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            <title>Learned Social Classism, Is Working Even Ethical?</title>
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			<p>As explained in the article <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://exposingthetruth.info/careerism/">Learning Careerism As A Moral Reward System</a>; our society, specifically our education system teaches and prepared us for a careerist lifestyle.  Or simply put, working for money is considered success in our societies.</p>
<p>But not only does it teach us to work for currency.  Just as we are put down in school for having poor grades, in society we are put <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012/06/201262761617710509.html">down and even ridiculed, almost as criminals</a>, for having low paid jobs, and even more so for having no paid job at all.</p>
<p>This video shows how people are eager to help someone until people assume they are homeless, and that the homeless are also more eager to help people in need:<br /></p>
<p>We live in a society where those with the most important jobs to our survival work long hours, often <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rich-man-poor-man1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-9430" title="rich-man-poor-man" src="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rich-man-poor-man1-296x300.jpg" alt="" width="296" height="300" /></a><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="The exploration of physical fatigue, sleep and depression in paramedics: a pilot study" href="http://www.jephc.com/full_article.cfm?content_id=610" target="_blank">physically tiring</a> and are not paid very much. There are only a few kinds of workers that we really need, farmers/food producers, construction/manufacturers, delivery, maintenance/repair, and public services such as hospital workers and good police.</p>
<p>As time goes on there is <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Automation Insurance: Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs" href="http://www.good.is/posts/automation-insurance-robots-are-replacing-middle-class-jobs/" target="_blank">more automation</a>, so there are less jobs available but more people and so more food, building, maintenance, healthcare, and so on is required.  However <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Concerned Committee Calls on Support for Farmers During Crisis" href="http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/News-and-Media/Press-Releases/Concerned-Committee-Calls-on-Support-for-Farmers-During-Crisis/" target="_blank">farmers are being paid less</a> as time goes on, many selling their farms to get a different job, as their valuable <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Reports show hill farmers continue to struggle" href="http://www.smallholder.co.uk/news/9995859.Reports_show_hill_farmers_continue_to_struggle/" target="_blank">work doesn’t even pay the bills</a>.  <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Construction workers on wildcat strike action over pay" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16065150" target="_blank">Construction workers</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Wal-Mart hit with minimum wage lawsuit as walkout threat looms" href="http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2012/10_-_October/Wal-Mart_hit_with_minimum_wage_lawsuit_as_walkout_threat_looms/" target="_blank">store workers</a>, repair services and delivery are often paid low or minimum wage.  <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs" href="http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/03/01/top-10-most-dangerous-jobs/" target="_blank">Construction</a> or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Small Farms, Hard Work, and Local Food" href="http://blogs.worldwatch.org/sustainableprosperity/boulderlocalfood/" target="_blank">farm work is much physically harder</a> than sitting in an office trading stocks, yet those people are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Praise the Rich" href="http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Marotta/Praise_the_Rich.shtml" target="_blank">praised because they make more money</a>.</p>
<p>There are often stories of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Firefighters face strike ballot over pay" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-137913/Firefighters-face-strike-ballot-pay.html" target="_blank">fire-fighters</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Pittsburgh paramedics threatening to strike say firefighters aren’t trained for 'delicate' rescues" href="http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/pittsburgh-paramedics-threatening-strike-say-firef/nSZMd/" target="_blank">medical workers on strike</a> because they are on a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="6,000 nurses strike in California" href="http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-22/us/us_california-nurses-strike_1_charles-idelson-national-nurses-united-california-nurses-association?_s=PM:US" target="_blank">low wage or have poor quality working conditions</a>, but these are the true heroes of our society, these people save us from death.  <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="WHAT PRICE CHEAP FOOD? Or “Do we want legless cows and featherless chooks?" href="http://shauncoffey.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/what-prices-cheap-food-or-do-we-want.html" target="_blank">Farmers</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Nurses quit over low pay and poor morale  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-137044/Nurses-quit-low-pay-poor-morale.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-137044/Nurses-quit-low-pay-poor-morale.html" target="_blank">medical workers</a> and fire-fighters should be the highest rewarded and praised workers of society, not some of the least.</p>
<p>We should also give more credit to those who are building and maintaining places for us to live comfortably in.</p>
<p>It is shameful that the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Working harder for less money" href="http://lettersfromtheleft.com/2012/07/31/working-harder-for-less-money/" target="_blank">harder a job is, the less money the workers will make</a>, and those <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/30/business/la-fi-mo-richest-woman-20120830" target="_blank">who make the most money</a> in society actually have the easier jobs and often work the least.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2247296.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9424" title="2247296" src="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2247296.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="347" /></a></p>
<p>In our society even these workers that we require for survival are not made a priority, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Keeping track of your cash is top priority  Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/money/669027-keeping-track-of-your-cash-is-top-priority" href="http://www.metro.co.uk/money/669027-keeping-track-of-your-cash-is-top-priority" target="_blank">money is</a>.  We are taught that if we work hard we can get a good job, and a good job pays well, most people still believe this and look up to those with ‘well-paid’ jobs and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Don’t Look Down on the Poor" href="http://worldviewtruth.com/2012/02/16/dont-look-down-on-the-poor/" target="_blank">look down on those with a low paid job or those who are considered poor</a>.</p>
<p>The truth is that in almost all cases the LESS-ethical the persons job, the more money they will earn.  We could consider the most ethical of all work to be charity work, helping those with less, yet most of this work is either volunteer work or paid minimum wage.  Those without jobs at all are looked down on, even when they volunteer to do charity work.  Looked down on by those who <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="‘Fat-Finger’ Error Caused Oil-Stock Price Swings" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/09/19/fat-finger-error-caused-oil-stock-price-swings/" target="_blank">mess around with numbers</a> to make bigger numbers (trading stocks and shares), or managers; people who make sure that other people work so that they can take a larger cut.</p>
<p>Our parents tried to teach us good ethics and morals, but then they told us to obey at school, which taught us that these twisted careerist ideologies were moral and ethical.</p>
<p>Those without any paid employment, often also without any debt are sometimes homeless, and our society also tells us that they are homeless because they are drug addicts or alcoholics, and therefore we should not help them, even though many of these people are not drug-addicts or alcoholics, and if they are, it is often a sickness that is created by the world they live in, they simply didn’t have enough money or got kicked out by an ex-partner.  Relationship breakdown and illness can happen to anyone.</p>
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<p>So we have those who work very unethical jobs making ridiculously high amounts of money, those looked down on for having low paid work, even though it is physically more productive, those who are ridiculed for not having a ‘paid’ job or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="New rules make it harder to get unemployment benefits" href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/15/news/economy/unemployment-benefits-rules/index.htm">claiming some kind of state benefit</a>, and then the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Homelessness in the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">homeless</a> who cannot even apply for many kinds of state benefits or most jobs because they cannot complete the forms without a valid address, and often an email address or phone number; sometimes even the phone number must be a landline number, and of course to apply for a job most of the time these days a printed Résumé/CV is required.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Housing: It's a Wonderful Right" href="http://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/housing-its-a-wonderful-right/" target="_blank">Amnesty international reported</a> that approximately 3.5 million people in the U.S. are homeless, many of them veterans.  It is worth noting that, at the same time, there are 18.5 million vacant homes in the country.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/census-shows-1-2-people-103940568.html" target="_blank">AP also reports</a> that nearly 1 in 2 Americans have fallen into poverty.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Tavis Smiley: Poverty is the new slavery" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57476855/tavis-smiley-poverty-is-the-new-slavery/" target="_blank">CBS News</a> reports that “According to a new report out this past week, poverty in America has reached its highest level since 1965″.</p>
<p>So as a whole this brings up a question, apart from a few specific careers, is paid work ethical?  How many ethical jobs do you know that are helping people to survive or live comfortably and are not profiting some corporation, or share holders, sat back, relaxing, watching the money you make entering their bank accounts.</p>
<p>When we do get paid, a high percentage of that money gets cut to go to government as income tax, however we give them another chunk of money from VAT, another tax, then depending on where you live there are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Tax - Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax" target="_blank">multiple other taxes</a> such as state tax, council tax, road tax, import tax, property tax, inheritance tax, and so on…</p>
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            <title>Do You Still Believe Fluoride Is Good For Our Teeth? Read This!</title>
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			<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gc-sodium-fluoride-640x495-300x232.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-9380" title="gc-sodium-fluoride-640x495-300x232" src="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gc-sodium-fluoride-640x495-300x232.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="232" /></a>This topic has become so big in recent years that it probably isn’t necessary to state this, but for those that are new to the subject, here goes!</p>
<p>The fluoride used in dental practices and in our water supply is not a chemical made in a laboratory and approved as a safe drug.  To understand fluoride further, we can look at it scientifically; technically the name fluoride is scientifically inaccurate.  Fluoride is a naturally occurring compound in nature but is not safe for humans in high dosages.</p>
<p>What must now be understood is when we are speaking about Fluoride from here on in this article, is that we are not just talking about a naturally occurring compound, nor is that compound good for our teeth.  We are referring to a chemical mixture that is sold under the name of Fluoride that contains a wide array of chemicals, putting this substance in category four of hazardous materials.  This is the highest and most dangerous rating a substance can receive.  The substance labeled “Fluoride” that we use in dental practices, toothpaste and water fluoridation is the hazardous waste substances caught in the wet scrubbers of the phosphorus industries.</p>
<p>This extremely toxic, hazardous chemical is illegal to dump and would cost companies a hefty price tag to properly dispose of, instead they are SOLD to cities and towns where they are then dumped into water supplies, legally.</p>
<p>Fluoride in our water and its actual chemical content is like many other shocking revelations that no one believed until it became a known fact that we were all being lied to and fooled for so long. It’s only a matter of time until it becomes common knowledge that the use of fluoride is doing nothing more than poisoning our bodies.</p>
<p><strong>Facts:</strong></p>
<p>Note: If these facts challenge your current beliefs on fluoride, then do research about this to see what resonates most.  These facts have become very clear, are well documented and now scientifically proven.<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fluorosis_rates_us.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-9381" title="fluorosis_rates_us" src="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fluorosis_rates_us-300x259.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="259" /></a></p>
<p>The chemical names of the main substances used in fluoridation practices are hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride, often referred to as sodium fluoride.</p>
<p>It is illegal to dump the hazardous fluoride waste products  hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride into water streams or rivers, it is even considered an act of terrorism to do so, yet it is legal and accepted as safe practice to add it to many of our water supplies under the guise that it is helping with dental hygiene.  This theory of helping with dental hygiene is built off of assumptions.</p>
<p>Roughly 99% of the water pumped through municipalities is not consumed through the mouth; most is used for showering, water crops and washing clothes.  Given these facts, most of it ends up in streams, rivers and oceans where this hazardous waste is destroying and contaminating our environment.  And what is consumed by us does nothing more than harm our bodies.</p>
<p>24 studies have shown a link between fluoride exposure and the lowering of IQ levels.  When you really think about it though, is it all that surprising that brain function is hindered by the consumption of an extremely hazardous waste product?</p>
<p>Fluoride is an unapproved drug being used in a highly illegal mass medication scheme.  Adding fluoride to the water supply is said to be voluntary for municipalities but the people never get a vote. The drug has not been approved by any drug agency and no one has been assessed for prescriptions.</p>
<p>Fluoride is so toxic and dangerous that it has the ability to eat through metal and concrete.  A fluoride spill requires the use of hazmat suits to clean up.</p>
<div id="attachment_9382" readability="2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fluorosis-comp.gif"><img class="size-medium wp-image-9382" title="fluorosis-comp" src="http://exposingthetruth.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fluorosis-comp-300x232.gif" alt="" width="300" height="232" /></a><p>Photographs of Dental Fluorosis by Dr. Hardy Limeback and Dr. Iain Pretty, et al.</p></div>
<p>Water fluoridation is nothing more than the dumping of industries hazardous waste into people and our environment to avoid having to pay to dispose of the waste.  In fact they make a profit instead.</p>
<p>Drinking fluoridated water has never been scientifically proven to reduce tooth decay.</p>
<p>Research has found that fluoride affects normal endocrine function, causes kidney disease, bone weakness, dental fluorosis, cancer, lowering of IQ, calcification of the pineal gland, arthritis, immune deficiencies, skeletal fluorosis and much more.</p>
<p>Below is a video showing hidden camera images inside a fluoride facility.</p>
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<p><strong>What Can We Do?</strong></p>
<p>Stop drinking fluoridated water. Use a filtration system in your home that filters out fluoride.  Most filters can also remove chlorine which is another harmful chemical.</p>
<p>Educate your doctors and dentists about where fluoride really comes from; the majority of the time those professionals are not trying to hurt you they just don’t know the truth behind the substance.  They are limited to what their education taught them and unfortunately the education system is funded and controlled by the companies who benefit from this.</p>
<p>Spread this information with others and your city politicians to put an end to water fluoridation.  Be neutral and open as you talk about this information with them so they will take you seriously; too often anger of the issue makes it seem like it’s not something worth looking into.</p>
<p>Watch and share this documentary about fluoride.</p>
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<p>Sources:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2012/08/04/do-you-still-believe-fluoride-is-good-for-our-teeth-read-this/">http://www.collective-evolution.com/2012/08/04/do-you-still-believe-fluoride-is-good-for-our-teeth-read-this/</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/" target="_blank">http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/health/</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/11/toxic-fluoride-contaminates-iceland-volcanic-ash-and-is-killing-animals.aspx" target="_blank">http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/11/toxic-fluoride-contaminates-iceland-volcanic-ash-and-is-killing-animals.aspx</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/030952_CDC_fluoride.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/030952_CDC_fluoride.html</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/02/05/is-your-dentist-drilling-for-dollars.aspx" target="_blank">http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/02/05/is-your-dentist-drilling-for-dollars.aspx</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.greenfacts.org/en/fluoride/index.htm">http://www.greenfacts.org/en/fluoride/index.htm</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/">http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/water/">http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/water/</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/dental-products/">http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/dental-products/</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/fluorosis/">http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/fluorosis/</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/caries/">http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/caries/</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/">http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/sources/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Robert Johnson | </strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/china-fighter-jet-flights-diaoyu-senkaku-islands-2013-1#ixzz2Hgy37vqn">Business Insider</a></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://royaltechnonews.blogspot.com/2011/04/chinese-j-10-fighter-aircraft.html">China Defence Mashup</a></p>
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<p>After repeatedly <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-scrambles-fighter-jets-to-head-off-chinese-planes-2013-1">flying surveillance aircraft</a> into disputed airspace with Japan, which made Tokyo scramble F-15s in response, China sent fighters of its own on Thursday into the East China Sea.<em> </em></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.mod.gov.cn/headlines/2013-01/11/content_4427075.htm">A Friday press release</a> out of China confirms the incident began when Beijing was flying a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/shaanxiy8militarytra/">Shaanxi Y-8</a> on a “routine Thursday patrol” over the “oil and gas fields in the East China Sea.”</p>
<p>The fact that the aircraft was a Shaanxi Y-8 is interesting in that the Y-8 isn’t necessarily any one particular aircraft.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2013/01/12/japan-china-scramble-military-jets-in-east-china-sea/">The Diplomat</a> calls the Y-8 a transport plane, and it can be, but <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/shaanxiy8militarytra/">the aircraft has more than 30 variants</a>. The Y-8 performs everything from Mineral Research, to Geophysical Surveying, to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Electronic Warfare" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/electronic-warfare/">Electronic Warfare</a> to Intelligence Gathering and one variant is simply <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/airlift/y8.asp">an innocuous but lethal fully loaded gunship</a>, with two heavy cannons and three heavy machine guns.</p>
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<p>Naha, Okinawa with bar scale and regional map inset (click to expand)</p>
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<p>It’s the perfect plane for a game of cat and mouse because if the Y-8 ever received fire from Japan’s F-15s, China could simply maintain it was an unarmed transport model carrying troops, or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/y-8-var.htm">the Y8-F model that carries only livestock</a>.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the plane can perform all manner of sophisticated tests on the seabed floor, while eavesdropping on Japanese communications. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-scrambles-fighter-jets-to-head-off-chinese-planes-2013-1">China has been flying these planes consistently</a> lately to surveil the contested island chain that’s supposed to hold billions in oil and gas reserves.</p>
<p>So, again, on Thursday <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/01/203480.html">Japan spotted aircraft</a> in its Air Defense Identification Zone (above the islands) that it believed to be Chinese <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/fighter/j7.asp">J-7 interceptors</a>, along with some<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.military-today.com/aircraft/j10.htm"> J-10 fighters</a> whose combat abilities rival that of Western jets. Japan responded with two <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20130106a5.html">F-15s scrambled from Naha, Okinawa</a> — just a couple hundred miles away. There are minor variations from either side about who sent what first, but all agree the aircraft met above the islands.</p>
<p>The Chinese planes scattered soon after, but this marked the first time China and Japan flung military assets at one another over the East China Sea island dispute. A line was crossed and staying behind it in the future will only be more difficult.</p>
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<p>Air base Shuimen, China — disputed island chain — Naha, Japan</p>
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<p>The U.S. assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/01/202644.htm">Kurt Campbell announced</a> that he will be traveling to Seoul, and Tokyo. What he decides in Tokyo will filter south to Naha and the Japanese unit confronting the Chinese.</p>
<p>An interesting fact about Naha, aside from its proximity to the contested territory, is that while being fairly remote, it is also home to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://naha.usconsulate.gov/wwwh-consul-general.html">Alfred R. Magleby, a United States Consul General</a> who holds a M.S. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. This is appropriate, since the Naha Port (formerly Military) Facility is part of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://naha.usconsulate.gov/wwwh-consul-general.html">U.S. Forces Japan</a> and the U.S. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mcasfutenma.marines.mil/">Marine Corps Air Station Futenma</a> is less than nine miles from where Japan’s F-15s scrambled.</p>
<p>It looks like the islands everyone’s talking about are a few dots in the middle of nowhere, but all of this is taking place close to the U.S. Consulate and a contingent of several thousand U.S. Marines whose former <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1994798,00.html">commanding general told Time in 2010</a>:<strong> “All of my Marines on Okinawa are willing to die if it is necessary for the security of Japan.”</strong></p>
<p>In the future, when responding to China’s fighter deployment, if Japan <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/755045.shtml">considers permitting its F-15 pilots to fire tracer bullets</a> as warning shots against Chinese planes, it is now reasonable to assume that U.S. forces at Futenma may have an indirect say in that decision.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tracer_fire_at_MCB_Camp_Pendleton_DM-ST-89-00210.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a></p>
<p>Tracer rounds from ground fire</p>
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<p>Firing tracers, which usually contain phosphorous or some highly flammable material, sends a line of light through the air like a laser. Tracers are usually loaded in about every tenth round to let gunners know where they’re shooting, but in this case they would be fired to show Chinese pilots they’re being fired upon.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/754886.shtml">An editorial in China’s state-run Global Times</a> called this possibility, “a step closer to war,” warning a military clash is “more likely” while its people need to prepare “for the worst.” With a U.S. presence so close at hand to where these Japanese decisions are being made, and tactical practices employed, we can hope for at least a bit of immediate tempering.</p>
<p>The Chinese jets are likely flying from <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/05/28/2003533924">air base Shuimen</a>, built east of the islands in Fujian Province, not too much farther from the islands than Naha, Okinawa. So both sides have assets equally within reach of the islands.</p>
<p>Satellite imagery of the base  came to light in 2009, and experts believe it was completed late last year.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/05/28/2003533924">The Taipei Times</a> reported in May 2012 that <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/fighter/j10.asp">J-10 combat aircraft</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sukhoi.org/eng/planes/military/su30mk/">Su-30 fighters</a>, and various unmanned drones were arriving at the base.</p>
<p>In addition to aircraft, experts believe Russian made S-300 long-range surface-to-air missiles ring the</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://defenseupdates.blogspot.com/2012/06/y-8-high-new-aircraft-series.html">Defense Updates</a></p>
<p>One of the many variations of the Y-8</p>
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<p>airbase, providing some of the best missile protection in the world. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://missilethreat.com/defense-systems/s-300p-sa-10-grumble/">S-300 is comparable to</a> the U.S. made Patriot missile recently sent to Turkey for its first line of missile defense against Syria.</p>
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<p>The Shuimen airbase compliments <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/east-sea.htm">China’s East Fleet that maintains 35 ships</a> in the region, including its newest warship the Type 054, seven submarines, and eight additional landing craft.</p>
<p>Among the subs are four <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sinodefence.com/navy/sub/kilo.asp">Kilo-class diesel-electric</a> Russian made submarines capable of the most advanced underwater warfare.</p>
<p>All of this located just 236 miles from the contested islands, which have been in dispute between Japan and China for some time. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/the-inconvenient-truth-behind-the-diaoyusenkaku-islands/">Han-Yi Shaw writes</a> an interesting history of the dispute, for those interested in more background.</p>
<p>While the U.S. takes no official position on who owns the Islands, it would be expected to honor its <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/us-japan-1960-security-treaty-explained-2012-9">U.S.-Japan security treaty</a> signed in 1960.</p>
<p>Though this is a formal agreement that the U.S. will aid Japan if it comes under attack, there are few who believe the U.S. would risk a full-blown war with China over a few uninhabited islands, regardless of how much oil and gas lies beneath them.</p>
<p>But with a U.S. presence so closely intertwined in these events, and a contingent of Marines standing by, it seems that whatever happens could involve American input — one way or another.</p>
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<p>What it’s all about — or what’s beneath them — the Senkaku Islands</p>
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<p><strong>PL Chang</strong> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.riseearth.com/2013/01/how-controllers-use-religion-money.html"><em>Energy Fanatics</em></a></p>

<p>This article is my most controversial article because it contains “forbidden knowledge” and evidence proving that the Controllers have infiltrated and distorted most systems in the world, including the religious, political, educational, and financial system. If you do not believe that there are people who want to control everything that you do and think, read this <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/08/08/how-mainstream-media-decieve-you-magic-tricks/">mind boggling article</a> (contains visual proof) and then ask yourself why are they deceiving you.</p>
<p>If you do not know who the Controllers are, they are wealthy globalists who control society from behind the scene and pull the strings of politicians. A lot of the Controllers are high level bankers who are involved in secret societies. If you do not believe in secret societies, study organized crime and you should eventually come to the conclusion that they exist. Or you can read <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193653326X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=efan-book-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=193653326X">this groundbreaking book</a> written by Dr. David E. Martin who was a US Congressional and EU Parliamentary policy adviser in global finance and ethics.</p>

<p>If we want to experience true freedom and world peace, we need to learn and understand how the Controllers think and study their systems of control so we can find ways to counter them. Otherwise, the Controllers will destroy our freedom and turn our planet into a prison. If this happens, our children and future generations will not have a future to look forward to.</p>
<p>The main goal of this article is to empower you by helping you understand the minds of the Controllers and their systems of control so that you can understand why they are so obsessed with the idea of controlling the world. After reading this article, you should understand why we cannot rely on our authorities to save us and why we need to be more responsible citizens. History has taught us that when we become irresponsible and take freedom for granted, we always get tyranny!<br/><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" name="more"/><br/>
Why controlling religion and money are essential for enslaving our souls</p>
<p>Religion is the most effective tool to use to control the mass population at the mental and spiritual level. This is because most people have been conditioned to believe that religion is heavily influenced by the words of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/07/11/what-is-creation-god/">Creation (God)</a>. In order for the Controllers to control us, they need to weaken the spiritual power within us. This power is the loving energy that gives us thought, awareness and intelligence, which is also known as <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2009/05/27/the-soul-what-is-it/">the soul/spirit</a>.</p>
<p>The reason why they need to weaken our spiritual power is because when our spiritual power is strong it can help us see through their lies; therefore, it can free us from their controlling matrix. This is why people who are more spiritually awakened are usually the ones who are warning others about the Controllers’ dark agendas.</p>
<p>The end game of the Controllers is to create a worldwide catastrophic event so that they can manipulate the survivors into accepting their fascist <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="one world government" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/one-world-government/">one world government</a>. To achieve this goal, they need to first control two things: money and religion. They have always been in control of money and religion to a large degree, but in the late 1700s their controlling empire was threatened by a generation of very brave men and women. Those brave men and women were the founders and builders of the country known today as the United States of America.</p>
<p>To make sure that the Controllers’ end game comes into fruition near 2012 and soon after, they need to destroy the US and what it stands for, which are freedom and liberty. They believe that once the US falls, controlling the rest of the world would become a lot easier. The Controllers knew that the US was too powerful to attack from the outside so they cleverly attacked it from the inside through stealth. In 1913, they achieved one of their greatest goals by creating a central bank in the US. This central bank, known as the Federal Reserve (Fed), is not a federal bank but a private bank owned by a small group of elite bankers. I like to refer to them as banksters because they are gangsters disguised in suits. You can read more about those banksters at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/12/11/forbidden-knowledge-federal-reserve-cartel-part-1-2-3/">this page</a>.</p>
<p>The image of the dollar bill below is evidence that they have taken over the US financial system. If you study secret societies, you should have a general idea of what the Great Seal symbol stands for. The pyramid with the “all seeing eye” on top is one of their occult symbols of power. If you look closely at the pyramid, you should see 13 sections or stairs. The number 13 is a very important number in the religion of secret societies.</p>


<p>Controlling the US monetary system is essential for them to achieve their dark agendas because they can use it to steal real wealth from Americans and buy off their politicians and companies. To steal real wealth from Americans, they assign each American a social security number and force them to pay income tax which is against the Constitution. They have done such a great job of stealing American’s money that they got away with <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/12/01/financial-terrorism-how-america-world-robbed-banksters/">$15 plus trillions</a>. To make matters worse, they enslave Americans through debt with their fractional reserve banking system. This system is what gives them the financial power to control the economy of the world.</p>
<p>Each time the Controllers print money to the US government, the fiat money is given to the US government as a loan plus interest. This is no different than borrowing money from a foreign country. It is important to know that most of the money exchange is done electronically. Another popular method that the Controllers use to steal real wealth from the American people is inflation which is nothing more than a hidden tax. For a detailed explanation why inflation is a hidden tax, please read <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2011/10/04/financial-health-how-to-protect-your-savings-from-inflation-or-worse-hyperinflation/">this shocking article</a>.</p>
<p>Many of the people who are in charge of the plan to overthrow the US government are part of controlling factions of secret societies. It is important to know that not all people in secret societies are bad. The good people in secret societies cannot conveniently leave their secret groups because it can cost their lives. According to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/henderson/">Dean Henderson</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="George Washington" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/george-washington/">George Washington</a>, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Ethan Allen, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Brown, and Roger Sherman were all part of a secret society known as the Freemasons. The Freemasons is like a subgroup of the most powerful secret society of all, the Illuminati. The Illuminati has been around since the Sumerians and beyond.</p>
<p>The malicious faction of the Illuminati is responsible for distorting many of the original teachings of Jesheua, also known as Jesus. Many of the “holy books” found in modern religion were written by certain people who were part of secret societies or associated with them. This is why the biblical story of the birth of Jesheua is all based on astrology. In other words, December 25th is not the birth of the “son” of God but the birth of the “sun” of God that rises in the East and sets in the West.</p>
<p>As the winter solstice approaches from the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Northern Hemisphere" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/northern-hemisphere/">Northern Hemisphere</a>, the days become shorter and shorter until it reaches the shortest day of the year. Depending where you live on the planet, the shortest day of the year occurs on December 21st or 22nd. On this day the sun stops moving south for three days. Some <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="ancient civilizations" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/ancient-civilizations/">ancient civilizations</a> saw this as the analogy of the sun being dead for three days. On December 25th, the sun moves one degree north; therefore, it is said that the sun is reborn on this date. This one degree movement of the sun is very subtle but can be measured with very sensitive equipment.</p>
<p>I know the idea of the birth of Jesheua being a hoax may anger a lot of Christians, but if Christians want to truly achieve salvation, they must learn why the Controllers distorted Jesheua’s teachings so that they can separate the truths from the lies. We, the people of the world, need to understand that the same groups of people who gave us our modern banking system are the same groups of people who gave us modern religion.</p>
<p>If the previous three paragraphs are hard for you to believe, then please watch the video below. Be warned! This video contains shocking evidence that can put you in an emotional roller coaster ride. Viewer discretion is highly advised.</p>
<p><b>Religion The Greatest Story Ever Told (Zeitgeist)</b></p>
<p>Does the Pope agree with the video above?</p>
<p>Even though the video above shows great evidence that proves to a certain degree that religion contains distorted information or lies, a lot of us will still deny the fact that this video is telling us the truth. How about if a well-known religious leader tells us that there are some truths to the video. Would we believe it then?</p>
<p>One of the most well-known religious leaders is the Pope. Recently, Pope Benedict XVI has publicly announced that Jesheua (Jesus) was not born on December 25th, and that Christmas was based on a pagan solar festival.</p>
<p>As expressed at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9693576/Jesus-was-born-years-earlier-than-thought-claims-Pope.html">Telegraph.co.uk</a>.</p>
<blockquote readability="10"><p>The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly believed.</p>
<p>The ‘mistake’ was made by a sixth century monk known as Dionysius Exiguus or in English Dennis the Small, the 85-year-old pontiff claims in the book ‘Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives’, published on Wednesday.</p>
<p>“The calculation of the beginning of our calendar – based on the birth of Jesus – was made by Dionysius Exiguus, who made a mistake in his calculations by several years,” the Pope writes in the book, which went on sale around the world with an initial print run of a million copies.</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you notice that when it comes to these types of hot topics, they usually never admit that they are wrong? Instead, they tend to blame their errors on someone else so that they do not damage their credibility. These are the kind of leaders that we have running the world. Our political and religious leaders have lied to us in the past and they will keep lying to us until we become more responsible citizens. Do you now understand why we can never achieve true freedom and world peace until we become more responsible citizens?</p>


<p>One of the questions we should be asking our leaders is what else are you not telling us? I know for a fact that they are not telling us a lot of things because they know that once the truth comes out, their controlling empire will fall. This is exactly what is happening behind the scene. If we want their controlling empire to fall faster, we need to support the true patriots who truly care about our freedom and liberty. In other words, vote with your money and do not rely solely on the rigged voting machine.</p>
<p>We can vote with our money by buying organic and healthy food instead of the hazardous junk food that they created to destroy our connection to our souls. By buying organic food, they will have little choice but to support organic food. Another way to vote with our money is to stop watching news from the mainstream media (unless the corrupt leaders are removed), and read news from alternative media, such as <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://projectcamelotportal.com/">projectcamelotportal.com</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/">veteranstoday.com</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stewwebb.com/">stewwebb.com</a>. These alternative media outlets are not financed by the Controllers and they are not afraid to expose the Controllers’ dark agendas. Support the true patriots and light warriors who truly care about your freedom and rights.</p>
<p>In one of my previous article titled “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/12/11/forbidden-knowledge-federal-reserve-cartel-part-1-2-3/">Forbidden Knowledge of the Federal Reserve Cartel: Part 1, 2 &amp; 3</a>,” I said that the year 2012 was a year of great change because the truth of what is truly going on in the world is going to come out sooner or later. Right now, some of the truth is starting to come out. One of them deals with the financial fraud committed by central banks throughout the world. Another one is going to involve the announcement of the existence of life beyond our planet. However, the announcement that there is life in outer-space may not happen for another few years. How fast this announcement will occur depends on if the people of the world are ready for it. The Vatican is already conditioning and preparing us to accept that there is life beyond our planet. You can read more about it at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7399661.stm">this website</a>.</p>
<p>All major religions have been distorted by the Controllers</p>
<p>If you want to know who are behind a lot of the wars and destruction on our planet, follow the money and it will eventually lead you to religious institutions. They are some of the main entities that are financing and supporting many of the “evil” deeds throughout the world. One of these institution is the Vatican. The Vatican is not a holy institution because behind the scene they worship negative entities like Satan. These types of religious institutions are responsible for killing nearly 1 billion people since the time of Jesheua (Jesus).</p>
<p>It is important to know that all the major religions of the world have been distorted by the Controllers, including but not limited to Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism. One of their main purposes of distorting religion is to manipulate us into thinking that the end of the world is coming. Another one is to disempower us. Even though the Controllers have distorted religion, there is a lot of great and truthful knowledge found in religion. The hard part is trying to separate the truths from the lies.</p>
<p>To manipulate us into believing their “End Times” prophecy, the Controllers brainwashed their children into supporting their doomsday plans, and then encouraged their children to brainwash their children to take actions leading to the fulfillment of their “End Times” prophecies. Therefore their doomsday plans are passed on from generation to generation so that each generation can fulfill their “End Times” prophecies. Many of us cannot comprehend how the Controllers’ dark agendas can survive for so long, but once you understand how they think and operate, then you should understand that their dark agendas are still alive and well today.</p>
<p>Nowadays we have many malicious secret societies running most of the systems of the world, including the religious, financial, educational, and political system. This is why there are so many dogmas found in religion and why our educational system is corrupt. This is also why the world’s financial system is a mess and why we are at the brink of another world war. During World War I and World War II, the Controllers almost succeeded in implementing their fascist <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="one world government" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/one-world-government/">one world government</a>.</p>
<p>The Controllers are responsible for engineering most of the wars on our planet. They like to engineer wars to spread hatred and fear and make profits. They can make profits by financing both opposing forces in secrecy. The Controllers do not think like us. They think somewhat similar to that of a psychopath; therefore, they are very domineering and only care about themselves. The Controllers treat us like objects and value money more than our lives; thus, they do not show much remorse if we die.</p>
<p>Nowadays, the fight between the Controllers and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="the Resistance" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/category/the-resistance/">the Resistance</a> (the protector of freedom) is heavily concentrated in the US. Within the last century, the Controllers did an amazing job infiltrating the political, educational, religious, and financial systems of the US, a country that is quickly losing its freedom. The Patriot Act and the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="National Defense Authorization Act" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/national-defense-authorization-act/">National Defense Authorization Act</a> (NDAA) are proof that the US has become very corrupt. The combination of these two laws allows the US government to spy on its own citizens and detain them without a trial.</p>
<p>Why the Controllers use modern religion to weaken our souls</p>
<p>One of the main reasons why the Controllers manipulate us with their ominous religious teachings is to weaken the connection to Creation (God) and our souls. By doing this, it becomes easier for them to take control of the power of our consciousness. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2009/06/27/consciousness-energy-creation/">Consciousness</a> is the most powerful energetic force in our Universe because it contains the living codes that govern all things. By controlling our consciousness to a certain degree, they can also influence our thoughts which are essential for creating our experiences.</p>
<p>Most of us do not understand that the collective human consciousness is what creates our reality and that matter is focused into existence with our thoughts. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/12/04/quantum-reality-exploring-universe-beyond-material-realm/">Quantum physicists</a> have known about this for decades. A lot of their theories and discoveries are being taken very seriously in the last 10 years because they are helping modern scientists explain how the Universe truly works.</p>
<p>If our thoughts create our reality, then why is it so hard to instantaneously manifest our thoughts into reality? The reason why we cannot immediately manifest our thoughts into physical manifestation is because we have not evolved to the point where we can take control of the thought manifestation process. Because of this, the thought manifestation process is managed by our subconscious. The distortions in our light bodies are also disrupting the thought manifestation process, making it harder for us to manifest our thoughts into reality.</p>
<p>Our individual thought may not feel very powerful in our current state of existence, but when we combine our thoughts with large groups of people, our collective thoughts become extremely powerful. When we focus our collective thoughts toward something, they speed up the manifestation process at an exponential rate. For this reason, the collective human thought is the most powerful manifestation force on our planet. The collective human thought also has amazing healing capabilities. Most of us do not realize that when we pray to Creation or some other divine being to heal our loved ones, we are actually doing the healing.</p>
<p>How the Controllers dumb us down using the educational system</p>
<p>After the Controllers took over the world financial system, they infiltrated the educational system. They did this by buying or financing certain schools and colleges. With unlimited money, they bribed some high level professors into joining their secret societies and then encouraged those professors to use their manipulative books. The schools and colleges that opposed them were restricted of government subsidies unless they agree to work with the Controllers. The Controllers were able to do this because a lot of politicians were bought off by them.</p>
<p>History and Science were the two subjects that the Controllers distorted the most. They distorted history to prevent us from discovering our true history. History tends to repeat itself; therefore, if we understand history, we can prevent the Controllers from manipulating us and infiltrating the systems of the world.</p>
<p>As for science, the Controllers took out a lot of the empowering findings in science because they knew that, if we became too educated in science, they would have a very hard time manipulating us. Plus, science can be used to prove that some of their ominous teachings are wrong. To make sure science can never be used against them, they use their controlling media and scientists to ridicule anyone who tries to challenge their paradigm. Because of this, they have slowly conditioned us to not question things. Conventional science is not really science anymore; instead, it has become like a religion.</p>
<p>The big secret that the Controllers do not want us to know</p>
<p>One of the greatest secrets of our human race that the controllers do not want us to know is how our consciousness and thoughts create our reality. If we ever become aware of our true powers, the Controllers will not be able to control us anymore. This is why the Controllers have used our power of consciousness and thought against us. They do this by spreading their disempowering teachings throughout the world, using their “holy books,” and religious and educational system, and other influential systems.</p>
<p>The Controllers have done such an amazing job of spreading their disempowering knowledge throughout the world that they have conditioned us to believe that we are slaves and powerless, and that Creation (God) exists outside of us. By believing their teachings, we become their slaves and they can manipulate us and steer our future the way they want. For example, one of the main goals of the controllers is to create a scenario that represents one of their prophecies known as the “End Times.”</p>
<p>Manipulating us to believe their <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/11/22/doomsday-2012-engineered-end-times-prophecy/">“End Times” prophecy</a>, our collective consciousness ends up creating certain events that support our beliefs. It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. They also engineered many of the wars so that we will always have hatred toward other countries. Do you now understand why the world is such a mess? It is a mess because the Controllers have used the power of our consciousness and thought against us, creating a world full of fear and destruction instead of love and peace.</p>
<p>Many of the Earth changes are engineered by the Controllers</p>
<p>Most of us do not realize that many of the major Earth changes are not all caused by nature but are caused because of the Controllers’ scalar weapons, weather controlled technologies, and advanced particle accelerators. The use of these weapons can cause further damages to Earth’s biosphere, resulting in magnetic field shifts and Earth changes.</p>
<p>Below is an excerpt of one of my earlier articles titled “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/08/01/is-world-going-to-end-december-21-2012/">Is the World Going to End on December 21, 2012?</a>”</p>
<blockquote readability="18"><p>There are many researchers and scientists claiming that earth changes related to the climate are caused by man-made carbon dioxide (CO2). This idea that man-made CO2 is the main cause of global warming is a hoax designed to tax us for merely breathing. If man-made CO2 is causing the Earth to heat up, then why are all the planets in our solar system heating up too? This is a question that many mainstream researchers and scientists shy away from because they are afraid of admitting that they are wrong. For more information on the subject of our solar system heating up, please visit <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.livescience.com/1349-sun-blamed-warming-earth-worlds.html">LiveScience.com</a>.</p>
<p>One of the major causes of earth changes is the dark rift. If you do not know what the dark rift is, it is a dense area in the Milky Way galaxy that has strong energetic particles. These particles can heat up our solar system and cause other <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="strange" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/category/strange/">strange</a> phenomenon.</p>
<p>Most people do not realize that there are secret groups in certain governments that have very advanced scalar technologies. These technologies are so powerful that they can be used to manipulate the weather and even cause earthquakes. One of them is known as the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/high-frequency-active-auroral-research-program/">High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program</a> (HAARP). One of the most well-known HAARPs is located in Gakona, Alaska.</p>
<p>As described at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://haarp.net/">Haarp.net</a>.</p>
<p><b>Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope; antenna send out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is the test run for a super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Electromagnetic waves" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/electromagnetic-waves/">Electromagnetic waves</a> then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything — living and dead.</b></p>
<p>If you understand how HAARP works, you will realize that it has been used many times to manipulate the weather, causing droughts, floods, hurricanes, and even earthquakes. The way to tell when HAARP is used is to look for HAARP’s unique frequency signature which can be easily detected with the right equipment. HAARP can be used to facilitate earthquakes by adjusting it to generate ultra-low frequency (ULF) of roughly 2.5 Hz. For more information on how HAARP can be used to trigger earthquakes, please visit <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://theoldspeakjournal.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/haarp-magnetometer-data-shows-japan-earthquake-was-induced/">TheOldSpeakJournal.WordPress.com</a>. For great visual evidences, please visit <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/want-to-know-about-weather-modification-haarp-vlf-hf-and-chemtrails-want-to-prove-it-to-a-non-believer-here-you-go/">SinceDutch.WordPress.com</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>The mass awakening is already causing the collapse of the Controllers’ empire</p>
<p>The mass awakening is one of the major reasons why the Controllers’ empire is falling apart. The mass awakening is causing a major shift in our consciousness; therefore, increasing our awareness and allowing us to see who are truly running the world. The only way the Controllers can achieve their dark agendas is to do them in secrecy. This is why it is important that we educate others about these topics so we can increase their awareness. Once enough people wake up, the right people in the right situations will take the necessary actions to stop the Controllers from destroying our lives and future.</p>
<p>We also need to share ideas with others instead of hiding our ideas because we do not want others to steal our ideas. Each one of us only have a small puzzle of the big picture. If we start sharing our ideas, it would be easier for us to see the big picture and find solutions to solve major problems of the world.</p>
<p>The last thing we need is for people to attack the messengers. Truly wise people would never attack the messengers. Instead, they will use their intuitions to help them discern the information and then do research to see if it is valid. On the other hand, ignorant people will attack the messengers because they think they already know everything about the subjects. Anger does not make a wise person; instead, it makes an ignorant person. When we attack the messengers, we are doing exactly what the Controllers want. The Controllers want us to fight each other so we are divided. Stop fighting and unite my fellow men and women!</p>


