Thursday, March 31, 2011

Water Table Rupture - IMPRESSIVE fissure in Japanese Earthquake - March ...

GLOBAL Earthquake and Volcano outlook - Part 1 of 2

Japan nuclear crisis: evacuees turned away from shelters

Hundreds of people evacuated from towns and villages close to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are being turned away by medical institutions and emergency shelters as fears of radioactive contagion catch on.  Hospitals and temporary refuges are demanding that evacuees provide them with certificates confirming that they have not been exposed to radiation before they are admitted.  link

Japan Nuclear Fallout Radiation in US Rainwater Now Several Thousands Times Above Drinking Water Limits

I previously wrote about how the Federal Government decided to wait almost 2 weeks to inform the public that rainwater across the entire US is contaminated with radiation from Japan’s nuclear fallout.  There is now news that  what was originally reported as only tiny, harmless, minuscule amounts is now being detected at levels thousands of times greater than what is allowed drinking water.
Forbes reports:  link

Fukushima nuclear plant to be entombed in concrete as Japan admits it has lost battle with crippled reactors


  • Radioactivity levels in the ocean 4,385 times above regulatory limit

  • Fisherman warned not to operate within 12 miles of plant

  • Compensation claims could top $12bn

  • Power firm's shares lose 80% of value - may need government bailout

  • President still recovering in hospital recovering from 'fatigue and stress'

  • U.S. sends specialist Marine unit to assist in decontamination

  • Traces of radioactive particles found in U.S. milk

  • link 

    Power company says smoke spotted at another Japanese nuclear plant

    Tokyo (CNN) -- Smoke was spotted at another nuclear plant in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.  The company said smoke was detected in the turbine building of reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant around 6 p.m. (5 a.m. ET).  Smoke could no longer be seen by around 7 p.m. (6 a.m. ET), a company spokesman told reporters.  The Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where workers have been scrambling to stave off a meltdown since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems there.  link

    Wednesday, March 30, 2011

    North Pole Moved up to 20 DEGREES! Magnetosphere ANOMALY

    ESA - Japan is slipping to the EAST - 20,000 foot drop off - confirmed

    Terence McKenna - Time and the I-Ching

    THE REALITY DETACHED AMERICAN : a SGTbull micro-doc

    THE MADNESS OF A LOST SOCIETY

    WILD MAGNETOSPHERE - march 30, 2011

    VERIFIED in the USA - Radiation and Jetstream FORECAST UPDATE - March 30...

    Iodine-131 is 3,300 times HIGHER THAN NORMAL on East Coast USA

    Michigan: It's not about the Budget /Rachel Maddow

    Fukushima beyond point of no return as radioactive core melts through containment vessel

    (NaturalNews) The battle to save the Fukushima nuclear power plant now appears lost as the radioactive core from Reactor No. 2 has melted through the containment vessel and dropped into the concrete basement of the reactor structure. This is "raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site," reports The Guardian, which broke the story (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201...). A former General Electric nuclear expert told The Guardian that Japan appears to have "lost the race" to save the reactor.   link 

    Japan To Make Citizens Pay Bill For TEPCO’s Nuclear Radioactive Fallout

    Crooked Japanese politicians are undertaking steps to let TEPCO off the hook for the measly $1.2 billion in liabilities it faces for the Japan nuclear fallout disaster and will instead make the citizens of Japan pay the bill. If a similar disaster happened in your own country, you’d be paying the bill as well.   link

    Feds forbid scientists probing Gulf dolphin deaths from speaking to media

    Last month dolphin corpses began washing up on the Gulf Coast in alarming numbers. Well, more dead dolphins continue to be found, bringing the total this year up to 114 -- 100 more than the average number of dead dolphins that washed ashore during the first three months of any year between 2002 and 2007.  So, naturally, there are quite a few people interested in what might cause such dramatic increases in marine mammal mortality. But Mississippi's WLOX reported recently that government testing on the animals has been slow to commence, and Reuters reported over the weekend that a gag order has been put into place forbidding wildlife biologists at the National Marine Fisheries Service to talk to the media about their findings.   link

    Tuesday, March 29, 2011

    Graham Hancock Presenting at the 2012 Conference

    Fertility Goddess Asherah: Was 'God's Wife' Edited Out of the Bible?

