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Comet 2011 W3 LoveJoy

2011-12-24T23:43:00.002-05:00

Comet 2011 W3 (Lovejoy): A Christmas comet … and beyond

A picture by none other than Astronomer, Robert H. McNaught,

Wednesday 21 December, the Winter Solstice.

Auspicious

More to Come...

the SpacePlane Equation (revisited) ...

2011-11-25T10:36:00.003-05:00

Too important not to post and give some audience to:

Found here: http://www.facebook.com/notes/millennium-twain/the-spaceplane-equation-revisited-/10150389674089525

the SpacePlane Equation (revisited) ...

by Millennium Twain on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 2:10pm

Today I can acknowledge that it was, is, my fault. I am the one to blame, no one else.

I was an (ignorant, juvenile, clueless) leader. It was my responsibility, and I failed.

Yes, I could argue. Argue that I didn't have the social upbringing, the education in social refinement, the political wisdom.

I could even argue that 'history' wasn't ready. The world wasn't ready for global, or personal, fusion/integrity.

Yes, again, I could use the excuse that I was physically ill, with candida and coccidio, and thus mentally/intellectually diminished/incapable, during the decade of the 1980s.

I could blame Carolyn Meinel, Keith Henson, Gerry O'Neil. I could blame Barbara Hubbard, Robert Heinlein, Mark Hopkins, Max Hunter, Gary & Anne Hudson, Ida Hoos, Forrest Mozer, Ross & Jess Millikan, David Brandt Erichsen, Gordon Woodcock, Edward Gomersall, Eric Laursen, Chris McKay, Stan Kent, Steve Durst -- blame them and a thousand other of my closest L5 Society, UC Space Working Group, and California Space Program et al buddies, colleagues, co-workers.

I know now that I was an ignorant child, and I also know that none of our senior, mentor, guides in the L5 Society, the Space Movement in general, were naive. I assumed that the young professionals I was working and networking with had the same vision I thought I had: that of serving our global family through our expansion to the planets and the stars. In 1982, when I wrote the California legislation calling for the US Space Station Program (when President Reagan, from California, was in office) I only knew that 13 years earlier another California lobbyist had written legislation in California calling for the US Space Shuttle Program (when Nixon, from California, was President, and Reagan was California Governor.) I knew then, in1982, that the Space Station Program should be a 'shoe-in', given the overwhelming dominance of California in the Aerospace industry.

Being, again, an idiot savant, an unsocialized country bumpkin immersed in a couple decades of science fiction and matrix-media programming, it never occurred to me to ask "Why the (trivial, three decades behind western Aerospace technology) 'Space Shuttle Program' took twelve years to put into operation?" It obviously hadn't yet dawned on me that the whole of NASA itself, the Apollo program, all, was a total farce, a DisInfo Operation, to distract the world from the Black-Budget-Government and Blue-Budget-Corporate-Nuclear-Aerospace-Military Space programs which had been flying to orbit for decades. In 1982 we were only just finding out that the Space Shuttle would actually NEVER be flying on a daily basis, and never for the millions-of-dollar per launch advertised costs, several times ACTUAL orbital-access costs. We HADN'T yet realized that the whole of the fraudulent program was inflating it's charges ('costs') by a factor of a thousand, to a BILLION dollars per flight, while charging thousands of (fraudulent, inflated) dollars (eventually tens of thousands) per pound of payload conveyed to orbit.

[The Shuttle Challenger was still 3-plus years from being exploded, and the L5 Society from being disbanded, 'merged' into Von Braun's National Space Institute, and it was still a year before Max Hunter (Lockheed VP) put me wise as to the irrelevance of my 'Space Station Program', before Edward Gomersall (NASA Ames Deputy Director) pulled the Saenger-Bredt Spaceplane artwork out of his safe to explain it all to me. (Six years before, on his deathbed, Gomersall 'donated' a copy of the USAF Orbital Trajectories Pilot's Flight Book, 1960 edition, to our adolescent-conceived California Space Program.)]

The 'Space Movement' spent the 1980s arguing about Aerospace Plane vs Vertical TakeOff & Landing Single Stage to Orbit vs Electromagnetic Launchers vs Big Dumb Launchers etc. etc., pretending to ourselves, for the benefit of our aerospace guild 'handlers', that somehow the gov't and military industrial complex were honest, just 'overcharging' (and under-flying) by a factor of a thousand, or of ten thousand, out of incompetence, bad accounting, or drug-induced stupor.

It didn't occur to we 'wee' children, until 1986, that we had all been taken for a covert (blue & black) aerospace industry owned government-ride, just like Vietnam again, just like Air-America's world opium operation, just like our CIA's South American cocaine cartel, Rockefeller's continent-wide 'banana-plantation' slave dominion.

Now we were 'wised' up -- a few years, and decades of Intel, older. We could now look back in amazement at the perverse 'wonder' of 'it' all. The 'Thingy' as Jo Rawlin's named 'it'. And we had been zombie fools, brought up in the (blue & black) arms of that Thingy.

There were two (2) physics truths taught to every new member of the L5 Society, for those that didn't already know:

1) the Lagrange points, orbits, L1, L2, L3, L4 and L5 were regions between and around the Earth and the Moon where a body, an asteroid, or a space city would remain in relative stability, again with respect to the Earth and Moon.

2) Space was, is, a VELOCITY, an orbit. Not an altitude. It is a measurement, embodiment, realization of Delta Vee, ∆V, acceleration. [Your admission to the realm of velocity, electicity, the plasma realm of 'space'] Despite the bs/propaganda of the United Nations decree, space orbits, velocities, never would be, and never could be, an altitude, a height. Thus, as every student of physics or orbital mechanics knows, sending a rocket or an aircraft up, to 50 miles or five hundred, does NOT result in achievement of orbit, placement into space. As soon as you run out of thrust you will fall back to the Earth. Achievement of Earth orbit is through the horizontal, not vertical, acceleration to Mach 25, 25 times the Speed of Sound, 8 km/sec. (Mach 1, the Speed of Sound, equals 0.33 km/sec, 1/3 km/sec.) Only NASA's idiot public consumer clone cattle would ever 'think' (moo) differently.

Thus ∆V, Delta Vee, and the Plasma (Electric) Mother-Verse became the insights and buzzwords of the space society 'insiders'. Stan Kent sailed the 'high frontier' seas of Chucky Cheese's Pizza Parlors -- Mark Hopkins took over the reins of guiding the aerospace industry 'Space Station Lobby' -- Gary Hudson built expendable launch vehicles -- George Koopman and Jim Bennett did the hybrids -- Steve Durst printed the newsletters -- the Roth brothers and I paraded our Electromagnetic Launcher business plans --

And here we are today, now -- a whole world, youth and elders, waking up to the same truth, of our 2011 Totality of World Culture, Personality -- now, after 60-70 years of Global Dominion by the California-&-US-based Nuclear Aerospace Mobster Industrial / Intelligence 'Complex' (MIC), the infamous 'Baby-Boom', wherein 5 percent of the world's population feasted on fifty percent of the resources, taken at nuclear-aerospace gun-point -- asking ourselves, "What now?"

Understanding, now, that the GE-Westinghouse-Pratt&Whitney-McDonnell-Douglas-Lockheed-Boeing-UTC-L3-TRW-Hughes-Northrup-Gruman-Martin-Marietta-Rockwell-Rocketdyne Rockefeller Mobster has run the world for the last half-a-century. Admitting to them -- the old boys, as they are standing right next to me and run this town, run this county, run California, run North America -- admitting that yes, "somebody had to bring the World together, somebody had and has to run it" -- but, speaking honestly, with integrity, that someone, today, now, has to be EVERYONE, the whole World, All cultures, All peoples -- openly, publicly, 'voluntaristicly'. It has to be managed to end violence, end war, end wanton consumption, end wanton procreation, end inequality, and thus increase our economy tenfold. It has to be managed to return the rivers & wetlands, return the forests and rainforests so as to expand that economic upturn from tenfold to a hundredfold.

Looking down from the mountain-top of this, the 21st Century, looking down from the "HIgh Ground of Space" -- after 60 years of orbital spaceplane flight history, lunar & interplanetary flight and military buildup, with an in-situ population of 500,000 to 700,000 prisoners and personnel (the best public numbers we have as of this writing) -- what 'culture' do we see? Whom is it that MIC wants to protect, bloat, isolate, insulate? What happiness, evolution, refinement does a western white patriarchal monoculture derive from maintaining it's own (in-situ) population in servitude and ignorance, and what benefit does it derive from exclusion of the hundred-fold greater intelligence/perspective of World-culture? None. It only retards/diminishes itself, and all of human evolution.

44 years ago, in 1967, Max Hunter of Lockheed publicly released his paper "Commercial Space Transportation Possibilities" pointing out that, as every student of the rocket equation knew, that delivery costs to low Earth orbit were only a few dollars per pound. Two decades later, Gordon Woodcock (Boeing) publicly released his paper "Lower Bounds on Launch Costs", again making it clear that delivery costs to LEO were only of the order of a few dollars per pound of personnel or payload.

"Nuclear Propelled Passenger Vehicles for Lunar Planetary Exploration", Maxwell W. Hunter and Charles D. McKereghan

Again, "Why did we do it?" What did we get for our prolonged infancy, lunacy -- supplanting consciousness with entertainment and programming; ethics and wisdom with politics, money-and-power seeking? Stan Kent (left) and his "Delta Vee" organization never (to my knowledge) pushed for a release of the (Corporate) Blue spaceplane designs and missions from the 1950s and 1960s ...

How could he, any more than I, ask the truth of an aerospace military industry organization which we, as youths, had only skirted the edges of? To this day I don't recall I ever met one honest person in my entire career in aerospace, and only a handful of (relatively) honest physicists (amongst the hundreds I have interacted with, thousands I have reviewed); almost no honest corporate scientists, engineers or managers who moved from ethics and enlightenment rather than being driven, guided, by money, power and politics. Where were we to find ANY good examples, mentors, in California of all places, the "fat, dumb and happy" hands-down world power/control center for the World Aerospace Dominion? Certainly none in Washington State, in Colorado, in Connecticut, in New York, in Utah, in Texas, in Florida, in Virginia ... in Washington DC!

I was still in my twenties at that time, when I wrote the Space Station legislation. Only a few years earlier I had graduated from being a math, physics, chemistry and electronics aide and tutor at COS, receiving a scholarship to UC Berkeley, and landing on the doorstep of the Space Sciences Laboratory in 1975 volunteering to help solder together circuit-boards for the S3-3 Air Force Satellite, and write simple fortran routines for downloading electric probe data from existing ionospheric satellites. It would be twenty years before I would discover the superluminal lightwave topology of the proton, twenty-five before I would do the rocket equations for myself (give up relying on the hand-me-down disinfo from my 'rocket science' teachers), then publish the original "Spaceplane Equation", before finally publishing the structure of the atomic nucleus and seeing the whole of my FireShips Pty Ltd office, library, and lab stolen by the ('Intelligence') powers that be. [Year 2001 'Aeros" X49 Scramjet (Hyperjet, Plasmajet) design below.]

1975 brings to mind one of the very VERY few physicists of integrity I met along the way. Professor John Christ at College of the Siskiyous. When I learned physics and electronics from Professor Christ (pronounced with a 'short' i) it was always experientially and observationally based. Thus mass, force, velocity, inertia, acceleration -- charge, current, voltage, resistance, impedance -- coils, capacitors, transformers, motors, transistors -- all echoed the Songline of our experience. I recall the last, and most revealing, lesson I learned from Professor Christ. Before l left, he made a gift to me of a Quantum Mechanics textbook, which I would need at UC, apologizing to me as he did so, in words and expression. It didn't take me long to find out why -- as there was no phenomena, no physics, in the book! [I returned it to him the next day, shrugging my shoulders in my untutored country-boy way of saying "nothing here of interest to me."]

I guess that is why we have Hollywood, why the sugar and the gravy is piled on so thick for the public sector underclass of our California- and US- Military Aerospace Complex economy -- to maintain the drugged-mindedness of the cattle. Obviously it didn't make any difference in my consciousness simply 'knowing' the truth of the science, technology and economics of Aerospace Plane flight -- and of the Nuclear Aerospace Military hegemony running the world, making our/their wars against China, Korea, Vietnam, the whole of Asia, Africa, Latin America -- the newspapers, the television, the schools, our families, our universities, our employers, ALL sounded, spoke, enrolled us in the Black Mobster Speak, the Brave New World Order Speak, the Newspeak, of the NASA frauds, the Apollo fraud, the Space Shuttle fraud. And I never had any ability to stand up for the truth, no 'mind' to do so with. We were ALL dipped in its chocolate-soma like Santa Claus in Macy's, by the Pastor and Choir in every church, by our sisters, brothers, friends, neighbors, cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents -- one big mindless Christmas pudding blog, borg.

And the entirety of the 'Space Movement' of the seventies and eighties? Did colleagues like Mark Hopkins, left, having attended 'a' Harvard University, have a greater or insider awareness why the 'California Space Cattle' were being driven, rather than educated, awakened, empowered to connect our world, heal our planet? As this NSS puff piece below shows one-third of the US Space Activist Community were centered in California, where the industry was. Another full third was located in Washington DC, where our handlers were ...

Space Group Boom and the California Phenomenon

Is our 'Sky' Blue, or merely 'light' Black?

Were, are, we all members of a gray world, One Shadow world, the $pook world? Victims of the California-Unconsciousness 'gravy-training'? Enslaved in the Security State "Chain of Command" also known as 'British Admiralty Law'. Willing Rockefeller-U$-serfs, under a more-than-willing Crown Rothschild Mobster-Monarchy (patriachy-pecking) order?

$hall we "wax covert poetic"? ('Peer Politic, ∯ormalistic'?)

And why is ₩oody ∀llen crying?

Does Barbara Marx Hubbard hold the ₭eys to the 'Sly-Sky Kingdom'? The 'Spook-Easy'? The Beltway Bandits Club, the Washington DC Masonic Lodge, the California Church of the New (Whirled) 'UFO DisInfoClosure' Odor?

(I? You? Black, Blue?)

Delta V, Orbital Velocity

Celestial Mechanics

"Glow Plasma Super-Aeroshell Drive" X49 FireShip design from 2001, oncoming, frontview -- augmented with Twin PlasmaJet Fusion engines. {Google Glow Plasma Discharge, Proton Conductors, Spaceplanes, etc.}

I met Gary & Anne Hudson at a Delta Vee party, a decade before I worked with them at Pacific American Launch Systems, and on the SkyRocket Spaceplane project, 1990. The VERY inexpensive Sky Rocket project (financed by Tom Clancy) had to be scrapped, as it showed the world that any California amateur 'epoxy and fiberglass' aircraft builder could layup an airframe, and add off-the-shelf Pratt & Whitney RL10 rocket engines, and have a rocketplane. Build it to larger airline scale and it would be big and dragfree enough to accelerate to Mach 25, to Orbit -- a low cost Spaceplane for the WHOLE World!

Six years later, our L5 and SciFi and Space Activist buddies got together to launch the X-Prize Foundation. [I would NOT participate in the misanthrope, whose purpose was to focus the world with a $10 Million prize on building fraudulent non-'Spaceships' going to 100 miles altitude, and NEVER the (real, and trivial) designs which accelerated to Mach 25, which went to orbit, which ended the covert hegemony of the California Aerospace World Dominion. The Mobster 'MIC' which would NEVER allow our world to come together as ONE culture of truth and collaboration.]

Gary Hudson, Bevin McKinney, James Grote and others of my rocket and university buddies had to accept (large) financing, again in 1996, for something that in NO WAY WOULD GO TO SPACE, and would in NO WAY BE INEXPENSIVE. Thus was born the Roton Project and Rotary Rocket Company, guided by our own aerospace mentor, Max Hunter of DC-X fame. [Once again, I dropped out of the project when it was clear what the (in my mind) less-than-honest (less-than-above-board?, subrosa? sub-orbita?) intentions were.]

the 'Delta Clipper'

'Kind' of a Drag? ALL Kinds of Drag!

The tears of "Sleeper" Woody Allen for a Corporate Mob$ter $tate which has erased all truth and reason have come full circle in 2011. When the trivial, miniscule, nothing Space Shuttle trash has been discontinued -- with NO FORTHCOMING PUBLIC RELEASE of the thousand-times greater operational SPACEPLANE FLEETS of the Military Aerospace Complex!

Welcome to 'HollyWorld 2011' and the bathroom comedies of the Burt Rutans, Richard Bransons, Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactics, Armadillos, Blue Origins, Bigelows, Xcors -- with the world deceptions of their small, fat, clunky so-called 'SpaceShips, which aren't even up to low drag aeroshell design knowledge of a hundred years ago, let alone for flight to orbit, flight to Mach 25! [To maintain the fictions of the European, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and other fraudulent space programs, and encourage similar fictions for every Bankster-Nation-$tate on the planet. To bankrupt, and thus continue Aerospace-Bankster ownership of, a murdered planet.] No one from the million times larger and more powerful Aerospace-Bankster MIC, in a hundred years, would ever have been so drunken-silly as to buy into these consumer cattle cointel toilet jokes (unless they supported the global deception, rapacity):

http://xcor.com

http://www.scaled.com

http://www.blueorigin.com

http://www.virgingalactic.com

http://www.bigelowaerospace.com

http://www.armadilloaerospace.com

or the real, world-murderous, mobster aerospace matrix

In the whole San Francisco Bay Area, of course, the center of it all, there was ten times more 'Space Action' going on, from annual Space Days we had to organize, the other L5 and AAS and AIAA chapters, the Hypatia Cluster, Progressive Space Forum, Space Alliance, Northern California Space Caucus, I'm not going to remember a fraction of the groups or meetings and activities; the constant shuttling, again, back and forth to Southern California OASIS, Andromeda Society, Planetary Society and other space group meetings, attendance at Shuttle launches and landings, the NASA Ames and JPL Voyager spacecraft mission 'video-science' celebrations; my work in John Glenn's presidential campaign, and on Jerry Brown's US Senate campaign. And a hundred times more going on worldwide, hundreds of space groups popping up, I lost count of the number of 'chapters', maybe 50, of my Space Frontier Society that launched themselves worldwide. We all moved at a breathless pace, in some kind of a global 'adolescent' hormonal madness. Without total sobriety, and economic security, which some of us possessed, without honest mentors, without an upper class aristocratic or international multicultural family indoctrination, brought up in the public school (serf-programming) system, what chance had we, short of total fasting and enlightenment, of getting even a glimpse of sanity, clarity, truth?

And then the Mobsters blew up the $pace $huttle, and Christa McAuliffe. Now, I am sure, you begin to feel what we all felt. Crying in the streets, in our offices, at Space Age Publishing Company. And now we finally understood the Mon$ter, understood the rea$on for the decades of being put off, treated like children, $laves; our lives, our truth, our integrity, our destinies, denied. Photo: Steve Durst, publisher of Space Age Review, Space Calendar, Space Daily.

Let me take you back to those times. I was the writer/editor for Space Daily, in Santa Clara, in Silicon Valley. No one else wanted to do it, no one else could. Imagine, every day having to read and research, make all the telephone calls, line up all the interviews, solicit all the business plans and research reports, search through all the Stanford tech libraries, and write several stories, find the photos and illustrations, do the proofing, do the lay-up, do the printing, do the folding and stuffing and mailing, do the electronic translation and uploading online, for a 5-8 page daily space industry insider chronicle? I usually had 1-2 part-time helpers, but they would be busy with the weekly Space Calendar and other duties, and no one had my background, my lack of political correctness, or my passion for writing, educating, awakening.

Let's go back five years earlier. The scene is 1981, CalTech, the Planetfest. A BIG, celestially-beautiful, conference room had been set up for us. With one LONG table, suitable for several Camelot sets. Our political handlers in DC had been busy. A subterfuge had been contrived, to subsume the whole of the California and US space movement under the patriarchal provincial (some would say Nazi fascist) legacy of Von Braun and the National Space Club. A National 'Coordinating' Committee for Space was set up, and all us wee-obediant space movement groups 'Nation' wide would be granted a 'seat' on it. I can't remember if I was allowed to represent one, or two, or three groups, but I showed up with perhaps the 'star' of the SF Bay Area groups of the time, a representative of the 'dazzling' Hypatia Cluster. There must have been 20-30 of our friends and colleagues seated around the table, each representing one California space group. Surprise, we were NOT there to talk, or compose a statement of purpose and mission. We were here to sign on to one fraud, fait accompli, already composed for us. I balked. The language was all to line us up behind the Aerospace MIC, all space industry (manufacturing, development, slave settlement) -- with no space 'education' component allowed. I balked, and (Korean vet) Science Fiction heavyweight Jerry Pournelle, thundered at me. I rejoined. Jerry hurled his lightning bolts.

We all shifted back in our chairs. Hal (lawyer, diplomat) Harold White, entered the fray. Jerry and I should retire to another room for a conference in order to sort this 'thing' out. Hal shepherded us. Jerry sat in the room, fuming. I watched in curiosity. Hal implored me to apologise to Jerry. Not Jerry apologise to me. Not Jerry apologise to all of us. [Can't recall at the moment exactly how it turned out. I THINK I apologised, and I THINK somehow, after returning to the Round Table, that I managed to sustain that modest amendment to our document of servitude. It didn't matter obviously; no space group I have ever been a part of, or heard of in a hundred years, has stood up to brother MIC and told the truth, let alone stood him down. Infinite money, infinite power, infinite subtlety, infinite Rome always 'wins', until it falls. Witness how, today, it is done for us under their 'Obama-Bush' facade. Several TRILLION dollars per year given to MIC and the Banksters. The opposition receives a few Billions (along with the debt note on the Trillions!) and line up to bow and scrape, and lick their Jackboots and re-elect them.]

Twenty years later we were ready for the 'Millennium' shift. The year before, in January of 2000, I had founded FireShips Pty Ltd, in New Zealand. Our press releases, our publicity campaign was heard worldwide. I did over a hundred radio shows, published 50-60 articles for Nexus magazine on Spaceplane Design, Nuclear Structure, on Covert World Physics and Aerospace; produced a dozen TV spots which aired daily, over and over again. I was interviewed live by radio stations worldwide, featured in many New Zealand magazines and newspapers. When Rockefeller's 9/11 'Market Short Op' went down, I was already on record, worldwide on the internet, sharing the details of the $50 Trillion leveraged takeover of the US economy, and their renewed global campaign of genocide.

The Mob$ter just walked in and took everything; FireShips library, office, studio, shop -- every book, every video, file, notebook, personal journal, instrument, tool. [They were not harsh, always kind and friendly, but not to be dissuaded. One of our FireShips team friends, I recall, an innovative Kiwi aircraft engineer, was offered residency in the United States. The price? Signing on with the U$ Air Force. He declined the honour.] I was able to save only one box of my books and files, and all my X49 design disks I had backed up as a contingency. Fortunately ALL my physics had been circulated on the web, and archived by friends planetwide, so there was no significant loss to the world, to the future, to history. [Better said 'Herstory', history's ending!] I set up again in Santa Monica, and spent a year in Japan where we did more press releases, held a press conference, presented our X49 design at the Japan Near-Future Technology Exhibition, circulated 10,000 FireShips artcards worldwide.

How did Ida, my thesis advisor Dr. Hoos (Dr. Who?) put it? She, as far as I knew, was never invited into the MIC board-rooms, into the Blue "up-above", as C.J. Cherryh named it. Nor onto the estates of their/our owners, the Rockefellers inter alia. But she did frequent the, it was her job to chronicle, our Black-sector Committees on Capitol-Hill, in Congress, where, as she always repeated, "The 'Eyes' have it." The Intelligence Agencies, 'agent-eyes', in orbit, who rule the roost. Max Hunter's 'High Ground' of 'Outer Space' ...

Ida Russakoff Hoos, at the University of California Space Sciences Lab, was the 'Systems' favorite critic of 'Systems Analysis' ('Systems Engineering' aka Aerospace Engineering) aka the reborn-Nazi regime named MIC, whose figurehead was Wernher von Braun and the Peeneumunde Rocket Team, relocated to North America. World-Ruling MIC, "Our (Nuclear-Intelligence-Mobster) Eyes in the Sky."

and the immortal SpacePlane Equation, solicited by Science Editor Jonathan Leake, by the Times of London, a decade ago? whence did it come from? what does it mean? how did it come to be written Down-Under, in Aotearoa, in New Zealand?

Well, recall that until 1997 I still worked with Gary Hudson and HMX, before I left the Roton Project and moved to New Zealand, and eventually Japan. Twenty-five years a STUDENT of space science, of rocket science, I hadn't yet stood on my own feet and checked the veracity of the their 'Rocket Equations', though I knew their politics well. I had, from 1989 to 1997, done my math in physics, evaluating the foundations of that covert institution, and had revealed all the frauds of 'quantum' physics, 'particle' physics, 'nuclear' physics, their cosmologies, all 'physics', ad nauseum -- had published the truth of the standing lightwave topology of the electron -- of the creation and origins of mass, charge, energy, space, and time -- had published the truth of the superluminal (toroidal) standing lightwave topology of the proton -- etc. etc. -- had not yet published the Structure of the Atomic Nucleus (2001).

It wasn't until a year after arriving in Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud, that, working on Starship designs, working on SpacePlane designs, I took apart the covert Rocket Equation, showed up its fraud, its facade, and began to derive the actual 'mass-fraction' et al equations for SpacePlane flight, for accelerating an aeroshell through the atmosphere to Mach 25, to orbit.

And here, after speaking with Jonathan, from New Zealand to London, the stage, the audience, the setting, the allegory, my metaphor for SpacePlane flight became clear -- those of us sitting in our seats on International Airflights, on Airliners, in particular on those LONG, 10-20 hour, Intercontinental Flights.

How much time, money, fuel is wasted on a 10-20 hour flight -- intentionally flying at LOW thrust -- intentionally burning extra fuel, staying LOW in the HIGH-drag HIGH-resistance atmosphere -- when, with normal 1g, one gravity, acceleration we would be in orbit in 15 minutes! Would arrive at any airport in the world in less than 2 hours! [Compare the Supersonic French Concorde fraud which took many times longer than required by the SpacePlanes.]

Was it merely a factor of two (2) increase in cost, in fuel use, to travel around the globe in 10-20 hours? Or a factor of five (5), ten (10)?

If this, if the SpacePlane Equation were publicized, every intercontinental air passenger from now until forever, now until the fall of Rome, of MIC, would be talking about this, and calculating it, and demanding it, on every flight, every day!

What determines the L/D ratio, the Lift-to-Drag of an aircraft's aeroshell? Why were the fraud's of the Apollo program, the Shuttle program, designed with high drags and low L/Ds? Not designed aerodynamically, but rather designed with surface features and textures which would heat up and destroy the vehicles -- burn up Christa McAuliffes from here until 'Kingdom Come' (down.) Frauds designed by 'NASA von Braun' et al to re-enter ballistically in 4-5 minutes, thereby incurring ten-twenty times more heating than a 'cool-blue' Spaceplane which takes 50-100 minutes to return from orbit?

So, again, I am, you are, sitting in your seat in a Boeing 747 on your way from London to Auckland, it is a twenty-four hour flight, you have LOTS of time. You get out a pen and pad, and start making a list of the many many ways you could turn an economic and streamlined Spaceplane into this joke of an airliner, or the dungbomb of the Space Shuttle. L/D, Lift/Drag, is dependent on many variables. The mass, speed, altitude, and velocity of the vehicle; the size, shape (and augments) and surface texture of the aeroshell. The 'Space Shuttle', known as the flying brick, had an L/D of 4. The joke of the Concorde an L/D of 7. Airliners have L/D ratios in the mid-teens, for the 747 it is 17. L/D for the new Boeing 787-8 will 21; the new Boeing 797 Blended Wing Body, 23-25; the U2 spyplane had an L/D of 28. The X49 Spaceplane aeroshells, without active drag-negation or PlasmaShell-thrust systems, has an L/D of 30-40, depending on the material surface and aeroshell wave-feature 'sculpting'.

Google Airliner, "Maximum Takeoff Weight" and "Maximum Thrust", from your laptop, on the airliner, on your flight to Auckland.

Here's one: Boeing 747 Specifications

Boeing 747-8: L/D Ratio -- 16.58, Cruise Speed -- Mach 0.85, Maximum Takeoff Weight -- 435,449 kg, Maximum Thrust -- 4 Engines at 30,164 kg each, Total 120,656 kg

Maximum Thrust 120,656 kg divided by Maximum Takeoff Weight 435,449 kg equals 0.277 g. [Meaning 1/4 gravity acceleration during Takeoff.]

from the SpacePlane Equation above L/D X T/W = 17 x 1/4 = 4.25. Acceleration several times the 'No Acceleration' factor of 1. Enough to take us to orbit in an hour or so, but not a full 1 g of acceleration, not achieving orbit in 15 minutes, 1000 seconds. It does give us, however, a very modest fuel-cost savings factor of about 24/1 divided by 17 = 1.4. A savings of 29 percent.

If we use Spaceplane engines, scramjet engines or a mix of jet and rocket engines, instead we could accelerate at one gravity, 1 g, all the way. Our T/W would then equal 1, and our L/D X T/W = 17 x 1 = 17. And a fuel-cost savings factor of about 24/0.25 divided by 17 = 5.6. A fuel cost savings of 82 percent per flight.

And achievement of orbit, a meeting with Big (Blue, Sky, Father, Uncle) Brother, in 1000 seconds, 15 minutes ...

Canto todas las cosas, la PachaMama, volver ...

"The StarShip Equation" {Story of the 1990 Inauguration, and Year 2000 Launch, of the Superluminal Millennium Mission to Alpha Centauri, to be published to a facebook status note soon ...}

Was I TRULY to blame for whole of the six-to-seven decades of Covert California Aerospace Ops and Disinfo, and the consequent world cultural genocide, and rape and murder of our Mother Earth? Or only for my participation in the lie, the cover-up, and the consequences? Only for my dropping of the dialog, hanging my head, not honouring myself and the others in the conversation, not respecting the life of our Sacred Global Culture, Planetary Divinity?

Have I changed, grown, become a responsible mentor for our children, guardian and steward of our Mother?

Have 'We'?