<p>The idea that there are wealthy Controllers who are controlling the world may sound like a bad dream, but if you understand who the real puppet masters are, you should understand how the Controllers are able to create such a successful controlling system. This last part is the most important part because it will help connect the dots by exposing who the real puppet masters are. In addition, it will unveil the true potential and history of the human race. Once you understand who the real puppet masters are, you should understand why humanity has such a hard time freeing itself from enslavement.</p>
<p>The true potential of the human race and its hidden history</p>
<p>The human race is a very ancient race with amazing potential. Its potential is so astonishing that when its body is fully activated, no technology (no matter how advanced it is) can compete with it. The secret to our hidden potential lies within our DNA. All human beings on Earth have at least 12 strands of DNA, not the two strands claimed by modern scientists.</p>
<p>The higher strands of our DNA exist beyond three dimensional space which is why modern scientists cannot detect them. Once they invent the right technology, they will discover the higher strands of human DNA. One important thing we need to know about human DNA is that it is mixed with extraterrestrial DNA. I know this sounds crazy but scientists of the Human Genome Project are actually claiming that this is true. You can read more about their claims at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/01/08/01288.html">this website</a>.</p>
<p>Scientists have also recently discovered that 90 to 97 percent of our DNA is “junk DNA.” They call it “junk DNA” because it does not seem to function. Our “junk DNA” holds the key to our history and true potential. When we activate our junk DNA, we allow high frequency energies that have amazing healing potential into our bodies. These types of energies can heal diseases, extend our lifespans, and activate certain hidden abilities within us, such as telepathy and clairvoyance. If we can activate our 12 strands of DNA, we will become immortals. This is one of the big secrets that the puppet masters of certain secret societies do not want us to know. To learn more about the secret of DNA, please read <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2010/07/14/dna-activation-secret-to-health-enlightenment/">this article</a>. To learn how we can become immortals, please read <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/11/14/secrets-of-longevity-three-tips-stay-young/">this article</a>.</p>
<p>The biggest secret of the human race is that we have the potential to become gods. This is what the Controllers and their puppet masters fear about us the most. We do not feel like we have god-like abilities because we have not evolved enough to handle the true power of our consciousness. If we can heal our higher strands of DNA, taking control of the creation process of our reality will be like learning a language but easier.</p>
<p>The puppet masters of the Earth-based Illuminati</p>
<p>The people in the highest ranks of the Illuminati and the Vatican know about our true history and potential to a certain point, but they do not know as much as their puppet masters. The puppet masters of the Illuminati and other certain secret societies are the first groups of the fallen angels. I like to refer to them as the fallen angel elders. The fallen angel elders are one of the primary Christos Founders Races of our Universe. They are called fallen angels because they have deviated from their Christos Fields, causing them to lose their eternal life current and immortality. The fallen angel elders are nearly as old as our Universe. They are the ones who are truly calling the shots behind the scene.</p>
<p>The fallen angel elders who decided to stay on the path of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/03/07/two-main-spiritual-paths-life-science-versus-death-science/">Death Science</a> have damaged their original energy template that governs their bodies beyond the critical mass point. This original energy template is also known as the Kathara Grid or the Tree of Life. It is the core energy template upon which morphogenetic fields, merkaba fields and other levels of identity are built. Think of the original energy template as the frame of a building and you should have a general idea of what it is. Because the fallen angel elders have damaged their original energy template beyond the critical mass point, it cannot be fixed; therefore, they have permanently lost the ability to become immortals.</p>
<p>We, human beings, are also fallen angels but we have not damaged our original energy template beyond the critical mass point. However, we are getting really close to the day that we may never be able to heal our original energy template. This is because the fallen angel elders and other fallen races have manipulated most of humanity into supporting Death Science teachings. The true nature of the systems of the Cosmos is based on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/03/07/two-main-spiritual-paths-life-science-versus-death-science/">Life Science</a> teachings.</p>
<p>The paragraph below goes into detail explaining the difference between Life Science and Death Science. They are extracted from my book called <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2011/04/16/staradigm-blueprint-spiritual-growth-happiness-success-well-being/">Staradigm</a>.</p>
<blockquote readability="4"><p>Most of our modern science is based on Death Science, which is why it supports black holes, wormholes and finite systems. There is nothing wrong with Death Science because it contains its own truth. But following the concept of Death Science will eventually lead to the death of a race and its planet, solar system and galaxy. This is why it is called Death Science. Our Milky Way galaxy is on the path of Death Science because it has a black hole in its center. The Milky Way galaxy used to be a natural galaxy because it did not have a black hole. The dying process of a galaxy takes billions of years to finish.</p></blockquote>
<p>Reality fields that are based on Death Science have finite quantum energy; therefore, they are unnatural and have finite lifespans. These finite reality fields are known as phantom reality fields. A super massive phantom system, such as the Milky Way galaxy takes billions of years to die, giving the illusion that it has an abundance of energy. Keep in mind that the Milky Way is already a few billion years old.</p>
<p>The major cause of death of a galaxy is permanent critical mass energy distortion of its original energy template, causing a black hole to manifest at its center. This black hole will eventually consume all of the galaxy’s quantum energy and matter, including the souls who are bound to it.</p>
<p>The beings responsible for creating the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is the fallen elder races. They caused this black hole to occur with their advanced Death Science technology. A black hole will first pull in energy that has the most similar coding of the area that the black hole first emerged. For example, if we create a black hole on Earth, it will first pull in the energy of the Earth and her inhabitants. Even if we get on a spaceship and travel far away from the black hole, our energy is still linked to the space/time of Earth. As long as the black hole exists, it will keep sucking our energy.</p>
<p>The scenario above is very similar to what has happened to the fallen angel elders and certain fallen races. They have fallen so far that they have damaged their original energy template to the point where it is depleting their energy in a way that is similar to a black hole. This process also causes them to lose the incoming flow of energy from Creation and thus they become finite beings fueled by the limited supply of energy that remained in their energy templates. In simpler terms, their souls are dying and they are becoming more like soulless beings. The dying process of a soul can take millions of years.</p>
<p>The point of critical mass distortion of the original energy template is known as Anti-Christiac Merkaba. Merkaba fields are made of electromagnetic counter-rotating energy spirals. In simpler terms, they are like circulatory systems that supply us with the life force of Creation, giving us infinite lifespans.</p>
<p>The fallen races’ merkaba fields are basically consuming themselves until they reach a critical mass point. Once this point is reached, their merkaba fields will reverse their polarity. When this happens, the finite quantum that supports their existence will become more and more dense at its core until it implodes, causing them to return to space dust or background energy. This process is similar to how an unnatural star dies and implodes into space dust.</p>
<p>The main difference between us and the fallen angel elders is that they have permanently damaged their original energy template. In other words, they are permanently stuck on the path of space dust return. To slow down the process of space dust return, they travel to other living systems and try to steal the quantum of these living systems. Our solar system is one of the living systems that they are trying to steal its quantum. If they were truly immortal beings, they would not need to steal quantum from other living systems to feed them and their dying Milky Way galaxy.</p>
<p>The true meaning behind the biblical story of the Fall</p>
<p>I am not a big fan of religious books but many religious books do contain some truth. However, a lot of the truths are distorted in a way to manipulate us and prevent us from knowing the true meaning of their messages. In the Bible, it stated that the first human race created was immortal.</p>
<p>According to the Bible, the first two immortal human beings were Adam and Eve. It was not until they ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that they experienced death and disease. As a penalty for their sin, all human beings from that day forward will experience death. Many religious leaders suggested that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is an apple tree; therefore, Adam and Eve ate a poison apple. I will explain the true meaning of the poison apple in the next part.</p>
<p>The Bible was somewhat correct when it mentioned that Adam and Eve were immortals but they were not the only ones. When the human race was first created, they were 12 tribes. Those 12 original tribes of the human race were immortal angelic beings. They are our true ancestors. We human beings also have the potential to become immortal angelic beings because we have our ancestors’ DNA coding. I know all this stuff sounds crazy but when you study the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/05/23/answers-everything-lie-within-substance-energy/">science of energy</a> and how it relates to matter, you should come to the conclusion that everything is energy and matter is like an illusion; thus, we are all energy or light beings.</p>
<p>The angelic humans were created to be guardians of their planet and helped fallen races fix their DNA so they can avoid extinction. Unfortunately, certain tragic events occurred that damaged their planet so severely that it caused a part of it to fall to our dimension. This event also caused some angelic humans to fall down to Earth. In the Bible, this event is known as the Fall. The tragic events that occurred before the Fall also mutated the angelic humans’ DNA, causing them to lose their immortality.</p>
<p>While on Earth, the angelic humans’ DNA mutated even more due to thousands of years of intergalactic/interdimensional wars with the fallen angel elders and their legions. Those wars caused major distortions in our planet’s energy fields. This is one of the reasons why we have the precession of the equinoxes, which is a slow wobble of the Earth’s axis. The distortions of our planet’s energy fields also caused major damages to the angelic humans’ DNA, causing more of their higher strands of DNA to turn off.</p>
<p>The angelic humans lost their immortality because they are energetically bound to their home planet. When a planet’s energy fields become distorted, they also cause distortions to the energy fields and DNA of all living things on that planet. By losing their immortality, they became more vulnerable to being manipulated and harmed by the fallen races.</p>
<p>Unlike the fallen angel elders, we human beings have not damaged our original template beyond the critical mass point; thus, we still have the potential to become immortal angelic beings again. However, time is not on our side because the fallen angel elders and other fallen races are working very hard to cause permanent damage to our original energy template. Once this occurs, our fate is set in stone and we will permanently be stuck on the path of Death Science or the path of fall.</p>
<p>The fallen angel elders are not immortal like what many Illuminati thinks and they are not all powerful. The fallen angel elders have the ability to shape shift into angels, demons, and any creature that they want but they are not all powerful. They are a dying race because they have been following the dark path for far too long, causing permanent damage to their original energy template. Because they know that they are going to return back to space dust or background energy, they are trying to take as many races as they can down with them. Unfortunately, we are one of the races that they are trying to bring down with them.</p>
<p>The path of Death Science or space dust return can occur in a loving and peaceful manner but the fallen angel elders do not want us to return back to space dust in a peaceful manner. They want to exploit and control us for their pleasure. This is what the 2012 drama is really about. At the deepest level, the 2012 drama is focused around the spiritual war for our souls. This is why we should take this drama really seriously. To learn more about Death Science and Life Science, please read this <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/03/07/two-main-spiritual-paths-life-science-versus-death-science/">enlightening article</a>.</p>
<p>Because the fallen angel elders can shape shift, they have tricked many new age teachers into thinking that they are communicating with real angels or enlightened beings. Many of the channeled information are being given to new age teachers by fallen races in disguised, not by enlightened beings. This is why most of new age teachings are based on Death Science.</p>
<p>New age teachers who teach about the Fibonacci golden mean spiral, the torus energy fields and finite systems are supporters of the fallen races’ teachings whether they realize it or not. The Controllers and the people who support the fallen angel elders should really think twice about what they are doing because the fallen angel elders are only using them to achieve their dark agendas. The fallen angel elders do not care about us (including the Controllers) because they see us as only objects to exploit.</p>
<p>The core meaning of the poison apple</p>
<p>The poison apple that they talk about in religion is an analogy of the torus energy field that surrounds a planet, body, cell, and atom in the Milky Way galaxy. Before the tragic event that caused damages to our energy fields, our energy fields did not look like a torus. Instead, they look more like a butterfly-shaped field. The torus energy field is a distortion of the natural butterfly-shaped energy field. This distortion restricts the natural flow of living energy of the Universe. As a result, the torus energy field is one of the major causes of death. The core structure that allows living energy to travel from Creation to the receiver is the Kathara Grid, also known as the Tree of Life.</p>
<p>The natural systems of the Cosmos have a process that expands and contracts that is similar to the breathing process. This natural process allows energy to flow in from Creation and back out to Creation. This allows energy to recycle itself so to speak. Because of this feature, natural systems of the Cosmos do not experience death because they are always being recharged with the loving energy of Creation. Unlike natural system, artificial systems like the torus energy field (poison apple) heavily restrict the natural flow of energy of the Cosmos, causing death to occur. This is the core meaning of the poison apple that many religions talk about.</p>
<p>The human race on Earth can reclaim its natural energy field by healing its DNA before the distortions in its energy field reach critical mass. To truly bring back our DNA to the level of angelic beings, we need to implement Life Science teachings into our spiritual practices. One of them is the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.azuritepress.com/articles/kathara_overview.php">Kathara Bio-Spiritual Healing System</a>. If we are successful at activating all of our 12 strands of DNA, we will become immortal and more powerful than even the fallen angel elders. Do you now understand why the fallen angel elders have manipulated us into supporting Death Science without our knowledge? Death Science teachings cause distortions in the original energy template which prevent us from activating our higher strands of DNA.</p>
<p>Jesheua (Jesus) the 12th-level avatar</p>
<p>The last person who was able to activate his or her 12 strands of DNA was Jesheua. He achieved this when he was in his 30s, which is why the Bible talks about him becoming a light being before he left our planet. Jesheua was a spiritual teacher whose work I highly respected because his teachings were based on Life Science. When Jesheua was here, he taught people about unity, love, ascension, and natural systems. He also taught people not to worship an external Creation (God) because the true Creation exists within each of them.</p>
<p>When we worship an external Creation, we are giving our powers away; therefore, it disempowers us. External Creation worshipping is the false teachings of the fallen angel elders and other fallen races. Those fallen angel elders have fallen so far from Creation that all they care about are death and destruction. They are what most people refer to as demons, Satan or Lucifer. We do not need to fear the fallen angel elders because they are not immortals. If they were immortals, they would not need to steal energy from natural living systems to feed them and their dying Milky Way galaxy. Even though they are not immortals, we still need to understand what they are capable of doing.</p>
<p>The fallen angel elders’ understanding of the Universe is beyond what we can comprehend at our current level of evolution. Even though they have more knowledge than us, they are still bound to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2009/09/02/four-basic-laws-universe-part-two/">Laws of the Universe</a>. One of them is the Law of Creation. Any being who likes to create destruction instead of creation will eventually become extinct. The Laws of the Universe are inescapable. The people who are helping the fallen races should really think twice about what they are doing. All thoughts and intentions are known by the Universe and there is no escaping its laws.</p>
<p>The ultimate goal of the Intergalactic/Interdimensional Earth drama</p>
<p>The current drama that is unfolding quickly on Earth is like an illusion designed to help us and Creation evolve. This is the ultimate goal of the Earth drama. When we look at this drama from a higher perspective, it is like a play and everyone is assigned a role that he or she has agreed to play. This is why we cannot really hate our enemies because they are just playing their parts in the evolution of the Universe. I know this may sound harsh but the truth is not always easy to accept. The problem with the Earth drama is that it is at a point where if we do not turn it around, it could cause the extinction of the human race on Earth.</p>
<p>The Controllers are here to teach us lessons and we are here to teach them lessons. At the deepest level, the Controllers are a part of us that we are not consciously aware of. Many of us, including the Controllers, have forgotten who we truly are; therefore, we do not remember that we are one. If we want to truly learn our lessons and help the Universe and Creation evolve, we will need to forgive the Controllers. Forgiving them does not mean that we approve what they did to us. It just means that we have learned our lessons and it is time to move on. Fighting each other will only create more karmas; therefore, the Earth drama will never end.</p>
<p>Love is the key to heal all things; even the fallen races will eventually realize this. At the core of love are frequency and consciousness. To be more accurate, love is the state of perfect vibrational harmonization or the co-resonance of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2010/04/27/consciousness-how-relates-your-well-being/">consciousness</a> between all things. This eternal vibrational resonance of consciousness is what holds the Cosmos together. Whenever a civilization lacks love, the strength of its eternal vibrational resonance of consciousness weakens, increasing its risk of becoming extinct. Any race that lacks love for too long will eventually become extinct. There is no exception because love is the key to heal all things. If we want to truly be healed, we will need to understand <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://energyfanatics.com/2012/02/08/what-is-true-love/">what love is</a> and spread love throughout the Universe.
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<p>With the flu season ramping up, many are looking to vaccination as a “preventive” approach.</p>
<p>Those who abstain are often accused of being uneducated, or worse, socially irresponsible.  Nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
<p>As it presently stands, it is not sound medical science, but primarily economic and political motivation which generates the immense pressure behind mass participation in the annual ritual of flu vaccination.</p>
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<p>It is a heavily guarded secret within the medical establishment (especially within the corridors of the CDC) that the Cochrane Database Review, considered by many within the evidence-based medical model to be the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of common medical interventions, does not lend unequivocal scientific support to the belief and/or propaganda that flu vaccines are safe and effective.</p>
<p>To the contrary, these authoritative reviews reveal there is a conspicuous absence of conclusive evidence as to the effectiveness of influenza vaccines in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/inactivated-flu-vaccines-have-not-been-proven-be-effective-or-safe-preventing-influenza-heal">children under 2</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/there-little-evidence-supporting-belief-vaccines-are-effective-preventing-influenza-healthy-">healthy adults</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/there-no-solid-evidence-available-supporting-belief-vaccines-are-effective-preventing-influe">the elderly</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/influenza-vaccination-healthcare-workers-who-work-elderly-has-no-effect-laboratory-proven-in">healthcare workers who care for the elderly</a>.</p>
<p>What is even more disconcerting is that only one safety <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" id="_GPLITA_0" title="Click to Continue &gt; by CouponDropDown" href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/the-shocking-lack-of-evidence.html">study</a> on inactivated flu vaccines has been performed in children under 2 (the population most susceptible to adverse reactions), even though in the USA and Canada current guidelines recommend the vaccination of healthy children from six months old.</p>
<p>Another alarming finding following the global pandemic declared by the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="World Health Organization" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/world-health-organization/">World Health Organization</a> in 2009, is that receipt of the seasonal <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" id="_GPLITA_2" title="Click to Continue &gt; by CouponDropDown" href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/the-shocking-lack-of-evidence.html">flu vaccine</a> among Canadians actually <em>increased</em> the rate of medically attended pandemic H1N1 infection.</p>
<p>Vaccines, therefore, may actually <em>decrease</em> resistance to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" id="_GPLITA_1" title="Click to Continue &gt; by CouponDropDown" href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/the-shocking-lack-of-evidence.html">viral infection</a> via their immunosuppressive actions. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/prior-receipt-seasonal-flu-vaccine-2008-09-was-associated-increased-risk-medically-attended-">View study</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Can Vaccination Replace Natural Immunity?</strong></p>
<p>At the outset it should be acknowledged that there could be no medical justification for vaccination in the first place if it were not for the observation that periodic infection from wild type pathogens confers lasting, natural immunity.</p>
<p>In a very real sense periodic infectious challenges are Nature’s immunizations, without which the very concept of vaccination would make absolutely no sense.</p>
<p>The vaccination process artificially simulates and co-opts a natural process, generating a broad range of adverse unintended consequences, many of which have been <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/vaccine-research">documented here</a>.</p>
<p>Vaccine proponents would have us believe that natural immunity is inferior to synthetic immunity, and should be replaced by the latter.</p>
<p>In some cases they even suggest <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/research-delay-breastfeeding-improve-vaccination">breastfeeding should be delayed during immunizations</a> because it “interferes” with the vaccine efficacy.</p>
<p>Sounds like naked economic incentives have trumped genuine, serious health concerns for the entire population, especially the very young, the elderly and the sick.</p>
<p>This warped perspective follows from the disingenuous standard vaccine researchers use to “prove” the “efficacy” of their vaccines.</p>
<p>The <em>chemical <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" id="_GPLITA_3" title="Click to Continue &gt; by CouponDropDown" href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/the-shocking-lack-of-evidence.html">kitchen sink</a></em> is thrown at the immune system in order to conserve the expensive-to-produce antigen and to generate a more intense immune response – a process, not unlike what happens when you kick a beehive.</p>
<p>These chemicals include detergents, anti-freeze, heavy metals, xenotrophic retroviruses, DNA from aborted human fetuses (diploid cells) and other species, etc.</p>
<p>Amazingly, vaccine researchers and manufacturers do not have to prove the antibodies actually have affinity with the antigens they are marketed to protect us against, i.e. they do not have to prove “effectiveness,” only “efficacy.”</p>
<p>This semantic trick is at the root of how the world has been deceived into accepting interventions so dangerous that their risk, like nuclear power, is underwritten by world governments, not private insurers who know they would go <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" id="_GPLITA_4" title="Click to Continue &gt; by CouponDropDown" href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/the-shocking-lack-of-evidence.html">bankrupt</a> paying out claims to the injured.</p>
<p>Also, recent research indicates in some cases <strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/study-disproves-cdcs-primary-justification-vaccination">no antibodies are required for immunity</a> against some viruses, </strong>running diametrically opposed to orthodox vaccinology.</p>
<p>Another point that can not be understated is that the trivalent (3-strained) influenza vaccines are incapable of protecting us against the wide range of pathogens which produce influenza-like illness:</p>
<blockquote readability="8"><p>Over 200 viruses cause influenza and influenza-like illness which produce the same symptoms (fever, headache, aches and pains, cough and runny noses).</p>
<p>Without laboratory tests, doctors cannot tell the two illnesses apart. Both last for days and rarely lead to death or serious illness. At best, vaccines might be effective against only Influenza A and B, which represent about 10% of all circulating viruses. (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab001269.html">Cochrane Database</a>).</p></blockquote>
<p>It is therefore exceedingly clear that it is a mathematical impossibility for influenza vaccines to be effective at preventing wild-circulating strains of influenza.</p>
<p>Nutritional support, then, becomes the most logical and reasonable solution.</p>
<p><strong>Immune Status Determines Susceptibility To Infection</strong></p>
<p>The fact is that our immune status determines susceptibility. If the immune system is continually challenged with environmental toxicants, nutritional deficiencies and/or incompatibilities, chronic stress, influenza is far more likely to take hold.</p>
<p>If your immune system is strong, many infectious challenges occur, are met with an appropriate response, and often go unnoticed. In other words, it is not a lack of a vaccination that causes infection, rather, the inability of the immune system to function effectively. [Note: In some cases, we may become infected and the ultimate outcome is that we enjoy even greater immunity.]</p>
<p>While there are a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/influenza-0">broad spectrum of natural substances</a> which have been studied for their anti-influenza properties, vitamin D deserves special consideration due to the fact that it is indispensable to produce antiviral peptides (e.g. cathelicidin) within the immune system, and can be supported for pennies a day.</p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/vitamin-d-supplementation-effective-preventing-seasonal-influenza-schoolchildren-reducing-ri">study</a> published in the <em>American Journal of Clinical Nutrition</em> in 2010, revealed that children receiving 1200 IUs of vitamin D a day were at 59% reduced risk for contracting seasonal Influenza A infection.</p>
<p>Moreover as a secondary outcome, only 2 children in the treatment group versus 12 for the control group, experienced an asthma attack.</p>
<p>There are actually a broad range of preventive strategies that are evidence-based, and available without prescription.</p>
<p>1) Echinacea Tea: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/treatment-echinacea-plus-tea-early-onset-cold-or-flu-symptoms-was-effective-relieving-these-">J Altern Complement Med. 2000 Aug;6(4):327-34</a><br/>
2) Elderberry: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/elderberry-reduces-cure-time-influenza-infection"> J Altern Complement Med. 1995 Winter;1(4):361-9.</a><br/>
3) American Ginseng:  <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/american-ginseng-safe-and-effective-reducing-relative-risk-and-duration-respiratory-symptoms">J Altern Complement Med.  2006 Mar;12(2):153-7.</a><br/>
4) Green Tea: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/green-tea-consumption-inversely-associated-incidence-influenza-among-japanese-schoolchldren">J Nutr. 2011 Oct ;141(10):1862-70. Epub   2011 Aug 10.</a><br/>
5) Probiotics: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/daily-probiotic-therapy-safe-and-effective-way-reduce-fever-rhinorrhea-cough-incidence-and-d">Pediatrics. 2009 Aug;124(2):e172-9.</a><br/>
6) Vitamin D: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/vitamin-d-concentrations-38-ngml-or-more-healthy-adults-are-associated-significant-two-fold-">PLoS One. 2010;5(6):e11088. Epub 2010 Jun 14.</a></p>
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Meanwhile, Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem Treasury Secretary, said: “I just 
  think that any responsible British politician should not be contemplating 
  British exit from the EU, given how serious the consequences would be.”
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            <title>£500 bonus for women in pension reform</title>
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To help fund the extra costs of the scheme, millions of workers with 
  final-salary schemes, particularly in the public sector, will also have to 
  pay more tax and the second state pension will be phased out in future. 
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Campaign groups accused ministers of a “con trick” by proposing a system which 
  “offers nothing to existing pensioners”. 
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Ministers are expected to insist that at least nine in 10 people will be 
  better off under the reforms. They also argue that to gain the benefit of 
  simplifying the system it is acceptable to ask some people, particularly 
  those with final-salary schemes, to contribute more towards the state 
  pension. 
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In today’s article, Mr Webb says: “Beveridge’s original idea was for a single, 
  simple, decent state pension, paid after a lifetime of National Insurance 
  contributions. We have moved an awfully long way from that vision.” He adds: 
  “Thanks to a complicated and divisive system introduced by the last 
  government, millions of pensioners require top-up amounts to get their 
  pension up to a decent minimum. However, this means that those with small 
  amounts of additional savings often find themselves only slightly better off 
  than someone who never bothered to save.”
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Anyone who has worked for at least 30 years qualifies for a basic state 
  pension worth £107.45 a week. Millions of people can then choose to “opt in” 
  to a second state pension which can be worth up to £100 extra a week. A 
  third group of people with final-salary schemes pay a lower rate of National 
  Insurance, rather than receive a second state pension. 
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<p>
Those who have failed to save money for their retirement and have few assets 
  can also qualify for means-tested pension benefits, which takes the total 
  value of the state handout to about £142.70 weekly. This system is widely 
  seen as unfair as those who have diligently saved are often no better off 
  than those receiving means-tested support. 
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Under the reforms to be unveiled tomorrow, anyone who has 35 years’ of 
  National Insurance credits, will receive a basic state pension worth at 
  least as much as those currently receiving the means-tested top-up. By the 
  time this is introduced in 2017 it will be worth about £160 a week. 
</p>
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More than 750,000 women, who have taken time out for caring responsibilities 
  and are retiring between 2017 and 2027 will, on average, be £9 a week better 
  off. 
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Overall, the reforms will be cost neutral to taxpayers as higher-earners will 
  not receive a second state pension and those on final-salary schemes will 
  lose their National Insurance discount. 
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<p>
Those who have already built up a right to a second state pension will receive 
  it upon retirement, but they will not be able to make further contributions 
  after 2017. 
</p>
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Pensioner groups criticised the plans for neglecting the current group of 
  retired workers. Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners 
  Convention, said: “The reforms offer nothing to existing pensioners and 
  leave many of them to struggle on lower pensions and a complicated 
  means-testing system.”
</p>
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Trade unions have threatened to undermine the plans that would effectively 
  increase taxes for those with final-salary schemes. Brian Strutton, of the 
  GMB union, said a flat-rate pension should be fairer, but warned of a “very 
  serious consequence” from the plans. 
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            <title>Military Judge Recognizes What Many Progressives Denied: Bradley Manning Was Mistreated</title>
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<h3><span>The ruling is but the latest repudiation of claims from Obama supporters that Manning was treated fairly and justly</span></h3>
<br />Article by Glenn Greenwald
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<blockquote><span>"With respect to Private Manning, I have actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are." - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/us/12manning.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barack Obama, White House Press Conference, March 10, 2011.</a></span></blockquote>
<br />January 09, 2013 "The Guardian' -- &nbsp;Few if any articles that I've written produced as much backlash as <a href="http://www.salon.com/2010/12/15/manning_3/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my 15 December 2010 column</a> reporting on the oppressive and inhumane conditions of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/bradley-manning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bradley Manning's</a> detention, the <a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/solitary-confinement-as-torture/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">first time that story was reported.</a> The anger at my article primarily came not from right-wing venues but from the hardest-core Obama supporters, who (as they always do since 20 January 2009) reflexively defended the US government. <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/01/25/various_matters_8/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Led by</a> former Obama campaign press aide and now MSNBC contributor (the ultimate redundancy) <a href="http://blog.reidreport.com/tag/bradley-manning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joy Reid</a>, these particularly fanatical Democratic partisans literally adopted the <a href="http://www.redstate.com/lexington_concord/2010/12/16/give-bradley-manning-his-pillow-and-blankie-back/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">anti-Manning rhetoric from the further right-wing precincts</a> and repudiated the liberal tradition of defending whistleblowers and opposing oppressive detention conditions - all in order to insist that Manning was being treated exactly how he should be (this warped reaction was far from unanimous, as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/the-manning-doctrine/2011/03/10/AB7DKFV_blog.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">many progressives</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/wonkbook-what-would-the-obama-campaign-think-of-the-obama-administration/2011/03/10/ABszWtU_blog.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">protested</a> <a href="http://www.eschatonblog.com/2011/01/gtfoh.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Manning's treatment).</a>
<p>Since then, an internal investigation by the Marine Corps - which operates the brig in which he was held - <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58991.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">found that</a> Manning's jailers violated their own policies in imposing oppressive conditions. The Obama administration's own State Department spokesman, PJ <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51200.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crowley</a>, denounced the detention conditions as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid" and was then <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2011/03/obama-owns-the-treatment-of-manning-now/174523/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fired as a result</a>. Amnesty International <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/03/10/amnesty_7/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">called for protests</a> over Manning's treatment. The UN's highest torture official <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-cruel-inhuman-treatment-un" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">formally concluded</a> after an investigation that the US government was guilty "of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment towards Bradley Manning" and "that the US military was at least culpable of cruel and inhumane treatment in keeping Manning locked up alone for 23 hours a day over an 11-month period in conditions that he also found might have constituted torture" - exactly what I reported at the end of 2010.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/The%20ruling%20is%20but%20the%20latest%20repudiation%20of%20claims%20from%20Obama%20supporters%20that%20Manning%20was%20treated%20fairly%20and%20justly%20%20By%20Glenn%20Greenwald%20%20%22With%20respect%20to%20Private%20Manning,%20I%20have%20actually%20asked%20the%20Pentagon%20whether%20or%20not%20the%20procedures%20that%20have%20been%20taken%20in%20terms%20of%20his%20confinement%20are%20appropriate%20and%20are%20meeting%20our%20basic%20standards.%20They%20assure%20me%20that%20they%20are.%22%20-%20Barack%20Obama,%20White%20House%20Press%20Conference,%20March%2010,%202011.%20%20January%2009,%202013%20%22The%20Guardian'%20--%20%20Few%20if%20any%20articles%20that%20I've%20written%20produced%20as%20much%20backlash%20as%20my%2015%20December%202010%20column%20reporting%20on%20the%20oppressive%20and%20inhumane%20conditions%20of%20Bradley%20Manning's%20detention,%20the%20first%20time%20that%20story%20was%20reported.%20The%20anger%20at%20my%20article%20primarily%20came%20not%20from%20right-wing%20venues%20but%20from%20the%20hardest-core%20Obama%20supporters,%20who%20(as%20they%20always%20do%20since%2020%20January%202009)%20reflexively%20defended%20the%20US%20government.%20Led%20by%20former%20Obama%20campaign%20press%20aide%20and%20now%20MSNBC%20contributor%20(the%20ultimate%20redundancy)%20Joy%20Reid,%20these%20particularly%20fanatical%20Democratic%20partisans%20literally%20adopted%20the%20anti-Manning%20rhetoric%20from%20the%20further%20right-wing%20precincts%20and%20repudiated%20the%20liberal%20tradition%20of%20defending%20whistleblowers%20and%20opposing%20oppressive%20detention%20conditions%20-%20all%20in%20order%20to%20insist%20that%20Manning%20was%20being%20treated%20exactly%20how%20he%20should%20be%20(this%20warped%20reaction%20was%20far%20from%20unanimous,%20as%20many%20progressives%20protested%20Manning's%20treatment).%20%20Since%20then,%20an%20internal%20investigation%20by%20the%20Marine%20Corps%20-%20which%20operates%20the%20brig%20in%20which%20he%20was%20held%20-%20found%20that%20Manning's%20jailers%20violated%20their%20own%20policies%20in%20imposing%20oppressive%20conditions.%20The%20Obama%20administration's%20own%20State%20Department%20spokesman,%20PJ%20Crowley,%20denounced%20the%20detention%20conditions%20as%20%22ridiculous%20and%20counterproductive%20and%20stupid%22%20and%20was%20then%20fired%20as%20a%20result.%20Amnesty%20International%20called%20for%20protests%20over%20Manning's%20treatment.%20The%20UN's%20highest%20torture%20official%20formally%20concluded%20after%20an%20investigation%20that%20the%20US%20government%20was%20guilty%20%22of%20cruel,%20inhuman%20and%20degrading%20treatment%20towards%20Bradley%20Manning%22%20and%20%22that%20the%20US%20military%20was%20at%20least%20culpable%20of%20cruel%20and%20inhumane%20treatment%20in%20keeping%20Manning%20locked%20up%20alone%20for%2023%20hours%20a%20day%20over%20an%2011-month%20period%20in%20conditions%20that%20he%20also%20found%20might%20have%20constituted%20torture%22%20-%20exactly%20what%20I%20reported%20at%20the%20end%20of%202010.%20%20http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33573.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read More: Military Judge Recognizes What Many Progressives Denied: Bradley Manning Was Mistreated</a></p>
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            <title>Biden Says Obama to Use “Executive Action” to Restrict Second Amendment</title>
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<p>Kurt Nimmo<br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://infowars.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Infowars.com</a><br />
January 9, 2012</p><p>
On Wednesday during a press conference with attorney general Eric Holder, vice president Joe Biden said president Obama is considering taking “executive action” to restrict the Second Amendment rights of the American people.</p><p>


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“The president is going to act,” said Biden. “There are executives orders, there’s executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.”</p><p>
“As the president said, if you’re actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking. But I’m convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of Americans and take thousands of people out of harm’s way if we act responsibly.”</p><p>
In other words, according to the Obama administration and the Justice Department, if trashing the Constitution saves one life, it is worth it.</p><p>
Issuing an executive action, unlike an executive order, does not modify a law. Executive actions, a Obama administration office told <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/10/28/8528035-just-what-is-an-executive-action?lite" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NBC News</a> in October, concern “regulation, enforcement, statements of policy… and numerous other things.”</p><p>
Obama, unlike his predecessors, “is not expanding executive power to meet the demands of an external crisis. Instead, he is counteracting a new pattern of partisan behavior – nonstop congressional obstruction – with a new, partisan pattern of his own,” <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/21/president-obama-s-executive-power-grab.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andrew Romano and Daniel Klaidman</a> wrote for Newsweek prior to the election.</p><p>
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer told Newsweek Obama will “work with Congress where we can – and then be willing to act where they won’t.”</p><p>
Obama has already used executive action to instruct the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/6/atfs-latest-gun-grab/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ATF to conficate guns</a>. In September, Obama’s Justice Department gave the ARF authority to “seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled-substance abuses.” In other words, the agency now has the power to seize firearms from people not convicted of a crime or even charged with a crime.</p><p>
In July, as the Fast and Furious scandal unfolded, Obama’s Justice Department devised new rules requiring border-state gun dealers to report large purchases of firearms made by individual buyers over short periods of time.</p><p>
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<p>Jurriaan Maessen<br/><strong>ExplosiveReports.Com</strong><br/>
January 12, 2013</p>
<p><strong>New Population Study: “(…) provide all sexually active human beings with modern contraception and backup abortion. The degree to which those steps would reduce fertility rates is controversial, but they are a likely win-win for societies.”</strong></p>
<p>Prince Charles has openly expressed support for a recent population study by biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, calling for drastic global efforts to reduce fertility worldwide. On the official website of the Prince of Wales, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/media/our-view/comment-hrh-the-prince-of-wales-royal-society-report-can-collapse-of-global">prince Charles commended</a> Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s latest population study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on January 8 of this year, calling among other things for globally provided “back-up abortions” to avert overpopulation catastrophe. The prince writes:</p>
<p>“We do, in fact, have all the tools, assets and knowledge to avoid the collapse of which this report warns, but only if we act decisively now.” </p>
<p>In their latest study entitled <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845.full.pdf+html">Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?</a>, biologists Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife repeat their decade-long mantra, namely that global population growth is certain to collapse civilization as a whole- and only a concerted global effort to reduce fertility may avert the feared catastrophe. The report mentions that global population reduction is a monumental task, but they add:</p>
<p>“Monumental, but not impossible if the political will could be generated globally to give full rights, education and opportunities to women, and provide all sexually active human beings with modern contraception and backup abortion. The degree to which those steps would reduce fertility rates is controversial, but they are a likely win-win for societies.”</p>
<p>These words contain some drastic and draconian implications. In order to provide “back-up abortions” to women on a global scale, a worldwide population reduction strategy must be outlined and then enforced by all nations of the planet. The Ehrlichs concede that such a worldwide effort would not go down well with nations opposing abortions:</p>
<p>“Obviously (…) there are huge cultural and institutional barriers to establishing such policies in some parts of the world. After all, there is not a single nation where women are truly treated as equal to men. Despite that, the population driver should not be ignored simply because limiting overconsumption can, at least in theory, be achieved more rapidly. The difficulties of changing demographic trajectories mean that the problem should have been addressed sooner, rather than later.”, the Ehrlichs write. </p>
<p>Responding to countless recent studies showing that not overpopulation, but <em>under</em>population seems to be an increasing problem, especially in Europe, the Ehrlichs state: </p>
<p>“That halting population growth inevitably leads to changes in age structure is no excuse for bemoaning drops in fertility rates, as is common in European government circles. Reduction of population size in those over-consuming nations is a very positive trend, and sensible planning can deal with the problems of population aging.”</p>
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They also write that besides change in the politics of demography, the educational system should also join the effort in a “symmetrical” manner, “moving towards sustainability and enhancing equity (including redistribution).” The scientific community must throw its weight behind the effort, the Ehrlichs say, especially to counter all religious counter-argumentation underlining the value of life:</p>
<p>“To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth, is obvious but too much neglected or denied. There are great social and psychological barriers in growthmanic cultures to even considering it. This is especially true because of the ‘endarkenment’—a rapidly growing movement towards religious orthodoxies that reject enlightenment values such as freedom of thought, democracy, separation of church and state, and basing beliefs and actions on empirical evidence. They are manifest in dangerous trends such as climate denial, failure to act on the loss of biodiversity and opposition to condoms (for AIDS control) as well as other forms of contraception. If ever there was a time for evidence-based (as opposed to faith-based) risk reduction strategies, it is now.”</p>
<p>Global population reduction and global redistribution of wealth. These things can of course only be accomplished through a concerted global effort or, as the authors declare “an unprecedented level of international cooperation.”:  </p>
<p>“At the global level, the loose network of agreements that now tie countries together, developed in a relatively recent stage of cultural evolution since modern nation states appeared, is utterly inadequate to grapple with the human predicament. Strengthening global environmental governance and addressing the related problem of avoiding failed statehood are tasks humanity has so far refused to tackle comprehensively even as cultural evolution in technology has rendered the present international system (as it has educational systems) obsolete. Serious global environmental problems can only be solved and a collapse avoided with an unprecedented level of international cooperation.”</p>
<p>The two end this line of reasoning by regurgitating the neo-Malthusian mantra- which simultaneously harbors a veiled threat, namely: </p>
<p>“If people do not do that, nature will restructure civilization for us.”</p>
<p>After Prince Charles endorsed the conclusions of their study, Paul Ehrlich twittered “I wish our leaders were as far-sighted”, to which one of Ehrlich’s followers responded “Suicide on a grand scale needs reconsidering.”</p>
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<p>Comments such as these show that morality is nowhere to be found in the vicinity of these neo-Malthusian characters. The fact that Prince Charles felt compelled to endorse the conclusions of this report only reaffirms that his lineage is still of the opinion that people are a scourge on the earth, or as his father Prince Philip stated, a plague:</p>
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<p>As current Bing professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University, Paul Ehrlich is living proof that old habits die hard- and eugenic habits die even harder. After his famous book The Population Bomb was published in 1968, he has fallen somewhat in credibility for the world kept on turning and mankind is apparently still around, despite of all the doom predicted. In 1969 Ehrlich <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.igreens.org.uk/paul_ehrlich.htm">predicted</a> that ““smog disasters” in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles” and “By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth’s population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people”.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, despite Ehrlich’s prediction of the total collapse of human society if the population would continue to rise, after 40 years the man still maintains his point, this time pointing to “climate change” as the consequence of increased human activity. During an interview in December 2009, Ehrlich stated:</p>
<p>“The population explosion will come to an end. The only question is whether it will do so by humanity balancing its interventions to decrease death rates with interventions to decrease birth rates, or whether the death rate will soar.”</p>
<p>In 2009, Ehrlich also expressed his desire to see the global population fall below replacement:</p>
<p>“Until and unless we can humanely begin to shrink the global population, following the lead of over-consuming and over-populated European nations, the future seems grim.”</p>
<p>Humanely shrink the global population”, says Ehrlich. He is wise enough to edit the word “humanely” in if he is to avoid the same indignation that befell his friend John Holdren, who co-authored Ecoscience with him in 1977. There is of course no humane way of shrinking the global population. Only a planetary authority, enforcing such a shrinkage, could get the job done. And it is exactly such a planetary regime Mr. Ehrlich <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-science-advisor-called-for-planetary-regime-to-enforce-totalitarian-population-control-measures.html">called for</a>, together with current chief science advisor to President Obama.</p>
<p>In the following fragment, Paul Ehrlich advocates the creation of a “global system” to create a “behavioral change”. Ehrlich: “We don’t have any international effort to say, you know, how are we behaving. We have global problems, why don’t we have a global system to fix it.”</p>
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<p>Jurriaan Maessen<br/><strong>ExplosiveReports.Com</strong><br/>
Januari 11, 2013</p>
<p><strong>2013 World Economic Forum Report: “(…) a country or small group of countries precipitates an international crisis by moving ahead with deployment or large-scale research independent of the global community.”</strong></p>
<p>In the World Economic Forum’s annual <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalRisks_Report_2013.pdf">Global Risks report</a>, the world is being warned that a “rogue nation” or individual could “hijack” global climate change for nefarious purposes. The report mentions several possible scenario’s, or X-factors, which could occur in the coming year, among which (page 57) a geoengineering nightmare, according to the report, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://explosivereports.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/forum00.jpg"><img src="http://explosivereports.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/forum00.jpg?w=500&amp;h=333" alt="forum00" width="500" height="333" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1026" /></a> “in which a country or small group of countries precipitates an international crisis by moving ahead with deployment or large-scale research independent of the global community. The global climate could, in effect, be hijacked by a rogue country or even a wealthy individual, with unpredict­able costs to agriculture, infrastructure and global stability.”</p>
<p>In sketching out this specter of doom, the  World Economic Forum carefully omits the fact that the concept of global climate change has already been hijacked- in the 1960s, by megalomaniac control freaks who admittedly used the concept of man-made climate change to force the world to adapt draconian population control measures and other globally regulated strangleholds. Intead, the WEF rather sketches a James Bond-type scenario in which some goldfinger with v-shaped eyebrows in, say, Iran sends out fleets of airplanes buzzing around to inject the atmosphere with chemicals.</p>
<p>Because “the funding landscape for this kind of science remains spotty”, the WEF states that this “leaves a gap for unregulated experimentation by “rogue” parties. For example, an island state threatened with rising sea levels may decide they have nothing to lose, or a well funded individual with good intentions may take matters into their own hands. There are signs that this is already starting to occur.” </p>
<p>“Recent studies”, the report goes on to state, “suggest that a small fleet of aircraft could inject a million tonnes of sulphur compounds into the stratosphere – enough to offset roughly half of the global warming experienced to date – for US$1-2 billion annually.”</p>
<p>Indeed. In 2010 David Keith, director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, has proposed releasing engineered nano-sized discs in the earth’s atmosphere to “offset global warming”- and that for just $ 1 billion of your taxpayer-money annually.</p>
<p>“You could manipulate the Earth’s climate at large scale for a cost that’s of the order of $1 billion a year. It sounds like a lot of money, but compared to the costs of managing other environmental problems or climate change, that is peanuts.”, Keith <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=17926.php">told Nanowerk News</a>.</p>
<p>Keith also made clear that mentioning the annual cost is not necessarily an argument pro or con, but an “indication” rather, “that risk, not cost, will be the deciding issue.”</p>
<p>Until now, scientists have mainly looked at injecting the volcano-mimicking sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere as a way to “get the maximum cooling benefit.” This new nano-particle proposal of spraying “levitating” engineered nano-particles in the atmosphere might have serious drawbacks,  Keith acknowledges:</p>
<p>“A downside of both these new ideas is they would do something that nature has never seen before. It’s easier to think of new ideas than to understand their effectiveness and environmental risks.”</p>
<p>On the upside, Keith says:</p>
<p>“(…) the distribution of engineered nano-particles above the Earth could be more controlled and less likely to harm the planet’s protective ozone layer.”</p>
<p>The risks that Keith is willing to take with the earth is illustrated by a speech he gave for TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design). Other speakers for TED have included Al Gore, Hans Rosling and Sir Ken Robinson:</p>
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<p>“We could make the particles migrate to over the poles (…) which would have minimal bad impacts in the mid part of the planet, where we live,  and do the maximum job of what we might need to do which is cooling the poles in case of planetary emergency, if you like.”</p>
<p>“The one thing about this”, Keith states, “is that it gives us extraordinary leverage, this.. this improved science and engineering will- whether we like it or not- give us more and more leverage to affect the planet, to control the planet, to give us weather and climate control- not because we plan it, not because we want it, just because science delivers it to us bit by bit. With better knowledge of the way the system works and better engineering tools to affect it.”</p>
<p>Controlling the planet, no less, and at a minimal expense to the taxpayer- if you call $ 1 billion a year minimal. Another proponent of elaborate geo-engineering schemes is none other than John P. Holdren: Obama’s current science czar. During a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/zanran_storage/www2.goldmansachs.com/ContentPages/21852847.pdf">keynote address</a> before a gathering of Goldman Sachs luminaries on Energy, Environment and the Financial Markets in 2007, Holdren proposed several options to “combat climate change”. The most remarkable of which include (page 43) ““Scrub” greenhouse gases from the atmosphere technologically” and ““Geo-engineering” to create cooling effects offsetting greenhouse heating.”</p>
<p>As we know, this is not the first time Holdren proposed spraying the atmosphere with whatever particles needed to deflect sunlight for cooling purposes. The interesting thing regarding his PowerPoint presentation before the international bankers, is that it preceded his statements in favor of geoengineering in 2009 and the subsequent outrage, which ultimately caused him to back-pedal on his proposals. Despite the controversy, Holdren <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10218083-54.html">maintained</a> at a MIT-seminar that the geo-engineering option should not be discarded. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://explosivereports.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/holdren2.jpg"><img src="http://explosivereports.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/holdren2.jpg?w=500" alt="holdren2" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1027" /></a></p>
<p>The elitist Council on Foreign Relations wholeheartedly agrees with him. In the course of 2008, the CFR held several workshops dedicated to “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cfr.org/projects/world/geoengineering-workshop-on-unilateral-planetary-scale-geoengineering/pr1364">Planetary Scale Geoenigineering</a>” efforts after painting the environmental situation as being direr than the facts suggest.</p>
<p>Holdren’s participation in the Goldman Sachs conference was no incidental occurrence. In September of 2006, when Holdren was still director of the Woods Hole Research Center, he teamed up with the representative of the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Management. This partnership would supposedly “enable the Woods Hole Research Center to broaden and deepen its efforts to understand the ways that tropical forests contribute to human well-being (…)”. Initiator of the partnership was the eugenics liaison front of the Global Clinton Initiative, which donated generously to stimulate the partnership. As Holdren explained: “It’s particularly gratifying that we developed this project with Goldman Sachs as part of the Clinton Global Initiative- a farsighted effort of the former President to stimulate new partnerships among businesses, researchers, and public-interest organizations to address the great challenges in global health, environment, and economic development”.</p>
<p>Besides the fact that we learn of more and more Obama people being extremely tight to Goldman Sachs, the 2007 PowerPoint presentation proves that the geoengineering-option was already on Holdren’s mind before he assumed the function of science czar. His presentation also clearly shows that Mr. Holdren is the New World Order’s favorite mad scientist.</p>
<p>In the first months of the Obama presidency, Holdren alluded that the subject had come up during White House discussions. Later, when the Associated Press reported on it, Holdren hastily back-pedaled on the subject, saying: “we have to look at the possibilities and understand them because if we get desperate enough it will be considered. I also made clear that this my personal view, not Administration policy.”</p>
<p>In 2007 Holdren did not yet suffer the burden of public office. This allowed him to be quite frank about his ideas, just as he was in 1977, when he warmed to the idea of a “planetary regime” to scale back the human population. He also, by the way, proposed putting chemicals in the water supply to ensure decline in fertility and chipping people to control their reproductive capabilities. Now the World Economic Forum confirms that geoengineering schemes are patented by the “global community”, decrying anyone outside its sphere of influence to use their inventions at pleasure. </p>