    Some scholars say early versions of the Bible featured Asherah, a powerful fertility goddess who may have been God's wife. Research by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, a senior lecturer in the department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, unearthed clues to her identity, but good luck finding mention of her in the Bible. If Stavrakopoulou is right, heavy-handed male editors of the text all but removed her from the sacred book. Fertility Goddess Asherah: Was 'God's Wife' Edited Out of the Bible? 

    RememberBuilding7.org

    Egypt protests against anti-protest law - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online

    The Egyptian cabinet approved yesterday a decree-law that criminalises strikes, protests, demonstrations and sit-ins that interrupt private or state owned businesses or affect the economy in any way. The decree-law also assigns severe punishment to those who call for or incite action, with the maximum sentence one year in prison and fines of up to half a million pounds.   link 

    ‘Maximum Alert’ In Japan Over Fukushima Nuke Crisis As TEPCO Head Vanishes

    “TEPCO is in an awful dilemma right now,” said Jim Walsh, an international security expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “One the one hand, they want to cool the reactor and keep the reactor cool, so they have to pour water in. If there is a leak in one of the containment vessels, that water keeps leaking out. So they have a problem where the more they try to cool it down, the greater the radiation hazard as that water leaks out from the plant,” reported the CNN Wire Staff.     link

    The Dollar Will Collapse Within 3-4 Months

    The US Dollar's inflationary death spiral continues. We've now taken out the 2010 low leaving only two more lines of support before we're in completely uncharted territory.  At its current rate of collapse, the US Dollar will do this within the next 3-4 months. This means the greenback will break into a new all-time lows by 2H11, which will precipitate the coming inflationary collapse.  Small wonder then that both Gold and Silver recently hit new highs for their current bull markets. With the greenback dropping like a rock, and rumors of QE 3 swirling around the financial community, what sane investor would bet against inflation?   link 

    Weird Saturn Radio Signals Puzzle Astronomers

    Saturn is sending astronomers mixed signals — radio signals, that is.  NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently found that the natural radio wave signals coming from the giant planet differ in the northern and southern hemispheres, a split that can affect how scientists measure the length of a Saturn day. But the weirdness doesn't stop there, researchers say.  The signal variations — which are controlled by the planet's rotation — also change dramatically over time, apparently in sync with the Saturnian seasons.  link

    Is Fukushima About to Blow?

    Conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are deteriorating and the doomsday scenario is beginning to unfold. On Sunday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) officials reported that the levels of radiation leaking into seawater at the Unit 2 reactor were 100,000 times above normal, and the airborne radiation measured 4-times higher than government limits. As a result, emergency workers were evacuated from the plant and rushed to safe location. The prospect of a full-core meltdown or an environmental catastrophe of incalculable magnitude now looms larger than ever. The crisis is getting worse.   link

    'West owns Libya opposition'

    The CIA with the help of the Egyptian military took control of Libyan opposition forces, arming and funding them against the forces of Libya's long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi.  So the intervention had as the pretext the nominal brutality of Gaddafi not merely helped and advised by special forces of the US, but deployed like it was against Saddam Hussein and before that with Noriega as a cat's paw pretext for intended design to seize control of the uprising and deploy it as an opportunity to put troops on the ground.  There is no ambiguity about this; Gates has already declared in the teeth of the UN Security Council resolution that there is no time limit; that it is not reasonable to say the time line for the war to end and indeed the war in Libya is what he called open-ended.    link

    EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth About Radiation Exposure to Americans

    As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.  The agency now notorious for its infamous claim that the air was safe to breathe after 9/11 is now seeking to raise the PAGs (Protective Action Guides) to levels vastly higher than those at which they are currently set allowing for more radioactive contamination of the environment and the general public in the event of a radioactive disaster.  link  

    EPA Set To Increase Radioactive Release Guidelines! This Must Be Stopped...

