Alien invasion? That’s OK with most Americans

Alien invasion? That’s OK with most Americans - BostonHerald.com: "LOS ANGELES - Not only do more than 80 million Americans believe that UFOs exist, many are not afraid of an alien drop-in, according to a new study."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sPc2-HEmA

Titan : Saturn’s Moon Has Watery Ocean

Titan : Saturn’s Moon Has Watery Ocean: "Now in latest development, according to NASA scientists believe they have found the strongest sign yet that Saturn's giant moon, Titan, may have a salty ocean beneath its chilly surface. If confirmed, it would catapult Titan into an elite class of solar system moons harbouring water, an essential ingredient for life."

Higgs boson buzz hits new heights

Higgs boson buzz hits new heights - Cosmic Log: "Has the Higgs boson finally been detected? It's almost gotten to the point that if a discovery of some sort doesn't come out of next week's update on the multibillion-dollar subatomic search, it'll be a big surprise. But how far will the announcement go, and what will it mean for the future of physics?"

US Navy X-47B Robot Fighter Jet Completes First Phase Of Testing

US Navy X-47B Robot Fighter Jet Completes First Phase Of Testing | Singularity Hub: "The Navy’s robotic fighter just got one step closer to earning its wings. The X-47B, an unmanned stealth attack jet, has completed the first major phase of flight testing on its way to become the first aircraft to be able to land and take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier –completely autonomously"

Shining Forth from the heavens: Rare blue 'night-shining clouds' pictured at dusk over Edinburgh's landmark rail bridge

A photographer caught a glimpse of the most distant clouds in the atmosphere shining an electric blue from 50 miles up as the skies cleared over Edinburgh at dusk this week.

The 'night shining' clouds are normally invisible, but shine at twilight when ice crystals in the high-altitude clouds are lit up by the sun as it sets.

The clouds are especially bright here at the height of Edinburgh's summer.

A photographer in Fife captured the rare clouds over the Forth Rail bridge as the skies cleared after a week of storms.

The clouds are the highest in atmosphere at around 50 miles above the Earth's surface, captured here by photographer Adrian Maricic, from Fife over the Forth Road and rail bridges

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166528/Rare-blue-night-shining-clouds-pictured-dusk-Edinburghs-landmark-rail-bridge.html

"Mars' Moon Phobos May Yield Alien Life" --NASA Experts

A mission to Mars'moon Phobos could return with alien life, experts at Purdue University have suggested.“A sample from Phobos, which is much easier to reach than the Red Planet itself, would almost surely contain Martian material blasted off from large asteroid impacts,” said Jay Melosh, a distinguished professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences and physics and aerospace engineering at Purdue.
Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/mars-moon-phobos-may-yield-alien-life-nasa-experts.html

All the world's quakes since 1898 mapped

All the world's quakes since 1898 mapped - Technology & science - Science - OurAmazingPlanet - msnbc.com: "If you've ever wondered where — and why — earthquakes happen the most, look no further than a new map, which plots more than a century's worth of nearly every recorded earthquake strong enough to at least rattle the bookshelves."

Rock, paper, scissors robot never loses

Rock, paper, scissors robot never loses: "You cannot beat the Janken robot at rock, paper, scissors. The robot will always win."

Hugo de Garis on Singularity 1 on 1: Are We Building Gods or Terminators?

Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" : A Video About Monarch Mind Control

Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" : A Video About Monarch Mind Control | The Vigilant Citizen: "Katy Perry’s music video “Wide Awake” is another offering from the pop music industry that conceals references to Monarch programming within its symbolism. References to this practice occur often in mass media but are often coded using specific symbols and imagery."

Libor scandal: Barclays blows the whistle on America's financial giants

Libor scandal: Barclays blows the whistle on America's financial giants | Mail Online: "Some of America's top banks are set to be dragged into a major criminal investigation of a global interest rate-fixing scandal about to engulf some of Wall Street's biggest institutions. The worldwide probe centres on claims traders at Barclays colluded with rival banks to keep interest rates at levels to their benefit. Barclays agreed to pay a whopping $453million in fines to the U.S. Justice Department and the UK's Financial Services Authority. But it emerged tonight the bank had struck a deal of 'extraordinary co-operation' with regulators in Washington and London - potentially exposing collusion on interest rates among banks across the globe."

17 Reasons To Be EXTREMELY Concerned About The Second Half Of 2012

17 Reasons To Be EXTREMELY Concerned About The Second Half Of 2012: "What is the second half of 2012 going to bring?  Are things going to get even worse than they are right now?  Unfortunately, that appears more likely with each passing day.  I will admit that I am extremely concerned about the second half of 2012.  Historically, a financial crisis is much more likely to begin in the fall than during any other season of the year."

Exponential Thinking At Singularity University

Exponential Thinking At Singularity University | Singularity Hub: "The Matrix is real… and everyone here at NASA for the GSP has taken the red pill. If you recall in the movie, Neo is startled, puzzled, and quite frankly scared when Morpheus first introduces him to the reality of reality. But here at Singularity University, the participants have hit the ground running, as if they’ve known this to be their fate all along."

Mysterious clay pots in China are 20,000 years old - baked 10,000 years before humans settled down and became farmers

Mysterious clay pots in China are 20,000 years old - baked 10,000 years before humans settled down and became farmers | Mail Online: "Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, according to archaeologists. Earlier theories have held that the invention of pottery happened during the period about 10,000 years ago when humans moved from being hunter-gathers to farmers."

Second inscription confirming 'end date' of Mayan calendar in 2012 is found in Guatemala

Second inscription confirming 'end date' of Mayan calendar in 2012 is found in Guatemala | Mail Online: "Archaeologists have found carvings in a stone staircase at the La Corona dig site in Guatemala which confirm the ‘end date’ of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012. It is only the second known inscription which confirms this 'end date'."

Are we alone in the universe? And the NINE other mysteries that we all most want solved

It is a question that has vexed mankind for centuries: Are we alone in the universe?

And according to a survey, it still tops the list of mysteries we are most desperate to see solved.

In second place was a curiosity for when a cure for cancer will be found, followed by whether it will ever be proven that God exists.

ET: The question of whether we are alone in the universe tops the list of mysteries people most want to see solved

Further down the chart were more down-to-earth issues such as wanting to know if the fridge light really does go off when the door is closed.

Other top concerns in the poll of 2,000 people by TV channel Eden were the size of space and whether time travel will ever be possible.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166284/Are-universe-And-mysteries-want-solved.html

Bill Gates made spot-on predictions of the future in 1987 (but perhaps he thought Microsoft would be behind them, not Google and Apple)

Bill Gates made spot-on predictions of the future in 1987 (but perhaps he thought Microsoft would be behind them, not Google and Apple) | Mail Online: "Bill Gates changed our world, and the odds are that most readers have touched some kind of Windows machine today. What is startling is the amount of foresight the Microsoft founder had, which is documented in his 1995 book, The Road Ahead, and - even further in past - a 1987 interview where Gates predicted LCD televisions, Siri-style voice recognition, YouTube, Wikipedia, and card-less payments."