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<br/><b>Jimmy Savile abused children across six decades at 14 hospitals including Great Ormond Street and a childrens hospice, according to a police report. He also carried out 14 alleged assaults at schools.</b></p><p>&#13;
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Commander Peter Spindler of the Metropolitan police said Savile used his fame and celebrity status to "hide in plain sight", adding that he had "groomed the nation".</p><p>&#13;
The report into his activities reveals his offending spans from 1955-2009. Most of his victims were children  73%  and he committed most of the offences when he was aged between 40 and 50.</p><p>&#13;
Spindler said the report "paints a stark picture emphasising the tragic consequences of when vulnerability and power collide. His offending footprint was vast, predatory and opportunistic".</p><p>&#13;
Some of the hospitals where the TV and radio presenter abused children are: Leeds general infirmary, Great Ormond Street, Exeter hospital, Saxondale mental health hospital in Nottinghamshire, and Wheatfield hospice in Leeds, a Sue Ryder hospice for dying children.</p><p>&#13;
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Savile offended while working at the BBC between 1965 and 2006, the year he sexually assaulted a teenage girl at the final recording of Top of the Pops. Most of the victims were aged between 13 and 16.</p><p>&#13;
Savile raped 34 people, including 28 children. He used every opportunity and every institution to which he had access because of his fame to target young people.</p><p>&#13;
Fifty-seven of the allegations took place in 14 hospitals and a hospice in the UK. He assaulted 16 victims at Leeds general infirmary, one at Great Ormond Street hospital and he assaulted someone who was visiting a dying child at the Sue Ryder Wheatfield hospice in Leeds. At Great Ormond Street the child Savile abused died, but someone who witnessed what happened came forward.</p><p>&#13;
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The youngest of Saviles victims was an eight-year-old boy who he touched sexually, and his last victim was a 46-year-old woman who was assaulted in 2009.</p><p>&#13;
DS David Gray, who led the inquiry, said: "He has spent every minute of every working day thinking about this. Whenever an opportunity came along he took it. He picked on vulnerable victims and he was clever enough to choose people who he knew would not speak out."</p><p>&#13;
Gray said he expected the number of crimes recorded to rise above 214.</p><p>&#13;
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The director of public prosecutions, Kier Starmer QC, issued a statement on Saviles offending. He said the report by Alison Levitt QC on the CPSs handling of cases brought before it had concluded the investigations into four complaints from women by Surrey and Sussex police could have been dealt with differently.</p><p>&#13;
"Whilst most of the complainants continue to speak warmly of the individual officers with whom they had contact, most of those spoken to by Ms Levitt QC have said that, had they been given more information by the police at the time of the investigation, and in particular had each been told that she was not the only woman to have complained, they would probably have been prepared to give evidence.</p><p>&#13;
"Having spoken to the complainants, Ms Levitt QC has concluded that, although there are a number of imponderables, had the police and prosecutors taken a different approach a prosecution might have been possible in relation to three of the four allegations."</p><p>&#13;
The CPS review revealed how Savile had batted away the allegations made by four women in 2007-08 of past abuse. He told Surrey police in 2009 that the sexual assault complaints against him were "invented" and an "occupational hazard" for a famous entertainer.</p><p>&#13;
Savile made the comments when he was interviewed under caution. He told police he had a "policy" for dealing with sexual assault complaints made against him and that he had sued five newspapers in the past. A police log of the interview records Savile as saying: "If this [these allegations] does not disappear then my policy will swing into action."</p><p>&#13;
His offending took place predominantly in Leeds and London, his home town and his main work location respectively.</p><p>&#13;
Gray said Savile was not part of a paedophile ring but detectives were investigating whether he was part of a loose network of paedophiles who knew each other and took advantage of their position to sexually abuse children.</p><p>&#13;
The report said the institutions and agencies that missed past opportunities to stop Savile must do all they can to ensure their procedures for safeguarding children are as robust as possible.</p><p>&#13;
"Only then can the victims who have come forward be reassured that it is unlikely to happen again."</p><p>&#13;
Gray said: "The offences started before he was a BBC celebrity but it seems clear that his peak offending coincided with his peak status."</p><p>&#13;
He said Savile did not order victims to be silent, he just abused them then discarded them. "His force of personality was powerful. He dismissed his victims afterwards; he did what he wanted to do then just discarded them and they were too frightened to speak out."</p><p>&#13;
The prime ministers spokesman said: "These are further appalling allegations. What is required is that every organisation involved has to investigate what has gone on and get to the bottom of it.</p><p>&#13;
"There are a series of investigations that were already ongoing into a number of hospitals. The Department of Health had already announced that Kate Lampard QC was overseeing those and she will also report to the secretary of state on what lessons can be learnt for the health system as a whole."</p><p>&#13;
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</div><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>Police said at least 340,000 took the streets, with the organizers  claiming the figure was closer to 800,000. Five specially chartered  trains and 900 buses transported protesters to Paris ahead of the march.</p><p>Demonstrators carried placards proclaiming <em>"Born of a man and a woman,",</em><em><em> "'</em>Marriagephile, not homophobe"</em> and <em>“A father, a mother for all our children”.</em></p><p>The  protests have forged a rare coalition of Christian conservatives,  Muslims, and center-right politicians opposed to the plans proposed by  the Socialist government in the immediate aftermath of Hollande’s  election victory last summer.</p><p><em>"This is an important test for Francois Hollande,” </em>said Jean-Francois Cope, the leader of the center-right UMP party.<br/></p><!--/RTEditor textarea--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>­<br/>The  “marriage for all” law is not a mere formality, though many   traditionalists have balked at words “woman” and “mother” being replaced   by “spouse” and “parent” in official documents. When it comes into   force by June, same-sex couples will have the same right to adopt   children as heterosexual couples, although the president recently backed   down on plans to provide state-assisted artificial insemination for   lesbians.</p><p>The government has faced stiffening resistance on the   legislation, with even moderate opposition accusing Hollande of   foregoing public debate on the controversial issue. A similar protest in   November attracted 100,000 people.</p><p>Polls show that just over   half of French people still support gay marriage, but the endorsement   has fallen by ten percent since the proposal was initially touted. Most,   however, remain opposed to adoption by a gay couple.</p><!--/RTEditor textarea--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--page_splitter--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image-->");
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<!--RTEditor:genereated--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>The protesters, many of whom travelled from outside the capital, formed three columns that converged at the Eiffel Tower.</p><p><em>"We love homosexuals but a child must be born from a man and a woman, and the law must respect that,”</em> said Frigide Barjot, the alter ego of comedian Virginie Tellene, the intentionally apolitical face of the protest.<br/></p><!--/RTEditor textarea--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>Police said at least 340,000 took the streets, with the organizers  claiming the figure was closer to 800,000. Five specially chartered  trains and 900 buses transported protesters to Paris ahead of the march.</p><p>Demonstrators carried placards proclaiming <em>"Born of a man and a woman,",</em><em><em> "'</em>Marriagephile, not homophobe"</em> and <em>“A father, a mother for all our children”.</em></p><p>The  protests have forged a rare coalition of Christian conservatives,  Muslims, and center-right politicians opposed to the plans proposed by  the Socialist government in the immediate aftermath of Hollande’s  election victory last summer.</p><p><em>"This is an important test for Francois Hollande,” </em>said Jean-Francois Cope, the leader of the center-right UMP party.<br/></p><!--/RTEditor textarea--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>­<br/>The  “marriage for all” law is not a mere formality, though many   traditionalists have balked at words “woman” and “mother” being replaced   by “spouse” and “parent” in official documents. When it comes into   force by June, same-sex couples will have the same right to adopt   children as heterosexual couples, although the president recently backed   down on plans to provide state-assisted artificial insemination for   lesbians.</p><p>The government has faced stiffening resistance on the   legislation, with even moderate opposition accusing Hollande of   foregoing public debate on the controversial issue. A similar protest in   November attracted 100,000 people.</p><p>Polls show that just over   half of French people still support gay marriage, but the endorsement   has fallen by ten percent since the proposal was initially touted. Most,   however, remain opposed to adoption by a gay couple.</p><!--/RTEditor textarea--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image--><!--page_splitter--><!--RTEditor image--><!--/RTEditor image-->

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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><div><div readability="19"><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hamaoka-Spent-Fuel-Pool.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36302" alt="Hamaoka Spent Fuel Pool" src="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hamaoka-Spent-Fuel-Pool-425x246.png" width="425" height="246" /></a></p><p>An investigation by Chubu into the status of spent fuel stored in the spent fuel pool from the Unit 1 reactor of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant found cracks and other deformations among the fuel rods.  The Unit 1 reactor is currently undergoing decommissioning work and the spent fuel was transferred to the Unit 5 spent fuel pool, and some of the damage is thought to have occurred during the transfer from one spent fuel pool to another.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hamaoka-Spent-Fuel-Pool-2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-36301" alt="Hamaoka Spent Fuel Pool 2" src="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hamaoka-Spent-Fuel-Pool-2.png" width="400" height="374" /></a></p><p>Using a fiber-optic scope, workers inspected the fuel assemblies which had been transferred to the Unit 5 spent fuel pool in late January, and found new scratches, beyond damage that had been observed in 1994.</p><p>Prior to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Hamaoka nuclear power plant was considered by many experts to be the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan.  Both Hamaoka Unit 1 and Unit 2 are BWR Mark 1 reactors, and were permanently shut-down in January of 2009 due primarily to seismic concerns.  An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or higher is estimated 87% likely to hit the area within the next 30 years.</p><p>In 1994, workers detected radioactive materials in the Unit 1 spent fuel pool, and discovered a damaged fuel assembly was the source of the leak.  In April 1995, workers attempted to further inspect the spent fuel assembly and discovered that cracks had formed in the circumferential direction on one of the fuel rods in the damaged fuel assembly.   Each fuel assembly holds 60 fuel rods.</p><p>Chubu determined that water had infiltrated the interior of the fuel rods through the holes, which made the entire strength of the fuel rods weaker, leading to the cracks that appeared in the spent fuel rods.  The utility assumed that the tensile load endured by the fuel rods when the fuel was moved for inspection may have contributed to the cracking damage.  In 2005, workers at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant found the spent fuel pool had foreign matter in it.</p><p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.at-s.com/news/detail/474557292.html  " target="_blank">AT-S</a></p><p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.chuden.co.jp/english/corporate/ecor_releases/erel_pressreleases/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2012/12/19/1119.pdf" target="_blank">Chubu Electric</a></p></div></div><br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com">Amazon Plugin Wordpress</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center></div>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><div><div readability="11"><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Cernavoda.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36295" alt="Cernavoda" src="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Cernavoda-425x102.jpg" width="425" height="102" /></a></p><p>One of the two operational nuclear power reactors of Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the only nuclear power plant in Romania, was automatically shutdown Wednesday night by emergency system, according to Nuclearelectrica who operates the facility.  The cause of the shutdown has not been determined yet.</p><p>“Unit Two shut down on Wednesday evening, reasons unknown,” said Dumitru Dina, head of Nuclearelectrica, but did admit that some problems were found in the cooling system for the electrical generators.  The utility also indicated some disturbances were caused by failure of the logic relay control system.   A similar incident occurred in November 2012.</p><p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/10-01-2013/123431-romania_power_plant-0/" target="_blank">Pravda</a></p><p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/un-reactor-al-centralei-de-la-cernavoda-a-fost-oprit-de-urgenta-1018657.html" target="_blank">EVZ</a></p></div></div><br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com">Amazon Plugin Wordpress</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center></div>
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            <title>Contaminated rice found outside of Fukushima Prefecture</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><div><div readability="11"><p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Kihara-Rice-Paddy.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36290" alt="Kihara Rice Paddy" src="http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Kihara-Rice-Paddy-425x318.jpg" width="425" height="318" /></a></p><p>The Miyagi Prefectural government announced that cesium levels in rice grown in Kurihara had been found contaminated up to 240 becquerels of cesium per kilogram.  Kurihara is mostly farmland, mostly known for its rice fields, and small mountain ranges dispersed throughout. The prefectural government announced that it will prevent nearby rice farms from shipping their produce to the markets for sale.</p><p>According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, the elevated levels of cesium may have been elevated due to the fact that the farmers plowed the fields without completely removing the weeds that had been growing, increasing the contamination levels in the soil.</p><p>Miyagi Prefecture has been one of the three most affected prefectures by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.  During the March 11<sup>th</sup> earthquake, Kurihara was the only city to report a maximum value of 7 on the Japan Meteorological Agency Seismic Intensity Scale.</p><p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jiji.com/jc/eqa?g=eqa&amp;k=2013011000642" target="_blank">JiJi Press</a></p></div></div><br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com">Amazon Plugin Wordpress</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center></div>
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            <title>Thought of the Month (01/13): Mass Shootings and Mass Media</title>
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     <br /><div id="attachment_12769" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-12769" alt="A press conference after the Sandy Hook shooting." src="http://i2.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/leadsandyhook.jpg?resize=568%2C320" data-recalc-dims="1" /><p>A press conference after the Sandy Hook shooting.</p></div>
<p><em>Note: I am replacing the series of articles “Symbolic Pics of the Month”  by a new series entitled “Thought of the Month”, where I’ll be sharing my views on various issues. I hope you’ll enjoy this new series of articles and, don’t worry, important symbolic pics will still be covered on this site.</em></p>
<p>2012 was a year that was sadly defined by strange deaths and horrible mass shootings. The media attention garnered by these events surpassed any other type of news last year, maybe even the American elections. Even now, the trial of James Holmes and the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting are making headlines across the world. In both cases, the perpetrators of the murders were instantly elevated to the status of celebrity and, in each case, the number of deaths they caused is attached to them as if they were sport stats. During the coverage of Sandy Hook, news sources continually referred to the massacre as the “second deadliest shooting in History” as if it was all a competition and, even stranger, as if he somehow fell short of #1. As news stations fed on death and despair the same way hyenas feed on animal corpses, the audience, the TV viewer, was, once again, brought face to face with the culture of death that defines our era, where shock, trauma, horror and entertainment intersect in a twisted and perverted matter. As an entire Nation is in shock, millions of people with mournful hearts stare at the ever-looping footage broadcasted by news stations during their “live coverage”, hearing to the same “information” being said again and again by different newscasters. In the end, another traumatic event is embedded in the collective unconscious and another horrific story further defines our era.</p>
<p>These countless hours of live coverage do bear a single positive aspect: They sometimes allow unfiltered information to end up on the airwaves – which sometimes provide a different perspective on a story and what comes to be known as the “official” version of it. For example, in the first hours that followed the Sandy Hook shooting, several news sources mentioned the arrest of a possible second shooter. These sources confirmed the arrest of an adult male wearing camouflage pants who fled into the woods right after the shooting. However, after the first hour or so of coverage, no word about this man ever surfaced again. No information about this individual has ever been reported by mass media. Who was he? Was he another shooter? An assistant? If he had nothing to do with the shooting, why was he chased into the woods and why didn’t we hear from him again? How come no camera caught his face?</p>
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<h2>Who is Adam Lanza?</h2>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12748" alt="article-2248327-1686E8B3000005DC-837_306x423" src="http://i0.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/article-2248327-1686E8B3000005DC-837_306x423-e1357666460482.jpg?resize=200%2C276" data-recalc-dims="1" /></p>
<p>Let’s say that Adam Lanza was the only shooter in this tragedy. Who is he anyway? Why is there only one eerie black and white picture of his face available?  How come there is little to no information about him, about his story, about his last whereabouts and so forth? Was he truly autistic or mentally ill? Aren’t there medical records about this? How come he was so efficient during the shooting? Aren’t there surveillance tapes available?</p>
<p>In the weeks following the shooting, these questions were only partially answered and things will probably remain that way. The official story appears to be established, a face was attached to the event and that’s pretty much what mass media will divulge to the public. When many basic questions surrounding an event remain unanswered, chances are, something is being hidden. Or something was fabricated.</p>
<p>Could both the Sandy Hook shooting and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="An Inmate Claims that James Holmes Confessed that he was “Programmed to Kill”" href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/inmate-claims-james-holmes-confessed-that-he-was-programmed-to-kill/"> the Aurora shooting</a> have been carried out by mind controlled patsies in order to push a dark agenda? Given the lack of transparency in both of these events, it is honestly quite difficult to NOT consider this option. In this age of spy satellites, Internet access, wireless communication and so forth, it is nearly impossible for authorities to not have any relevant information about Adam Lanza. However, for now, all of this will remain Top Secret and in the meantime, public attention has been shifted to a new agenda.</p>
<p>I personally do not have any exclusive information about Adam Lanza, but there are many hints pointing towards him being a product of Delta Mind Control programming – aka “Killer Programming”. He was apparently “off the radar” for several years (was he being programmed?), he was skilled with guns and was very calm and efficient while carrying out the massacre.</p>
 
<h2>Synchronicities</h2>
<p>Like all events that bear a somewhat ritualistic aspect, the Sandy Hook shooting is surrounded by strange synchronicities. For instance, several articles across the web mention that the words “Sandy Hook” are seen on a map during the movie <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em>. In the movie, the Sandy Hook island holds the Gotham stadium that super-villain Bane demolishes.</p>
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<div id="attachment_12752" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-12752" alt="The words &quot;Sandy Hook&quot; appearing on a map during The Dark Knight Rises." src="http://i1.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/batmansandyhook-e1357668231187.jpg?resize=500%2C345" data-recalc-dims="1" /><p>An area named “Sandy Hook” tagged as a “strike zone” during <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em>.</p></div>
<p>A strange fact is that a promo kit sent out to influential media industry individuals contained two items: A t-shirt and the map of Gotham City as seen in the movie.</p>
<div id="attachment_12753" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-12753" alt="Screen capture taken from FirstShowing.net." src="http://i1.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/promokit-e1357668702216.jpg?resize=500%2C335" data-recalc-dims="1" /><p>The promo kit contained a t-shirt featuring Bane and the words “Fire Rises” along with a map of Gotham City including an island named Sandy Hook. Screen capture taken from FirstShowing.net.</p></div>
<p>On the map, we can clearly read that “Sandy Hook” is a “strike zone”.<br /><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12754" alt="leadtom1" src="http://i1.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/leadtom1.jpg?resize=568%2C320" data-recalc-dims="1" /></p>
<p>That is certainly a strange connection between the Aurora shootings (which occurred during the premier of <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em>) and the Sandy Hook shootings. Is this all coincidence? Are the same people behind both attacks? Was this all preplanned? Are these “coincidences” actually synchronicities as defined by Carl Jung, which appear to materialize in order to highlight a layer of truth?</p>
<p>The Sandy Hook shooting also has an odd relationship to the movie <em>The Hunger Games</em>. As stated in the article  <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-hunger-games-a-glimpse-at-the-new-world-order/" target="_blank">“The Hunger Games”: A Glimpse at the Future?</a>, the movie basically portrays the ritual killing of young people taken from the masses in order to amuse and to appease the elite. Strange fact: the author of the story, Suzanne Collins, resides in Newtown, Connecticut.</p>
<h2>The Aftermath</h2>
<p>No matter what actually happened during these shootings, the aftermath will probably fit right into the elite’s plans. On a political level, wheels are already in motion to thoroughly modify the U.S Constitution’s Second Amendment, which protects Americans right to own and operate arms. While the U.S. Constitution used to be a sacred and untouchable document, it apparently now only takes one or two traumatic media events to allow severe violations of it. In the article about the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-irs-headquarters-maryland/" target="_blank"> IRS Headquarters in Maryland</a>, I noted that it is written right on the building <em>“The Bill of Rights was not ordained by Nature or God. It’s very human, very fragile.”</em>  That is what the powers that be believe. 9/11 lead to the Patriot Act and its violations of the 4th Amendment. Now we are seeing a great momentum against gun ownership rights. One of the elite’s major goals is to render the Bill of Rights obsolete … and it is currently happening.</p>
<p>On a deeper level, the mass shootings of 2012 forced our collective minds to further enter the elite’s “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="The Movie “Videodrome” and The Horror of Mass Media" href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-movie-videodrome-and-the-horror-of-mass-media/" target="_blank">Videodrome</a>“, where events taking place in set pieces tell the story of pure evil massacring innocence for no reason other than evil itself. Whether they realize it or not, the masses are participants in these rituals, as collective shock, sadness, anger and disbelief emanates out of every household in America, giving more power to these rituals and amplifying their impact on the world. In my article on the movie <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-cabin-in-the-woods-a-movie-celebrating-the-elites-ritual-sacrifices/" target="_blank">The Cabin in the Woods</a>, I quoted the book <em>Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare </em>to describe the purpose of mass murders and their coverage by mass media. I believe the book is worth quoting again, as the Sandy Hook shooting appears to follow the same pattern.</p>
<blockquote readability="25"><p>“Of course, many serial murders are nothing more than the work of a single individual acting out a graphic horror movie he saw, or responding to powerful “psychotic” impulses for aggression and predation. But many other serial murders involve a cult protected by the U.S. government and the corporate media, with strong ties to the police. These murders are actually intricately choreographed rituals; performed first on a very intimate and secret scale, among the initiates themselves in order to program them, them on a grand scale, amplified incalculably by the electronic media. In the end what we have is a highly symbolic, ritual working broadcast to millions of people, a Satanic inversion; a Black mass, where the “pews” are filled by the entire nation and through which humanity is paganized, brutalized and debased in this, the “Nigredo” phase of the alchemical process.</p>
<p>The French adept Antonin Artaud, architect of the theory of the “Theater of Cruelty” with its transformative power, and the inspiration for the extreme sex-and-death media of our time, had this to say about the processing of the Group Mind: ‘Aside from trifling witchcraft of country sorcerers, there are tricks of global hoodoo in which all alerted consciousnesses participate periodically… That is how strange forces are aroused and transported to the astral vault, to that dark dome which is composed above all of… the poisonous aggressiveness of the evil minds of most people… the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon appear undisguised.’</p>
<p>The issue of controlling humanity with esoteric words and symbols encoded within a play, a media spectacular or a ritual is one of the most difficult for people to comprehend. That is why most people are viewed with utter contempt as “cowans,” “the profane,” the “gentiles” and the “goyim” (cattle) by secret society initiates. “I think we are farmed,” Charles Fort said of humanity. It was Fort who also suggested that man deliberately invented the dogma of materialism in order to shield himself from the evidence of what was being done to him by means of psycho- spiritual warfare methods hyped by “coincidence,” symbolism and ritual.”<br />
- Michael A. Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare</p></blockquote>
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<p>The National Intelligence Council is a high-level agency best known for producing National Intelligence Estimates – forecasts predicting future trends and issues of the next fifteen years. These extensive reports are produced every election year and are directly delivered to the  incoming President between Election Day and Inauguration Day. The latest NIC report released on December 2012 is called <em>Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds</em> (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/115962650/Global-Trends-2030-Alternative-Worlds" target="_blank">read it here</a>) and discusses several issues such as the decline of the role of the United States as a global policeman and the rise of non-state actors in world politics. It also mentions another key issue: A fast-paced race towards transhumanism.</p>
<p>“Human Augmentation” is indeed considered a key issue in the next 15 years as new technologies will allow all kinds of modifications “ranging from implants and prosthetics to powered exoskeletons, human augmentation enhancing innate human abilities”. These augmentations would be used on soldiers, workers and anyone that can afford them, giving them “super-human” powers and capabilities, whether it be on a physical or a mental level.</p>
<p>Some might say: “That sounds cool VC, what is wrong with that? Why do you always say that it is wrong”. I personally never described transhumanism as being “right” or “wrong”, I don’t make these kinds of judgement calls. I however do have facts about the issue. First, transhumanism is undeniably being actively pushed by mass media and promoted as something that is necessary and inevitable in the future; Second, it is a logical continuation of the Luciferian philosophy held by the world elite where godhood and immortality is meant to be achieved by humans by their own means. In fact, Max More, a leading transhumanist philosopher considers himself as a “Luciferian”.</p>
<blockquote readability="3"><p>“The Devil—Lucifer—is a force for good (where I define ‘good’ simply as that which I value, not wanting to imply any universal validity or necessity to the orientation). ‘Lucifer’ means ‘light-bringer’ and this should begin to clue us in to his symbolic importance. The story is that God threw Lucifer out of Heaven because Lucifer had started to question God and was spreading dissension among the angels. We must remember that this story is told from the point of view of the Godists (if I may coin a term) and not from that of the Luciferians (I will use this term to distinguish us from the official Satanists with whom I have fundamental differences). The truth may just as easily be that Lucifer resigned from heaven.<em>”<br /></em>- Max More, “In Praise of the Devil”.</p></blockquote>
<p>Lastly, due to the prohibitive cost of “human augmentation”, transhumanism will only be available to the richest and most powerful people and the world (the world elite) and will created an even wider gap between the “masses” and the “elite”. The National Intelligence Council report states:</p>
<blockquote readability="1"><p>“The high cost of human augmentation means that it probably will be available in 15-20 years only to those who are able to pay. Such a situation may lead to a two-tiered society.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This is why transhumanism is so heavily promoted in mass media. It will only be available to the richest people on Earth, creating a separate, “elite” class of “superhumans” and this concept needs to be accepted by the masses, even if it goes against its best interests. Through predictive programming using movies, TV and video games, the masses are “programmed” in perceiving transhumanism as an inevitability, as something that is bound to happen. That way, when it will actually happen, nobody will be outraged by it, it will be considered as something normal.</p>
<p>Here’s an article on the NIC Report.</p>
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<h4>U.S. spy agency predicts a very transhuman future by 2030</h4>
<p>The National Intelligence Council has just released its much anticipated forecasting report, a 140-page document that outlines major trends and technological developments we should expect in the next 20 years. Among their many predictions, the NIC foresees the end of U.S. global dominance, the rising power of individuals against states, a growing middle class that will increasingly challenge governments, and ongoing shortages in water, food and energy. But they also envision a future in which humans have been significantly modified by their technologies — what will herald the dawn of the transhuman era.</p>
<p>This work brings to mind the National Science Foundation’s groundbreaking 2003 report, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC_report.pdf"><em>Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance</em></a> — a relatively early attempt to understand and predict how advanced biotechnologies would impact on the human experience. The NIC’s new report, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf"><em>Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds</em></a>, follows in the same tradition — namely one that doesn’t ignore the potential for enhancement technologies.</p>
<p>In the new report, the NIC describes how implants, prosthetics, and powered exoskeletons will become regular fixtures of human life — what could result in substantial improvements to innate human capacities. By 2030, the authors predict, prosthetics should reach the point where they’re just as good — or even better — than organic limbs. By this stage, the military will increasingly rely on exoskeletons to help soldiers carry heavy loads. Servicemen will also be adminstered psychostimulants to help them remain active for longer periods.</p>
<p>Many of these same technologies will also be used by the elderly, both as a way to maintain more youthful levels of strength and energy, and as a part of their life extension strategies.</p>
<p>Brain implants will also allow for advanced neural interface devices — what will bridge the gap between minds and machines. These technologies will allow for brain-controlled prosthetics, some of which may be able to provide “superhuman” abilities like enhanced strength, speed — and completely new functionality altogether.</p>
<p>Other mods will include retinal eye implants to enable night vision and other previously inaccessible light spectrums. Advanced neuropharmaceuticals will allow for vastly improved working memory, attention, and speed of thought.</p>
<p>“Augmented reality systems can provide enhanced experiences of real-world situations,” the report notes, “Combined with advances in robotics, avatars could provide feedback in the form of sensors providing touch and smell as well as aural and visual information to the operator.”</p>
<p>But as the report notes, many of these technologies will only be available to those who are able to afford them. The authors warn that it could result in a two-tiered society comprising enhanced and nonenhanced persons, a dynamic that would likely require government oversight and regulation.</p>
<p>Smartly, the report also cautions that these technologies will need to be secure. Developers will be increasingly challenged to prevent hackers from interfering with these devices.</p>
<p>Lastly, other technologies and scientific disciplines will have to keep pace to make much of this work. For example, longer-lasting batteries will improve the practicality of exoskeletons. Progress in the neurosciences will be critical for the development of future brain-machine interfaces. And advances in flexible biocompatible electronics will enable improved integration with cybernetic implants.</p>
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<p>This TV ad promoting Verizon’s Droid DNA phone is weird, cringe-worthy and also promotes something else: Transhumanism. Indeed, the ad does not only sell a smartphone. Not unlike movies and music videos, it normalizes the concept of “upgrading” humans by merging them with machines.</p>
<p>While most of us already entertain a somewhat unhealthy, dependent relationship with our cellphones, this ad makes things creepier by showing the device completely modifying the user’s body and genetic makeup. Yes, it is “only a commercial”, but all of the concepts behind it are real and will be available to a very rich and limited public very soon. Here’s the ad.</p>
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<p>The ad takes place in some kind of transhumanist lab where the “Droid DNA Augmentation” process begins. Right from the start, we hear the usual vocabulary associated with transhumanism such as “augmentation”, “upgrade” and so forth. Many people believe that the human body is the most advanced machine on Earth. Not transhumanists.</p>
<div id="attachment_12715" readability="4"><img class="size-full wp-image-12715" alt="We then see the guy's DNA makeup being transformed into a black, artificial, robotic DNA string." src="http://i1.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/droid2-e1357319186509.jpg?resize=500%2C271" data-recalc-dims="1" /><p>When connected to the phone, the guy’s DNA makeup changes into a black, artificial, robotic DNA string. Was that included in his 3 year contract with Verizon?</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_12716" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-12716" alt="While showing some kind of robot stuff being shot right in the guy's veins, we hear &quot;neuro-speeds increased to 4G&quot;. Isn't that a little creepy and invasive procedure to get a new cell phone?" src="http://i2.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/droid3-e1357319286241.jpg?resize=500%2C272" data-recalc-dims="1" /><p>Something is then shot right in the guy’s veins. Meanwhile, we hear “neuro-speeds increased to 4G”. Yes, they do love “shooting” or inserting things into our bodies under the guise of “its good for you” in order to better monitor and control us.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_12717" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-12717" alt="While scientists are supervising the procedure, we hear &quot;brain upgraded to a Quad Core processor&quot;. Really? Our brains are inferior to a Quad Core processor, which will be totally obsolete in about 10 months? Didn't know our brains were Pentium 4's. " src="http://i2.wp.com/vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/droid4-e1357319642988.jpg?resize=500%2C273" data-recalc-dims="1" /><p>While scientists are supervising the procedure, we hear “brain upgraded to a Quad Core processor”. Really? Are our brains inferior to a Quad Core processor, a technology that will be totally obsolete in about 10 months? Didn’t know our brains were Pentium 4′s.</p></div>
<p>The ad ends with a purely transhumanist slogan: <em>“It’s not an upgrade to your phone, its an upgrade to yourself”</em>. Yes. And then, if they don’t like you, they’ll just re-format your Quad-Core processor brain and re-install a better version of you. Go transhumanism!</p>
 