    Group warns EPA ready to increase radioactive release guidelines

    The EPA is preparing to dramatically increase permissible radioactive releases in drinking water, food and soil after “radiological incidents,” according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.What is termed a guidance that EPA is considering - as opposed to a regulation - does not require public airing before it’s decided upon.   link 

    Main Street America is Rising Up w/ Rage Against the Machine

    Fresh supermarket rip-off? The bakery products that can be up to a year old

    Rustic breads and cakes sold in the ‘fresh’ bakery areas of supermarkets may be a little more rustic than you would like.  The products are often defrosted and can be up to a year old, investigators revealed.  Many rolls and baguettes are given a second baking of up to eight minutes before being put on the shelves so they appear to be fresh with more of a crust.   link 

    Libya: War for oil

    Monday, March 28, 2011

    Biology's 'dark matter' hints at fourth domain of life

    Jonathan Eisen at the University of California, Davis, Genome Center has identified gene sequences hidden within these samples that are so unusual they seem to have come from organisms that are only distantly related to cellular life as we know it. So distantly related, in fact, that they may belong to an organism that sits in an entirely new domain.  Most species on the planet look like tiny single cells, and to work out where they fit on the tree of life biologists need to be able to grow them in the lab. Colonies like this give them enough DNA to run their genetic analyses. The problem is, the vast majority of these species – 99 per cent of them is a reasonable bet – refuse to be cultured in this way. "They really are the dark matter of the biological universe," says Eisen.   link

    Black hole's burps may blow bubbles around Milky Way

    STARS plunging into the giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy can explain two huge bubbles of gamma rays that NASA's Fermi space telescope discovered last year. The bubbles tower 25,000 light years above and below the Milky Way's disc of stars.  More than 100,000 stars swarm within a light year of the black hole. Now, Kwong Sang Cheng of the University of Hong Kong and his colleagues calculate that the black hole's gravity tears one of these stars apart every 30,000 years (The Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press). Half the star's mass falls into the black hole, while the other half shoots away at high speed, shocking gas that lies in the halo around the Milky Way's disc until it emits gamma rays.   link

    Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found

    (Reuters) Mar 12, 2011- A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.
    "This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters.
    "It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.  link

    Cover-up Is Going On In Tokyo & Washington.

    Nuclear Ginza 隠された被爆労働〜日本の原発労働者1

    Japan Requests U.S. To Block Popular Websites

     (The Hosting News) – In a recent effort to improve recovery efforts from the recent earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, the military has decided to block the use of certain websites from its network. Japanese military has reported that these sites are not being blocked due to any content reason but solely to improve the bandwidth necessary for militaristic needs. On Monday the U.S. Pacific Command received a request to block the 13 highest traffic usage sites commonly used on military networks such as YouTube, Google Video, Amazon, eBay, Myspace, and MTV.com.   link

    Germans stage 'biggest protest' against nuclear power

    In Germany, protesters have staged what they said was the country's biggest ever demonstration against nuclear power.  More than 200,000 people took part, in four cities.
    Nuclear energy has become a major political issue in Germany since the crisis in Japan and could influence a big regional election on Sunday.  The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is perceived to be pro-nuclear energy, could lose the state of Baden-Wuerttemburg for the first time in six decades.  link

    Pollution-trawling voyage finds ocean's plastic 'soup'

    If you trawl a fine mesh net through any of the globe's five subtropical gyres – giant ocean vortexes where currents converge and swirl unhurriedly – you will haul on deck a muddle of brown planktonic goop, the occasional fish, squid or Portuguese man-of-war – and, almost certainly, a generous sprinkling of colourful plastic particles, each no larger than your fingernail.
    Every flake of plastic cup or shard of toothbrush handle is a sponge for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) – potentially hazardous compounds that do not degrade easily and cling to any hard surface they find. The fate of all this plastic determines not only the health of marine life, but also our own; if fish are feasting on these toxic morsels, then we probably are too.    link

    Portable solar device creates potable water

    The Solarball, developed as Mr Jonathan Liow’s final year project during his Bachelor of Industrial Design, can produce up to three litres of clean water every day. The spherical unit absorbs sunlight and causes dirty water contained inside to evaporate. As evaporation occurs, contaminants are separated from the water, generating drinkable condensation. The condensation is collected and stored, ready for drinking.  Liow’s design was driven by a need to help the 900 million people around the world who lack access to safe drinking water. Over two million children die annually from preventable causes, triggered largely by contaminated . It is an increasing problem in developing nations due to rapid urbanisation and population growth.   link

    Genes tweaked, cows will now give ‘human milk’

    "The scientists have successfully created a herd of more than 200 cows that is capable of producing milk that contains the characteristics of human milk," Li Ning, director of the State Key Laboratories for AgroBiotechnology at China Agricultural University, told the Daily.  The technology is at the "cutting edge" worldwide and will ensure "healthy protein contained in human milk is affordable for ordinary consumers" , he said.  link

