAT DIARIES; perhaps it should be "you are what your grandparents viewed..."

 

 

 

UFO

 

Ufological Exopolitical Entertainment

 

The Anglo-Saxon Mission – by Bill Ryan of Project Camelot and Project Avalon, February 2010

 

Jewish History

 

December 12, 1941

 

 

Jewish Organizations Intensify Support As Entire Axis Wars Against America

 

Jewish Welfare Board to Aid Red Cross in Raising $50,000,000 War Emergency Fund

 

Aid for Stranded Hebrew Scholars Urged by Emergency Committee

 

Arab Spring

 

23 reported killed in clashes between troops, army defectors in Syria

 

December 11th 2011

 

Robotics/AI

 

Artificial Intelligence, Robot Apocalypse Closer With Qbo And Kilobots

 

 

Military Intelligence

 

Iran refuses to hand back US drone

 

 

China's Spies are Catching Up

 


An American Trident nuclear ballistic missile submarine, gliding along the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
By DAVID WISE

Published: December 10, 2011

 

"IN 1995, a middle-aged Chinese man walked into a C.I.A. station in Southeast Asia and offered up a trove of secret Chinese documents. Among them was a file containing the top-secret design of the American W-88 nuclear warhead that sits atop the missiles carried by Trident submarines.
He told a story to the C.I.A. that was so bizarre it might just be true. He said that he worked in China’s nuclear program and had access to the archive where classified documents were stored. He went there after hours one night, scooped up hundreds of documents and stuffed them into a duffel bag, which he then tossed out a second-story window to evade security guards. Unfortunately, the bag broke and the papers scattered.
Outside, he collected the files and stuffed them back into the torn bag. Although many of the documents were of interest for their intelligence content, it was the one about the W-88 that roiled American counterintelligence most because it contained highly classified details about a cutting-edge warhead design."
 

Science as Show Business

 

CERN set to report probable Higgs sighting this week

 

 

Arab Spring

 

Heavy fighting reported across Syria

 

2,080 lashes for Saudi man who raped daughter

 

Les Anglais

 

The school play continues: falling scenery, missing props and dicks in the most peculiar holes

 

Max Keiser: Crazy Cameron "suicidal" in Euro gunfight!

 

File:Morris.dancing.at.wells.arp.jpg
 

Documentary

 

VIDEO: America's Desperate War on Drugs

 

 

December 10th 2011

 

Drones

 

Stealthy but not Infallible

 

 

British Spring?

 

EU treaty: Britain now faces a Europe that is becoming hostile

 

 

Russian Spring?

 

Russia election protests: tens of thousands gather for biggest demonstration since fall of USSR

 

 

Israel News

 

Tensions on Israel-Gaza border escalate as three more rockets fired

 

Arab Spring

 

Rights group: At least 16 killed in Syria

 

Command and Control

 

Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict Internet

 

The X-Factor Revolution

 

It is about to get real!

 

Aren't you glad you don't have Charlie McGrath as a dorm mate?

 

DARPA

 

Jigsaw Puzzlers Summoned to Defend the Nation

 

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Robotics

 

This Week In Bots: Droids, Drones, And The Future Of Telepresence

 

VIDEO: Most Advanced Robot Ever?

 

 

Documentary

 

 The Mafia Career of Lucky Luciano

 

 

Brentford Science

 

Researchers find clue to explain how penguins know when to surface

Do scientists get paid for this kind of crap?

 

 

Metaphysics

 

http://www.sacredmysteries.com/

 

 

Radical Truth: Knowledge and Revolution

 


Featuring David Icke (seen below tracing the Queen's ancestry back to the bloodline of alien lizards) Can we resist such entertainment?

 

 

UFO

 

Florida Close Encounter

 

Fortean

 

Recent 'Leaked' Bigfoot DNA Information

 

Iran


What's Going on at Iran's Nuclear Site?