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<h2>By JAMES WASSERMAN</h2>
<p><em>Did Zanoni belong to this mystical Fraternity, who, in an earlier age, boasted of secrets of which the Philosopher’s Stone was but the least; who considered themselves the heirs of all that the Chaldeans, the Magi, the Gymnosophists, and the Platonists had taught; and who differed from all the darker Sons of Magic in the virtue of their lives, the purity of their doctrines, and their insist­ing, as the foundation of all wisdom, on the subjugation of the senses, and the intensity of Religious Faith?</em><br />
– Zanoni, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton</p>
<p><em>The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other govern­ments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.</em><br />
– British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876</p>
<p>Two very different views of secret societies are revealed in the quotations above. The first describes a spiritual brotherhood pledged to Wisdom and guiding humanity toward the realm of the Infinite; the second seeks to expose the machinations of power-seekers who cloak their manipulative agendas in darkness. In addition to spiritual and political secret societies, one could add criminal secret societies such as the Mafia, or even clandestine elite military units – neither of which will be discussed here.</p>
<p>All secret societies share certain fundamental themes. Membership is restricted to those who have an abiding interest in the subject. Thus, a spiritual group will attract people seeking more knowledge of a particular teacher or type of practice. The student is aware of the subject matter in advance and will approach the group for further instruction. More rarely, an individual may be “tapped” by the group because of a perceived affinity to its purpose.</p>
<p>In a political secret society, membership is restricted to those who share an ideological affinity with the goals the group represents. At the furthest end of the political spectrum, the mission will be revolution. Such a society will go to great lengths to defend itself. Generally there will be small semiautonomous cells working in overall concert but with cut-outs introduced at all levels to pro­tect other members from exposure or betrayal. This type of society is represented by a contemporary group such as al-Qaeda. The infamous Weathermen of the 1960s and 1970s had a sim­ilar structure. The clandestine revolutionary model was developed and perfected by Hasan-i-Sabah, leader of the Nizari Ismaili Order of Assassins between the late 11th and early 12th centuries.</p>
<p>On another political plane are ideological groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, or participants in the World Economic Forum. Here we find leaders in politics, business, finance, education, and the media who may share a belief in the value of global solutions; are in high positions of authority and influence; and represent different levels of involvement with the inner circle of the group. Most members simply welcome the opportu­nity to associate with other well-known luminaries and are honoured by being offered membership or attendance privileges. Yet, the ideology at the highest levels of such groups supports a world government – to be adminis­tered by a class of experts and planners, entrusted with running centrally organised social and political institu­tions. Although members may be persuaded to add their considerable voices to certain transnational political and economic policies, they may not be as supportive (or even aware) of the long-range ambitions of the inner circle. While these groups quite often hold their meetings in secret, their membership lists are a matter of public record. It is the central agenda that is disguised.</p>
<p>Adam Weishaupt founded the Bavarian Illuminati in 1776. The Illuminati are perceived by many as spanning the chasm between the spiritual and the political secret society. Often credited (or blamed) for influencing the French Revolution in 1787, the Illuminati taught a doctrine of social and political liberation that hinged on the equal­ity of man, the embrace of rationalism, and the denial of crown and church as the legitimate institutions for the regulation of social and moral values. The bitterness of life in Europe at this time – when church and state monopolised resources and often acted in an irresponsi­ble manner toward the citizenry – created widespread resentment among all classes. While the views of the Illuminati may sound quite advanced for the time, the European revolutions they are believed to have encour­aged degenerated into brutal bloodbaths whose singular lack of moral compass was appalling.</p>
<p><em>Reprinted with permission from <b>The Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols and Sacred Art</b> by James Wasserman (Destiny Books, 2005).</em></p>
<p>The above article appeared in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/special-issues/new-dawn-special-issue-vol-6-no-6">New Dawn Special Issue Vol 6 No 6</a>.</p>
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<h2>By DR KR BOLTON</h2>
<p>There are numerous difficulties in trying to discern what among the proliferation of new or revived faiths might be regarded as working to usher forth a New Age based on eternal values, and those that work to establish the rule of malignant, matter-bound forces. The problem is that there are often superficial resemblances that occur between them. Even within the same occult orders, such as Freemasonry, there are a range of views that might be in opposition but are mistaken as being part of a single, all-embracing conspiracy. There is a tangle of terminology, groups, personalities, ‘Hidden Masters’, accusations and counter-accusations of black magic, and so forth. This article considers ways in which the positive and negative currents within the ‘New Age’ might be identified.</p>
<h2>The Cycles of Rise and Fall</h2>
<p>The school of Perennial Tradition regards traditional cultures, religions and spiritualities as sharing core beliefs, values of an eternal nature, on which are founded Civilisations and societies in their cycles of health. Hence, in the analogous cycles of cultures as far removed geographically and ethnically as the Japanese, Hindu, Norse, and Arabian, all will possess analogous beliefs in regard to social hierarchy, chivalric ethos, and a nexus that exists between the Divine and the temporal. In such a society one’s highest calling, whether as peasant or prince, is to work in accord with one’s cosmic duty, or what the Hindus call <i>dharma</i>. In such a society castes reflect the Divine order on earth: ‘as above, so below’, and degenerate into contending economic classes in the cycle of decline.<i><sup>1</sup></i></p>
<p>This cyclical view of history<i><sup>2</sup></i> is another shared featured of various Traditional cultures, expressed in the Norse,<i><sup>3</sup></i> Hindu,<i><sup>4</sup></i> Hopi oral lore,<i><sup>5</sup></i> and many others. In our own era the German historian-philosopher Oswald Spengler provided empirical evidence for the cyclicity of cultures.<i><sup>6</sup></i> The two primary Traditionalist exponents of cultural cyclicity in our era are Rene Guenon<i><sup>7</sup></i> and Julius Evola.<i><sup>8</sup></i> Esoterically, it is the cycle of life expressed in ‘The Wheel’ of the ‘Major Arcana’ of the Tarot, which is derived from the Medieval ‘Wheel of Fortune’ or <i>Rota Fortuna</i> depicted in Gothic Churches.<i><sup>9</sup> </i></p>
<h2>Tradition, Anti-Tradition &amp; Counter-Tradition</h2>
<p>A glance at cultural cycles is necessary to identify the occult forces that work in the context of Tradition for a return to eternal values based on a reconnection with the Divine, and those that want to enslave humanity to matter. Again, recourse to Tarot symbolism is instructive. Here we see that the Counter-Tradition that stands behind Anti-Tradition, is in the esoteric sense, literally satanic. Paul Foster Case<i><sup>10</sup></i> provides a meaning for ‘The Devil’ trump that is particularly relevant:</p>
<p>In its most general meanings, it signifies Mammon and thus big business, the conventions of society, the injustice and cruelty of a social order in which money takes the place of God, in which humanity is bestialised, in which war is engineered by greed masquerading as patriotism, in which fear is dominant. Students of astrology will have no difficulty in seeing how this corresponds to Capricorn, the sign of big business, and the sign of world fame.<i><sup>11</sup></i></p>
<p>In this one paragraph Case says much. He cogently differentiates the Traditionalist from the Anti-Traditionalist in what is an occult war. Case identifies the Counter-Tradition that controls Anti-Tradition as ‘Mammon’. Mammon infers something more than simply plutocracy; it is the <i>spirit</i> behind plutocracy. Plutocracy controls the present era. Oswald Spengler pointed out that Money rules in the epoch of decline of a Civilisation. It is not merely the temporal influence of Money which Spengler is referring to, but the <i>spirit</i> behind Money, or what Case calls Mammon. “The dictature of money marches on, tending to its material peak in the Faustian [Western] Civilisation as in every other.”<i><sup>12</sup> </i></p>
<p>The other significant point raised by Case is the ‘bestialisation’ of humanity. In this trump ‘The Devil’ is depicted enchaining the human pair to matter. Like the ‘Devil’, the human pair is depicted with tail and horns. This is suggestive of the esoteric belief in cyclic regression rather than lineal progression, when humanity regresses from a higher state of Being, of a spiritual mode, descending ever more into a baser, material existence. Anti-Tradition is the agency for this decline and enslavement. The modern world is therefore, according to the Traditionalist perspective, <i>not</i> ascending upward toward the Godhead, nor toward manifesting the God within; but is in a downward spiral towards – metaphorically – ‘The Devil’ – the master of our base drives.</p>
<p>A problem of identifying who belongs to what arises because forces work behind the guise of Tradition, while they are in reality the initiates of Anti-Tradition and Counter Tradition, or what Aleister Crowley called the ‘Black Magick School’. The purpose of Anti-Tradition is that of subversion and the sowing of confusion to pave the way for Counter-Tradition. ‘Anti-Tradition’ was stated by Perennial Traditionalist scholar and initiate Rene Guenon to be “pure negation and nothing more.”<i><sup>13</sup></i> In regard to Counter-Tradition there is a “counter-initiation,”<i><sup>14</sup></i> representing a satanic current of those who seek the severing of the nexus between the terrestrial and the divine. Guenon wrote of this:</p>
<p>After having worked always in the shadows, to inspire and to direct invisibly all modern movements, it will in the end contrive to ‘exteriorise’, if that is the right word, something that will be as it were, the counterpart of a true tradition, at least as completely and as exactly as it can be so within the limitations necessarily inherent in all possible counterfeits as such.<i><sup>15</sup></i></p>
<p>To Guenon the Counter-Traditionalist movements are void of spiritual content. This can be seen in the many movements and ‘orders’ professing a ‘tradition’ and having a mystical or spiritual façade, yet who expound a materialistic universal republic. This is why various esoteric orders can be seen to be promoting materialistic doctrines such as Marxism, and such Anti-Traditional dogmas as those expressed in slogans like “liberty, equality, fraternity,” to usher in the “reign of quantity.”<i><sup>16</sup></i> Anti-Traditionalist movements and ideologies are only a means, and not the end. Guenon aptly uses the term “satanic”<i><sup>17</sup></i>to describe these currents.</p>
<p>Of these Counter-Traditions, Guenon states that they can never be anything other that a “parody,” an “inverted spirituality” involving organisations of “counter-initiation.”<i><sup>18</sup></i> Guenon regarded these movements as being of supernatural origin, as satanic and believed that a figure analogous to the “The Anti-Christ” will manifest at the head of a world order.<i><sup>19</sup></i></p>
<p>Guenon described the order which Counter-Tradition tries to impose by at first using the doctrine of “egalitarianism” as a means of overthrowing the remnants of Tradition and spirituality, after which will be erected in place of the divine hierarchies a “counter-hierarchy,” atop which sits an individual that seems analogous to “The Anti-Christ,” Guenon describing him as “nearest to the very bottom of the ‘pit of hell’.”<i><sup>20</sup></i></p>
<p>Of the numerous orders that were emerging, especially in France during the 19<sup>th</sup> century, Guenon referred to them, regardless of their pretensions, as “anti-tradition.” One might say that they reflect the <i>zeitgeist<sup>21</sup></i> of the present epoch of Western decline. Guenon refers to the numerous orders that claimed to be “Rosicrucian.”<i><sup>22</sup></i> Of these, the primary order is that of Freemasonry, from which much of the current “occult revival” derives, including cults purporting to represent a “New Age.” They are, in Guenon’s term, “counterfeits,” and as counterfeits are intended to be, often difficult to detect.</p>
<h2>Profanation of Tradition</h2>
<p>Eliphas Levi<i><sup>23</sup></i> was one of the primary theoreticians of the modern occult revival. Among Levi’s books, <i>The History of Magic</i> provides insights into the history, nature and influence of Anti-Traditional, Counter-Traditional and counter-initiatory currents. Levi was well-placed to offer informed opinion. He had been a prominent socialist propagandist, having been jailed for his views<i><sup>24</sup></i> and seems to have been a highly initiated Freemason.<i><sup>25</sup></i> However, Levi rejected socialism in favour of a conservative, monarchical position, and came to see Freemasonry as having had a noble tradition that had been “profaned” by Anti-Tradition. Having defended what he regarded as the genuine traditional and spiritual legacy of Masonry, Levi then posed and answered the question:</p>
<p>Now if Masonry is thus holy and thus sublime, we may be asked how it came to be proscribed and condemned so often by the Church?… Masonry is the Gnosis and the false Gnostics caused the condemnation of the true.<i><sup>26</sup></i></p>
<p>Levi contends that the Traditionalists were driven underground for fear of being associated with the “sacrilege” of the “false interpreters… the enemies of all belief and all morality”:</p>
<p>Masonry has not merely been profaned but has served as the veil and pretext of anarchic conspiracies descending from the secret influence of the vindicators of Jacques de Molay,<i><sup>27</sup></i> and of those who continued the schismatic work of the Temple. In place of avenging the death of Hiram<i><sup>28</sup></i> they have that of his assassins. The anarchists have resumed the rule, square and mallet, writing upon them the words Liberty, Equality, Fraternity – Liberty, that is to say, for all the lusts, Equality in degradation and Fraternity in the work of destruction. Such are the men whom the Church has condemned justly and will condemn forever.<i><sup>29</sup></i></p>
<p>Levi states that during the 18<sup>th</sup> century,</p>
<p>A schism took place in <i>illuminism:<sup>30</sup></i> on the one hand, the wardens of the traditions concerning Nature and science wished to restore the hierarchy; there were others, on the contrary, who desired to level all things by disclosing the Great Arcanum, thus rendering the royalty and priesthood alike impossible in the world. Among the latter, some were ambitious and unscrupulous, seeking to erect a throne for themselves over the ruins of the world. Others were dupes and zanies. The true initiates held with dismay the launching of society toward the abyss, and they foresaw all the terrors of anarchy.<i><sup>31</sup></i></p>
<p>Levi is here referring to the Order of the Illuminati, founded in Bavaria in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, with the purpose of inaugurating a communistic universal republic; and similar cabals generally emanating from Freemasonry, including the French revolutionary Jacobin Club and Lodges that formed after the French revolutionary tumult from whence came the subversive creeds, including that of Karl Marx.</p>
<p>The revolutionary atheists, rationalists and humanists flocked to the Lodges during the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries, where they “worked the degrees” of the ancient Mysteries for their own counter-initiatory purposes. Of the type of profanation Levi referred to, we can state the following.</p>
<p>Philippe Buonarroti, the Italian exponent of the French Revolution, was initiated into Masonry in 1786. In 1808 he formed Les Sublimes Maîtres Parfaits. Buonarroti had a major influence on revolutionist Auguste Blanqui, and through his book <i>Conspiration pour l’Egalité dite de Babeuf</i>, <i>suivie du procès auquel</i> <i>elle donna lieu</i> he was also a seminal influence on the revolutions that erupted throughout Europe in 1848. Buonarroti also advised Mazzini and other revolutionaries in Italy.<i><sup>32</sup></i></p>
<p>Buonarroti had co-founded with Francois Babeuf, another significant revolutionist, the Society of the Pantheon<i>,</i> one of the first of the revolutionary secret societies to emerge from the French Revolution, believing the Revolution had failed; and he organised a group of ‘Philadelphe’ Masonry within the Lodge ‘Amis Sincères’<i>. </i>Dr. J M Roberts states:</p>
<p>What may be termed the first international political secret society, the Sublimes Maîtres Parfaits, was founded by Buonarroti, perhaps in 1808. Only freemasons were admitted to it. The Elect were aware that they were to work for a republican form of government; only the Areopagites knew that the final aim of the society was social egalitarianism, and the means to it the abolition of private property.<i><sup>33</sup></i></p>
<p>Marxism was the 19<sup>th</sup> century culmination of this Anti-Traditional current of a long line of secret societies. Although numerous conspiratologists have written of the alleged role of the Illuminati in ‘hiring’ Marx to write the <i>Communist Manifesto</i>, via the League of the Just, reliable documentation is infrequent. However, there is scholarly evidence that Marx was part of the Anti-Traditionalist current. Blanqui organised the League of the Just, which was called the League of Outlaws by German exiles in Paris. This became the Communist League, and in 1847 this cabal asked Marx to write the <i>Communist Manifesto</i>. It is from Blanqui that the dictum now credited to Marx, the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” originated.<i><sup>34</sup></i> Marx was initiated into the Mysteries of Memphis-Mizraim Masonry. Prof. Mark Lause, a scholar of labour history,<i><sup>35</sup></i> writes:</p>
<p>…Certainly, the tangled history of freemasonry has largely mirrored the political and social views of those drawn to the craft, and some of those drawn to the more peculiar pseudo-Egyptian forms of the order reflected views that were accordingly distinctive.<i><sup>36</sup></i></p>
<p>The 18th century Cabalistic mystic Cagliostro founded the Rite of Memphis in 1779. He insinuated himself into the French Court, like Philippe de Lyon insinuated his way into the Court of the ill-fated Czar Nicholas II.<i><sup>37</sup></i></p>
<p>Lause cites I Nicolaevsky<i><sup>38</sup></i> as an authoritative source in stating “that the nineteenth century Order of Memphis actually did mask the ongoing revolutionary activism of French radicals both at home and abroad, strikingly so in the case of émigré circles at London.”<i><sup>39</sup></i> This confirms the statement by occult historian Lewis Spence, who in a laudatory entry on Cagliostro writes that the Mizraim Rite included the communistic doctrines of the Illuminati.</p>
<p>In 1785 Cagliostro was implicated in a scandal in the French Royal Court and exiled himself to England where he wrote revolutionary propaganda against the monarchy and declared that the French Throne would be overthrown. His 1786 ‘Letter to the French People’ declared prophetically that the Bastille would be stormed and the governor killed.<i><sup>40</sup> </i></p>
<p>Spence states that Mizraim had been set up to subvert the traditional society of Europe and, significantly, received large financial backing:</p>
<p>There is a small question that the various Masonic lodges which he [Cagliostro] founded and which were patronised by persons of ample means, provided him with extensive funds, and it is a known fact that he was subsidised by several extremely wealthy men, who, themselves dissatisfied with the state of affairs in Europe, did not hesitate to place their riches at his disposal for the purpose of undermining the tyrannic powers which then wielded sway.<i><sup>41</sup></i></p>
<p>London was the centre of revolutionary intrigue where political refugees from throughout Europe sought refuge and, with the help of English Masons, founded the Internationale.<i><sup>42</sup></i> Masonry provided acceptance for diverse and radical views, and a model for a secret revolutionary structure. Lause writes of this:</p>
<p>In any event, if your declared purpose was something as radical as that of the Philalethes, the perfection of the human race, it helped legitimise the goal by describing oneself as an “Ancient and Primitive Rite of Masonry.”<i><sup>43</sup></i></p>
<p>Lodges were established in England and elsewhere, the most important being La Grand Loge des Philadelphes at London in 1851. Lause states that the Order of Memphis “fostered what became the International Association in March 1855 [and] provided almost all of the French members of the General Council of the later International Workingmen’s Association.”<i><sup>44</sup></i>Another prominent socialist historian, Dr. Bob James, identifies as Masons Garibaldi, Mazzini,<i><sup>45</sup></i> Charles Bradlaugh<i><sup>46</sup></i>and Karl Marx, stating this was “neither an accident nor an aberration.”<i><sup>47</sup></i></p>
<h2>Crowley on the Schools of Black and White Magick</h2>
<p>Aleister Crowley is perhaps the best example of how unclear can be the identification of Traditional, Anti-Traditional and Counter-Traditional currents.<i><sup>48</sup></i> Crowley claimed Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, among the “saints” of his religion, Thelema.<i><sup>49</sup></i> However, the doctrines of Thelema and the Illuminati are polar opposites. Crowley, in contrast to the communistic doctrines of <i>Illuminism</i>, sought the establishment of a neo-aristocratic society: the revival of hierarchy.<i><sup>50</sup></i> It is notable that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the antithesis of communistic and liberalistic doctrines, is also a “Saint” of Thelema.<i><sup>51</sup></i></p>
<p>Evola acknowledged Crowley as a genuine initiate of Tradition. Evola also regarded the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, under which Crowley served his magickal apprenticeship and which was a seminal influence on the modern occult revival as, “to some extent,” a successor “to those of an initiatic character.”<i><sup>52</sup></i>Evola granted that Crowley’s system of Magick was drawn from Traditional initiatic practices: “It is certain that in Crowleyism the inoculation of magico-initiatic applications is precise, and the references or orientations of ancient traditions are evident.”<i><sup>53</sup></i></p>
<p>Why then did Crowley identify with Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati, whose doctrines are antithetical to Thelema? Perhaps the reason is that Crowley took on a certain role when assuming the mantle of leadership of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) founded by Theodor Reuss, who was in the employ of the German secret service. Reuss is said to have revived the Order of the Illuminati by virtue of what he claimed to be family connections with the 18<sup>th</sup> century cabal.<i><sup>54</sup></i>He was an initiate of Martinist and Mizraim Masonry headed by ‘Papus’.<i><sup>55</sup></i>He was also in contact in 1902 with Dr. William Wynn Westcott, a high initiate of Grand Lodge Masonry, head of the Societas Rosicrucia in Anglia and founder of the Golden Dawn.<i><sup>56</sup></i>Reuss had influential international connections.<i><sup>57</sup></i>As Dr. Richard Spence of the University of Idaho has shown, Crowley was involved with the British secret service at least from 1913, when he was acting for British interests in Moscow,<i><sup>58</sup></i>and was called on during both World Wars.<i><sup>59</sup></i>Reuss was obviously a valuable asset to the Germans, and Crowley was ideally placed to track him.<i><sup>60</sup> </i></p>
<p>At any rate, Crowley’s identification of the White, Yellow and Black Schools of Magick show that the Illuminati and Freemasonry can be identified with the Black School or what Guenon called the Counter-Tradition and Anti-Tradition. Crowley explained that each School has its own “Hidden Masters.” While the Yellow School “stands aloof,” “the Black School and the White are always more or less in active conflict.”<i><sup>61</sup></i>The Yellow School regards the universe as “neutral.” The Black regards it as a curse and a sorrow.<i><sup>62</sup></i>Hence we might summarise the three Schools of Magick in regard to their philosophy of life as being: Yellow: Neutral, Black: Negative, White: Positive.</p>
<p>Crowley, like Eliphas Levi and Guenon, saw Masonry as having been subverted by the ‘Black School’ and referred to English Masons as being “in official relationship with certain masonic bodies whose sole <i>raison d’etre</i> is anti-clericalism, political intrigue and trade benefit,” despite English Masonry supposedly eschewing such motives.<i><sup>63</sup></i>These critical sentiments towards the subversion of English Masonry are not consistent with anyone who would be an adherent of Weishaupt and Illuminism, whose <i>raison d’etre</i> was anti-clericalism and political intrigue.</p>
<p>Crowley saw anarchism sweeping the world of the type that had been initiated by the Illuminati and other forms of Masonry during the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries. Again, it can be seen that Crowley’s attitude was anything but Illuminist. “The last quarter of a century had swamped”<i><sup>64</sup></i> the monarchies, and for Crowley the world was poorer for it:</p>
<p>The world is seething from the dissatisfaction that springs from insecurity. Men can adapt themselves to pretty well any conditions, but when they do not know from one day to another where some fundamental principle may not be abolished in the interests of progress, they no longer know where they are. They tend to adopt the principles of the man who flits from one place to another… Civilisation has become a hysterical scramble for momentary material advantage…<i><sup>65</sup></i></p>
<h2>Syncretic Religion and the Perennial Tradition</h2>
<p>The centuries of subversion of Tradition by Black adepts and their dupes has caused a confusion of cults, religions, and spiritualities, most of which claim to offer humanity the path to peace and happiness, and even to Godhood. As has been indicated throughout this article, it is not an easy matter to determine the real motives of many claiming the mantle of the Ageless Wisdom.</p>
<p>There is an abysmic gulf between adherents of the Perennial Tradition and the Anti- and Counter-Traditions, yet they will often appear similar, because of the ‘counterfeit’ nature of the latter. The Perennial Traditionalist sees a commonality between faiths over expanses of time and space, the assumption generally being that they all derived from a primordial source and differ in so far as they reflect differences of ethnos, geography and historical circumstances. The Perennial Traditionalist will seek to maintain the distinctiveness of these faiths.</p>
<p>The Black adept, while masquerading as a Traditionalist, aims to amalgamate the world’s faiths into one new syncretic faith, the altar to which all humanity will be chained under the guise of ‘universal brotherhood’, preludes of which were the bloody Reigns of Terror in Jacobin France and Bolshevik Russia. Therefore, when a State’s secular politicians, who also happen to be adherents of the aim of a ‘new world order’, start talking about ‘inter-faith dialogue’, under the guise of ‘representing all religions’, and of ‘tolerance’, one should be suspicious.</p>
<p>Those who adhere to the Ageless Wisdom of many faiths eschew materialistic agendas. The World Forum of Spiritual Culture, formed on the initiative of the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, brings together those who seek a new civilisation, in the aftermath of what they regard as a technical civilisation that is “anti-cultural.”<i><sup>66</sup></i>Significantly, Nazarbayev is also a champion of a Eurasian geopolitical bloc<i><sup>67</sup></i> that would challenge the very possibility of a ‘New World Order’. Such a bloc could serve as the axis for a New Age founded on spiritual and cultural principles, and freed from the bonds of matter.</p>
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<h2>Footnotes</h2>
<p>1. J Evola, <i>Revolt Against the Modern World</i>, Inner Traditions International, 1995.</p>
<p>2. In contrast to the progressive-lineal, darwinistic view of history as a straight line running from primitive to modern.</p>
<p>3. <i>Voluspa</i>, reprinted in <i>The Masks of Odin: Wisdom of the Ancient Norse</i>, Elsa-Brita Titchenell, Theosophical University Press, 1985.</p>
<p>4. <i>Bhagavad-Gita</i>, Ch.9:8.</p>
<p>5. G Hancock, <i>Fingerprints of the Gods: A Quest for the Beginning and the End</i>, Mandarin, 1996, 532-533.</p>
<p>6. Oswald Spengler, <i>The Decline of The West, </i>George Allen &amp; Unwin, 1971.</p>
<p>7. Rene Guenon, <i>The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, </i>Sophia Perennis, 2001.</p>
<p>8. J Evola, <i>Revolt Against the Modern World, </i>op. cit.</p>
<p>9. D Phillips, ‘Wheel’, <i>Man, Myth &amp; Magic, </i>Purnell, 1970, Vol. 7, 3014-3015.</p>
<p>10. Case can be regarded as an adept of Tradition. He was initiated into the Golden Dawn, Crowley’s OTO, and in 1926 into 3º Masonry, and founded the Builders of the Adytum. His adherence was to the ‘Ageless Wisdom’. Lee Moffitt, <i>Case Timeline</i>, 26 September 1997, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://kcbventures.com/pfc/documents/timeline.pdf">http://kcbventures.com/pfc/documents/timeline.pdf</a></p>
<p>11. John Foster Case, <i>Oracle of The Tarot: A Course on Tarot Divination</i>, Chapter 6, ‘The Major Trumps: 15. Le Diable’, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://tarotinstitute.com/free/Oracle2.pdf">http://tarotinstitute.com/free/Oracle2.pdf</a></p>
<p>12. However, Spengler also points out that at the cycle of decline – <i>Kali Yuga</i>, etc. – Money exhausts its possibilities and is met by a Traditional resurgence which he called “blood”: “the conflict between money and blood.” Oswald Spengler, op. cit., Vol. II, 506.</p>
<p>13. Rene Guenon, <i>The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, </i>Sophia Perennis, 2001, 260.</p>
<p>14. Ibid., 261.</p>
<p>15. Ibid., 261.</p>
<p>16. Ibid., 271.</p>
<p>17. Ibid., 261.</p>
<p>18. Ibid., 267.</p>
<p>19. Ibid., 271-273. Guenon draws on both Islamic and Christian traditions here.</p>
<p>20. Ibid., 271.</p>
<p>21. ‘Spirit of the Age’ which, as Spengler, Evola and Guenon showed is, in the epoch of Western decline, materialism and the rule of money. This ‘spirit’ will be reflected even in movements intended to be in opposition to it. Hence as Oswald Spengler pointed out, Marxism is the mirror image of capitalism, both being doctrines of the materialistic <i>zeitgeist</i>. Oswald Spengler, op. cit. Vol. 2, 402, 464.</p>
<p>22. Rene Guenon, op. cit., 251.</p>
<p>23. The pseudonym of Alphonse Louis Constant (1810-1875).</p>
<p>24. J W Revak, ‘Eliphas Levi: Clergyman, Radical, Magus’, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.villarevak.org/bio/levi_1.html">www.villarevak.org/bio/levi_1.html</a></p>
<p>25. Levi’s Masonic initiation can be construed from a comment he makes in <i>The History of Magic</i> (1860), indicating that he was an initiate of the 18º of Knight of the Pelican &amp; Eagle &amp; Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Heredom. Levi writing: “Having attained by our efforts to a grade of knowledge which imposes silence, we regard ourselves as pledged by our convictions even more than by an oath… and we shall in no wise fail to deserve the princely crown of the Rosy Cross….” <i>The History of Magic</i>, Rider, 1982, 286.</p>
<p>26. Eliphas Levi, Ibid., 286.</p>
<p>27. Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, executed for heresy.</p>
<p>28. Hiram Abif, one of mythical architects of the Temple of Solomon whose murder Masons are sworn to avenge; a central motif of Masonic ritual.</p>
<p>29. Eliphas Levi, op. cit., 286.</p>
<p>30. By which Levi here means adepts of Gnosis; not the Order of Illuminati, the ‘schism’ among the adepts resulting in the formation of the Illuminati by “the ambitious and unscrupulous.”</p>
<p>31. Eliphas Levi, op. cit., 305.</p>
<p>32. Dr. John M Roberts, <i>The Mythology of the Secret Societies, </i>Secker &amp; Warburg, 1972, 230.</p>
<p>33. Ibid., 266.</p>
<p>34. D Conway, <i>A Farewell to Marx, </i>Penguin Books, 1987, 146.</p>
<p>35. Lause specialises in the history of the labour movement. An associate professor of history at McMicken College of Arts &amp; Sciences, University of Cincinnati, his faculty biography states that he “teaches specialised courses in American Labor History, Comparative Labor History, and the Age of Jackson… For years, he has presented his work or participated in panels at the Annual North American Labor History Conference at Detroit… and the centennial conferences on Eugene V. Debs and Henry George.”</p>
<p>36. M A Lause, ‘Walking Like an Egyptian: The American Destinies of a Revolutionary French Secret Society’; <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w23/msg00109.html">http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w23/msg00109.html</a></p>
<p>37. Philippe de Lyon was the protégé of Gerard Encausse, alias Papus, 33º Mason, who became Grand Master of Memphis-Mizraim, and the Grand Master of the Supreme Council of Martinist Masonry. Martinism had been founded in 1754 by Martinez de Pasquales who was, according to Bernard Lazare, an Illuminist who established Lodges of the Order in France. B Lazare (1894) <i>Antisemitism: Its History &amp; Causes,</i> Britons, 1967, 153. Hence, there is a line of descent from the Illuminati to Memphis-Mizraim and Martinist Masonry. It is from this milieu, incidentally, that the <i>Protocols of Zion</i> might have emerged, rather than either as ‘Zionist’ records or a Czarist forgery.</p>
<p>38. According to Lause, I Nicolaevsky based his work on the origins of the Internationale on the records of the organisation: “Clearly, when Nicolaevsky found the manuscript records on this society a century later, he opened a window into a genuine revolutionary conspiracy with far-reaching influences.”</p>
<p>39. I Nicolaevsky, <i>Secret Societies and the First International</i>, <i>The Revolutionary Internationals, 1864-1943, </i>ed. Milorad M. Drachkovitch, Stanford University Press for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1966, 37.</p>
<p>40. L Spence (1920), <i>An Encyclopaedia of Occultism, </i>Citadel Press, 1960, ‘Cagliostro’, 90.</p>
<p>41. Ibid., 92.</p>
<p>42. International Workingmen’s Association, which included the rival followers of Karl Marx and of the anarchist Bakunin.</p>
<p>43. M A Lause, op. cit.</p>
<p>44. Ibid.</p>
<p>45. The Italian revolutionaries.</p>
<p>46. With Charles Braudlaugh there is another intriguing example of England’s leading atheist professing the arcane Mysteries as a Freemason. Annie Besant, who assumed the presidency of the Theosophical Society and leadership of Co-Masonry, was a close colleague. J J Lewis, ‘Annie Besant – Heretic’, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://womenshistory.about.com/od/freethought/a/annie_besant.htm">http://womenshistory.about.com/od/freethought/a/annie_besant.htm</a></p>
<p>47. Dr. Bob James is the Convenor and Co-ordinator of the Australian Centre for Fraternal Studies. He states of himself: “I make these claims on the basis of 25 years of research, of ten years or so as Secretary of the Hunter Labor History Society, and as organiser of a National Labor History Conference.”</p>
<p>48. Nicholas Roerich, the Russian mystic, is another significant example of a Traditionalist initiate with anti-Traditionalist connections, which included US President F D Roosevelt and Vice President Henry Wallace and Soviet luminaries Maxim Gorky, Education Minister Lunarchsky, and Foreign Minister Chicherin. Roerich aimed to create a pan-Buddhist geopolitical and spiritual bloc that would embrace parts of the USSR. He seems to have been a genuine initiate of the Perennial Tradition trying to resist those of the Counter-Tradition through his own high level diplomacy. See: M Pashkovsky, ‘Nicholas Roerich: Secret Agent of Hidden Masters’, <i>New Dawn</i> Special Issue No. 3, Winter 2007, 9-14.</p>
<p>49. A Crowley (1911), ‘Liber XV OTO Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae’, <i>Magick</i>, Samuel Weiser, 1984, 430. Appendix VI, ‘The Saints’.</p>
<p>50. K R Bolton, ‘Aleister Crowley as Political Theorist’, <i>Crowley: Thoughts &amp; Perspectives Vol. II</i>, ed. T Southgate, Black Front Press, 2011, 5-28. Also: K Preston, ‘The Whole of the Law: The Political Dimensions of Crowley’s Thought’, ibid., 68-85.</p>
<p>51. A Crowley (1911), op. cit.</p>
<p>52. J Evola, ‘Aleister Crowley’, <i>Crowley: Thoughts &amp; Perspectives Volume 2</i>, op. cit., 208.</p>
<p>53. Ibid., 212.</p>
<p>54. Reuss claimed in 1914 in his magazine <i>Oriflamme</i> to have ‘revived’ the Illuminati in 1880. It had been founded in Munich and called the Ludwig Lodge. It was from these origins that the OTO emerged.</p>
<p>55. Lady Queenborough, Edith Starr Miller (1933), <i>Occult Theocracy,</i> California: 1980, Appendix IV, 42-43.</p>
<p>56. Letters between Reuss and Westcott reproduced in: Lady Queenborough, ibid., Appendix IV, 8-35.</p>
<p>57. According to testimonials for Reuss reproduced by Lady Queenborough, he was commended by the Military attaché to the US Embassy in Germany, and in 1896 was recommend by the First Secretary of the Embassy in Berlin to be Berlin correspondent for the <i>NY Herald</i>. Central News Ltd. (London), United Press and many others accredited him as a journalist. Lady Queenborough, ibid., Appendix IV, 2-5.</p>
<p>58. Dr. R Spence, ‘The Magus Was A Spy: Aleister Crowley &amp; the Curious Connections Between Intelligence and the Occult’, <i>New Dawn </i>105, November-December 2007, 26.</p>
<p>59. Crowley, masquerading as an Irish republican, served British Intelligence during World War I by infiltrating a German propaganda coterie in the USA. That the OTO under Crowley’s leadership served as a means of keeping tabs on esoterically inclined German agents is indicated by the involvement of Hanns Heinz Ewers, a German agent in New York. R Spence, ibid., 27. As for Reuss, Spence states that this association may have enhanced Crowley’s credibility among German agents. Reuss had worked for the German secret service since the 1880s, when he infiltrated the Socialist League in London. Crowley maintained contact with Ruess during World War I. Interestingly Reuss went to Switzerland where he attempted to recruit exiled radicals via another occult order, the Anational Lodge and Mystic Temple, where Crowley’s Gnostic Mass was among the ceremonies (Spence, ibid., 28). Again we see an example of a crypto-Masonic order being used for political purposes. Crowley meanwhile denounced Reuss to New York authorities as a German agent.</p>
<p>60. Dr. Spence replies in this regard: “Basically, yes, I think your supposition about Crowley and Reuss is correct though the spying went both ways. The nagging question to me is Reuss’s exact connection to German Intelligence. He fits the profile of a spotter/recruiter and Crowley, with his connections… would have been a useful asset. From that vantage, Crowley could then funnel information back to his British handlers. The man who likely held the strings in all this was the <i>eminence grise</i> of pre-war British Intelligence, William Melville. In the 1880s and 90s, Melville had led Scotland Yard’s efforts against the anarchists, many of whom were German. He had informants among the German anarchists and it’s not inconceivable that Reuss was one of them. German and British Intelligence were generally very cooperative prior to 1900.” R Spence to K R Bolton, e-mail 10 September 2011. It could therefore be that both Reuss and Crowley were working against the anti-Traditional current, and that the crypto-masonic societies founded by Reuss were a means of subverting the subverters.</p>
<p>61. A Crowley, <i>Magic Without Tears</i>, Falcon Press, 1983, 66.</p>
<p>62. Ibid., 72-73.</p>
<p>63. A Crowley, <i>The Confessions of Aleister Crowley</i>, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986, 697.</p>
<p>64. Ibid., 284</p>
<p>65. Ibid.</p>
<p>66. ‘World Forum of Spiritual Cultures’, <i>New Dawn</i> 126, May-June 2011, 7-8.</p>
<p>67. Régis Genté, ‘Kazakhstan or Eurasian geopolitics’, <i>Le Monde Diplomatique</i>, 18 November 2010, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://mondediplo.com/2010/11/18osce">http://mondediplo.com/2010/11/18osce</a></p>
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<blockquote readability="11"><p><strong>DR. KR BOLTON</strong> has doctorates in theology and related areas, Ph.D. honoris causa, and certifications in psychology and social work studies. He has been widely published by the scholarly and broader media on a variety of subjects. He is a ‘contributing writer’ for <em>Foreign Policy Journal</em>, and a regular writer for <em>New Dawn</em>. Books include: <em>Revolution From Above</em> (London: Arktos Media Ltd., 2011), <em>Stalin: The Enduring Legacy</em> (Black House Publishing, 2012), <em>‘Introduction’ to Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism </em>(Black House, 2012), with books pending on the conflict between tradition and counter-tradition, and psychopathy in Left-wing politics.</p></blockquote>
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		<div id="attachment_97609" readability="1"><img class="size-medium wp-image-97609" title="Moon Jan13_2013" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Moon-Jan13_2013-400x271.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="271" /><p>The crescent moon greets sky watchers tonight in the western sky during twilight. Binoculars will show Mars very low above the horizon about an hour after sunset. Created with Stellarium</p></div>
<p>Two of our favorite sky objects are back. A fingernail crescent moon will scratch the sky at dusk and the space station begins another series of swing-bys  at  dawn.</p>
<p>Watch for the moon in the southwest during evening twilight. If you’re game for a challenge, use binoculars to find dim Mars about 7 degrees directly below the moon. Think of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130107.html" target="_blank"><strong>Curiosity</strong></a> up there poking around the rocks of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/timeline/prelaunch/landingsiteselection/galecrater2/" target="_blank"><strong>Gale Crater</strong></a> in Yellowknife Bay. Can you believe it’s been there for 161 days already?</p>
<div id="attachment_97610" readability="2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/717665main_pia16565-full_full.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-97610" title="Curiosity brush 1st use" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Curiosity-brush-1st-use.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></a><p>This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) shows the patch of rock cleaned by the first use of the rover’s Dust Removal Tool (DRT) on Jan. 6, 2013. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech</p></div>
<p>Last week the rover used its motorized, wire-bristle brush for the first time to dust off a rock in preparation for close-up inspection by the hand-lens imager and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/APXS/" target="_blank"><strong>Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer</strong></a> (APXS). The APXS analyzes the elements that compose the rock by bombarding it with alpha particles (helium atoms) and X-rays and measuring what scatters back. Each element gives off its own distinctive energy fingerprint.</p>
<div id="attachment_97611" readability="2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/718614main_iss034e016601_full.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-97611" title="ISS Earth stratocumulus Jan4_2013" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/ISS-Earth-stratocumulus-Jan4_2013.jpg" alt="" width="1152" height="726" /></a><p>Expedition 34 crew members photographed an extensive blanket of stratocumulus clouds as they flew over the northwestern Pacific Ocean on Jan. 4, 2013. The cloud pattern is typical for this part of the world. The low clouds carry cold air over a warmer sea. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA</p></div>
<p>Morning sky watchers again have the pleasure of tracking the<strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html" target="_blank"> International Space Station</a> </strong>(ISS), now beginning a fresh series of passes before sunrise. Winter mornings make watching the space station easy compared to summer. With the sun rising so late, you can look for the station when you step out to pick up the paper or walk the dog. No getting up at 4 or 5 a.m. like you did during the summer months with its early sunrises and even earlier twilights.</p>
<p>The times below are for the Duluth, Minn. region. Check out times for your town at Spaceweather’s <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://spaceweather.com/flybys/" target="_blank"><strong>Satellite Flybys page</strong></a> or log in to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.heavens-above.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Heavens-Above</strong></a>, where you can print out cool maps of the space station’s path in the sky. Look for the ISS to first appear in the west and travel east; a typical pass takes about 5 minutes.  It looks like a brilliant, steady yellow star on the move.</p>
<p>* Tomorrow Jan. 14 beginning at 6:55 a.m. High pass across the northern sky. Brilliant at magnitude -3.2<br/>
* Tues. Jan. 15 at 6:07 a.m. when it suddenly leaves Earth’s shadow in the western sky in Leo and travels across the top of the sky headed east. Brightest pass of the week at mag. -3.4<br/>
* Weds. Jan. 16 at 6:51 a.m. Nice pass across the northern sky<br/>
* Thurs. Jan. 17 at 6:03 a.m. Appears  suddenly out of Earth’s shadow halfway up in the northwestern sky moving east.<br/>
* Fri. Jan. 18 at 6:48 a.m. Full pass across the northern sky<br/>
* Sat. Jan. 19 at 6 a.m. First appears out of Earth’s shadow near the North Star moving east.</p>
<div id="attachment_97612" readability="2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMIIF.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-97612 " title="Sun SOHO  Jan13 9 am" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Sun-SOHO-Jan13-9-am.jpg" alt="" width="948" height="536" /></a><p>Closeup of the large sunspot region 1654 taken at 9 a.m. CST this morning Jan. 13, 2013 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Solar storms or flares occur when powerful magnetic energy stored in the spots is explosively released.  Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA</p></div>
<p>The sun’s been looking pretty hot this past week. Lots of flares, including a few rated as moderately powerful <strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-classification-of-solar-flares" target="_blank">M-class</a></strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-classification-of-solar-flares" target="_blank" /> storms, have been popping off in the large sunspot group 1654. I see today that the <strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html" target="_blank">Kp index</a></strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html" target="_blank" />, an indicator of magnetic activity around the Earth, is starting to climb again – just a little. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/forecast.html" target="_blank"><strong>space weather forecast</strong></a> doesn’t predict any auroras minor or major in the next three days, but that could change if 1654 continues firing off flares as it rotates to face the Earth more directly.</p>
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		<div id="attachment_97600" readability="3"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/712129main_8247975848_88635d38a1_o.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-97600" title="US at night current hi res16_inch" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/US-at-night-current-hi-res16_inch2-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="388" /></a><p>This image of the continental United States at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. City and highway lights, gas flares, wildfires and a bit of reflected moonlight are visible. Click for a huge version. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC</p></div>
<p>Wherever we go, our lights go with us. If we were more thoughtful about choosing the right type of lighting fixtures, it wouldn’t be such a problem, but we’re generally not. Photos taken late last year by the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Suomi NPP satellite</strong></a> of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html" target="_blank"><strong>Earth at night</strong> </a>show the human footprint in blazing garlands of twinkling orange lights strung along coastlines, cities and highways.</p>
<p>While the sight is beautiful on one level, it’s a disturbing waste of good energy. Much of the electric lighting seen from space spills upward to brighten the night sky instead of being directed at the ground where it’s needed.</p>
<div id="attachment_97606" readability="2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/712129main_8247975848_88635d38a1_o.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-97606" title="Bakken before and now" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Bakken-before-and-now2-1024x382.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="217" /></a><p>Comparison photos of the Bakken oil fields region in the year 2000 before active drilling and in 2012 with drilling going full bore. The photo at left was made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program; at right by Suomi NPP. Click to enlarge. Credit: NOAA, NASA</p></div>
<p>One of the most glaring examples of new light pollution shows up in the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/11/pictures/121130-north-dakota-oil-boom/" target="_blank"><strong>Bakken shale fields</strong></a> of northwestern North Dakota. Although one of the least densely-populated areas of the United States, the region has seen widespread oil-drilling and natural gas production in recent years. Most of the bright dots are lights associated with drilling equipment and temporary housing near drilling sites, but some are natural gas flares.</p>
<div id="attachment_97601" readability="1"><img class="size-large wp-image-97601" title="IDL TIFF file" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Bakken-big1-1024x736.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="419" /><p>Closeup satellite image of lighting in the Bakken oil fields of northwestern North Dakota. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC</p></div>
<p>Storage facilities and pipelines haven’t kept up with production, so the excess is burnt off in flares. This may sound like a bad idea, but it’s better than releasing it directly into the atmosphere. Methane is far nastier than carbon dioxide when it comes to the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/grnhse.html" target="_blank"><strong>greenhouse effect</strong></a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_97591" readability="2"><img class="size-medium wp-image-97591" title="Lighting good" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Lighting-good-400x252.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="252" /><p>Well-designed fixtures shield and direct light toward the ground. This example is from Manchester, UK.</p></div>
<p>While we all know lighting is necessary to carry on with tasks at night like driving home or picking up the kids at school, wisely-designed fixtures that contain the light in a box and direct it downward not only provide ample illumination, they also save energy, reduce glare and minimize light pollution of the night sky we all love.</p>
<div id="attachment_97593" readability="2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://eoimages2.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79834/arabia_vir_2012274_lrg.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-97593" title="Moonlight Suomi FULL" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Moonlight-Suomi-FULL.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="405" /></a><p>Full moon on September 30, 2012 over the Persion Gulf. You can see both the lights of cities and highways as well as details of the landscape. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC</p></div>
<p>Not all Earth lighting seen from orbit is manmade. Moonlight and aurora cast their natural hues across the planet’s skin, too. The Suomi NPP satellite captured a series of pictures showing dramatic changes in illumination of the Persian Gulf region between September 30 and October 15, 2012 when the moon waned from full to new phase.</p>
<div id="attachment_97594" readability="2"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://eoimages2.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79834/arabia_vir_2012279_lrg.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-97594" title="Moonlight Suomi gibbous" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Moonlight-Suomi-gibbous.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="405" /></a><p>With the moon at gibbous phase, the difference in lighting is quickly apparent. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC</p></div>
<p>Notice that as the moon’s phase lessens, the cities become more obvious while the landscape darkens. To see all four panels showing the complete transition from full to new moon, click <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79834&amp;src=eoa-iotd" target="_blank"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_97595" readability="2"><img class="size-large wp-image-97595" title="IDL TIFF file" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Aurora-antarctica-Suomi-NPP--1024x1024.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="584" /><p>The southern lights swirl over Antarctica in this satellite image taken on July 15, 2012. Look closely and you’ll see details in the ice shelf along the edge of ocean (top) lit up by the aurora. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon</p></div>
<p>We’ll leave you with the choicest image of all – the aurora austrinus or southern lights, counterpart to the aurora borealis. Suomi NPP captured this image on July 15, 2012 over Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land and the Princess Ragnhild Coast. At the time the continent was shrouded in mid-winter darkness with a waning crescent moon providing very little illumination. LIght from the aurora was bright enough however to reveal icebergs and the coastline.</p>
<p>If you like your skies dark, here are some <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/ucmprd1/groups/public/documents/document/d_001050.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>outdoor lighting tips</strong></a> on reducing light pollution around the house. For more on the issue, I highly recommend a visit to the International Dark-Sky Association’s <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.darksky.org/about-ida/faqs" target="_blank"><strong>Frequently Asked Questions</strong></a>.</p>
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		<div id="attachment_97578" readability="2"><img class="size-medium wp-image-97578" title="Apophis artist" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Apophis-artist-400x265.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="265" /><p>Artist impression of the rocky asteroid Apophis, named after an ancient Greek god who was the enemy of the Egyptian sun god Ra. Credit: ESA</p></div>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis" target="_blank"><strong>99942 Apophis</strong></a>, a near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun every 324 days, briefly raised a few hairs on the backs of astronomers after its discovery in 2004. Early orbital calculations gave it a 2.7 percent probability of striking Earth during a close flyby in 2029.</p>
<p>A later study of older photos that happened to include the asteroid helped to refine its orbit and eliminate the impact possibility that year. Unfortunately it also pointed to the chance for another potential strike in April 13, 2036.</p>
<p>During the 2029 flyby, it was predicted that Apophis might pass through a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_keyhole" target="_blank"><strong>gravitational keyhole</strong></a>, a narrow region of space (just 1/2 mile wide in this instance) where Earth’s gravity alters the asteroid’s path in such a way as to set it on a future collision course. While remote, the possibility was enough to cause concern.</p>
<div id="attachment_97582" readability="1"><img class="size-medium wp-image-97582" title="Apophis orbit NASA" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Apophis-orbit-NASA-400x225.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="225" /><p>The orbit of near-Earth asteroid Apophis cycles within and near the orbits of the three innermost planets. Credit: NASA</p></div>
<p>Thanks to fresh data gathered when Apophis zipped 9.3 million miles from Earth this Wednesday Jan. 9, we can now breath a sigh of relief.</p>
<p>Astronomers used NASA’s Goldstone 230-foot radar dish as well as the Magdalena Ridge Observatory in New Mexico and Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii to track the asteroid and determine a very accurate orbit.</p>
<p>“With the new data … we have effectively ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. “”The impact odds as they stand now are less than one in a million, which makes us comfortable saying we can effectively rule out an Earth impact in 2036. Our interest in asteroid Apophis will essentially be for its scientific interest for the foreseeable future.”</p>
<div id="attachment_97583" readability="2"><img class="size-medium wp-image-97583" title="Apophis Jan8 star trails" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Apophis-Jan8-star-trails1-400x282.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="282" /><p>Time exposure of Apophis on Jan. 8, 2013 near the time of its most recent approach to Earth. Credit: G. Masi and F. Nocentini</p></div>
<p>If you’re a catastrophist, don’t get too down about the news.  The April 13, 2029 appearance will be the closest flyby we’re aware of of an asteroid this big. On that date, Apophis will pass only 19,400 miles from the surface of Earth and shine brightly enough (mag. 3.5) to be visible with the naked eye from suburban skies.</p>
<p>Viewing conditions will be ideal in Europe, Africa and the Middle East observers with dark skies during closest approach on the 13th; U.S. observers won’t be as fortunate. When Apophis is nearest and brightest, the sun will still be up in the sky. The best views for the States will happen on the evening of the 12th, when you’ll see it in binoculars as a 7th magnitude point of light low in the southern sky. When darkness falls on the 13th in the U.S., you’ll need an 8-inch or larger scope to spot it.</p>
<p>Speed and proximity are behind Apophis’ dramatic change in brightness over such a short span of time. It tears by Earth at such a high rate of speed that it brightens and fades in hours instead of days or weeks.</p>
<div id="attachment_97584" readability="4"><img class="size-large wp-image-97584" title="Apophis Herschel pix" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2013/01/Apophis-Herschel-pix1-1024x600.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="342" /><p>Herschel’s 3-color view of Apophis during the asteroid’s approach on Jan. 5-6, 2013. During the latest pass, Herschel collected important information about the physical properties of the asteroid, which will help astronomers make refined predictions for the future trajectory of the asteroid. Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MACH-11/MPE/B.Altieri (ESAC) and C. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory)</p></div>
<p>Apophis was originally thought to be 885 feet across, but that number was refined this week when the European Space Agency’s orbiting <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel" target="_blank"><strong>Herschel Space Observatory</strong></a> made  a series of observations in infrared light during the asteroid’s approach. When those observations were combined with visual light data, scientists were able to come up with a more accurate estimate of it size. It grew! Apophis’ measures 1,066 feet +/- 50 feet across.</p>
<p>It’s also darker than previously thought which affects how much sunlight it absorbs. That in turn can lead to changes in Apophis’ orbit over time. Astronomers won’t be taking their eye off this monster rock anytime soon. You can read more about the findings <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel_intercepts_asteroid_Apophis" target="_blank"><strong>HERE</strong></a>.</p>
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<p><em>Image Caption: Dream Chaser commercial crew vehicle built by Sierra Nevada Corp docks at ISS</em></p>
<p>Commercial test pilots, not NASA astronauts, will fly the first crewed missions that NASA hopes will at last restore America’s capability to blast <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/98509/can-humans-live-on-mars/">humans</a> to Earth orbit from American soil – perhaps as early as 2015 – which was totally lost following the forced <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/97446/endeavour-departs-kennedy-forever-for-california-home/">shuttle shutdown</a>.  </p>
<p>At a news briefing this week, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/99155/curiosity-touches-mars-at-yellowknife-bay-and-drives-to-snake-river-for-drilling/">NASA</a> managers at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) said the agency is implementing a new way of doing business in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/98818/orion-assemblage-on-track-for-2014-launch/">human spaceflight </a>and purposely wants private companies to assume the flight risk first with their crews before exposing NASA crews as a revolutionary new flight requirement.  Both NASA and the companies strongly emphasized that there will be no shortcuts to flying safe.  </p>
<p>A trio of American aerospace firms – Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corp – are leading the charge to develop and launch the new commercially built human-rated spacecraft that will launch Americans to LEO atop American rockets from American bases.<span id="more-99362"></span>  </p>
<p>The goal is to ensure the nation has safe, reliable and affordable crew transportation systems for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/98207/hurricane-sandy-barreling-to-eastern-seaboard-menacing-millions/">low-Earth orbit </a>(LEO) and International Space Station (ISS) missions around the middle of this decade.</p>
<p>The test launch schedule hinges completely on scarce Federal dollars from NASA for which there is no guarantee in the current tough fiscal environment.</p>
<p>The three companies are working with <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/99042/nasa-johnson-style-parodies-gangnam-style-music-video/">NASA</a> in a public-private partnership using a combination of NASA seed money and company funds. Each company was awarded contracts under NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability Initiative, or CCiCap, program, the third in a series of contracts aimed at kick starting the development of the so-called private sector ‘space taxis’  to fly astronauts to and from the ISS. </p>
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<p><em>Caption: Boeing CST-100 crew vehicle docks at the ISS</em></p>
<p>The combined value of NASA’s Phase 1 CCiCap contracts is about $1.1 Billion and runs through March 2014 said Ed Mango, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager.  Phase 2 contract awards will follow and eventually lead to the actual flight units after a down selection to one or more of the companies, depending on NASA’s approved budget.   </p>
<p>Since the premature retirement of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/97398/endeavour-poised-for-final-takeoff-on-sept-19/">NASA’s shuttle fleet </a>in 2011, US astronauts have been 100% reliant on the Russians to hitch a ride to the ISS – at a price tag of over $60 Million per seat. This is taking place while American aerospace workers sit on the unemployment line and American expertise and billions of dollars of hi-tech space hardware rots away or sits idly by with each passing day.</p>
<p>Boeing, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/95334/spectacular-spacex-launch-opens-historic-new-era-in-spaceflight/">SpaceX</a> and Sierra Nevada Corp seek to go where no private company has gone before – to low Earth orbit with their private sector manned spacecraft.  And representatives from all three told reporters they are all eager to move forward.  </p>
<p>All three commercial vehicles – the Boeing CST-100; SpaceX Dragon and Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser – are designed to carry a crew of up to 7 astronauts and remain docked at the ISS for more than 6 months. </p>
<p>“For well over a year now, since Atlantis [flew the last space shuttle mission], the United States of America no longer has the capability to launch people into space.  And that’s something that we are not happy about,” said Garrett Reisman, a former space shuttle astronaut who is now the SpaceX Commercial Crew project manager leading their development effort. “We’re very proud to be part of the group that’s going to do something about that and get Americans back into space.”</p>
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<p><em>Caption: Blastoff of SpaceX Cargo Dragon atop Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May, 22, 2012, bound for the ISS. Credit: Ken Kremer </em></p>&#13;
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<p>“We are the emotional successors to the shuttle,” said Mark Sirangelo, Sierra Nevada Corp. vice president and SNC Space Systems chairman. “Our target was to repatriate that industry back to the United States, and that’s what we’re doing.”</p>
<p>Sierra Nevada is developing the winged Dream Chaser, a mini-shuttle that launches atop an Atlas V rocket and lands on a runway like the shuttle.  Boeing and SpaceX are building capsules that will launch atop <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/95895/hush-hush-us-spy-satellite-blasts-off-atop-milestone-atlas-rocket/">Atlas V</a> and Falcon 9 rockets, respectively, and then land by parachute like the Russian Soyuz capsule. </p>
<p>SpaceX appears to be leading the pack using a man-rated version of their Dragon capsule which has already docked twice to the ISS on critical cargo delivery missions during 2012.  From the start, the SpaceX Dragon was built to meet the specification ratings requirements for a human crew. </p>
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<p><em>Caption: Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station on May 25, 2012 for grapple and berthing . Photo: NASA</em></p>
<p>Reisman said the first manned Dragon test flight with SpaceX test pilots could be launched in mid 2015.  A flight to the ISS could take place by late 2015.  Leading up to that in April 2014, SpaceX is planning to carry out an unmanned in-flight abort test to simulate and test a worst case scenario “at the worst possible moment.”</p>
<p>Boeing is aiming for an initial three day orbital test flight of their CST-100 capsule during 2016, said John Mulholland, the Boeing Commercial Programs Space Exploration vice president and program manager.   Mulholland added that Chris Ferguson, the commander of the final shuttle flight by Atlantis, is leading the flight test effort.   </p>
<p>Boeing has leased one of NASA’s Orbiter Processing Facility hangers (OPF-3) at KSC.  Mulholland told me that Boeing will ‘cut metal’ soon. “Our first piece of flight design hardware will be delivered to KSC and OPF-3 within 5 months.”</p>
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<p><em>Caption: Boeing CST-100 capsule mock-up, interior view. Credit: Ken Kremer</em></p>
<p>Sierra Nevada plans to start atmospheric drop tests of an engineering test article of the Dream Chaser from a carrier aircraft in the next few months in an autonomous mode.  The test article is a full sized vehicle. </p>
<p>“It’s not outfitted for orbital flight; it is outfitted for atmospheric flight tests,” Sirangelo told me.  “The best analogy is it’s very similar to what NASA did in the shuttle program with <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/95708/shuttle-enterprise-lands-on-the-deck-of-intrepid-in-manhattan/">the Enterprise</a>, creating a vehicle that would allow it to do significant flights whose design then would filter into the final vehicle for orbital flight.”</p>
<p>Now to the issue of using commercial space test pilots in place of NASA astronauts on the initial test flights. </p>
<p>At the briefing, Reisman stated, “We were told that because this would be part of the development and prior to final certification that we were not allowed, legally, to use NASA astronauts to be part of that test pilot crew.”</p>
<p>So I asked NASA’s Ed Mango, “Why are NASA astronauts not allowed on the initial commercial test flights?”  </p>
<p>Mango replied that NASA wants to implement the model adopted by the military wherein the commercial company assumes the initial risk before handing the airplanes to the government. </p>
<p>“We would like them to get to a point where they’re ready to put their crew on their vehicle at their risk,” said Mango. “And so it changes the dynamic a little bit. Normally under a contract, the contractor comes forward and says he’s ready to go fly but it’s a NASA individual that’s going to sit on the rocket, so it becomes a NASA risk. </p>
<p>“What we did is we flipped it around under iCAP. It’s not what we’re going to do long term under phase two, but we flipped it around under iCAP and said we want to know when you’re ready to fly your crew and put your people at risk. And that then becomes something that we’re able to evaluate.” </p>
<p>“In the end all our partners want to fly safe.  They’re not going to take any shortcuts on flying safe,” he elaborated. “All of us have the same initiative and it doesn’t matter who’s sitting on top of the vehicle. It’s a person, and that person needs to fly safely and get back home to their families. That’s the mission of all our folks and our partners – to go back home and see their family.” </p>
<p>Given the nations fiscal difficulties and lack of bipartisan cooperation there is no guarantee that NASA will receive the budget it needs to keep the commercial crew program on track.  </p>
<p>Indeed, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/96640/president-obama-hails-nasa-curiosity-rover-landing-on-mars/">Obama</a> Administrations budget request for commercial crew has been repeatedly slashed by the US Congress to only half the request in the past two years. These huge funding cuts have already forced a multi-year delay in the inaugural test flights and increased the time span that the US has no choice but to pay Russia to launch US astronauts to the ISS.   </p>
<p>“The budget is going to be an extremely challenging topic, not only for this program but for all NASA programs,” said Phil McAlister, NASA Commercial Spaceflight Development director.</p>
<p>NASA is pursuing a dual track approach in reviving NASA’s human spaceflight program.  The much larger <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/98818/orion-assemblage-on-track-for-2014-launch/">Orion crew capsule </a>is simultaneously being developed to launch atop the new SLS super rocket and carry astronauts back to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/97047/neil-armstrong-1st-human-on-the-moon-tributes-and-photo-gallery/">the Moon </a>by 2021 and then farther into deep space to Asteroids and one day hopefully <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/99155/curiosity-touches-mars-at-yellowknife-bay-and-drives-to-snake-river-for-drilling/">Mars</a>. </p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kenkremer.com">Ken Kremer</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/99362/private-test-pilots-to-fly-1st-commercial-crewed-space-flights-for-nasa/dream_chaser_atlas_v_integrated_launch_configuration1/" rel="attachment wp-att-99409"><img src="http://ut-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Dream_Chaser_Atlas_V_Integrated_Launch_Configuration1-315x580.jpg" alt="Dream_Chaser_Atlas_V_Integrated_Launch_Configuration[1]" width="315" height="580" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-99409" /></a></p>
<p><em>Caption: Dream Chaser awaits launch atop Atlas V rocket </em></p>
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<p>Like an enormous cannon that is slowly turning its barrel toward us, the latest giant sunspot region AR1654 is steadily moving into position to face Earth, loaded with plenty of magnetic energy to create M-class flares — moderate-sized outbursts of solar energy that have the potential to cause brief radio blackouts on Earth and, at the very least, spark bright aurorae around the upper latitudes.</p>
<p>According to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://spaceweather.com" target="_blank">SpaceWeather.com</a>, AR1654 “could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet.”</p>
<p>The image above, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory earlier today, shows the structure of AR1654 upon the Sun’s photosphere — its light-emitting “surface” layer. Stretching many tens of thousands of miles, this magnetic solar blemish easily dwarfs our entire planet. And it’s not just a prediction that this sunspot will unleash a flare — it already has.</p>
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<p>AR1654 came around the limb of the sun crackling with activity. Shortly after the probability of AR1654 releasing a flare was raised to 50% it did just that, letting loose with a burst of magnetic energy that was observed by SDO’s multi-channel cameras. Watch the video below:</p>
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<p>Peaking at 9:11 UTC, this M1-class flare won’t have much more effect on Earth than perhaps some radio and GPS interference and maybe increased auroral activity. But AR1654 is still evolving and growing… and moving to face us.</p>
<p>In the meantime, solar astronomers and observatories like SDO are keeping an ever-watchful eye on this magnetic monster.</p>
<p>Keep up with the latest news here on Universe Today, on the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="_blank">SDO mission site</a> and on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://spaceweather.com" target="_blank">spaceweather.com.</a></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 1/12:</strong> According to the NOAA, AR1654 has a 5% chance of producing an X-class flare, based on its current magnetic activity and alignment.</p>
<p><em>A sunspot is a magnetically active region on the sun that appears dark because it’s relatively cooler than the surrounding area—6,000ºF (3,300ºC) versus 10,000ºF (5,500º C). Sunspots are where solar flares are most likely to occur since the magnetic fields in these active regions can build up enough energy to break, releasing bursts of intense radiation into the solar system.</em></p>
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<p>The next addition to the International Space Station will likely be an inflatable module from Bigelow Aerospace.  NASA announced today they have awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow to provide a new module for the ISS. “The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will demonstrate the benefits of this space habitat technology for future exploration and commercial space endeavors,” NASA said in a press release.  This would be the first privately built module to be added to the space station.<br /><span id="more-99398"></span></p>
<p>“The International Space Station is a unique laboratory that enables important discoveries that benefit humanity and vastly increase understanding of how humans can live and work in space for long periods,” NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said. “This partnership agreement for the use of expandable habitats represents a step forward in cutting-edge technology that can allow humans to thrive in space safely and affordably, and heralds important progress in U.S. commercial space innovation.”</p>
<p>NASA will release more information about the agreement and the module next week, but previous reports have indicated the inflatable module would be used for adding additional storage and workspace, and the module would be certified to remain on-orbit for two years.<br />
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<p>In 2006 Bigelow launched their Genesis I inflatable test module into orbit and according to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/genesis-1.php" target="_blank">their website</a>, it is still functioning and “continuing to produce invaluable images, videos and data for Bigelow Aerospace. It is now demonstrating the long-term viability of expandable habitat technology in an actual orbital environment.”</p>
<p>A second Genesis module was launched in 2007 and it, too, is still functioning in orbit.<br />
Bigelow has said that even though the outer shell of their module is soft, as opposed to the rigid outer shell of current modules at the ISS, Bigelow’s inflatable modules are more resistant to micrometeoroid or orbital debris strikes. Bigelow uses multiple layers of Vectran, a material which is twice as strong as Kevlar. In ground tests, according to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/01/nasa-managers-discuss-prospect-bigelow-inflatable-iss/" target="_blank">NASASpacefight.com</a>, objects that would penetrate ISS modules only penetrated half-way through the skin of Bigelow’s modules.</p>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><div><div id="divDetailBody" readability="29"><p>On Friday night, Somali al-Shabab militants killed one French commando involved in the botched operation to rescue Denis Allex, who was taken hostage in Somalia about three and a half years ago. &#13;</p><p>Another commando has reportedly gone missing, according to French defense ministry.&#13;</p><p>At least five French helicopters and 50 troops were involved in the air raid on a house in the town of Bulomarer, nearly 110 kilometers (70 miles) south of the Somali capital Mogadishu.&#13;</p><p>"United States forces provided limited technical support to the French forces in that operation, but took no direct part in the assault on the compound where it was believed the French citizen was being held hostage," US President Barack Obama said on Sunday in a letter to Congress.&#13;</p><p>"United States combat aircraft briefly entered Somali airspace to support the rescue operation, if needed," Obama wrote, adding that "these aircraft did not employ weapons during the operation."&#13;</p><p>The US president stated that American forces, which participated in the operation, left Somalia by about 8:00 p.m. EST Friday (0100 GMT Saturday).&#13;</p><p>"I directed US forces to support this rescue operation in furtherance of US national security interests," Obama wrote.&#13;</p><p>On Saturday, al-Shabab said the hostage is alive. &#13;</p><p>"(Denis) Allex still remains safe and far from the location of the battle," al-Shebab militants said at a news release. "As a response to this botched rescue operation by the French forces, (al-Shebab) assures the French people that it will give its final verdict regarding the fate of Denis Allex within two days." &#13;</p><p>French defense ministry, however, said the secret agent was killed by the militants. "During the assault, violent combat took place. Denis Allex was killed by his captors." &#13;</p><p>The ministry added that some 17 militants were also killed in the incident. &#13;</p><p>GJH/MA&#13;</p><p></p></div></div><br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com">Amazon Plugin Wordpress</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center></div>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><div><div id="divDetailBody" readability="15"><p>The PKK fighter was killed on Sunday when Turkish forces attacked his house in Nusaybin -- a city on the border with Syria.&#13;</p><p>The victim, whose identity has not been revealed, was a senior member of the PKK, Turkish media outlets reported. &#13;</p><p>On Thursday, three Kurdish women activists were killed in Paris. &#13;</p><p>The bodies of Sakine Cansiz, a founding member of the PKK, and two other female Kurd activists were found with gunshot wounds in the head at Kurdish Information Center in the French capital.&#13;</p><p>On Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the murder of the Kurdish activists was apparently over an internal PKK feud and thus an inside job. &#13;</p><p>The Turkish government condemned the killings, which the French Interior Ministry described as “an assassination.” &#13;</p><p>A group of demonstrators also gathered in front of the Kurdish institute in Paris on Friday to express outrage at the incident. &#13;</p><p></p><blockquote>Reports said on January 9 that Ankara and the PKK had reached an agreement on a peace roadmap to end nearly three decades of hostility. </blockquote>&#13;<br />The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.&#13;<p>GJH/MA</p></div></div><br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com">Amazon Plugin Wordpress</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center></div>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><div><div id="divDetailBody" readability="22"><p>US Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said the CV-22 Ospreys would likely be deployed at Kedena Air Base in the Okinawa prefecture, despite fierce opposition by islanders and warnings that any crash of the aircraft -- of extremely poor safety record -- could threaten the huge American military presence on the island, the UPI reported on Sunday.&#13;</p><p>During his visit to the US on Friday, Okinawa prefectural spokesman, Susumu Matayoshi, however, told Christopher Johnstone, the director for Northeast Asia at the US Department of Defense, that the prefecture would never agree to the planes' deployment.&#13;</p><p>During a news conference at the Pentagon on January 11, Donley said the US military was considering the deployment, but declined to provide details.&#13;</p><p>Pentagon afterwards issued a statement, saying, "Any deployment of the Air Force CV-22 to the Asia-Pacific region is years away...The United States has not notified the government of Japan about the CV-22 because we have not made a basing decision."&#13;</p><p></p><blockquote>The US marines deployed 12 of their MV-22 Ospreys to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma last autumn and another 12 MV-22s are planned for deployment this summer.</blockquote>&#13;<br />The Osprey is a hybrid aircraft with rotors that facilitate takeoff like a helicopter and engines that can tilt forward powering it to fly like an airplane at much faster speed than a chopper.&#13;<p>Since its early years in 1990s, the aircraft has had multiple malfunctions and many accidents.&#13;</p><p>Opposition to the US military footprint in Okinawa is intense. The 1.4 million residents on the island have been demanding the Futenma airbase -- which sits in a densely-packed residential area -- to be moved off the island. &#13;</p><p>Okinawa has become known as the site of enduring tensions with US forces, and hence a lasting source of conflict between the two sides. Around half of the 47,000 US service personnel in Japan are based on the strategically-located island.&#13;</p><p>MN/HN&#13;<br /></p></div></div><br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com">Amazon Plugin Wordpress</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center></div>
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		<p>We’ve seen massive amounts of dark money in politics co-opt and buy our former democracy wholesale. This was especially clear in the post-Citizen’s United elections in the U.S., with special interests, corporations and/or lobbyists spending billions of dollars (that they otherwise argue they need to keep hold of with preferential legal and legislative treatment).</p>
<p>Wall Street, in particular, holds sway over the thinking in Washington, D.C. Our elected policy-makers are increasingly owned, or at least bought and paid for, in other words; whores. So they’re exercising their freedom of speech, and just as with their other shady deal-making, they tend to bet big. Wall Street gave big to the Democrats and Obama in particular in 2008. They gave to him early on before backing Romney as ‘one of their own’ in the financial sector.</p>
<p>But is there anything to the idea that their toxic objectivism is severely conservative nowadays? <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/01/wall-street-republicans.html">Open Secrets Blog</a>, a great research site from the Center for Responsive Politics that was instrumental during the election, before and since, for exposing the flow of money from profiteering barons to pandering politicians. It seems they are, in fact, trending Republican:</p>
<blockquote readability="3"><p>According to the latest Center for Responsive Politics analysis, there has been a defined shift in campaign giving by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=F03">commercial banks</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=F07">securities and investment</a> firms , which now heavily favor Republican candidates.</p></blockquote>
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<p>For the record, this is only a trend. A steep and extreme trend, but a trend nonetheless. This may be an artifact of being an election year, and it does appear that a similar amount was spent as in 2008, just not split between the two candidates and overwhelmingly for “their guy.”</p>
<p>Although, I personally don’t believe there is much of difference, since national politics is mostly a game where Republicans and Democrats play-fight for the public while betraying voters on a daily basis.</p>
<p>I highly recommend <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/01/wall-street-republicans.html">Open Secrets</a> for your references, as they will shine light on corruption of any moneyed group or politician, regardless of their claimed affiliation.</p>