Amazing Spider-Man tech will let soldiers scale sheer walls

Amazing Spider-Man tech will let soldiers scale sheer walls: "Soldiers will soon be able to scale any vertical surface without slipping, just like Spider-Man -- with help from cutting-edge technology rather than a spider bite."

Private Telescope to Hunt for Killer Asteroids

Private Telescope to Hunt for Killer Asteroids : Discovery News: "Two former NASA astronauts have given themselves a new mission: To seek out potentially dangerous asteroids so humanity can have enough time to do something about it."

Is the Baltic Sea 'Sunken UFO' a Scam?

Is the Baltic Sea 'Sunken UFO' a Scam? : Discovery News: "The huge object on the Baltic Sea's floor is giving off electrical interference that keeps foiling an investigation."

High-Tech Paint Turns Any Surface Into a Battery

High-Tech Paint Turns Any Surface Into a Battery : Discovery News: "Layers of carbon nanotubes and ultrafine graphite powder work as painted batteries."

Miami Face-Eater: Pot Didn't Cause Munchies

Miami Face-Eater: Pot Didn't Cause Munchies : Discovery News: "Tests show that the notorious face-eater only had marijuana in his system. But experts are suspicious."

Ancient 'Cow Woman' Skeleton Called Bizarre

Ancient 'Cow Woman' Skeleton Called Bizarre : Discovery News: "The skeleton of a 1,400-year-old Anglo-Saxon woman buried alongside a cow has emerged from a former children's playground near Cambridge in England, making the "cow woman" an extraordinary unique find."

Did the Milky Way Have a Encounter with a Massive Dark Matter Structure 100 Million Years Ago?

"Our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago," said Larry Widrow, professor at Queen’s University, part of a team of astronomers from Canada and the United States who have discovered what may well be the smoking gun of such an encounter, one that occurred close to our position in the galaxy and relatively recently, at least in the cosmological sense. "We clearly observe unexpected differences in the Milky Way’s stellar distribution above and below the Galaxy’s midplane that have the appearance of a vertical wave -- something that nobody has seen before," Widrow added.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/did-the-milky-way-have-a-encounter-with-a-massive-dark-matter-structure-100-million-years-ago.html

Violent Climate Change on an Alien Planet --A First!

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a dramatic changes in the upper atmosphere of a distant alien planet. Just after a violent flare on its parent star bathed it in intense X-ray radiation, the planet's atmosphere gave off a powerful burst of evaporation. The observations give a tantalizing glimpse of the changing climates and weather on planets outside our solar system.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/violent-climate-change-on-an-alien-planet-a-first.html

Mutated pests are quickly adapting to biotech crops in unpredicted and disturbing ways

Mutated pests are quickly adapting to biotech crops in unpredicted and disturbing ways: "Genetically modified crops are often designed to repel hungry insects. By having toxins built into the plant itself, farmers can reduce their use of environmentally unfriendly insecticide sprays. But as any first-year evolutionary biology student can tell you, insects are like the Borg in Star Trek: they quickly adapt. And this is precisely what is happening – but in ways that have startled the researchers themselves."

Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing

Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing: "This may seem like something out of a science fiction movie: researchers have designed microparticles that can be injected directly into the bloodstream to quickly oxygenate your body, even if you can't breathe anymore."

Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?

Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?: "We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the answer is quite a lot –- especially if the incoming signal contains something malicious, like a computer virus or Trojan horse. And according to the experts, this isn't just idle speculation – the threat is very real. So, just how concerned do we need to be?"

Scientists set to show how they hacked into Stephen Hawking's brain

Scientists set to show how they hacked into Stephen Hawking's brain - Cosmic Log: "After months of tweaking, researchers are finally ready to show off a high-tech headband that can translate Stephen Hawking's brain waves into speech — providing what could eventually become an easier avenue for the paralyzed British physicist and many others to share their deep thoughts."

Pentagon’s Zombie Satellite Program Comes to Life

Last year, Darpa launched a program, Phoenix, to harvest satellite parts. Now, the agency’s convening with researchers and already looking for a prime sat candidate to pick apart. Illustration: Darpa

The Pentagon’s intergalactic black-magic plot is getting ready to raise the dead.

Dead satellites, that is. Last year, Darpa, the military’s blue-sky research agency, kicked off a program designed to harvest parts from unused communications satellites still orbiting the Earth, and then turn those bits and pieces — antennas in particular — into an array that operates as a low-cost “communications farm” for troops on the ground.

Now that program, called Phoenix, is entering a new phase. First, Darpa last week issued a bid to commercial satellite owners, asking for “a candidate satellite” that’ll act as a space-based guinea pig for initial evaluations of the technology requisite for the initiative. And today, the agency hosted a conference on “sustainable satellite servicing” — attended by academics, private companies and military experts — to discuss everything from the program’s regulatory challenges to more technical “operational considerations” necessary to revive dead satellites.

Read More: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/darpa-phoenix-2/

Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded

Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded : Discovery News: "How warm an animal is has an impact on their metabolism -- and how quickly they can grow and have babies."

Unique Object in Collision Course with Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

In 2011, astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of the Earth accelerating fast towards the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This was the first time ever that the approach of such a doomed cloud to a supermassive black hole has been observed.

“The idea of an astronaut close to a black hole being stretched out to resemble spaghetti is familiar from science fiction. But we can now see this happening for real to the newly discovered cloud. It is not going to survive the experience,” explains Stefan Gillessen (MPE) the lead author of the paper.

During a 20-year program using ESO telescopes to monitor the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy (eso0846), a team of astronomers led byReinhard Genzel at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany, discovered a unique new object fast approaching the black hole.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/unique-object-in-collision-course-with-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole.html

Hardly, Hawking: Physicist Relegates UFOs to the Lunatic Fringe

Where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there, and what is the future of the human race? These are the sorts of questions that great minds of science have been asking ever since our concept of a universe was first realized, and all were questions put forth by acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking, during a lecture he gave in 2008.

During the presentation, Hawking notes that the apparent probability of life arising elsewhere in the universe, based on conditions we can observe here on Earth, seems pretty high. “On the other hand, we don’t seem to have been visited by aliens. I’m discounting the reports of UFOs… why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?”

Cranks and weirdos, huh? While Hawking may indeed be one of the finest scientific minds of the last century, the bold assumptions and outright ignorance this statement betrays behind Hawking’s logic is disheartening, at best. As if the discussion required any further reason as to why this is the case, below I’ve chosen to take a look at a few other statements Hawking makes with regard to UFOs and alien life, and why there are more than a few problems with his views.

Read More: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/06/hardly-hawking-physicist-relegates-ufos-to-the-lunatic-fringe/

Swine flu's shocking real toll: 265,000 more than anyone realised

Swine flu's shocking real toll: 265,000 more than anyone realised - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent: "The swine flu pandemic of 2009 was responsible for the deaths of thousands more people than originally thought, according to a new report published yesterday."