 

 

The first clear pictures of Iran’s nuclear site near Isfahan have been published and analyzed following an explosion at or near the site on Nov. 28, and they provide another piece of the puzzle. But what happened there remains a mystery.
Iran’s uranium conversion facility sits outside Isfahan. It is here that yellowcake is turned into uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), which is then fed into centrifuges and turned into enriched uranium. The enriched uranium then can be made into fuel for power stations, or it can be highly enriched for a nuclear bomb.
Fox News obtained satellite pictures of the Isfahan nuclear site between Dec. 3 and 5, less than a week after reports of explosions in the area were heard. Analysts at the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), which employs some of the most widely respected experts on Iran’s nuclear sites, scrutinized the images and said there is no evidence of an explosion -- but there wouldn’t be clear evidence several days after an event.
 

Corruption

 

MoD spent £1 billion on tank programme which produced no vehicles

 

British Challenger 2

 

December 9th 2011

 

Arab Spring

 

Muslim Cleric's Warning: Bananas and Cucumbers Too Sexy for Women

 

An Islamic cleric living in Europe reportedly has warned Muslim women not to get too close to bananas, cucumbers or other produce -- to avoid having “sexual thoughts.”
The unnamed cleric, whose directive was featured in an article in el-Senousa, a religious publication, purportedly said that if women wanted to eat these foods, a third party -- preferably a male related to them, such as their father or husband -- should cut the items into small pieces before serving, the Egyptian website Bikya Masr reported.

 

Iran

 

Satellite Images Suggest Something Happened at Iranian Nuclear Facility -- But Was It An Explosion?

 

Political Entertainment

 

Hanukkah at the White House

 

UFO

 

Exopolitical Entertainment

 

From Dr. Boylan Ph.D


drboylan@sbcglobal.net

 

 

Friends:
Here is the 4th instalment of: "18 Significant Dates in the History of Star Visitor-Human Interactions".

4) 1948 (March 25) - Downing of UFO northeast of Aztec, New Mexico where a starcraft was shot down by U.S. military and crashed with the loss of all lives aboard. The killed included a mixed-race crew of seven aboard: Zetas, a Pleiadean, a Reptoid, an Onoogie, a gelatinous being, and a star person from the thin-framed, articulated-limbs race which the Hopi Indians call the Ant People (humanoids). They were searching for survivors of the Roswell crash.

Diamond Springs, CA 95619 USA

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 Military Jokes and Military Humor

 

StrategyPage

 

Military Intelligence

 

Iran Diary

 

Cyber

 

IBM's Watson Ponders Whether to Fight Patent Trolls or Join Them

 

Turning Science into the X-Factor

 

International Business Machines, Inc. (IBM) sets a high bar for future artificial intelligence machines. With its powerful parallel software package DeepQA -- written in a mix of C++, Java, and Prolog -- IBM's Watson supercomputer learns, data mines, performs image analysis, processes natural language, and understands speech in a unified approach that eclipses the more humble machines that came before it.
Despite a very human flub, Watson put its powers on display on the game show Jeopardy, accruing $77,147 USD for the win in a match against the longest time Jeopardy champion -- Ken Jennings (who scored $24,000) -- and the biggest money winner on the show -- Brad Rutter (who scored $21,600). The humans' loss led Ken Jennings to quip, "I for one welcome our new computer overlords."

 


 

Postmodern

 

The Problem with “Friendly” Artificial Intelligence

 

 

Robotics

 

Review: Apocalyptic AI by Robert M. Geraci

 

 

Science as Show Business

 

Higgs boson hunters scent their elusive quarry at the LHC

 

 

This week's prize (bottle of Johnny Walker) goes to Mary, who pointed out the resemblance of the CERN machine to the chorus line of the Folies Bergère,
 Perry Como's face and the X-factor assembly.

 

Arab Spring

 

Suicide bombing kills 4 at Afghan mosque

 

Documentary

 

The Truth of Troy

 

 

Corruption

 

Did Federal Agents launder Cartel cash?

 

Fortean

 

Roswell and Remote Viewing

 

Conspiracies and Visions

 

Brains of tax drivers rewired by 'The Knowledge'

 

Obama Doesn't Know His Own Birth Date!