Divine Creation (not Covert DisInfo-Nation)

The Re-Writing of the L5 Society founding

"Our clearly stated long range goal will be to disband the Society in a mass meeting at L5." L5 News Back-Issues

"In 1986 the L5 Society which had grown to about 10,000 members was disbanded and subsumed within the 25,000 member National Space Institute, renamed the National Space Society. 1986, the Year of the Space Shuttle Challenger destruction."

"the SpacePlane Equation" is only for internet circulation and discussion, not approved for print or other media release to the cattle public. the author's discussions of the aerospace 'frauds' committed by himself and the so-called space transportation 'entrepreneurs' et al might be considered libelious and actionable in public, or in a court of 'law', and might have to be re-written, with tongue deep in cheek, in order to be sanctioned in the greater world of matrix newspeak ...

which is pure cyberspeak to say that: "all the above represents nothing more than the beliefs, opinions, dreamings of the author. all the aerospace industry characters and personalities portrayed therein, including the author, human and otherwise, are imaginary, false or even fantastic artistic fictions, and should in no way be associated with REAL honest persons, living, dead, relocated, given new names and identities on the Moon or Mars, or otherwise ..."

As Above So Below

2011-10-03T14:07:00.000-04:00

The “End” of the Mayan calendar, Solar Flares and Earth Changes

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We have now celebrated the Cosmic Convergence and there is less than one night and one day before the fulfillment of the evolutionary plan for all of creation (or at least the attainment of the top level). As predicted the Ninth wave of this plan, which is coming to a close together with the other waves of the Mayan calendar on October 28, 2011, has brought a tremendous frequency increase to the world. This has been experienced on a personal level by many, but it has also been easily visible in the spread of political and economical chaos in large parts of the world. The current instability is evident not only in what is actually happening, but also in the constant shifts in how events or developments are perceived and reported. Greece, for instance, is one day said to be bankrupt, another fully afloat with the help of the troika, and the next day it is again said to be bankrupt. One day the Ghaddafi regime has fallen and another it is again fighting only to have fallen the next day again.

In this world of uncertain interpretation of news alternative media on the Internet have gone in to try to fill the gap sometimes speaking with total certainty about impending catastrophes. There, one day the comet Elenin is said to create earthquakes and to set an end to the world, the next it does not exist and then it is back again (or was it planet X?). Anything, no matter how crazy or farfetched, can today find an attentive audience on YouTube and be presented as if it was serious information. To the instability of the world has thus been added information chaos and it is a common feeling among many that they do not know who or what to believe anymore. The mental framework within which people have understood the world is eroding and this, as much as the actual course of events, is a sign of our times. Some reject the meaningfulness of mental understanding altogether.

This erosion prepares the ground for a new opening and radical shift in our ways of thinking and relating and attests to the fact that much of the world has been shaken off its previous balance by the Ninth wave. Underlying all of this we may find a somewhat nervous expectation of something unknown and dramatic that is to happen. It is not surprising that in the minds of many people this expectation has been largely negative. After all, the development of the Ninth wave has been essentially predictable according to Revelation 16, where it is the seven days that bring the most destruction to the old structures of the world. Thus, progress along the old routes has step by step been blocked and the experience of a dead end to our current civilization has spread widely with little to yet show in terms of alternatives. The novelties that have been generated by the Ninth wave have thus in the world at large been few and far in between. While many may have had inner awakenings of oneness the external manifestations of these have been very marginal.
As part of the erosion of the current world I had predicted at a relatively early point, quite correctly, that the fifth day of the Ninth wave would be the energy that would precipitate the economic downturn (And the economy may be the best mirror of how humans relate to one another). This was in fact also the time when the so called “markets” truly started to be affected by the global loan crisis, which has since with every new shift point of the Ninth wave continued to deepen. The drawn out nature of this crisis does not change the fact that we are going towards a collapse of the economical and political system of the world and there are no signs that this could be averted. Growth in key countries such as the US and Germany has come to a halt (not to mention Greece and Italy), which in practice blocks all attempts for the repayment of debts.

The economic downturn has displayed some surprising elements such as the expressed desire of a choir of super rich to be taxed more heavily and the possibility that China will buy debt from Italy or other Euro countries to keep them afloat. I however find it hard to believe that any of this would actually happen and the feeling one gets is that the rulers are running out of tricks. Despite the dead end, it can however probably be said that life in much of the world still appears much like business as usual. Thus, no occurrence has yet been powerful enough to precipitate the collapse that many are expecting or fearing and it now seems that this will not happen until in the seventh day of the Ninth wave, October 11-28. If so, the end of the calendar may become a very marked discontinuity.

What we are witnessing is thus not another recession, but the end of the world capitalist system and the protests in the US against “Wall Street” may be an indication as good as any of this. One however gets the impression that as long as the old system survives there is no real opening to create a new world to replace it. To do so would be too much in conflict with the legality of the current dualist power structure and only after some kind of full collapse has occurred would people in general be compelled and inspired to create a new way of living and relating in the realms of politics and economics. To prevent such a new world from being born we can also be certain that when the collapse comes this will be presented by the powers that be as nothing but a temporary downturn. Such an illusion may then come to dominate many who lack the perspective of the Mayan calendar of an evolution towards unity consciousness and this also highlights the risk of believing those that say the calendar ends on December 21, 2012, which is something that will play right into the hands of those that want to resurrect the old system.

In addition to the deepened political and economical chaos the Ninth wave has also brought a marked intensification of many types of natural disasters sometimes in places they have never been seen before. This has generated an immense interest in all such phenomena and a genre of catastrophe fascination has emerged on the Internet where some are spewing out information of natural disasters without providing any context or explanation to why they may be happening now. Such events would include solar flares, comets, earthquakes, floods, heat waves and extreme winds, many of which have increased in the Ninth wave.

Some of these natural disasters that have been intensifying (floods, heat and cold waves, fires, extreme winds) are partly caused by human effects on the climate, but the same cannot be said about the seismic phenomena that are outside of our control to cause or manipulate. This is even more the case for so called Earth Changes generating altered coastlines etc that were initially predicted by Edgar Cayce as coming, but erroneously predicted to occur in the years 1958-98. Given the great interest in such today it is relevant to ask if they to some extent could be part of the cosmic plan and thus be predictable from the Mayan calendar. In The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness (2004) I wrote: “At least some minor earth changes may thus result from the high frequency change in consciousness that the cosmos is now undergoing. But the reversal of cause and effect to generate a doomsday view where such earth changes are presented as the very purpose of this particular phase of creation is untenable. Any possible physical effects should be seen only as by products of changes in the consciousness field […]” and I still consider this statement as valid and important. Since the high frequency change in the Ninth wave is operating at several levels of the universe simultaneously, such as cosmic, galactic, solar, planetary and human, we would expect to see it manifested at all of these. While it may be hard to study its manifestation on the cosmic or galactic levels it seems possible to do so on the level of the sun, which increasingly is receiving attention for its flares. Are these flares, the largest of which within the Ninth wave have been summarized below, then related to the Mayan calendar?

Major Solar Flares Cosmic Energy Change
X 1.5 – March 9, 2011 Beginning of First day (March 9)
M 9.3 – July 30, 2011
M 9.3 – Aug 4, 2011
X 6.9 – Aug 9, 2011 Beginning of Fifth day (July 31)
X 2.1 – Sept 6, 2011
X 1.8 – Sept 7, 2011 Beginning of Sixth day (Sept 5)
X 1.4 – Sept 22, 2011 Beginning of Sixth night (Sept 23)

This is a complex question that would require data accumulated over large periods of time to be analyzed that is essentially missing. Yet, it is noteworthy in the list above that there was a large solar flare at the beginning of the Ninth wave on March 9 as well as those at the beginnings of the fifth and sixth days. Hypothetically there might then exist a link between these flares and the Ninth wave of the Mayan calendar. Even though an intensification of solar activity is expected as part of any regular solar cycle, what is unexpected in the current one is that this activity seems to have been delayed for several years and is made evident only now in apparent synchrony with the Ninth wave. If this is true an intensification of solar flares would be expected towards the end of the Ninth wave in its the seventh day beginning October 11.

When it comes to seismic activity on our own planet, the link to the Mayan calendar is more clear as I have discussed in The Purposeful Universe. Thus, the continental drift is caused by pulses from the planetary tree of life in the Mammalian Underworld and this drift (also called Plate Tectonics) is the cause of all earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on our planet. Since the calendar is now about to come to an end we may thus also ask if the continental structure of the Earth, the global brain, will now be completed and if this will affect the stability of the Earth’s crust. If it does then maybe, the increased seismic activity in recent times derives from the fact that the inner core of the Earth, is now being fine-tuned for the transmission of the new unity consciousness from the Cosmic Tree of Life. Such a fine tuning may however from the perspective of us who live on its surface be experienced as particularly “fine” and could in fact have quite dramatic consequences. Regardless it is important to see that these are part of a purposeful plan.

This is the only reasonable explanation I have heard for why there would be an intensification of seismic activity at this particular time, an intensification which was certainly evident at the seeding of the Ninth wave through the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. If there is an increased seismic activity at the current time it would in other words be because the calendar is coming to an end. While this is speculative I will on my part chose to be at a seismically solid place as the calendar approaches its end.

As this most likely is my last communication before the Mayan calendar comes to an end on October 28, 2011, it may now also be in its place to discuss somewhat what this “end” may mean and of course is a question that has been discussed for some time. My basic answer would be that the universe attains its highest quantum state and creates a new stage for life (at the top of the nine-storied pyramid). It is thus a common misunderstanding that a “new” cycle will begin after the calendar comes to an end. This is a misunderstanding because what is coming to an end is not a cycle to begin with, but nine linear directed evolutionary waves. The only aspect of the prophetic Mayan calendar system that may be described as cyclical is the 260 day tzolkin and this is the only cycle that will come to an end. Yet, even if this cycle is important as a matrix of the energies of creation and personal resonance with day signs, it plays no role in driving the large scale evolution of the universe or its evolution of consciousness.

With this in mind I see three possible alternatives that may follow after the universe has attained its highest state: The first, and most dramatic alternative, is that all waves - as well as the tzolkin cycle - come to an end. This would likely mean an abrupt end to all future energetic regulation of our lives and actions and a sort of freedom shock. Life would be lived fully moment by moment by moment and each moment would be an eternity that would not be organically linked to other moments. The second alternative, which I am currently leaning towards, is that the waves end, after having accomplished their evolutionary purposes, but the tzolkin continues to provide some energetic background variation. This would still mean living moment by moment without any waves directing our evolution, but a daily variation of tzolkin energies could prevent us from experiencing life as completely timeless. The third alternative is that not only the tzolkin, but also the nine creation waves (Underworlds) continue indefinitely and the total of peaks and valleys not limited to thirteen. This would still mean that we would no longer be subordinated to directed processes going from seed to mature fruit, but it would not mean that life would be like an eternal now. Rather, all the waves that are currently driving our evolution would continue after the attainment of unity consciousness, but really without any end.

The latter view seems to have been held in the site of Palenque in ancient times, since calendrical dates deep into the future are mentioned there even if the dates in question cannot be considered as prophetic. I feel at this point it is not possible to tell with certainty which one of the three alternatives that will play out after the calendar comes to an end, but either one would amount to a fundamental discontinuity and a significant, if not total, transformation of our experience of life. Either one of them would mean the end to directed evolution and the freedom to just be. Maybe it is because they hear this call from the “future” that, despite the concurrent presence of some negative omens at the current time, I find a noticeable group of people who at this very time are coming home to themselves and are truly beginning to appreciate life exactly the way it is. Maybe after all there is a shift to unity consciousness going on and that the universe is now starting to allow us to just be whatever we are.

Carl Johan Calleman
Paris, September 30, 2011 (11 Eb)

Drip Drip Drip...or the absence of it.

2011-09-03T07:56:00.003-04:00

The latest story of 'hidden disclosure', pointing to Mars again and other bodies of our Solar System.

Alien Life More Likely on ‘Dune’ Planets

summary: A new study finds that desert worlds -- like the planet Arrakis in the sci-fi classic "Dune" -- might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth.

and now an image shared recently from Sword: Valles Marinaris-MARS

Fog on Mars......means? ;)

£12bn and counting: the treasure uncovered at Kerala temple

2011-07-05T13:54:00.005-04:00

£12bn and counting: the treasure uncovered at Kerala temple

(That's about $24 Billion in Canadian)

One vault is still left to open as scale of the offerings made to shrine in the past 500 years comes to light

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It's like a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Even before the unlocking of the last of six secret vaults at Kerala's largest temple, the centuries-old treasure in gold, silver and precious stones discovered in its cellars is already estimated to be worth around £12.6bn.
"Though we knew that offerings made to the temple by devotees for the last 500 years were lying in these secret cellars, the scale of the treasure has definitely surprised us," temple official Hari Kumar told the Guardian. "All of Kerala is celebrating this extraordinary find." Its discovery has made the Hindu temple of Padmanabha Swamy in the state capital Thiruvanthapuram the richest in India.
During the past week, a team of experts appointed by India's supreme court has opened five vaults dedicated to the deity Lord Vishnu to uncover an enormous hoard of gold idols, jewellery studded with diamonds, emeralds and other precious stones, antique silver, and even two golden coconut shells studded with rubies and emeralds.
The shrine dates back to the 10th century, but the present massive granite structure was built only in the 18th century after King Marthanda Varma expanded and consolidated the Travancore kingdom. It has historically been a royal temple, but offerings to the Lord Vishnu, in the form of gold and jewellery, have come not just from Travancore kings and other Kerala royalty but millions of ordinary devotees.
The vaults containing the offerings have remained locked at least since the 1930s, when the last inventory was reportedly carried out by Travancore's then rulers. India's supreme court ordered a fresh inventory of the treasure after a face-off between the current head of the former Travancore royal family and a lawyer who challenged them about the management of the temple wealth, claiming there was inadequate security.
"There are six vaults, from A to F, and only Vault B has still to be opened," says Kumar. "This vault has special locks, and we don't want to break them. So we're getting experts to examine them, and we should be able to open them on Friday."
The entire operation is going on under heavy police security, but nothing is being filmed or photographed. "Taking photos within the sacred space of the temple is strictly prohibited," says Kumar.

Kerala's chief minister Oommen Chandy has rejected the demand that the treasure should be used for public benefit. "It belongs to the Padmanabha Swamy temple and will be preserved there," he said.

from source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/04/kerala-temple-treasure-found

Maseeh Rahman
guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 July 2011 20.00 BST
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Secret Space War & 9/11 Torsion Weapon

2011-04-18T15:04:00.002-04:00

Secret Space War & 9/11 Torsion Weapon

Fresh from the Amsterdam Conference, Richard Hoagland here on Coast: Secret Space War

From the YouTube Description (thanks to TheHaunebub2)

Richard C. Hoagland articulated his theory of a secret space program, and its possible connection to the 9-11 attacks, in the second half of the program.

Clandestine groups are involved in a secret space war, "and the terrestrial equivalent to cover this fact, is the so-called War on Terror...that's why we have hundreds of thousands of troops stationed at key strategic positions around this planet, having nothing to do with the ostensible reasons why they're there," he explained.

There are six groups involved in the space wars, and two of them are non-terrestrial-- possibly humans that used advanced technology to develop civilizations off world, he suggested.

Japan, he noted, is "being clobbered for a reason, and I believe it is fundamentally part of this secret space war." The 9-11 attacks were a shot across the bow that the status quo was over, he continued, adding that exotic technology was used to turn the Twin Towers into dust-- "some kind of massive disintegrator beam, based on Torsion physics."

6 parts to the interview at link above, or direct individual below:

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Planet Parenthood

2011-01-20T19:31:00.000-05:00

U.S. Biotech Company Has ‘Library’ of Genetically Engineered Organisms That Excrete a Variety of Hydrocarbon Fuels; Inputs Are CO2, Sunshine and Water
January 18th, 2011

Here’s part of a comment from Globe and Mail reader, Laid Back:

According to the article, the space required to supply current American consumption is an area the size of the state of Indiana. There are lots of areas in the American West with vast empty areas of desert and abundant sunlight (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona) albeit with little water. Here is the math:

(1) 800 barrels per year per acre is 2.2 barrels per acre per day.
(2) The US consumes 20 million barrels per day.
(3) This will require 9 million acres [ (2) divided by (1) ]
(4) One square kilometer is 247 acres
(4) 9 million acres is 36,800 square kilometers [ (3) divided by (4) ]

This is about the size of the state of Indiana.

However…

How can an organism exist with only carbon dioxide as a physical input ? Isn’t it made of proteins ? Proteins have more than carbon as constituents. Doesn’t it have DNA ? Doesn’t it grow ? Wouldn’t it need other types of nutrients as inputs ? Does it reproduce ? If it doesn’t reproduce, where does it come from ? How do you make more of them to boost production and replace dead ones ? If it does reproduce, and escapes into the environment, what keeps it from spreading all over the surface of the planet and converting all the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and coating the entire surface of the planet in stinking toxic hydro-carbons, killing off all other life forms ? (not to mention that removing all carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would cause all plant life to die which would kill everything higher up in the food chain).

Still, this is interesting.

Via: Globe and Mail:

In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”

We’re not talking “biofuels” – not, at any rate, in the usual sense of the word. The Joule technology requires no “feedstock,” no corn, no wood, no garbage, no algae. Aside from hungry, gene-altered micro-organisms, it requires only carbon dioxide and sunshine to manufacture crude. And water: whether fresh, brackish or salt. With these “inputs,” it mimics photosynthesis, the process by which green leaves use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds. Indeed, the company describes its manufacture of fossil fuels as “artificial photosynthesis.”

Joule says it now has “a library” of fossil-fuel organisms at work in its Massachusetts labs, each engineered to produce a different fuel. It has “proven the process,” has produced ethanol (for example) at a rate equivalent to 10,000 U.S. gallons an acre a year. It anticipates that this yield could hit 25,000 gallons an acre a year when scaled for commercial production, equivalent to roughly 800 barrels of crude an acre a year.

By way of comparison, Cornell University’s David Pimentel, an authority on ethanol, says that one acre of corn produces less than half as much energy, equivalent to only 328 barrels. If a few hundred barrels of crude sounds modest, recall that millions of acres of prime U.S. farmland are now used to make corn ethanol.

Joule says its “solar converter” technology makes the manufacture of liquid fossil fuels 50 times as efficient as conventional biofuel production – and eliminates as much as 90 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions. “Requiring only sunlight and waste C0{-2},” it says, “[this] technology can produce virtually unlimited quantities of fossil fuels with zero dependence on raw materials, agricultural land, crops or fresh water. It ends the hazards of oil exploration and oil production. It takes us to the unthinkable: liquid hydrocarbons on demand.”

The company name honours James Prescott Joule, the 19th-century British scientist. Founded only four years ago, it has begun pilot-project production in Leander, Tex. Using modular solar panels (imagine an array of conventional panels in a one-acre field), it says it will quickly ramp up production this year toward small-scale commercial production in 2012.

Joule acknowledges its reluctance to fully explain its “solar converter.” CEO Bill Sims told Biofuels Digest, an online biofuels news service, that secrecy has been essential for competitive reasons. “Some time soon,” he said, “what we are doing will become clear.” Although astonishing in its assertions, Joule gains credibility from its co-founder: George Church, the Harvard Medical School geneticist who helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984.

Jared Loughner

2011-01-10T08:22:00.000-05:00

kargo kult

2010-10-31T03:05:00.001-04:00

New Hidden Missile System Unknown To Feds

Posted: 5:25 pm EDT October 28, 2010
Updated: 3:02 pm EDT October 29, 2010

ATLANTA -- A Russian weapons company is marketing a new missile system that is hidden inside an ordinary shipping container. It can turn a ship, train or truck into a long range missile launcher. Channel Two Action News anchor Justin Farmer investigated the threat and found officials at the Port of Savannah had never heard of the Club K Missile system.

New Hidden Cruise Missile Unknown To Feds

It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie. A hidden cruise missile that can transform a shipping container into a missile launcher. The problem is it's real and a Russian weapons company is advertising it for sale to anyone who has the cash to pay for it. Channel Two Action News went to the Port of Savannah to find out how the feds are combating this potential threat. They did not even know about it, until Farmer told them.

The promotional video for the Club K Missile system is part of the marketing campaign by a private, Russian-based weapons manufacturer. The cruise missile system is hidden in a 40-foot shipping container. It can fire four long range satellite-guided missiles from a ship, train or tractor-trailer.

The Club K is being marketed at international weapons shows as a military weapon. In the hands of a terrorist group the container could easily be smuggled into the United states. It is so new most international security experts have never heard of it.

"To look at an entire weapons system that can be put on a cargo ship and deployed is frightening," said Brent Brown an international security consultant, "It is a pretty devastating piece of technology that could have all kinds of collateral damange."

The Port of Savannah is the fourth largest in the nation; moving over three million containers a year. A Club K Missile system fired from a container at the Port of Savannah could easily reach Atlanta 250 miles away.

Customs and Border protection are responsible for port security. Farmer asked the Directors of Customs and Border Protections if he was aware of the weapons. Director John Porter replied, "I am now."

Just how does the Federal government check millions of containers? Customs says that they carefully monitor the paperwork of every container. They said that it is largely done at the port of origin overseas. They admit, while they have the latest in x-ray technology, it is simply not realistic to scan all cargo.

Thousands of containers are off loaded from ships like this one but just a fraction go through machines.

"If you are not checking 100% that it is a hole in the system," said Brown.

Every truck is check for radiation as it leaves the Savannah port, but the Club K Missile can be either nuclear or hold conventional explosives that would not' trip these detectors. Savannah authorities told us they believe the Club K would not' make it through either way.

"Our systems in place would detect such an anomaly," said Porter.

"It is extremely troubling, it's extremely troubling," said retired general now defense industry consultant David Poythress. Poythress added that the military has quietly been working on technology to defend against a Club K cruise missile-type system.

"It's a huge threat. A cruise missile launch from a vessel, off-shore against an urban population," said Poythress.

Janes Defense Weekly estimates the price tag on the Club K Missile is between $10-20 million. The Russian company that makes the weapon has refused interviews. They have issued statements saying the Club-K is not being marketed to terrorists and is meant for use on military ships. The company also claims to have nations in Latin America and the Asia pacific region interested in weapon.

To pursue in Afghanistan and in fact checking

2010-08-06T23:31:00.017-04:00

To pursue in Afghanistan and in fact checking

You are a hope for those of us who distrust government, but find the "Tea Partiers" too 'out there' as Media Does. BUT...there IS a valid real and growing distrust of government. We are ALREADY IN the New World Order. It was being OPENLY bandied about during Regan, Bush Sr, and into Bush Jr. We are ALREADY in a "Global" Economic Private Banking Establishment. The Tea Partiers' cry, and you folks laugh off the "New World Order" while we are already in the midst of their consolidation of rule.

Points to educate yourself.

"Winning" in Afghanistan is impossible. It is the "Graveyard of Empires". And we entered this as a False Flag Operation of Exceptionalists Extremists Imperialism.

The Runaway General Stanley McChrystal http://ow.ly/21MIb

Along with The Afghan War Diaries http://ow.ly/2goZj

The Military is supposed to SERVE the People...not using people for THEIR wars. The Military CLEARLY shows their DISDAIN for "public" authority.

911 MUST be "outed".

This is that "Republican Branding Platform Moment" of HONESTY breaking through...

Only...it applies to our Military...the DEEP HEART n SOUL of 'our' Military and the the fight for the SOUL of OUR Republic we gained by brute force over the Native Americans when we invaded the Americas. How does a Native American compare Columbus and Hitler? Is there really such a difference?

If NO-ONE learns this lesson...then our future as a species outlook is indeed bleaker than the oil that is running through our views like a bad 'X-Files' of the 'oil' as it invades our bodies and changes our eyes and viewpoint on the universe.

When the First Responders, Military Heroes, Honest Humans willing to speak BRUTAL TRUTH to the "seed" of our current post 911 psyche come forth...you MUST NOT back away.

This cannot be allowed to happen if our republic is to remain free. Even you MUST see the hypocrisy's of Bush/Obama in policy.

Obama is Bush graduating from high school. From the Kindergarten classroom of Bush photo op to Obama behind Military in Gulf Coast Oil Disaster.

Same people, prostitutes, peddlers, pimps, props, policy, prattling, political pigeon poop.

"Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity." Cornelius Tacitus

"The first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth" - Michael Parenti

Bill Moyers rare video 1987 the secret government http://ow.ly/204vo

Watch educate yourself about YOUR government.

As for "oversight" of such "Secret Government"...Dick Cheney n Co were, in essence, STILL 'in charge' of the Minerals Management people in an Obama government.

Tar Balls, slicks, dead zones and soon to enter the Atlantic and mess with the polar current when it reaches to cold water of the Arctic, where Walruses DO live.

CLEAN, NEW and Exotic Energies are about LIES on the Ground.

Make the final conclusion that there IS a valid "seed" of distrust of Greedy Government and Cannibal Capititalists among the people.

Your own passion shows the same "seed" but different flow patterns and ratios bringing insight across the synapses.

The more the Hubris is exposed the incredulous it becomes to believe what is 'truth from power'.

How can we speak "Truth to Power" as a people on a personal level having no directed output efficacy of that mass human energy?

HONEST Bureaucrats and HONORABLE Soldiers

Become a Lt Manning become a "Bureaucocrat"...one who 'co-ops' the "system" when you KNOW in your SOUL that what is happening is false and wrong. SoSoldiers are those who question the fight when it feels WRONG in your soul about orders from above.

Truth is often Brutal. It can shatter a world view based on lies.

But as pointed out, levies built of sand will be but crumbs for the maws of the next Suprecaines because of Gulf Water Temperature Rising.

It IS PAST TIME for a "Shortening of the Way" become "viral".

There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be. Tlaloc, A Time for Titans DUNE

I care not for myself but for humanity as a species and leaving this planet to once more return to the stars where we once cavorted and lived.

We cannot get there on a reality based on the sands of lies to the people.

Is THIS why we are in Afghanistan? Because the Taliban would NEVER have been able to demolish Bldg 7. Are the Companies and Officials who's name's are redacted, only Afghanistanis ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuJimaumW4

WTC Building 7 was 610 feet tall, 47 stories. It would have been the tallest building in 33 states. Although it was not hit by an airplane, it completely collapsed into a pile of rubble in less than 7 seconds at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11, seven hours after the collapses of the Twin Towers. However, no mention of its collapse appears in the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." Watch the collapse video above. To date, many years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse

rewind: Hammer Feather Moon Gravity Experiment http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6926891572259784994#

WTC7 in Freefall--No Longer Controversial 9.29 Min

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9Qp5QWRMQ

AE911Truth Engineer Does for Free what NIST Couldn’t and WOULD NOT DO for Millions http://ow.ly/2hyZt

While we manage the business of war, we are also in the business of creating a myth. It is the only way we can accomplish what is necessary. Mere appeals to logic and common sense are not enough to sway the vast population of humankind. - Emperor Paul Mud'Dib DUNE

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind: George Orwell

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. - DUNE Reverend Mother Ramallo, Sayyadina of the Fremen

“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?” - Joseph Stalin

Who Killed JFK? - FRONT SHOT http://ow.ly/2hyH6

Better to listen to the wind through a creosote bush than to waste time with the words of a fool. - Heinar, Naib of Red Wall Sietch
And if one refuses to listen to words of truth and hope, who then is the greater fool? - Planetologisst Pardot Kynes DUNE

Brutal Truth Flat Facts Reality...breathe in breathe out...get used to it.

In a technological culture, progress may be viewed as the attempt to move more quickly into the future, rushing to make known the unknown. - Mother Superior Harishka DUNE

Exotic Energy requires a shake from a Dead Dinosaur Mindset.

http://www.archive.org/details/DavidSereda-DifferentialsCropCirclesAndAnti-gravity

If the David Sereda Video is 'busy' try locally AVI : David Sereda Differentials CropCircles And Anti-GravityVideo

CropCircles And Anti-GravityVideo

REALLY OLD TECH...NOT being used:

Clean, Green, Renewable, Taxable, and thousands of uses besides BEST Ethanol EVER !!!

And...can be used as material to MANUFACTURE automobiles HERE in the United States:

http://relegalize.info/hemp/08-organic-biofuel.shtml

Henry Ford Father Model-T Car Ethanol Plastic Body http://ow.ly/23Jti

Did 9/11 Justify The War In Afghanistan? http://ow.ly/23Ku9

The “Republican Fiscal Conservative” Myth Shattered http://ow.ly/19Z9z

I am an addict, like you. OIL is the new crack? http://ow.ly/23wvm

Remains of 72 people found World Trade Center site http://ow.ly/22CJR

Unless Otherwise Directed http://ow.ly/21Nmw

The 3rd largest airforce in the world http://ow.ly/2jQ2G

US Professors Raise Doubts Report on South Korean Ship Sinking http://ow.ly/29IRn

This video is in a format that is downloadable and confirms what I saw on Channel 5 WPTZ, but does NOT carry on the web their ACTUAL story that ran Friday Night at 6PM news that also mentioned the VT Gd rotation to Koerean Waters. WCAX video DOES on July 30, 2010

It is readily apparent that if one is awake and aware that we should be able to judge a government by how its citizens judge themselves and how they judge those they govern. Currently the American Citizens only have 11% confidence level in Congress. We see the life and death of government through our own lives and deaths. Governments, especially the personnel of the bureaucracy, are shaped by those who hold the resigns of power choose to exercise that power and administer as commanded. I have coined the term Bureaucocrat to be one within a Bureaucracy, relegion, or other organizations that who you think things are wrong and actually takes ACTION on their principles. Irony can sometimes mask one's assumptions in everyday life, but the power of wrong assumptions by those who issue orders and those who must execute them is readily apparent in history. Also there are the Following Horrific Wars. I am not being Ironic; but call one's self to lift thy head from the trough of mastication of mindless media mush and look at how are Government's Laws and Managed Media reflected in your heart. One must beware any regime based on any religion, governmental, bureaucracy, imperialistic system that will ultimately behave like all other such they have degenerated towards cowardice , mediocrity, inertia, and self-satisfaction. When the people see that those who rule them but fatten themselves and have used them as pawns, there is a restless uneasiness in the genes. Our past assumptions on HOW we got to be where we are are crumbling, and the brutal truth is an inner one we dare not confront because it makes one realize HOW we have been duped.