    Germany set to abandon nuclear power for good

    Germany. Germany stands alone among the world's leading industrialized nations in its determination to abandon nuclear energy for good because of the technology's inherent risk. Europe's biggest economy is betting billions on expanding the use of renewable energies to meet its demand instead. The transition was supposed to happen slowly over the next 25 years, but now it is being accelerated in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the "catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions" irreversibly marks the start of a new era. (AP Photo/Michael Probst,File)  link

    Scientists plan to drill all the way down to the Earth's mantle

    (PhysOrg.com) -- In what can only be described as a mammoth undertaking, scientists, led by British co-chiefs, Dr Damon Teagle of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England and Dr Benoit Ildefonse from Montpellier University in France, have announced jointly in an article in Nature that they intend to drill a hole through the Earth’s crust and into the mantle; a feat never before accomplished, much less seriously attempted.  link

    4.4 Earthquake off Oregon Coast, Foreshock?

    I found this latest earthquake to be interesting, 100 miles off the coast of California / Oregon, a magnitude 4.4.  The magnitude is of no particular interest, however it’s location is, at least to me… Given the recent very large earthquakes that have been shaking at the Pacific tectonic plate boundaries during the past year or so, the remaining ‘untouched’ region so far has been the west coast U.S (untouched – meaning a large earthquake).  While looking at the location of the past 5,000 earthquakes in the region shown in the map above, it is interesting that the recent magnitude 4.4 earthquake occurred in an area by itself, with no other apparent history of quakes there. In itself this is not alarming, but given the specific region with it’s very high concentration of historical earthquakes pulling and tugging at the Pacific plate boundary, the specific location of yesterday’s quake is exactly between two very active zones.   link 

    US stores spent nuclear fuel rods at 4 times pool capacity

    In a recent interview with The Real News Network, Robert Alvarez, a nuclear policy specialist since 1975, reports that spent nuclear fuel in the United States comprises the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet: 71,000 metric tons. Worse, since the Yucca Mountain waste repository has been scrapped due to its proximity to active faults (see last image), the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has allowed reactor operators to store four times more waste in the spent fuel pools than they’re designed to handle.  Link

    Sixth study in recent months links mercury in flu shots to brain damage, autism

    (NaturalNews) The toxic effects of the mercury, also known in vaccines as Thimerosal, have once again been confirmed, this time by researchers from the University of Brazil. Marking the sixth major study in recent months to condemn the use of mercury in medicine, the new study reveals that mercury causes serious brain damage, and is linked to autism and other developmental diseases in children and Alzheimer's disease in adults.   link 

    Massive sand storm in Kuwait - March 27, 2011

    Global Earthquake outlook and overview - March 28, 2011

    Orwell 2011: Towards a Pervasive "Surveillance State" in America

    Not since AT&T whistleblower Marc Klein's 2006 revelations that U.S. telecommunications giants were secretly collaborating with the government to spy on Americans, has a story driven home the point that we are confronted by a daunting set of invisible enemies: the security and intelligence firms constellating the dark skies of the National Security State.  As echoes from last month's disclosures by the cyber-guerrilla collective Anonymous continue to reverberate, leaked HBGary emails and documents are providing tantalizing insight into just how little daylight there is between private companies and the government.  The latest front in the ongoing war against civil liberties and privacy rights is the Pentagon's interest in "persona management software."  A euphemism for a suite of high-tech tools that equip an operative--military or corporate, take your pick--with multiple avatars or sock puppets, our latter day shadow warriors hope to achieve a leg up on their opponents in the "war of ideas" through stealthy propaganda campaigns rebranded as "information operations."   Link 

    6.5-magnitude quake jolts N Japan

    A 6.5-magnitude earthquake has struck off the northeast coast of Japan as the country struggles to mitigate the consequences of its nuclear disaster.

    According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a 50-centimetre (18 inch) tsunami warning has been issued for the Pacific coast of Miyagi prefecture, which was ruined by the huge earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11, AFP reported on Sunday.'   link

    Low Concentrations Of Radiation Found In Mass. - Video - WCVB Boston

    Low Concentrations Of Radiation Found In Mass. - Video - WCVB Boston
    The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Sunday that very low concentrations of radioiodine-131, likely associated with the Japan nuclear power plant event, have been detected in a rainwater sample.

    Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003

    Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, the first panel featured Google CEO Eric Schmidt. As moderator David Kirkpatrick was introducing him, he rattled off a massive stat.
    Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until  2003, according to Schmidt. That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says.
    Let me repeat that: we create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.   weblink

    Krishnamurti "Totally Absolutely Without Conflict" 3/4

    Corporations Versus Individuals: The End of the Left/Right Paradigm

    For a long time, American politics has been defined by a Left/Right dynamic. It was Liberals versus Conservatives on a variety of issues. Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice, Tax Cuts vs. More Spending, Pro-War vs Peaceniks, Environmental Protections vs. Economic Growth, Pro-Union vs. Union-Free, Gay Marriage vs. Family Values, School Choice vs. Public Schools, Regulation vs. Free Markets.
    The new dynamic, however, has moved past the old Left Right paradigm. We now live in an era defined by increasing Corporate influence and authority over the individual. These two “interest groups” – I can barely suppress snorting derisively over that phrase – have been on a headlong collision course for decades, which came to a head with the financial collapse and bailouts. Where there is massive concentrations of wealth and influence, there will be abuse of power.  The Individual has been supplanted in the political process nearly entirely by corporate money, legislative influence, campaign contributions, even free speech rights.  weblink

    Why Nobody Trusts the Mainstream Media

    Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light | The Vigilant Citizen

    Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light | The Vigilant Citizen
    Much of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this week by a presidential bioethics commission. The meeting was triggered by the government’s apology last fall for federal doctors infecting prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis 65 years ago.

    Woman Predicts March 11

    Behaviour drugs given to four-year-olds | The Vigilant Citizen

    Behaviour drugs given to four-year-olds | The Vigilant Citizen
    Children as young as four are being given Ritalin-style medication for behavioural problems in breach of NHS guidelines, the Guardian has discovered, prompting the leading psychological society to call for a national review.

    Sunday, March 27, 2011

    Human Resources 1/9

    The Last Word on CCTV - Corbett Report

    Invasion of Libya on the Same Day as the Invasion of Iraq: The Vernal Equinox

    The war on Iraq was declared on March 19th 2003.
    Western forces attacked Libya on March 20th 2011.
    Is there an occult reason behind this? Both invasions occurred on the eve of the Vernal Equinox – a date that was – and still is – extremely significant throughout History. It is the date of the Sun’s resurrection and was often celebrated with a blood sacrifice to “impregnate the Earth”.  weblink

    Psywar - The Real Battlefield is in the mind

    The Century of the Self - 1 of 4 - Happiness Machines

    10 Million Times Normal Level of Radioactivity in Water at Reactor 2, 3 ...

    Founding Engineer Says Reactor 4 Has Always Been A "Time Bomb", Exposes Criminal Cover Up

    Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the $250 million steel vessel installed at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4 reactor while working for a unit of Hitachi Ltd. in 1974. The reactor, which Tanaka has called a “time bomb,” was shut for maintenance when the March 11 earthquake triggered a 7-meter (23-foot) tsunami that disabled cooling systems at the plant, leading to explosions and radiation leaks....“Who knows what would have happened if that reactor had been running?” Tanaka, who turned his back on the nuclear industry after the Chernobyl disaster, said in an interview last week. “I have no idea if it could withstand an earthquake like this. It’s got a faulty reactor inside.”  weblink

    the Plan -according to US General Wesley Clarke

    Thousands Rally in Australia to Demonstrate Against Carbon Tax

    Thousands of protestors are challenging Prime Minister, Julia Gillard's, “undemocratic” climate policies demanding either an immediate election or that her government drops all such proposals. They say imposing the taxes would be a betrayal of democratic principles because Gillard was elected with no mandate to raise any such taxes.  weblink 

    Yellow Rain Falls In Tokyo? Pollen Excuse Exact Same As Chernobyl Yellow Rain Lie

    While the Japanese government continues to say that the yellow rain seen in Japan was simply “pollen,” many have been reminded of a very similar occurrence after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.  Almost on cue, the Japan Meteorological Agency has confirmed the rain to be pollen after receiving hundreds of calls from concerned citizens.  weblink