Paul McGuire -- Armageddon A Space War Coming To You Soon, Part 3

Paul McGuire -- Armageddon A Space War Coming To You Soon, Part 3: "Russia, China and Iran are now involved in the Syrian situation. There is the possibility that Israel could conduct strikes on Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons in order to keep them from being used by Hezbollah and al Qaeda terrorists. Shortly after 911 there were unconfirmed satellite reports that Iraq sent WMDs into Syria via truck convoys. Syria is modernizing its long-range missile systems in cooperation with Russia, North Korea, and possibly China. In addition, Syria could be sharing its missile technology with Hezbollah."

'UFO' at the bottom of the Baltic Sea 'cuts off electrical equipment when divers get within 200m'

'UFO' at the bottom of the Baltic Sea 'cuts off electrical equipment when divers get within 200m' | Mail Online: "The divers exploring a 'UFO-shaped' object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea say their equipment stops working when they approach within 200m.

Professional diver Stefan Hogerborn, part of the Ocean X team which is exploring the anomaly, said some of the team's cameras and the team's satellite phone would refuse to work when directly above the object, and would only work once they had sailed away.

He is quoted as saying: 'Anything electric out there - and the satellite phone as well - stopped working when we were above the object.

'And then we got away about 200 meters and it turned on again, and when we got back over the object it didn’t work.'"

ZEUS Calleth: Army looks to strike foes with lightning weapon

Army looks to strike foes with lightning weapon: "Today's military lasers can blind spy satellites or burn enemy vehicles, but tomorrow's could guide lightning bolts to strike and destroy battlefield targets."

Growing your own bones: Columbia University researchers perfecting DIY replacements

Growing your own bones: Columbia University researchers perfecting DIY replacements: "In just a few years, you might be able to grow your own replacement bones from stem cells.Using pieces of human or animal bone as scaffolds, a Columbia University team has grown more than 50 healthy bones from stem cells -- the largest approximately 2.5 inches long. Among other specimens, the researchers produced a cheek bone, a small part of a femur bone, and a complex temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which is located in front of each ear and allows for chewing, speaking and smiling."

Probing an 'Invisible' Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Probing an 'Invisible' Exoplanet's Atmosphere : Discovery News: "Technique demonstrates how ground-based telescopes can be used to look for signs of life on distant planets."

Fuel Cell Uses Brain Power

Fuel Cell Uses Brain Power : Discovery News: "The phrase, "use your brainpower" may soon become literal. Engineers at MIT have developed a tiny prototype fuel cell that creates electricy from the body's natural sugars."

Unorthodox Telescope for Alien Planet Hunt?

Unorthodox Telescope for Alien Planet Hunt? : Discovery News: "For years, astronomers figured they'd need the combined light-gathering power of an array of telescopes in orbit to find Earth-like worlds, a daunting prospect since the armada would have to synchronize their flying to within a few nanometers.



But a team in Toulouse, France, believes there's another way."

Possible Alien Message to Get Reply from Humanity

Possible Alien Message to Get Reply from Humanity : Discovery News: "A mysterious radio transmission detected in 1977 is finally getting a response -- and you can help decide what it will say."

Google's 'brain simulator': 16,000 computers to identify a cat

Google's 'brain simulator': 16,000 computers to identify a cat: "Inside Google's secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain."

The Bear at the Door

The Bear at the Door | Washington Free Beacon: "Russian strategic nuclear bombers threatened U.S. airspace near Alaska earlier this month and F-15 jets responded by intercepting the aircraft taking part in large-scale arctic war games, according to defense officials."

WHO DESTROYED THE MIDDLE CLASS – PART 1

WHO DESTROYED THE MIDDLE CLASS – PART 1 « The Burning Platform: "“Over the last thirty years, the United States has been taken over by an amoral financial oligarchy, and the American dream of opportunity, education, and upward mobility is now largely confined to the top few percent of the population. Federal policy is increasingly dictated by the wealthy, by the financial sector, and by powerful (though sometimes badly mismanaged) industries such as telecommunications, health care, automobiles, and energy. These policies are implemented and praised by these groups’ willing servants, namely the increasingly bought-and-paid-for leadership of America’s political parties, academia, and lobbying industry.” – Charles Ferguson – Predator Nation"

Four presidents propose power of eurozone authorities over national governments

Four presidents propose power of eurozone authorities over national governments | The Raw Story: "European leaders have drafted a radical plan to turn the 17 countries of the eurozone into a full-fledged political federation within a decade in an attempt to placate the financial markets by demonstrating a political will to save the single currency in the medium-term."

A third of Earthlings believe in UFOs, would befriend aliens

A third of Earthlings believe in UFOs, would befriend aliens – USATODAY.com: "Aliens often compete with superheroes, vampires and zombies to top hit movie lists — but more than a third of Americans say UFOs are not a fantasy."

Astronomers Discover Galaxy They Thought Couldn't Exist

Astronomers Discover Galaxy They Thought Couldn't Exist | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Astronomers have spotted one of the rarest and most extreme galaxy clusters in the universe and, behind it, an object that shouldn’t exist."

Rob Portman: Zombie Hunter

Rob Portman: Zombie Hunter | The Ticket - Yahoo! News: "In the War on Drugs, it's Rob Portman 1, Flesh-Eating Zombies 0.



Following a recent string of attacks around the country involving people who ingested the synthetic drug known as "bath salts" and then attacked victims and ate their flesh, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman introduced an amendment to a Senate FDA bill that would implement a federal ban on the substance."

New World Order Blueprint Leaked :: The Market Oracle

New World Order Blueprint Leaked :: The Market Oracle: "On June 12, a leaked copy of the investment chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was made public. This copy was analyzed by Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and has been verified as authentic.  This agreement has been negotiated IN SECRET for 2-1/2 years and no information has ever been released until this leak. So why have the details of this negotiation been so secret? This agreement has been framed as a “free trade” agreement and yet out of 26 chapters only two have anything to do with trade. The other 24 chapters grant new corporate privileges and rights, while limiting governments and protective regulations."

Not enough hours in the day? Scientists predict time will stop completely

Not enough hours in the day? Scientists predict time will stop completely - Telegraph: "Time might feel like it is running away from us as the pace of life increases but according to scientists, the future will stop completely."

World's first GM babies born - Three Parent Babies

World's first GM babies born | Mail Online: "The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics. So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three 'parents'."

Mysterious 10,000-year-old ruins found in Syrian desert

Mysterious 10,000-year-old ruins found in Syrian desert: "A mystery city lies in Syria’s deserts, one older than the pyramids -- but the war-torn area is preventing archaeologists from decoding its riddles."

Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say

EXCLUSIVE: Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say: "While jammers can cause problems by muddling GPS signals, spoofers are a giant leap forward in technology; they can actually manipulate navigation computers with false information that looks real. With his device -- what Humphreys calls the most advanced spoofer ever built (at a cost of just $1,000) -- he infiltrates the GPS system of the drone with a signal more powerful than the one coming down from the satellites orbiting high above the earth."