Breathe in Breathe out...get used to it.

The two speeches today from M3I3C3 were wrong minded (note the #4666 transcript :) ). When the policy is wrong and based on a lie, the powers that enabled that lie should neither be surprised, nor should attack the human with a heart and a conscious knowing a clear path for his soul upon death. The Two Operational Power Structures (TOPS) that operate our “Secret Government” should learn the lesson that warfare for profit and ideological blackmail attempts to use its Eminent Domain of its Founding Fathers to Embrace the Whole of the Earth within its reach worked. It has accomplished that. Breathe in Breathe out...get used to it. It is becoming a new “Mime”. Many think those who have been in power too long, lust after it and thus looses touch with their humanity, thus enabling them to act counter to themselves and our collective “Consensus Reality” interests. The ruling elite of the planet have but digital wealth, documents on paper might soon disappear from the human equation as easily as those did in the Pentagon's New “Enhanced” Room to store budgetary documents, and the paperwork for the California Enron Scandal and so so so many other nefarious governmental activities went down in WTC Building 7. Under the current regime, of TOPS, this has happened. We will remain firmly and forever on the OIL's Teat for the Economic Profit of the few top Illuminated family lines.

The Tacitus Principle

The Afghan Diaries are needed throughout our systems of government. From ALL branches of those who wield power over others.

In light of Capt O'Toole's post at : http://hhmsssword.blogspot.com/

Tuten will bring down a list of things to be collected, they are close by. After a small break basically what you men are going to be doing is actually swinging that machete I have had you carry around on your backs all week. Today gentleman we will cut down many trees. I will teach you how to be accurate and why.
First... ...You ladies can make twelve and a half cent necklaces.

I give you this link and a question from a Native American Student asked in a Modern Classroom:

Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn http://ow.ly/2miXI

“If you were a Native American,” one of my students asked recently, “what would have been the difference between Columbus and Hitler?”

Annnnd....this little chant from Basic Training:

Turning Point: When Soldiers Have Had Enough http://ow.ly/2mjzr

Stand up and repeat these words in marching cadence:

"I went down to the market
Where all the people shop
I pulled out my machete
And I began to chop

I went down to the park
Where all the children play
I took out my machine gun
And I began to spray"

This is a chant our young are taught to march to in our military today, and this is how two young veterans of the Iraq War begin their presentations to groups across the country.

Until EVERY single Press Conference asks what happened to WTC Bldg 7? Where are the Washington DC Metro Tapes of the Highway overlooking the Pentagon SEIZED within minutes of a missile hitting the office wall holding ALL the paper documents for Pentagon funding...for more than 50 years?

We have NO "Press Corps"...we have "Press Whores"

Until these questions are asked by even YOU folks...we, and you, will remain economic slaves of royalty rather than free thinking humans working toward OUR own common good.

Milititary Manipulated Media Industitrialized Imperial Intelligence Corporatitional Control Complex.

M3 I3 C3 aka “Mickey...They'll Eat Everything before you knew there was something. Then tell you there was nothing...move along.”

Reality must be truthful to be useful

If there's nothing to hide...why hide the information, objects or gag people or documents or loose emails violating Federal Law?

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Don't make promises and policies you don't intend to keep and to keep the policies and promises you do make.

ACTIONS speak louder than words.
ACTIONS are PROOF of intent.
ACTIONS are the final judgment of character.

It REALLY is that simple.

And we get a "peek" at how T.O.P.S. REALLY operate...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and Nixon throws General Under Bus cares not about Civilian Casualties

it continues today.

Robert H. Williams
rhw007@twcny.rr.com
http://www.mycommonsensepolitics.net

The above is a combination of emails sent out to Meanstream Media folks and Sunking asked me to make it into Blog Entry for FSHOD.
I'm grateful, happy and honored to.

UFO's around the Sun...Really?!

2010-03-05T10:07:00.049-05:00

It seems everyone out in the Internet wilderness is jumping on this new thing of orbs, or UFO’s orbiting our Sun. Some even say they can see the supposed “UFO’s” manipulating the Sun’s corona. One of the things that really surprise me are the names of some of the people that are repeating this information. Jeff Rense, the Rense flare article and Richard Hoagland, RCH’s Norway spiral article pt3 – at the bottom just to name two.

There have been many images posted on websites, forums and blogs over the last several weeks that show mostly the “green” images and occasionally, there is one video from the Japanese Aerospace program (theirs is X-Ray combined with Optical) that shows two “blobs” on the top/left side. I don’t know if this video is rectified and if not then the “blobs” are actually on the bottom/right as “north” is usually down, in telescopic images. Anyway, when you play this video you’ll notice that the “blobs” don’t move. Here's the Jaxa video.

They are on every frame of the video and in the same place, not even moving slightly, yet you can watch the Sun rotate. Does this mean anything? Not necessarily because orbiting objects can hold position and don’t have to move but, this can also be something (much smaller) on the lens of the telescope itself. So nothing really except for dust! Which is it? As with the “green” SSC images and no one is asking this question but going straight to the conclusion that they “must be UFO’s”. If you ask me, all that is, is jumping to conclusions. This is something that will definitely NOT help any kind of disclosure.

Here’s another thing that really stands out from the chatter. Again, its not too scientific and really shows how eager people are to jump on the same line of thinking, without even looking at the whole picture(pun intended!). Here’s the question nobody is asking “why are these images green?” I’ve only seen a couple of comments about this on other forums and it seems that these people are assuming that there is just a green filter, much like a green gel used with stage lights, on the telescope.

This isn’t true at all. While it is a green filter, its specific to a wavelength. 195 Angstrom to be specific, thats 19.5 nanometers and its measuring the ionization of Iron at a specific frequency and temp (approx 1.4m°K). Here’s a quote from the specs for those filters and clearly they aren’t just green filters or stage gels:

"The EUVI uses thin metal film filters at both the entrance aperture and near the focal place to suppress undesired UV, visible, and IR radiation. We ust two types of filters at the entrance of the telescope (Figure 4): and aluminum-on-polyimide foil on a course nickel grid for the short wavelength quadrants (17.1 and 195 nm), and a single layer aluminum foil on a fine nickel mesh for the long wavelength quadrants (28.4 and 30.4 nm). Both types of filters use a 150 nm thick layer of aluminum to reject light...”

The pdf can be downloaded here; EUVI Specs

Now just think about that for a minute. Is this a full spectrum image? No, its not, its limited to just a very narrow field, a slice, in the viewable spectrum. The higher wavelength of the Japanese video is, I believe, 384 Å [haven’t been able to verify actual wavelength] and again a specific slice of the viewable spectrum and this one happens to show an orange image. The EUVI telescope employs two filters, one is on the aperture (outside opening of the telescope) and the other is at the focal plane. Since there is no eyepiece on this telescope it sits just before the CCD camera. The primary lens is also coated. Between these three items, they are blocking out everything except for two specific lines of bandwidth in the viewable spectrum.

Now, considering just this little bit of research on the origins of these images and the instruments that are employed to capture them, several different questions arise...at least for me. Looking at these images one can clearly see objects around the Sun. One can also see pixelation as well as a grid pattern throughout (this is due to the mesh layer over the outside filter). Some of these objects look like they could be massive objects orbiting the Sun but again where’s the research to show if they are in fact close to the Sun or close to the telescope.

This one little fact could change the whole “collective opinion” of “UFO’s” orbiting the Sun. If these objects are close to the telescope then they are pretty small and could not be “UFO’s”. If they are close to the Sun then they are in fact massive, being even larger than Jupiter in some cases. Since I haven’t been able to locate (as of this posting) anything to help triangulate and thus find “distance” between any objects, the Sun and telescope. This will remain a major, unanswered question...I’ll leave it to you to consider the implications.

With all of this in mind and considering the specific 195Å wavelength, one has to view these objects in a different way. Here’s what I mean, if an object is in fact there, whether it be by the Sun or telescope, then we are only seeing a certain part of that object because of reflected light in the, as pointed out above, small slice of the viewable spectrum. Since we’re only seeing a “slice” then there is much more of the viewable spectrum that isn’t there and has to be assumed. Now according to the specs, there are four algorithms used for dynamic compression as well as on board software so there may be a little more data to be uncovered within these images but again we’re talking about a small slice of the viewable spectrum. Other than that, there isn’t any way (with software) to build full spectrum images using these images, the data simply isn’t there because its being blocked by the filter. Where does that leave us as far as UFO’s? Well, until further analysis can be done, or alternative full spectrum images can be captured, inconclusive at best.

Having said that, take a look at these curious images just for thought...

Now here are some images (below) that show obvious particles (or dust) hitting the telescope, these are probably larger particles being thrown out by the Sun in a cosmic spray...as usual and we see them within CME’s.

The next two are a couple of real curious images and I’ve found several so far. These seem to have some kind of liquid sprayed on the lens that has been wiped clean, much like the cameras on Indie type racecars. *Notice the way the highlight/shadows are opposite from what one would find on a solid object, ie refraction inside a bubble of liquid! According to the telescope specs, there isn’t such a device on this telescope. These images are almost more intriguing to me than the whole “UFO” conversation. I’m including an article showing that water can freeze with heat and if this is possible then maybe water can stay liquid in sub freezing temps depending on the charge that is on the film of the water droplet. This is something to think about for sure, especially if you’re a follower of the electric universe. Here is that article if your interested, Water Freezes with heat and this website that could further support the “electric model”, The surface of the Sun – Iron?

Click the images for a larger view...

Now here’s the last thing that I find very curious and cannot find any satisfactory explanation on the SSC or STEREO websites. For a period of three days previous the current date, all the EUVI images are of a different type and labeled as such. You have to look for it otherwise they’ll be missed as I’ve seen every other post out there hasn’t mentioned and/or noticed this difference. Here are a couple of examples, The first are immediately uploaded and then after three days replaced by the second example. Notice the file names (I’ll explain):

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/16/ahead/euvi/195/2048/20100216_165530_n7euA_195.jpg

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/16/ahead/euvi/195/2048/20100216_165530_n4euA_195.jpg

The file name is 20100216_165530_n7euA_195.jpg
20100216 – is the year/month/day.
165530 – is the time of day, in this example 4:55pm, presumably?
n7euA – n7(haven’t found what this designates and IS what is missed), eu – extreme ultraviolet, A – ahead.
195 – is the viewing bandwidth.

Now look at the two full links above. I’ve pulled the images from that date and the versions I have are the “n7euA – n7euB” (A-B for ahead and behind) and what is currently in that archive are “n4euA or B” versions, depending on if you are in the “ahead” or “behind” directories. You will have three days to look at and/or pull the “n7” type images, after that the “n4” type replaces them. There are two noticeable differences with these two sets of images. The n4 types have different timestamps and are higher quality than the n7 version, but why? Here is a “caption” listed with the “n7” version images.

“Image of the Sun, taken by the SECCHI Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) on the STEREO Ahead observatory on February 16, 2010 at 13:35:30 UT. The 195 Angstrom bandpass is sensitive to the Fe XII ionization state of iron, at a characteristic temperature of about 1.4 million degrees Kelvin. This image was produced from the STEREO space weather beacon telemetry. Because of the high amount of compression used for the space weather beacon, the image quality is far lower than in the final science product.”

Keep in mind that ALL of the images that show the supposed “UFO’s” are of the n7 type, in fact the rense article above had links to the n7 versions and by the time I looked at that article, the image links were dead. Now they have new ones up or maybe a completely new article? According to NASA’s official reply sited in RCH’s article, these images are, “telemetered down nearly continuously”, so why the completely different sets of images? Again, I haven’t found a single explanation as to the different sets and if I’m to assume these are part of the data captured using two different filters as well as two primary lenses then why remove them from the public data store? This may be a non issue but is there something there we need to pay attention to?!

So there you have it and I think many will agree that while there are many anomalies surrounding these images (no pun intended!). Going straight to UFO’s is putting the “cart before the horse” at this stage because I cannot see any way to prove or disprove (by way of these images) evidence of UFO’s. There needs to be more data to correlate with these images to determine distance and size of some of the objects for starters. Does that mean NASA, or specifically the STEREO Science Center team, is being honest with some of this? Yes, I believe some of the artifacts are indeed dust or particles. What I can’t do is extend that explanation across the board to every object and for the rest of these anomalies...NASA doesn’t have an answer, yet!

**UPDATE**

Here is a page on the Stereo web site that has further explanations to "some" of the questions I've brought up above. It was not available when I researched this post and now that it is, I feel I need to add it to this article in an effort to keep to an Honest approach. Here's the page... Odd sphere like objects. -z

EAGLE EYE

2009-07-20T02:02:00.008-04:00

Mon July 20, 2009
By rhw007

I recently saw a movie called “Eagle Eye” and found in it’s premise something that may be happening even as we speak. The signs are everywhere, if one knows what to look for and understand what they see. We are more monitored electronically to a global electromagnetic sucking machine whose SOLE purpose is to gather as much electromagnet spectrum data as possible and store it, sort it, absorb it’s meaning, correlate it with other bits of information which may be tied together, and eventually produce a probability of some outcome from that piece of data.

The earliest name I recall in web ‘history’ is ECHELON. Which with self-autonomous “awareness” being doing in virtual 3-D Method and apparatus for total situational awareness and monitoring along with total Space Domination that such a thing as “Eagle Eye” may not be so “far-out” as to be possible under an ETI environment.

As an Earthling I feel like flying a distress American flag upside down because the “haves” are not taking care of our species very well. The Military who was supposed to “Preserve and Protect from ALL Enemies Foreign and Domestic” have become the world’s most hated super-power. And it also comes when a realization that America is broke from “Empire Building” and currently doing so under the False Flag Event of 9-11’s War on Terror. I wish I could do more to make someone, anyone, anything, any intelligence to help us in these trying times…and the worse to come.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

That was the lesson of “Eagle Eye”. That an Artificially Intelligent piece of software made a judgment call that the current “haves” were NOT treating the American Citizens fairly and planned a ‘Coup d’état’. Command and control of remote objects and monitoring any video anywhere that was electronic, on web or not.

Only by physically destroying collection point did the trick, the AI not having the foresight to pre-load a copy of it/her self off-planet before being smashed. She never questioned the data. Every data bit was real.

There are Moon and Mars ruins we can discern from the photographic, electronic spectrum data and original first hand testimony on the Moon. Was it us before the last Milky Way Galactic Crossing? If we’ve known for a long time through “secret societies” and they are not going to share the knowledge with those stuck on Earth then we are doomed as dinosaurs.

There is a bi-faceted Ares Face in Cydonia on Mars that Cries up into a full Universe and says to all… We Were Here.

Was it us who built it, the D & M Pyramid, the Smoking Pyramid , the Tholus, the Square, the Fort, the Key, and the interlocking geometric hyper-dimensional relationships they form with each other when viewed from above? We cannot even re-do the Pyramids, Sphinx of Egypt, much less the ancient Mayan and other temples scattered across the planet showing previous crossings and leaving creations we cannot recreate now.

This time around it seems as if the “haves” have counted on surviving through the ground acquisition of many locations around the planet with the number of Military Bases and subsequent supply, support, command and try to control along with your neighbors while far from home. In addition to Anti-G Space Fleets of SpaceShips loading the chosen few to leave Planet Earth and pass 2012 in Orbit, the Moon or Mars under-ground bases.

For what? “Black Gold” ? …TRILLIONS of $$$ “Drugs”…BILLIONS of $$$

Down to the Last Asteroid Impacter.

The coming Age of Aquarius. A New Earth . A New Solar System as we transverse through the upper layers of the Milky Way Galaxy in Alignment.

Will we have to crawl ourselves out from caves again and go through the madness of savage butchery that has been the male dominated model between “collapses” or “Re-Births” of our species? I think intellectual gains through the power of woman rule societal and militarily how different ideas really ARE gender based and it matters to the brutal truth and common sense of our survival to support humans rather than butcher them.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

I don’t think our current “haves” of the planet our best interest in mind over-all. I think the clip for the 2012 movie is right you try not to panic everyone while handling the information…and the technology…you don’t tell us or give that technology to us when it might save billions of people at the worst possible times. Not very hospitable by the “haves” .

I apologize Ion I should at least left a comment that I actually HAD copied and updated version of my blog post to FSHOD merely to re-set the comment counter. I also value your insight into the SWORD persona…for all we know with his “re-awakening” we could be talking with the Moon and RCH’s DATA HEAD.

Even though I could qualify for a free wireless phone from government…”Eagle Eye” is a good reasonable idea for me not to get one.

---

I just received the movie SICKO the 2007 version from Amazon total $7 price. Might trying to get permission put on local access cable.

Universal Health Care in America NOW !!!

PUBLIC PLAN.

PEOPLE not MONSTERS should RULE.

If there's nothing to hide...why hide the information, objects, gag people, shred documents or loose emails violating Federal Law?

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Don't make promises and policies you don't intend to keep and to keep the policies and promises you do make.

ACTIONS speak louder than words.
ACTIONS are PROOF of intent.
ACTIONS are the final judgment of character.

It REALLY is that simple.

Robert-rhw007
July 20, 2009 11:03 PM

To the Web's Political Daily Headliners

2009-07-15T23:37:00.004-04:00

To the Web's Political Daily Headliners

I had just come across, stumbled upon, or whatever term is currently vogue for the original, surfing the web, a web item to here:

FDA on the verge of getting congressional approval to regulate tobacco from this site I recently found the same way and left comment on a article about a dispute whether one staff writer was "fired" for political opinion or that he was just saying the word f*** too many times in his columns and wasn't savvy enough to use the Battle Star Galactica's FRACK.

After leaving my comment and thanking the team who put the Politics Daily for putting together such a nifty team I started going through their stories, leads etc.

I guess posting Administrative Notes as I do at "MY Common Sense Politics isn't allowed only in clearly delineated "opinion" sections. Frankly I think that a writer, news gatherer, or investigative journalist should be obligated to opine upon the FACTS of a story...but clearly indicate so.

This is one of the reasons I invented term MEANSTREAM MEDIA. They intentionally do NOT tell you that the news they just reported was a governmental, corporate, military, political, or personal lie.

FDA regulating tobacco while it won't even consider HEMP when it has been scientifically PROVEN to CURE CANCER.

Proof? Who, what, when, where, why, and How could such a thing be?

Assuredly the Meanstream scientists, pharma-scientists or others would have JUMPED on such a thing if true ! What Nonsense. Pooh-bah !!! Meanstream Says.

Follow the money deep throat said.

Is there more money $$ in cancer TREAMENTS or cancer CURES?

MCSP Hemp Videos

This plant was grown by our founding generation, Ford made a WORKING CAR out of just all HEMP Henry Ford Hemp Car

It's five leaves match our human digits, yet we have thrown more than 20 MILLION people into prison for HEMP-related offenses ONLY..i.e. no drinking n driving AND hemp, no other "illegal" action than having possession of HEMP, even if prescribed by a DOCTOR.

There is hope though that YES WE CAN win this fight even despite Obama's paltry attempts to stop the legalization process. the economy is too bad NOT to legalize it...state by state:

Oregon: Lawmakers Pass Regulations To License Commercial Hemp Production

And we, as a NATION, are about to undertake an enormous, all expansive experiment in Universal Health Care Coverage from conception to death...yet the MOST beneficial plant known since the DAWN OF TIME...is illegal in the United States of America...the "Land of the Free" ?

Common Sense Brutal Truths.

It is PAST time we hit the "re-set" button on this Frank Herbert version of a "Golden Path" into the future. Otherwise Earth will look like Mars and we can't even re-build the Egyptian Pyramids here on Earth, much less repeat what lays open and crying into the indifferent Universe on the plains of Cydonia.

May you discover the wonder of the Universe heartbeat to heartbeat.

Bob...:D

Tie That Binds

2009-01-25T18:05:00.003-05:00

I have not been active on FSHOD for months, now. I had some health, time and life issues that intervened. Also, I was tired of even the minimal management of this blog over the past recent years.

But mostly, I've found myself rather worn out over the seemingly endless levels and areas of conspiracy and lies and obfuscation and, as comedians Cheech and Chong said it, "Buggery on the High Seas" that we, the 'Common Man' are forced to deal with on a daily basis...and never, ever, seeming to find that much needed Soul Relief called 'The Truth'.

I fought with this and soul-searched, and couldn't give a tinker's damn...I was just tired and fed up and bored with the whole thing. I buried my self in reading and just being with my family...and taking great joy in my granddaughter, a real light in my life.

But the more I saw my emails from FSHOD pile up in my inbox with only the cursory glance, I realized that others were not giving up...and my guilt over my Hoaglandish abandonment increased...not enough to overcome my laziness, but it WAS there.

Why?

Because we Shoddies seem bound to each other...

Bound by years of association with each other, and all the trials and tribulations we've been through.

Bound by shared interests and the desire to learn of new interests that are shared by each of us (I think of all the topics I learned about as a result of reading things you've shared, things that would never have crossed my interest radar...and I assume the same is true for you!)

Bound by the need for Truth.

Bound by the frustration and downright anger at the manipulations of TPTB whose only seeming desire is to prevent us, at all costs, from discovering that Truth.

And bound by the overwhelming Need to fight and prevail over those forces of obfuscation.

In my case, I've fallen prey to what TPTB relies on to a great degree...and that most people fall for immediately...APATHY. Their hope is that the people will wear down immediately, and get 'back to work'. And for those that persist, that time will do just what it did to me...make me tired and fed up, THEN get 'back to work'.

THE HELL WITH THEM!

We just finally got rid of an administration that was in the forefront of the Fascist Corpocracy, and good riddance. But we know that the 'hidden' backbone of the Beast still exists and functions and thrives. Mr.Obama offers a ray of hope, but he will be met with resistance every step of the way, and I fear that many have such high hopes of our new President, that they will falter all the quicker when he, perhaps, does not achieve the desired results. We hope, we wait, we'll see.

But I have no faith in this. I hear non-right-wing pundits state that there is no need to investigate recent past misdeeds, since no one will get convicted and the investigations will have a heavy cost in time, energies and dollars. They ask, "So Why do it?" .....

My answer: WE NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

Over-archingly, that is the...Tie That Binds.

It's DejaVu Again

2008-08-29T22:18:00.006-04:00

Three years ago today, August 29, 2005, this blog did not exist. Three years ago today, most of the members of this group were newly found friends on Richard Hoagland's Captain's Blog. Three years ago today, we all watched with great anticipation and concern, and even anger, as Hurricane Katrina came ashore in Southeast Louisiana and wrought havoc on the inhabitants of New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and, to some extent, on Florida. Three years ago, we were on fire, burning it up with discovery after discovery, fueled by the proof of our fears that our very own government was manipulating certain factors in our environment whcih caused and even directed these storms.

We saw strange shapes in the eye-wall of the Hurricane. Pictures, like these below (one from RCH, the negative picture is of the same picture but simply put in the negative by be and submitted to RCH, which he kindly included in his blog) showing structures in the eye of the storm...things that should not have been there!

We discovered MIMIC and how it clearly showed an unexplained force acting on the storm to steer it...and although the evidence was explained away as errors in processing the results of several different source, yet it was damned hard to believe when we saw this 'errors' appear...and the storm divert.

We saw how the usage of this 'energy' had a signature of the Earthquake...time and time again.

Within the past 48 hours or so ago, there was a surge of earthquakes...and now today we see the Louisiana shoreline again potentially threatened by what experts model to become a Category 3 hurricane....Gustav, a Scandanavian name meaning 'staff of the Goths'. Ominous? Perhaps. Used to be a lot of 'goth' type folk in New Orleans, so maybe it's ominous for THEM!

It's time to pull out our 'tools of discovery', time to open our eyes like we've been doing each hurricane season since 2005...as part of the Captain's 'crewe', and now, as part of the crewe of FSHOD.

On the heels of Gustav is Hannah...the Tropics starting to churn out the storms, one after another.

But maybe we'll get lucky with Hannah. It's a Hebrew name, meaning 'Grace of God'.

Crossing the Threshold

2008-05-29T13:25:00.003-04:00

by Will Devine

Disclaimer: While FSHOD is not a Christian blog or even a blog about Religion, we do not hesitate to discuss matters pertaining to Religion. We in no way advocate any one religion over another. Thanks to Will for this interesting blog article. Regards, Sunking

Hello friends!

In my last blog I presented my theory regarding the significance of the number 14. My recent discoveries, however, lead me to believe that the number 14 signifies, not so much a "resurrection", per se, but the beginning of a new cycle or a "crossing over", if you will. Abraham is said to have "crossed over" the Euphrates into the Promised Land (a metaphor for the heavenly realms) on 1/14 of the Jewish calendar, the same day as Passover (i.e. "pass over" or cross over), and the same day Jesus died and "crossed over" into the netherworld (whatever your concept of such may be). Well, I have a couple of new theories relating to the number 14 in this context. Take them for what you will.

I happened to be listening to a Christian radio show and the host mentioned something about a fellow who believed he had found a way to calculate Christ's return based on the length of the "generations" spoken of in Matthew 1:17, namely, "So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations." (Oh, by the way, 1/17 of the Jewish calendar happens to be both the day Jesus is said to have been resurrected and the day Noah's ark is said to have landed). I can't remember how his formula worked exactly, but he put the year of Christ's return at (your favorite and mine) 2012 A.D.

I was intrigued. I had been kicking around the idea of Christ's return in 2018 based on 70 years from Israel's modern-day inception in 1947 (For the significance of 70 years, see http://www.creation-answers.com/seventy.htm), and I wondered if there might be anything in Biblical chronology to back this up that would tie in to the aforementioned 42 (that is, 3 times 14) generations. Now keep in mind that the following IS based partially on the Watchtower's exposition of scripture, so take it with a grain of salt.

Diving into the Insight on the Scriptures volumes, I was surprised to discover that Abraham, according to the WT's biblical chronology, was born in the year 2018 (B.C.)! Could it be possible that the same amount of time (3 times 14 generations) which transpired between Abraham's birth and Christ's birth would transpire again until His return? Of course, we all (should) know that Jesus of Nazareth was not actually born in 0 A.D. (or rather 1 A.D. since there is no "zero" year between B.C. and A.D.). But that's where things get really interesting. Based on Scripture rather than historical data, the WT puts Jesus' birth at 2 B.C. This would mean that the interval of 42 generations would be a total of 2016 years. Guess what number you get when you divide 2016 by 14?

144.

I don't think I have to point out the significance of that little ditty ;) Interestingly, if you divide 2016 by 42 (or 3 x 14) you get 48 - which is the number of times the word "fourteen" appears in the (Western/Protestant) Bible.

Anyways, as I was saying, if we take the 2016-year interval and apply it starting at 2 B.C., we end up at A.D. 2015. Not quite the number I was looking for, but pretty darn close. But then I got to thinking about something else. What about Adam? Does the time period between the first man of the Bible and Abraham or Christ have any significance? Adam is said to be a "type" of Christ, and Jesus is referred to at 1 Co 15:45 as "the last Adam". Well, according to the WT, Adam was born (or should I say "created") in 4026 B.C., making for a total of 4024 years from Adam until Christ. And if you divide this number in half, what do you get?

2012 years.

I think I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that 14 and 144 also figure into the Mayan Calendar. If I'm not mistaken, the 14th "baktun" or "creation cycle" of 144,000 days begins after December 21, 2012. Anyways, the "halfway marker" between Adam and Christ would therefore come to 2014 B.C. If you apply the interval of 2012 years from Christ at 2 B.C., you end up at 2011 A.D., which is actually the year some scholars have arrived at for the end of the Mayan calendar.

But then there's another thing to think about. At that 2012-year "halfway mark", 2014 B.C., could there have been another Christ-significant event? Well, 2014 is just 4 years after Abraham... Now who was a contemporary of Abraham who might have significance in this context? Think for a moment. I mentioned him in a previous blog... I'll give you a hint: King of Salem (Jerusalem). Bread and Wine (body and blood). Genesis 14.

Why, Melchizedek, of course! As I mentioned before, Melchizedek was a "type" of Christ... and I'm pretty convinced now that Melchizedek was indeed Christ himself in the flesh. According to Heb 7:3, Melchizedek was "without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God". Especially in light of the above chronology, it makes a lot of sense. Could Christ have "materialized" on the scene as this man at the end of this 2012-year period? Will he "materialize" again at the next "halfway mark" in 2011? Remember the following Scripture (and again, note the number):

Zec 14:4 - "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south."

Regardless of if and when this Scripture will be fulfilled, there's one thing I'm certain of: These next few years will be a VERY intense window. I believe it will be a crucial time for humanity. But will we be crossing a threshold of hope - or one of fear?

Time will tell.

Peering Into The Muddy Waters of Disclosure

2008-02-15T04:34:00.005-05:00

By starshipconstellation

Here is my first disclosure: I have no indisputable answers to any of the big mysteries, none whatsoever. That’s probably no surprise to anyone who has read my postings here at FSHOD. But I have been an observer, a reader of the attempts of others to seek out the answers to the great mysteries of human existence and I find myself left with far more questions than answers. My original title for this blog was going to be Disclosure, Which Disclosure? Is there only One True Disclosure and what is it exactly?

Is it the disclosure that our governments have lied about all Earthly matters?

Is it the disclosure that there is really life after death?

Is it the disclosure that life as we know is really about to end after all?

Is it the disclosure that what we thought we knew about spirituality and religion was either completely right or completely wrong? And which one?

Is it the disclosure that we were never alone in the galaxy and it suited the aliens to keep their visits mostly secret? Why? Where’s the benefit?

And so on. Without a doubt, many more of these kind of questions can be added to this short list but this will suffice for illustrative purposes. All over the Internet are websites, bookstores and libraries that house tomes that purport to address these issues. And maybe some of them do. The problem I’ve developed over the last few months is that there seems to be the same polarisation that has infected the rest of modern life in the whole notion of Disclosure. Agendas are pushed, knives are drawn against the various messengers, others are lauded. We sometimes call them ‘mystery merchants”, what purpose are they serving? Are they bringing the clarity we humans are going to need if we are to survive not only as a physical species but also as spiritual beings? Why are so many games being played with Disclosure? Why not just come out and say it?

Again, which Disclosure?