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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><div><blockquote readability="12"><p>Any child can indulge in wish fulfillment fantasizing. It’s not a philosophy [or] a movement. And the way you Robot Cultists do it makes you a kind of techno-transcendental New Age cult too hype-notized to notice you are functioning as a crowdsourced cheerleading squad for celebrity CEOs and ramped up gizmo consumerism at a time when the world is literally perishing from extractive- industrial- petrochemical- consumer- indebted- corporate- militarism.</p>
<p>The digital revolution is a lie. Cyberspace isn’t a spirit realm. It belches coal smoke. It is accessed on landfill-destined toxic devices made by wretched wage slaves. It abetted financial fraud and theft at every level of society around the world. Its “openness” and its “freedom” turned out to be targeted marketing harassment, panoptic surveillance, and zero comments.</p>
<p>Your Robot Cult — whether in its eugenicist transhumanoid sects, or in its dead-ender AI (artificial imbecillence) Singularitarian nerd-rapture sects, or in its vitamin supplement replacement parts shiny robot body soul-migration techno-immortalist sects, or in its nano-santa nano-genies-in-a-bottle nano-cornucopiast sects, or in its greenwashing hyper-denialist “geo-engineering” sects — your Robot Cult, I say, takes all the lies of crass commercialism — it takes all its infomercial boner pills and anti-aging kremes and endless promises of consumer ecstasy — and then sets the volume dial on eleven, turning what was just ugly stupid embarrassing commonplace circus-barker deception and crack-pottery into full on fulminating faith.</p></blockquote></div><br /><br /><center><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Powered By WizardRSS.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wizardrss.com">Full Text RSS Feed</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wpzonbuilder.com">Amazon Plugin Wordpress</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.androidmodz.com/">Android Forums</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wptip.net/">Wordpress Tutorials</a></center></div>
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<ul><li><span>Attack comes just weeks after the brutal gang rape and murder of a student on a bus travelling through New Delhi</span></li><li><span>Latest victim was abducted Friday night and driven to a secluded spot where seven men took turns to rape her, police said<br /></span></li><li><span>She was dumped near her in-laws village the next morning, where she reported the crime to police</span></li><li><span>Local reports claim accused have already confessed to the crime in preliminary interrogations - a seventh suspect remains at large<br /></span></li></ul>
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<br /><p>Six men have been arrested over the rape of a woman on a coach in northern India in an attack which has disturbing echoes of the gang-rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus just weeks ago.</p><p>The victim was travelling to her in-laws' home in Punjab on Friday when she was allegedly snatched and driven to a district bordering Amritsar, the Sikh holy city.</p><p>Five men joined the driver and conductor, who had taken her by motorbike to an unknown address, and took turns to rape the 29-year-old.</p><p><b>Scroll down for video</b></p><div readability="3"> 
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-2261635-16E92AC8000005DC-237_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="Indian " class="blkBorder" /><p>Arrest: Indian policemen stand with six men, faces covered, suspected in a gang rape of a bus passenger</p>
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<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-2261635-16E7B803000005DC-562_634x421.jpg" width="634" height="421" alt="Early morning traffic in Amritsar, India, near where a 29-year-old woman was raped after she was abducted from a bus on Friday" class="blkBorder" /><p>Early morning traffic in Amritsar, India, near where a 29-year-old woman was raped after she was abducted from a bus on Friday</p>
</div><p>They dumped her near her in-laws' village the next morning where she told relatives of her ordeal, police said.</p><p>'Six
men have been arrested on allegations of having raped a 29-year-old 
woman... after forcibly taking her to an unknown location on the night 
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<p>A seventh suspect is still on the run from the police, he added.</p><p>'The lady, after being kidnapped, was raped brutally throughout the night by the seven accused,' he said.</p><p>'After
raping the victim throughout the night, one of the accused dropped her 
near her in-laws' house the next morning where she narrated the whole 
incident to her two sisters-in-law.'</p><div readability="1"> 
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last week in a protest against the gang rape and murder of a student in 
December. Six men have been arrested after a second woman was raped in north India on Friday</p></div><div readability="1"> 
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-2261635-16B1BBF9000005DC-272_634x597.jpg" width="634" height="597" alt="Freedom? An Indian woman holds a placard in a December 30 protest after the death of the 21-year-old who was recently gang-raped and murdered on a moving bus a fortnight earlier" class="blkBorder" /><p>Freedom? An Indian woman holds a placard in a 
December 30 protest after the death of the 21-year-old who was recently 
gang-raped and murdered on a moving bus a fortnight earlier</p></div><p>Asked why she had not resisted when she was being taken by motorcycle to the secluded spot where she was attacked, Superintendent Singh said she was 'a bit mentally weak', the Indian Express reported. </p><p>The extent of the victims injuries had yet to be established, but an initial examination confirmed she had been raped, the Deccan Chronicle reported. </p><p>Local news services are reporting that the suspects have confessed during preliminary interrogations.</p><br /><p>This Google Map shows the location of Amritsar, northern India, near where the woman was snatched <br /></p><p>The attack is disturbingly similar to the December 16 gang-rape and murder of a 21-year-old student  in Delhi, where five men are on trial in a case that has fuelled anger across India over the treatment of women.</p><p>Partap Singh Bajwa, a local Congress Party politician, blamed the police for not enforcing stringent checks on buses operating in the state.</p><p>'It all happened due to laxity of police as they never bother to check out the buses moving on national highways during night time,' Bajwa told AFP.</p><p> </p><div readability="3"> 
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Party (AAP) take part in a candlelight march in Amritsar on December 30,
2012, after the cremation ceremony for the victim of the December 16 
gang rape</p></div><p>Protesters across India have called for the police to be more vigilant and sensitive to the growing incidence of sexual assault against women, after details emerged of the New Delhi attack.</p><p>Police and prosecutors have outlined how the alleged rapists picked up the woman and her male companion in a school bus which they had taken for a joyride after drinking heavily.</p><p>The bus would have had to cross numerous police checkpoints at that time of night but at no stage was the vehicle pulled over by officers.</p><p>After getting into an argument with the woman's male companion, the group allegedly beat him up and raped the victim in the back of the bus while driving around Delhi for some 45 minutes.</p><p>They also sexually assaulted her with a rusted metal bar, leaving her with severe internal injuries, before hurling her from the vehicle. </p><p>She died in a Singapore hospital 13 days after the attack.</p><h2><span>VIDEO</span> The second gang rape victim speaks out as assailants are arrested  </h2><div>	<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" name="video" id="video"></a>
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<br /><p>These beautiful photographs capture the frozen stillness of the forests of Lapland in deep winter. </p><p>The stunning scenes were captured by Finnish photographer Tiina Tormanen, who works nearby but was nevertheless blown away by the area's ethereal beauty.</p><p>Heavy snowfall and drifts completely mask the forests pine trees, making them look almost like glistening, shuffling figures making their way across the snowy wastes.</p><p><b>Scroll down for video</b><br /></p><div readability="2"> 
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sub-Arctic forests in a picture taken by amateur photographer Tiina 
Tormanen. Temperatures in the region often plummet to below -20C, 
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<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-0-16E7976D000005DC-969_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="Ghostly: The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, hangs in the night sky over the frozen landscape" class="blkBorder" /><p>Ghostly: The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, hangs in the night sky over the frozen landscape</p></div><p> </p><div readability="1"> 
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-0-16E79751000005DC-881_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="Extreme: Lapland's climate is characterised by snowy winters and temperate summers fed by the Gulf Stream" class="blkBorder" /><p>Extreme: Lapland's climate is characterised by snowy winters and temperate summers fed by the Gulf Stream</p></div><p>Shots taken during the day and at dusk show how the pale light of the northern sun barely warms the frigid forests, while nighttime shots show the Aurora Borealis hanging in the dark sky.</p><p>Largely situated within the Arctic circle, Lapland's climate is characterised by snowy, cold winters but relatively warm summers due to the Gulf Stream.
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<p>Annual temperatures range from a balmy 20C in the summer months, to a deep freeze in the winter that sees the mercury frequently plummet to below -20C.</p><p>The Sami people, the historic residents of Lapland, traditionally divide the year into eight seasons instead of four.</p><div readability="1"> 
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-2261653-16E797C2000005DC-987_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="And you thought Britain was cold this week: The pale winter sun rises to shine weak light across the icy terrain" class="blkBorder" /><p>And you thought Britain was cold this week: The pale winter sun rises to shine weak light across the icy terrain</p></div><p> </p><div readability="1"> 
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-2261653-16E797E9000005DC-955_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="Cold: This shot taken from a high vantage point shows how the frozen forests extend as far as the eye can see" class="blkBorder" /><p>Cold: This shot taken from a high vantage point shows how the frozen forests extend as far as the eye can see</p></div><p> </p><div readability="1"> 
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-0-16E79745000005DC-709_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="How many words for snow? Lapland's Sami people traditionally divide the year into eight seasons instead of four" class="blkBorder" /><p>How many words for snow? Lapland's Sami people divide the year into eight seasons instead of four</p></div><p>Despite the clarity and clever composition of her shots, Ms Tormanen is merely an amateur photographer. </p><p>She works at a chef in a hotel close to the forests and captures the stunning scenery in her spare time.</p><p>'I work at a hotel and live the whole winter season at the top of fell, so I could easily take photos when the weather looks good.,' the 31-year-old said.</p><div readability="3"> 
<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-0-16E799AD000005DC-155_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="Ms Tormanen looks out across the frozen landscape: 'I like to take photos which I think have feeling, rather than being technically brilliant,' she said" class="blkBorder" /><p>Ms Tormanen looks out across the frozen landscape: 'I like to take photos which I think have feeling, rather than being technically brilliant,' she said</p>
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<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-2261653-16E797D4000005DC-68_634x423.jpg" width="634" height="423" alt="Life in a cold climate: A closer look at the trees shows how they are coated in a thick layer of snow" class="blkBorder" /><p>Life in a cold climate: A closer look at the trees shows how they are coated in a thick layer of snow</p>
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<br /><p>The mother of the young Indian woman who was fatally gang raped on a bus in New Delhi has called for the men who murdered her daughter to be hanged.</p><p>Speaking of the gang who beat her 23-year-old daughter so badly she died almost two weeks later in hospital, she said: 'My soul will never know any rest if the men who tormented my daughter are not hanged.'</p><p>The 46-year-old also spoke of how her daughter, a physiotherapy student, whispered to her on her death bed: 'Mama, I want them to be burnt alive.'<br /></p><div readability="4"> 
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</div><p>On December 16 last year the woman was attacked by a group of men using a tyre iron as a weapon as she travelled on a bus home with a male companion following a trip to the cinema.<br /></p><p>She suffered massive internal injuries, brain damage and a heart attack, dying in a hospital in Singapore 13 days after the attack.
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<p>Her brutal murder has sparked furor throughout India, with mass demonstrations for women's rights and calls for tougher rape laws.</p><p>The woman's mother, speaking to The Sunday Telegraph at her ancestral home in Medawara Kalan, in the northern state of Utter Pradesh, paid tribute to her daughter, saying: 'She was our life.</p><p>'I want only one thing. I want to see those animals hang.'</p><p>The female victim and her male companion boarded what appeared to be an ordinary private mini-bus after watching the film Life of Pi together.</p><p>Her male friend said a gang of six men aboard the bus - fitted with curtains and tinted windows - had planned to trap them.<br /></p><div readability="3"> 
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</div><p>Once on the bus, he was attacked and the 23-year-old was gang-raped by a group of allegedly drunk men, including the driver, who also violated her with an iron bar causing immense internal damage that lead to her death, he said.<br /></p><p>The man, believed to be the only witness in the case, said he did his best to fight off the offenders.</p><p>The attackers eventually discarded the two of them by a roadside. </p><p>Ten days after the incident the woman was flown from a hospital in India to an intensive care ward in Singapore, where it was hoped specialists might be able to save her.</p><p>By the time her parents were informed of the nature of the injuries and flown to be by her bedside in Singapore, she was barely able to speak, with much of her last communication being only in sign language.</p><p>Her mother added: 'When one of few things she said to me was: "Mama, I want them to be burnt alive".</p><p>The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, handed over a cheque to the woman's family for 26,000 as compensation for their daughter's death.</p><div readability="1"> 
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</div><p>He also announced plans to build a hospital in the village, currently some 120 miles away from proper medical facilities.</p><p>But the woman's mother said she was not interested in compensation, only the death of the vile perpetrators.</p><p>Last week five men appeared in court charged with kidnap, gang-rape and murder of the woman.</p><p>A sixth defendant, believed to be 17, faces charges in a juvenile court.</p><p>Several of the accused came from the same notorious district of Delhi, a so-called 'slum cluster' called Ravidas Camp, which has a lawless reputation. </p><p>A lawyer for three of the accused has claimed his clients have been tortured and coerced into admitting the crime.<br /></p><p>Manohar Lal Sharma told the BBC that one of the men had been tortured for 10 days.<br /></p><p>Mr Sharma said he plans to represent bus driver Ram Singh and his brother Mukesh as well as a third man Akshay Thakur and they planned to plead not guilty.</p><p>Today marks the end of the formal Hindu morning period for the student, after 13 days of various prayers and rituals designed to let the soul pass peacefully to the next level of existence.</p><br /><p> </p>