 

Conspiracy Calls: Paranoid Telephonic Bugs and MIB Surveillance

 

 

 

December 8th 2011

 

Military Intelligence

 

Satellite images reveal secret Nevada UAV site

 

RQ170 Down

 

An informed source in the Iranian military has said that Russian and Chinese officials have asked for permission to inspect the U.S. spy drone that was recently downed by the Iranian Armed Forces, Nasimonline.ir reported on Wednesday. On Sunday, an unidentified Iranian military source said that the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic had downed an advanced RQ-170 unmanned U.S. spy plane, which had violated the country’s airspace along the eastern border.

 

For video, see

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-state-television-displays-downed-u-s-surveillance-drone-1.400377

 

 

 

Arab Spring

 

Another 60 corpses

 

If further proof were needed that Syria is on the point of collapsing into all-out civil war, it was provided by the grisly discovery this week of 60 bodies dumped on the streets of the rebel city of Homs.

 

 

Documentary

 

1421: The Year China Discovered America?

 

 
 

Jewish News


How To Explain Jacob's Ladder: An alien-inspired Jewish Bedtime Story

 

Who will rid Jews of race-hate channels such as Press TV?

 

Hitler's US and Canada Phone Book

 

 

Supposing you and your girlfriend phoned for a kosher carry-out one night in the 1930s and you got himself on the phone through a wrong number. Just think what a scream would be heard after your order for Chicken sausages, Turkey Viennas or Smoked Krakover turkey salami was delivered.

 

 

 

Iran

 

Iran: Between economic jihad and suicide

 

DARPA

 

Winning the DARPA Challenge: Crowdsourcing, algorithms and detective work

 

Cyber

 

Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply

 

With Cyber Fast Track, Pentagon funds hacker research
 

 

UFO

 

Welcome to the Official Website of The National UFO Center and Filer's Research Institute. Home of The Filer's Files

 



Filer's Files #50 - 2011 Earth like Planet Found
Dec 7, 2011

 



Coquimbo Chile on November 28, 2011, at 7 PM,


In special reports, this week’s files cover: Are we all aliens? The Giza Pyramid Power Plant, Eclipse on December 10th Could bring Trouble, New Planet Similar to Earth Discovered, West’s War with Iran Has Begun, Thomas E. Reed Family Abduction, Syria/Russia: Moscow and Tehran to Resist Western Pressure.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Washington.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
If you would like to receive these files weekly by email send a request to:
majorstar@verizon.net

 

Is this an alien spacecraft parked next to Mercury?

Giant object the size of a planet has astronomers baffled


 

Conspiracy

 

World Bank Creating Poverty

 

Noam Chomsky on Corporate Personhood

 

 

Cyber

 

Stuxnet Worm Now Threatens The World

 

 

 

December 7th 2011

 

Arab Spring

 

Suicide Bombing Kills 5 In Somali Capital

 

"Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group, has claimed responsibility for the bombing. The outfit had withdrawn from Mogadishu and surrounding areas in August following an influx of thousands of famine-stricken people seeking food and water. They have since returned to their strongholds in the city.
Somalia is currently facing its worst drought in more than six decades. Although some regions in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda have also been hit by drought, the situation in southern Somalia is compounded by Islamist insurgency and acute poverty.
Al-Shabaab is Somalia's most prominent and influential Islamist militant unit and is branded a terrorist organization by the United States and most of the international community. The outfit is the military wing of the Islamist movement ousted by Ethiopia-backed Somali forces in 2006.
"
 

Afghan bombings kill 78 people in 24 hours

 


 

Brentford Science

 

Females choose sexier friends to avoid harassment

Do scientists really get paid for this crap?

 

Cyber

 

Adobe confirms zero-day danger in Reader and Acrobat

 

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adobe on Tuesday issued a critical security advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A vulnerability was detected and confirmed in Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. Adobe said the flaw could cause a crash and allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

 

Russian Spring

 

Russia's anti-Putin protests grow

 

 

Documentaries

 

'High Society: Churchill's Girl'

 

'Lost Ark of the Covenant' - Full Documentary

 

 

AI

 

Bursting the Bubble of Human Intelligence

 

Middle East Intelligence

 

Prince Hints Saudi Arabia May Join Nuclear Arms Race

Tom Burghardt: THE CLOCK IS TICKING: "Shadow War" Heating Up. War With Iran: A Provocation Away?