We have the senses we use to see, hear and speak about the information our minds process about the world around us. I believe there is much more than what we see with these forms of data reception, and sometimes I wonder how many, myself included limit ourselves to only seeing this way? Is it our personal experiences alone that provide a barometer for how we see Disclosure and the Truth About Anything?

I admit that I have read things that really set off every red alert light that warns me that someone is trying to lie to me and profit from it at my expense. There are people who want me to live in fear and I should buy their book, their video to scare myself even more and prepare for this coming doom that never arrives and Doomsday is rescheduled. There are people who want me believe they have the Big Proof but they keep stringing me along with the infamous bread crumbs. You listen to them on the radio, read their websites and maybe even their books which promise something bigger in the next volume that never quite comes because you have to read the next book. I’m not just picking on Richard Hoagland here, I think some of his core ideas still have merit, but he is not the only guilty party in this muddy pool of water. There are so many others, this blog would go on forever trying to recount them all. I actually feel a certain amount of weariness and disillusionment which much of what I read and for all the things that have been proven to me on some level, there is much that I find dubious.

What worries me is that in sorting through all the alarms, I miss the truth when it is right there in front of me. In all the bickering all over the Internet about alternative versus mainstream thought, all the bickering about the material world versus the spiritual world the most critical information we need is lost in the noise.

I believe we live in a multi-verse and that as such, there is no one Disclosure, but many. It would seem that within reason, there should be room for all these trains of thought. Many fantastic ideas are put out there...why are some given credence and others dismissed summarily? Aren’t they all equally fantastic? As a mild example, why is it okay to believe in ruins on Mars or Jesus or alien visitations but not okay to believe in the paranormal? Is it the burden of proof required? I have found that the scientific method has some catching up to do. Speaking only for myself at the usual risk of ridicule, I have had more proof for life after death than of Martian ruins and I believe the ruins exist.

The world has so many layers. Incredibly ancient and lost civilisations whose stories much of the world is still blind to, life outside our tiny planet, the visitors to that planet, the journey of our souls after we shed our bodies, the chemtrails in the skies, the machinations of unseen hands in our daily lives. I used to scoff at chemtrails until I saw them being done. I used to doubt weather modification until I saw the Katrina radar and witnessed the hurricane go around New Orleans. Or the days I look up in the sky and see the boomerang clouds or the cloud with the big precise square punched in the middle. I didn’t scoff at UFO’s because I ended up seeing them with my own eyes as well, just as I at different times have seen the briefest glimpses of those known to me and of strangers who no longer live the corporeal life.

Are these not disclosures? The fact we were awake enough to see any one of these things at all? I wonder sometimes in our most ardent desire to get The Powers That Be to admit to these things they’ve always known and to sort through the disinformation out there, that we have already been disclosed the Truth...and just missed it. That in the effort to decode it all, we made it harder than it is really supposed to be.

Naturally, I could be wrong. But I can’t help wondering…..

The Resurrection Key?

2008-01-14T16:14:00.000-05:00

by Will Devine

"If a man die, shall he live again?"

The Biblical patriarch Job asked this question amid the throes of agony. It was a rhetorical question, no doubt, as Job was a devout man and had faith that God could resurrect him. This Scripture has gotten me through some tough times in the past, and it figures prominently in this blog. I want to take a few minutes to discuss a few recent experiences and theories of mine on the subject of resurrection. Before I go any further, let me throw an important disclaimer out there: I come from a Jehovah's Witness background (though I have recently become thoroughly disillusioned with the Watchtower organization). I mention this primarily so that you will understand my perspective and give you a frame of reference as to where I'm coming from - but believe me, I'm not here to "pimp" the organization or count time in the ministry. I still consider myself a Christian, albeit not "born-again" or "orthodox" - at least not in the traditional sense. So if you take umbrage at Bible references or a Judeo-Christian viewpoint (albeit a decidedly non-mainline one), you may want to skip this blog. That said, let's dive in.

My previous blog discussed theories regarding combinations on the numbers 1 and 4, in particular the numbers 144 and 14. I want to focus on the number 14 as it's the one that has been manifesting itself in a big way for me as of late. It started earlier last year when I began to formulate some theories as to its significance. I think what set it off was the Watchtower's year text for 2007, Zephaniah 1:14, "The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly". I realized shortly thereafter that the date of Jesus' crucifixion (and the Jewish Passover) was 1/14 on the Jewish calendar. Then I remembered that my wife and I were married on 11/14. After doing a little research I begin to formulate the theory that the number 14 (as well as other 1-4 combos such as 144) symbolized Christhood/anointing and resurrection/renewal of life. I realized that the letters D.N.A. were the 4th, 14th, and 1st letters of the alphabet, respectively, making for the sequence 4141 (or 1414 backwards). The 14th book of the Bible (Western/Protestant canon) is 2nd Chronicles, which details the building, destruction, and rebuilding of Solomon's Temple (a symbol of resurrection, possibly Christ's). The 14th book of Genesis introduces the mysterious Melchizedek (considered by scholars to be a "type" of Christ, if not Christ himself in an earlier incarnation), and the 14th book of Revelation introduces the 144,000 (whom some would consider "anointed"), standing with Christ. And according to Matthew 1:17, "All the generations, then, from Abraham until David were fourteen generations, and from David until the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon until the Christ fourteen generations". I could go on, but I think you get the point.

Now comes another important symbol of resurrection. I also happened to be studying the prophet Elijah and noticed that the 14th stop (by my count) on Elijah's journey was the city of Jericho. Jericho was destroyed and rebuilt by Yahweh and/or his prophets. Could the city be a symbol of resurrection as well? Interestingly, around the same time I happened to be flipping through the dictionary and came across a plant I'd never heard of before called the "Rose of Jericho" - also known as a "resurrection plant"! The thought then occurred to me, "Isn't there a show on CBS called 'Jericho'"? Indeed there was. It's a postapocalyptic drama set in a not-too-distant future. Shortly thereafter, I saw a TV commercial for a new series entitled... drumroll please... "Jericho Rising". Things were definitely starting to get interesting now. Keep in mind the "Jericho" theme as it will figure in the blog again shortly.

OK, now here's where the Watchtower comes in: It had never occurred to me before, but 3 important doctrines of the religion I grew up in revolved in some way around the resurrection and the numbers 14 and 144. The major difference between the Watchtower and mainline Christianity (besides being anti-Trinitarian) is the teaching that only 144,000 "anointed" will go to heaven and the majority of mankind will be resurrected to a paradise Earth. The number 14 figures into the year 1914, the second most important date to Jehovah's Witnesses (it's when Christ supposedly returned, albeit "invisibly"), second only to Nisan 14, the day Witnesses observe the "Lord's Evening Meal" and the same date as the Passover and crucifixion.

Could it be that God was trying to send me a message, even via a vessel as spiritually, intellectually, and morally bankrupt as the Watchtower? Hey, stranger things have happened. The 2007 District Convention was coming up... maybe another "clue" would appear there. And, sure enough, after the first day of the convention, I was enjoying a newspaper at the hotel we were assigned to when an article about the TV show "Jericho" caught my eye. It was about a fan campaign to save the show from cancellation. The title? "Jericho Resurrected". I was still reeling from this but nothing could prepare me for the ultimate synchronicity the next day. Saturday morning and afternoon, I was ruminating on the number 14 in an attempt to heal my troubled mind when the Watchtower article for discussion was introduced... "The Resurrection Hope - Is it Real to You?" Well, if it wasn't BEFORE this, it sure as hell was now! And the featured Scripture? The same one as this blog's title, from the book of Job. What I had never realized until now was... get ready... it was the 14th verse... of the 14th chapter.

OK, so things were well beyond coincidence in my mind at this point. A blog was beginning to crystallize in my head, amazingly, right before Goro introduced HIS resurrection blog on Etemenanki. Somebody, it seemed, was trying to send me a message. But what exactly WAS that message? Is a resurrection of some kind imminent? Would it be heavenly? Earthly? The real deal or an Illuminist fake, i.e. human cloning? I'm leaning toward a possible ruse perpetrated by Illuminist-controlled government and religion. A couple of interesting clues may or may not be related: A couple of years back I ran across a fascinating individual named Norval Cunningham (http://www.kingdomofyhwh.com/) on an ex-Witness forum. From what I gathered he was ex-Watchtower and ex-military. Among some of his fantastic Hoagland-esque claims was that the government possessed the technology to resurrect the dead. Around the same time, purely by accident, I ran across something called the Harp of God (http://www.harpofgod.org/) while Googling an older Watchtower book of the same name. Supposedly this is a device described in a so-called "sacred text" known as the Book of Urantia or the Urantia Papers used in the resurrection of the dead. Interestingly, around the same time, rumor mill amongst the ex-Jehovah's Witness community had it that a list was soon to be published by the Watchtower of names of people who had died that we could soon expect to see resurrected. Given the Watchtower's reputation among some Christian conspiracy theorists as one of the main tools of the Freemasons/Illuminati, nothing would surprise me. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

So what, you may wonder, prompted me to finish a blog that I abandoned 6 months ago? Glad you asked. The number 14 (and other 1-4 combos) has recently began to smack me across the chops again. I think the real "OK, get off your ass and finish the damn blog" moment came when I was thumbing through a Bible study volume and learned that (according to the Watchtower) Abraham crossed the Euphrates river from Mesopotamia to his new God-directed place of lodging on Nisan 14 of the Jewish calendar - this while Track 14, "The Mesopotamians", by They Might Be Giants, was blasting on my MP3 player. SHIT-A-GOLD-A-BRICK-A! Also, I had been thinking quite a bit about the Second Coming of Christ. It's my belief that Jesus will return corporeally to Earth and I was trying to figure out where that might occur. "Didn't he ascend from the Mount of Olives? Maybe he'll return there", I thought, recalling Acts 1:1 -

"
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner, as ye have seen him go into heaven".

Guess what Scripture I then proceeded to stumble upon... Zechariah 14:4 -

"And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives".

Bada bing! Interestingly, the ascension is said to have taken place at or near a town called Bethany, which is where Jesus brought Lazarus (the fella in the above picture) back to life. Is there a name more synonomous with earthly resurrection than Lazarus?

Oh, and have a look at the numbers in the following verses: I discovered that, if you take all possible permutations of the 1-4 number combo in John chapter 11, you get a pretty neat little summary of the Lazarus account. Check it out:

John 11:1 - "Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha."

John 11:4 - "When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby."

John 11:11 - "These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep."

John 11:14 - "Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead."

John 11:41 - "Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me."

John 11:44 - "And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go."

Well, that's all the 14-related chocolatey goodness I have for now. Hopefully I didn't ramble too much... though I wouldn't be too surprised if I were the next recipient of the coveted Peckerhead Award. And I hope none of this sounded too preachy. (Now GIT BORN AGIN OR Y'ALL ARE GOIN' TO HELL!) ;)

Christmases Long-Long Ago

2007-12-24T08:14:00.000-05:00

Somewhat in keeping with our previous blog, this blog again deals with the paranormal. One of my favorite Christmas songs is Andy Williams' It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. But this song does have that enigmatic line about "scary ghost stories", an intriguing line of verse that has always made me wonder...."What ghost stories?".

Searching about on the Internet, there just aren't that many Christmas ghost stories. But I believe that more people have paranormal experiences than write about them, perhaps because they tend to be of a more personal nature. But at what better a time than this special time of year when many are in an heightened emotional or meditative state and suitably receptive to the stirrings of the paranormal plane.

Eastern Paranormal is a blog that has some stories that I think are typical to what I am referring to here. But then, of course, I do have my own tale to tell....

I think it was during the Christmas season of 1997, that one Christmas Eve, I decided to sit on the front porch and smoke my pipe. It was a one of those treasured clear, cold and calm Northwest-Florida winter nights, with a big bright moon. This combined with the bright glow of the Christmas lights to make a lovely sight, and as I smoked I fell into a nostalgic reverie. As I savored 'the feel' of Christmas, I began to reminisce about Christmases past, the large family gatherings, the glorious feasts, the wonder of the few 'White Christmases' I've been blessed to experience. I then thought about my dear, long-gone Grandmother (Edith Perry) and my Dad, who had passed away only about 5 years before. I thought about how much I loved them and missed them, and wept at that missing. I spoke private words to them, then, expressing these deeply felt emotions, the sweet yet bitter loss...

At my lowest moment, eyes full of tears and the pipe totally forgotten, there was suddenly a strong and sustained gust of wind amidst the calmness, the Christmas flag at the corner of the porch began to flap loudly and wildly and, surprisingly, the flood lights in the same corner came on full blaze. This was surprising because 2 weeks before I had discovered that these lights would not work, even with new red and green bulbs for Christmas! I jumped from my rocking chair, ran in the door and checked the light switches...they did not appear have been switched on. I called into the den where my family were and asked if anyone had switched on the lights or anything, and received a negative response. Perplexed, I returned to the porch and chair and pipe...when the realization hit me...either Grandma or Dad or BOTH had just communicated with me, I think, to comfort me and let me know that they WERE there, sharing that Christmas moment with me. I felt an overwhelming warmth envelope me with this realization and spoke loving and tender words to those who loved me and meant so much to me in those Christmases of yesteryear.

Of course, the wife and girls thought I was bonkers!

If you have a special holiday story, I'd love to hear it. So please, post it for all to see.

And Have a Very Merry Christmas, belated Happy Hanukkah, Happy Yule and whatever I've missed in wishing you the Best Holiday Wishes.

The Spooky Stiff

2007-10-27T22:23:00.000-04:00

by ScarletM

With Halloween just around the corner I thought I might pass on a book review, if nothing more than to relieve Sunking of blog duty.

On a recent trip to the bookstore I happened to pick up a copy of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach. (Copyright 2005)

I had read her last book, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, about what happens to the physical body after we die. It was a most thoroughly informative and really funny book, (without being too irreverent). I knew I was in for a good time with Spook. In it she tackles what happens to the spirit after death.

Roach doesn’t necessarily go out to debunk such aspects of the afterlife as reincarnation, spirit communication, NDE’s etc…. she simply tries to put a decent scientific spin on things-which by nature tend to debunk supernatural phenomenon. She does all this with a wit and honesty rarely found in these kinds of subjects. She comes away with more or less a “they never disproved it conclusively.” feeling regarding the afterlife, an attitude which I found refreshing.

Her only true “ uh, yeah, right..” moments come while researching the Spiritualist movement and most specifically, the phenomenon of ectoplasm.. I have to agree with her assessment, it's not just implausible...but how gullible were some of these people to believe this cheesecloth feeling/appearing substance (which, actually, IS cheese cloth) could have actually been considered” otherworldly” much less completely laughable?

A Medium expelling 'ectoplam' from her ear during a seance

More than one medium of the time was inserting the cloth-yards of it in some cases-into their most private parts and expelling it on command-both disgusting and impressive at the same time! One woman was actually stuffing {dead} unborn rabbits up there and then “giving birth” to them!

In their defense, it was an age of brand new technology: radio, telecommunication via Morse code that must have seemed to them as magic if not utterly supernatural, still does for me to this day, so why not “ectoplasm??” At any rate, I have to side with Mary on this: both ectoplasm and bunny birthing is probably a hoax.

I enjoyed this book wholeheartedly-both skeptics and true believers alike will be entertained..

And a happy dia de los muertos to you!

The Ion-Powered Dawn

2007-09-26T15:38:00.000-04:00

NASA's Dawn mission is set for launch on September 27, 2007 with a launch window of 7:20AM to 7:49AM EDT. You can watch the launch of Dawn's Delta II rocket on NASA TV.

The Dawn mission will launch an exploratory spacecraft to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to investigate two vastly different 'protoplanets'...Ceres and Vesta. Ceres, named after the Roman goddess of agriculture,is the largest asteroid and the first to be discovered. Vesta, named after the Roman goddess of the hearth, is the only asteroid visible with the naked eye. For more information on these asteroids, their discovery and on Bode's Law go to NASA's Dawn Mission Background page

The goal of Dawn's mission is to study these two asteroids and provide information that scientists will use to further our knowledge of conditions and processes relevant to the formation and evolution of the Solar System...but then that is NASA's standard line, right?

One of the 'firsts' achieved by the Dawn mission is the use of Ion Propulsion (and NO!...we are not propulsing FSHOD member Ion (Iontruo2) out of the spacecraft!). Ion Propulsion provides approximately ten times the acceleration of chemical rockets and, therefore, is more efficient. It will be used after the Delta II rocket has completed it's task to send Dawn on it's way to Vesta.

Here's a brief timeline of Dawn's mision:

Launch - Summer 2007
Mars gravity assist - March 2009
Vesta arrival - September 2011
Vesta departure - April 2012
Ceres arrival - February 2015
End of primary mission -July 2015

So this mission totals 8 years. Of course, I wonder what happens to Dawn after 2015?

The Seven Sisters link

In the previous blog, there was a brief discussion between Ion and I about synchonicity and the Seven Sisters label used in the naming of
"cave skylights" on a picture from Mars. Well, here's another connection, Ion.

According to Dr. Marc D. Rayman, approximately 2 hours afer Dawn's Launch, observers in either Alaska or Hawaii should be able to see Dawn draw a line through the Pleiades, M45...otherwise knows as The Seven Sisters. Go here for more information.

Finally, here is a 13 minute Dawn Mission Video narrated by Leonard Nimoy. I know...it's NASA, the people who have paved the way in developing space-animation technology (rather than actually putting PEOPLE in space or telling us the truth, the whole truth and nothing BUT the truth!)...but it's an OK video.

Regardless, it would be stupid to do less than wish the best for the Dawn mission and Good Luck! to the teams of scientists and engineers and paper-pushers who are making this happen, their organizations represented here on the Mission Patch.

Links used in this blog:
DAWN Mission site - http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
NASA TV - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Mission Video - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5412000236766165719&hl=en
Ceres .gif - http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/anim_ceres.gif
Vesta .mov - http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/video/vesta.mov
Background page - http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/background.asp
Ion Propulsion - http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/ion_prop.asp
Dawn Video - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5412000236766165719&hl=en

Google Sky...Hey It's Free

2007-08-23T13:19:00.000-04:00

The Sunstorm Effect

2007-07-05T14:42:00.000-04:00

Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter:

The following is book review I wrote for Goro Adachi's STRUG earlier this year. This was written in the timeframe when there had been, in this time of the solar minimum, a great deal of remarkable solar activity.

I post this here on FSHOD because there have been some discussions going on with regards to the two author's featured here...Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter.

So, I hope this post makes sense and interests you in the book:

Goro, you recently mentioned the sci-fi novel Sunstorm, a collaboration by authors Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. I recently read this book and enjoyed it, especially considering all the Sun-related news and events that you've been discussing. Being an avid reader, I have noticed an outpouring of books by various authors that feature the Sun and solar events as a focal point in the story plot. Oddly, these books have seemed to appear in my public library about the same time as the recent sunspot and flare activity increased.

The setting of Sunstorm's Earth in our near-future has some interesting features. Global warming, regardless of the cause, has caused temperatures and sea levels to rise markedly. Human society has made the concomitant adaptations in technology and attitudes to deal with these changes. Nano-technology is expanding, and 'smart' technology has become commonplace to the extent that your clothes and even the walls of your home are 'smart'. Civil rights have been extended to chimpanzees and even to sentient computer systems and machines. The Moon has had an active colony for 20 years and Man has landed on Mars. The European Union has morphed into the Eurasian Union,with it's President (elected in a surprisingly conservative touch) being the King of England (!). The Dome of the Rock has, years earlier, been destroyed by means of a nuclear hand-grenade.

The story begins in June of 2037 with a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) of such force that it generates a geomagnetic storm on Earth that exceeds all previous recorded storms. The global impact is one of major disruption on all levels, especially given the extent of computerization in all facets of life. This event was predicted by a neutrino matter expert stationed on the Moon who, when consulted by the Astronomer Royal, lends forth with the prediction that on April 20, 2042, the Sun will erupt with such a storm that the atmosphere, the seas, and all life on Earth will be destroyed! The humans on the Moon and even on Mars will also be killed!

As mentioned in the Publisher's Weekly review you quoted in your CQ Sunstorm post on Jan 18th, the heroine Bisea Dutt is returned to London on the day of the first Sunstorm by the alien Firstborn. Well prior to that, Bisea had been held with a host of other characters from different places and times on a 'composite Earth' (my term) created by the Firstborn called.....Mir. Bisea had been in a UN patrol on June 8....and was returned to London on June 9.....but she had been on Mir for 5 years! After this bit of Time Travel, Bisea plays a vital part in helping save Earth. But why did the Firstborn return only her? When it is the Firstborn who are responsible for setting in motion a chain of events that cause the Sun's deadly eruption?

The story then goes into the efforts to save Earth...which of course, they do. Not without some 2001 Space Odyssey-esque communications shutdowns on the Moon by governments determined to withhold the truth, being concerned about 'causing panic' on Earth.

Sunstorm was a very interesting read and I heartily recommend it. I was amazed that many of the themes and subjects you (i.e. Goro's STRUG') discuss were touched on in this book. You will certainly get some 'hard science' education about the Sun and how it works, but in an interesting and enjoyable manner. And considering the double eruptions of the past two days and other recent solar activity in this solar minimum, it might be quite timely to obtain some of this education!"

Sunking's List of Themes Relevant to STRUG (and FSHOD!) discussions:

- The Sun. CMEs, geomagnetic storms and all the disruptions and impacts they have.

- Time travel. Bisea Dutt is taken by the Firstborn on June 8th 2037 and returned on June 9th... but to her, she has been gone 5 years.

- The world created by the Firstborn where Bisea is taken is named... Mir!

- Alien/Enki/'Contact' Communications. The Firstborn's involvement with humankind and their revealing the circumstances of when the Sunstorm occurs to Bisea.

- Government Cover-ups. There is a 2001 Space Odyssey-esque communications shutdown on the Moon and overall security during the investigation about the Sunstorm.

- The Royal Family. The President of the Eurasian Union in 2037 is... The King of England!

- The Dome of the Rock. Briefly mentioned, having been destroyed by a nuclear hand-grenade.

- NASA. Well, space in general. A colony on the moon, manned landings and colony- establishment on Mars.

- Disasters impacting Earth and Mankind.

No time to refine the above other than the obvious places I did, but I thought it might interest some of you. But I hope your interest is piqued enough to go find the book and read it.

A Little Nudge

2007-06-25T10:22:00.001-04:00

(Art by George Pratt

As you may have noticed, I don't post a lot of blogs here at FSHOD. If I have something that fires me up and I wax prolific, a blog gets posted. Or if one of the FSHOD members writes something, a blog gets posted. Or if the comments sections gets too big, a blog gets posted. Since most of what we do is done in the Comments section, this works out.

I haven't had time to do any highbrow research. In fact, I've been taking a "Painting with Acrylics" class at a local museum, so my free time has been taken up with that. I'm having fun, the creative process is being stimulated and with it a reduction in stress and an increase in joy has been realized. I've also been appreciating other peoples art and a cool place to see different things is at http://k9pincushion.blogspot.com/, which is where I captured the George Pratt painting shown above. I've found that 'art' has helped me see life in a vastly different, more appreciative way.

But as the Comments is getting up there in size and whereas I think that there will soon be a spate of activity, I thought I'd post this quickie blog in order to generate a new Comments page...in other words, I felt I had to give things a little nudge.

Enjoy!

Numb and Number(s)

2007-04-26T16:11:00.000-04:00

Hello friends! Welcome to my first blog. Hopefully it won't disappoint. There were quite a few "HOLY CRAP!" moments for me throughout the course of the following story...

Ah, numbers! Lovely numbers! Those wonderful little imaginary constructs of the human mind. What would we do without them? Well, we'd never have to worry about showing up late for work again... or accidentally TIVOing American Idol. But I digress. Anyways, it appears that as of late I (and other members of this blog) have been practically assaulted by certain numbers we keep seeing on news items, clocks, coffee makers, cell phones, dog collars, et al. The numbers that seem to favor myself are combinations of 1 and 4... particularly 144, 44 and multiples thereof. Now, I'm sure that most of you are familiar with the highly mystical number 144,000. Besides having important Biblical significance, this number also features prominently in New Age Movements, the Mayan Long Count calendar, etc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/144,000). But that's a whole 'nother blog. This number is, of course, a multiple of 144, which itself is the square of 12, another highly mystical number... Jesus' 12 disciples, 12 signs of the Zodiac, etc. Anyways, getting back to 144. It was around the time that I started to notice this number an inordinate amount of times in various places that BU posted the WingMakers info. In case you aren't familiar with the supposedly quasi-nonfictional backstory, apparently a couple of college kids stumbled across an extraterrestrial homing device near Chaco Canyon in New Mexico which led a top-secret ET investigation team to a vast underground chamber about 80 miles NE of this World Heritage site (http://wingmakers.com/neruda1.html). Now here's where things get really interesting: Just for shoots'n'googles, I Google Earthed approximately where this site would be, and guess where it landed me EXACTLY... 37 degrees North and 107 degrees West.

37 plus 107 equals... 144.

HOLY CRAP!

So anyways, just out of curiosity, I drew a little diagonal line through the aptly named Land of Enchantment from the nearest SW latitude/longitude combination totaling 144 to see where else this apparently magical combination of numbers might take me. Of course, you can do the same yourself in Google Earth, but here's my highlights of the tour:

Starting from N 36 W 108 and due NE along this imaginary line, you first run smack into the middle of the Chaco Canyon ruins, home of the ancient Anasazi (http://www.nps.gov/chcu/). That place is, again, a whole 'nother blog. Hell, that's a whole 'nother BOOK. Anyways, continue NE on this imaginary line and you run DIRECTLY through a lil' town called Nageezi (http://nageezi.nndes.org/). Don't know too much about this Navajo-populated area but I find it interesting that there's a town right there in the middle of nowhere on that lat/long combo. Cross Highway 44, (another number I've been mobbed by, which also just so happens to be the gematria value of my name... HOLY CRAP!) and about 20 miles N (OK, so this isn't QUITE on our little magic line, but it's close enough for government work, as they say), you will find the approximately 7,000-foot Angel Peak ( http://www.americansouthwest.net/new_mexico/angel_peak/nra.html). That lil' sacred mountain is chock-full of symbolism (and personal meaning for me), but, again, that's a whole 'nother blog. Continuing NE, you will come very close to the Project Gasbuggy nuke site (http://www.atomictourist.com/gasbug.htm), TWO reported Bigfoot sightings, the city of Dulce, a road named J44 (HOLY CRAP!) and the supposed Dulce Facility site (see "The Dulce Papers"... HOLY CRAP! http://www.crowdedskies.com/dulce_papers.htm). Continue a little further NE, and you will find an Encarnacion Canyon, then the area where the supposed Wingmakers underground site would be at N 37 and W 107, and, just NE of that, we'll end our little field trip at the Biblically-named Paul and Felix Springs (Paul and Felix just happen to feature prominently in an amazing little true-life story I had just read about involving sci-fi author and quasi-mystic Christian Philip K. Dick. http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm. Oh, and J, there's also a character named Jason involved... HOLY CRAP!) This area, if I'm not mistaken, falls under Jicarilla Apache territory. The Apache apparently have a lot of secrets... I believe Dubya's Skull & Bones comrades were after, or possibly in posession of, the famed Geronimo's remains...

Anyways, I guess the whole point of this blog is that this little imaginary line seems to run right through a veritable hotbed of supposed supernatural/paranormal sites, at least in New Mexico. I haven't had the time to check out any other lat/long combinations... I'll leave that to somebody else. But hopefully I've at least ignited your imagination regarding the apparently mystical power of numbers. The rest is up to you. Hope you enjoyed our little voyage, and I hope it has at least a semblance of meaning for you. I know it did for me, what with the amazing synchronicities I've been experiencing lately...

But then, that's a whole 'nother blog.

;)

The Warming Debate

2007-04-02T07:47:00.000-04:00

by Ericswan

It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma. The political system that expresses itself as a capitalist democracy spends all of our money on communist enterprise. The Military is an easy example for demonstration purposes. Look at how they live and work. Look at their chain of command. It's a communist enterprise top to bottom. The blood, sweat and tears of the producing blue collar worker pissed up a rope by governments intent on having a standing army at the ready to defend their cronyism, corruption and commercial interests. A hardened and brain dead mass of dependents waiting in the wings to do their bidding, foreign and domestic.

There is a new crime just over the horizon with a new class of criminal...called 'blue collar global warmers'. Be prepared to be incarcerated in work prisons for using electricity, your computer, your car or truck outside of proscribed uses. Silence the critics and save the planet and call it Patriot Act, Section 666.

It has been the modus operandi to tell a whopper of a lie that no one could unravel fast enough to save our souls. Global warming is that whopper of a lie. Global warming may be happening. We see the effects on the news daily but is it the domestic use of automobiles or electricity from coal fired generation or greenhouse gases from landfills, agriculture and urban renewal or is it a solar system wide event?

Would the millions of tons of chemtrail metals being dumped into the atmosphere be aiding and abetting global warming? What about the fuel these jets are burning just to place these toxic metals over our heads, in our air, earth, and water? Would the recent BASF/Monsanto consortium be devising control of all plant foods that can grow in a chemtrail metal soaked earth and water?

If the government could induce weather patterns, would they use it to benefit mankind or would they use it as a weapon? Would that weapon be used to benefit their friends or injure their opponents? Would they manipulate weather to manipulate the population into accepting the rationing of food, energy, or iminent domain? Phizer recently talked the government of Connecticut into taking land from a family that had held it for generations and turning it over to their corporate headquarters. If Monsanto/BASF control all plant foods that survive chemtrail metals, will Phizer control all drugs to treat humans?

We, apparently, will not be debating Chemtrail's efficacy any time soon. We, apparently, will not be contributing to the solution of global warming either. Perhaps we're not worthy. Will we dump the problem into the hands of our corporate and government leaders and allow them to be the ones to show us the 'promised land'?

Good luck with that!

Gulf Breeze UFO

2007-03-06T10:08:00.000-05:00

(Note This is an 'encore' blog, having previously been blogged on the Drydock blog (see Links section below) in early 2006. Some Shoddies are having issues with the Comments section of the previous blog and I feel the need to 'reset' for the sake of creating a new Comments area. Some folks have not seen this recounting of one of my UFO experiences, some have. To the latter, do forgive me. To the former, I'm still looking for others who have seen a similar UFO to the one I saw. Do email me if you have at sunking814@hotmail.com. Or email the FSHOD email to join us and tell us about it in the Comments. We'd love to have you!)