    Experimental Philosophy Opens New Avenues Into Old Questions

    Nichols is part of a growing number of researchers who are gaining insights into this philosophical dilemma by applying experimental methods commonly used by developmental psychologists and other social scientists. His latest findings ("Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Free Will") are published in the current issue of the journal Science.   weblink

    Libya: Another War, Another Pack of Lies

    What we can confirm, is that the entire Libyan rebel movement has been backed by the US and UK for nearly 3o years. We can confirm that the initial calls for a Libyan "Day of Rage" came not from the streets of Benghazi, but from the London based National Conference for Libyan Opposition (NCLO). We can confirm that NCLO leader Ibrahim Sahad was literally sitting in front of the White House giving an interview to the Western media in the opening stages of the Libyan unrest, parroting verbatim the West's desire to militarily intervene with a no-fly zone.  weblink 

    MSNBC - Banksters & Government Exposed FINALLY by Mainstream News!

    What They're Covering Up at Fukushima By HIROSE TAKASHI

    Around Fukushima Daiichi Station they measured 400 millisieverts – that’s per hour.  With this measurement (Chief Cabinet Secretary) Edano admitted for the first time that there was a danger to health, but he didn’t explain what this means.  All of the information media are at fault here I think.  They are saying stupid things like, why, we are exposed to radiation all the time in our daily life, we get radiation from outer space.  But that’s one millisievert per year.  A year has 365 days, a day has 24 hours; multiply 365 by 24, you get 8760.  Multiply the 400 millisieverts by that, you get 3,500,000 the normal dose.  You call that safe?    weblink

    Why Reality is a Computed Simulation

    the Fourth Density - Bashar

    Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star

     First off, this is not a spiral galaxy! It’s a binary star*, two stars that orbit each other, located about 3000 light years away from us. One of the stars is what’s called a carbon star, similar to the Sun but much older. The Sun is still happily fusing hydrogen into helium in its core, but older stars run out of available hydrogen. Eventually, they fuse helium into carbon. When this happens the star swells up and becomes a red giant.    weblink 

    Earliest evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe

    EUROPEANS may have used magic mushrooms to liven up religious rituals 6000 years ago. So suggests a cave mural in Spain, which may depict fungi with hallucinogenic properties - the oldest evidence of their use in Europe.  The Selva Pascuala mural, in a cave near the town of Villar del Humo, is dominated by a bull. But it is a row of 13 small mushroom-like objects that interests Brian Akers at Pasco-Hernando Community College in New Port Richey, Florida, and Gaston Guzman at the Ecological Institute of Xalapa in Mexico. They believe that the objects are the fungi Psilocybe hispanica, a local species with hallucinogenic properties.    weblink 

    Cordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wi...

    NEEM - A Tree For Solving Global Problems

    Ayahuasca - Icaros

    STEPPING INTO THE FIRE - OFFICIAL TRAILER - 2011

    Largest planet in the solar system could be about to be discovered - and it's up to four times the size of Jupiter

    By Daily Mail Reporter  14th February 2011
    Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter.  Its orbit would be thousands of times further from the Sun than the Earth's - which could explain why it has so far remained undiscovered.  Data which could prove the existence of Tyche, a gas giant in the outer Oort Cloud, is set to be released later this year - although some believe proof has already been garnered by Nasa with its pace telescope, Wise, and is waiting to be pored over.   weblink 

    Birds use quantum theory to literally 'see' Earth's magnetic field as they fly

    Birds may be able to ‘see’ the Earth’s electromagnetic field as they fly through the sky, scientists have suggested.  Many creatures, including all birds, navigate by sensing the direction of the magnetic forces around our planet to guide them.  But now researchers have found that different reactions are produced in the eyes of all avian creatures depending on which way the field spins.   weblink

    Consciousness Drives The Universe

    Cosmic 'DNA': Double Helix Spotted in Space

    Magnetic forces at the center of the galaxy have twisted a nebula into the shape of DNA, a new study reveals.  The double helix shape is commonly seen inside living organisms, but this is the first time it has been observed in the cosmos.  "Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm," said the study's lead author Mark Morris of UCLA. "Most nebulae are either spiral galaxies full of stars or formless amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas-space weather. What we see indicates a high degree of order."   weblink 

    DNA molecules can 'teleport', Nobel Prize winner claims

    A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itself between test tubes.  According to a team headed by Luc Montagnier, previously known for his work on HIV and AIDS, two test tubes, one of which contained a tiny piece of bacterial DNA, the other pure water, were surrounded by a weak electromagnetic field of 7Hz.  Eighteen hours later, after DNA amplification using a polymerase chain reaction, as if by magic the DNA was detectable in the test tube containing pure water.  weblink

    DMT - The Spirit Molecule 1/5

    Vortex Based Math @ TEDxCharlotte 2010 - Randy Powell

    Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me?