 

Conspiracy

 

 The Call to Release Nikola Tesla's Research

 

 

Fortean

 

New Bigfoot DNA Study Statement and Speculation

 

UFO

 

The Hopkinsville Aliens

On the night of August 21, 1955, two Kentucky families claimed to have fought unknown beings. In a rural area of Kentucky, near Hopkinsville and Kelly, two families contend they battled extraterrestrial creatures. The event happened around the Sutton farmhouse, where the Suttons and the Taylors gathered for dinner. At some point during the evening, Billy Ray Taylor went outside to draw water from the well.
Taylor witnessed a huge, bright object land in the woods about a quarter of a mile from the house. He started towards
the house with the water when he saw a strange creature approaching. Billy Ray dropped the bucket and ran into the house. Both he and Lucky Sutton picked up firearms and ran back outside. Taylor fired his .22 caliber rifle and Lucky fired his shotgun but neither weapon had any effect on the creature.
Sutton and Taylor described the aliens as three feet tall, with pointed ears, thin limbs, long arms and claw-like hands. They said the creatures looked like gremlins, hence they became known as the Hopkinsville Goblins. The beings were either silvery in color or were wearing something metallic. The strangest aspect of these creature was their movements.

 

Book Review

 

The Prague Cemetery

by Umberto Eco

 

Review
`Umberto Eco is not the first to notice the overlap between fiction-making and criminality. But few books have explored the idea with the ingenuity and imagination that Eco does in this magnificent new novel, which marks a return to the heady mixture of absorbing ideas and down-and-dirty historical detail that made The Name of the Rose (1980) such an international bestseller in the 1980's.' ----Adam Lively, Sunday Times

`Like The Name of the Rose, it is about dangerous writing; books for which men will commit murders. Like Foucault's Pendulum, it delves into the paranoiac mind of conspiracy theorists, the awful "apophenia" where everything is a sign for something else... it is a work of ingenious sleight of hand.' ----Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Book Description
Umberto Eco's biggest book since The Name of the Rose - a brilliant historical novel, which has already sold over a million copies in Europe

 

America's Divine Comedy - A Docudrama

The Spirit of Poet Dante Alighieri comes to warn us of a New Dark Age.

 


 

Fortean/Crypto

 

Recent UFO / Entity Cases: Florida Bio-Forms -- 'Wormlike' Beings -- Various Humanoids

 

 

Click here to subscribe to Boy's Town Jerusalem

 

UFO

 

US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens

 

Esoteric

 

Esalen Remote Viewing Excursion: Jan 15-20

 

 

 

 

December 6th 2011

 

Good News

 

The Plan To Collapse Iran's Central Bank

 

Russian Spring

 

Russian election: police, troops and youth groups stifle anti-Putin protests

 

Israel News

 

Israeli Technology “Orbits” the World!

One of the biggest tech success stories in Israel is Orbit Communications, one of the world's leaders in satellite communications

 

Learn and live

Rehabilitating Israeli youth

 

 Sydney Cohen, early Israeli air force pilot

 

By Alan D. Abbey · December 6, 2011

Sydney Cohen, whose contributions to Israel’s War of Independence as an early leader in the nascent Israeli Air Force are still remembered, died Dec. 1 at 90 in his Ramat Hasharon home.
Cohen, a native of South Africa, flew Czech Spitfires to Israel in the early days of the war and was an early commander of Squadron 101, Israel’s first dedicated fighter squadron and one of the air force’s first units in the days when the IAF was a ragtag collection of planes and hotshot pilots, many of them volunteers.

 

Old enemies - a Spitfire and a Messerschmitt 109 - fly together as allies during the Israel War of Independence 1948

 

Fortean/Cold Fusion

 

VIDEO: E-Cat in the HotZone

 

Andrea Rossi, Bloomberg, breakthrough, cold fusion, E-Cat, energy catalyzer, free energy, heat, HotZone, hydrogen gas, italy, low-energy nuclear reaction, nickel powder, no nuclear waste, no pollution, PESN, power. It is almost a certainty that we do not hear of these people or these things again. They will disappear like the inventers of cars that run on water and perpetual-motion machines. It is not so much that they do not work as that they all have such a strange degree of insubstantiality they appear to have only foot in the Cartesian frame. Where the other foot is goodness only knows.