From 1981 thru 2002 I lived in Gulf Breeze, Fla, the famous hotbed of UFO activity, especially in the late 1980's and 90's. In 1990, when this story takes place, I lived in Seabreeze Villas on Southwind Drive. At around 11pm, it was a fairly cold March night when I stepped from my den to the backyard patio to have a smoke (Marlboro!). It was a clear night, not yet a full moon and the stars were glittering. As I looked to the west-south-west I noticed something odd...a red glowing object shaped like a Marine Lance Corporal's chevron rocker at about a 35 degree angle of elevation from the ground. This crudely drawn picture gives you an idea what it looked like, although it looked slightly smaller due to the distance. From my vantage point (approximately 4.5 miles east of Gulf Breeze proper) I estimated that this object was 3.5+ miles from me, over the Intracostal Waterway and near the Gulf Islands National Seashore Park east of Gulf Breeze.

The object remained stationary, but suddenly a shape like a quarter note in musical notation 'grew' from the bottom side and seemed to be lowered 'on a string', as I attempt to portray above. This 'nodule' continued to lower until all that was visible was the object and the 'string'. I was astounded! I had been in the aviation side of the US Navy, a lifelong student of aircraft and had lived in this area surrounded by 2 Naval Air Stations, Eglin AFB and Hurlburt Field...I knew my aircraft, and this was not one of them!

I said to myself "I gotta have a witness to this!". So I opened tha sliding glass door and called for my wife, fast asleep in the bedroom, several times...to no avail. Not wanting to miss anything, but desperately wanting her to see this, too, I ran to the bedroom and dragged her from the bed, protesting, and into the cold night. Unfortunately, the nodule and string were no longer visible and the object was moving to the east and due south of my position. This drawing again protrays what we saw.

As the object drew closer to the moon, it again became stationary. I said, "Look, honey...it's a UFO!". Wifey said, "Honey, come on in the house.". I love her, but I could tell she was not in the least wise interested...and she would deny the existense of the Devil if He appeared in front of her, simply to avoid having to deal with the bad news and possible worse consequences. Regardless, as we continued to watch, the object began to pulsate rythmically and the color gradually darkened until it became a dark, blood red.

Color and pulsation intensified, until suddenly the object tuned white...and not Clorox bleach white! I mean bright, starlight white ... stunning and brilliant and lighting up the sky around it, as again I poorly attempt to portray, at right. It was a remarkable sight...my heart was beating and I had stopped breathing! And then...the darn thing just disappeared from sight! *POOF*

WHOA! I KNEW that I had just seen a UFO! And what a show it was.

"Wasn't that fantastic, honey?", I asked my wife.

"Come to bed soon dear", she said..."I don't want the little green men to scoop you up"!

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!", said I.

A couple of days later, at the urging of some UFO enthusiasts at Chip's Gym, where I worked out developing Arms of Steel, I called MUFON and was soon paid a visit by their rep. I think his name was Bland Pugh. Nice fellow and he asked all the right questions and I gave all the details. At the end I asked "Well, am I nuts?". He said "No", and told me that it was a confirmed UFO. He and the usual group of UFO watchers at Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze proper had seen the same object, but they saw it from the side and the parallax was such that it hardly moved, to their point of view. I had obviously had the best seat in the house.

I have searched countless UFO pictures and descriptions, trying to see if anyone else has seen a similar object. Or seen a UFO do what this one did. I would certainly like to know what was being lowered (or raised!) in or on the nodule. Maybe taking on water? Or emptying the intergalactic trashcan? It remains a mystery.

I have had 4 UFO experiences. The other 3 were with a UFO of a totally different type. I'll recount those experiences sometime in the future. That is a more startling story by far, involving what appeared to be the UFO exploding into a 'thousand points of light' as what looked to be a 'scrambled' U.S.Navy net launched from Sherman Field approached it!?!?!

Now...have you seen a UFO? Tell us about it!

The Mind Game

2007-01-17T11:15:00.000-05:00

Here at FSHOD we like to think that we are fairly attuned to the many and varied modes of manipulation, harrasement and outright no-goodnik programs foisted upon the citizenry by members of government, the intelligence community, the military and, in general, Science. Well just like Jello, "There's always room for more!".

Fellow Shodddie Linnie recently brought to my attention an article published in the Washington Post titled Mind Games, a story about a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. Of course, there's more to it than that bald statement implies. Now, I'm sure we've broached this subject here and there at FSHOD...or at least hinted at it, but this article really made me take stock of the 'collateral damage' (i.e. human impact) of this nefarious technology and of it's outright criminal use.

I encourage you to read this article amd look around the Internet. You'll find plenty to substantiate what these people claim is being done.

If the article link above does not work, you can find a copy here.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/18/135670/MindGames.doc

The Christmas Train

2006-12-21T16:53:00.000-05:00

At this time of year my mind goes back to the days of my youth in the 1950's and 60's...to the ole 'family house'in Ironton, Ohio, where my grandma and grandpa lived. The Christmas holidays were always great there...lots of family gathered, people we knew dropping buy to visit and drop off sweets and goodies, and tables and buffets that were literally groaning under the weight of multiple varieties of cakes and pies and, of course, the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners. We often had snow. I know that today, it sounds like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting, but it was 'for real' and the best Christmases I've ever had.

One of my favorite things about these gatherings was just sitting around and listening to all the stories being told by family and guests alike. Lord, how we laughed and sometimes even cried when it involved someone that was no longer with us...but mostly we laughed and laughed. It was how I learned about my family and who they were and where they came from. Oh how I wish I had had a tape recorder, or even thought to write their tales down.

I was looking thru another blog http://k9pincushion.blogspot.com/, wherein the owner displays art of all kinds, when I first saw this picture. I saved it immediately, just because I thought it was cool. Now, as we get closer to Christmas, it brings back to mind a great story, one I first heard at one of those beloved family Christmases.

For 30 years. my great-grandfather Terry Garfield Wesley worked for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. For many of those years he was the engineer on the 'George Washington', affectionately known as simply 'The George'. The George Washington, put into service in April 1930, was (along with the B&O's Capitol Limited) the first all air-conditioned long distance train. The George was C&O's premier passenger train, traveling overnight between Washington and Cincinnati (with connections between Charlottesville and Newport News, Va., and Ashland and Louisville, Kentucky).

Engineer T. G. Wesley reads orders to Conductor W. B. Worthington and Fireman W. F. Fads, part of the ritual attending the daily 'birth' of the George Washington. from April 1952 'Trackers Magazine', courtesy COHS

A goodly portion of the George's route was through the states of Virginia and West Virginia. If you've ever been to West Virginia, you will quickly note that in many locales the homes, highways and railroad tracks are placed quite close together, being tightly hemmed in by the hills on every side. Thus, Engineer Wesley soon came to know the faces of the families whose habitations were situated so near the tracks. And as can be the case in such 'passing relationships', a certain unspoken bond of friendship is formed. And especially so in the case of the children he passed everyday, as a ritual of horn-tooting and energetic hand-waving was required during every trip.

But while Engineer Wesley smiled and waved back, he was saddened and often horrified at the deep poverty he saw. Again, if you've ever been to West Virginia and gotten away from the cities, you will have seen evidence of this poverty...even in recent times, but especially so back then. But the poverty of the children really "plucked at his heartstrings". Especially so at Christmas-time, for he knew that there would be 'hardly any Santa Claus at all' for these poor children whose faces lit up so brightly whenever the train rolled thru. I saw him openly weep at the thought of the plight of those poor folk.

So Grandpa Wesley, with the help of some fellow church members and C&O employees, put together a big bag of goodies and on Christmas Eve, 'The George' was transformed into Santa's sleigh, stopping at all the places along the way where the smiling children were always waving. Each child would get a gift, and mom or dad, too...althought it might only be a wooden pistol, a hand-sewn dolly, or a jar of apple butter with a nice bit of ribbon around the lid. But Grandpa Wesley said the gifts he handed out paled in comparison to the gifts he received...the thrill of excitement and the smiles of the children, the unspoken message of the handshake given by the dad's, or the tender look in the tear-filled eyes of the mothers in appreciation for the kindess and thoughtfulness of the C&O people in bringing Christmas to them, for making the kids feel 'special', if only for a moment.

And year after year, this act of love was repeated, until it became something of a legend. I have a newspaper clipping reporting on his retirement, wherein this tale is told and there are quotes from people who said that in many cases, this gift was the only gift these folks received. And they spoke of their undying love and admiration of my great-grandfather for the love he showed them.

Everytime I read this clipping, I get teary-eyed. This good man was by no means rich, a humble man, a church-going man...oh, a 32nd degree Blue Lodge Mason, Jas. ;) But he was in a position to form a relationship and broadcast his feelings of mercy and love for his fellow-man, and his heart and training made him take action...and not just at Christmas. I pray I could only be a 10th as good a man as he.

I maintain that the more I study and learn about all the things we discuss here at FSHOD, that just about everything boils down to the fact the we each have an impact on this world, this kharma or consciousness or whatever that drives this crazy nutty world. Do something unexpectedly nice for another person....be it a gift, a word, a simple handshake or a smile. It doesn't have to take a lot of money or a lot of time, and it can be done whilst doing your everyday activities and chores. It can be a family member, it can be that homeless person you just passed on the street, or even that person at work you hate.

The gift of love takes many forms, but the simplest is oft times the greatest and returned back to you an hundred-fold. Many folk will read that and say BAH! Well, as corny as it sounds, this is the truth...fully disclosed, honest and proven true countless times throughout our lives.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and a Merry Yuletide!

33˚ to Enlightenment...

2006-11-30T09:33:00.000-05:00

by "Da Reverend" Jason Graves

33˚

...to 'En'-lightenment.

...Or Illumination, ask 'Q'uestions, seek REAL answers:

The highest degree of any 3(free)-Masonary; Is the 33rd degree... I'll start by saying that most of the USA political leadership are Mason's as Washington is a masonic tribute and standing masonic shrine to the fraternity of free-masonary. George W Bush, current President of the USA, a skull-bones man, also is at the highest degree of Masonary, the 33rd degree.

NOTE: The 3rd degree is the UK's highest free-masonic degree.

Since begining my quest into numerology, the depths of measurements and the synchronistic coordination of events leading up the start of my blogging, to this point; I've discovered that at the heart of all of us, is a depth of Reality.

How does a measured, numbered, universe; converse or communicate?

Revelation 11:1 give's a clue;

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v1; And a reed like a rod was given me as he said: "Get up and measure the temple [sanctuary] of God and the altar and those worshiping in it.

Measurements, facts, figures accurate angles of numerologically aligned truths.

Time, each day of 23.4354 hours, and our 365 day years, bring us closer to an innevitable conclusion. Our 3 score years and 10, go by very quickly or not at all.

Time is the ultimate measurable ever moving constant. The Sun rises in the AM and set's in the PM the earth rotates in a constant manner to facilitate this process. Time is our friend and enemy all in the same word.

Synchronicity and measured time are the keys to being in step with the Universal Schuman resonance at ~33.3hz... or there abouts. Is it any surprise that 23:59:59 (1 minute before midnight) equals 33, when each number is added to the next?

2+3+5+9+5+9 = 33

Living in step with the universal conciousness or God, means to be synchronistically in step with time, measurements, foundations of reality and true altruistic purpose. Often in the AM, awakening to 3:33 or 5:55. Synchronistically and observing the messages in the angles around.

A true God can be measured, we are men and women of God, if we live by altruistic morality; based upon the original measurements given to us in fundamental physics by Ja-maker: God.

If on waking up in the morning, noticing the clock is at 5:55 or 3:33 or even 1:11, smile, you are beginning to become in sync with universal conciousness. It's communicating. Listen to your inner self, work in harmony with nature and REAL love around.

Your-self is the ultimate judge of you.

Your own eyes can condem or appraise you. Guilt and shame can be cleansed and forgiven, if approaching each 23:59:59 hour day with the same refreshed earnest truth seeking zeal.

Seek God in the measurements around you; notice that 33˚ F, is the perfect temperature to keep beers cold. ~33 feet below the sea, is the point at which water compresses and pressure becomes equal to the sky above again.

33 is the key to many elemental measurements. King David ruled for 33 years and Alexander the Great conquered Babylon in 333BC. 33AD Jesus, an altruistic pillar of fundamental truth was given an advanced lesson in Carpentry and held aloft with 3 nails.

30 pieces of silver for a life...

...what is our life really worth? Are we in sync with the oldest conciousness of time? Enlightened teachers of truth also;

Order from Chaos, 33 hangs in our hearts

In our hearts hangs the love; it can be measured in Altruism, synchronicity, our words and deeds, our very waking thoughts. Keep in step with the God for we all are gods before God. We thus are gods to each other.

Solomon constructed two pillars in the Temple to Jehovah. Ja'chin and Bo'az

Keep building one another up, seeking truth, honesty and integrity in our daily lives. Keeping in mind that we are working toward the true temple of one love at heart;

For we are all family if we just work together in peace and true altruistic love, measure it and see... love is all around us: @ 360˚

The Health Factor.

2006-11-15T11:18:00.000-05:00

by Guest Blogger DJBarney

FSHOD....

"In this Blog we Discuss Science, Space, Spirituality, Esoterica & the Failure of Governments to Disclose the Truth about nearly EVERYTHING important to HumanKind!"

There's one area that links together all these things. Without health there can be no properly functioning governments. When you're ill or in pain it's very difficult to feel spiritual about anything. Without a properly functioning mind, how can one discern in the strange world of esoterica and the 'paranormal' ? What about science and space ? If our basic established models of how to treat our very own health are wrong, how can we hope to strive forward in space if we're sick all the time, or don't live long enough to complete some long intergalactic journey ?

Dr Tracy.

Dr Rath.

Mike Adams the "Health Ranger". (Links go to their Biographies).

These are the new revolutionaries in this area that I know of. Of course there are many more. They routinely talk about successful treatments for Cancer, Aids and Mental Illness on their websites. All treatments using easily available plants, food, vitamins and minerals or physical techniques.

But we have not yet seen the headlines "Cure for Cancer Found", or "Aids now Treatable".

Dr Rath describes the reasons for this as what he calls the "Business with disease". Simply put, it is more profitable to propagate these diseases rather than actually eradicate them ! Although what he says is extremely interesting , as he equates the power of 'Big Pharma' and the (Un)Health Industry with the power of the Church a few hundred years ago, this is not really my point of view.

There are many reasons why the "health scams and cons" continue to persist but I think the main reason is one of perception and education, even conditioning.

Dr Tracy told me a story of how she had educated her neighbour on how utterly dangerous these anti-depressants are. Yet when this neighbour got into problems herself she STILL ended up taking the pills ! "It is beyond me..." as Dr Tracy says.

Could this be because many seem to have an unfailing confidence in authority being completely open and honest ? Even in the face of endless evidence that many will sell us out to big business and deceive us ? Why is this such a surprise ? No one likes to be duped, but look at Nature. Nature is full of the use of deception. Animals mimicking other animals. Confusing messages meant to deceive. Why are we so disturbed when we find this in the human world ? Of course humans can make the decision NOT to deceive one another.

The Health Ranger talks about hundreds of thousands of deaths a year (in the US alone) from pharmaceutical use. But because these people die quietly not much fuss is made except when you get a Columbine massacre caused by anti-depressant use (and WHY didn't Michael Moore include THAT in his film !?).

This is truly a case of "Silent Weapons for Silent Wars" to quote an article once posted here at FSHOD.

I read about child soldiers in some countries. I can appreciate what they've been through. I was hit by a nasty anti-depressant aged 6 (yes, SIX) which went on to cause me much pain for the next 16 years...all caused by this pharmaceutical (for the doubters, I have proved this many times over by comparing my experiences with similar cases in the book "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora" by Dr Tracy, amongst other sources).

My parents discovered I was self-harming as a child...no connection was made with this pharmaceutical. (Subnote: I am NOT self-harming now).

I developed allergies that I'm pretty sure were related to this drug. But no, no connection made. I was put on another pharmaceutical..."anti-histamines". God knows what they did to me, but I can probably guess.

I developed a problem with my foot. The high Serotonin levels that you're left with after taking one of these anti-depressants causes high muscle tension. "We'll try electro stimulation of your foot". Again no connection made.

From the high tension levels and self harm my eyesight started to go. So it was off to the Optician. "Just normal short-sightedness". I don't think so. Again no connection made with the original ROOT cause.

My Mother died in 1992. I could not cope, not least because I was still self harming and had not developed a proper social network because of the Autistic-like syndrome associated with the high serotonin levels (remember the original drug I was given makes Serotonin high, mainly through actually damaging the serotonin re-uptake systems in the brain). I was put into mental hospital because of this. But now I was actually describing the original cause of all this - the pharmaceutical - but no one was listening. AGAIN...no connection made to the original cause of my problems.

How many times is this story being repeated around the world at this very moment !

Why do I think that the creators of the film "The Matrix" have been reading Dr Tracys book ? Human bodies deceived by blue pills and forever bathed in an amniotic sea of serotonin...blocking you off from the world "a prison for your mind" ?

But there is much hope which seems to come through when the seriousness of this situation is grasped.

For a start The Health Rangers' newly found abilities of, for example, reading a page of a book in ONE SECOND ! (Is this guy Superman!?) reminds me of stories of the abilities of The Ancients. How did the Maya do their huge cosmic calculations without computers ? There are other stories.

Carving on the "tomb" lid of Pacal Votan.
Maya site, "Palenque", on the border between
Mexico and Guatemala. (I've seen this with my own eye's).
This is actually still sitting in one of the pyramids.

If we can REALLY get healthy and stop polluting ourselves with toxic chemicals and just plain bad science, then my mind boggles at the world that we could be moving into. A world where we can really protect nature and this planet we're on and maybe even safely and sanely move into Space if you like that kind of thing.

I'm glad I fought my way out of this.

To turn a quote from The Matrix around....

"Ignorance is truly ... HELL ..." !

DJBarney

Case of Emergency

2006-10-09T15:06:00.000-04:00

by KrazyBy4Kids

We all have heard (and hence ignore) the instructions for an emergency in our schools, workplaces, and even our favorite stores. It is usually ended with “Break Glass” and there is either an emergency PANIC button, or a fire alarm, or some other type of self explanatory instruction. However the new millennium has brought with it a new hazard. FEAR. Since 9-11, our society has been bombarded with ‘news’ of frightening events in our country. Events that range from terror plots in our nations cities, to executions of children in our schools. The former only concerns most citizens in passing, since it usually only indirectly effects the majority, but the latter strikes fear into the hearts of millions as we contemplate the REALITY of someone entering a school full of children, and being so enraged, so far away from reality, that they would actually execute helpless, innocent children.

The Fear-Mongering that has taken over our country, and even our world, seems to only be the beginning. What has ended is our ability to get through even one day of our lives without the question of our safety entering our heads. As I write this, it is about 8pm on a Saturday night. It is dark, and the Harvest Moon (12% larger than normal)is slowly making its progression across the night sky. My dog is barking. He has been barking for half an hour now. My first thought? Who’s outside??? Well, honestly, no one should be outside. We live in the country. No sidewalks, no next door neighbors. My first thought should have been: What is outside? Usually the dog barks at groundhogs, which seem to love the fact that they can irritate him, but he can't get near them.

As I listen to the barking, I also notice the traffic on the road. About a mile down the road is a very popular bar. My husband's best-friend's band is playing there tonight. I am not considering the band, or the bar tonight. No, tonight I am worried about the patrons. I worry that at 2:15 am when the bar sends everyone home, someone will be drunk and miss the curve in road in front of my house, or not notice the red flashing lights of the trains that come through all night.

As I think forward to bedtime, I remind myself to double check that I locked the doors. I have never locked my doors before, and more often than not, I only remember after I’m in bed. I usually convince myself that there is no reason to lock my doors. That I am perfectly safe out here in the country. Tonight I will think of the dead Amish children who had more reason than most children to believe they were safe. I’ll probably climb out of my warm bed and go lock the doors.

As more horrifyingly evil things happen around us, what will we do in case of emergency? We can see what our government will do – lock the barn door after the horse is gone, create more rules which only apply to those who are not suspect (reverse profiling), or do like Rep. Frank Lasee (R Wis) and suggest that we put guns into our schools. Obviously a ridiculous suggestion only meant to spark anger, and outrage so that they can pass some "kinder, gentler" law that subsequently limits or inhibits parental involvement in our schools.

What can WE do to help ensure our safety and the safety of our loved ones? Well, pretty much nothing. We will talk about it for awhile, then the next big FEAR will come along and we’ll worry on that for a few weeks. We humans are basically apathetic creatures who have the uncanny ability to ‘forget’ about important things while we go about our oh-so-busy and important lives. My daughter says “Mom, I am worried about what the future will bring”, and I answer, “Our great grandparents had the same worries and concerns during their time. Put it into perspective, and you wont get so upset.”

But, is that the right thing to do? Am I teaching my children to be as apathetic as I am? Shame on me. I should say, “ Make a list of your Top 3 biggest Fears. Now, for each one, make a list of things you can do to keep them from happening, and make a list of what you would do if they happened anyway.” THAT would be doing something.

Well, Here’s MY LIST. Maybe our intelligent, creative, and informed group can make a difference.

BIGGEST FEARS
1. Our government will continue on its mission to strip our citizens of their rights, thereby paving the way for:
A) a totalitarian state, or
B) a union with other less-freedom-loving countries
(apparently under way and due to be complete in 2007)

2. Our government will force our schools into lockdown with
prison-like searches of all visitors and staff in a knee-jerk
reaction to the latest round of school shootings.
(funny how these things happen in 3’s, eh Jas?)

3. Armageddon or the Rapture will occur in my lifetime and I’ll
live through it. Then what?!?!

So, there it is. What can we do? How can we prevent or fix any of it? Dare we try?

KrazyBy4Kids

Failure To Evolve

2006-09-11T21:11:00.000-04:00

Well, here we are...the 5th anniversary of '9/11'. So much as happened in 5 years time, but what has been accomplished? There's more money being spent on the accoutrements of war, fewer dollars spent in area that might foster 'peace'...more people thinking we need to 'spread democracy', fewer civil liberties...more people believing in God, fewer people acting God-like. And more of the same on the way.

Space Shuttle Discovery launched and landed and Atlantis has launched and docked with ISS. But we know that the Shuttle program is soon to end. There is more and more news of the new effort to put man back on the Moon, and to venture to Mars...Project Orion. And while the project has the potential to be, in the words of Capt. Eugene Cernan, "a giant leap forward" and while I would love to see this come to fruition...I have a few doubts and fears.

Firstly, our good friend and fellow 'Shoddie' Robert, may your beard grow ever longer, often exhorts any who will listen to "Hijack that Starship!". Now this has a special meaning to us, but my fear is that the 'wrong people' have the ways and means to do just that. I have long felt, and we here have discussed, that there is a potential for other 'program needs' to develop, needs that will require increased 'security' in space, to protect our assets, or some such ruse. My fear is that those needs will somehow be aligned, like our needs in the 'War on Terrorism" were, by those writers and proponents of PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century". Part of their stated aim to ensure a Pax Americana is the need to develop and deploy a global missile defense system and to develop a strategic dominance of space. Inasmuch as the funds and resources for conducting the "War on Terror" in Afghanistan and against bin Laden were 'hijacked' for use in the 'un-War on Terror' in Iraq, I greatly fear that Project Orion's funds and resources will be 'hijacked' by these same forces, to achieve yet another of their insidious purposes. Since the company involved with building the Project Orion fleet (e.g. Lockheed-Martin) is also deeply involved in producing, for the highest dollar, the above-mentioned "accoutrements of war", how much easier for the hijacking to occur?

Secondly, to make way for the Orion Project a vast number of other programs are being effected adversely. According to one more scientifically cogent members, the following changes have been made:

Dawn: Cancelled. (again)
* SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy): Cancelled.
* Mission to Europa: Cancelled.
* Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (JIMO): Cancelled
* Terrestrial Planet Finder: Cancelled.
* SIM Planet Quest: Delayed.
* Mars Sample Return Mission: Delayed Indefinitely.
* Two Mars Scout missions planned for after 2011 were removed from the four year planning budget.
* Explorer Program: cut drastically with the earliest launch coming in 2014.
* Beyond Einstein: delayed indefinitely.
* Landsat: delay in launch of satellite to replace and upgrade Landsat 7, launched in 1999.
* Earth Observing System: If cut, satellites such as Aqua (2002) and Terra (1999) would not be replaced when they fail.
* Global Precipitation Measuring Mission: The launch pushed back to 2012.
* Deep Space Climate Observatory: cancelled.
* National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System: Under review.
* Keck Observatory upgrade: cancelled

According to Capt. Cernan's statement (see link above), he optimistically projects a great many benefits in education and research as a result of the Orion Project. However, the scope of the cancellations above must certainly weigh the scales of scientific justice heavily on the negative side. And not only the scope of the science and subject matter impacted, but by the sheer number of educational organizations that will lose the funding, if not their raison de etre. This could have the devastating effect of putting the reliance of developing our future scientists into a limited number of universities...effectively putting all our eggs in one basket...AND limiting opportunities for deserving minds and talent. In my thinking, 'diversity'...of programs, sciences and facilities performing this work...is the key to our future success or, my fear, of the future demise of this country's scientific capability and will.

Surprisingly, what has inspired this train of thought was yet another book that I recently read. The author is Stephen Baxter, the book is Evolution, which this Amazon reviewer (see link) characterizes as the novelization of millions of years of evolution. Aptly put. I found it a fascinating read, a real page turner...and thoroughly depressing. For at the end we come face to face with the end of not only the lives of all primates, but of all life on earth itself. Most sobering...and it made me mad...damned mad!

We can speculate all we want about the universe possibly being filled with life. I believe that it is. But the fact is, we're the only 'intelligent life' we've met up with. And I think we owe it to the species, not only homo sapiens but all life on Earth, to build a lifeboat, to find a habitable or terraformable planet and to start an outpost...lots of them! And that requires a stronger national commitment to science and exploration. It requires more than the "one percent of the national budget" that Capt. Cernan says Americans currently accept as enough money for NASA. It requires humanity to 'evolve' a little and cease the constant warring over ideology and religion and property that has been the hallmark of 'civilization' since Catal Huyuk, if not further back into the depths of time.

One day in the future, be it due to an asteroid, cosmic dust cloud or the death throes of our Sun, Earth will cease to sustain life. This is inevitable. We have the knowledge, we have the resources...we either lack the will, or is it that some other forces are focusing our energy and resources towards what can prove to be a finite, meaningless existence on Earth.

If this goes on, our failure to reach for the stars will result in the ultimate failure to evolve.

Who Did That?

2006-08-27T21:07:00.000-04:00

UPDATE by Sunking 9/2/06

This article below, now in quotes, was originally posted, somewhat in error, by Ericswan. There is no reference to the originating source and I do not know that infor, so let me make this disclaimer and apology for not being able to give credit where credit is due. I probably should have deleted this right off the bat, but by now there are too many comments that would be lost...so there it is.

As fate would have it, tho, the post is quite timely, given yesterdays news that the PAN party is 'declaring victory' and then the drama with Presidente Fox. So as in the US, the perpetrators of election fraud, like their exemplars in the US, are succeeding in their crime. This story is also timely in the sense that this coming Tuesday will see primary elections in the US and so right now is an opportune time to ponder if there will be any election-day fraud like there was in the 2000 and 2004 elections. Altho with it being merely the primaries, I'm not sure the level of dastardly deeds will be so high as I anticipate in November, but we'll see.

As recently discussed in FSHOD, greg Palast's Armed Madhouse is recommended reading, since it gives some appalling examples of the antics used to impact the election outcomes in some strategic locales. In that, it also impresses upon the mind that election results in even the smallest and most remote backwater have a direct effect on the national outcome...in these instances, depressingly so.

Of course, after reading this article, one has to admire the persistence of our Mexican brothers and sisters in protesting the blatant election fraud. Makes somewhat of a sad statement on us here in the land of the free, the home of the brave.

Get involved with the election process, folks.....and no matter how painful...VOTE!

