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#8821 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 10:18 am
Subject: Imbolc Signal - Update
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Dear Friends,

   Here's the latest from Goro. Click the link if you don't receive the images.

   http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/babylon-transit-2.htm#bt2-ud1

   Love and Light.

   David

   UPDATE - Imbolc Signal (January 31, 8:50pm ET):
   Where to begin... Actually I'm going to make this quick.      As you may have
noticed, the latter part of January saw rumors going around about some impending
'nuclear attack' on the US on Jan. 31 or thereabouts and there was a string of
speculations (more like groupthink) about some doomy events around the beginning
of February, i.e. the Imbolc cross-quarter day period. I found it rather amusing
- myself having already highlighted Imbolc (around Feb. 1) as one of the key
windows pinpointed by 'Damage Plan #2' and having done so by December last year.
(Also mentioned above in Babylon Transit - Part 2 posted Jan. 12.) It was old
news to me... and I'm trying to make clear here that I'm not part of that
echo-chamber crowd.      But the 'background noise' of late prompted me to move
somewhat in the opposite direction, toward subtlety rather than 'shock & awe'.
No nuke per se and the like. Not during Imbolc. Instead, my focused had
gravitated toward the Patriot Act (renewal deadline
  Feb. 3), the symbolism of the State of the Union Address (Jan. 31), Alito
Supreme Court confirmation, Hamas victory (Jan 25/26~), and such. I had also
started to focus increasingly on the 'delay' aspect of the Imbolc code. (All
this documented in the STRUG blog).      I would compare the situation to what
we had with Discovery STS-114 - the 'Return To Space' space shuttle mission last
summer. I covered the event (its 'ritualistic' design) in great detail on this
website, focusing particularly on the 'message' encoded in its landing August
9th. You may recall that there was so much speculation as to the prospect of
Discovery ending up like its predecessor, Columbia, upon reentry into Earth's
atmosphere. (It was hardly a trouble-free mission so that certainly helped fuel
the speculation.) I was focusing on Discovery since before its launch and by the
time of landing I had distanced myself from the growing disaster speculation,
stressing the mission's symbolism instead.     Update
  (Feb. 1): Reading back my old posts from July-August just made me remember that
there was also a similar 'nuclear threat' rumor going around at the time of
Discovery's landing! And here is what I wrote back then:     Unlike many out
there (or because there are many out there anticipating this), I'm not
particularly worried about a nucIear attack and such (well, not just yet). While
'nucIear' is a key theme, it is Peak Oil that seems to be emerging as the
central component in the 'omen' aspect of the 'Contact communication'.
   Discovery did land safely, completing a mission lasing 333 hours and 33
minutes, and while people were beginning to move on to other things, I was
actually astounded by what the landing revealed behind the veil. It was so
'magical' and tangible that to me it was a form of 'Contact' and I have not yet
fully disclosed this finding - but I plan to soon enough.      One of the key
aspects of Discovery's 'message' was that its landing came during a
cross-quarter window, that of 'Lughnasadh'. ('Cross-quarter days' mark the
midpoints between the solstices and the equinoxes.) And the whole STS-114
mission was peppered with allusions to one particular CQ day - Imbolc. (Yes,
Imbolc is one of the four cross-quarter days.)
   Lughnasadh is actually Imbolc in the Southern Hemisphere. And STS-114 was
special due to its 'Return To Space' nature, i.e. the first space shuttle
mission since the destruction of Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003, or the day of Imbolc.
'Damage Plan #2' disclosed on/around Dec. 8, '05 reinforced this cross-quarter
correlation and prompted me to highlight the upcoming Imbolc, i.e. now.   Note
that Discovery landed on Aug. 9th - the anniversary of Nagasaki getting nuked.
So it is actually no surprise that we have: 1) the nuke attack rumor, 2) a US
military nuclear terrorism exercise taking place 1/31-2/2, 3) the Iran nuclear
issue in the background that suddenly intensified in January, and 4) Bush
addressing America's 'addiction to oil' and (reportedly) nuclear energy in his
State of the Union speech later today.      The parallel is that just as there
was a Discovery disaster [and nuclear threat] storyline (Lughnasadh) that was
just a storyline and not anything literal, there is now
  (Imbolc) this background noise concerning an 'impending nuke attack' and such.
And just as I did with the Discovery case, I'm not going for the literalness of
the storyline. The key now is its symbolism.      This is where the 'delay'
issue enters the picture. Somehow found encoded in Damage Plan #2 is the idea of
a delay or even 'twin delay'. The 'Damage Plan disclosure' event at
Midway/Chicago on Dec. 8 alluded to the concept of 'overshooting
Christmas/CQ-day' as discussed before, and on the Julian/Orthodox Christmas Day
(Jan. 7) - highlighted by the Deep Impact/London code involving diametrical