As Charles Fort pointed out, perhaps there is a natural law in operation here as well as the plots of conspiracists. CB

 

Fortean/Conspiracy

 

Secret Bases Exposed!

By NickRedfern


Area 51, Hangar 18, Montauk, and the Dulce Base: these are just a handful of the many and varied select, highly-classified installations about which the governments of the United States, Australia, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and elsewhere prefer we, the general public, remain steadfastly ignorant. And those same governments have extremely good reasons for wishing us to remain in the dark.
It is at these very same secret facilities that, for decades, clandestine research is said to have been undertaken into lethal viruses, genetic manipulation, crashed UFOs and deceased alien entities, biological-warfare, mind-control experimentation, futuristic aircraft and spacecraft, teleportation, weather-modification, invisibility, time-travel, and much, much more of a conspiratorial and cosmic nature.
Whether situated deep under the oceans, far below the ground, or within the heart of hidden, remote desert locales, these and many other super-secret places are guarded with a paranoid zeal by those in power who wish to keep their secrets buried and locked far away from prying-eyes. Sometimes, however, the huge, steel, near-impenetrable vault-like doors that help to hide the shocking truths open wide – or are forced open – and the shocking secrets within are revealed…
In fact, they are revealed in my brand new book, Keep Out!
 

F-35

 

McCain calls F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program a 'tragedy'

 

 

Iran

 

Iran explosions prompt speculation of secret attacks

 

Exopolitical Entertainment

 

Andrew Basiago Demands Time Travel disclosure

 

 

Below we see Mr. Basiago travelling to Mars on his DARPA-built Time Machine:

 

"Andrew D. Basiago and Dr. David L. Anderson – independently emphasize the connection between creating a positive human future and public disclosure of the time travel and time control capabilities that they say the U.S. government has developed but kept secret, thereby depriving the world of the potential life-advantaging benefits of technologies that manipulate the quantum environment.
Mr Basiago has publicly stated how in 1971 he viewed moving images of the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 that had been obtained from the future and brought back to the early 1970’s.
Mr. Basiago stated that teleportation could be used to move people and goods more efficiently around the globe, without the pollution caused by planes, trains, and automobiles or the negative effects upon land use of airports, railroads, and highways.
Dr. Anderson stated that time control technology will solve the global energy crisis, with diverse applications in both new energy production and medical research."

Good, innit?

Read more HERE
 

Arab Spring


Afghanistan: Kabul shrine attacks 'kill 52'

Twin blasts at Afghan shrines on the Shiite holy day of Ashura left at least 52 people dead in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday, according to police and witnesses.

 

Multiple Bomb Attacks in Iraq on a Day Holy to Shiites


Bomb blasts ripped into throngs of religious pilgrims on Monday as they streamed through Iraq’s streets to honor one of the most sacred holidays of Shiite Islam, in what has become almost an annual spilling of blood and stirring of sectarian anger. At least 20 people — many of them women and children — were killed in three bomb blasts about 50 miles south of Baghdad, security officials and hospital officials said. Dozens more were injured.
 

History

 

The Attack on Pearl Harbor

 

 

Arab Spring

Iraq Bombings Kill 28 Shi'ite Pilgrims

 

 

Brentford Science

 

Study shows people can guess personality via body odor

Do scientists get paid for this kind of crap?