MEXICO: Huge political crisis rocks country
Peter Gellert, Mexico City
Following presidential elections widely viewed as marred by fraud, Mexico’s political crisis not only shows no signs of being resolved, but in fact is intensifying almost daily.
In the six weeks since the July 2 presidential elections, two sides have squared off. On one side are the federal government, its electoral authorities, and the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and its candidate Felipe Calderon, defending their razor-thin 0.6% margin of victory as the legitimate election results. On the other side are the For the Good of All coalition headed by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), its candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (known as AMLO) and the social sectors and mass organisations of most of the left and progressive movements.
Given the close vote and AMLO’s charges of electoral fraud, a partial recount of 9% of the country’s 131,000 polling stations was ordered by the Federal Electoral Tribunal. AMLO and his supporters, however, have been demanding a 100% recount. The recount, which began on August 9, has not resolved the dispute. The AMLO forces charge serious discrepancies, even on the basis of the small 9% sample, among them:
In 43% of the sample, Calderon had been accredited with more votes than he actually received, lowering his total number of votes by 13,500. This was 5000% more votes than AMLO lost in the recount.
In 65% of the recounted polling stations, there were either more ballots deposited than there were voters or more voters than there were corresponding ballots. In Mexico, control of the paper ballots is extremely strict. In the 9% of the polling stations that were recounted, these discrepancies involved 120,000 ballots — half the difference between the two candidates nationwide across all the polling stations.
More than 30% of the supposedly sealed ballot boxes had been opened after the elections, raising the spectre that their contents were altered.
With the official difference being about two votes per ballot box, AMLO has insisted on a full recount and nullifying results in the 7600 polling stations of the 9% sample that had discrepancies. If the polling stations showing too many or too few ballots in the partial recount were to be annulled, AMLO would win the elections.
While the evidence of fraud is circumstantial, it is also strong and, given Mexico’s tradition of fraudulent elections, AMLO’s charges are considered by many to be credible. A poll by the conservative daily Reforma indicated that 65% of Mexico City residents feel fraud was committed and that all votes should be recounted.
The PRD also charges that Mexican electoral law was violated prior to election day by incumbent President Vicente Fox’s support for Calderon’s campaign, by a particularly vicious media campaign against AMLO (attempting to tie him to Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez), and by business associations illegally placing advertisements on television implicitly attacking the PRD candidate.
Although electoral authorities often forced an end to such practices, the damage had already been done and the punishment was so ridiculously minimal that there was no deterrent to further infractions.
On August 18, a video was played on Mexican television demonstrating the existence of a plot against AMLO involving top-level government officials, PAN leaders and Argentine-Mexican businessperson Carlos Ahumada, who is under investigation for fraud committed against the Mexico City administration. The City Prosecutor’s Office announced it would file penal charges against federal government officials who protected or helped Ahumada.
In addition to myriad legal challenges, the PRD and AMLO have waged a mass campaign in the streets demanding a full recount. Demonstrations take place on an almost daily basis. On July 30, up to 2.4 million people participated in the largest demonstration in Mexico’s history.
While the PRD and the junior partners in its electoral coalition make no claims to be socialist or revolutionary, they have nonetheless mounted a strong campaign against electoral fraud and have refused to “negotiate” a solution with the national government.
Since July 30, thousands of demonstrators have been camped out in Mexico City’s central square and an eight-kilometre stretch along Reforma avenue, a main city artery. Federal police have cordoned off the area around parliament with tanks. All of this has considerably exacerbated the city’s already nightmarish traffic.
Besides the continuing occupation of downtown Mexico City, thousands of Lopez Obrador supporters are also engaged in daily acts of civil resistance.
The PAN and business associations have called on the Mexico City government — which is headed by the PRD — to evict the protesters, however local officials have refused. The mass media has waged a campaign against the protests, attempting to whip up a backlash among middle class residents inconvenienced by the mammoth traffic jams.
As a next step, AMLO has called for the formation of the National Democratic Convention on September 16 (Independence Day) to unite grassroots and social organisations behind a program not just centred on electoral democracy, but also addressing the country’s social problems.
Many far left and social organisations that didn’t participate in AMLO’s campaign are involved in the anti-fraud protests. Along the eight kilometre stretch of encampments, a wide array of neighbourhood associations, unions, student groups and political organisations can be found.
Unfortunately, the Other Campaign, an initiative launched by the Zapatista National Liberation Army and headed by the charismatic Subcomandante Marcos, while condemning the fraud, has abstained from the mass demonstrations. During the election campaign, the Other Campaign centred most of its fire on AMLO and the obvious deficiencies in the PRD’s program and methods. Some organisations that participated in the Other Campaign are, however, involved in the anti-fraud protests.
If Calderon is declared the victor by the Federal Electoral Tribunal on August 31 — which most view as the likely outcome — from the word go the new government will face a bitterly divided country, with major sectors of the population questioning the government’s legitimacy and huge and powerful mass movements that consider it their declared adversary.
Major battles are clearly on the horizon in Mexico.

50 Easy Questions

2006-08-16T09:11:00.000-04:00

Well, the mid-term election season is upon us. Of course, we know the incumbents have been campaigning for a long time. I don't want anyone to think that I consider the Democrats to be the force that restores America to what it SHOULD be, but since it's the Republicans who have been in power for so long, and have fouled things up so much, I think that it's time to run the scoundrels out of town and elect a new bunch of scoundrels (I think that was how Heinlein put it!)

Anyway, this is going around the net right now, not sure if you've seen it. But this may be a method of getting the 'unwashed' to examine themselve, and the scoundrels they've put their faith in.

Regardless, enjoy these...and USE them!

50 Easy Questions to Ask Any Republican

Anyone can ask tough, intricate, confrontational questions.
But all that ever does is start an argument, and it gets people nowhere.
On the other hand, these are...well, easy.
These are friendly questions.
These are questions that allow another person to actually explain their thoughts, and explain fully.
And to do so in as comfortable, as simple a way as possible.
Without feeling attacked.
Without feeling pressure.
Without feeling no one cares what they have to say.
Friendly.
Easy.
Print them out, carry them around in your pocket, and the next time someone begins quoting from a Republican talking points memo, take the list out and ask.

1. What are the Top Seven best things that the Bush Administration has done?

2. Is the Iraq War going well?

3. After three years thus far, when do you think Iraq might be able to "stand up" so that America can "stand down"?

4. For his part in the event, how would you rate the job the President did protecting New Orleans from devastation?

5. How do you think the rebuilding of New Orleans is going?

6. When Dick Cheney and the oil company and energy executives met in private to plan America's energy policy, how much of their goal was to benefit consumers?

7. Do you believe in the President's call for an Era of Personal Responsibility?

8. Since Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, how personally responsible are they for conditions in America today?

9. Why do you think they haven't been able to find anyone who can verify that George Bush ever showed up for National Guard duty in Alabama?

10. Would you want Donald Rumsfeld to plan your daughter's wedding?

11. Are you aware that no government in the history of civilization, other than the Bush Administration, has lowered taxes during a war?

12. Are you married?

13. Do you personally feel threatened by gay marriage?

14. Since getting elected, do you think the President has been more a uniter or a divider?

15. How do you explain the President's approval rating going from a high of 90% to the current mid-30%?

16. Do you like the government collecting personal data on you without a warrant?

17. How much money do you have in your bank account, stocks and investments?

18. What's your partner's favorite sex position?

19. If you have nothing to hide, why aren't you answering?

20. Should we build a wall along the Mexican border?

21. Why isn't anyone building a wall along the Canadian border?

22. Does that terrorist gang arrested in Canada count as a threat?

23. If you shot someone in the face while drinking, how fast would the police show up to arrest you?

24. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, would the guests still be there?

25. Even if no laws are broken, do you think it's okay to reveal the name of a covert agent?

26. During your lifetime, approximately how often have you changed your mind?

27. Why shouldn't people dismiss you as a flip-flopper?

28. Where do you think the Weapons of Mass Destruction might be?

29. Where do you think Osama bin Laden might be?

30. Is it fiscally responsible to cut taxes, increase spending and create a $9 trillion federal debt?

31. Are you glad liberals passed such programs as Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, women's suffrage, federal deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, rural electrification, child labor laws, minimum wages and the 40-hour work week?

32. What are the Top Ten best things that conservatives have given to America?

33. If you were on life support, would you want a doctor you'd never met making a diagnosis about you via remote television?

34. Do you think man-made greenhouse gases have anything at all to do with depleting the ozone layer?

35. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, and guests were still there, how many factions would they now be split into?

36. How good is it that the terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed?

37. Are you aware that in 2002 the Pentagon knew where al-Zarqawi was and presented three separate plans to kill him, but the Administration refused to act each time?

38. Is George W. Bush the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?

39. When he started talking about being a Born Again Christian, would you want to stay or leave?

40. Is Ray Romano the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?

41. Would you want him to be President?

42. Does the Administration have an environmental policy that benefits the environment?

43. Since George Bush campaigned for President strongly against nation building, in what ways are our actions in Iraq not nation building?

44. What's the maximum amount of time you'd want to spend alone with Dick Cheney?

45. After dismissing Saddam Hussein's old Iraqi army, was it a good idea to let them keep their rifles?

46. Would a policy that allows torture be something that makes you proud as an American?

47. Has the Mission been Accomplished?

48. Do you feel comforted that Dick Cheney is a heartbeat away from being President?

49. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding, and guests started fighting and were killed, would you expect to be allowed to view the caskets when they were returned home?

50. How glad do you think George Bush is that he's no longer active in the National Guard?

In closing, some quotes from the Master, Robert Heinlein:

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so...

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

TNR - Speaking Out

2006-07-30T09:47:00.000-04:00

Call the show at 405-283-4797
by FSHOD member Bubba Hyde

FSHOD and its progenitor the TEM blog have been instrumental in my waking up to the things that are happening in our country and the world. The hurricane season last year that led up to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina was the tipping point for me. Watching as thousands stood baking in the summer heat without water, food or shelter made me realize that to our government, we were but cattle. Since that time, I have discovered a plethora of wrongs committed by those claiming to serve in the public interest. To this family I am grateful. I am also saddened as the world I believed existed does not. Nobody wishes to believe that those who lead us regard in such low esteem. It goes against the grain of what good people are able to imagine. A number of sleepless nights I have spent attempting to put everything into place. I have some of the pieces but not all.

America has been sold out. Our infrastructure, our sovereignty and the lives of our children are being sold away. It is treasonous, patently criminal and violates everything those that have paid the ultimate price believed and died supporting. The government may have a vision of what America is supposed to be. Their vision is opposite that of our founding documents and runs counter to what most American envision.

On FSHOD we've spoken of disclosure on a number of occasions. Wishing for the day the starship is hijacked or that TPTB would come clean and reveal the secrets we know to be hidden. I know that isn't going to happen. Not in an environment where you, the citizen, are considered the enemy. Daily, this nation draws itself closer to becoming a total police state in which freedoms are given as privileges and not the unalienable rights our Constitution says were given to us, not by man but by the Creator. September 11, 2001 was the first in a series of events that has brought us to this point where we now stand on the precipice of tyranny and ruin. Where freedom is stifled, disclosure will never occur nor will the great discoveries and adventure that drive our being.

Knowledge is power as the saying goes and I believe it to be true. With that knowledge comes responsibility. The responsibility to share that knowledge and educate others. Knowing what I have learned in the past year, I cannot in all good conscience sit back and do nothing. I refuse to allow my children and my grandchildren to be left a legacy of tyranny where the foundations of freedom have been trampled in the name of safety and security. Being free is a risky proposition. In a free society there are inherent risks that go along with free speech and the right to assemble with whomever one wishes. I prefer to take that risk rather than have my every move tracked, my phone calls monitored, the websites I view scrutinized or see the rights of Americans trampled upon to keep us "safe" from an event that may or may never happen again. That is why I have chosen to speak out.

Tuesday night August 1, 2006 at midnight central time, I embark on a new beginning by once again entering the broadcast arena to spread the word of freedom and truth. TNR Live is that program on what I hope one day will be a powerfully effective network of likeminded people who feel the same clarion call to action that I have felt for many months. Our first show we will be discussing September 11th with a man that I know to be a consummate expert about that day, Jim Fetzer. I hope you will join me by listening and participating in the program. This will be the first of nightly programs that will explore issues from 9-11 to chemtrails to health and beyond. This show will run the gammit of topics and guests all in an effort to educate and empower people to act to restore their freedoms and unalienable rights. A return to common sense and most of all truth. Forewarned is forearmed. I hope you will join me.

Truth and Love To You All,

BH

The Universal Connectedness

2006-07-17T15:55:00.000-04:00

(Part III of the Resonance series, by 371 Bohemia)

Universal Consciousness

Since we are all influenced by resonant frequencies and we increasingly realise the electromagnetics of our universe (versus no EM, simplified), I believe we can mostly agree on the following statements:

1. There is a new level, a quickening, human affairs seemingly speeding up, a society out-of-balance.
2. The natural EM fields can be used to transmit energy (or signals) very efficiently.
3. This natural frequency is being contaminated, resulting in strange behaviour.
4. We are all somehow connected in this EM/resonance soup.

A Quickening?

We have heard this term used before. In my implication, I am referencing the apparent speeding up of time in our reference frame. I could get into all the quirky Einsteinian relativity and Einstein-Lorenz time dilation, BUT I do not want anyone asleep this early in the topic. :)

The Earth's rotational field is *slowing* by approximately 1.4 milliseconds per day per century with respect to the atomic clock time. There have been 23 leap seconds added between June 30, 1972 and January 2006. Along with the slowing of the Earth's rotation, the Earth's EM field is believed to be decreasing. This decrease is believed to be linked with memory and emotions. As some in the Comments from the previous Resonance blog stated, there is an increase in emotions and decrease in memory recall. The Military, the CIA, and even Russian research confirms these links.

The Schumann resonance is slowly increasing thus bringing a sense of time quickening. This "Earth heartbeat" effects every living organism. Every cell is trying to synch-up with the increasing frequency so as to stay in tune. This results in the anxiety, insomnia, psychosomatic afflictions, and tension, so widely reported.

The Changes

We, as living organisms, have the ability to adapt. The body will be modified because we are being changed at the cellular level. At this cellular level is our DNA. It is believed we only use 22 of the 64 codons in our DNA. These electromagnetic and frequency changes could activate more of our codons.

The effects could also include altered blood pressure, melatonin, increased cancer, reproductive, cardiac and neurological disease, and death. Many occupational studies have found that exposure to ELF fields between 16.7 Hz and 50/60 Hz significantly reduces serotonin/melatonin balance.

Advanced thinkers also suggest:

* Greater intuitive and healing abilities will emerge. (Some already expressed their intuition and ESP in the previous blog).
* Our intention will be of utmost importance.

The Choices

We have basically two choices: Be at harmony with nature or not.

The Hopi Indians believe that those in harmony will survive the coming changes. The Lakota Indians state that we should forego or at least set aside our technologies to be one with nature. Many aboriginal peoples declare our technology disconnects us from each other and nature. The pollution and interference it generates keeps us from tuning in to the natural resonances and heartbeat.

Why Now?

Many ancient civilisations, significantly more in-tune with their natural surroundings, left behind prophesies and/or predictions of this imminent natural
cycle. The Mayans, Hopi, Australian Aborigines are a few.

Conclusion

It appears we are soon heading towards something wonderful and very significant during this critical time for humanity. This is not something to fear but to
fully embrace and rise to the challenge within our hearts and souls. We have an
opportunity to raise the conscious vibration of humanity as a whole to a new high. There are no spiritual chosen ones picked by some elite -- it is completely up to us. We can be a chosen one by preparing ourselves physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. The choice is fully our own -- if only we are willing to heal and forego that which resides within each of us, which prevents us from being in harmony and oneness with each other and the Universe.

References:
"Review of Russian Literature on Biological Action of DC and Low-Frequency AC
Magnetic Fields" Mikhail N. Zhadin, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 22, Issue 1,
2001. Pages 27-45 Copyright © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Time Service Dept., U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC

"Schumann Resonances, a plausible biophysical mechanism for the human health
effects of Solar/Geomagnetic Activity" Neil Cherry

NASA's LOV Roulette

2006-06-27T15:33:00.000-04:00

STS-121 Discovery
Launch Pad: 39B
Launch Date: July 1, 2006
Launch Time: 03:48 p.m. EDT | 19:48 UT
Landing: July 13, 2006
Duration: 12 days
Orbital Insertion Altitude: 122 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 51.60°
Countdown begins: T-43 hours

In a few days, Discovery is scheduled to return to space for an extended rendevouz with the International Space Station ISS. This will be Discovery's 32nd flight. According to NASA,

"The crew of space shuttle Discovery will continue to test new equipment and procedures that increase the safety of space shuttles during the STS-121 mission to the International Space Station. It also will perform maintenance on the space station and deliver more supplies and cargo for future station expansion.

This mission is to carry on analysis of safety improvements that debuted on the Return to Flight mission, STS-114, and build upon those tests."

So it would seem that NASA's 'Holy Grail' of Safety is of paramount importance...or is it? It seems that this idea being fostered is not quite the universal reality. The following document was received from 'X', and it shows that there is some disagreement about the state of Flight Readiness.

STS-121 Certification of Flight readiness

In this document dated June 17, 2006, B.D. O'Connor, Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance, states:

"I am no-go based on loss of vehicle risk (ice frost ramps). Based on appeal to Administrator I have no intention to appeal his risk acceptance and concur with proceeding with mission".

Later that same day there was a STS-121 Post Flight Readiness Review Briefing held at Kennedy Space Center and broadcast on NASA-TV. To NASA's credit, there was significant discussion regarding Mr. O'Connor's reservations and the risk involved. But the end result is summed up in Administrator Griffin's statement that:

"So the question is can we fly a few times with this ice/frost ramp without probably incurring a hazard, and based on the data I have seen, I believe that we can."

A curious statement, no doubt, and made more so by the briefing charts which amazingly include a photographic presentation of NASA's Top Ten Ice/Frost Ramp Foam Loss Events! WTF?

Administrator Griffin says about this:

"This is fully what we expect to se, potentially on STS-121 when we get some of our external photography back. We expect to see losses in these regions, pretty much similar to what we have seen here......

So, when we see this in flight and you get this data down, we should not be surprised."

Well, now this could, as is stated, be the result of balanced, reasoned judgement and review...or could it be something else? Are we being carefully prepared to accept the harbinger of a dangerous situation if or when it happens?

Well, it does seem that more than one person at NASA thinks so. The following is a statement from NASA Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer Bryan O'Connor, again and Chief Engineer Chris Scolese delivered on June 19th concerning the decision to launch the Space Shuttle Discovery in July, despite reservations:

"Crew safety is our first and most important concern. We believe that our crew can safely return from this mission.

"We both feel that there remain issues with the orbiter -- there is the potential that foam may come off at time of launch. That's why we feel we should redesign the ice/frost ramp before we fly this mission. We do not feel, however, that these issues are a threat to safe return of the crew. We have openly discussed our position in the Flight Readiness Review -- open communication is how we work at NASA. The Flight Readiness Review board and the administrator have heard all the different engineering positions, including ours, and have made an informed decision and the agency is accepting this risk with its eyes wide open."

Due to the availability of emergency contingencies such as the ISS, CSCS, Launch-On-Need and even Russian Soyuz, the Administrator feels that Crew risk is minimized and he distinguishes Crew Risk from Programmatic Risk. At this juncture, the Program is to complete the ISS within the next 4 years. the Programmatic Risk is another catasrophic or near-catastrophic Shuttle flight, jeopardizing the goal of completing ISS. Of course, the question then is "Of what value, ISS?". Is ISS worth the risk?

As a final note, an additional task of STS-121 is the transport of the crew of ISS Expedition 13 crew!

British born astronaut Piers Sellers will replace Carlos Noriega on the STS-121 mission. This is due to an undisclosed, temporary medical condition.

Thomas Reiter was scheduled to be dropped off at the ISS to join the other Expedition 11 crew members (A position previously planned to be filled by Sergei A. Volkov (Russia)), but since the launch of STS-121 was pushed back until at least July 2006, he will be joining the Expedition 13 crew. The addition of Reiter's will result in three crew members being left on the ISS. Since the Columbia accident and the grounding of the shuttle fleet, only two people have been residing on the ISS.

The other day I asked the question "Could global warming/coming cataclysm be the communication telling mankind that it is now time to move mankind to the stars? Are we being told to 'man the lifeboats?" There was no response, but then maybe I didn't couch the thought correctly. Maybe because it's hard to express, so let me just put it like this. I'm beginning to think that we are being communicated with, just not the way SETI planned it. And I think that the communication is exhorting mankind to do something NOW, that we need to be establishing a self-sufficient, permenant presence in outer space. Most of us in my generation always thought we would...so, what happened?

Some folk think that the 'aliens' had a little sit down with a US president and warned us away from space. Could be! but I don't think so. I think there are more earthly forces that do not want us to be in space. Their fortunes, their plans, their power stand to be disrupted and eroded by a Great Diaspora of Civilization to the Stars. For a large-scale effort to space takes up resources...money, minerals, educated minds and muscle...all currently being directed to the waging of war and furthering the enslavement of humankind under a fascist corpocracy which has gained riches and power since 1947.

I say that Mankind's highest priority is to move into Outer Space.

And I say that there certain parties on Planet Earth that, rather than have a safe and successful Space program, stand to gain by the result of this game of Loss-of-Vehicle Roulette.

UPDATE: A development related to this blog. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4004817.html

Sources
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts121/index.html
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/121frr_oconnor_scolese.html
www.nasa.gov/pdf/150494main_frr_brief_20060617.pdf
www.nasa.gov/pdf/150416main_FRR%20Briefing%20Charts.pdf

p.s. There are no ritual numbers in this blog.

The Frequency Resonsant

2006-06-19T16:33:00.000-04:00

by 371 Bohemia

Everything vibrates as long as there is enough energy (i.e., temperature). From buildings and bridges to mountains, the Earth, and ourselves. The rate at which something vibrates is called frequency or natural frequency.

Earth's Natural Vibration:

Quoting from "Handbook of Atmospheric Electrodynamics, vol. I", by Hans Volland, 1995 published by the CRC Press, Chapter 11: "The Schumann Resonances are quasi standing electromagnetic waves that exist in the cavity between the Earth's surface and the inner layer of the ionosphere. They occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second; specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz." Quasi means the waves are moving, not stationary, and not always present. They are affected by coronal mass ejections and sunspots.

Schumann resonances are in the ELF portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum. ELF - Extremely Low Frequencies - refers to a band of radio frequencies from 3 Hz to 300 Hz. ELF is used by the US Navy to communicate with submerged submarines.

Entrainment:

Entrainment, or the tendency for the brain to synchronize with external frequencies, is a well known phenomenon in neural research; it's called frequency following response. An external frequency firing in a sense modality of sound or light in the ranges of the brain's normal conscious operations (4 Hz - 20 Hz) causes our neurons to begin synchronizing with the external frequency.

The Human Vibration

The brain is the processor of input signals. We respond to all external stimulus - sound, light, temperature, pain, pleasure, chemical changes, mechanical changes, and physiological changes. Overloading the brain with specific constant frequencies could produce stress-related conditions. For example, increases in mental disturbance, antisocial behaviour, psychosomatic conditions, and neurological disturbances. Some electrical field phenomena have already been linked with abnormal cell growth, seizures, headaches/migraines, coronaries, and a decrease in immunocompetency.

Brain waves have only been studied since about the mid-1920s.

The Correlation:

The first Schumann Resonance was predicted at 10 Hz. It was later measured as having an average value of 7.8 Hz with at range of 7.2 Hz - 8.8 Hz. This closely correlates to the theta brain wave.

Schumann's second resonance is measured between 13.2 Hz to 15.8 Hz with a mean of 14.1 Hz. This falls within the lower limit range of the beta brain wave rhythm (beta1).

At 10.4 Hz, there is a zero power energy circulating in the Earth/Ionosphere cavity. This is nearly in the middle of the alpha brain wave rhythm.

The Picture:

These natural frequencies are INCREASING due to increased electromagnetic pollution which affects the Earth/Ionosphere cavity by pushing it outward. As the Earth's magnetic field drops, the bio-energetic systems of the living organisms of Earth are likewise responding, thus, altering any previous entrainments that they may have had due to their resonance with the Earth's field.

These changes may affect weather patterns, environmental conditions, and human health. The effect on human body adaptation is an increased sensitivity to the surroundings. This may force some neurobiological and biochemical changes for survival. Some examples are: heightened awareness, increased pain sensitivity, increased conscious states, diminished immune systems, migraines/headaches, nausea/motion sickness, DNA modification, and other psychosomatic manifestations.

Shamans, mystics, and spiritual healers regard this frequency increase as an opening of our universal consciousness. This will be a time for greater intuitive and healing abilities. I am advised by a close Native American Indian shaman friend: "All this information is not fearful. Be prepared for changes that will bring in the new age of light. We are going beyond money and time where fear based concepts are totally dissolved."

Those who watch the magnetic polarity switch cite the attainment of the anti-nodal frequency, 10.4 Hz, as the "flip point" before dampening takes effect and things wind down to the base resonance of 7.83 Hz and in our reversed polarity.

I also learned this was predicted in The Mayan Calendar. Anyone care to confirm/discuss?

Personal Brain Entrainment Experiences:

For those you you who think that I finally lost it, please permit me to share some personal experiences.

Experience #1

I have been interested in brain wave manipulation or entrainment since academy. It was then I first read about the effects of Baroque music (60 bpm) and learning. Bach and Vivaldi were my preferences. I studied while playing the music softly in the background. After a few weeks, my difficult subjects improved, my proficient subjects became or effortless and more enjoyable, and my overall academic performance increased. My studies flowed and homework was completed efficiently and effectively.

At 60 bpm, the body relaxes more (alpha wave signals increase) and beta2 waves decrease. The body becomes more receptive to suggestion and relaxed. I guess this could be considered alert relaxation. In "alert relaxation," both brain hemispheres are synchronised.

Experience #2:

In university, I revisited brain wave entrainment. I built sound wave devices that would binaurally stimulate the brain. I eventually was able to variably adjust this sound device to certain frequencies. From there I induced myself into self-hypnosis, experienced true delta sleep, and experienced gamma brain wave rhythm. For me, the gamma wavelengths created an awful migraine which lasted for a few days. While performing tests in the beta 2 - gamma wavelength regions, I also experienced heart arrhythmias and palpations. Not fun. I readjusted to a more relaxing frequency and was able to regain control.

I still dabble in self-experimentation. I have experienced recently auditory and visual hallucinations that ended when I changed frequencies. In short, brain wave manipulation or entrainment can get oneself into serious trouble. Because of my personal experiences and the documented works of multiple researchers, it is becoming my greatest fear that devices are deployed on mass scale to subdue the general population and create a nation of zombies trapped in a hypnotic fog.

There is much healing these entrainment frequencies can provide. Various hormones can be triggered to secrete based on brain waves interacting with the pituitary gland. Sadly, there is also much harm that can be done. There is a negative flip-side to everything -- as evidenced in my previous blog topic posting (see "Psy-War").

Some Frequencies:

0.5 - 4 Hz (delta - deep sleep)
4 - 7 Hz (Theta - sleep, drowsiness)
4 - 20 Hz (Brain's normal conscious operations)
7 - 12 Hz (Relaxed)
7.83 Hz (Earth's natural EM field; Schumann resonance, hormonal releases)
7.8 - 8 Hz (ESP stimulation)
8 - 8.6 Hz (Reduced Stress)
8 - 12 Hz (Alpha - meditation, low processing)
13 - 40 Hz (Beta - mentally active)
15 - 20 Hz (Beta1 - Improved focus)
20 - 38 Hz (Beta2 - Anxiety, heightened alertness)
20.215 Hz (LSD effect)
22.027 Hz (Serotonin secretion)
26 - 80 Hz (Gamma - heightened perception, fear)

Future of War

2006-06-17T12:33:00.000-04:00

by 371 Bohemia

"To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence." ~Sun Tzu

One thing you can credit the human being with is the capacity and 'joi de vive' given to the inventing snd development of new, improved methods to kill, maim and/or otherwise bring harm to other human beings in increasingly faster and more efficient ways. We truly are a marvel!

A new arsenal of weapons are continuing to be developed that attack the various physical processes that maintain homeostasis (body equilibrium). These weapons work in the visual, auditory, and microwave spectrums. Some examples:

* Strobe lights have been known to cause epileptic seizures.
* Children in Japan, watching various television cartoons or playing certain video games, suffered seizures or became very sick.

In the new war, the human subconscious, conscious, and super-conscious are targets for destabilization.

Wonder Weapons:

1. Acoustic weapons - use sound to disorient
2. Microwave weapons - stimulate the peripheral nervous system, can heat up the body,induce epileptic-like seizures, or cause cardiac arrest. Low-frequency radiation affects the electrical activity of the brain and can cause flu-like symptoms and nausea.
3. Pulse wave weapons - induce or prevent sleep, or to affect the signal from the motor cortex portion of the brain, overriding voluntary muscle movements.
4. Psychotronic generator - produces a powerful electromagnetic emanation capable of being sent through telephone lines, TV, radio networks, supply pipes, and incandescent lamps.
5. Autonomous generator -- operates in the 10-150 Hertz band, which at the 10-20 Hertz band forms an infrasonic oscillation that is destructive to all living creatures.
6. Nervous system generator -- intended to paralyse the nervous system. Already proven effective on insects.
7. Ultrasound
8. Noiseless cassettes - infra-low frequency voice patterns are placed over music and detected by the subconscious.
9. 25th frame effect - the purpose of this technique is to inject a thought into the viewer's subconscious.
10. Psychotropics - drugs/medication used to induce a trance, euphoria, or depression. Can cause headaches, noises, voices or commands in the brain, dizziness, pain in the abdominal cavities, cardiac arrhythmia, or even the destruction of the cardiovascular system.

From Russia, With Love?

Psycho-terrorism -- the next new buzz word? The term "psycho-terrorism" was coined by Russian writer N. Anisimov of the Moscow Anti-Psychotronic Center. According to Anisimov, psychotronic weapons are those that act to take away a part of the information which is stored in a man's brain, modify it, and re-insert it. These weapons are used against the mind to induce hallucinations, sickness, mutations in human cells, "zombification," or even death.

Future Weapons:
1. ESP research
2. Clairvoyance research
3. Telepathy research - transmitting thoughts over a distance (covert ops)
4. Telekinesis research
5. Psychokinesis research - interfering with the thoughts of individuals

While many US scientists undoubtedly question this research,it receives strong support in Russia.

References:

I. Chernishev, "Can Rulers Make `Zombies' and Control the World?" Orienteer,
February 1997, pp. 58-62.

Douglas Pasternak, "Wonder Weapons," U.S. News and World Report, 7 July 1997,
pp. 38-46.

The Cydonia Smoker

2006-06-10T23:18:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Robert for this blog he submitted to FSHOD. He has been active at TEM and on his own sites and is a real advocate for getting off your butts to MAKE disclosure happen! His contact info is at the end and he would be most happy to hear from you.

Will MRO seek the Cydonia Smoker? by Robert

Since the beginning of time for humans we have gazed at the stars and come to know some of them as planets. In our earliest writings of Sumaria, Egyptian, Indian and other ancient tongues written in the dawn of human self expression; we even knew of other beings, other intelligences that sailed among the stars as we sailed down our own rivers on Earth. Then came a long darkness that obliterated all human written expression until about 6,000 years ago. Even then our records and thoughts were crudely scrawled onto stone tablets and cavern walls and sealed away in darkness to hide and preserve what knowledge we had gained. It was not until the 're-invention' of the printing press and paper that human knowledge about the Universe started to spread beyond the high priests of religion and into the ordinary masses of humanity where one did not need a 'God' to read and write what our thoughts were. Education and evolution took a giant leap into the future, barely glancing back at the past left behind.

Now in the modern times we find the 'high priests of science' saying that old writings were nothing more than religious myths, superstitions and legends that according to them, no longer are a REAL written record of what happened tens of thousands of years ago. Yet, who are these 'high priests of science' to say what the Universe really was so long ago? Were they there ice age after ice age keeping records alive? When the Egyptian Sphinx is geomorphically dated at 10,000 years who is to say who was here and from where they came with any guarantee of certainty? Are there any clues left behind in our Solar System about humanity's past where they might have lived in the darkness of no recorded thoughts?