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<p>A new Foreign Military Intelligence Main Directorate (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rg.ru/org/pravitelstvo/minoboroni/gru/" target="_blank">GRU</a>) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that one of the United States top computer geniuses, named <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" target="_blank">Aaron Swartz</a> (1986-2013) [photo right], was, “in all probability,” suicided by forces loyal to the Obama regime seeking to “set an example” for other dissident forces opposed to the American governments continued crackdown on leakers of US secrets.</p>
<p>According to this report, GRU intelligence analysts tracking the Obama “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1643.htm" target="_blank">death squads</a>”, that in the past fortnight have <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1644.htm" target="_blank">assassinated two prominent American gun support activists</a>, indentified one of these VIPER teams “operating” in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn, section of New York City this past week where shortly afterwards Swartz was <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://business.time.com/2013/01/13/tech-prodigy-and-internet-activist-aaron-swartz-commits-suicide/" target="_blank">discovered dead of an apparent hanging</a>.</p>
<p>Swartz, this report continues, fits the profile of computer dissidents long targeted by the US; which include <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon" target="_blank">Gary McKinnon</a> [photo bottom right], the Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused by the US, in 2002, of perpetrating the “biggest military computer hack of all time,” but whose extradition to America was <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon#British_government_blocks_extradition" target="_blank">blocked by the UK</a>, and US Army Private <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning" target="_blank">Bradley Manning</a>, who stands accused of being the whistle blower behind what is called the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" target="_blank">WikiLeaks Scandal</a> and whose confinement by the Obama regime prompted <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_E._Mendez" target="_blank">Juan E. Mendez</a>, a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur" target="_blank">United Nations Special Rapporteur</a> on torture, to publish a report saying that Manning’s detention conditions had been “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Detention" target="_blank">cruel, inhuman and degrading</a>”.</p>
<p>The “crimes” Swartz was being accused of committing by the Obama regime, this report says, were wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer, in relation to downloading roughly 4 million academic journal articles from <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR" target="_blank">JSTOR</a> (short for Journal Storage) which is a digital library for American academics founded in 1995.</p>
<p>The “reality,” however, behind the crimes Swartz was accused of by the Obama regime, and which the US Department of Justice (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.justice.gov/" target="_blank">DOJ</a>) was seeking a 50 year prison sentence and $4 million fine for, according to GRU analysts in this report, was nothing more than this young computer genius putting a computer in a broom closet he neither sought to hide, nor did the owner of the computers he accessed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT</a>) wish to prosecute him for.</p>
<p>To why Swartz was so feared by the Obama regime can be glimpsed in the writing about him by one of his closest mates, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow" target="_blank">Cory Doctorow</a>, the famous Canadian journalist and co-editor of the weblog <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing" target="_blank">Boing Boing</a>, who wrote, “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html" target="_blank">Aaron had an unbeatable combination of political insight, technical skill, and intelligence about people and issues. I think he could have revolutionized American (and worldwide) politics. His legacy may still yet do so.</a>”</p>
<p>Doctorow further noted in his article about Swartz, titled <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html" target="_blank">RIP, Aaron Swartz</a>, that this young computer genius may have, also, been targeted by the Obama regime who have been furiously hunting for computer hackers linked in any way whatsoever to Manning.</p>
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<p>Seemingly unbeknownst to the community of American computer experts mourning Swartz today is that his death, should it have, indeed, been orchestrated by the Obama regime as this GRU report suggests, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://loop21.com/politics/president-obama-has-right-kill-you" target="_blank">under US law</a> it is completely legal as their President has the right to assassinate anyone he so chooses, in any manner he chooses, all without either charges or trial.</p>
<p>In fact, in 2010, the Obama regime <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/10/alaw-o10.html" target="_blank">drafted a secret legal memorandum</a> claiming that the President had the power to order the killing of an American citizen without a trial. Several US officials described this secret memo as a 50-page document drafted by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. This is the same government agency, the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/10/alaw-o10.html" target="_blank">WSWS news service reports</a>, that drafted the notorious “torture memos” during the Bush administration, justifying waterboarding and other abuses of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other US military and CIA-run prisons.</p>
<p>So frightening has the Obama regime become that the Bloomberg news service reported this past October (2012) that, “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-18/obama-pursuing-leakers-sends-warning-to-whistle-blowers.html" target="_blank">Eric Holder, attorney general under President Barack Obama, has prosecuted more government officials for alleged leaks under the World War I-era Espionage Act than all his predecessors combined, including law-and-order Republicans John Mitchell, Edwin Meese and John Ashcroft.</a>”</p>
<p>Even worse, and as reported by the Examiner news service, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last month advocating giving Obama “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/article/nancy-pelosi-give-obama-dictatorial-power-to-raise-debt-limit-to-infinity" target="_blank">dictatorial powers</a>” and the highly influential American progressive political blog <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Kos" target="_blank">Daily Kos</a> is now <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-daily-kos-diarist-calls-for-benevolent-obama-dictatorship" target="_blank">openly calling for a “benevolent” Obama dictatorship</a>.</p>
<p>Falling on deaf ears, however, were President Putin’s warnings to the American people in 2009 wherein he said the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/putin_warns_us_to_eschew_socia.html" target="_blank">excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence</a>”.</p>
<p>“<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/putin_warns_us_to_eschew_socia.html" target="_blank">In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,</a>” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/putin_warns_us_to_eschew_socia.html" target="_blank">In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.</a>”</p>
<p>The death of Aaron Swartz, however, shows that once again these Americans, who continually fail to remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.</p>
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<p><strong>Greek lawmakers have approved a new tax legislation intended to increase government revenues by 2.3 billion-euro (3 billion USD) in the following months.</strong></p>
<p>The new tax bill was approved with the support of the majority of the lawmakers in the 300-member parliament early on Saturday.</p>
<p>The new legislation aims to tax any income above 42,000 euros (56,000 USD) per year at 42 percent.</p>
<p>The passage of the bill was a pre-condition for Athens to receive the next tranche of bailout funds from its three international creditors — the European Union (EU), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the European Central Bank (ECB).</p>
<p>Athens has introduced austerity measures and other debt cutting methods to meet the conditions set by the European Union for receiving a 34.3-billion-euro aid package.</p>
<p>With the rest of the package of almost 50 billion euros in financial assistance coming in March 2013, the government is pushing even harder to cut back its debt in order to satisfy the eurozone requirements.</p>
<p>Greece has been at the epicenter of a debt crisis in the eurozone and is experiencing its sixth year of recession, while harsh austerity measures have left about half a million people without jobs.</p>
<p>One in every five Greek worker is currently unemployed, banks are in a shaky positions, and pensions and salaries have been slashed by up to 40 percent. Greek youths have also been badly affected, and more than half of them are unemployed.</p>
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<p>Nearly a year after Russian researchers reached the unique sub-glacial Lake Vostok, the first sample of transparent ice from its water has been taken. The finding is of great value as it could reveal if the lake harbors life.</p>
<p>The Lake Vostok, isolated by 4-kilometer layer of ice for around the past 20 million years, has been of great interest to scientists since it was first discovered in the 1990s. Locating it became one of the major finds in modern geography.</p>
<p>If it turns out that some primitive bacteria or even more complex life-forms survived in the lake’s waters it could offer an earth-shattering insight into our planet’s past.</p>
<p>Scientists managed to reach the fresh ice only on the depth of 3383 meters and took samples at 3,406 meters.</p>
<p>“The first core of transparent lake ice, 2 meters long, was obtained on January 10 at a depth of 3,406 meters. Inside it was a vertical channel filled with white bubble-rich ice,” the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute said in its statement.</p>
<p>The ice formed as the water from the lake rose up into the whole due to under-pressure in the crack researchers drilled in last February.</p>
<p>“Initially, we saw completely unknown to us ice – an opaque, porous, bright white,” explained Vyacheslav Martianov, the deputy head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition. “But 20 meters after that we saw transparent ice, with the white ice frozen inside of it.”</p>
<p>This ice may have very specific physical properties that are different from ordinary ice and anything ever known before, Martianov said.</p>
<p>No one could predict what scientists would find in the ice hole.</p>
<p>All samples will be brought to Saint-Petersburg in May on board the research ship Academic Fyodorov, which is currently working in the Antarctic.</p>
<p>Now researchers plan to continue drilling to the depth of 3430 meters.</p>
<p>Last year Russian scientists managed to drill through 3700 meters of ice, reach the surface of the lake and take 40 liters of prehistoric water. However, those samples, as scientists said later, were not clean enough to prove the existences of any kind of life – the water contained some substances from the outside.</p>
<p>The following day, drilling liquid was found– some 1,500 liters of kerosene and Freon poured into special containers.</p>
<p>That’s why rival Western expeditions also racing to probe the depths of the sub-glacial lake have been using the hot-water drilling method – boiling the ice – which is slower but cleaner.</p>
<p>Russian scientists hope to use this find to answer whether or not traces of life can be found in the lake.</p>
<p>Vostok is just one of hundreds of subglacial lakes in the Antarctic. There are plans to drill into two others, Lake Ellsworth and Lake Whillans.</p>
<p>A British team attempted to drill into Ellsworth and collect samples of sediment from the bottom. However, British scientists failed and later halted the mission.</p>
<p>The British scientists abandoned the mission for at least three years, after trying for 20 hours to connect two holes in the ice that were needed for the hot-water drill to work.</p>
<p>The US team plans to start drilling in Lake Whillans in the beginning of 2013.</p>
<p>Lake Vostok was discovered by Russian specialists, supported by their British counterparts, back in 1996. Sonar and satellite images later proved the lake to be one of the world’s largest freshwater reservoirs. With its area reaching 15,000 square kilometers and a depth exceeding 1,200 meters, Lake Vostok is one of the biggest among 370 subglacial lakes in Antarctica.</p>
<p>However in 1998, drilling was halted just 130 meters from the lake’s surface after alarming concerns the ancient and unblemished waters risked being polluted if special precautions were not taken.</p>
<p>The relevant technology was developed only in 2003 in St. Petersburg. Work resumed in 2005 after further tests.</p>
<p>Drilling in the lake is far from an easy task, with average temperatures near the Vostok Station in the Antarctic reaching around –66 degrees Centigrade. This is close to the record breaking freeze recorded in 1983 when Earths lowest ever temperature was recorded at –89.2 C.</p>
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            <title>Ed Miliband: No Referendum on Britain's Membership of the EU</title>
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<p>'The Labour leader said David Cameron’s position on Europe is “incredibly  dangerous” and that the Prime Minister is “sleepwalking us towards the exit  door”.</p>
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<p>Mr Miliband said that promising an in/out referendum on the UK's position in  the EU the “last thing we should do”. ”It’s the wrong thing to do,” he aid on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show. “It is  not in the national interest."'</p>
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<p>'But where, I’d like to ask my colleagues in the media, is the reporting about the psychiatric medications the perpetrator – who had been under treatment for mental-health problems – may have been taking? After all, Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of the shooter and his mother, were interviewed on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” during which Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley: “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” And here, Tambascio tells ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”</p>
<p>It has been more than three weeks since the shooting. We know all about the guns he used, but what “medication” may he have used? (One brief mini-hoax emerged when the New York Daily News published a story claiming the shooter, according to his uncle, had been on the controversial antipsychotic drug Fanapt. That story was quickly withdrawn after the “uncle” turned out to be a fraudster with no relation to the murderer.)'</p>
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<p>'According to an unnamed Russian military diplomat some of the allies behind the “Syrian Opposition” are in the planning stages of a false flag operation which has been designed for the purpose of discrediting the reputation of Russia as an honest broker in the Syrian crisis.</p>
<p>On Friday, 11 January 2012 the Russian military diplomat stated that the involved parties are in the process of recruiting Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian mercenaries who are supposed to take part in the operation.</p>
<p>The mercenaries would then be deployed to locations in Turkey and Jordan where large-scale scenes, supposed to represent destroyed Syrian villages have long been built for training purposes.'</p>
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<p>'It’s even worse than we previously thought. A retired four-star admiral is now claiming that Barack Obama intentionally conspired with America’s enemies to stage a bogus attack and the kidnapping of an American ambassador so he could “negotiate” the release of a “hostage” and bolster his mediocre approval ratings just prior to the election!</p>
<p>The Washington Examiner, quoting retired Four-Star Admiral James Lyons, writes: “the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi… was the result of a bungled abduction attempt…. the first stage of an international prisoner exchange… that would have ensured the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, the ‘Blind Sheik’…”</p>
<p>But something went horribly wrong with Obama’s “October Surprise.”'</p>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div id='article_intro_f2p'><p><span><strong>There is no way in  the world that Savile would have been such a record-breaking paedophile and not  have been a practicing Satanist when you know how these rings work. That does  not mean that every paedophile is a Satanist, but the big players  in the paedophile rings invariably are - and it goes to the very top of the  royal and political establishment in Britain and worldwide (</strong><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://davidickebooks.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&amp;productId=12" target="_blank"><span><strong>see The Biggest Secret</strong></span></a><strong>).</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>This is why  Operation Yewtree, the mock 'investigation' into Savile's crimes and  connections, is such an obvious cover-up and damage limitation exercise.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I could explain to  the mainstream media the whole background to this, ancient and modern, but they  are too close-minded, too controlled and too programmed with a perception of me  to be interested - well, except one.</strong></p>
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<p>'Jimmy Savile beat and raped a 12-year-old girl during a  secret satanic ritual in a hospital. The perverted star wore a hooded robe and  mask as he abused the terrifi ed victim in a candle-lit basement.</p>
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<p>He also chanted “Hail Satan” in Latin as other paedophile  devil worshippers joined in and assaulted the girl at Stoke Mandeville Hospital  in Buckinghamshire. The attack, which happened in 1975, shines a sinister new  light on the former DJ’s 54-year reign of terror.'</p>
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<h4>This is  about Peter Righton who was connected to the paedophile ring operating out of  Downing Street at the time of Jimmy Saville's friend, Margaret Thatcher, and her  close aide and paedophile Peter Morrison.</h4>
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<p><strong>By David Icke</strong></p>
<p><strong>'Training drills' that  mirrored the real events at the time they were happening or immediately before  were the case with 9/11, the 7/7 London bombings, the Madrid train  bombing, the Oslo bomb ... on and on it goes. </strong></p>
<p><strong>These 'drills' are used as a cover for rogue  elements within the military, intelligence and law enforcement to carry out  killings and terrorist attacks that are blamed on a target enemy to bring  about fundamental change in society. </strong></p>
<p><strong>It is the technique that I dubbed long ago  Problem-Reaction-Solution (PRS). Create the problem, get people to demand that  'something must be done' and then offer the solutions - which are changes in  society that advance your agenda for mass human control.</strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>Look at how the world has been fundamentally changed by 9/11 and  the 'enemy' thus created of 'Islamic terrorists'. In the case of Sandy Hook and  other staged killings like Columbine, Aurora and Wisconsin the enemy is  gun-ownership because before tyrannies make their final play through armed  suppression they must disarm the population - this is what the Nazis did before  rounding up the Jews who had been banned from owning guns or ammunition.</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>So as a result of Sandy Hook we have this coordinated and  hysterical campaign for gun laws - they kill children in schools to create the  biggest possible emotional reaction. It is after all Problem-<em>Reaction</em>-Solution. The laws they are pressing for now  will only be the start because their plan is to take all guns.</strong></p>
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<p><strong> Monumentally ignorant and arrogant buffoons like  Michael Moore and CNN's Piers Morgan are leading these calls while lacking the  brain power, research and expansion of perception to see they are being  played like a stringed instrument. Or at least I hope that ignorance is the  reason in Moore's case. With Morgan it goes without saying.</strong></p>
<p><strong> I wish there were no guns in the world, but there are  and we have to deal with the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.  We have the crystal clear evidence in Australia of what happens when the  population is disarmed while the criminals can always get guns whether legal or  otherwise (they are <em>criminals</em> after all). </strong></p>
<p><strong>Crime including gun crime and 'home invasions' have  absolutely soared since Australia imposed gun laws and their false flag mass  shootings like Port Arthur were used to justify it.</strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>The lessons of history are there to see - disarming the population  is followed by enslaving the population. American law enforcement is now armed -  and more so every day - like the military. Hi-tech weaponry, armoured  vehicles and even tanks are being transferred by the Pentagon to the police who  are now a military operation in all but name. Will they be giving up their  'guns' and their tanks? Yeah, right.</strong></strong></p>
<h4>DON'T FALL FOR IT AMERICA - IT'S ALL A  SCAM.</h4>
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<h4>Sandy Hook Shooting: Active-Shooter Drill  Confirmed by Law Enforcement Raises Suspicion of False Flag  Operation</h4>
<div>'Once again a government funded mock emergency drill was being  conducted at a nearby local school at the very same time the supposed realtime  shooting was taking place at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut – leaving all the fingerprints of a government staged false flag event to strip  guns from the American people.</div>
<p>Many people involved in responding to the Newtown school shooting have been  shown to be participants in active shooter drills either in the past or on the  very day of the shooting. To top it all off, there are still many  inconsistencies in the official story.</p>
<p>One of the noticeable problems with the official story is that alleged  shooting suspect Adam Lanza’s car was identified as a black Honda Civic,  Connecticut plate number 872 YEO which is registered to a one Christopher A  Rodia (born August 1969), totally discrediting the official story.'</p>
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<h4>University Professor Takes Apart Sandy Hook Official Story</h4>
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<h4>Piers Morgan Responds</h4>
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<p><strong><em>'You mean that I could be supporting  the goals of a tyranny because I don't know my arse from my  elbow?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>What me, who knows everything about  everything and so has the right to tell another country which I know nothing  about what they should be doing?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>You’re an unbelievably stupid man,  aren't you?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Is your phone tapped - did I tell you  about Heather McCartney?'</em></strong></p>
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<h4>Do You Hear The People   Sing?</h4>
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<h4><span>Please circulate far and wide - make an effort, make a difference.</span></h4>
<h4><span> </span><span>This is the link to send ...</span></h4>
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<p>'George Osborne's father-in-law was accused of a conflict of interest last  night after it emerged he is being paid by a Japanese high-speed rail firm with  commercial interests in the UK at the same time as having top-level access to  the Foreign Office as William Hague's personal adviser.</p>
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<p>Lord Howell of Guildford, who was Margaret Thatcher's transport secretary and  one of David Cameron's ministers until September, is being paid as a "European  consultant" to JR Central, a train company which could be a bidder for  multimillion-pound contracts connected to the controversial HS2 rail line.</p>
<p>But the peer, in his role as personal adviser to Mr Hague on energy security,  has access to the Foreign Office and confidential FCO documents, and is funded  by the taxpayer to go on official visits on behalf of the Foreign Secretary,  although the post itself is unsalaried. Last year, days after the Government  gave the go-ahead to HS2, Mr Osborne, who is close to his father-in-law, used a  visit to Tokyo to declare that the Japanese bullet-train technology – of which  JR is a leading exponent – would play a part in the new high-speed line between  London and the North.'</p>
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  Social media driven message claims that Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant has died in a car accident. <p>
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  The message is a hoax. Neil Tennant is alive. This message is just one more in a long line of similar hoaxes that falsely claim that a celebrity or well-known person has died. Before passing on any message that claims that a famous person has died, it is always wise to check the claim via a reliable news source. Also be aware that links in some such death hoaxes lead to malware or survey scam websites.</p><p>
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    Last updated: January 14, 2013<br />
    First published: January 14, 2013<br />
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    According to messages that are flying thick and fast via Facebook and the Twitterverse, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/petshopboys" title="Pet Shop Boys">Pet Shop Boys</a> singer Neil Tennant has been killed in a car accident. The rumours suggest that Neil Tennant was killed instantly in a single vehicle crash.</p><p>
    However, the claims in the message are untrue. Neil Tennant is alive and has not been involved in a car accident. Unfortunately Tennant is just another victim in a long <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/celebrity-hoaxes.html" title="Celebrity Hoaxes">series of similar celebrity death hoaxes</a>. </p><p>
    Many of these false death rumours originate from several tasteless "prank" websites that allow users to create fake news stories detailing the supposed death of various celebrities. Users can generally pick from several "news" templates, add the name of their chosen celebrity and then attempt to fool their friends by sharing the bogus story. One such template is the "car accident" story used in this hoax. <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/adam-sandler-alive.shtml " title="Adam Sandler is NOT Dead">Other versions </a>  falsely claim that the targeted celebrity has died in a snow boarding accident or <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/tom-hanks-death.shtml" title="Tom Hanks Death Hoax">fell to his or her death from a cliff while filming in New Zealand</a>. </p><p>
    Before passing on any message that claims that a famous - or infamous - person has died, it is always wise to check the story via a reputable news source. If a well-known person does die, the news is sure to be widely reported by the main-stream media, so a quick search of a news source such as Google News should quickly reveal if the claims in a message are true or false. </p><p>
    Users should also be aware that some of these false celebrity death messages may <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/john-cena-death-hoax.shtml " title="Wrestling Star John Cena is NOT Dead">contain links that lead to survey scams </a>or malware websites. </p><p>
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  <p> Last updated: January 14, 2013<br />
    First published: January 14, 2013<br />
    Article written by Brett M. Christensen<br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/about.shtml">About Brett Christensen and Hoax-Slayer</a><br /></p>
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  Email purporting to be from large Australian bank Westpac claims that there was an error detected in the recipient's credit card account and asks him or her to click a link to update account information or risk permanent suspension of the card.<p>
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  This email is not from Westpac and your credit card will not be suspended if you do not provide information as requested. If the link is clicked, users will be taken to a web page that is designed to look identical to the real Westpac website. Once on the fake site, users will be prompted to fill in personal and financial information which will then be sent to cybercriminals .</p><p>
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    Last updated: January 11, 2013<br />
    First published: January 11, 2013<br />
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    <p><strong>Subject: Westpac Update Account Information</strong></p><p>
      Westpac's Update Account Information</p><p>
      Dear Westpac Customer,</p><p>
    Your Credit Card has been Suspended, as an error was detected in your Credit Card information.</p>
    <p>The reason for the error is</p>
    <p>1. You have changed your billing address.<br />
      2. You have Submitted incorrect information during bill payment process.<br />
      3. Your credit/debit card has expired.<br />
      4. You didn't update your Westpac profile.</p>
    <p>We need you to update your information for further use of this Credit Card.</p>
    <p>you can do so via: [Link Removed]</p>
    <p>If you have already confirmed your billing information then please disregard this message<br />
      As we are processing the changes you have made.<br /></p>
    <p>NOTE: If this is not resolved within 72 hours, we will be forced to suspend your Credit Card Permanently as it may be used fraudulently. The purpose of this verification is to ensure that your Credit Card account has not been fraudulently used<br /></p>
    <p>Regards,</p>
    <p>Yours sincerely,</p>
    <p>Westpac Online Customer Service</p>
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  According to this email, which claims to be from Australian bank Westpac, the recipient's credit card has been suspended and he or she is required to resubmit personal information within 72 hours to reinstate the card. The message warns that failing to submit the required information will result in the permanent suspension of the card. </p><p>
  However this email is not from Westpac. Instead, it is a phishing scam designed to steal information from Westpac customers. Links in the message point to a fraudulent website designed to look identical to the genuine Westpac website. Upon clicking the link users will be presented with the following form:</p><p>
  <img src="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/westpac-phish.jpg" width="585" height="595" border="1" alt="Westpac Phishing Scam" /></p><p>
  If this from is filled in and submitted, the victim's credit card details and other personal information will be sent to the scammers and subsequently used to make fraudulent transactions. Victims may also be subject to identity theft. </p><p>
  Westpac has published information on such phishing scams via its <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.westpac.com.au/security/fraud-and-scams/online-fraud/" title="Westpac - Fraud and scams">website</a>. </p><p>
  <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/phisher-scams.html" title="Phishing Scams - Anti-Phishing Information">Phishing</a> is a very common type of Internet scam that continues to gain new victims every day. </p><p>
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Last updated: January 11, 2013<br />
First published: January 11, 2013<br />
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            <title>Hoax - Julia Gillard Tells Muslims To Adapt or Leave</title>
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    Wise words<br /><img src="http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/julia-gillard.jpg" width="320" height="214" alt="Julia Gillard" /></p>
    <p>W O W ! She Did It <br />
      Again!!! <br /></p>
    <p>Australia says NO -- This will be the second Time Julia Gillard has done this!</p>
    <p>She sure isn't backing down on her hard line stance and one has to appreciate her belief in the rights of her native countrymen. </p>
    <p>A breath of fresh air to see someone lead. Australian Prime Minister does it again!! </p>
    <p>The whole world needs a leader like this!<br /></p>
    <p>Prime Minister Julia Gillard - Australia </p>
    <p>Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. </p>
    <p>Separately, Gillard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying she supported spy agencies <br />
      monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: <br />
      'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT... Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.' </p>
    <p>'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.' </p>
    <p>'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, </p>
    <p>Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!' </p>
    <p>'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.' </p>
    <p>'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.' </p>
    <p>'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.' </p>
    <p>'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.' </p>
    <p>NOTE: IF we circulate this amongst ourselves in Canada &amp; USA , WE will find the courage to start speaking and voicing the same truths. </p>
    <p>If you agree please SEND THIS ON and ON, to as many people as you know...</p>
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            <title>Israel-US discussing joint Iran attack</title>
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<p>Israel and the US are considering a joint surgical strike targeting Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, according to a report in Foreign Policy magazine that appeared Monday, soon after Republican candidate Mitt Romney slammed US President Barack Obama’s Iran policy.</p>
<p>“Iran today has never been closer to a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="nuclear weapons" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/nuclear-weapons/">nuclear weapons</a> capability,” Romney said in a foreign policy address delivered at the Virginia Military Institute. “And it has never acted less deterred by America.”</p>
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<p>Soon after those comments, Foreign Policy CEO and editor at large David Rothkopf – who wrote unflatteringly of Romney that this was one of the first times recently he addressed foreign policy without “tripping over his own misstatements” – reported that the White House and Israeli officials “assert that the two sides, behind the scenes, have come closer together in their views [regarding Iran] in recent days.”</p>
<p>Rothkopf, who was an undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton administration, wrote that “while there may not be exact agreement on what constitutes a ‘red line’ – a sign of Iranian progress toward the development of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="nuclear weapons" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/nuclear-weapons/">nuclear weapons</a> that would trigger military action – the military option being advocated by the Israelis is considerably more limited and lower risk than some of those that have been publicly debated.”</p>
<p>Rothkopf quoted a “source close to the discussions” as saying that a surgical strike on the enrichment facilities “might take only ‘a couple of hours’ in the best case and only would involve a ‘day or two’ overall” and would be conducted by air, using primarily bombers and drone support.</p>
<p>“Advocates for this approach,” he wrote, “argue that not only is it likely to be more politically palatable in the United States, but were it to be successful – meaning knocking out enrichment facilities, setting the Iranian <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="nuclear program" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/nuclear-program/">nuclear program</a> back many years, and doing so without civilian casualties – it would have region-wide benefits. One advocate asserts it would have a ‘transformative outcome: saving Iraq, Syria, Lebanon; reanimating the peace process; securing the Gulf; sending an unequivocal message to Russia and China; and assuring American ascendancy in the region for a decade to come.’” Such an attack could not be carried out by Israel alone, the report said.</p>
<p>“To get to buried Iranian facilities, such as the enrichment plant at Fordow, would require bunker-busting munitions on a scale that no Israeli plane is capable of delivering,” Rothkopf wrote. “The mission, therefore, must involve the United States, whether acting alone or in concert with the Israelis and others.”</p>
<p>The Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment on the report.</p>
<p>Uzi Arad, former <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="national security" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/national-security/">national security</a> adviser to Prime Minister <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="Binyamin Netanyahu" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/binyamin-netanyahu/">Binyamin Netanyahu</a>, said in an Israel Radio interview that regardless of whether such reports were politically motivated, the fact that there continues to be public talk about military action against Iran – be it by Israel, the US or together – increases the pressure on Iran at a time when sanctions are already having an effect.</p>
<p>Arad, who did not deny that there may have been a political motivation behind the report, says there is also logic to it.</p>
<p>No one who really knows will either confirm or deny the story, he said. However, he added that it made sense that the military option is on the table and that quiet, professional discussions between Israel and the US have been taking place. The fact that these discussions are being bandied about “will be felt by Iran,” and could add to the other pressures on Tehran aimed at getting it to slow down the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="nuclear program" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/nuclear-program/">nuclear program</a>, he said.</p>
<p>The political motivation behind the report may be designed to make Obama look tough on Iran in the face of Romney’s criticism.</p>
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<p>Smart phone will be implanted within 75 years</p>
<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br/><em>Infowars</em></p>
<p align="left">A new CNN article predicts that within 75 years people will have embedded microchips within their brain that will allow their behavior to be controlled by a third party.</p>

<p align="left">The story, entitled <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/05/opinion/curran-lampe-mobile-phones/index.html"><em>Smartphone of the future will be in your brain</em></a>, offers a semi-satirical look at transhumanism and the idea of humans becoming part cyborg by having communications devices implanted in their body.</p>
<p align="left">Predicting first the widespread popularity of wearable smartphones, already in production by Google, the article goes on to forecast how humans will communicate by the end of the century.</p>
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<p align="left">“Technology takes a huge leap in 75 years. Microchip can be installed directly in the user’s brain. Apple, along with a handful of companies, makes these chips. Thoughts connect instantly when people dial to “call” each other. But there’s one downside: “Advertisements” can occasionally control the user’s behavior because of an impossible-to-resolve glitch. If a user encounters this glitch — a 1 in a billion probability — every piece of data that his brain delivers is uploaded to companies’ servers so that they may “serve customers better.”</p>
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<p align="left">The tone of the CNN piece is somewhat sophomoric, but the notion that humans will eventually merge with machines as the realization of the technological singularity arrives is one shared by virtually all top futurists.</p>
<p align="left">Indeed, people like inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil don’t think we’ll have to wait 75 years to see smartphones implanted in the brain. He sees this coming to pass within just 20 years.</p>
<p align="left">In his 1999 book <em>The Age of Spiritual Machines</em>, Kurzweil successfully predicted the arrival of the iPad, Kindle, iTunes, You Tube and on demand services like Netflix.</p>
<p align="left">By 2019, Kurzweil forecasts that wearable smartphones will be all the rage and that by 2029, computers and cellphones will now be implanted in people’s eyes and ears, creating a “human underclass” that is viewed as backwards and unproductive because it refuses to acquiesce to the singularity.</p>
<p align="left">Although the CNN piece doesn’t even foresee implantable brain chips until the end of the century, Kurzweil’s predictions are far beyond this. According to him, by 2099, the entire planet is run by artificially intelligent computer systems which are smarter than the entire human race combined – similar to the Skynet system fictionalized in the Terminator franchise.</p>
<p align="left">Humans who have resisted altering themselves by becoming part-cyborg will be ostracized from society.</p>
<p>“Even among those human intelligences still using carbon-based neurons, there is ubiquitous use of neural implant technology, which provides enormous augmentation of human perceptual and cognitive abilities. Humans who do not utilize such implants are unable to meaningfully participate in dialogues with those who do,” writes Kurzweil.</p>
<p>Kurzweil’s forecasts are echoed by Sun Microsystems’ Bill Joy, who in a 2000 Wired Magazine article entitled <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html?pg=1&amp;topic=&amp;topic_set="><em>Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us</em></a>, predicted that technological advancements in robotics would render most humans obsolete.</p>
<p>As a result the elite, “may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity,” wrote Joy.</p>
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<p><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/pages/1/157/bio.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Josey Wales</strong> </a></p>
<p><strong>Proof that the <a title="NEW WORLD ORDER" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/category/new-world-order/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NEW WORLD ORDER</a> has been planned by the elite.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Robert Welch, Founder of The John Birch Society, predicted today’s problems with uncanny accuracy back in 1958 and prescribed solutions in 1974 that are very similar to Ron Paul’s positions today.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This is proof that there are plans in place by the elite to systemically disassemble US sovereignty. I wonder who those elite are.</strong></p>
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<p>We Own and Run The <a title="Federal Reserve" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/federal-reserve/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Federal Reserve</a> We Are Your Enemy.</p>
<p>1. Lord Jacob de Rothchild,&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. his son Nathaniel,</p>
<p>3. Barron John de Rothchild,&nbsp; 4. Sir Evelyn de Rothchild,</p>
<p>5. Nathan Warburg,&nbsp; 6. David Rockefeller,</p>
<p>7. <a title="Henry Kissinger" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/henry-kissinger/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Henry Kissinger</a>,&nbsp;&nbsp; 8. George Soros,</p>
<p>9. Paul Volker,&nbsp;&nbsp; 10. Larry Summer,</p>
<p>11.Lloyd Blankfein,&nbsp;&nbsp; 12. Ben Shalom.</p>
<p>The FED is a private for PROFIT bankster cartel which controls the money supply. The FED profits off of interest on our national debt when we pay our IRS taxes.</p>
<p>THE HIGHER THE DEFICIT the more PROFIT! The FED has NEVER been audited. Who owns the FED and what COUNTRY are they from?</p>
<p>The Founders REVOLTED from this same “FOR PROFIT” Central Bank system of European Kings. They knew it would eventual lead to debt servitude.</p>
<p><span><span id="vvq-37968-youtube-1"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img alt="YouTube Preview Image" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/AZU0c8DAIU4/0.jpg" /></a></span></span></p>
<p>The King’s Bank came back 1913 along with the IRS when the <a title="Federal Reserve" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/federal-reserve/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Federal Reserve</a> Act was established. Both of these institutions are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.</p>
<p>Both of these institutions are planks of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO! Abolish the FED and IRS and let REAL CAPITALISM return to the U.S. The Crony Capitalism of the Fed Bankster Cartel gives the US a bad name throughout the World.</p>
<p>The Fed, IMF, World Bank finance more cartels to divide the people and bleed their wealth: Democrats, Republicans, Media Moguls, Big Oil, ADM, Big Pharma, etc. Corruption BREEDS Corruption.</p>
<p>The <a title="US foreign policy" href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/tag/us-foreign-policy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">US foreign policy</a> has become just like the British Empire of the Colonial Era. 130 bases in 160 countries(for freedom NOT bankster interests RIGHT?) Wars for natural resources and pipelines fought by the media indoctrinated Patriots, poor, minorities and mercenaries.</p>
<p>Mercenaries = Hessians = Blackwater. History repeats Itself. Let the political, financial and Holleywood elite go fight these wars if they so desire. Fight on the front lines, NOT in the “Green Zone” Google: Jimmy Stewart and WWII.</p>
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<p>MILITARY gave highest contributions to Dr RON PAUL! The global financial elite use this system to foment wars thru corruption and media control.</p>
<p>They expand then collapse economies in order to repo real assets and natural resources with paper fiat currency. “Fiat” means ROYAL DECREE.</p>
<p>FIAT currency has value as money because the KING says SO!</p>
<p>They do this over and over thru the world until the middle class is eradicated.</p>
<p>More power and wealth falls into fewer hands. Only kings and slaves remain.</p>
<p>Kings get bailouts, pensions, media protection and real assets and money. (FDR confiscated OUR gold in 1933)</p>
<p>Slaves get war, taxes, terrorist profiling, media derision and inflated fiat currency.</p>
<p>Will you SUBMIT OR RESIST?</p>
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The same trend is true when it comes to claiming holiday entitlement with 30 
  per cent of Britons not taking their full allowance, less than elsewhere in 
  Europe, especially Italy where 62 per cent of respondents working more weeks 
  than they are contracted to do. 
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The 46-year-old appeared this morning via prison video link at Caernarfon 
  Crown Court, 60 miles from April's family home.
</p>
<p>
Bridger, unshaven and wearing glasses and a dark top, spoke to acknowledge the 
  proceedings and confirm his name during the 20-minute hearing.
</p>
<p>
He was remanded in custody to appear at a plea and case management hearing on 
  January 11 at the same court ahead of a trial later in the year.
</p>
<p>
It will be overseen by Mr Justice Griffith Williams, a High Court judge who 
  has previously presided over high profile cases such as that of Barry 
  George, who was acquitted of the murder of presenter Jill Dando.
</p>
<p>
The judge said today that April's family would be concerned "that the matter 
  be brought speedily to trial" and asked for their input about where the 
  trial should be held to cause them the least possible inconvenience.
</p>
<p>
He added: "Another consideration from my reading of the papers is that there 
  will be some young witnesses who have been video interviewed. One of them I 
  think is seven years old.
</p>
<p>
"The longer the delay in bringing the case to trial, the more difficult it is 
  for witnesses of that age."
</p>
<p>
Elwen Evans QC, prosecuting, said the search for April was "still ongoing", 
  which would also have an impact on the legal timetable.
</p>
<p>
She added that "forensic, scientific and other expert investigations continue 
  apace" while the judge commented that "matters may develop".
</p>
<p>
He added that there were a "sufficient number of uncertainties to make it 
  impossible" to give a likely trial date but he added: "It should be 
  understood that it will be tried on the earliest possible date in the new 
  year."
</p>
<p>
Details of what Bridger has told police were not given in court but the judge 
  said: "The Crown have notice of the likely defence in his account in 
  interviews."
</p>
<p>
The judge said he felt the trial should be held in Caernarfon or at Mold Crown 
  Court in North Wales.
</p>
<p>
He said: "Any decisions as to the court of trial will be made once I know what 
  the views of the family and the witnesses are."
</p>
<p>
The judge said the youngest witnesses would give evidence via video link, 
  probably from Aberystwyth, which is closer to Machynlleth than the trial 
  venue.
</p>
<p>
At the end of the hearing, Bridger, who is being held in Manchester, nodded 
  and said "yes sir" after being told by the judge that he would remain in 
  custody.
</p>
<p>
A pink ribbon, which has symbolised the hopes of those searching for April, 
  was tied to railings at the front of the court.
</p>
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The manager of Travelodge’s Manchester Ancoats hotel was asked for an outside 
  power supply unit to accommodate a guest’s refrigeration van that housed 
  seven penguins. 
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In Dumbarton, Glasgow, a customer had a cage full of mice and wondered if they 
  needed to pay per mouse. 
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Elsewhere, customers displayed a surprising amount of confusion about 
  seemingly simple issues. 
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<p>
A guest staying in Birmingham’s Bull Ring Travelodge asked where the wi-fi was 
  in his room because he couldn’t “see” it. 
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<p>
Another guest, staying at London Stratford during the Olympics, asked: “Why is 
  it so busy today? Is there something happening nearby?” 
</p>
<p>
Hotel staff were also asked to provide everything from a bedtime story to help 
  a guest fall asleep, to a shirt for another guest to wear to a wedding. 
</p>
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<p>
Here is the list of the 30 most bizarre requests of the past year, and which 
  hotel they were made at: 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Heathrow Centra</strong>l: How can I cross over the M25? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Hilsea, Portsmouth</strong>: How many pets can you bring in on the pet policy? I 
  have three dogs, nine cats, two budgies and a tortoise. Oh, and four 
  children. 
</p>
<p>
<strong>London City Road</strong>: Is it possible for the changing of the guard to 
  change days? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Stafford, M6</strong>: Can my cat stay? (The cat was a pet jaguar) 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Middlesbrough</strong>: Can you do anything about the wind? It messed my hair on 
  the way to a meeting. 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Brighton Seafront</strong>: A practising Voodoo priest insisted that his room 
  face the sunset so that he could pray naked to it. 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Birmingham Frankley</strong>: Can we land a helicopter on the roof of the hotel? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Ayr:</strong> Can my Shetland Pony stay in my room with me? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Hayle, Cornwall</strong>: To the hotel manager: Could I borrow your shirt; I’ve 
  got a wedding to go to? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Halkyn, Wales</strong>: Can we bring our goldfish with us? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Cardiff Atlantic Wharf</strong>: Would it be ok to have a boa constrictor snake 
  in the room without its tank? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Teddington, London</strong>: Can you stop the 12pm church bells from ringing? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Liverpool Docks</strong>: A customer called because she thought the Travelodge 
  logo had been painted onto her roof as she had seen it on Google Maps. The 
  hotel staff explained it was an online map marker 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Thurrock M25</strong>: My baby alligator is coming. How much will it cost? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Manchester Ancoats</strong>: Do you have outside power supply for a refrigerated 
  van? In the van was seven penguins that were being transported to a zoo. 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Ashford, Kent</strong>: Could you make the frogs in the pond behind the hotel be 
  quiet? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>London Covent Garden</strong>: Why can’t I see the Olympic flame from here? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Fulham, London</strong>: An elderly guest requested a bikini shaving kit. 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Saltash, Plymouth</strong>: How much is it for my pet parrot to come and stay 
  with me? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>London Excel</strong>: Can I see the Olympic rowing event from my window? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Dumbarton, Glasgow</strong>: A customer had a cage full of mice and wondered if 
  they needed to pay per mouse. 
</p>
<p>
<strong>London Liverpool Street</strong>: Can I use my Oyster Card to book a limousine? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>London City Road</strong>: Can I pay for my pet monkey to stay with me? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Porthmadog, Wales</strong>: Can a maid visit me every two hours? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Newquay Seafront</strong>: Where can I buy a wedding ring, and quick!? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Wakefield, West Yorkshire</strong>: Could four adult dwarfs book one family room 
  because they were ‘only small’? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>London Stratford</strong>: (During the Olympics) Why is it so busy today? Is 
  there something happening nearby? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Swindon Central</strong>: Does the water come from the tap? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Edinburgh Central Queen Street</strong>: Can we keep 20 sheep in your car park 
  while we stay in the hotel? 
</p>
<p>
<strong>Inverness</strong>: Can you tell me when the Loch Ness monster comes out so we 
  don’t miss it? 
</p>
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<p>Jurriaan Maessen<br/><strong>ExplosiveReports.Com</strong><br/>
October 10, 2012</p>
<p><strong>2011 report, funded by the European Commission and World Wildlife Fund, models draconian population control measures, personal carbon taxes, government-controlled media, and the legalization of voluntary and assisted suicide in all EU countries.</strong></p>
<p>A EU-funded think tank project named the One Planet Economy Network (OPEN:EU) produced a document in 2011 which has received no attention at all in mainstream or alternative media outlets. Until now, that is. </p>
<p>The document titled <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://seri.at/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/WP6_Scenarios_Storyline_Report_Cover.pdf">Scenarios towards a One Planet Economy in Europe</a> consists of several scenarios or “paths” which the EU may follow to reach an envisioned “One Planet Economy”. Funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme and the World Wildlife Fund the document meticulously follows an Agenda 21-type scenario. Within the document, saturated with terms like “sustainability” and “ecological footprint”, the author’s outline four different paths towards what the group describes as a “one planet economy”. As is stated at the very beginning of the report:</p>
<p>“There are four narratives that provide alternative, albeit not necessarily ideal, visions of the transition toward a One Planet Economy in Europe by 2050. They present both an illustration of life in Europe in 2050 and the policy settings that are necessary to support the transition to this common end point under different assumptions about the future.” </p>
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<p>These four “narratives” are listed as follows: </p>
<p>1: Clever and Caring<br/>
2: Fast Forward<br/>
3: Breaking Point<br/>
4: Slow Motion</p>
<p>To get a clear image of the draconian means projected towards the envisioned global end it will be necessary to quote the authors here directly and fully, especially from the “Breaking Point” scenario. The “policy settings” mentioned within it include the following:  </p>
<p>“<strong>The EU must take strong measures to limit population growth both in Europe, but more importantly in the rest of the world in the face of increasing demand at a time when technological innovation is stagnant and global shortages (e.g. of fossil fuels and agricultural land) are pushing up prices. In some European countries, life expectancy stagnates; in others it falls</strong>.”</p>
<p>A little further on, under the the header “Demographics” we read the following: </p>
<p>“<strong>Beginning in 2012, one of the measures taken to control population growth was to phase-out child benefits for multi-children families. By 2020, benefits were only provided for up to a maximum of 2 children</strong>. As the economy in general has become more labour intensive, immigration policies were relaxed in order to attract low skilled labour, especially for the agriculture sector. This further adds to social tension in the EU. <strong>Bilateral trade deals require trading partners to implement population control measures</strong>.”</p>
<p>Although the document shrouds its “policy-relevant” modeling under the intentionally vague term  “scenario”, many of the measures mentioned are actually already being implemented. When the authors state that “bilateral trade deals require trading partners to implement population control measures”, it must be pointed out that such requirements are already in place. In my article <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://explosivereports.com/2012/05/14/un-world-bank-strangle-sovereign-nations-into-accepting-global-population-reduction-dictates/">UN &amp; World Bank Strangle Sovereign Nations Into Accepting Global Population Reduction Dictates</a>, I prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that such trade deals on the basis of population reduction objectives are already in place. In a 2007 World Bank “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resources/281627-1095698140167/PopulationDiscussionPaperApril07Final.pdf">discussion paper</a>” the role of the Bank in regards to such requirements is explained in some detail:  </p>
<p>“The Bank has a potential comparative advantage to address these issues at the highest levels of country policy setting, not only with ministry of health counterparts, but also with officials from finance and planning. This is important given the increasing recognition that political economy is a critical factor in the implementation of population and reproductive health programs, particularly in high-fertility countries.”</p>
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<p>The document states two nations which are currently under this population control regime by the World Bank. In the first example, Niger, the World Bank already has in place so-called “benchmarks” that the nation in question has to live up to in order to enjoy the continued support of the World Bank. In the case of Niger, considered by the IMF as a “Highly Indebted Poor Country”- and therefore easy to subdue- the document states:</p>
<p>“Population growth is documented and a population ESW (Economic and Sector Work) planned. A national Population and Reproductive Health Strategy is not only a CAS (Country Assistance Strategy) benchmark, but also a lending trigger, while reproductive health is included in one of the CAS pillars.”</p>
<p>“High fertility and rapid population growth were not only acknowledged as major problems, but fertility was also used as one of the CAS performance benchmarks. Moreover, a population ESW was planned and subsequently delivered. That ESW has been most instrumental in enhancing the in-country policy dialogue on population issues, and has led to a free-standing International Development Association (IDA) population operation, currently in preparation, which is the first population-specific operation in many years in the World Bank Africa Region. The preparation of a National Population and Reproductive Health Strategy was also a CAS benchmark as well as a lending trigger, while reproductive health was included in one of the CAS pillars.”</p>
<p>Within this typically technocratic language the true modus operandi is being explained, and the Bank’s partners in crime are being named quite openly:</p>
<p>“Other Bank partners such as the EU have joined the effort. Finally, population issues have also been given a high priority in the new Rural and Social Policy Reform (Development Policy Lending) Credit.”</p>
<p>Again. The 2011 document stresses that “<strong>trade has been limited with countries with no population control measures</strong>.” Another issue outlined under the “Breaking Point” scenario is a dramatic expansion of EU-government regulations: </p>
<p>“In 2050”, the document reads, “Europeans are forced to adopt green lifestyle habits– for example, via bans on non-essential individual long distance travel. By this stage, air travel has long been too expensive for the majority of people. The state controls or heavily influences all available channels of education, media and marketing to spread this message to continually reinforce its adoption and mould perceptions of sustainability.”</p>
<p>The Agenda 21-style population lock-up scenario is also being elaborated upon: </p>
<p>“Most Europeans live in densely populated urban areas in compact, efficient living quarters. Most households are comprised of three or less family members. Living quarters are modest, energy efficient, and contain smart meters which enable utilities to control load and the state to monitor use, enforce rations, or cut off electricity if necessary.”</p>
<p>Let’s have that again: the state will “monitor use, enforce rations, or cut off electricity if necessary.” Lovely, isn’t it. If you enjoyed the before mentioned issues, you will love this one: </p>
<p>“In 2015, voluntary and assisted suicide became legal in all EU countries.”</p>
<p>“By 2020, most media outlets were tightly controlled by the government and used to try to manage behaviour change, selling the “cool to play within the limits” and “green means growth” messages.”</p>
<p>Quoting current European Commissioner for the Environment Potočnik, who stated that he “attaches more importance to behaviour-changing policies such as green taxes rather than ‘reactive‘ policies that punish polluters”, I am reminded by recent comments made by this very same European commiszar in a speech <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/632&amp;format=HTML&amp;aged=0&amp;language=EN&amp;guiLanguage=en#footnote-6">posted on the European Commission’s website</a>. In his speech Potočnik quoted his “good friend” Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, as saying the idea of governing markets was agreed upon when Agenda 21 was formally created in 1992 at the original Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro: </p>
<p>“Twenty years ago, we agreed what to do, now we have the tools to do it. If we do not go into the heart of economic policy, we will meet here at Rio+40 even more culpable. Markets are social constructs. They are not a force like gravity. They can be governed.” </p>
<p>In these couple of sentences effect, the UNEP Secretary-General reveals several things. First, that current economic disparity offers “the tools” to roll out an agenda (21) which was already “agreed” upon in the early 1990s; second, that our dear Secretary-General wants to go “into the heart of economic policy”; and third, that from the onset of Agenda 21 the idea was to govern free markets. </p>
<p>In response to the quote by his “good friend” at the UN, the European environmental commissioner piled some more absolutism onto this already formidable stack of proposals by stating:</p>
<p>“Yes they can be governed and they must be governed.”</p>
<p>The last scenario sketched out by the EU-funded project group, titled “Slow Motion” mentions that “European monetary policy is strongly aligned with the objectives of the One Planet Economy. The European Central Bank and the National Banks took on a role designed to steer the European economy towards a path consistent with the One Planet economy goals.”</p>
<p>The document lists many more things I have not even covered in this article. A challenge to readers: study this document, and other documents by the environmental radicals who are now neat little technocrats creeping about in Brussels. Agenda 21, under whatever name it is being proposed, is literally embedded within big corporations and government. For this reason all their statements and publications breath its inherent tyranny, and may therefore be exposed.</p>

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<p>Jurriaan Maessen<br/><strong>ExplosiveReports.Com</strong><br/>
October 8, 2012</p>
<p><strong>Neo-eugenicist John Seager to undergraduates: “you’re the ones who are going to be able to move this forward and complete what I see as one of the great social movements of our time.”</strong> </p>
<p>In a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6038">recent biennial report</a> released last week by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) the projection for global population growth in 2050 has been raised with an additional 117 million people on top of the earlier projection of 8 billion people. As the UN keeps up the pressure an effort is underway to flood universities and colleges throughout the United States with population control propaganda. One of the people doing the rounds across academic America is former EPA chief John Seager, who now heads up an organization called “Population Connection”, dedicated to the selling of human population reduction. </p>
<p>On October 3 2012, Pennsylvania State University provided a stage for Seager, president of “Population Connection”, an organization promoting the culling of the overall human population. Accepting an invitation by the Institute of Environmental Studies, Seager attempted to convince a hall filled with undergraduates of the need to bring down the population for “sustainability” purposes. </p>
<p>In an October 4 article titled “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/10/lecturer-explores-population-control-issues">Lecturer Explores Population Control Issues</a>“, the Daily Pennsylvanian reports Population Connection aims to inform no less than three million k-12 students throughout the United States “about this issue and to lobby Congress to garner support for international family planning.” </p>
<p>“About 98 to 99 percent of all the population growth is happening in generally very poor places that are very far away [from America],” Seager told the Daily Pennsylvanian. “And to bring this issue to your average American is a very hard challenge.”</p>
<p>The man who extended the invitation, Stanley Laskowski, explained why he attracted Seager to lecture:</p>
<p>“population growth is the root of all environmental problems and his insight into the issue at hand is invaluable.”</p>
<p>This is exactly the idea Seager is promulgating across the US. As a former EPA chief appointed by the Clinton administration in the mid 90s, Seager has found an eager audience in the establishment academic scene. During one of his recent lectures, held at the Nicholas School of the Environment, he stressed that man is the foremost enemy to the planet and the global population should be curbed towards what he calls “sustainable levels.” </p>
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<p>Speaking of the UN’s population projection for the next decades- which will have the human population at 8 billion by 2050- Seager (from 35 minutes onward) stresses that this “(…) if we move to that low line on the UN projection- in my view the best possible outcome in terms of human population growth (through voluntary programs)- it would be the biggest single slice of the carbon pie. It would do more than thousand mile per gallon cars. It would do more than that.”</p>
<p>Seager states that technological solutions to Co2 emissions will not be sufficient to prevent global climatic Armageddon. </p>
<p>“Tim Dyson at the London School of Economics found that if we reduced our carbon footprint by one percent a year in the developed world over the next forty years, a hundred percent of that is wiped out by population growth.”          </p>
<p>Therefore, Seager argues, the birthrate in the developing countries should be drastically reduced. This is the global consensus in the scientific community today. Whatever we do to diminish our “carbon footprint” in the developed world, only a thorough culling of the Third World population will make sure the earth has a chance of survival. In 2005 an MIT professor <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-014-introductory-biology-spring-2005/video-lectures/30-population-growth-ii/">told students</a> (from 10 minutes, 10 seconds onward): </p>
<p>“The real trick is, in terms of trying to level off at someplace lower than that 9 billion, is to get the birthrates in the developing countries to drop as fast as we can. And that will determine the level at which humans will level off on earth.” </p>
<p>Attempting to fence off the “critique” from both the left and the right questioning the right of these scientific elites to tell developing nation how many children to have,  Seager states that, indeed, we have no right too so, he also states:</p>
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<p>“That said, we have an opportunity to make options available…upon request. We do not go into any country until that country asks us to come in.”</p>
<p>Yeah. The mortally wounded deer will beg his attacker for death in the end. By the way, through many World Bank publications, such as the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPRH/Resources/376374-1261312056980/RHActionPlanFinalMay112010.pdf">Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015</a>, published in April of 2010, we learn that the World Bank aims directly aims for the financial throat of a nation, saying in so many words that the financial lifeline will be discontinued if the Bank’s population policies are not being complied with double quick.</p>
<p>“The World Bank is uniquely positioned at the country level to take on advocacy for reproductive health, particularly in reaching Ministers of Finance. This will require utilizing the World Bank‟s economic analysis and technical resources to marshal arguments for investment in reproductive health. Bank’s country directors have key role to play in process of making RH a country priority through their policy dialogue with governments.”</p>
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<p>The World Bank- as lender of last resort – has the dependent nations in a stranglehold. If nations do not comply with its directions, the Bank can cut the financial lifeline, no problem at all. A World Bank discussion-paper from 2007 titled <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/HEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/Resources/281627-1095698140167/PopulationDiscussionPaperApril07Final.pdf">Population Issues in the 21st century</a> explains how this process works in more detail:</p>
<p>“The Bank has a potential comparative advantage to address these issues at the highest levels of country policy setting, not only with ministry of health counterparts, but also with officials from finance and planning. This is important given the increasing recognition that political economy is a critical factor in the implementation of population and reproductive health programs, particularly in high-fertility countries.”</p>
<p>Nothing voluntary about it, in other words. The decision is being made by UN technocrats and international bankers, and politicians in “high-fertility countries” are playing along to ensure their own survival. Now American undergraduates are being talked into this global “play or die” game as the UN agenda is moving forward.   </p>