    Fermilab is Building a 'Holometer' to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality Is Just an Illusion

    The universe-as-hologram theory is predicated on the idea that spacetime is not perfectly smooth, but becomes discrete and pixelated as you zoom in further and further, like a low-res digital image. This idea isn’t novel; recent experiments in black-hole physics have offered evidence that this may be the case, and prominent physicists have proposed similar ideas. Under this theory, the universe actually exists in two dimensions and the third is an illusion produced by the intertwining of time and depth. But the false third dimension can’t be perceived as such, because nothing travels faster than light, so instruments can’t find its limits.   weblink

    Dub FX 10/10/2008 'Love Someone'

    How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age

    While the "empire of consumption" has been around for a long time[1], American society in the last 30 years has undergone a sea change in the daily lives of children - one marked by a major transition from a culture of innocence and social protection, however imperfect, to a culture of commodification. Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives.  weblink

    Slow Motion Video of a Multiple Tower Upward Lightning Flash on 6/16/10

    Cleve Baxter - Plants can sense human intentions

    Is Time an Illusion?

    As you read this sentence, you probably think that this moment—right now—is what is happening. The present moment feels special. It is real. However much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present. Of course, the moment during which you read that sentence is no longer happening. This one is. In other words, it feels as though time flows, in the sense that the present is constantly updating itself. We have a deep intuition that the future is open until it becomes present and that the past is fixed. As time flows, this structure of fixed past, immediate present and open future gets carried forward in time. This structure is built into our language, thought and behavior. How we live our lives hangs on it.

    Cosmic pattern to UK tree growth

    The growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space.  Researchers made the discovery studying how growth rings of spruce trees have varied over the past half a century.  As yet, they cannot explain the pattern, but variation in cosmic rays impacted tree growth more than changes in temperature or precipitation.  The study is published in the scientific journal New Phytologist.   weblink 

    Did the Ancient Egyptians Inhabit the Grand Canyon?

    Beautiful and breathtaking, this vast cleft in the earth holds many secrets, perhaps none more mysterious than the one reported in the Phoenix Gazette, on April 5th 1909. An explorer, one G.E. Kincaid (who had served the Smithsonian for over thirty years) was reporting a startling archeological discovery.  Kincaid's boss, Professor S.A. Jordan of the Smithsonian – who were financing the expedition – was said to be enthusiastic that the find be further investigated, as it was of ‘major significance’. Kincaid had found, about 2000 feet up the canyon wall above the Colorado river – some forty-two miles upstream from the El Tovar crystal canyon – a cave entrance to a vast underground city, chiseled from the solid rock.  weblink

    Death is the Road to Awe

    Phil Borges: Documenting our endangered cultures

    CYMATICS

    Professor's alien life 'seed' theory claimed

    Over the past three decades research has shown that large swathes of the Milky Way are strewn with gigantic dust clouds full of organic molecules, which some people have argued shows life emerging independently from new in these clouds.  In his paper, he says recent interpretation of spectra readings from the organic molecules found in interstellar clouds has indicated that they are in fact the remains of bacteria which has been broken down, rather than being built up.  weblink

    Psilocybin and the Concept of Natural Intelligence

    Researchers attempted to model the behaviour of a single ribosome. Bear in mind that ribosomes are miniscule molecular machines (literally) residing in cells and which serve to convert DNA script into amino acids and proteins (if you read up on ribosomes, you will find that their specific behaviour is ridiculously refined). To model ribosome behaviour, one of the world's most sophisticated computer simulations was built. To be an accurate model, the physical interactions of over two and a half million atoms had to be simulated. 768 supercomputer processors were used and were left to run for 260 days. The end result of this epic information processing endeavour was a computer movie that simulated a mere two nanoseconds of the behaviour of one single microscopic ribosome.   weblink