On a red star in the sky that we now know to be the planet Mars there is a place called Cydonia. It is a magic place. It is a place of monuments to magic. The kind of magic that comes from the intelligent heart made manifest into a working focus of thought for the common effort of all together for the common good of all. It IS a magic place where great deeds were done and great monuments were built to last through the eons of history for ANY intelligences who were passing through and looking at our Solar System for clues of life and intelligence.

There on the plains of Cydonia is a bi-faceted FACE crying into the indifferent stars of the Universe with messages and portents. What they all are we ourselves can never be truly sure until we re-visit there as we must have done in the long lost dark and distant past. For the FACE on Mars is part humanoid like man and part feline like the King of Beasts. Like the duality of our own inner war in each human soul between reason and madness. That we have the capacity for great works of art, architecture, literature, music, poetry and more wondrous delights to soothe our savage hearts in dreams of solace and solitude. But that we also have the nightmares of our memories of the savage, cruel, and indiscriminate killings of each other over nothing more than the disagreement of the name of the God of our Universe. As if in our hubris we thought, and many still do, that in these tens of thousands of years of history; we alone could be above the Creator and force a false name upon Him, the Father of all the Universe, and force others to that will.

The message is that we were once of that place in Cydonia on the Planet of War. That Mars could have been our 'Eden' of the Bible cast out by our own hubris. The total destruction of the planet is a message that the 'beast' still beats and guides our hearts and the modern day headlines of the news only confirms this sad but BRUTAL TRUTH.

Another message is that there is hope for human kind yet if our ancestors could have been involved in building these monuments, maybe we can change our ways before it is too late. Before we have gone too far down the wrong GOLDEN PATH and fallen off the edge of the world and back into the long darkness between the stars where only SHADOWS live. A darkness where all we have learned will once again be turned into unrecognizable rubble. There is a message that we cannot keep taking from Mother Earth, polluting and raping Her without consequences. There is a message that our Father Creator of the Universe can forgive is we can only change our hearts to the brutal truth that the Universe is His and only HE can decree what can and cannot be. If we can become the dreamers, the shapers, the singers, and the makers of history under HIS guidance. If we can re-discover our dreams when our hubris and folly has forced the Universe to steal our dreams from us.

We must have strong good dreams to believe in. We must dream of our own intellectual hearts working in a common purpose together for the common good, for the brutal truth understanding of the everlasting goodness of HIS Universe. Then we can once more sail between the stars with the ones who came before us and are awaiting for us to awaken once more. This re-awakening begins on the plains of Cydonia. It begins by accepting the reality of what lies there and beginning the journey to understanding the messages and portents that the monuments move us to wonder at. It begins by first LOOKING at these monuments and truly seeing and acknowledging them for what they are...magical messages through the eons for all who come after they were made.

The FACE on Mars in Cydonia is the most famous of these monuments, but is not the only monument in this great plain. Although this one and a half mile high and mile wide FACE is the most enigmatic and compelling monument, it is by no means the only large monument there. The DnM Pyramid is a five sided feature nearly as large as the FACE and is also as enigmatic and compelling. There are many other features there that SHOULD be called Martian Monuments, but the 'high priests of science' won't even recognize the FACE despite clear evidence of an evenly raised platform the FACE sits upon, two eye sockets side by side, eyeball and two nostrils aligned along a nose ridgeline that stops above a set of ridges that form its mouth. ALL of these features lie atop the evenly made playform in the proper places and proportions for a FACE. There is NO 'eye' in the forehead, no nostrils on the cheeks, no eyeball lolling in the mouth. No, ALL these features are ON the platform in right places, of the correct sizes and proportions of any FACE; even if it is a bi-faceted one. It is long past time the 'high priests of science' give Cydonia a proper and prolonged honest BRUTAL TRUTH look at the Monuments on Mars on the Cydonia plain. It is the mirror of ourselves.

But this article is about another feature on the Cydonia plain. A feature that was not seen in the early in 1976 Viking data like the FACE and DnM Pyramid were. But this feature IS a pyramid. A four sided Egyptian style pyramid that rests at the edge of a cliff, high above the Cydonia plain, on the edge of a small string of hills in the western region of Cydonia. The following is from my original website CommonSenseCentral concerning this feature and includes all four (4) images acquired to date. Also included is an image showing what appears to be a frozen lake of liquid water !!!
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Welcome to a most interesting piece of real estate on Mars, imho.
Located in downtown of the Cydonian Village,
At the center of Cydonia County, Acidalia Province-Planet: Mars

The above image was gratefully done by Keith Laney NASA Ames Associate Image Processor.
More of his astounding and amazing and superior work with imaging and help with selecting the spot for the Mars MER2003 Rovers sent to Mars click the links below to go to his work:
KeithLaney.net
NASA AMES Rover Landing Sites
The following images are my own work which is basically taking them directly from NASAView and only rotating them to show the feature from the same angle. The editorial part is my own comments on this enigmatic feature which appears to have a vapor coming from the hole in the side of this feature. A hole which appears to have no visible bottom despite the sun shining stright down into in all four (4) seperate images of this feature taken to date.

If you notice at the right of the 90o corner of the above feature is a 'crater-hole' that appears slanted evenly with the slope of the hillside. The ring of the 'crater-hole' has a distinctly higher albedo (brightness) than the hillside itself. This brightness is dimmed by a vapor of some consistency that is coming from the opening up and to slight right as evidenced by the diffusing (blurring) of the pixels. Knowing that the MOC camera resolution is 2.5 meters per pixel for this image one can use a microcomputer graphics application like Paintshop and using pixels on the ruler measure the diameter of the hole at ~33 pixels wide. Since 2.5 m also equals ~8.2 feet we can use our math and critical thinking skills to determine that the crater hole is ~82.5 meters or ~270.6 feet in diameter. The left side of the ring around the hole has an average pixel grayscale value from the program's eyedropper tool of ~143.875 and the right or dim side under the vapor only has a pixel scale average of ~91.356. There is an average difference from one side of the ring to the other side under the vapor of ~52.519. This is definitive evidence that 'something' is obscuring the right hand portion of the ring from the MOC. Can you think of, or see, another spot above that may be measured using this type of microcomputer graphics program to distinguish pixelation values along a single feature or ridge?

The ORIGINAL MGS MOC image can be found by following the link provided to the official PDS repository site on the internet for public consumption of this mission and final archiving. The feature pictured above is in the top left of the 6th portion of official USGS PDS images.
http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/orb_0239/23903.html
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An update on March 24, 2001:
The 'Smokin' Pyramid of Cydonia' was re-imaged again by MSSS/JPL/NASA but is not yet part of the official USGS repository for the data from this spacecraft, the ONLY working spacecraft officially recognized publicly as working, although recent news stories say that the MPL 'may' have been found, intact, sitting on its 3 little legs and may in fact be beeping home!
Here is the second 'Smokin' Pyramid of Cydonia' image, note there is STILL vapor and haze surrounding this feature and appearing to emanate from the crater-hole. Also the ring around the crater-hole is STILL diffused (blurred) from the vapor; only now some areas are less diffuse than they were in the previous image indicating that the actual ground albedo of the rim is steady and that only the thickness of the vapor has changed on the right side of the ring showing clearly that some type of vapor IS obscuring the landscape topography that is clearly emanating from that crater-hole.

What do YOU think about this feature? Is it our FIRST real sign of active geological features happening on Mars NOW in real time that YOU can use your microcomputer and the skills you learn in computer class to investigate some of the most wonderful discoveries being made about our most enigmatic and intriguing planet in the Solar Neighborhood?
You can never get answers to questions if you do not have the curiosity to even look and the courage to ask the questions. As all my students knew, asking questions is the very BEST part of learning. Because for every GOOD question asked, the answers will always leave us with even more questions to ask; further taking our learning experience to new and unimaginable heights of awareness and enlightenment.

Enjoy mind expansion...it gives your soul character.
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Update: 11-20-2001
Link to original image for the second look at the Smoker!
http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/m19_m23/images/M22/M2200378.html
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Update 02/08/2002
I have created a Flash animation of the wind flow over the above images. You must have the Flash plug-in to view this animation.
Cydonia Smoking Pyramid animation
http://home.thirdage.com/Teaching/rhw007/smokepyramid_wind_ani.swf
Please use your back button on browser to return here after viewing.
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May 9, 2002
UPDATE --ANOTHER 3rd IMAGE ! ! !
And yes, it's STILL SMOKIN' ! ! !

And if you want to check out the ORIGINAL and full image along with the ancillary data, it can be found here:
http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/e01_e06/images/E01/E0101908.html
I have maintained ALL along that THIS feature is a most enigmatic and interesting feature that is as important as the Cydonia Face, the D & M Pyramid, the Tholus and the City among other anomalies across Cydonia and on Mars itself.
Like LIQUID WATER on Mars:

That look like a LAKE OF LIQUID WATER to you???
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Update November 1, 2002. There was no new images of this feature in either the MGS MOC or the THEMIS data dumps of October 2002. I have added Keith's great image at the top of the page to emphasize the image and the feature as I think it is an indication of CURRENT activity underground on Mars in Downtown Cydonia. It is unfortunate that despite several releases of Cydonia by the ASU THEMIS team, THIS feature has yet to be imaged in the more 'western' part of town. I hope this changes and that an image of this feature with the TRUE COLOR VIS image system as well as daytime AND nighttime infrared images can be acquired of this enigmatic feature that, imho, is currently ACTIVE on Mars in real time NOW!
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Tonight as I do this update to CSC, in about ONE ( 1 ) hour, NASA/JPL and the THEMIS team are about to conduct their second Official News Conference from this spacecraft. I have commented on the First Odyssey News Conference and I also have a very precise and historic treatise of Mars Exploration Since 1976 which I prepared for this second news conference. I have faxed, emailed, mailed and hand delivered copies of this latest to many many people, including political and media representatives. I sincerely hope we can FINALLY, after 26 years get MORE of a comment from NASA/JPL about Cydonia than it all is just a 'trick of light and shadow'. The amazing wonders of Mars are staring us all directly in the FACE, it will continue to do so no matter how often, or how many people, wish to look the other way.

It is PAST time to FACE the mirror that is Mars and is laying there in those 'dead, dry, dusty dunes' of Cydonia.

NASA's Martian Watershed
The upcoming news conference by Dr. Roger Gibbs the new Project Manager for the Mars Odyssey Spacecraft touted by NASA here:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures/may02.html
"...how Odyssey fits into the broader Mars Exploration Program objective to follow the water, seeking to determine if life ever arose on Mars. "
is actually the entire NASA Agency's own 'watershed' for honest scientific integrity in fulfilling its chartered mandate to search for life elsewhere. We sincerely hope Dr. Gibbs represents a significant change in the channel of static we have been getting from NASA/JPL about Mars and Cydonia. While we have been 'following the water' since 1976, and even if some had to go 'kicking and screaming':
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_science_findings_000622.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_hiding_000628.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/mgsci.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/nasa2.html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/fifthconf99/water.html

in the last few years, we have all come to agree and know that Mars is actually much more wet than mainstream planetary scientists had originally thought. Along with evidence of Martian LIFE being found in a Martian Meteorite and evidence conditions have been proved to be existent for that life to develop and exist today:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/fifthconf99/bio.html
http://www.curiousnotions.com/mars/index.html
the issue of 'water' on Mars has long been a been there done that kind of thing if NASA/JPL would only LOOK at the images they have been releasing:

http://home.thirdage.com/Teaching/rhw007/M0901354.gif
There are LIQUID LAKES of the stuff laying there in the open, plain as day. Water we already KNOW its there, we also know that there once existed LIFE, and intelligent life which constructed highly geometric mega Pyramids on Mars that dwarf the GIZA Pyramids of Egypt and there is EVIDENCE of that also, again if NASA/JPL bother to even LOOK!
http://www.newfrontiersinscience.com/index.shtml
In Cydonia these enigmatic features are waiting for humanity to come look into the mirror that is Mars.
Recently, the National Research Council:
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309084261?OpenDocument
Issued a warning that we should postpone human exploration of Mars. To quote Mars Anomalist researcher Mac Tonnies:
"Anything a JPL Lander can do, an astronaut can do more quickly, more fastidiously, and more intelligently."
From one of the above water links:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_science_findings_000622.html
"This story, I don't believe, will be answered until someone goes with a pick and shovel to actually chip away at the landforms, Malin said."

Using Dr. Mike Malin's quoted comment is supremely appropriate to today's questions concerning Mars. We need humans there, we need to find out EVERYTHING in an honest and open manner about ALL the evidence of enigmatic features and aspects of Mars. Because also as Dr. Edgett said "It's not your mother's Mars," anymore.

NASA in the past has promised members of Congress and the American people to study the enigmatic features in Cydonia. To date there is no NASA public study other than tortured and fully debunked Jet Propulsion Laboratory Press Releases on comparisons to "Middle Butte-Idaho" which fell on it's own butte from a NASA engineer:
http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mars/face/middlebutte/middlebutte.htm
so they switched on the following image, in the following year 2002, to try 'Camel Humping' the public and once more slither their way out of FACING the truth,
http://www.geocities.com/macbot/imperative30.html
but ended up only showing that their 2001 BUTTE image, was actually NOT presented honestly in a true orthorectified image:
http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mars/stereography/parallax-results.htm

Maybe JPL thought most Americans would 'believe' their own pseudoscience public relations propaganda AND their pseudoscience geometric orthorectified image of 2001 since a new study revealed most American people science illiterates:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/30/science.understanding.ap/index.html
and the fact that since its acquisition in April 8, 2001 the ancillary geometry data for that image STILL, as of this posting, has NOT been released under a 6 month only embargo contract. That's another broken promise in addition to the one which promised prior notifications and immediate release to the internet. Yet they withheld the image for 6 weeks to prepare the Middle Butte propaganda press release. They also had violated that prior notice promise here:
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/cydonia.html
on 5 other occasions previously we know about for the FACE alone, and for more than 100 other Cydonia images (we currently know about and were also withheld beyond the 6 month private embargo period on a PUBLIC asset) on the other features in and around Cydonia. Yet with ALL those violations of that Cydonia promise, where are the NASA public studies on these issues?
No, NASA has produced NO public peer reviewed study on these highly artificially engineered geometric edifices that are placed in highly geometric places on the planet and in intelligent geometric relationships to each other. Despite more than a quarter century from the first Viking images which were wrongly dismissed as shadowed trickery NASA has avoided an HONEST and public SCIENTIFIC study of these features.
http://www.newfrontiersinscience.com/martianenigmas/
http://www.newfrontiersinscience.com/ArchiveIndex/v01n01/evidence.shtml
The only clear and unambiguous FACT from NASA/JPL is their own behavior to clearly and repeatedly avoiding having to take a public look at this extraordinary evidence and to perform an honest and public extraordinary investigation, as promised, of that evidence. Simply put, to actually perform the HONEST public science following the scientific methodology of modern times as its mandated and amended charter directs it to do. More broken promises and in light of the following, this behavior is no longer tolerable in a branch of our Federal Government which reflects on the entire country, and this Administration as a whole. Because if ALL we are ever going to get about Cydonia on Mars is more and more of staying tuned to the same channel of lies and distorted data and illegally withheld data; as new NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe has said, 'What's the point?"

Loss of the Mars Observer on August 22, 1993; the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter and the loss of the Mars Polar Lander in 1999 ( all for various different reasons ) leaves serious holes in Mars Research capabilities and opportunities for the inclusion of public participation in this exciting discovery process. The two currently working spacecraft, Mars Global Surveyor and the Mars Odyssey can successfully fill those holes, provided they are publicly used for such. Simply honest public scientific investigation of these extraordinary pieces of evidence is owed to the American Taxpaying Public. Not only to make up for the nearly 2 Billion in lost tax dollars, but to encourage and re-engage the public in scientific study of the mysteries of our Universe in an honest and open manner that is the hallmark of a FREE Democracy. Lately it seems the Russian space program has been more open and inclusive of the public than America's NASA, and especially is pointed out by American Denis Tito's trip to the ISS being fought tooth n nail by NASA here in the 'free democracy' of the USA.

The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) has completed its primary and 2 extended mission phases of which we presently know about. This spacecraft can, and should be, immediately tasked to cover the entire Cydonia area in 1.5 meter/pixel HighRes imaging with immediate and public release of that data. The MGS, and its attendant camera (MOC) is NOT the private personal property of the Principle Investigator Dr. Mike Malin or his privately held company Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS). This a NATIONAL asset paid for by the taxpayers. It BELONGS to the American People.period. To NOT task this spacecraft to fully and completely and publicly image Cydonia, now that it is free from its primary mission, is akin to saying it is Okey Dokey to let Enron tear our the guts of the White House and build President Bush an indoor baseball field to make up for the one they'll be losing.

This spacecraft BELONGS to us, the American People, it is way past time is was returned to us.
The MGS and the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and its THEMIS camera system are National Assets that should be used to publicly fulfill NASA's chartered mandate to search for evidence of LIFE off the Earth. The enigmatic ruins laying there in plain view in Cydonia are those pieces of evidence for not only life but also intelligent life.

It is past time for NASA to FACE up to its responsibilities to the American People and to conduct a publicly open and honest extraordinary investigation into these extraordinary pieces of evidence that humanity may have never been alone. We are owed that much for NASA to make the effort, and to make that effort in full public view sharing what we find with these National Assets as they are found in real-time. To NOT do this means we have lost all trust in NASA itself to simply keep its word. To say what it means, and mean what it says. To keep the promises and policies is has made, and to NOT make promises and policy it has no intention of keeping by lying or misrepresenting itself to the American Public. In these troubled days of peril, to loose trust in the honesty and integrity of our government puts us all in a greater peril than we can presently imagine.

I sincerely hope that Dr. Roger Gibbs and the Mars Odyssey team make some Cydonia revelations when this news conference is held Thursday May 9 and Friday May 10. This time, RIGHT NOW, before the THEMIS camera system is INTENTIONALLY shut down later this year in a pre-planed hiatus from image acquisition, is a PRIME time to combine the very BEST of both spacecraft capabilities to produce TRUE COLOR images of Cydonia as seen by the human eye, to do a FULL INFRARED and SPECTRAL analysis of this area and combining and coordination of it with 1.5m/p HIGH RES images from the MGS MOC to produce for the public a proud and honest scientific look in an open manner in a Free Democracy showing the world what Leadership is all about.

If not, then NASA is simply not being honest with us in keeping promises to the Congress and American People, but also not being honest in compliance with the cherished scientific methodology of finding out the brutal truth of a thing. To do that, one must openly, publicly and thoroughly actually study that thing. NASA has YET to do that with Cydonia. They will also be doing deceased Dr. Carl Sagan's memory a grace disservice in that his:
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

This quote also makes true that "Extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary investigation, and an extraordinary investigation requires an extraordinary review and discussion process that is publicly open and honest." (c)1998 RHW.
NASA has failed to do this in more than 25 years of peeking at Mars, loosing spacecraft, and now having TWO (2) working spacecraft, one of which (MGS) is actually free from its primary mission. NOT giving Cydonia a full and extraordinary investigation is a gross violation of their mandate and also a pirating of Treasured National Assets for the private and personal politics and preferences of a very very few individuals as opposed to the thousands and thousands of people who HAVE been emailing, postal mailing, calling, faxing, and personally visiting NASA/JPL, media and political representatives DEMANDING that this area of Mars be FINALLY and OPENLY and IMMEDIATELY dealt with in an honest manner with immediate posting of that data collection as it happens to the www. Ultimately, we will settle for nothing less and the sooner NASA/JPL and the established mainstream realizes this, the quicker humanity can move on to personally visiting this mirror of humanity that has a constructed FACE staring back at us that is hauntingly familiar in our own morning mirrors.

Let's taunt a Billionaire to Mars ! ! ! Beats Begging.
Think out there act down here... NOW ! ! ! Have YOU ??
Give a High School kid a reason to care...a spacewalk.
Teach 'em a lesson in teamwork.
Teach 'em a lesson in humanity.
Bob... ;-{)
http://members.tripod.com/rhw007/
http://communities.msn.com/JPLMarsExploration
rhw007@twcny.rr.com

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04-09-03 UPDATE ! NEW SMOKER IMAGE ! E14-01223
STILL SMOKIN' ! ! !

http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/e14012/e1401223.html
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Now a few final words-05-31-2006:
There are several other links which one should view concerning the Monuments on Mars and their independant anylsis from NASA 'Pulic Relations Officer' oversight. Mostly concerning the FACE itself and the main area of Cydonia. The Cydonia Smoker is actually west of these main features, but these features are the most primary ones talked about since the Viking imagery in 1976 came back and showed us the Monumental Mirror that is Mars.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/about.htm
http://www.enterprisemission.com/mola.htm
http://www.enterprisemission.com/shrunk.html
http://www.enterprisemission.com/Face-lift.htm
http://www.enterprisemission.com/ir_images.html
http://www.enterprisemission.com/ir_analysis.html
http://www.enterprisemission.com/paper_1/paper_1.php?page=paper1
And HIGHLY recomended full viewing and reading:
http://www.keithlaney.net/BullittsIRviews/marsinfraredimaging.htm
Also From a current NASA engineer:
http://vgl.org/vglmars.htm
http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mars/face/newface.htm
http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mars/face/mola/facemola.html
http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mars/face/middlebutte/middlebutte.htm
http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mars/stereography/parallax-results.htm
http://vgl.org/webfiles/mars/face/catbox2.htm

Also on a note on the Cydonia Smoking Pyramid mentioned in middle of this article. Robert Clark an independant Mars Anomaly researcher has done work with the IR data also, only his interests was in finding 'hot spots' in temperature value in the data. I believe he has indicated that the area of the Smoker is about 70-100 degrees farenheit higher than the plains down belown the cliff the Smoker sits atop of. One more indication that there IS something on-going and enigmatic happening with this feature.

Now to finish up with a few more political observations about our space program and its sad shape it currently finds itself in, why, and how we must change it.

On Memorial Day it is fitting to remember the 17 brave Space Patriots of our Nation's space program who died on the job trying to bring the human heart and soul out among the stars. The crew of Apollo 1, the Challenger crew, and also the crew of Columbia. We now today cannot launch any civilian into space. What our Military Space Program is one can only guess at the craft and technologies of places like Area 51, Groom Lake, Utah Facilities, HAARP, and what is under the bunkers at Wright Patterson AFB. Maybe if our Military Space Program wasn't so secretive, these 17 shining stars would still be here with us today. Maybe like what was planned for in the Apollo era, history would have put the Challenger and Columbia crews on Missions to Mars.
For we had such grand plans:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/taskgrp.html
From above link done in September 1969 are some clonclusions concerning Mars:
"We have found questions about national priorities, about the expense of manned flight operations, about new goals in space which could be interpreted as a "crash program." Principal concern in this area relates to decisions about a manned mission to Mars. We conclude that NASA has the demonstrated organizational competence and technology base, by virtue of the Apollo success and other achievements, to carry out a successful program to land man on Mars within 15 years."

Both of the Bush Presidents' said they wanted an American humaned Mission to Mars. Both of them could have done more, gone further, and used the Military Space Program to its fullest extent and we would have been there by now. But alas, those political promises were simply more political platitudes of prattling politicians who never ever really had any intention of bringing about what they said and promised. Both said we were addicted to 'foreign oil' and must change. Yet again, neither did anything about it. Both could have, yet both are oil men through and through foremost before they are President of our great Americas. Their actions suggest they have sworn to uphold Big Oil's Corporate Profits before upholding the United States Constitution; and nobody in the media does or says anything to awaken the sheeple voters of America.

The Sheeple keep baa-baaing day in and day out while our brave fathers, mothers, sons and daughters die and are maimed to keep alive a seemingly unreasonable dream. A dream of a country where want is not known. A dream of a country where health care is guaranteed for all. A dream of a country safe from tryanny and betrayal from within as well as from without. A dream that lets American youth dream of one day walking among the stars within their lifetime. It is a noble dream this America of ours. But it is not a dream for everyone around the world. We cannot impose our dreams upon others around the world and force them to embrace it with bombs and bullets. Vietnam should have taught us that, yet sadly it is likely we have forgotten the lesson. What we have is precious, I agree. But who wants to work for another Enron guarded by another Arthur Anderson bookkeeper?

The very yound and very old need societal protection that Capitalism simply cannot give. We cannot force Walmart to pay better and give employees benefits with bullets and bombs, though many wish we would. Socialism of sorts is needed to bring compassion to the body politic. And Socialism of sorts is needed for us to reach out into the stars again giving us hope and a sense of awe and wonder. Capitalism did not put us on the Moon and it will not put us on Mars. Only with Socially working together can we achieve the goal of riding between the worlds of our Solar System and give us hope that one day we may sail among the stars.

We will surpass Ten (10) Trillion dollars in debt on this President George W. Bush's watch. What do we have to show for it? That is a staggering amount of money. More than 30,000 dollars for every man, woman, and child in America today. What has it bought us? For 10 Trillion dollars we could have had a dozen Moon bases and half a dozen Mars bases by now. Yet all we have are tens of millions dead and hundreds of millions wounded in wars since the 1970's and the end of the Apollo era. Now the plan to get back into space is simply "Apollo on Steroids." Maybe they'll let Barry Bonds be NASA administrator. Now that he's passed the 'Babe' in "out of the park" hitting, we could use some steroids in our Space Program. We could use some of the classified Black Projects of places like Area 51 also to jump start our civilian space program. But that would require a radical mind shift that I am afraid even the wisest of 'Owls' fail to see the necessity of it. We need new leaders at the TOP with vision, honesty, integrity and a commitment to the brutal truth of our Universe. We need to demilitarize the Military Space program and use as much as possible to transfer to the civilian program. Because if we don't do something new and radical soon, we may find ourselves stuck on planet Earth for a very long time. Until some giant mountain of rock comes tumbling into us from the far side of the Sun and turns the human race in a memory like T-Rex with hardly any traces left that we were here. We will not have the time, resources, or the will to build the kind of lasting Monuments that survive on Mars in Cydonia today, and for the eons to come. We will be obliterated as a species unless we find a new GOLDEN PATH to follow.
Let's taunt a Billionaire to Mars ! ! ! Beats Begging.
Think out there act down here... NOW ! ! ! Have YOU ???
Give a High School kid a reason to care...a spacewalk.
Teach 'em a lesson in teamwork.
Teach 'em a lesson in humanity.
Say what you mean and mean what you say.
Don't make promises and policies you don't intend to keep and to keep the policies and promises you do make.
ACTIONS speak louder than words.
ACTIONS are PROOF of intent.
ACTIONS are the final judgment of character.
It REALLY is that simple.
Bob... :D
http://commonsensecentral.blogspot.com/
Cydonia_Smoking_Room
http://groups.msn.com/Cydonia/homepage
http://communities.msn.com/JPLMarsExploration
http://home.thirdage.com/Teaching/rhw007/index.html

It's time to HIJACK the STARSHIP ! ! !
How can YOU help???
http://www.enterprisemission.com/help.htm
Do NOT be just a sheeple...ACT for your OWN best interests and those of your children and grandchildren. There may not be time for further delay.

Attention All Hands

2006-05-29T00:05:00.000-04:00

Starting now, FSHOD is now a Members-Only Blog. Specifically, this means that to make comments to this blog, you need to be a registered Blogger and invited, via an email from Blogspot that I initiate, to become a Member.

If you haven't already received an email to become a Member, it may be due to my oversight or the fact I do not have your email address. If this is the case, I apologize.

To become a Member of FSHOD, simply send an email request to fshod@hotmail.com and I'll set you up.

The reason I'm doing this is to filter out some of the time, space and energy-wasting comments that are being made by what are, in essence, trolls.

All I expect is reasonable, civil, adult discourse. If you want to talk about your new grandbaby, or the newly-harvested crop of Sir Bob's Finest, that's OK, too. But let's all work towards an improved environment and society.

My thanks to all who have persevered the the 'bad times'.
My hopes are that some who have 'left', return.
My pleasure will be to invite new friends to FSHOD.

Thanks and Best Wishes to All,
Sunking

Alas, Babylon's Nightfall

2006-05-21T15:58:00.000-04:00

Over the past two weeks there has been some discussion about survival (be it post-natural disaster or post-apocalyptic) and threats from outer space such as the currently-popular comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 or the 'mythic' Planet Niburu. Perhaps synchronistically, I've just finished reading two selections from the public library that have a direct bearing on the topics under discussion.

The first book (which I consumed in one gulp last Friday and Saturday) was the classic Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. I've mentioned this book more than once and commend it as a quick, interesting and thought-provoking read. Written in 1959 it deals with the changes and challenges faced by a north-Central Florida man, his family and friends and town, in a post-nuclear war setting. Admittedly the book is dated and a product of it's era. Yet it contains references that are seemingly timeless: the propensity of 'the peepul' to elect to ofice the most greedy, corrupt and inneffectual person's possible; political in-fighting in Washington, DC; problematic foriegn relations; tensions in the Middle East...even riots in Paris! How little things change.

More importantly, Alas, Babylon is a practical sociological and psychological study of what can happen when people of our modern age are thrust back into the 19th century in the blink of an eye! As a side note, Wikipedia says "Alas, Babylon is considered by some to be an inspiration for John Titor's claim of time travel and description of nuclear war in the 2010s"

The 2nd book I bring to your attention is Nightfall by Issav Asimov and Robert Silverberg. An archealogical dig on a region of the planet Kalgash reveals that every 2049 years, a cataclysm of fire wipes out civilization, leaving only few survivors. This encourages and emboldens the followers of a religion whose Book of Revealation warns of just such a fate for non-believers. At the same time, a group of universtity astronomers discovers a problem with their Theory of Unified Gravitation, which leads to a further discovery that there is an unseen, due to the spectrum, planet (called Kalgash Two) that returns on a highly elliptical orbit...every 2049 years! (Sound familiar, anybody?)