 

December 5th 2011

 

Apocalypse

 

Iran's Revolutionary Guards prepare for war
 

Politics

 

 

Fascism in America

by Stephen Lendman

 

US targets WikiLeaks like no other organisation

 

China syndrome in progress at Fukushima
 

Ted Rall

 

 

Wikileaks

 

Julian Assange wins right to pursue extradition fight

 

Exopolitical Entertainment

 

SERPO News: the best UFO fun-site on the Web

 

 

"In 1995, the Los Alamos Laboratory reported in a highly classified document that both (Roswell) ALIEN CRAFT contained TIME DEVICES that our scientists were able to translate into OUR time periods. The TIME DEVICE that was found in the Roswell craft was NOT known to be a TIME DEVICE until then.
Scientists at Los Alamos used a supercomputer to analyze the device and found that the display on the device was a recording of a time period just PRIOR to the craft crashing.
Using the alien "Energy Device" [USG codenamed: "CRYSTAL RECTANGLE"] that was also found in the craft, they were able to turn on the TIME DEVICE and viewed different displays or readouts in the EBEN language. Based on what they already knew of the language, they were able to determine each sequence of time displays as being a set date under the EBEN calendar."

Illustration show the staff of Project Camelot Feeding a guest Eben

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esoteric

 

 

Premonitions or Coincidences?

If you keep your eyes and your mind open, you will find that the paranormal, the miraculous, the simply inexplicable, not only happen, but are not even uncommon. So, to complement my Cryptozoology blog, I have set aside this one for items outside the scientific paradigm. Except for the first post (September 2011), which describes my own experiences, every post is provided with a reference. My aim has been to alert you to otherwise forgotten stories, in case they form part of a pattern.

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Phantoms and Monsters

 

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Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind.

 

December 4th 2011

 

Exopolitical Entertainment

 

Exopolitics: The Study of the Politics of Extraterrestrial Contact

 

Media and Metaphysics

 

Plato - The Allegory Of The Cave - (The Matrix) Animated

 

 

Economic Entertainment

 

Unintentionally hilarious EU video celebrates the 'success' of the euro

 

 

Israel News

 

Women's Rights Banner

 

"The Army is the supreme symbol of duty, and as long as women are not equal to men in performing this duty, they have not yet obtained true equality. If the daughters of Israel are absent from the army, then the character of the Yishuv (Jewish community in Israel) will be distorted." -David Ben Gurion, First Israeli Prime Minister

 

Israeli Women in the Military

 

Israeli Women in Politics and Public Affairs


Israeli Women at the Helm: Profiles of Leadership

 

Download Complete Women's Rights TIP Kit (PDF)
 

Pooftah News

 

Priests and Boys

 

Science as Intellectual Consumerism

 

The Marketing of Madness

 

Science as Show Business

 

Search for God Particle is nearly over, as CERN prepares to announce findings

The search for the 'God particle' could be nearing a resolution as physicists prepare to announce the latest evidence from the Large Hadron Collider.

 

 

Conspiracy

 

VIDEO: The Nazi Occult Conspiracy

 

VIDEO: Hollow Earth: Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
 

The Deep Past


Project Camelot and the 1960s Epistemological Revolution


Combat Diaries is anxious to point out that the title Project Camelot title here has absolutely nothing to do with the site of an identical name run by Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy.

 

Sunday Entertainment: Sex and Shopping

 

Weird California: Your Travel Guide to California's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets [Paperback]

 

 

Cracked.com

 

Cracked Columnists

 

UFO

 

The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed

 

 

Hollywood producer claims proof of UFOs

 

Hollywood producer J. Herbert Klein has proof that UFOs exist. That is the claim he makes in his new book Beyond Hollywood: A Memoir of Fate, Luck, the Unexplained, and Living the American Dream. The book was announced today via press release from International Film Arts, a production company founded by Klein and his business partner, movie star Jon Hall. According to the press release, Klein and Hall invented things together, including a square anamorphic lens that Klein believed “could photograph the invisible – UFOs, alien life forms, energy fields, and other unexplained phenomena.”
The pair reportedly shot thousands of photographs using their special lens, and “frequently captured images that could only be called out of this world.” The 296-page book features approximately 100 photos taken by Klein and Hall, “including many amazing shots of unexplained phenomena.”
Beyond Hollywood: A Memoir of Fate, Luck, the Unexplained, and Living the American Dream is available now at Amazon

 

 

December 3rd 2011

 

New World Order

 

The Tavistock Agenda

 

 