Special Glasses to Enhance Social Intuition

Glasses Enhance Social Intuition : Discovery News: "Social cues run our daily lives. They help us determine how to handle situations based on someone’s behavior. The oxygen levels in blood play a key role in these interactions. For example, blood rushing to someone’s face and turning it red during a conversation can indicate embarrassment. Our eyes are essentially blood-oxygen-reading cameras. Now Mark Changizi, a theoretical neurobiologist, and also the host of the Discovery show Head Games, and theoretical computer scientist Tim Barber from 2AI Labs have developed O2Amps sunglasses to enhance this ability in humans."

Religion Would Likely Survive Alien Life Discovery

Religion Would Likely Survive Alien Life Discovery | LiveScience: "SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our view of humanity's place in the universe, but it probably wouldn't seriously threaten organized religion, experts say.



Religious faith remains strong in much of the world despite scientific advances showing that Earth is not the center of the universe, and that our planet's organisms were not created in their present form but rather evolved over billions of years. So it's likely that religion would also weather any storms caused by the detection of E.T., researchers say."

Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Released in Australian Towns

Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Released in Australian Towns: "Do you remember how some scientists, researchers, and individuals like Bill Gates were trying to release genetically modified mosquitoes into the environment? Well, that endeavor isn’t quite over. Two towns in Northern Australia have recently been gifted with 10-20 thousand genetically engineered mosquitoes – almost completely replacing mosquitoes naturally occurring in the outdoors."

22 Statistics That Prove That The American Dream Is Being Systematically Destroyed

22 Statistics That Prove That The American Dream Is Being Systematically Destroyed: "The American Dream is being systematically destroyed right in front of our eyes and most Americans don't even realize what is happening."

The Consequences Of The Unthinkable: Here Is What Happens When The Euro Breaks Up

The Consequences Of The Unthinkable: Here Is What Happens When The Euro Breaks Up: "As the following image from Spiegel summarizes, three things will happen simultaneously when the unthinkable finally occurs: i) economic output plummets, ii) unemployment rate soars, and iii) consumer prices explode. Of course, this is nothing but merely deferred consequences for Europe partying for over a decade under an unsustainable regime that borrowed from the future (sound familiar?)."

Gold Nanoparticles are Capable of Unraveling DNA

Gold Nanoparticles are Capable of Unraveling DNA: "Research carried out at North Carolina State University to identify better methods for genetic material packaging to aid in gene therapy has led to findings that could significantly impact gene therapy research and DNA-based electronics."

Extraterrestrial Life and World Government Policies - Michael Salla, PhD

How to grow a human liver in a dish

How to grow a human liver in a dish | KurzweilAI: "Japanese scientists have used induced stem cells to create a liver-like tissue in a dish."

The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System

The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System: "Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino.  The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end.  The word "derivatives" sounds complicated and technical, but understanding them is really not that hard.  A derivative is essentially a fancy way of saying that a bet has been made.  Originally, these bets were designed to hedge risk, but today the derivatives market has mushroomed into a mountain of speculation unlike anything the world has ever seen before.  Estimates of the notional value of the worldwide derivatives market go from $600 trillion all the way up to $1.5 quadrillion."

The Pentagon Is Developing Cyber Weapons That Launch Without Human Intervention

The Pentagon Is Developing Cyber Weapons That Launch Without Human Intervention: "The United States government is developing a computer system that would allow it to conduct cyber warfare without the intervention of a human programmer."

Kepler scientists find freaky solar system that's unlike anything we've seen before

Kepler scientists find freaky solar system that's unlike anything we've seen before: "NASA scientists working on the Kepler Mission have discovered an unprecedented solar system, in which two planets with vastly different densities and compositions are locked in a surprisingly close orbit around their star. The finding shows that there is much greater diversity in the composition of solar systems than we'd previously thought."

The Goblin’s Grimoire: Hopkinsville Reprised, or the Hollow Earth?

The month of August 1955 was a strange one for residents around the small town of Kelly, in Christian County, Kentucky. A number of locals, as well as area law enforcement, had claimed to have been experiencing various odd things of an “alien” variety; in fact, things would end up getting so strange for one group of locals, the Sutton family of nearby Hopkinsville, that their lives would be forever changed in the aftermath.

The events that led to a terrorizing evening for the family, along with a visiting friend from out of town, were both terrifying and wholly inexplicable. Things started as Pennsylvania native Billy Ray Taylor, along with Elmer Sutton, went outside to investigate noises coming from the forest nearby on the evening of August 21st, shortly after a series of odd lights had been seen in the distance. Both men, carrying guns, claimed to have witnessed a strange nonhuman entity emerge from the trees, prompting their return to the farmhouse. Soon afterward, the Suttons and Mr. Taylor would begin an evening secured within the home, as these strange “goblins” attacked them from the outside; thus began their nightlong bout with what have forever remained known as the “Hopkinsville Goblins,” an event in American Forteana that remains one of the strangest ever recorded.

On that fateful evening in August of 1955, the badly frightened Sutton family would eventually enlist the aid of area law enforcement, who sent no less than twenty officers out to the house, expecting a confrontation with some kind of otherworldly presence. Upon arrival, while evidence of a window-rattling conflict was found a plenty, there was no sign of any of these odd, diminutive beings, variously described as humanoid, though of smaller stature, light-skinned, and sporting large ears that stood upright off the sides of their heads.

Read More: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/06/the-goblins-grimoire-hopkinsville-reprised-or-the-hollow-earth/

Lair of the Beasts: A Monstrous Worm

Lair of the Beasts: A Monstrous Worm - Mania.com: "September of this year will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the strangest and most mysterious creature-type reports to have ever crossed my path. It’s made even weirder by the fact that it was secretly investigated by the British Royal Air Force..."

Recent Earth-passing asteroid 'civilization-killing monster in disguise

Recent Earth-passing asteroid 'civilization-killing monster in disguise: "A potentially hazardous asteroid thought to have been 500 meters wide, which drifted safely by coming within 14 lunar distances from Earth on Thursday, was a civilization-killing asteroid in disguise."

What Really Happened to the Lubbock Lights?

What Really Happened to the Lubbock Lights? "Among the many formations of unusual natural phenomenon that may form the stuff of eventual UFO reports, perhaps none of the “conventional” explanations are quite so often invoked–and often dismayed–as that of earthlight phenomenon."

Sky-Monsters of the Mind?

Just a few days ago, at my World of Whatever blog, I wrote a post that addressed just a few of the uncanny parallels between the Japanese 1961 monster-movie, Mothra, and some of the cases and events featured in John Keel’s classic book, The Mothman Prophecies. But, what I also did was to focus on the possibility that perhaps art – whether movies, novels or whatever – can fire up the imagination to such an extent that the collective unconscious can externalize into quasi-physical form those “things” purely born out of fiction. As noted Fortean author Colin Bennett told me: “When we imagine, we create a form of life.”