The problem with this lies in the fact that Planet Kalgash has six suns and never knows total darkness. The astronomers determine that shows up during a time when 5 suns are one side of Kalgash and the smallest sun, alone on the other hemisphere, is eclipsed by Kalgash Two, resulting in a total 'nightfall'. No big deal, eh? Well, it so happens that the inhabitants of this planet, never having known 'nightfall' or total darkness except for brief periods, in general lose their minds either completely of for at least a short time, after it is reveled to them that there are 'stars' and other suns, in fact an entire universe they had no idea existed. The level of psychosis and panic is so widespread that fires are lit to bring light and, thus, the whole world destroyed by fire! Quite 'Brookings'-like, eh?

By now you're wondering "Why the book report, Sunking?". Well, we've discussed what supplies to buy, the best kind of knife to have handy, and what Army Field Manuals to commit to memory. But the one thing we haven't touched on is the post-disaster mind. And whilst these books are somewhat romantic fantasies, they both point out some basic facts we should all remember, just in case some of us go on an unexpected swim this week...

Some people, no matter their level of intelligence of standing in the community, will not be able to handle the abrupt change in the reality of a post-disaster/apocalyse world or some unexpected, universe-shattering disclosure. These people will go mad or commit suicide. Some people will attempt to gain riches that have no worth in the new reality, or try to usurp power over people and resources via sinister means and for sinister purposes. These people will have to be guarded against and fought and, perhaps, eliminated, preferably via what passes for a legal execution. There will be some people in between. But those of us, the Creator willing, that have open, enlightened minds and willing hearts and able-hands, will be required to stand forthrightly and work with others, with their consent and authority, to reestablish civil order and society, methods of sanitation and of providing food and medical care and schools and all the things that separate us, homo sapiens, from the animal and the common human brigand.

So, the weapons and supplies and foodstuffs we store may not make the difference. It will be the 'stuff' of our minds, out thoughts and ideals, that will grant us survival and restore humanity!

Will we be worthy to the task? Will we brave the storm?

Happy Mother's Day

2006-05-14T17:24:00.000-04:00

In lieu of the blog I'm writing and have yet to complete, and in consideration of the large size of the previous comments page, I will post this quick bit to give love and thanks to all our Moms, for the suffering care and love that's been devoted to most of us lucky enough to have such a Mother.

All my love to my grandmother, my mother and my dear wife mother of our 3 daughters!

Psy-Ops Modus Operandi

2006-05-04T23:46:00.000-04:00

Having seen and read a great deal about the techniques of Psy-Ops, I advise people on the Internet and in FSHOD to guard against the following:

1. Spin. The spin doctor and has an uncanny ability to spin statements so that they either favour him or present him in a good light or as being right. They accomplish that by using very ambiguous statements with open interpretations and lots of emotion. They often believe their own lies, deceit, and delusions, thereby enhancing their effectiveness. Think David Koresh of the Branch Davidians in Waco, TX, or Jim Jones & the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana.

2. Attacks against the questioner/messenger. Statements like: "obviously you do not understand" and other belittling barbs. It is an attempt to abusively discredit the challenger. This is the equivalent to psyching-out your opponent in a boxing match.

3. Ambiguity. Nothing can be pinned down, use of broad generalizations and innuendo.

4. Fleeting thoughts. Persons writes numerous, confusing, sometimes disjointed and contradictory statements. Writes to the point of overkill.

5. Rapid-fire propaganda. Floods the audience with thought statements in rapid succession thereby overwhelming the audience until they shutdown and succumb. The statements come fast and furious. Think hyper-activity or trying to push the sell in
as short time as possible.

We've all seen this type of material. The only way to combat Psy-ops is to question the content, timing and source of suspect material. The following are some samples of what the US government has advocated for many years, describing psy-ops using all forms of media. I recommend you spend some time examining this and building a fortress of knowledge around yourself. Knowledge IS power!

http://www.psywarrior.com/links.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm33-1/
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm33-1/fm33-1m.htm
http://www.kimsoft.com/guerilla.htm

Explosive Mysteries Galore

2006-04-26T15:33:00.000-04:00

by Guest Blogger 371 Bohemia

Recently, while doing"Jager Bombs" with some colleagues at a local watering hole, our red-faced selves started discussing the many mysteries and other subjects are are not really discussed. A couple colleagues are die-hard Astronomers and track nearly everything that floats by ("Astronomers *do it* in the dark; Physicists *do it* with force, and Cosmologists *do it* with the Universe").

At some point between the fifth and nth "Jager Bomb," we moved to a vaguely coherent discussion on all the recent mystery explosions worldwide and their possible causes:

- hyperdimensional aliens revving up their spacecraft hot rods;
- maximum ultra-souped-up "glass pack" mufflers, Earth-shaking speakers, complete with rap music and wheel spinners...just to shame us?
- meteors streaking across the sky and vanishing in a >BOOM - time ripples in space (kind-a like a speed bump)?

Whatever the case is, we know:
- very seldom were seismic detectors set-off
- rarely were there other explanations (like air force training planes causing sonic booms, power explosions, thunder, etc...)
- very infrequently was there any visible activity seen in the sky during these occurrences
- rarely was anything found
- almost always no damage was reported

So, with these thoughts and discussions echoing in my hung-over head, I submit the following mysterious explosions and wonder "What could be the cause(s)?":

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Jun 30, 1908: A colossal flash lit up the sky over Tunguska, Siberia, followed by an explosion with the power of a thousand atom bombs, Now believed to be caused by a UFO. (Sunking's Note: This theory does seem to be revived and debunked annually!?!)

Dec 7, 2000: Mystery Of The Fireball From The Salisbury, New Hampshire Sky Deepens. STILL UNRESOLVED! ("Electric Universe" theory support)

Apr 20, 2001: Mystery Boom Rocks Queensland, Australia

Jan 24, 2002: Mystery Trench In Wales Caused By Lightning Strike, Not Meteorite Fall. Very powerful lightning. Related story here.

November 1,2002: Unexplained 'Boom' Scares Florida Residents

June 17, 2003: Sarasota, Florida Residents Hear, Feel Mystery Boom

June 7, 2004: Mystery Explosion Rocks Town in Seaford, England

June 11, 2004: Mystery bang heard in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

March 8, 2005: Source of Mystery Booms in North Carolina Likely to Remain Unknown

January 17, 2006: Mystery Bang in Spalding, England

February 24, 2006: Mystery Boom in Somerset County, Maine

March 23, 2006: Loud Explosion in Canada, eh?

April 20, 2006: Unidentified explosion in Bacau, Romania

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And what mystery would be complete
without a murder story. Keeping true to the traditions of Alfred Hitchcock,
H.P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Allen Poe, I submit the following true unsolved
mystery:

Mystery Death
NBC News - Los Angeles, CA
April 28, 2003

LOS ANGELES
-- How long would it take for someone to notice if you vanished from the face of the earth? In one case, it took local authorities 11 days, even after they found a body.

"911. What is your emergency?"

"Yes, I am on the 1-10 Freeway and I saw this man standing there, then when I turned around, I didn't see him anymore. I think he jumped."

A man did jump. He jumped 35 feet wearing nothing but a pair of designer pants. No shoes. No shirt. No identification.

At the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, the body lay unclaimed for 11 days.

At that time, a woman stepped forward with a photo of the dead man. A frantic search had been launched, even a missing person's report filed on Dec. 5, six days after the man had vanished.

Fingerprints confirmed what a family dreaded the most. The dead man was one of their own: Manuel Salvador Esquivel.

Esquivel was a 37-year-old engineer at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena, Calif. Esquivel was a graduate of Cal-Tech and received his MBA from Stanford.

According to his family, Esquivel spent 17 years working for NASA - JPL in the deep space satellite communications network. While science was his calling, music was his passion.

Esquivel spent his time in Los Angeles' salsa scene. 'Belinda' a salsa dancer said, "He was always happy and making friends." But Esquivel's family said that salsa led him astray. They claim it happened during a trip Esquivel made to Cuba last November to attend a festival.

Cary Podell is a tour organizer. Podell told NBC4, "He was not part of our tour. Ours was a legal trip approved by Washington. His was not."

Esquivel went to Cuba via Mexico on Nov. 22 and returned seven days later. He arrived at Los Angeles International Airport.

No one from his family got a phone call. Maria Esquivel said this about her brother, "This was not like him. He always called us when he traveled."

It's what Manny Esquivel left behind that makes his family wonder. His car remained in the airport garage.

Esquivel's family wonders how he got from LAX to the place where he died with no clothes on. And where did he spend three days, between the day his ticket says he touched down at LAX, and the day an unidentified caller said he jumped to his death?

The LA Coroner says the cause of death was trauma to the head, but a final ruling is pending results of toxicology tests. (371's note: the results were never released. When the family pressed the issue; the results were returned inconclusive.)

In the meantime, Esquivel's family says not enough has been done.

Rosa Esquivel, Esquivel's sister said, "LAPD botched this case. So did the California Highway Patrol. They thought my brother was just an illegal who killed himself. And that's (why) they didn't investigate what happened." The police have at least one clue as to what happened to Esquivel. Two men, caught on a surveillance camera, who stopped at the El Charro store on Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park, Calif., charged $250.00 on a credit card that belonged to Manny Esquivel.

The two men have yet to be identified.

(371's note: Does JPL/NASA "hit" their own? What did Mr. Esquivel know? Now, we will never know.)

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The Fine Line of Disclosure:

So, what does it take to get organisations to open up the knowledge vaults. Apparently *VERY* much. Knowledge is power and possessors of certain knowledge can be either esteemed and protected or watched and buggered.

It is not enough to say: "Oh well, it's a mystery. We'll never know." Then throw ones hands in the air and walk away.

Per the "X-Files" tagline: "The truth is out there."

As citizens, I believe, this knowledge or information needs to be released and shared. Burying this in the darkest depths of Ivory Towers is to preserve the information for whom? Couldn't the world really use some new technology break-throughs now? Aside from the obvious power play, the potential for peace and advancement exists. Surely, our globalist leaders are not afraid of that, are they? (sarcastic comment; read with sarcasm).

For all the true, diligent working scientists, researchers, engineers, and other techs, our objective is to share (or show off) and advance our knowledge/information. The strong-arm suppression of TPTB, makes being a TECH much less rewarding.

When I was a nuclear medicine physicist at a large cancer hospital in a small state, my work was more rewarding. Back then, I could see the impact of my knowledge and work. Sometimes, a patient goes into remission. Sure it was stressful and one must guard against becoming too attached. Radiation treatments may be archaic by "Star Trek" standards; but it is all they allow us to have for now. Compared to being stuck as a researcher at a megalithic space organisation where my work gets scrutinised, banned, and basically robbed by MGMT. It is a useless existence. A teacher without students.

To touch a life and enhance a life is the ideal of many I associate with. Consider a painter who is a talented artist, losing her hands and is unable to paint. Such is the situation we find ourselves with new innovations, technology, and discoveries that are collecting dust in a vault in some unknown location; forever trapped under lock and key.

To quote from the NASAWatch web site: "Remember: It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for YOU."

There are many on the inside that WANT to work for you, the people. Please give us the chance.

Science of Measurement

2006-04-18T12:22:00.000-04:00

by Guest Blogger - The Fool

"Everything we are and are made of, is measured. From our birth to our graves... what an insight!" - Jasgrave333

That is quite an insight indeed. But how many of us stop and think about measurement and what it entails. Science bases its very existence on it and claims that from this “objective” process all things can be identified, classified and explained. Without measurement, the Church of Science’s foundation would crumble. Objectivity would be lost. But upon examination of The Science of Measurement, we find that it is not only, not objective, but that human consciousness, imagining and creativity are the sources and driver of ALL things, including science’s precious trump card. A book I read in 1994, Physics as Metaphor written by Roger Jones, changed my perception forever about “objective reality”. I have picked out excerpts from the book that best illustrated to me how non-objective, objective science is.

Roger Jones defines a metaphor as “an evocation of the inner connection among things: it’s an act of consciousness that borders on the very creation of things, blurring the distinctions between them, even between them and their names.” He thinks of metaphor in a “larger context in where all things are connected to one another in an underlying unity. When one uses metaphor to juxtapose to apparently unlike things, they are not only referring to a symbolic or apparent connection between the things, but it is hinting at the very creative act itself which underlies all naming and evoking processes.” And whether we know it or not, that creative act applies to EVERYTHING that occurs in our lives. For us there seems to be existence, structure, differentiation, space and time. And as he points out, “we experience the manifestation with its variety and multiplicity, but we only remotely sense the underlying unity or don’t recognize it at all. Scientists often use creative analogies and comparisons to extend theories and even make new ones. The deceptiveness of science comes when metaphors become crystallized and abstract, cut off from their roots in consciousness and forgotten by their creators, and they become idols. An idolator is not so much one who creates idols, but one who worships them.”

He also points out that “as long as our own participation in creating metaphors to separate and differentiate the different aspects of unity remains unconscious, the world will continue to sustain us. But as soon as we acknowledge our unaccustomed creative role, the supporting scaffolding structure evaporates and we fall. Our mapping of and control over the physical world has so beguiled us that we no longer sense, as did the ancients, any connection between the psychological, spiritual elements of our inner world and the inert, mechanistic elements of the external world. Nor do we see them as different aspects of an underlying unity.”

This is the biggest schism that Western society faces, in my opinion. Science has done such a great job of instilling the belief that everything that “exists” is separate and that is why we are so devoid of connection to the Great Chain of Being. It is much easier to justify lining our pocketbooks at the expense of others, raping the land and its resources, and using military might to force ones beliefs on others when that connection to Unity is forgotten. Perhaps this is not an accident. Citizens of countries that engage in such behavior are much more likely to allow such atrocities to happen if they are ignorant of the fact that when they are perpetrated against other entities in the Chain of Being, they are also perpetrated against themselves. We ARE our brother’s keeper, but science is complicit in concealing that fact. In that respect science is a great tool for keeping the masses “in the dark”.

Roger Jones states that “the scientized concepts of space, time, matter and number should be explored as metaphors, expressing the human need and ability to create meaning and value. Those metaphors have an intuitive, mythic, life-giving character which completes and enhances their quantitative meaning and which is motivated by basic human fears and yearnings. It is the fear of death and chaos that gives the metaphors of science their modern lifeless character.” His purpose in writing the book was “to explore the subjective side of the metaphors of physics-their metaphysics, psychology, and ethics-with the dual purpose of illuminating the human quest for meaning, the role of science can be reevaluated and reoriented.” To do that he, “first finds it necessary to discredit the dogmatic belief that is held that science is strictly objective. It is useless to seek the seeds of space and time in the human mind without first loosening the firm grip that 3 centuries of scientific indoctrination has had upon us. Objective measurement is subjective by its very nature and science’s ability to predict and generalize comes from the stacking of the scientific deck of knowledge.”

In his view, “the heart of modern idolatry is quantification-the world reduced to quantities and the relationships between them, the belief that the quantitative description of things is paramount and even complete in itself. Physical science persuades us to disregard, devalue and even deny that which cannot be measured and to act as though such things as love, life, optimism, wonder, and beauty do not matter much in an objective description of reality.”

It is this mentality that is the biggest limitation of science. Subjects like ESP, telekinesis and UFO’s can never be examined because they can’t be “objectified”. Scientists who are honest with themselves will realize that in any discovery, it is not the objective that drives research. It is their FEELING that there are on the right track It is something that RESONATES deep within them. In fact, some of the greatest innovations came from the scientists or inventors dreams. I don’t know of a single person who can call their dreams objective.

Jones continues, “The Western idolatrous notion of an objective world, independent of our “minds”, is sustained by the qualitative, subjective feel of our senses, corroborated by objective measure. The raw data of the senses is largely interpreted in terms of a construct of reality based on the measurement of physical properties. Years of conditioning have established and reinforced the physical, spatial interpretations we make-a long process of indoctrination that is extremely difficult to recognize as such and which plays quite a useful role. It makes possible the hand-eye coordination of sense data that enables us to live an efficient, ordered life. Without that, life would be chaos, unintelligible and unnegotiable. It would be a schizophrenic nightmare, the experience of an infant mind, or perhaps even of death.”

As the scientific constructs of space, time, matter and number are examined, by Jones, “it becomes obvious that there is an imaginative character of those metaphors and that their quantitative and qualitative sides are inseparable, and that there is an essential human element even in the coldest, most objective and external of scientific concepts. Quantitative description is not only incomplete, but at its heart, ultimately subjective.”

In the next installment, I will show how Roger Jones breaks down space, time, matter and number and I will give his examples of how the human element comes into play in each of them. My hope is, like me, you won’t see science in the same light again.

In Memoriam II

2006-04-12T10:42:00.000-04:00

This is dedicated to:

- Stephanie, the 19 y/o daughter of my wife's cousin. Her family knows Why and How she died.

- The astropsychologist at HAARP who recently died because this insidious system that is now almost at 100% capability, kills. His family will NEVER be told the truth about Why and How he died.

- All the humans that have died because of the current War-Justified-By-Lies-In-Iraq. Not just the ones the US says died, I mean all US deaths and all Non-US deaths, too. We may know How they died, but can that entity called the American Public ever understand Why they died, even if actually told the truth?

Friends, the threat of a new Neo-Con inspired war, with Iran, looms darkly on the horizon.

NOW is the time to take action!
NOW is the time to write your elected representatives.
NOW is the time to write ALL the newspapers.
NOW is the time to write a Blog.
NOW is the time to call in to talk radio.

NOW is the time to voice your opposition to any further waging of war by this Administration.

NOW is the time to Save Human Life!

NOW!

The New A-Bomb

2006-04-05T23:23:00.000-04:00

by 371 Bohemia

Is HAARP the New 'A-Bomb Mistake'?

Imagine, if you will, a device of such power and expanse that it can literally punch a hole in the atmosphere. A device whose effects are felt WORLD-WIDE. Whose reach can disturb the Earth's crust or mantle, setting off earthquakes and other tectonic disturbances.

Now, imagine a device whose radiation causes horrifying birth defects, brain abnormalities, and cancers.

Imaging a group of researchers and military types are nearly complete in building this fearsome apparatus. Imagine it is us. Ponder that it lives mostly dormant and unknown in a peaceful rural area in Alaska, USA.

It's HAARP.

We have all read and discussed the conspiracy theories regarding it's purpose from weather manipulation to earthquake detonation to global warming and warfare usage. But there's more.

Like the Manhattan Project which gave birth to the atomic bomb, the HAARP project started innocently enough until *they* became involved. *THEY* being the M/I Complex. And we know that whenever the M/I Complex involves itself, all projects become changed into newer, more exotic, and more powerful ways to ANNIHILATE our fellow humans.

The Manhattan Project scientists realised only after they achieved technical success, what the intent of such a device was. Many became horrified and
tried to valiantly stop this new weapon's usage. President H. S. Truman and the war pigs did not listen. They had their new toy of death, their glowing wand of supremacy.

Of those scientists, a few became chronically depressed. J. R. Oppenheimer quoting from the Bhagavad Gita: "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds." Oppenheimer was only a man, into whose hands, a far too mighty instrument of power had been given.

The fear, guilt, and sadness of these exceptional scientists motivated many of them to form early war protests against the use of atomic weapons. They could not comprehend any government would use such a device for the deliberate and intentional killing, maiming, and destruction of humanity on such a mass scale.

We know the horrifying results. The death, devastation, illness. Japanese people walking like living dead with their skin peeling off in sheets, their bodies burning internally and externally from the combined heat and radiation, limbs falling off like broken branches.

Since then, the march against nukes in war has been powerful, vocal, and so far, successful. Our knowledge and understanding of this scary glowing stuff is more complete. In some cases radiation is being used to TREAT certain cancers versus causing them. In some places, it is used as an efficient energy source. We have come a long way in the peaceful application of this untamed beast; however and unfortunately, it was only after it was used as a destructive force.

21st Century A-Bomb:

Such is the way of any new discovery. The first question asked is how it can be used in war or how can it be used to kill our "enemies" if needed. Never is the intent of new technologies for the benefit or improvement of society as a whole.

HAARP is another "Pandora's Box." The near-sighted boffins with their new tech hard-ons are quickly pursuing this new technologically sweet nectar without considering the future consequences.

Oppenheimer also once said:

When you see something that is technically
sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Will it also be the same for HAARP?
Will these scientists be forced to face the same guilt, shock, and sadness when they realise the monster they inadvertently created?

It will be too late.

Too often I hear of sickening stories of mutated babies, indigenous peoples
sufferings, high cancer incidences, whales and other sea creatures that rely on sonar for navigation becoming confused and actually drowning, mutated animals, birth defects in which the infants skull is not completely fused thereby exposing brain matter (death quickly ensues). The recent death of a colleague due to brain swelling and hemorrhaging. Those by his death bed report this person's head was swollen nearly 4 times normal size. The pain caused by the pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid build-up forced him to remain in a drug induced coma for his final days. He looked inhuman ... alien-like ... with sunken eyes. Rest in piece for in his soul was a genuine ambition to further our knowledge. But, at what cost?

HAARP & ChemTrails -- A Connection?

Food for thought. What if these "chemtrails" are the conduit for HAARP's long range effects? Is the chemtrails purpose to shield and protect or to target and focus? Is the chemtrail another piece in this larger, global monster.

Conclusion:

Let's discuss! This is only part of the picture that is available to me. Perhaps your insights, thoughts, ideas, and opinions can add to it. In closing, consider the lyrics from Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" off their 1970 album titled "Paranoid":

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning
As the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
All right now!

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371 Bohemia

Threats Above, Below

2006-03-29T15:18:00.000-05:00

by Ericswan

In my opinion, the FSHOD crewe is way ahead of the curve when it comes to disclosure. 9/11 is old hat compared to what we went through with hurricane manipulations that will take a couple more seasons in the sun before the centre moves our way. One of the things I like the most about our group is its' "discernment". You have never failed me when it comes to glowering a jaundiced eye on every frontal attack that has been made. Someone is always there to question a post, a link, a comment, or another poster's motives or identity. This makes it all very interesting as there can be no moving forward if "this dog won't hunt'.

One of my over-long posts brings me to an issue I think we should look at. (Besides the fact that the comments page is too long for dialups!) The overlong piece that I'm speaking about quotes Richard Hoagland's investigation into a heated up solar system as being the reason for our flyboy heroes in the sky:

"Richard C. Hoagland, among others, has been advocating such an energy transference between our universe and (for lack of a better term) a ”sister universe” for some years now. He has been all too aware of the significant changes happening with our sun and all the planets in our solar system. His latest paper discussing this phenomenon, (which he calls ”hyper-dimensional”) is ”Interplanetary Day After Tomorrow?” available to read at this URL: http://www.enterprisemission.com/_articles/05-14-2004/Interplanetary_1.htm

Mr. Hoagland has a brilliant and highly imaginative mind. He is also a maverick. Because some of his methods are unorthodox and his insight unsettling, much of the scientific establishment tends to dismiss his ideas. The irony is, years after they dismiss his observations they often are found rushing to publish papers in peer publications exactly echoing what he often first pointed out to them. Such is the history of the established norm versus the insightful innovators."

The writer (anonymous) goes on to say that Mr. Hoagland and his insight into solar system warming is why we need chemtrails. I don't recall anything on RCH's board that would indicate he had a position on chemtrails. Regardless, I think that we should discuss and explore this issue in-depth, especially considering that the IDAT article is a couple of years old. And I also think that this article posted in the comments recently about the urgent warning of imminent cataclysm in Northwestern United States is definitely a related issue cause to devote some time and human energy to finding the truth.

Any comments?

eric swan

Lost In Space

2006-03-23T15:33:00.000-05:00

The other day I saw an amusing parody of the Bush bumper-sticker, the one with the US flag with the 'W' super-imposed on it...except this one had WTF?. This mirrored my sentiments exactly. But considering recent events surrounding our vaunted space agency, I think we need a NASA-WTF? sticker, too!

First we're told that there will be no budget cuts. Elachi goes to a meeting of Bohemia Grove, then we're told there will be budget cuts. President Bush tells us that there needs to be more emphasis on math and science education...then we are told that NASA will be cutting many of the good science projects that are already underway, many in the science departments of universities nationwide. WTF?

The lack of accountability over time has caused NASA to be the ghost it is. My ideas, thoughts, and 2001: Space Odyssey-inspired dreams were that we would be on the moon doing stuff now. It has been nearly 40 years since we first landed (if you believe we did). We should have permanent facilities on the Moon today! WTF?

Instead, we are dumping an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars for a floating tube-steak (i.e., the ISS)...a piece of junk that is floating around in a useless orbit (chosen because of politics), that cannot be used as a jump-base, that is not even 50% completed and more than $26 BILLION over budget and almost 7 years behind schedule. The thing is falling apart; mechanical failures plague the U.S and Soviet space janitors daily. If built using Legos, it might have held together better. WTF?

(memo to self: Invent new Space Legos!)

When will the space shuttle launch next? It was supposed to be May, but new discoveries of falling tiles could indefinitely delay that. How can we ever finish our international obligations to the ISS if we cannot even get off the ground? Will this decrepit tin can ever be completed or will it be scuttled and allowed to crash-land into the ocean? WTF?

NASA must cut it's losses. The combined costs of maintaining the remaining shuttle fleet, designing & developing the next CEV, and finishing the ISS has NASA's finances at the breaking-point. Plus, we still need to maintain existing unmanned and science projects. NASA already nixed all future unmanned and science projects that are either behind schedule, over budget, or not yet on the books. This kills an estimated 40% unmanned & science workload. How can universities support their astrobiology and space research projects when NASA zips closed the purse? WTF?

And all this big hype about MRO aero-braking around Mars. This is routine stuff. Yet in a time of budget cuts, VIPs and families were invited to see 'da show' and partake of a fancy spread. This was a joke. My take? Here's the modus operandi of NASA:

"Let's make the public think that THIS is the focus of all our attention and work; by make the public think that work is vital and dangerous and valuable to the American economy and spirit of exploration...indeed, our future. Continue to Captialize on the mystique of the Space Program using and reusing images and stereotypes of past successes AND tragedies, like has been being done for 35 years, to continue to evoke emotions of pride and resolve and highlight the ability of The Program to inspire young minds. While the public eye absorbs, enjoys and develops a Pavlovian 'comfort level' whenever presented with "NASA' or "Space", a covertly overt establishment will be diligently acheiving the goals of securing the realm of space to ensure American commercial and military preeminence."

If there is to be a "new NASA", I expect to see it come from DoD. DoD's role has been growing in the recent years. More stuff is influenced by DoD than NASA
itself. DoD definitely has the technology and can do it right. Plus, with a tremendous budget, they could be the next 'space program'. This is evidenced by the new rebadging regulations being put in place at all NASA facilities: RFID embedded id/access cards, retina scans, and finger-printing.

The draw-back I can see is that DoD is owned by the Military/Industrial Complex. As such, these guys masturbate about war all the time. The PNAC-promise of Pax Americana requires dominance in Space (and Cyberspace, too!) So, what kind of space program will we end up with? A space program that can spy on every square inch (real or virtual) of earth and wage war without asking the permission of another country to use their airspace? A space program that can kick alien ass or asteroid butt? WTF?

(hmmmm...memo to self: Invent new 'Assteroid', "Hemmorrhoid Creme of the Stars")

So, are my Star Trek and 2001: Space Odyssey inspired dreams of the future....Lost in Space? If so....WTF?

Fine by Me

2006-03-14T16:51:00.000-05:00

A Guest Blog by Scarletm

What if The FACE...ain’t?

I pose this question because the act of asking it is something that frightens me far more than proving it to be right.! With this new mars probe, all of us have our collective hopes up that MRO will take some pictures of the engimatic Face on Mars and of Cydonia...and then that some rogue scientist-, explorer- or mystery-guide-wannabe somehow, somewhere strolling thru some white room or lab or computer server or whatever! and will be able to copy or reproduce just one definitive image!! We all know that whether it’s 'official' or not, it will be probably be done, that MRO will be tasked to snap a few quickies. NASA has too many people, from the scientific community down to the humble FSHOD blogger, betting on it. My guess is they will actually snap the pictures.

What the conclusion IS of those pictures will become a much more hotly debated matter. Let’s 'face' it (no pun intended) NASA can’t really win either way. If it does turn out to be an actual architectural structure they are gonna have a 'lotta splain’in to do'...or will they? Hey Photoshop does wonders for “erasing” crow’s feet from my face in pictures, why not on an ARTIFICIAL structure? A smudge here, a warp there, and VOILA! You have Mount Pile of Rocks! “See, all this time it was just a bunch of dips and valleys and, oh never mind that lake there, and peaks and see…just a plain old pile of nothing folks...”

But what if they ARE telling the truth?

What if it turns out to be a pile of rocks?

A pile of rocks that happen to have sacred geometric features...but none the less, a pile of rubble, a result of eons of comets smashing into its poor, red, airless surface?

Does it make us foolish for believing? Or brave, for dreaming.

Until we have independent human corroboration, by actually having a manned landing on the planet, I am afraid we will all go to our graves wondering how this little mystery in life will turn out. A picture just ain't gonna do it!

Frankly, I really don’t WANT to know because half the fun has been the speculation. By not knowing I have been entertained, cerebrally expanded, and most importantly, introduced to better human beings than I would have ever known otherwise. Life would just be too damn boring.

That having been said:

I do believe that they will finally have to come out and admit to some sort of “life” out there. Of course it will all be of the microbial sort, too small to make people fear of little green (gray) (wo)men, but none the less it will be “life”. I’m sure to go to the grave with that “mystery’ solved.

But I believe that Mars, in my lifetime, will forever remain an enigma...and that’s fine by me.

A Temporary Post

2006-03-04T09:30:00.000-05:00

This is just a temp post.

We have built up about 755 comments from the current blog and that has to be causing somebody some page loading grief. However, wifey is beating me about the head to get shaved, showered and dressed to go shopping for wicker furniture for the lanai and to go visit the zoo. So writing a new post will have to wait until this evening.

But perhaps I'll get inspiration for a new post, meandering through the zoo, seeing the sights, smelling the smells, watching the antics in the 'monkey' house and the 'spider' cage?

I am thinking about writing on the causes and effects of the NASA budget cuts. Within the last two blogs, there are some clues to be had. And some please the avid conspiracy theorist demanding disclosure.

Have a good Saturday...or Sunday for those on the 'other side of the Pacific'. LOL!