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<p>Jurriaan Maessen<br/><strong>ExplosiveReports.Com</strong><br/>
October 4, 2012 </p>
<p>On October 2nd a retired demographer at the World Bank admitted that vaccination campaigns are an  integral part of the World Bank’s population policies.  John F. May, the Bank’s leading demographer from 1992 to 2012, told the French web journal Sens Public (and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1426540/">in turn transcribed</a> by the think-tank May works for) that vaccination campaigns, especially in so-called “high-fertility countries”, are means to achieve population reduction in those countries. May:   </p>
<p>“The means used to implement population policies are “policy levers” or targeted actions such as vaccination campaigns or family planning to change certain key variables.”</p>
<p>Defining “population policy” as “a set of interventions implemented by government officials to better manage demographic variables and to try to attune population changes (number, structure by age and breakdown) to the country’s development aspirations”, May continues to explain that the World Bank is taking up the lead role in achieving general population reduction.</p>
<p>It is not the first time that World Bank officials boast about their willingness to implement strict population control policies in the Third World. In its <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/12/13/000178830_98101903341963/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf">1984 World Development Report</a>, the World Bank suggests using “sterilization vans” and “camps” to facilitate its sterilization policies for the third world. The report also threatens nations who are slow in implementing the bank’s population policies with “drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom.”:</p>
<p>“Population policy has a long lead time; other development policies must adapt in the meantime. Inaction today forecloses options tomorrow, in overall development strategy and in future population policy. Worst of all, inaction today could mean that more drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom, will seem necessary tomorrow to slow population growth.”, the report states.</p>
<p>Some of those steps are now being taken.  </p>
<p>A <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://het.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/05/04/0960327111407644.full.pdf+html">study published in Human and Experimental Toxicology</a> in May of 2011 concluded that “nations that require more vaccine doses tend to have higher infant mortality rates.” (page 8). </p>
<p>After an in-depth study into the effects of vaccine-coverage in relation to mortality rates among infants, the authors Neil Z. Miller and Gary S. Goldman came to this disturbing conclusion and advised that “a closer inspection of correlations between vaccine doses, biochemical or synergistic toxicity, and IMRs, is essential.”- but naively concluded that “All nations—rich and poor, advanced and developing—have an obligation to determine whether their immunization schedules are achieving their desired goals.”</p>
<p>The authors cannot be expected to know that, actually, that the desired goals are exactly being achieved. Their final point is significant in this regard, that they obviously were not working on the notion that vaccines were harmful and obviously drew their final conclusions on the basis of the idea that the increase in high mortality rates among infants were unintended. The opposite is the case. The World Health Organization, the World Bank, The UN environmental department, the UN Population Fund, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and all the other arms of the creature we call the scientific dictatorship are closing in on all of humanity with mass-scale vaccination programmes and genetically engineered food. </p>
<p>Where the mantra used to be “to combat global warming, we need a one world government”, now it sounds something along the lines of “when we wish to eradicate poverty, we must have a global government and reduce human numbers, by the way.” Any pretext will do. More recently it were oceans in need that prompted the World Bank to initiate a global “alliance”. The same argument can of course be applied and is being applied to every other possible calamity. </p>
<p>Following this line of reasoning will inevitably bring you to pretexts under which global population control can be sold. Want to reduce victims of drunk driving? Reduce human numbers. Looking to cure cancer? Reduce the birthrate so less people will die as a result of it. The scientific community has joined the effort, attempting to sell population reduction to stop poverty and disease worldwide.</p>
<p>Under the guidance of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/ban-ki-moons-top-advisor-scientific-elite-should-spearhead-global-population-control.html">Ban Ki-moon’s top advisor, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs</a>, several studies have been published which call for mass population reduction in the name of poverty-reduction. In 2009 Sachs and his protégé’s Pejman Rohani and Matthew H. Bonds wrote the paper <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/matthew-bonds/files/proc._r._soc._b-2009-bonds-rspb.2009.1778.pdf">Poverty trap formed by the ecology of infectious diseases</a>. They write that the “poverty trap may (…) be broken by improving health conditions of the population.”</p>
<p>The question that arises, of course, is how to improve “health conditions”. In <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/matthew-bonds/files/Bonds.Rohani.JRSI.2009.pdf">another study from 2009</a> Bonds and Rohani say:</p>
<p>““(…) the birth of a child in the poorest parts of the world represents not only a new infection opportunity for a disease, but also an increase in the probability of infection for the rest of the susceptible host population. Thus, epidemiological theory predicts that a reduction in the birth rate can significantly lower the prevalence of childhood diseases.”</p>
<p>Earlier that same year, Bonds wrote a dissertation entitled <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2006/images/Bonds_Dissertation_Ecology.pdf">Sociality, Sterility, and Poverty; Host-Pathogen Coevolution, with Implications for Human Ecology</a>. The study concludes that the best way to eradicate poverty and disease is to, well… eradicate humans.</p>
<p>“We find that, after accounting for an income effect, reducing fertility may result in significantly lower disease prevalence over the long (economic) term than would a standard S-I-R epidemiological model predict, and might even be an effective strategy for eradicating some infectious diseases. Such a solution would make Malthus proud”, Bonds writes.</p>
<p>“(…) the new model, which accounts for an economic effect, predicts that a reduction in fertility may be significantly more effective than a vaccine. It also illustrates that a sustained vaccination policy would be more likely to eradicate a disease if done in conjunction with decreased reproduction.”</p>
<p>“This model”, Bond continues, “is likely to understate the true benefits of reduced fertility because the effect of reducing the birth rate is to reduce the flow of susceptible for all diseases, which is the equivalent of a vaccine for all infectious diseases at the same time.”</p>
<p>If you eradicate the human, you eradicate the disease- problem solved:</p>
<p>“Infectious diseases, however, continue to be most significant in developing countries, which experience relatively rapid population growth. The effect of this influx of children on the persistence and dynamics of childhood diseases, as well as on the critical vaccination coverage, is reasonably well-established (McLean and Anderson, 1988a; Broutin et al., 2005). But it is now warranted to turn this framework on its head: can fertility reduction be an integral element of a disease eradication campaign?”</p>
<p>The answer to that question is given by Bill Gates in 2010 when he promoted using vaccines to lower the population by 10 to 15%:</p>
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<p>Disease and poverty, intertwined as they are, can therefore be eliminated by mas-scale fertility reduction. The religion of the scientific dictatorship in a nutshell.</p>
<p>It wasn’t the first time that Mr. Sachs called for global coordination in regards to population control. In <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32074&amp;Cr=climate+change&amp;Cr1">a September 2009 UN press release</a>, Sachs not only lamented human activity on the planet, but argued for scientists and engineers to take the steering-wheel in this process:</p>
<p>“We’re in the age of this planet where human activity dominates the earth’s processes. Humanity has become so large in absolute number and in economic activity that we have overtaken earth processes in vital ways to the point of changing the climate, the hydrologic cycle,” he told the UN Conference on Trade and Development.”</p>
<p>“We don’t necessarily need diplomats around the table”, Sachs continued. “We need engineers around the table, scientists around the table. We need to put the cards down and have a new kind of process.”</p>
<p>What kind of model does Sachs envision for his usurping utopia? He stated in <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/about/director/pubs/Economist0600.pdf">an Economist publication in 2000</a>:</p>
<p>“The model to emulate is the Rockefeller Foundation, the pre-eminent development institution of the 20th century, which showed what grant aid targeted on knowledge could accomplish.”</p>
<p>I don’t have to remind readers that it was the Rockefeller Foundation that <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.infowars.com/rockefeller-foundation-developed-vaccines-for-%E2%80%9Cmass-scale%E2%80%9D-fertility-reduction/">funded and developed</a> vaccines designed to reduce your fertility, and intended to distribute these vaccines on a mass-scale.</p>
<p>In his commentary <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/about/director/2009/SciAm_September%202008.pdf">The Specter of Malthus Returns</a>, Sachs gives an adequate description of Agenda 21 without actually mentioning the UN plan for wealth redistribution and global population reduction:</p>
<p>“We will need to rethink modern diets and urban design to achieve healthier lifestyles that also reduce consumption. And to stabilize the global population at around eight billion, we will have to help Africa and other regions in speeding their demographic transition. We are definitely not yet on such a trajectory. We will need new policies to push markets down that path and to promote technological advances in resource saving. We will need a new politics to recognize the importance of a sustainable growth strategy and global cooperation to achieve it.”</p>
<p>As Paul Joseph Watson reported in his September 2010 article <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/global-tax-scam-shifts-from-climate-change-to-poverty.html">Global Tax Scam Shifts From Climate Change to Poverty</a>, the pretexts under which the ongoing effort to establish a world government is moving forward is undergoing a transformation. The focus has now drifted away from the thoroughly debunked global warming myth to poverty-reduction. As usually is the case, once the pretext is sold to the unsuspecting, the eugenicists move in to “reduce fertility.” Global government, in other words, to facilitate global scientific dictatorship. </p>
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<!--RTEditor:genereated--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>­<em>“The story goes that supposedly Syrian planes dropped bombs on Turkish territory, but everything has been over-exaggerated, even if it did really happen,” </em> Nouri al-Maliki said.</p><!--/RTEditor textarea--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>­He argued that no one was threatening Turkey, and that there was no need for them to call on NATO for support.</p><!--/RTEditor textarea--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p><em>“Turkey is being presumptuous, you could say, as if it were taking responsibility for solving the Syrian conflict instead of the Syrian people and wants to impose its own solution. For this reason the international community needs to stop Turkey from intervening," </em>he said.</p><p>Al-Maliki also firmly denied allegations that Iraq allows Iran to deliver weapons to Syria through its territory.</p><p><em>“This is not true,”</em> he said, <em>“we have been doing random checks of aircrafts and have not discovered any weapon aboard.”</em><br/></p><p>Earlier, the US urged Iraq to close its airspace to Iranian planes.<br/></p><p>Al-Maliki is on a three-day visit to Russia, where he said that Iraq's position on Syria is similar to Russia's one as both countries are calling for peaceful resolution of the conflict. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin postponed a visit to Ankara, Turkey, because of his busy schedule this month, the Kremlin press office told RT. </p><p>Putin’s decision to postpone the visit came amid increased antagonism between the neighboring countries. Previously, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appealed to Damascus and Ankara to negotiate to avert an escalation in the conflict, referring to the shelling as a“tragic casualty.”</p><p>The Turkish government also bolstered its military presence in the region, including the deployment of 25 F-16 jet fighters to the Diyarbakir base, 100 kilometers from the Syrian border.</p><!--/RTEditor textarea-->&#13;
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<!--RTEditor:genereated--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>Russia no longer requires US aid and can continue with the program unassisted, Kommersant daily newspaper reported. In addition, Moscow explained the decision by the necessity to prevent secret data leak. </p><p>The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program was launched in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union and aimed to dismantle unneeded nuclear weapons in Russia’s arsenal and eliminate outdated biological and chemical weapons. </p><p>The agreement was extended twice – in 1999 and 2006 – and expires in May 2013. Sources in Pentagon and the State Department told Kommersant that the US hopes to extend the program again. </p><p>Negotiations on the program began several months ago. The issue was also discussed during a recent visit to Russia by a high-ranking US delegation of members of Congress, the Department of State and the Pentagon led by Senator Richard Lugar, one of the authors of the program. Moscow said that it did not believe it would be useful to extend the agreement. </p><p>US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul told Interfax that the US hopes to continue the Nunn-Lugar Program, whether under a different name or in a different format. </p><p>Moscow remains open to further cooperation with the US in the dismantling of its nuclear arsenal, but insists that any new agreement should be singed <em>“based on the principles of e equality and mutual respect,”</em> a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Kommersant. The current document is “<em>discriminative of Russia,</em>” and does not account for changes that have taken place since the agreement was signed in the 1990s – <em>“a difficult time for the country.”</em></p><p>Moscow also expressed concerns that the US could exploit the program to acquire “sensitive data” about Russia’s nuclear arsenal, the source said.</p><p>The move came after Russia ordered the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to leave the country by October 1 over its attempts to influence Russian politics. The Russian Foreign Minister also recently stated that the ‘<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://rt.com/politics/russia-us-reset-lavrov-software-557/" target="_blank">reset’ between Moscow and Washington “cannot last forever.”</a></p><!--/RTEditor textarea-->&#13;
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<!--RTEditor:genereated--><!--RTEditor textarea--><p>On Tuesday night, Khan and his brother, who is also a professional fighter, allegedly got involved in a fistfight with six men in Birmingham, when the gang tried to steal Khan’s £100,000 Range Rover. </p><p>The two brothers were on their way back after a night out when a group of men overtook Khan’s ride by blocking their way and forcing the fighters to stop.</p><p>Witnesses testified that the Khan brothers easily defended themselves against their attackers.</p><p><em>“One [of the gang] slapped Amir and clipped him on the lip but Amir pulled back and knocked him out cold,” </em>a witness revealed to The Sun newspaper.</p><p><em>“Then five of them went for Amir and Haroon but they stood their ground and these guys got dropped one by one.”</em></p><p>Amir Khan lost his WBA light welterweight belt to American fighter Danny Garcia in a fourth round knockout on July 14, 2012. The 25 year old is now scheduled to take on unbeaten fighter Carlos Molina in December in an attempt to reinstate himself as the top ranked fighter in his division.</p><!--/RTEditor textarea-->&#13;
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<p>In January of this year, TEPCO conducted an investigation in the inside of the Primary Containment Vessel (PCV), of Unit 2 at Fukushima Daiichi.  They had been assuming that the water in the PCV was around OP9500, but were unable to locate the water level inside of the containment vessel and ultimately guessed that the top of the water must be just out of their ability to investigate.</p>
<p>In August, workers began preparatory work at Reactor 1 to investigate the inside of the primary containment vessel (PCV).  This week, workers at Fukushima Daiichi began the four-day investigation at Unit 1 with an endoscope camera.</p>
<p>During investigation, photos will be taken by a camera, data collected on radiation dose, ambient temperature, water temperature and water level will be collected and sampling of accumulated water will be conducted. New PCV ambient temperature thermometers and water gauges will also be installed to improve monitoring.</p>
<p>The goal of the work is to determine the current conditions in the water, and the amount of contaminated water in the vessel, but after the first day of investigation, workers were unable to find the water level in the reactor, and some damage was found.</p>
<p>For Units 1 to 3, it is assumed that nuclear fuel and core internals have melted and resolidified (fuel debris) and have escaped in varying amounts from the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and are thought to currently be located primary containment vessel (PCV).  The nuclear fuel can now only be removed while under a pool of water to ensure the temperature and radiation levels are controlled.</p>
<p>As hydrogen concentration and Kr-85 radioactivity density have been changing since April, it is assumed that the hydrogen generated in the early stage of the accident and Kr-85 which remain in the upper part of the suppression chamber are intermittently released into the dry well.</p>
<p>First, the inability to locate the water obviously means that the water being pumped into the containment is escaping, either through a large hole in containment, or a series of smaller holes.</p>
<p>Secondly, if there is no accumulated water, than there is far less shielding and decay heat removal available than TEPCO has accounted for, which would also infer the melted fuel in the containment vessel may be exposed.</p>
<p>The radiation levels inside of the reactor are one of the key indicators used to determine the location and formation of melted nuclear fuel.  If the nuclear fuel was exposed, the radiation fields produced by the melted nuclear fuel would’ve produced radiation fields so strong they would be detectable outside of the reactor building, and no radiation levels that high have been confirmed by the utility.</p>
<p>These new findings by TEPCO may suggest that the water is not adequately cooling any melted fuel which may be located in the containment vessel, or may also infer that the melted fuel has relocated to another location and the containment may be working as a shield to block the radiation emitted.</p>
<p>When looking at raw data provided by TEPCO, one can see that there has been no major flux in temps or radiation levels in a while, which may mean that this condition has existed for some time.  The key question is how long has the majority of the coolant water pumped into the reactor been escaping and providing little if any shielding to the melted nuclear fuel.</p>
<p>In short, we have been playing the ‘where is the corium’ game since the first week of the disaster, and the recent finding (no water found in containment vessel) is increasing evidence, when verified by the temperature and radiation levels as given by TEPCO, that the fuel may not still be located where they thought it was.</p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/roadmap/images/t120730_02-e.pdf  " target="_blank">TEPCO</a></p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/roadmap/images/m120123_01-e.pdf  " target="_blank">TEPCO</a></p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/roadmap/images/m120314_01-e.pdf  " target="_blank">TEPCO</a></p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/roadmap/images/m120314_02-e.pdf" target="_blank">TEPCO</a>
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<p>A NHK survey showed that the support rate for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is at 26%, the lowest since Noda’s Cabinet was formed in September 2011, and the disapproval rate is at its highest at 58%.</p>
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<p>Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda instructed Environment Minister Hiroyuki Nagahama on Sunday to accelerate decontamination work in Fukushima Prefecture.</p>
<p>Referring to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Noda said: “There is a long way to go. We need to maintain a sense of tension through the end in order to ensure steady progress in work to decommission reactors, while paying close attention to plant safety and the health and safety of workers.”</p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&amp;k=2012100700223  " target="_blank">JiJi Press</a></p>
<blockquote readability="1"><p>Tobacco from Fukushima found contaminated with cesium</p></blockquote>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jiji.com/jc/eqa?g=eqa&amp;k=2012100900657  " target="_blank">JiJi Press</a></p>
<blockquote readability="1"><p>Boat from Japan found floating off the coast of Hawaii</p></blockquote>
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<p>TEPCO workers have begun a four day project to inspect the containment vessel of the Unit 1 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi with an endoscope camera.  The goal of the work is to determine the amount of contaminated water in the vessel, but after the first day of investigation, workers were unable to find the water level in the reactor, and some damage was found.</p>
<p>The workers wanted to collect some of the contaminated water to analyze the concentration of radioactive materials in it, and also to gather data as to where new sensors and gauges could be located to monitor the temperature and water levels in the containment vessel.</p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.47news.jp/47topics/e/235197.php  " target="_blank">47 News Japan</a></p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_121009_02-j.pdf" target="_blank">TEPCO</a>
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       <p><em>“The Cabin in the Woods” is a widely successful horror film that also obtained great critical acclaim. While many appreciated the movie for its wit, humor and originality, the movie’s storyline is nevertheless serious and very real: It depicts the elite’s use of occult rituals on the unsuspecting masses. We’ll look at the symbolic meaning of “The Cabin in the Woods”.</em></p>
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<p>Considered to be “groundbreaking” and a “game changer” by movie critics, <em>The Cabin in the Woods</em> contains many elements of classic horror films while adding interesting new elements to the mix. It continually refers to and comments on the horror movie genre, praising some aspects of it while poking fun at the many clichés that are found in the genre. The basic plot has been seen many times as it involves zombies running after teenagers that are so dumb and generic that you almost want them to die. But there is more to the story than hack and slash: It is about elite puppeteers overseeing a massive blood ritual using mind control and high tech monitoring. In the end,<em> The Cabin in the Woods</em> is a metaphor for our heavily controlled society that is under the control of dark, hidden forces. The movie was co-written and directed by Joss Whedon, who also created <em>Dollhouse</em> a TV series that tackled the concept of mind control in a rather obvious way.</p>
<p>At first glance, the characters of the movie are heavily clichéd, to the point that it is absurd. We have the typical jock, the typical slutty girl, the typical stoner, the boring smart guy and the timid prude virgin. These teenagers are purposely generic to comment on the boringness of characters in bad horror movies, but, as the story unfolds, we also discover that they were selected and manipulated by an organization to fully embody specific archetypes in order to complete a ritual.</p>
<div id="attachment_11957" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11957" title="cabin6" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin6.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="209" /><p>The heroes (or the victims) of the movie are somewhat uni-dimensional. We soon learn that they were manipulated to become that way.</p></div>
<p>As the movie progresses, many key aspects of the occult elite and its way of functioning are described in vivid detail: Mediatised mega-rituals, occult secret societies, mind control, high-tech monitoring and so forth. At the end of the movie, one might realize that these scared and confused teenagers running around and falling into traps are…us, aka the masses. Let’s look at the elements found in the movie and analyze their full significance.</p>
<h2>The Nameless Organization</h2>
<p>At the beginning of the movie, we see five friends hoping into van and driving to a cabin in the woods (hence the title of the movie) where fun, alcohol and teenage frolicking awaits. The pals however don’t know that this weekend of apparent partying is, in fact, a big ritual sacrifice conducted by a high-level, international organization.</p>
<div id="attachment_11965" readability="4"><img class="size-full wp-image-11965" title="cabin3" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin3.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="212" /><p>Never named in the movie, the organization behind the blood sacrifice utilizes high-tech facilities across the world and appears to have a great amount of resources and employees. Can we associate this organization with the occult elite, the NWO and its secret facilities? Yes, yes we can.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_11967" readability="4"><img class="size-full wp-image-11967" title="cabin4" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin41.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="215" /><p>Simply looking at the command center, we understand that is not a small, clandestine operation, but a highly sophisticated organization dealing with military tracking equipment that is only available at the highest governmental levels.</p></div>
<p>The organization’s sole purpose is to set up high-profile mega-rituals involving the deaths of civilians across the world in order to appease dark forces beneath the Earth. These rituals are made possible through the manipulation of certain individuals into doing certain things, causing them to unknowing become participants in an occult ritual. This concept has been discussed several times on this site as mega-rituals involving symbolic elements and blood sacrifices do happen in real life, where everything is staged and set up to obtain maximum exposure and magickal potency.</p>
<p>Although this is a very obscure and taboo subject, some occult researchers have determined that many mediatised events are actually mega-ritual carried out to fulfill specific occult objectives. Whether we go as far as Jack the Ripper or as recently as the Batman killings, some murders are actually set up to follow specific rules and to imprint society with specific symbols.<em></em></p>
<blockquote readability="25"><p><em>“Of course, many serial murders are nothing more than the work of a single individual acting out a graphic horror movie he saw, or responding to powerful “psychotic” impulses for aggression and predation. But many other serial murders involve a cult protected by the U.S. government and the corporate media, with strong ties to the police. These murders are actually intricately choreographed rituals; performed first on a very intimate and secret scale, among the initiates themselves in order to program them, them on a grand scale, amplified incalculably by the electronic media. In the end what we have is a highly symbolic, ritual working broadcast to millions of people, a Satanic inversion; a Black mass, where the “pews” are filled by the entire nation and through which humanity is paganized, brutalized and debased in this, the “Nigredo” phase of the alchemical process. </em></p>
<p><em>The French adept Antonin Artaud, architect of the theory of the “Theater of Cruelty” with its transformative power, and the inspiration for the extreme sex-and-death media of our time, had this to say about the processing of the Group Mind: ‘Aside from trifling witchcraft of country sorcerers, there are tricks of global hoodoo in which all alerted consciousnesses participate periodically… That is how strange forces are aroused and transported to the astral vault, to that dark dome which is composed above all of… the poisonous aggressiveness of the evil minds of most people… the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon appear undisguised.’ </em></p>
<p><em>The issue of controlling humanity with esoteric words and symbols encoded within a play, a media spectacular or a ritual is one of the most difficult for people to comprehend. That is why most people are viewed with utter contempt as “cowans,” “the profane,” the “gentiles” and the “goyim” (cattle) by secret society initiates. “I think we are farmed,” Charles Fort said of humanity. It was Fort who also suggested that man deliberately invented the dogma of materialism in order to shield himself from the evidence of what was being done to him by means of psycho- spiritual warfare methods hyped by “coincidence,” symbolism and ritual.”</em><br />
- Michael A. Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare</p></blockquote>
<p>Although the above quote was written more than 20 years ago, it perfectly describes the plot of <em>The Cabin in the Woods</em> which, in turn, describes mega-rituals in a direct but very caricatural matter. By doing so, the movie reveals the elite’s way of functioning while fictionalize it – it puts everything out in the open while making people believe that “it’s just a movie”. While there is a lot of satire and foolishness in the movie, it underlying concept is truer than most would believe.</p>
<div id="attachment_11971" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11971" title="cabin10" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin10.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="227" /><p>The shady organization carries out rituals across the world, some of which succeed and others fail. Most are made to appear as “accidents” and those that succeed are widely publicized across the world.</p></div>
<p>This elite organization, as powerful as it is, only obeys the will of dark forces called “The Ancients” and “the gods”. The “technicians” overseeing the ritual are actually members of an occult brotherhood and their job is to make sure rituals are complete.</p>
<div id="attachment_11974" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11974" title="cabin12" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin12.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="211" /><p>After the death of the first victim, we see one of the technicians reciting a dark prayer and then kissing a pendant bearing the secret society’s magical symbol. Like in real life, some operations that appear to be about science and pragmatism are actually motivated by very obscure and occult reasons.</p></div>
<p>So the U.S. branch of this shady Organization manipulates five all-American students to go spend a weekend in a remote cabin in the woods. The cabin is set up in an environment that is totally artificial and controlled by the puppet masters. In fact, the cabin and its surrounding is one big TV recording studio, complete with mics and cameras, mind altering drugs to control the actors and remote controlled doors and light effects.</p>
<div id="attachment_11975" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11975" title="cabin5" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin5.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="212" /><p>As the teenagers drive towards to the cabin’s location, we realize that they are entering a “virtual” zone that is totally created by and controlled by the organization. Inside of it, the teenagers become puppets at the hand of high-tech puppet masters.</p></div>
 
<h2>The Sacrificial Lambs</h2>
<p>Once arrived at the cabin, the teenagers are made to embody specific archetypes in order to complete the ritual drama required by the gods. It therefore needs to be carried out in a specific matter and it needs to completely recorded and televised. The “gods” require the death of five specific archetypes in the ritual drama: The whore, the athlete, the fool, the scholar and the virgin.</p>
<h3>The Whore</h3>
<div id="attachment_11976" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11976" title="cabin17" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin17.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="228" /><p>In the brotherhood’s temple are displayed stone tablets representing each archetype that needs to be slain. This one represents the whore.</p></div>
<p>Right from the start of the movie, the character named Jules Louden plays the role of a sex-bomb that appears to be aroused by anything. During her (short) stay at the cabin, she constantly feels the urge to talk about sex or to dance like a stripper. We however learn that Jules is not being herself: She was drugged and manipulated to become the proverbial whore. Upon closer look, an astute viewer might realize that Jules Louden bares many characteristics of a Sex Kitten mind control slave.</p>
<div id="attachment_11980" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11980" title="cabin8" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin8.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="223" /><p>The first scene involving Jules emphasizes the fact that she dyed her hair blond. In Mind Control symbolism, blond hair is used to identify Sex Kittens – Marylin Monroe programming. We then learn that the “puppet masters” laced her hair dye with chemicals to reduce cognition and to augment her libido.</p></div>
<p>So Jules is not usually a whore – she was manipulated and drugged into becoming one, the same way the elite uses mind control to make regular girls become Sex Kittens (think of the many slutty “celebrities” that started off “normal”). In the cabin, Jules displaying typical behavior of a MK slave, victim of Beta programming.</p>
<blockquote readability="3"><p><em>“BETA is referred to as “sexual” programming (slaves). This programming eliminates all learned moral convictions and stimulates the primitive instinct, devoid of inhibitions. “Cat” alters may come out at this level.”</em><br />
- Ron Patton, Project Monarch</p></blockquote>
<p>The most obvious example of Sex Kitten behavior occurs when Jules is “dared” to make-out with a wolf head mounted on the cabin wall. She engages in a disturbingly long make-out session with the wolf head, as her friends awkwardly watch. The scene ends with Jules saying “thank you” to the wolf, confirming that the drugs she was given completely eliminated her inhibitions.</p>
<div id="attachment_11981" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11981" title="cabin9" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin9.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="206" /><p>Jules is getting a lot of pleasure making out with this wolf head because she was programmed to accomplish such tasks. Bestiality is only one of the twisted things actual Beta Kittens are ordered to do by their handlers.</p></div>
<p>The puppet masters make it clear that Jules needs to be sacrificed first – because she is a whore and therefore corrupted. This needs to happen in a very specific matter in order to follow dark occult principles. The technicians want her to be killed during coitus and, more specifically, when she is nearing climax. Sex Magick principles stipulate that individuals accumulate the most “life force” during the moments right before climax. Sacrificing a person right at that moment would therefore insure the most magickal potency to a ritual.</p>
<div id="attachment_11983" readability="5"><img class="size-full wp-image-11983" title="cabin11" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin11.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="203" /><p>The technicians closely monitor Jules copulating with the jock, hoping that she will take her shirt off. Explaining the ritual to an “outsider” who doesn’t understand why she MUST undress herself, a technician says: “We’re not the only ones watching…Got to keep the customer satisfied. You understand what’s at stake here?” In other words, the ritual needs to be graphic and fully broadcasted to be considered a success, something we see in real life without even realizing it.</p></div>
<p>After a few minutes of frolicking, which gets the teenagers (and the viewers) excited, Jules gets viciously attacked by a zombie right when she nears climax. The odd combination of sex and death is characteristic of the dark rituals and is also featured be in underground snuff films circulated in elite circles. In short, Jules’ death was planned according the occult elite’s way of functioning.</p>
<h3>The Fool</h3>
<p>Like in most horror movies involving teens, there is some kind of stoner in the pack providing comic relief. Always smoking a joint, the character named Marty Mikalski plays that role. Interestingly enough, the “fool” is also quite the conspiracy theorist.</p>
<div id="attachment_11986" readability="6"><img class="size-full wp-image-11986" title="cabin2" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin2.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="213" /><p>Inside the van, Marty explains how society is being heavily monitored through cameras and “chips inside children’s heads”. He states that one must sometimes “go off the grid” to escape the madness. Of course, he says all of these things while rolling a joint, subtlety telling the viewers: “Only paranoid pot heads are against microchips and state monitoring”. To make things worse, Marty then shows a finished joint to Jules and tells her “I’ll make you see things my way”, meaning that being “aware” equals being on drugs.</p></div>
<p>As discussed in my articles on the movies<em> </em><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/contagion-or-how-disaster-movies-educate-the-masses/" target="_blank"><em>Contagion</em></a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/The Hidden Symbolic Meaning of the Movie “2012″ " target="_blank"><em>2012</em></a>, “conspiracy theorists” (or anyone with non-mainstream views) are always depicted as loons with little to no credibility. Marty in <em>The Cabin in the Woods</em> accomplishes the same function. While he says things that are believed by many people, we still almost hear a “coo-coo” sound effect in the background while he discusses microchips and such.</p>
<p>The fool however turns out to be right about a lot things and tries to convince his friends about the conspiracy they are involved in. As it is often the case, nobody believes him until it is too late, because, after all, he is the fool.  We’ll later see how he’ll turn out to be an unlikely hero (while also destroying the world).</p>
<h3>The Virgin</h3>
<p>In most cultures that practiced ritual sacrifices, virgins were considered to be the “highest quality” offerings due to the fact that they were considered pure, clean, uncorrupted and innocent. They were untainted by man and the world and were therefore perceived as holy and the most spiritually potent. The character named Dana Polk was made to play that role in the ritual drama, although she isn’t actually a virgin (there’s apparently not many teenage virgins available nowadays)</p>
<div id="attachment_11992" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11992" title="cabin18" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin18.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="213" /><p>Although she appears to be the weakest and the most vulnerable of the victims, the virgin ended up being an unlikely hero.</p></div>
<p>For the ritual to be complete, Dana needed outlive all of her friends and her death was optional. The important thing is that she suffered as the puppet masters need capture pain and punishment on camera, a fetish of the real life dark forces behind the Illuminati. In fact, the ritual in <em>The Cabin in the Woods</em> follows a specific protocol that is similar to the actual rituals carried out by the occult elite. Here are some of them.</p>
<h2>Rules of the Ritual</h2>
<p>Most mega-rituals follow specific rules that are clearly spelled out in the movie. These rules are made to give the rituals more potency while allowing the powers that be to avoid the negative effects of bad karma (according to their weird interpretation of it).</p>
<h3>1st Rule: Announcing What Will Happen Beforehand.</h3>
<div id="attachment_11995" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11995" title="cabin19" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin19.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="208" /><p>On their way to the cabin, the teenagers meet an unsavory character dubbed “The Harbinger” that warns them in not-so-subtle ways that they will be killed. Despite the warnings, the friends resolutely carry on.</p></div>
<p>As seen in previous articles on this site, mega-rituals are often preceded by “clues” in mass media warning or preparing the victims (and the world) for what’s coming. If after being warned, victims go on by their own free will, then the puppeteers are liberated from karmic responsibility.  During the movie, one technicians says:</p>
<blockquote readability="6"><p><em>“They have to make the choice of their own free will. Otherwise, the system doesn’t work. Its like The Harbinger…this creepy old fuck who is practically wearing a sign saying ‘You Will Die’. Why do we put him there? The System. They have to choose to ignore him. They have to choose what happens in the cellar. Yeah, we rig the system as much as we need to but, in the end, if they don’t transgress, they can’t be punished.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>This concept is often seen in real life where victims of ritual sacrifice place themselves in a specific situation, although they have been thoroughly manipulated to do so (see MK victims dying from an “overdose”).</p>
<div id="attachment_12004" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-12004" title="cabin7" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin71.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="238" /><p>In one of the cabin’s rooms is a painting depicting a lamb being torn to pieces by all kinds of vicious creatures. This is yet another way the victims are subtly “warned” of what is bound to happen. However, since the kids have no idea of what’s happening, they simply ignore it. This can be compared the elite hiding in plain sight warnings and predictions about the NWO in public places (see the murals at the Denver International Airport).</p></div>
<h3>2nd Rule: The Victims Must Seal Their Own Fate</h3>
<p>Although every aspect of their environment is tightly controlled and manipulated by the puppet masters, the victims are still made to choose their fate by their own free will.</p>
<div id="attachment_12000" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-12000" title="cabin20" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin20.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="219" /><p>By reading cryptic Latin phrases inside a book, the 5 friends summoned themselves the redneck zombies that will tirelessly want to kill them. By triggering the killers themselves, the puppeteers are freed from karmic responsibility.</p></div>
<p>Although the above concepts are extremely obscure, they are clearly defined and communicated in the movie. They are a reflection of the occult elite’s (aka the Illuminati’s) particular way of functioning, where nothing is obvious and everything is manipulated behind the scenes in order to obtain a specific result. Ancient blood sacrifices were accomplished out in the open with participants that knew what was happening (not that I’m idealizing those days) but today, it is about deceit and manipulation, with an emphasis placed on suffering and anguish, something that only those dealing in black arts would revel on. Upon discovering exactly what was happening, Marty (the stoner) says:</p>
<blockquote readability="2"><p><em>“A ritual sacrifice? Great. You tie someone to a stone, get a fancy dagger and a bunch of robes. It’s not that complicated.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>To which the virgin replies:</p>
<blockquote readability="1"><p><em>“Tt IS simple. They don’t just want to see us killed. They want to see us punished”.</em></p></blockquote>
<h2>Who Wins in the End?</h2>
<p>The ending of the movie is very telling, yet very unsettling. In order for the ritual to be complete, Marty must die before the virgin. If this doesn’t happen, the “ancient evil gods” will rise and kill everyone on Earth. When asked to kill himself to save the world, Marty refuses – knowing very well he’ll be killed anyways by the evil gods.</p>
<p>Dana and Marty then light up a joint and wait for the gods to rise. Dana says:</p>
<blockquote readability="1"><p><em>“It’s time to give someone else a chance…Giant evil gods”.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Then a giant hand rises up from beneath the Earth, kills everyone and then reaches out to grab the movie viewers. And that’s how the movie ends…with an evil god grabbing the viewer.</p>
<div id="attachment_12001" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-12001" title="cabin21" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cabin21.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="217" /><p>The big winner of the movie? An Evil god aka Satan himself.</p></div>
<p>So, in the end, the only winner of the movie is a “giant evil god” rising up straight from hell, one that could be equated to Satan in Abrahamic religions. Dana and Marty, the “heroes” of the story, therefore willingly allowed the evil god to rise up and to take over the Earth. The “heroes” brought about the worst ending possible, one of the movie’s original twists that kept the audiences guessing. It nevertheless has an important symbolic meaning and tells a lot about those who are behind the movie. In retrospect, were the puppeteers the good guys or the bad guys? They were sadistic jerks carrying out an occult ritual but they were also trying to save the world from the wrath evil gods. Hmmm…</p>
<h2>In Conclusion</h2>
<p><em>The Cabin in the Woods</em> is a hit with movie fans due to its wit and its study of the horror film genre. However, going past these obvious remarks, the story of the movie conceals another layer of interpretation: It reveals the Illuminati’s occult way of functioning in order to maintain power and to imprint the group mind with symbols using rituals and sacrifices. The “organization” in the movie uses an odd mixture of scientific knowledge with “old world” occult rituals to carry out its plans. While this story is pure fiction, it also reveals (in a strange way) how the occult elite truly functions.</p>
<p>That being said, can we equate the clueless teens in the movie to the clueless masses? Can we equate the cabin in the woods to today’s highly monitored and controlled society? Are our perceptions being purposely modified through mind control, mass media and meds to make us fall into traps? Are we being purposely dumbed-down like these kids in order for us to do the elite’s bidding by our own free will? Is the movie <em>The Cabin in the Woods</em> an equivalent to the Harbringer in the movie, who communicates a grave warning to people that are too clueless to understand any of it? As Marty the stoner says: “You are not seeing what you don’t want to see”.</p>
 