And, I have been doing a bit of further digging into this area of fiction and Forteana, and one of the most notable issues to have caught my attention is that concerning a 1969 movie, The Valley of Gwangi. It stars James Franciscus, Gila Golan and Laurence Naismith who get caught up in a monstrous caper involving still-surviving dinosaurs that inhabit a hidden valley in Mexico. Among those same dinosaurs are an Allosaurus, an Ornithomimus and a Styracosaurus. And there’s another beast, too: a vicious pteranodon that circles the skies menacingly.

The Green Gods: New Religion and Eco-Faith

The Green Gods: New Religion and Eco-Faith: ""Green guru James Lovelock was right. He warned last week that “the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion.”
"’I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting CO2 in the air"



Now at the U.N. Earth Summit, even the image of Christ has been made a forcible convert to the eco-faith, as the city of Rio is bathing the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer (Christo Redentor) in green light.""

Mysterious Mass Cattle Deaths May Be Caused By Random Grass Mutation Producing Cyanide Gas

KEYE TV We Are Austin.com :: News - Top Stories - Mysterious Mass Cattle Deaths May Be Caused By Random Grass Mutation: "A mysterious mass death of a herd of cattle has prompted a federal investigation in Central Texas. Preliminary test results are blaming the deaths on the grass the cows were eating when they got sick. The cows dropped dead several weeks ago on a ranch in Elgin, just east of Austin...The grass is a genetically modified form of Bermuda known as Tifton 85 which has been growing here for 15 years, feeding Abel's 18 head of Corriente cattle.  Corriente are used for team roping because of their small size and horns."

Is Humanity Accelerating Towards… Apocalypse? or Utopia?

Is Humanity Accelerating Towards… Apocalypse? or Utopia?: "Will the future provide us with a genetically preprogrammed blissful paradise, or a global catastrophe? Will there be cessation of all suffering, or annihilation of all sentient life?

The history of futurology is not encouraging. Most “predictions” by futurists are more akin to prophecies that reveal more about personality, preoccupations and capacity for wish-fulfillment of the author than the future they purport to describe.



In any case, predicting the future behaviour of self-reflexive agents is not like predicting the behaviour of non-intelligent physical systems. Some predictions are self-fulfilling; other predictions are self-stultifying; and the public forecasts of politicians, social scientists, singularitarians and transhumanists should all be viewed in this light."

Exo-skeletons, X-ray eyes and more: Military tech at Eurosatory 2012

Exo-skeletons, X-ray eyes and more: Military tech at Eurosatory 2012: "Exo-skeletons, tech to see through walls, bridge launchers, microbots and more: Key NATO partner France made a very strong home soil showing at the largest land warfare show in Paris.



The Eurosatory 2012 event, the largest international military technology show focused on land warfare, was held June 10 to 15. A whopping 53 countries were represented by more than 1,400 exhibitors for the 55,000 visitors -- including a surprising boom in companies from non-Western countries showing off new weaponry, especially Russia and China."

This Growing Scandal Could Bring Down The Second Most Important Person In The Vatican

This Growing Scandal Could Bring Down The Second Most Important Person In The Vatican - Business Insider: "The Vatican is in the midst of an unprecedented series of scandals after the leak of a huge treasure trove of suppressed documents given to a notorious investigative journalist last year."

Even more water in the solar system: Mars's mantle 'contains as much water as the Earth'

Even more water in the solar system: Mars's mantle 'contains as much water as the Earth' | Mail Online: "Until now, Earth was the only planet known to have vast reservoirs of water in its interior. But new research claims that Mars has as much, or even more water locked in the rocks beneath the surface. Scientists analysed the water content of two meteorites originating from inside the Red Planet and found the amount of it in places of the Martian mantle is similar to that of Earth's."

Drones over America: Infrastructure of US Police State

Drones over America: Infrastructure of US Police State: "Recently revealed plans to deploy tens of thousands of military drones over the US mainland in the coming years expose a significant component of the developing infrastructure of an American police state.

According to government estimates, 30,000 drones could be buzzing overhead within the next decade. These drones will operate out of at least 110 military bases located in 39 states around the country. Ordnance is already being stockpiled, pilots and crews are being trained and airspace is being cordoned off.

These drones range from small surveillance planes weighing a few pounds to armed airships carrying thousands of pounds of equipment and armaments. Under development is a new generation of micro air vehicles (MAVs) that are no larger than insects and capable of entering homes and workplaces undetected to photograph, record and even kill."

Remnants of Mysterious Ancient Structure Found

Remnants of Mysterious Ancient Structure Found | Ancient Lake Bridge | LiveScience: "Archaeologists have unearthed the foundation of what appears to have been a massive, ancient structure, possibly a bridge leading to an artificial island, in what is now southeast Wales. The strange ruin, its discoverers say, is unlike anything found before in the United Kingdom and possibly all of Europe."

How Dallas airport's 'check-in of the future' will see passengers move seamlessly to plane using fingerprints and iris scans

How Dallas airport's 'check-in of the future' will see passengers move seamlessly to plane using fingerprints and iris scans | Mail Online: "Dallas International Airport is trialling a new scheme which should allow passengers to breeze straight through from the car-park to the runway without barely having to lift a finger.

Well, perhaps one finger - for the airport will use fingerprint scanners and iris scanners to hopefully remove the need for any security or queues.



There are two drawbacks: you will need to give your biometric data - basically a scan of your eye and a fingerprint - and you will need to stump up a $179 fee.

But frequent travellers through the airport may find themselves as pioneers for something which may make the stress of the airports a thing of the past."

More water on the moon: NASA finds two-mile-deep crater which has ice scattered across a quarter of its surface

More water on the moon: NASA finds two-mile-deep crater which has ice scattered across a quarter of its surface | Mail Online: "Ice may lie scattered across up to a quarter of the surface of a crater on the moon. NASA spotted bright illuminations in images returned from the Shackleton crater, which is located on the moon's South Pole. The more water we find on the moon, and the more accessible it is, the better - as it will be needed if Man ever establishes a permanent colony on the moon."

Asteroid 2012 LZ1 Just Got Supersized

Asteroid 2012 LZ1 Just Got Supersized: "On Sunday, June 10, a potentially hazardous asteroid thought to have been 500 meters (0.31 miles) wide was discovered by Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. Fortunately for us, asteroid 2012 LZ1 drifted safely by, coming within 14 lunar distances from Earth on Thursday, June 14. Phew. But as it turns out, this particular space rock was a civilization-killing asteroid in disguise."

Extreme Microbes Found Near Mummy Burial Site

Extreme Microbes Found Near Mummy Burial Site : Discovery News: "About 500 years ago a group of Incas marched hundreds of miles through the treacherous Andes Mountains to the top of a distant volcano, where they buried three children alive as part of a religious ceremony. In 1999, an expedition led by explorer Johan Reinhard unearthed the mummies atop Argentina's Mount Llullaillaco (yoo-yay-YAH-co), finding that they were among the best preserved mummies ever discovered, with largely unscathed skin and facial features."