DARPA


“All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.” Wins $50,000 DARPA Shredder Challenge

 

 

A San Francisco-based team has just won the DARPA Shredder Challenge. DARPA, the government agency whose work led to the creation of the Internet, challenged the public to reconstruct five shredded documents. The winning team, called “All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.” completed the task in 33 days, spending nearly 600 man-hours building algorithms and piecing together more than 10,000 shreds.
9,000 teams registered to compete. The winning teams gets a $50,000 prize paid for by the U.S. Treasury.
Dan Kaufman, director, DARPA Information Innovation Office says “the most effective approaches were not purely computational or crowd-sourced, but used a combination blended with some clever detective work.”
DARPA Director Regina Dugan adds “The DARPA Shredder Challenge underscores the value of increasing the number and diversity of problem solvers. The varied methods used have potential implications for so-called ‘wicked problems,’ generally considered insolvable by conventional means, and offer the possibility of increased speed, agility and breadth in innovation.” I’ll say.
The shredder challenge also suggests just because you shred something, that doesn’t mean it can’t be put back together.

You can see the puzzle solutions and pictures of the winning submissions at
www.shredderchallenge.com

 

Apocalypse

 

Fukushima May Well be Forever

 

At least as far as humans are concerned: Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said in a report that fuel inside reactor No 1 appeared to have dropped through its inner pressure vessel and into the outer containment vessel, indicating that the accident was more severe than first thought.

 


 

Robotics

 

Robots colonise the Science Museum

 

 

Israel News

 

Israel's Livni urges US to step up Iran sanctions

 

 

Arab Spring

 

25 die in Syria, as defectors battle regime forces

 

List of international sanctions against Syria

 

Cyber

 

 

VIDEO: The Spy Files: Cyber Intelligence Made Easy

 

Phone 'Rootkit' Maker Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In Millions

 Of Cases

 

Insight: Did Conficker help sabotage Iran program?

 


The U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit

 

Overview of the Russian Cyber Assault on Georgia in 2008
 

Fortean

 

Fear of Contact: Transforming Denial

 

Australian Yowie Researcher Recalls His Terrifying Encounter  

 

Religion

 

Jesus Sightings: Why Some People See The Face Of God In A Pizza (VIDEO)

 

 

Muslim Honor Killings in London and UK

 

UK police recorded at least 2,823 so-called honour attacks last year, figures from 39 out of 52 forces show.

 

 

Mysteries

 

VIDEO: What is inside Warehouse 13?

 

 

Botnets

 

Darpa’s Creepy Robo-Blob Learns to Crawl

 

 

 

 

December 2nd 2011

 

Fun

 

Star shocks in most graphic video to date

Combat Diaries could not resist this one.

 

 

Arab Spring

 

Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will be 'end of virginity'

 

Jewish/Israeli News

 

Netanyahu pulls ad campaign for Israeli expats that angered U.S. Jews

 

Germany supplies Israel with Submarines capable of carrying missiles with nuclear warheads

 


Germany has approved the sale of a sixth Dolphin submarine to Israel and will pay for a third of its cost, government sources told dpa on Wednesday.
Israel already has three German-made Dolphin submarines, which are capable of carrying missiles with nuclear warheads. Berlin paid for two of the submarines and the cost of the third was shared between the two countries. Two more are being constructed.
The government sources said Germany had allocated up to 135 million euros (180 million dollars) in next year's budget to pay for its share of the cost for the sixth submarine, the sale of which is part of a deal finalized in 2005.
The submarines are seen as a strategic asset for Israel in any future confrontation with Iran...Israel is believed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, a claim it neither confirms nor denies.
 

Cyber

 

Carrier IQ faces lawsuits, lawmaker seeks FTC probe

 

Update: How to turn off Carrier IQ on your iPhone

Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story had the incorrect process for disabling Carrier IQ software. The story has been updated with the correct information.

 

UFO

 

Exopolitical Entertainment

 

Project Camelot interviews Bob Dean

Watch out -the Nibiru are coming from planet X!