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<h4>A Brief Esoteric Interpretation Of ‘Lady Gaga Fame; The Fragrance’.<br />
By Felix London</h4>
<p>Throughout her meteoric rise to fame, Lady Gaga has established herself as an undeniable phenomenon that has forced herself into the universal consciousness of society. Her ingenious blend of contemporary music, art, fashion and film has helped her emerge as the High Priestess de jour of the pop culture collective for the new aeon. A 21st century Pied Piper, leading the masses blindly to a fate preordained for them by the elite.</p>
<p>It is no secret that a retrospect of her work shows a deliberate inclusion of much occult and mind control symbolism and themes. Through her music videos, songs, photo shoots and even costumes, it has become evident that there is a definite underlying theme at work.</p>
<p>Her latest foray into the fragrance industry, complete with super stylized advertising is perhaps her most blatant offering yet. Her debut fragrance, poised to become a world-wide #1 seller; “Fame” was conceived by the Lady herself along with a new branch of her Haus of Gaga creative team, titled “Haus Laboratories”.</p>
<p>At her own insistence the inky liquid is the world’s first black eau de parfum, as in her own words she wanted it to be reflective of the dark heart of fame. Avant Garde it may be, but on further research of the fragrances ingredients, one may beg the question; is this perfume or a potion?</p>
<p>Described on the packaging the fragrances ingredients read as follows; tears of belladonna, crushed heart of tiger orchid with a black veil of incense, pulverized apricot and the combinative essences of saffron and honey drops. Belladonna, Italian for “Beautiful Woman” and officially known as “Atropa Belladonna” is an extremely poisonous plant that causes hallucinations, delirium and other psychological effects like mind dissociation. Ancient folklore tells that Atropa Belladonna was tended to by the devil himself.</p>
<p>The name Atropa is derived from the Ancient Greek Goddess Atrops. She was said to be one of the three ‘fates’. In mythology she was responsible for affecting the fate and destiny of the world by severing the threads that connected a person to their bodies. This in turn brought death.</p>
<p>Pre-dating the middle ages and throughout history the herb Atropa Belladonna was a key ingredient in magick and was widely used by witches in aid of flying, otherwise known as astrotravel or astroprojection. It was believed that this herb had the ability to dissociate one’s mind from its physical body, putting the user into a hypnotic trance, enabling the witches to spiritually leave the body during the ritual work.</p>
<p>The herb was also equated with aggressive female sexuality. It was rubbed on the witches’ bodies to experience erotic sensations and hallucinations before they would believe they participated in orgies with spirits/demons on the sabbat. Even as late as the 1920’s the plant was used by women to dilate the pupils, the purpose being to make them appear more appealing and sexually alluring to men. Hence the term Belladonna; beautiful woman. A mysterious choice of ingredient indeed, but the recipe for this fragrance becomes more dark and ominous.</p>
<p>Whilst not noted on the packaging, the next key ingredient is a synthetic pheromone based on the molecular structure of male semen. Semen is filled with pheromones that transmit an increased sexual desire to whoever smells it. Semen is also a very powerful ingredient in any spell work or Magick along with blood, which is also a key component of this fragrance. The mixing of blood and semen is straight out of hermetic magick, founded by infamous occultist and self-proclaimed ‘Beast’ Aleister Crowley.</p>
<p>Combining the two for magical purposes forms part of the Gnostic Mass, ritualized sex magick. Blood has a powerful spiritual truth inherent within it. Blood binds the spiritual and physical together. When used inside a ritual or sacrament, it will create either a contract of covenant. The synthetic ingredient in this fragrance that adds the blood was based on the exact molecular structure of a sample of Lady Gagas own blood. Essentially she has shed her blood so the masses may wear it. Perhaps ‘mother monster’ as she refers to herself is anointing her ‘little monsters’ AKA fans through her perfume and in doing so consecrating them to herself.</p>
<p>The design of the bottle itself is also of importance. Visually it appears as a black egg-shaped vessel with a gold lid from which long, elegant, gold claws reach to clasp the bottle. The egg is one of the most comprehensive symbols, equally suggestive in a spiritual, physiological and cosmological sense. Among other things, it stands for primordial chaos, the universal matrix, the great deep, the Virgin Mother. As the symbol of generation, birth and rebirth, it is used not only on account of the mystery of apparent self-generation, but from its spheroidal shape, the sphere and circle both being symbols of encompassing space.</p>
<p>The bottle is strangely reminiscent of the egg/vessel that Gaga inserted herself into whilst being carried down the red carpet en route to emerge on stage for her performance of ‘Born This Way’ at the 2011 Grammys. Gaga stated that she wanted to birth a new race. A race within a race. The egg ritual dates back to Crowley who developed it to invoke the ‘lam’ entity which is the entity or demon that has power over speech. Adolf Hitler was himself a follower of Crowley’s doctrine and utilized the egg ritual for his own desire to birth a perfect race.</p>
<p>This leads to the film advertisement for the fragrance. It in itself is artistically brilliant, if not little confronting or unsettling. The fast paced, high fashion commercial utilizes numerous symbols throughout its many scenes and boasts a soundtrack of one of her tracks ‘Scheiße’ the German word for ‘shit’ were she speaks in an almost chant like German gibberish. The relevance of this song not only fits well with the occult connection to Hitler, but also to the many de-humanizing mind control techniques that were executed by German soldiers on Jewish captives in concentration camps during the Holocaust.  It should also be noted that the word ‘Haus’ is German for ‘House’. Therefore ‘Haus Laboratories’ further represents the German connection.</p>
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<p>The visuals for the commercial further enforce the theme of mind control and the occult. The creative aesthetic of Salvador Dali seems to have played a major inspiration for the video, directed by fashion photographer Steven Klein, who is known for his dark, provocative fashion editorials that often utilize mind control and occult symbolism.</p>
<p>The scenes that schizophrenically dart back and forth on the screen employ classic examples of mind control symbolism. Dissociated vacant eyes, blood curdling screams and tortured facial expressions from Gaga herself. Stagnated and awkward cowering movements. The use of mirrors and mirrored surfaces. The shattering glasses that represent a fragmented mind. The clawed mirror or portal alludes to the ‘Through the looking glass’ concept of Alice in Wonderland which was widely used alongside The Wizard of Oz in Monarch Mind Control or MK Ultra carried out by the CIA.  These all equate to the themes of mind control.</p>
<p>There is also an undeniable element of occult ritual symbolism. The portal itself may represent a portal to another dimension or a mode of transport for the wearer to the ritual. The reflections of gaga in the mirrors to create three images of herself, three being a very powerful number to occultists. The scenes depicting a stylized, satanic like ritual were gaga struts between men cloaked in red and near naked men, faces distorted by black masking tape over one eye, kneeling before them. Perhaps she is representing herself as the mediator between the elite and the general public. The satanic and masonic themes are evident. Also is the aggressive female sexuality and dominance over men, which is depicted in many scenes and in the lyrics of the song used. In various scenes Gaga is depicted as smearing a black substance across a man’s face, laying on top of another man holding him down, a blown-up vision of Gaga is seen reclining nude with only her modesty barely covered by tiny men crawling on her body and even seen emerging from her own lips as a crowned queen wielding a gun.</p>
<p>Whilst being a rather brilliant concept it is hard to ignore the deliberate themes in the commercial, along with the design of the bottle and the molecular structure of the fragrance itself. Is “Fame” by Lady Gaga just a tongue in cheek publicity stunt or is it indeed a representation of something more sinister?</p>
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       <p><em>Sorry for the lack of updates in the past weeks (even VC’s need to take vacations!). Worry not, a lot of new content will be posted this month.<br /></em></p>
<p>In this month’s SPOTM: Lady Gaga, Marina and the Diamonds and a whole lot of blatant MK imagery in fashion photoshoots.</p>
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<div id="attachment_11916" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11916" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-2" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-22.jpg" alt="" width="492" height="730" /><p>This photoshoot entitled “Sweet Escape” is featured in the October issue of W magazine and was shot by Nick Knight – the director Lady Gaga’s video “Born This Way” (analyzed on this site). The photoshoot is replete with Mind Control imagery, complete with references to trauma and alter personas. The title “Sweet Escape” references the concept of dissociation. In this image, the otherwordly model appears to be lifting up while reading a fairytale (which are used to programmed MK slaves).</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11920" readability="4"><img class="size-full wp-image-11920" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-3" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-3.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="747" /><p>In this pic, the model is holding a cage with a bird trapped in it, a classic symbol representing mind control. To make things more obvious, one of the birds is hiding one of the model’s eyes while the other is shown bleeding.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11921" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11921" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-5" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-5.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="820" /><p>In this pic, the model is “in the clouds” (dissociation) and there’s another emphasis on a single eye. She has red scars on her arms and legs, symbolizing the trauma and abuse of Mind Control.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11922" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11922" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-8" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-8.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="643" /><p>The model’s alter persona lies dormant in a stroller while the active persona is awake. She wears rabbit ears, symbol of mind control (as in follow the white rabbit towards dissociation).</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11923" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11923" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-7" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-7.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="833" /><p>The reflection in the mirror is “independent” from the model, symbolizing the existence of a separate alter persona that is “behind the looking glass”. Scars on the chair still represent trauma.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11924" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11924" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-13" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-13.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="681" /><p>Discarted/unused alter personas laying lifeless on a dead tree. They are “silenced” by butterflies on their mouth – representing Monarch programming. This entire photoshoot truly contains almost every symbol associated with mind control.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11925" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11925" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-11" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-11.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="925" /><p>The final images of the photoshoot are a lot darker, as if representing the final product of the MK slave. In this image, a “black wedding” with the dark side…the model doesn’t seem to happy about it.</p></div>
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<p></p><div id="attachment_11926" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11926" title="fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-12" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fashion_scans_remastered-karlie_kloss-w-october_2012-scanned_by_vampirehorde-hq-12.jpg" alt="" width="470" height="656" /><p>Final image of the shoot: An emotion-less model in a very dark setting with one eye hidden. Transformation complete?</p></div><br />
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<div id="attachment_11929" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11929" title="2342422_5dc0a046" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2342422_5dc0a046.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="682" /><p>Isabela Fontana in Allure magazine with a mega-emphasis on the one-eye symbol.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11930" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11930" title="2342424_4fe17863" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2342424_4fe17863.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="637" /><p>Another pic from Fontana’s photoshoot with a collar, symbolizing control and dehumanization.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11932" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11932" title="gagajackson" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gagajackson-e1349101531498.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="472" /><p>Lady Gaga “tributing” Michael Jackson during a London fashion week. That’s great, but why is she wearing big-ass Mickey Mouse ears (a symbol of mind control)? Is she ridiculing the fact that MJ was a victim of the MK music industry?</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11933" readability="4"><img class="size-full wp-image-11933" title="article-2204245-150CBDA9000005DC-499_634x807" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/article-2204245-150CBDA9000005DC-499_634x807-e1349101786520.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="636" /><p>During the same fashion show, Gaga wore another outfit. But let’s try to ignore that flowery thing she has on her face and let’s look at the guy next to her: hat designer Philip Treacy. His t-shirt is also referring to Michael Jackson in an odd way, with a one-eyed charicatural version of him. Why does it seem like people in the industry ridicule MJ’s death? How about stopping these questionable “tributes”  and let him rest in peace? In case you’re wondering about Philip Treacy’s connections with the Mind Control entertainment industry, let’s look at some of his most famous hat designs:</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11934" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11934" title="philiptreacy_butterflies" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/philiptreacy_butterflies.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="277" /><p>I don’t think there’s a more blatant way to describe Monarch Mind Control.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11935" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11935" title="11lsjasmine_large" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/11lsjasmine_large.jpg" alt="" width="391" height="600" /><p>Yup, that’s how he does it.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11937" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11937" title="tumblr_m9ibx5quj81qa42jro1_1280_zpsc6d402d6" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tumblr_m9ibx5quj81qa42jro1_1280_zpsc6d402d6-e1349102481395.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /><p>Creepy-ass Terry Richardson with Lady Gaga, who is wearing a sex-kitten outfit. Wait, maybe this has nothing to do with sex-kitten programming and she only likes the pattern…</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11938" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11938" title="tumblr_m9ic1etD8S1qa42jro1_1280_zps46d22d0c" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tumblr_m9ic1etD8S1qa42jro1_1280_zps46d22d0c-e1349102574549.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /><p>Nope, sex-kitten.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11939" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11939" title="marina" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/marina-e1349102936313.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="597" /><p>Popular Welsh singer Marina and the Diamonds is all about that Illuminati one-eyed symbolism. Here she is on the cover of Factory magazine.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11940" readability="4"><img class="size-full wp-image-11940" title="Marina-And-The-Diamonds-2-" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Marina-And-The-Diamonds-2-.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="240" /><p>Just, you know, like, casually hiding one eye and stuff.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11941" readability="0"><img class="size-full wp-image-11941" title="Marina-and-the-Diamonds-Lyrics-Fan-Art-marina-and-the-diamonds-31211876-500-648_large" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Marina-and-the-Diamonds-Lyrics-Fan-Art-marina-and-the-diamonds-31211876-500-648_large.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="648" /><p>Again.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11942" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11942" title="new-music-marina-the-diamonds-teen-idle-L-50JUPw" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/new-music-marina-the-diamonds-teen-idle-L-50JUPw.jpeg" alt="" width="500" height="503" /><p>Like all young female industry pawns, Marina poses as a blond Marylin Monroe, the prototype of industry-controlled sex-kittens.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11944" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11944" title="tumblr_mabmx8LIHi1rb4mdno1_500" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tumblr_mabmx8LIHi1rb4mdno1_500-e1349103503132.jpg" alt="" width="431" height="658" /><p>So this hair color is “6.66 Babylon”? That’s a pretty hardcore hair color name…</p></div>
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<p></p><div id="attachment_11945" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11945" title="UWT-1093-MULZOOM1" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/UWT-1093-MULZOOM1.jpg" alt="" width="295" height="450" /><p>Speaking of the number of the beast, here’s a new design from Lil Wayne’s favorite clothing line, UNIF. Three 6′s holding hands…how cute!</p></div><br />
 
<div id="attachment_11947" readability="3"><img class="size-full wp-image-11947" title="33eqtkg" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/33eqtkg-e1349103791523.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="206" /><p>Macedonian ad for mobile phone company… And, for no apparent reason, a model hiding one eye.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_11948" readability="2"><img class="size-full wp-image-11948" title="560872_10151133451612435_1838643718_n" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/560872_10151133451612435_1838643718_n-e1349103855289.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="316" /><p>Homepage of the official website of Stitches…For no apparent reason, a model hiding one eye.</p></div>
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<p></p><div id="attachment_11949" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-11949" title="laundryday" src="http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/laundryday-e1349103913490.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="386" /><p>Laundry Day Festival in Belgium…a bunch of young people dancing under a gigantic stage full of Illuminati symbolism disguised as a theme of pseudo-esoteric-enlightenement.</p></div><br />
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<blockquote readability="7"><p>Ooh, shiny! NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted something curious on the Martian soil, likely “a shred of plastic” from the rover, says the space agency. Still, NASA is taking a hard look at the mystery object.</p>
<p>The $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity rover took its first scoop of Martian soil on Sunday. Pictures showing the first scoop taken from a patch of sand nicknamed “Rocknest” also reveal that “a bright object is visible on the ground” between the scoop and the rest of the rover, says a NASA statement. The tiny glints are less than a tenth of an inch across.</p></blockquote>
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The NASA team took time to examine the object which attracted plenty of attention from Mars watchers. All the pictures from Mars are being highly scrutinized.</p>
<p>It is likely a piece of the rover itself according to the<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16225.html" target="_blank"> NASA site</a>.</p>
<blockquote readability="3"><p>This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover’s first use of the scoop on its robotic arm. In the foreground, near the bottom of the image, a bright object is visible on the ground. The object might be a piece of rover hardware.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Here is a close up of the piece from <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mars-plastic.jpg" target="_blank">Universe Today</a>:<br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://doubtfulnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mars-plastic.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14725" title="mars-plastic" src="http://doubtfulnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mars-plastic-239x300.jpg" alt="" width="239" height="300" /></a><br />
which does look like a piece of plastic.</p>
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<blockquote readability="13"><p>Deborah Barrett had taken Willie to the backyard of their Temple Terrace home one night last week. While in the backyard, she heard Willie tussling with something but didn’t think it was unusual, Charlie Barrett said.</p>
<p>The dog was playing with the toad, Deborah Barrett said. Willie bit into the toad and killed it, she said.</p>
<p>When Willie returned inside the home, he seemed fine, but a few minutes later he started convulsing, Charlie Barrett said.</p>
<p>They drove the dog to a local animal hospital, but Willie died on the way, he said.</p></blockquote>
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The Bufo marinus toads (cane toads) secrete a toxin from their skin that is highly poisonous to dogs, cats and other animals. While small dogs can die from the dose, even larger ones can be affected with seizures that can cause brain damage. The vet said to rinse out the dog’s mouth and paws off as soon as possible and get it to the veterinarian. </p>
<p>The toads are an invasive pest and can be killed by [get this] “plac[ing] it in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer for three days”.</p>
<p>They are also a problem in Australia where they were introduced and propagated.</p>
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            <title>Outrageous claim that homeopathy can be used as treatment for domestic abuse behavior</title>
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<blockquote readability="7"><p>Sydney clinic Homeopathy Plus, for example, promotes the use of homeopathy for potentially fatal anaphylactic shock and post-childbirth infections and director Fran Sheffield said homeopathy can treat “excesses of human behaviour” including domestic violence.</p>
<p>The Homeopathy Plus website links to an article that claims homeopathy is “a safe and effective way to treat the victims as well as the culprits of domestic violence” and contains a list of remedies for both victims and perpetrators.</p>
<p>Asked whether she really believed homeopathy could treat domestic violence, Ms Sheffield told news.com.au that “uncontrollable rage and anger” were symptoms of an imbalance that homeopathy could fix.</p>
<p>Ms Sheffield said she had only treated one man for violence but believed she was successful.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Except there isn’t a whit of evidence that withstands any degree of scientific scrutiny to show that homeopathy works for this or, wait, that homeopathy works for anything AT ALL better than placebo. This is shameful</p>
<p>It is good to see TWO skeptical voices in this piece, Richard Saunders of Australian Skeptics and AMA President Dr Steve Hambleton who notes homeopathy is not “biologically plausible”. He also went so far as to call for sanctions against “outrageous claims”.</p>
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	        </p><p>Just as we will not tire of pointing out the unintended consequence of the Fed's central-planning efforts, so it is time, courtesy of the IMF's latest missive, to point out the vicious circle that the ECB has created and encouraged in Europe. The unintended consequence of the <strong>ECB's intervention - as both perpetual backstop and lender of last resort - has created an ever-increasing fragmentation</strong> between the core and the periphery (exactly the supposed 'issue' Draghi is attempting to fix with his OMT). <strong>The toxic-debt-loop as capital leaves the periphery for the core, pressuring peripheral bond yields/spreads, and forcing private sector borrowing to be replaced by public-sector</strong> not only clouds the true picture for real-money investors or depositors (risk-based pricing has been destroyed) but encourages front-running fast-money flows which do nothing but provide short-term cover for banks/sovereigns to delay the inevitable (and potential market-clearing) deleveraging/restructuring that is required. Because the fundamental issue is one of solvency - not liquidity - the <strong>ECB's continued artifice of plugging liquidity shortfalls does nothing but lessen the confidence in the system and reduce any faith in price levels as without addressing the real insolvency, trust will never return</strong>.</p>&#13;
<p><span><strong>Europe's ECB-Driven Toxic Debt Loop...</strong></span></p>&#13;
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<p><strong>1) Capital flight from the periphery to the core...</strong></p>&#13;
<p>...due to uncertainty over the future: intervention preventing price discovery and challenges views of any sustained confidence...</p>&#13;
<p><span><em>Portfolio and Other Investment Capital Flows in the Euro Area, Excluding Central Banks.</em></span></p>&#13;
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/10/20121009_toxic1.png"><img src="http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/10/20121009_toxic1.png" alt="" width="437" height="382" /></a></p>&#13;
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<p><em><strong>...leads to</strong></em></p>&#13;
<p><strong>2) widening sovereign spreads as foreign holdings of periphery debt fall</strong></p>&#13;
<p>...which continues but has also lost any signaling since the ECB's 'promise' of intervention - which causes private borrowing to fall (since risk-based pricing is obscured), but does encourage speculative hot-money flows to front-run the actions (further removing any risk-appropriate comprehension of value)...</p>&#13;
<p><span><em>Spain and Italy: Changes in Foreign Investor Shares and Yields</em></span></p>&#13;
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<p><em>[e.g. GGBs at 10% of Par MAY be a good value, but at 20% of Par (supported by the incessant hope of another extension) they provide nothing that fundamentally signals real-money to re-enter anything but their most short-term market]</em></p>&#13;
<p><strong><em>which means...</em></strong></p>&#13;
<p><strong>3) Private borrowing is being replaced by public sector flows...</strong></p>&#13;
<p>... as the ECB (and its peers EFSF/EFSM and SMP of the future) will replace the missing private borrowers with public sectors flows...</p>&#13;
<p><em><span>Euro Area Exposures to Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain</span></em></p>&#13;
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<p><strong>which leads to...</strong></p>&#13;
<p><span><strong> even more obscuring of any market-based signaling which will inevitably make capital seeking safety nervous and therefore we rotate back to stage 1 (capital flows from the periphery to the core) in a vicious circle</strong></span>.</p>&#13;
<p>This circular toxic debt loop of death merely leaves a real-money investor questioning everything as fundamentally we all know the problem at the sovereign and financial system (even more tied together due to LTRO's encumbrance - another unintended consequence) is one of solvency and not liquidity.</p>&#13;
<p>By 'enabling' banks and sovereigns to delay addressing the insolvency issue, creditors will simply reduce exposure to manage risk - forcing the ECB to intervene further.</p>&#13;
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The IMF said the global economic slowdown is worsening as it cut its growth forecasts for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policymakers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump.</p>&#13;
<p>Global growth in advanced economies is too weak to bring down unemployment and what little momentum exists is coming primarily from central banks, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook, released ahead of its twice-yearly meeting, which will be held in Tokyo later this week.</p>&#13;
<p>“A key issue is whether the global economy is just hitting another bout of turbulence in what was always expected to be a slow and bumpy recovery or whether the current slowdown has a more lasting component,” it said.</p>&#13;
<p>“The answer depends on whether European and U.S. policymakers deal proactively with their major short-term economic challenges.”</p>&#13;
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	        </p><p><strong>By Michael Snyder</strong><br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/28-good-questions-that-the-mainstream-media-should-be-asking">The Economic Collapse</a></p><p>&#13;
Why is there so little trust in the mainstream media these days?  CNN ratings have been hovering close <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="to record lows" target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/2012/08/16/158908783/low-ratings-force-cnn-to-find-a-new-direction">to record lows</a> over the past few months.  A recent Gallup survey found that 60 percent of all Americans “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="have little or no trust" target="_blank" href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/157589/distrust-media-hits-new-high.aspx">have little or no trust</a>” in the mainstream media.  That was a record high according to Gallup.  So why is this happening?  Sadly, the truth is that the mainstream media quit telling the truth a long time ago.  The mainstream media has an agenda, and more Americans than ever are beginning to recognize this.  Once upon a time, control of the news in the United States was at least somewhat decentralized.  But now there are just <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="six giant media corporations" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read">six giant media corporations</a> that control almost everything that we see, hear and watch.  The version of “the news” that they give us is designed to serve the interests of those corporate giants and the other corporate giants that spend billions of dollars to advertise their products through those outlets.  Watching the news on television can be an extremely frustrating experience these days.  Yes, there are little bits and pieces of the truth in there, but you have to wade through an awful lot of “infotainment” to get to those bits and pieces.  That is one of the reasons why the “alternative media” has absolutely exploded in recent years.  The American people are hungry for the truth, and they are increasingly turning to alternative sources of news on the Internet in an attempt to find it.</p>&#13;
<p>We live at a time when the world is changing more rapidly than ever before.  Just about everything that can be shaken is being shaken, and anyone with half a brain realizes that we are heading for challenges that previous generations never even could have imagined.</p>&#13;
<p>There certainly is no shortage of news, but instead of focusing on the terribly important issues that we are facing, the mainstream media feeds us an endless stream of fluff, scandals and celebrities.</p>&#13;
<p>Just check out some of the headlines that I found on the front pages of major mainstream news websites today….</p>&#13;
<p>“Man Dies After Roach-Eating Contest”</p>&#13;
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<p>So what should the mainstream media really be talking about today?</p>&#13;
<p>The following are 28 good questions that the mainstream media should be asking….</p>&#13;
<p><strong>1.</strong> Why is the IMF warning that there is an “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="alarmingly high" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-08/imf-sees-alarmingly-high-risk-of-deeper-global-slump">alarmingly high</a>” risk of a deeper global economic slowdown?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>2.</strong> Why is Switzerland preparing for “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="major civil unrest" target="_blank" href="http://lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel196.html">major civil unrest</a>” throughout Europe?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>3.</strong> If the Spanish financial system <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="completely collapses" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-largest-economy-in-the-world-is-imploding-right-in-front-of-our-eyes">completely collapses</a>, what is that going to mean for the rest of Europe and the rest of the globe?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>4.</strong> Is Turkey about to drag <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="the rest of NATO" target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE88J0X720121009">the rest of NATO</a> (including the United States) into a war with Syria?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>5.</strong> Why aren’t people screaming in outrage about the fact that the U.S. national debt increased by more than a trillion dollars <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="for the fourth straight year" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/5/feds-end-2012-11-trillion-deficit/">for the fourth straight year</a> in 2012?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>6.</strong> Should we be concerned that the U.S. government added more to the U.S. national debt <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="on the first day" target="_blank" href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-added-more-debt-first-day-fy13-1776-through-pearl-harbor">on the first day</a> of fiscal year 2013 than it did from 1776 to 1941 combined?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>7.</strong> If temporary refinery problems can cause some gas stations to shut down and cause gas prices in California to skyrocket <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="to all-time highs" target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas-prices-20121005,0,2326954.story">to all-time highs</a>, what would a real crisis do?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>8.</strong> Why are some analysts predicting that a “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="rapid collapse" target="_blank" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/49068436">rapid collapse</a>” is coming for the U.S. dollar?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>9.</strong> Will the U.S. dollar soon <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="lose its status" target="_blank" href="http://thetruthwins.com/archives/will-the-chinese-renminbi-replace-the-u-s-dollar-as-the-primary-reserve-currency-of-the-world">lose its status</a> as the primary reserve currency of the world?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>10.</strong> Why is Marc Faber warning that the wealthy “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="may lose up to 50 percent of their total wealth" target="_blank" href="http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Massive-wealth-destruction-economy/2012/07/24/id/446424#ixzz28caZOvhZ">may lose up to 50 percent of their total wealth</a>“?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>11.</strong> By keeping interest rates near zero, is the Federal Reserve <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="crushing the retirement dreams" target="_blank" href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-08/zero-interest-rate-zero-retirement-how-fed-doomed-elderly-americans-endless-work">crushing the retirement dreams</a> of millions of elderly Americans?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>12.</strong> Why do Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and most members of Congress continue to stand behind the TSA when<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="nearly 400 TSA employees" target="_blank" href="http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/">nearly 400 TSA employees</a> have been fired for stealing from travelers since 2003?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>13.</strong> Why are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="nearly half a million" target="_blank" href="http://thetruthwins.com/archives/16-sickening-facts-that-show-how-members-of-congress-and-federal-workers-are-living-the-high-life-at-your-expense">nearly half a million</a> employees of the federal government making over $100,000 a year?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>14.</strong> How in the world can you have a debate about the economy that lasts for an hour and a half and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="never even mention" href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/16-critical-economic-issues-that-obama-and-romney-avoided-during-the-debate">never even mention</a> Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve or quantitative easing?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>15.</strong> Why are Romney campaign signs <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="being smeared with excrement" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/oct/9/romney-signs-defaced-excrement-virginia/">being smeared with excrement</a>?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>16.</strong> British taxpayers spent 57.8 million dollars on the royal family in 2011.  U.S. taxpayers spent <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="1.4 billion dollars" target="_blank" href="http://thetruthwins.com/archives/us-taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-the-obamas-in-2012-british-taxpayers-only-spent-57-8-million-on-the-entire-royal-family">1.4 billion dollars</a> on the Obamas that same year.  How in the world can this be justified?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>17.</strong> Why does the U.S. government treat our military veterans <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="like garbage" target="_blank" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-does-the-u-s-government-treat-military-veterans-like-human-garbage">like garbage</a>?  Many of them have given everything for their country.  Shouldn’t we treat them with more respect?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>18.</strong> Why is the mainstream media ignoring a warning that an international gang of cybercriminals plans “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S. banks" target="_blank" href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9232117/Cybercriminals_plot_massive_banking_Trojan_attack">to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S. banks</a>“?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>19.</strong> The New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="is warning" target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/20/161501075/high-food-prices-forcast-more-global-riots-ahead-researchers-say">is warning</a> that rapidly rising global food prices could soon lead to massive food riots all over the planet.  Is this something that we should be concerned about?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>20.</strong> Why is the United Nations pushing to have the authority to impose “<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="global taxes" target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/27/as-un-opens-its-general-assembly-session-it-is-already-thinking-up-new-global/">global taxes</a>” on all of us?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>21.</strong> How did we get to the point where sex trafficking is now <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="at epidemic levels" target="_blank" href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/27/human-trafficking-in-the-united-states-finds-a-home-in-the-schoolyard/57846054/1">at epidemic levels</a> all over the United States?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>22.</strong> Why are so many young people being arrested?  Should we be concerned that <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="41 percent" target="_blank" href="http://www.classwarfareexists.com/study-41-of-americans-have-been-arrested-by-the-time-theyre-23/#ixzz28oVI6Ucr">41 percent</a> of all Americans have been arrested by the time they reach the age of 23?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>23.</strong> Why are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="most Americans" target="_blank" href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-08/guest-post-decline-decay-denial-delusion-and-despair">most Americans</a> either overweight or obese or severely obese?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>24.</strong> How was one Baltimore woman able to accumulate <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="30 free cell phones" target="_blank" href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-inflation-rate-is-a-lie-too">30 free cell phones</a> all paid for by the federal government?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>25.</strong> Why are <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="nearly 30 percent" target="_blank" href="http://thetruthwins.com/archives/why-are-so-many-young-adults-moving-back-in-with-mommy-and-daddy">nearly 30 percent</a> of all young adults in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket living at home with their parents?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>26.</strong> Why has the birth rate in the United States fallen to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="an all-time low" target="_blank" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22351-recession-pushes-us-birth-rates-to-an-alltime-low.html">an all-time low</a>?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>27.</strong> With the race for president <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="incredibly tight" target="_blank" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html">incredibly tight</a> right now, will the side that loses end up accusing the other side <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="of using voter fraud" target="_blank" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-real-dangerous-type-of-voter-fraud-2012-10">of using voter fraud</a> to steal the election?</p>&#13;
<p><strong>28.</strong> Is the U.S. Supreme Court <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="about to make it illegal" target="_blank" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04?pagenumber=1">about to make it illegal</a> to resell our own stuff at yard sales, in thrift stores and on eBay?</p>&#13;
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            <title>More auroras, less dragon spit and an odd shiny object on Mars</title>
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		<div id="attachment_96221" readability="3"><img class="size-large wp-image-96221" title="Aurora and Kp Oct8" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Aurora-and-Kp-Oct8-1024x349.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="199" /><p>Last night’s aurora simmers beneath the Big Dipper (left). At right is the Kp index chart showing magnetic activity high in Earth’s atmosphere. When the Kp reaches 5, a minor geomagnetic storm with accompanying auroras is in progress. Last night, it shot up to 6 (moderate storm) and stayed there well into the morning. Credit: Bob King (left) and NOAA</p></div>
<p>First let’s check in on the aurora. Last night’s display continued well into the morning hours. Our sky clouded after 11:30 p.m. but I’m not complaining. The few openings were enough to relish the lively show.</p>
<div id="attachment_96222" readability="1"><img class="size-medium wp-image-96222" title="Coronal Hole Oct6_2012 SDO" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Coronal-Hole-Oct6_2012-SDO-400x372.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="372" /><p>A large coronal hole (dark spot) that may lead to more northern lights. Photographed on Oct. 6 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA</p></div>
<p>Chances look <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html" target="_blank"><strong>good again tonight</strong></a> and tomorrow night for at least <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/" target="_blank"><strong>minor storms</strong></a>. While the effects of the coronal mass ejection (CME) are waning, reinforcements are now coming from an Earth-directed <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/spaceweather/holes.html" target="_blank"><strong>coronal hole</strong></a>. The holes or openings in the sun’s otherwise zippered up magnetic field allow charged particles like electrons and protons to escape and stream outward into space at high speed. When they flow past our planet, they can sometimes stimulate auroras. Yes, Earth’s getting a pounding … and we love it! I’ll update later this evening.</p>
<p>How about those Draconid meteors? I never saw any. Few reports from other observers around the world have come in to confirm visually what the Canadian radar <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2012/10/08/draconid-meteors-busting-out-all-over/" target="_blank"><strong>recorded yesterday</strong></a>. Evidently the meteors nabbed by radar were too small to leave trails bright enough for the naked eye to see. According to Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, a  strand of dust shed by the shower’s parent comet Giacobini-Zinner in 1959 was responsible for the sudden and brief jump in meteors.</p>
<div id="attachment_96223" readability="2"><img class="size-large wp-image-96223" title="Curiosity first scoop" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Curiosity-first-scoop-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="438" /><p>A photo of Curiosity’s first scoop of soil yesterday also reveals a shiny, possibly metallic object lower in the frame inside the blue circle. Loaded scoop is above center. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech</p></div>
<p>We won’t have to wait long for the next meteor shower, the reliable Orionids brought to us by Halley’s Comet. That one peaks on the mornings of Oct. 20-22. No moon will mar the view.</p>
<div id="attachment_96224" readability="1"><img class="size-medium wp-image-96224" title="Curiosity bright object" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Curiosity-bright-object-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /><p>A cropped version of the picture above showing the object. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech</p></div>
<p>While the Curiosity Rover jitterbugged its first soil sample to make sure the scoop free of Earth contaminants, its cameras spotted a small, shiny object embedded in the Martian soil. It could be metallic and possibly a piece of hardware or even tape that got loose and dropped to the ground. Mission controllers are suspending soil sampling for the time being as they position the rover’s cameras for a better look. We’ll have an update later today especially if it turns out to be a bolt left behind by an early Martian mechanic.</p>
<p>Tomorrow we’ll have times when you can watch the space station link up with the latest <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.spacex.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Dragon supply ship</strong></a> launched earlier this week by SpaceX.</p>
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            <title>Aurora Alert – Northern lights cookin’ over Duluth, Minn. tonight!</title>
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		<div id="attachment_96205" readability="2"><img class="size-large wp-image-96205" title="Aurora Oct8_2012 AS" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Aurora-Oct8_2012-AS-1024x728.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="415" /><p>Beautiful feathery rays reach toward the zenith around 10 p.m. (CDT) tonight Oct. 8 seen from north of Duluth, Minn. Photo: Bob King</p></div>
<p>Between swiftly-moving blankets of cloud we’ve been treated to some superb aurora borealis this evening. I just got back in after taking a few pictures and enjoying the show to share the news. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html" target="_blank"><strong>Kp index</strong></a>, a reliable indicator of magnetic and associated aurora activity high in Earth’s atmosphere, is up to 6 or minor storm level.</p>
<div id="attachment_96206" readability="2"><img class="size-large wp-image-96206" title="Aurora Oct8 BS" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Aurora-Oct8-BS-1024x659.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="375" /><p>A bank of auroral rays with strikingly pink tops stipples the entire northern sky around 10 p.m. tonight Oct. 8, 2012. Photo: Bob King</p></div>
<p>From Duluth, Minn. we’ve got rays stretching far up the northern sky and bright, shorter rayed arcs lower down. Nice mix of pale pinks and greens. Here are a few photos. Find a place with a good view to the north, grab your coat and go. Oh, be sure to let us know what you see. Thanks!</p>
<div id="attachment_96214" readability="1"><img class="size-full wp-image-96214" title="POES Oct 8" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/POES-Oct-8.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="304" /><p>Satellite plot showing the extent of the northern lights (in red and orange). You can see they dip down across the northern U.S. as of 10:19 p.m. CDT. Credit: NOAA</p></div>
<p>PS. I didn’t see any Draconid meteors in the half hour I was out. Not giving up yet though. Time to head out for more solar rays!</p>
<p>UPDATE 11 p.m. — The display has evolved into big, amorphous patches of light that  swell almost to bursting before suddenly fading away … and re-appearing a moment later. Curious to watch and very hard to photograph. I tried anyway and used short 5 second exposures for minimal motion blur.</p>
<p>Waves are also starting to ripple through the patches, a phase called flaming.</p>
<div id="attachment_96217" readability="2"><img class="size-large wp-image-96217" title="Aurora C Oct8_2012" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Aurora-C-Oct8_2012-1024x778.jpg" alt="" width="584" height="443" /><p>Big, soft patches of aurora mysteriously appear and disappear around 11 p.m. tonight. 5-second exposure. Photo: Bob King</p></div>
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		<div id="attachment_96195" readability="1"><img class="size-medium wp-image-96195" title="Meteor falliing NASA credit" src="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/files/2012/10/Meteor-falliing-NASA-credit2-400x286.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="286" /><p>A falling meteor leaves a trail of light as well as one of electrons that radar can “see”. Credit: NASA</p></div>
<p>There’s a dragon on fire and he’s burning up the sky!</p>
<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2012/10/06/draconid-meteor-shower-may-spice-up-weekend-sky/" target="_blank"><strong>Draconid meteor shower</strong></a>, underway since this weekend and normally a weak shower, suddenly spiked today around 11 a.m. (CDT). The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://meteor.uwo.ca/research/radar/cmor_intro.html" target="_blank"><strong>Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR)</strong></a>, which “sees” meteors by the tracks of ionized air trails they leave in the upper atmosphere, is recording rates of <strong>1000 per hour</strong>. That’s much higher than last year’s outburst and off the charts of this year’s expectations.</p>
<p>Since radar picks up even small meteors that go unnoticed with the naked eye, it’s not known whether all of these would be visible in a dark sky. But, hey, it’s easy enough to go out and have a look for yourself. This afternoon, European observers are favored, since it’s already night there. If you live in the U.S. or Canada , take a look this evening as soon as it gets dark. Face west or north for the best view and cross your fingers the storm continues.</p>
<p>Incoming meteors move so rapidly they knock electrons off air molecules. Turns out you can bounce radio waves off electrons like a ball off a wall. That’s why radar is an excellent tool for “watching” a meteor shower even in daylight.</p>
<p>Here’s a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://topaz.streamguys.tv/~spaceweather/" target="_blank"><strong>link to a live audio site</strong></a> featuring the sounds of meteors picked up by the Air Force Space Surveillance Radar in Texas. Meteors sound like descending whistles of various pitches. I can’t guarantee the particular meteors you hear are Draconids, but if your sky is cloudy like mine tonight, at least you can still <em>be there</em>.</p>
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<blockquote readability="1"><p>Dragon captured by the ISS’s CanadArm2. Via NASA TV.</p></blockquote>
<p>Running ahead of time, the International Space Station Expedition 33 crew successfully captured and installed the SpaceX Dragon capsule onto the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module.  ISS commander Suni Williams and astronaut Akihiko Hoshide captured the commercial spacecraft with the station’s CanadArm2 robotic arm at 6:56 a.m. EDT, and Dragon was officially berthed at 9:03 am EDT. The hatch will be opened tomorrow and Dragon will be unloaded over the next several days. They will also be packing if full of items that will be coming back to Earth, as this spacecraft has the ability to return intact, instead of burning up in the atmosphere like the other resupply ships that come to the station.  Dragon will spend 18 days attached to the ISS. </p>
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<blockquote readability="1"><p>Dragon approaches the ISS. Via NASA TV.
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<p>Dragon is carrying nearly 450 kg (1,000 pounds) of supplies, including food, water, scientific experiments and Space Station parts. There are also 23 student experiments from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) involving 7,420 pre-college students engaged in formal microgravity experiment design, according to SSEP director Dr. Jeff Goldstein.</p>&#13;
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<p>SpaceX and NASA revealed that a special treat is on board a new freezer called GLACIER (General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator): Blue Bell ice cream, a brand that is a favorite of astronauts training at the Johnson Space Center.</p>
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<blockquote readability="1"><p>The Dragon capsule hovers near the International Space Station. Via NASA TV
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<blockquote readability="1"><p>A close-up view of the CanadArm2′s end effector grabbing the Dragon capsule. Via NASA TV</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote readability="1"><p>Dragon in the “Ready To Latch” (RTL) position. Via NASA TV.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote readability="1"><p>A NASA graphic showing the position of the Dragon capsule on the ISS. Via NASA TV.
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<p><strong>Review by Evan Gough</strong></p>
<p>Knowledge is changing all the time.  New facts replace old facts, more precise measurements supersede previous measurements.  What was once considered true is overturned daily in our quickly changing times.  In <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/" target="_blank">“The Half-Life of Facts: why everything we know has an expiration date,”</a> Samuel Arbesman brings some clarity to our constantly changing factual landscape.</p>
<p>It turns out that facts have a shelf-life, and that there is a mathematical predictability to that shelf-life.  With an engaging style of storytelling, and just the right amount of graphs and tables, Arbesman walks us through the field of scientometrics, the scientific study of science itself. What do we learn?<br /><span id="more-97806"></span></p>
<p>We learn that scientific studies themselves have half-lives.  For example, the half-life of a study on hepatitis and cirrhosis, both liver diseases, is about 45 years.  After 45 years, half of that knowledge will be overturned or superseded.  We also learn that differing sciences have different half-lives.  The half-life of a physics paper is on average 13.07 years, in Math it’s 9.17 years, and in Psychology it’s 7.15.</p>&#13;
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<p> ?The Half-Life of Facts” is full of familiar examples of, and insights into, our changing knowledge.  Universe Today readers will be familiar with the demotion of Pluto from planet to trans-Neptunian object.  Other examples in Arbesman’s book will be unfamiliar. For instance, it may be surprising to find out that for many decades it was an established fact that humans had 48 chromosomes. (We have 46.)  This was considered such an elementary truth, that other researchers who counted 46 sometimes shut down their research prematurely, thinking they were somehow in error.  Eventually, however, the truth did win out.</p>
<p>How science gets us closer to the truth over time is the main thrust of this book.  That, and the predictability of that progress towards greater accuracy.  But there are chapters that cover how facts spread, how new knowledge is hidden in connections between previously published studies, and how improvements in technology can spur science on to more accurate truths.  </p>
<p>Overall, ?The Half-Life of Facts” is an engaging book.  It moves along at a nice pace, and I think Universe Today readers will find it very interesting.  My only beef with the book is its title.  It’s about much more than the half-life of facts.  It’s a vivid account of the surprising ways in which new facts are accumulated, and how old knowledge is overturned.<br /><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://arbesman.net/the-half-life-of-facts/" target="_blank"><br />
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<blockquote readability="4"><p>The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes from vast amounts of dust, which absorbs bluer light, and obscures the supermassive black hole from view in visible wavelengths. Credit: image created using data from UKIDSS and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observatory.</p></blockquote>
<p>As if staring <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/97566/hubble-goes-to-the-extreme-in-stunning-new-deepest-view-ever-of-the-universe/" title="Hubble Goes to the eXtreme in Stunning New Deepest View Ever of the Universe" target="_blank">toward the edge of the Universe</a> weren’t fascinating enough, scientists at the University of Cambridge say they see enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes barely detectable near the edge of time.</p>
<p>Thick dust shrouds the monster black holes but they emit vast amounts of radiation through violent interactions and collisions with their host galaxies making them visible in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The team published their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.</p>
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<p>The most remote object in the study lies at a whopping 11 billion light-years from Earth. Ancient light from the supermassive black hole, named ULASJ1234+0907 and located toward the constellation of Virgo, the Maiden, has traveled (at almost 10 trillion kilometers, or 6 million million miles, per year) across the cosmos for nearly the estimated age of the Universe. The monster black hole is more than 10 billion times the mass of our Sun and 10,000 times more massive than the black hole embedded in the Milky Way Galaxy; making it one of the most massive black holes ever seen. And it’s not alone. Researchers say that there may be as many as 400 giants black holes in the tiny sliver of the Universe that we can observe.</p>
<p>“These results could have a significant impact on studies of supermassive black holes” said Dr Manda Banerji, lead author of the paper, in a press release. “Most black holes of this kind are seen through the matter they drag in. As the neighbouring material spirals in towards the black holes, it heats up. Astronomers are able to see this radiation and observe these systems.”</p>
<p>The team from Cambridge used infrared surveys being carried out on the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) to peer through the dust and locate the giant black holes for the first time. </p>
<p>“These results are particularly exciting because they show that our new infrared surveys are finding super massive black holes that are invisible in optical surveys,” says Richard McMahon, co-author of the study. “These new quasars are important because we may be catching them as they are being fed through collisions with other galaxies. Observations with the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile will allow us to directly test this picture by detecting the microwave frequency radiation emitted by the vast amounts of gas in the colliding galaxies.”</p>
<p>Huge black holes are known to reside at the centers of all galaxies. Astronomers predict the most massive of these cosmic phenomena grow through violent collisions with other galaxies. Galactic interactions trigger star formation which provides more fuel for black holes to devour. And it’s during this process that thick layers of dust hide the munching black holes.</p>&#13;
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<p>“Although these black holes have been studied for some time,” says Banergi, “the new results indicate that some of the most massive ones may have so far been hidden from our view. The newly discovered black holes, devouring the equivalent of several hundred Suns every year, will shed light on the physical processes governing the growth of all supermassive black holes.”</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/97796/monster-black-holes-lurk-at-the-edge-of-time/mrk231_highres/" rel="attachment wp-att-97801"><img src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mrk231_highres-250x250.jpg" alt="" title="mrk231_highres" width="250" height="250" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-97801" /></a>Astronomers compare the extreme case of ULASJ1234+0907 with the relatively nearby and well-studied Markarian 231. Markarian 231, found just 600 million light-years away, appears to have recently undergone a violent collision with another galaxy producing an example of a dusty, growing black hole in the local Universe. By contrast, the more extreme example of ULASJ1234+0907, shows scientists that conditions in the early Universe were more turbulent and inhospitable than today. </p>
<p>Source: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/219-news-2012/2176-new-surveys-peer-through-dust-to-reveal-giant-supermassive-black-holes" target="_blank">Royal Astronomical Society</a></p>
<p><em>Image Credit: Markarian 231, an example of a galaxy with a dusty rapidly growing supermassive black hole located 600 million light years from Earth. The bright source at the center of the galaxy marks the black hole while rings of gas and dust can be seen around it as well as “tidal tails” left over from a recent impact with another galaxy. Courtesy of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.</em></p>
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