The Beast: Tracking You and Your Family Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

The Beast: Tracking You and Your Family Just Got a Whole Lot Easier: "It’s been hailed as the ultimate in personal identification and human tracking technology, and now it’s going mainstream. The VeriMed system, formerly known as the Verichip, is a passive RFID microchip measuring about the size of a grain of rice and is implantable under your skin, making it possible for health care providers and other parties to instantly access your medical history and other personally identifying information."

U.S. launches three biodefense centers

U.S. launches three biodefense centers | KurzweilAI: "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today awarded contracts for the creation of three new centers tasked with responding to the threat of future pandemics and biological attacks, Nature News Blog reports."

Woman found with superhuman sight which lets her see 99m more colours

Woman found with superhuman sight which lets her see 99m more colours | Metro.co.uk: "A woman has been found with superhuman sight that enables her to see 99million more colours than the average person."

Bird flu 'could mutate to cause deadly human pandemic'

BBC News - Bird flu 'could mutate to cause deadly human pandemic': "The H5N1 bird flu virus could change into a form able to spread rapidly between humans, scientists have warned. Researchers have identified five genetic changes that could allow the virus to start a deadly pandemic.



Writing in the journal Science, they say it would be theoretically possible for these changes to occur in nature. A US agency has tried unsuccessfully to ban publication of parts of the research fearing it could be used by terrorists to create a bioweapon."

Never-before-seen microbes found in Chile’s desert

Never-before-seen microbes found in Chile’s desert: "A team led by University of Colorado-Boulder has found extremely rare life on the soil at the top of two volcanoes in Chile’s Atacama desert. Results from the 2009 expedition, released last week, said unique microbes were discovered that may be linked to research on Mars."

Russian Cosmonauts Have 'Alien Instructions'

Russian Cosmonauts Have 'Alien Instructions' | Russia | RIA Novosti: "The UN has developed detailed instructions in case of a first contact with aliens, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka said answering a question on Chinese TV."

Latest 'zombie' eating attack: man under the influence gets naked, bites off chunk of man's arm

Latest 'zombie' eating attack: man under the influence gets naked, bites off chunk of man's arm: "PALMETTO, Fla. - The latest in a string of “zombie” like attacks happened in a Manatee County home Wednesday night after a man under the influence went into a fit of rage and bit a piece of someone’s arm off during a visit with his children."

Debunking the Health Claims of Genetically Modified Foods

Health - Marion Nestle - Debunking the Health Claims of Genetically Modified Foods - The Atlantic: "On the basis of this research, they argue that a large body of scientific and other authoritative evidence demonstrates that most claims for benefits of GM foods are not true. On the contrary, they say, the evidence presented in their report indicates that GM crops..."

Washington's 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Secrets From You

Washington's 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Secrets From You | Danger Room: "The government’s vast secrecy bureaucracy does two things with great frequency. The first, of course, is keeping secrets. The second is devising elaborate reasons why you can’t know what those secrets are."

A divine deterrent: Populations with a strong belief in Hell have lower crime-rates, according to study

Religions are thought to serve as a deterrent against unethical behaviors.

However, when it comes to predicting criminal behavior, the specific religious beliefs one holds is the determining factor, says a University of Oregon psychologist.

The study, appearing in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, found that criminal activity is lower in societies where people's religious beliefs contain a strong punitive component than in places where religious beliefs are more benevolent.

Welcome to Hell: The University of Oregon study suggests a real link between populations who believe this is real, and the crime-rate

A country where many more people believe in heaven than in hell, for example, is likely to have a much higher crime rate than one where these beliefs are about equal.

The finding surfaced from a comprehensive analysis of 26 years of data involving 143,197 people in 67 countries.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2161985/A-divine-deterrent-Populations-strong-belief-Hell-lower-crime-rates-according-study.html

Apple and Google warned about flying 'military grade spy planes' over major U.S. cities

Apple and Google warned about flying 'military grade spy planes' over major U.S. cities: "U.S. officials have warned Google and Apple of privacy concerns as the companies fly 'military-grade spy planes' over cities to gather data for 3D map services."

Air Force launches US spy satellite on secret mission

Air Force launches US spy satellite on secret mission: "A new U.S. spy satellite launched into orbit Wednesday (June 20), kicking off a clandestine national security mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.



The NROL-38 reconnaissance spacecraft lifted off at 8:28 a.m. EDT (1228 GMT) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket. It marked a milestone flight for the rocket company, a partnership between Lockheed Martin and Boeing."

Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China?

Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China?: "It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the servant of the lender, and today we owe China more than a trillion dollars.  By running a gigantic trade deficit with us, China has been able to become incredibly wealthy.  We have begged them to lend us back some of the money that we have sent them and this has made them even wealthier.  Now China is gobbling up U.S. real estate and U.S. assets at an astounding pace."

Royal Society Lecturer Says CO2 Not Effecting Earth’s Temperature

Globalists Switching Gears: Royal Society Lecturer Says CO2 Not Effecting Earth’s Temperature: "“Real, hard data from ice cores, dripstones, tree rings and ocean or lake sediment cores reveal significant temperature changes of more than 1°C, with warm and cold phases alternating in a 1,000-year cycle. These include the Minoan Warm Period 3,000 years ago and the Roman Warm Period 2,000 years ago. During the Medieval Warm Phase around 1,000 years ago, Greenland was colonized and grapes for wine grew in England. The Little Ice Age lasted from the 15th to the 19th century. All these fluctuations occurred before man-made CO2.”"

MASTER OF TIME AND SPACE -- THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY OF NIKOLA TESLA

MASTER OF TIME AND SPACE -- THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY OF NIKOLA TESLA: "Nikola Tesla’s name should be legend, and his legacy of inventiveness should be known to grownups and children of all ages. He stands as a monument to what a single human can create over a lifetime, but he has been misused and denied, even vilified by those who seek to repress the world’s greatest inventor’s deserved accolades for bringing mankind into the 20th century equipped with the tools necessary for a life made much easier through technology. More technological advances have been made in the last 200 years than ever before in recorded history as we know it, and it was Nikola Tesla who led the way with so many original inventions that we presently take for granted. But we don’t hear about Tesla in the public schools, and the mainstream media rarely acknowledges that he even existed."

Martin Ford: Will Robots and Automation Make Human Workers Obsolete?

Martin Ford: Will Robots and Automation Make Human Workers Obsolete?: "Both Kurzweil and Diamandis are strong believers (and advocates for) the so-called "technological singularity." The singularity is a future event in which technological progress begins moving at an incomprehensibly rapid rate. Things would be changing so fast that humans wouldn't be able to understand or follow the progress. Most people who believe in the singularity (singularians) associate it with the development of true artificial intelligence. Kurzweil, for example, believes that we'll build the first truly intelligent machines by 2029, and then the singularity will follow at around the year 2045."

Clever the 3D printing is! Yoda helps explain the latest technology innovation

Clever the 3D printing is! Yoda helps explain the latest technology innovation: "3D printing has the potential to change our world as much as the Internet has over the last two decades."