 

Fortean

 

FAA Says Falling Debris Not from Any Known Aircraft (Video)

 

Joint Strike Fighter

 

JSF's Build And Test Was 'Miscalculation,' Adm. Venlet Says; Production Must Slow

 

 

Arab Spring

 

Iraq attacks kill at least 20; Joe Biden visits

 

Entertainment

 

Area 51: Was the Roswell UFO a Soviet Hoax?

 



Read more: UFO Crash Roswell N.M. - Annie Jacobsen Area 51 - Popular Mechanics

 

Postmodern

 

Global uncertainty means less planning and more ability to think on your feet

 

"When Thatcher and Reagan threw away the political tools for moderating markets, they also wrecked any notion of planning, which is, paradoxically, perhaps the only good deed that they did. Who forecast 9/11, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the significant though ridiculously over-hyped Arab Spring, China's turn to capitalism, the political longevity of Silvio Berlusconi, mobile phone and PC penetration or the revival of world religions, to take a few phenomena at random? And who can forecast the next bout of global hysteria?

At a local level, who can forecast the geometrically rising chances of catastrophe as population density increases: high-casualty crashes on the roads; chemical explosions in densely populated areas; the theft of lead from church roofs and copper cable from railway power lines; or viral rioting?"
 

Fortean/Crypto

 

Cryptid Encounter Reports 46

 

UFO

 

The Alien's Backbone: El Moncayo.

 

You'll come to Love your Scientific Breakthrough!

 

Dutch Researcher Created A Super-Influenza Virus With The Potential To Kill Millions

 

Brentford Science

 

Aggression prevents the better part of valor ... in fig wasps

Do scientist get paid for this crap?

 

Cyber

 

Wikileaks reveals mass surveillance of mobile devices

 

Would-be spies who crack GCHQ code directed to £25,000 job vacancy

The fiendish code devised by GCHQ in a bid to recruit new young spies has been solved by "about 50" people.

 

Racial Extermination

A race of people coming to an end in the American desert

 

Navajo nation contaminated by uranium ore

 

Hyper Hype

 

Second Hypersonic Test Fails

 

HTV-2


 

December 1st

 

Scientific Conspiracy

 

 Get Ready for a New Human Species

"Now that we can rewrite the code of life, Darwinian evolution can't stop us" Juan Enriquez

 

 

Cyber

 

GCHQ challenges codebreakers via social networks

 

Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS

 

 

Corruption

 

How do key countries rank on corruption?

 

Looks alright to me. If this is corruption I can't wait. Like Jeremy Clarkson of The Sun, In the interests of both Religion and Morality, I have studied the above image for many hours and have yet to find anything corrupt about it.

 

AI

Nigeria: Student Wins Best Artificial Intelligence Research Award

 

Israel News

 

Israeli Defense Minister Warns of Iran, Says 'We Definitely Might be Put to the Test'

 

Israel to show secret items from Eichmann capture

 

Artifacts chronicling capture of Nazi criminal by Israeli secret service agents to be exposed to public for first time
Tzvika Brot Published: 11.30.11, 07:28 / Israel Jewish Scene
"This will be the first time that the Mossad exposes one of its operations to the public," a Knesset spokesman said.

 

Arab Spring

 

Syria civilian death toll at least 4,000: UN

 

Gaddafi's son paid LSE tutor £4,000 per month for help with his homework

 

Blair government tried to get Saif a place at Oxford... but he wasn't bright enough

 

 

Fortean

 

Reincarnation

 

This family truly believes their child is a reincarnated deceased World War Two fighter. They present evidence that this little boy actually remembers details of his past life as a bomber pilot who perished in Japan.

 

Iran


Report says Iranian nuke site damaged

 

Satellite Image Showing Damage from November 12, 2011 Blast at Military Base in Iran

 


 

UFO

 

The Donna & Clayton Lee Abduction

 

Fortean/Crypto

 

Born to be Wild

 

Arab Spring

 

17 die in Iraq bombing and attack

 

Israel News

 

Israel resumes sending millions to Palestinians following Unesco customs duty row

 

UFO

 

UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record

 

Brentford Science

 

In a star's final days, astronomers hunt 'signal of impending doom'

In real time? Wow!

 

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future