Is that really just a fly? Swarms of cyborg insect drones are the future of military surveillance

The kinds of drones making the headlines daily are the heavily armed CIA and U.S. Army vehicles which routinely strike targets in Pakistan - killing terrorists and innocents alike.

But the real high-tech story of surveillance drones is going on at a much smaller level, as tiny remote controlled vehicles based on insects are already likely being deployed.

Over recent years a range of miniature drones, or micro air vehicles (MAVs), based on the same physics used by flying insects, have been presented to the public.

The fear kicked off in 2007 when reports of bizarre flying objects hovering above anti-war protests sparked accusations that the U.S. government was accused of secretly developing robotic insect spies.

Fingertip: The US Air Force unveiled insect-sized spies 'as tiny as bumblebees' that could not be detected and would be able to fly into buildings

Official denials and suggestions from entomologists that they were actually dragonflies failed to quell speculation, and Tom Ehrhard, a retired Air Force colonel and expert on unmanned aerial craft, told the Daily Telegraph at the time that 'America can be pretty sneaky.'

The following year, the US Air Force unveiled insect-sized spies 'as tiny as bumblebees' that could not be detected and would be able to fly into buildings to 'photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists.'

Around the same time the Air Force also unveiled what it called 'lethal mini-drones' based on Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints for his Ornithopter flying machine, and claimed they would be ready for roll out by 2015.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2161647/Is-really-just-fly-Swarms-cyborg-insect-drones-future-military-surveillance.html

Clever the 3D printing is! Yoda helps explain the latest technology innovation

Clever the 3D printing is! Yoda helps explain the latest technology innovation | Mail Online: "3D printing has the potential to change our world as much as the Internet has over the last two decades.

The industry - at least for the domestic market - is barely a few years old, but the technology is already signalling an age where we can assemble, out of thin air as it were, tools and toys at the push of the button.

Take, Yoda, for example, who slowly assembles in front of our eyes using a 3D printer, down to the tiniest, perfect details."

Two New Alien Planets Discovered in Andromeda --"Resets the Bar for Weird"

The KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, but it just revealed the existence of two very unusual faraway planets. One is a massive, puffed-up oddity that could change ideas of how solar systems evolve. The other orbits a very bright star, and will allow astronomers to make detailed measurements of the atmospheres of these bizarre worlds.

Astronomers are beginning to suspect that something unusual happens during the evolution of such solar systems that drives massive planets into kinds of close encounters. The presence of a stellar sibling orbiting both of the newly discovered solar systems may be a “smoking gun” clue that past interactions between the planets and these distant siblings is an important part of that process.

Read More: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/two-new-alien-planets-discovered-in-andromeda-resets-the-bar-for-weird.html

'Iran, Russia, China, Syria plan 'largest'...

'Iran, Russia, China, Syria plan 'largest'... JPost - Middle East: "Syrian, Iranian media reports say air, ground and naval forces to conduct "Middle East's largest ever military exercise.""

Net Worth Implosion: It's Not Just Housing

Net Worth Implosion: It's Not Just Housing: "Americans' net worth collapsed in recent years, but don't blame the housing market for it all."

NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You

NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You: "The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won’t tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping new counterterrorism powers. The reason: it would violate your privacy to say so."

UFO? 'E.T' or 'Alien'? Scientists debate nature of extraterrestrials

UFO? 'E.T' or 'Alien'? Scientists debate nature of extraterrestrials: "At one extreme in alien-invasion movies, there's the slimy, razor-toothed, grotesque creature full of powerhouse violence -- and a too-eager desire to feast on human filet. These aliens, never cordial in social settings, are the worst-nightmare kind of beast that one finds in the "Alien" series or "The Thing," among many others.



At the other extreme are kinder, gentler alien visitors -- "E.T.: The Extra-terrestrial," "Paul" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," along with those using human form to hide their extraterrestrial identities as happened in "Starman" and "Cocoon."

Ten-Year-Old Girl Receives Major Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells

Ten-Year-Old Girl Receives Major Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells: "A 10-year-old Swedish girl has had a potentially life-threatening condition alleviated by receiving a vein grown from her own stem cells."

More privacy fears as Facebook buys facial-recognition startup for undisclosed sum

More privacy fears as Facebook buys facial-recognition startup for undisclosed sum: "Facebook is bringing one of its long-term vendors, a facial-recognition technology company Face.com, in-house.

The Israeli company's technology helps people tag photos on the Web by figuring out who is in the pictures.

The deal bolsters one of Facebook's most popular features - the sharing and handling of photos - but the use of the startup's technology has spurred concerns about user privacy."

11 mysteries attributed to aliens

11 mysteries attributed to aliens: "From crop circles to the Great Pyramid, we've often tried to credit extra-terrestrials for the wondrous or the inexplicable."

Google sees 'alarming' uptick in government censorship

Google sees 'alarming' uptick in government censorship: "Google exercised its belief in freedom of speech recently, turning down a censorship request by the Canadian government to remove a YouTube video showing a man urinating on his own Canadian passport."

BLACK HOLES AS EXOTIC PARTICLE HONEYPOTS?

Forget the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, if you really want to unravel the mysteries behind the most elusive subatomic particles in the Universe, you may be better off detecting the gravitational waves radiating from a black hole.

This sci-fi-sounding notion comes from the fertile minds of Vienna University of Technology scientists who argue that the extreme gravitational dominance of black holes may be honeypots for hypothetical exotic particles called axions.

In a study he carried out with Gabriela Mocanu, Daniel Grumiller said: "The existence of axions is not proven, but it is considered to be quite likely." And what better way than to ask a black hole for some help in the axion hunt?

Read More: http://news.discovery.com/space/black-holes-as-exotic-particle-honeypots.html

Death Summit 2012: A Window Into 21st Century Eugenics

"The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro has begun. The global leviathan that is the United Nations bares its teeth. In the months preceeding the summit, a continuing stream of publications has poured down from every corner of the transnational community, in essence calling for global governance of the environment as well as a stark reduction in the global human population. These two items are very much intertwined, according to the growing pile of UN papers flying from the supranational tree, all basically stating that the first is necessary in order to facilitate the latter."

Stanford physicists make new form of matter

Stanford physicists make new form of matter: "The laser-cooled quantum gas opens exciting new realms of unconventional superconductivity."

Legendary lost 'White City' of gold 'discovered' in dense Central American jungle by advanced laser mapping

Legendary lost 'White City' of gold 'discovered' in dense Central American jungle by advanced laser mapping | Mail Online: "According to legend, Ciudad Blanca or the 'White City' is full of gold and has been sought out by explorers and treasure hunters since conquistador Hernando Cortes first made reference to it in a 1526 letter to King Charles V of Spain."

Mothman on the Move

Lair of the Beasts: Mothman on the Move: "A vile, winged nightmare equipped with a pair of glowing, red eyes, the Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia is undoubtedly the most infamous of all the many and varied sky-beasts that have made a name for themselves within the annals of Cryptozoology."

“They” Are Watching…

As I noted here just recently, I have had several curious experiences that seem to suggest - quite strongly at times – I have been the subject of some degree of official surveillance as a result of my UFO pursuits – directly or indirectly. And much of that very same surveillance appears to have been in the form of telephone-based monitoring and interference.

This is not exactly surprising, since I do a lot of research (and interviews with witnesses) via the phone. But, just in case you think this is all simply a case of me – and only me – getting overly paranoid and seeing the  sinister Men in Black just about here, there and everywhere, it’s worth noting I’m far from alone when it comes experiencing, or commenting upon, such matters.

On September 3, 1999, author (of the acclaimed Project Beta), researcher, radio host and good friend Greg Bishop stated the following in an email exchange with Jim Keith – an author of numerous books on UFOs and conspiracy theories who died, under circumstances that some still see as highly suspicious, only four days after he and Greg exchanged emails…

Read More: http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/06/they-are-watching/

A DEEPER LOOK AT SCI-FI PROPAGANDA - a common thread linking them all together

Lets just pretend for a moment that there is a hidden agenda behind some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. And if so, what is the idea they are intentionally trying to implant in the viewers mind, and for what purpose?  Follow me as we take a quick glimpse through some of these films as I  lay out the story line in a very simple and concise fashion. At the end I will give my thoughts  regarding the common thread you will see laced throughout each one.

Read More: http://projectunveil.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/1136/

‘Modern-day Nostradamus’ warns U.S. of doom

‘Modern-day Nostradamus’ warns U.S. of doom: "At a time of skyrocketing federal debt, declining morality and growing spiritual apathy and apostasy, New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg – known as a “modern-day Nostradamus” – says America may face cataclysmic collapse in the not-too distant future."

IBM supercomputer overtakes Fujitsu as world's fastest

BBC News - IBM supercomputer overtakes Fujitsu as world's fastest: "The computer is capable of calculating in one hour what otherwise would take 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years to complete if they worked non-stop."

Awesome mushroom storm cloud dominates skyline over Beijing and sparks fresh 'end-of-the-world' fears

To the untrained eye, it could have been the first signal of the end of the world as nuclear war broke out.

But instead of anything sinister, the giant mushroom cloud spotted in the skies over the Chinese capital last week was simply a brilliant showcase of the wonder of nature.

The huge cloud, which appeared on Thursday, gradually took the shape of an explosion from an atomic bomb.

The mushroom-like cloud baffled residents when it appeared over the Chinese capital last Thursday

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160988/Beijing-mushroom-cloud-dominates-skyline-sparks-fresh-end-world-fears.html

Target al Qaeda: An inside look at Obama’s drone program

Target al Qaeda: An inside look at Obama’s drone program | Power Players - Yahoo! News: "One of the most lasting legacies President Obama will likely hand over to his successor, whether in 2013 or in 2017, is the use of drone aircrafts for targeted killings. A new book from Newsweek-The Daily Beast reporter Dan Klaidman delves into the successes and failures of Obama's drone program."

The Nephilim (full-length video)

Fallen Angels and the Nephilim Giants

Our time really is running out: Scientists put forward theory suggesting that the universe could grind to a halt

People often say that time speeds up as we age, but if the latest scientific theory is true the opposite could well be the case.

The radical theory by academics suggests that time itself could be slowing down - and may eventually grind to a halt altogether.

The latest mind-bending findings - put forward by researchers working at two Spanish universities - proposes that we have all been fooled into thinking the universe is expanding.

A computer visualization of dark matter in the Universe which scientists have previously battled to explain

In fact, they say, time itself is slowing down until eventually, in billions of years time, it will cease altogether.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2160625/Our-time-really-running-Scientists-forward-theory-suggesting-universe-grind-halt.html

Pictured: The UFO-shaped object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea... covered in soot, with 'little fireplaces' and lying at the end of a 1,000ft runway

Pictured: The UFO-shaped object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea... covered in soot, with 'little fireplaces' and lying at the end of a 1,000ft runway | Mail Online: "Sceptics expected that a deep-water dive would debunk the slew of extra-terrestrial theories surrounding an unidentified object sitting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

But the Swedish expedition team that took the plunge surfaced with more questions than answers - and certainly no solution to its origins.



The divers found that the object, which some have likened to the Millennium Falcon because of its unusual round outline, was raised about 10 to 13ft above the seabed and curved in at the sides, giving it a mushroom shape."

Forget The Election Results - Greece Is Still Doomed And So Is The Rest Of Europe

The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely.  It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament, and Pasok (another pro-bailout party) will have about 33 seats.  Those two parties have alternated ruling Greece for decades, and it looks like they are going to form a coalition government which will keep Greece in the euro.  On Monday we are likely to see financial markets across the globe in celebration mode.  But the truth is that nothing has really changed.  Greece is still in a depression.  The Greek economy has contracted by close to 25 percent over the past four years, and now they are going to stay on the exact same path that they were before.  Austerity is going to continue to grind away at what remains of the Greek economy and money is going to continue to fly out of the country at a very rapid pace. Greece is still drowning in debt and completely dependent on outside aid to avoid bankruptcy.  Meanwhile, things in Spain and Italy are rapidly getting worse.  So where in that equation is room for optimism?

Right now the ingredients for a "perfect storm" are developing in Europe.  Government spending is being slashed all across the continent, ECB monetary policy is very tight, new regulations and deteriorating economic conditions are causing major banks to cut back on lending and there is panic in the air.

Unless something dramatic changes, things are going to continue to get worse.

Read More: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/forget-the-election-results-greece-is-still-doomed-and-so-is-the-rest-of-europe

Earth on Brink of Catastrophic Tipping Point

Science Says: Earth on Brink of Catastrophic Tipping Point: "Citing the toxic confluence of rising temperatures, rampant population growth, and the clearing of more than 40 percent of the planet’s surface for urban development or agriculture, a team of international scientists says Earth could be nearing an ecological meltdown."

A Tipping Point for the Human Species? Our Technology Enters Interstellar Space

Has the human species reached a new inflection oint in our history? Data from NASA's Voyager 1spacecraft indicates that the deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased. Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw closer to an inevitable but historic conclusion – that humanity's first emissary to interstellar space is on the edge of our solar system.

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Humanity escapes the solar system: Voyager 1 signals that it has reached the edge of interstellar space - 11billion miles away

With absolutely no attempt at hyperbole at all, it is fair to say that this is one of - if not the - biggest achievement of the human race.

For, as we speak, an object conceived in the human mind, and built by our tools, and launched from our planet, is sailing out of the further depths of our solar system - and will be the first object made by man to sail out into interstellar space.

The Voyager 1, built by Nasa and launched in 1977 has spent the last 35 years steadily increasing its distance from Earth, and is now now 17,970,000,000km - or 11,100,000,000miles - away, travelling at 10km a second.

Indications over the last week implies that Voyager 1 is now leaving the heliosphere - the last vestige of this solar system.

The probe is still detecting 'spikes' in the intensity of cosmic ray electrons - which lead scientists to think it's still within the 'heliosheath', the very outer edge of our solar system.

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