orbit interactions between Comet Tempel 1 and Mars - produced a mini-'fall of
Sun-king' event that was Tom Delay giving up his Republican House leader post.
The name 'Tom Delay' implies 'Twin Delay' ('Thomas' means 'twin').      As it
happens Discovery's landing experienced a 'twin delay'.      Discovery was first
planned to return on August 7th, changed to Aug. 8 after launch (delay #1),
  and then pushed back again to Aug. 9 just before landing supposedly due to
weather (delay #2).      Based on a certain set of clues, I'm currently
theorizing that the 'twin delay' concept is applicable to the Patriot Act for
Imbolc. It was scheduled to expire at the end of 2005 but Congress delayed it a
month. It's presently set to expire or to be renewed by February 3rd. If the
pattern holds, the deadline will be delayed again.      As already discussed on
STRUG, the Patriot Act is a long-known key factor in the Super Torch Ritual and
its relevance is especially high during this Imbolc window.      As you can see,
it's not only the Patriot Act but the idea of Justice that's figuring
prominently in the scheme.      In that context, the installment of Judge Alito
into the US Supreme Court - becoming Justice Alito - on Jan. 31 (a bona-fide
Imbolc day, directly coinciding with a middle-Sun Orange Alignment forming in
the solar system) certainly constitutes a Imbolc 'signature event'.
   It's basically about authoritarianism vs. civil liberties. The first 'Tower'
collapsed with the confirmation of dictatorship-friendly Alito. On the same day,
the widow and inheritor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. died. (I'm
sure you can see the symbolic implication there.) The second 'Tower' appears
represented by the Patriot Act - its second deadline looming...      It's worth
noting that after Discovery and largely based on the shuttle symbolism, I
quickly went on to project a high-impact event of certain nature coming at the
end of August '05 - this time there was practically no background 'noise' in
terms of rumors, echo-chamber 'predictions', etc. clouding the temporal space so
to speak. The date came and unleashed Katrina on New Orleans - a 'Great Flood'
event echoing Sumatra. Along with the death of the Pope (which was also
projected beforehand), the American Great Flood was the event of 2005.      This
pattern may see an echo this year in connection with the
  Imbolc window reflecting Discovery/Lughnasadh. A major 'Damage event' is likely
set up to strike sometime after Imbolc, and it will probably have been more or
less anticipated. The seeds are sown in the belly of Imbolc. And more seeds and
clues are likely emerge in the coming days. Discerning the underlying time code
is a big challenge, but progress is being made. It's actually a side-product of
something bigger that is a form of 'Contact' but the 'Damage' aspect is a key
component nonetheless.      I am already heavily into the process of decoding
the 'Communication'... a massive amount of sub-channel and multi-contextual
information processing, and starting to see a silhouette of the scheme.     
Generally speaking, it seems likely to involve things nuclear/radioactive along
with certain volcanoes directly or indirectly. Here is a potential storyline: A
radioactive/radiological event (such as 'dirty bomb') involving or blamed on
'al-Qaeda' in San Francisco. (This is perhaps close
  to a 'worst case scenario'.)      The US West Coast (particularly the Pacific
Northwest apart from S.F. etc.) is where things seem to be heavily entangled.
Another key factor is Schwarzenegger who is politically on life-support. What
can resurrect his super-hero presence? Elections are coming up this year, so
there is a ticking clock there.      Political 'deep impact' events are still on
the radar as well... Let me point out that the US midterm elections this year
will be held on Nov. 7th or the (astronomical) Samhain cross-quarter day. Add to
that the implication of the phrase 'midterm election' being analogous to
'midpoint Judgment', a redundantly-expressed Justice (balance) theme, you can
see the relevance of the political stuff.      A bigger context would be the
'Trojan War' or World War III. More people are talking about WW3 especially
after Iran's nuclear move early January '06 ('nuclear' again). For months I have
been hinting and mentioning that the key theme active in this
  period seems to be that of 'Judgment of Paris' and other related events in
mythology that precede the great Trojan War or the ancient 'World War'. Again,
it could be said that 'seeds' are being sown.


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#8822 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 10:31 am
Subject: Sensors, Filters And The Source Of Reality
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Dear Friends,

   Long, but worth the read.

   http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/pdf/18.4_jahn_dunne.PDF

   Love and Light.

   David


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#8823 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 10:41 am
Subject: Diabolus ex Machina
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Dear Friends,

   New article from Clyde Lewis. Long so I'm only sending an excerpt.

   http://www.clydelewis.com/dis/diabolus/diabolus.shtml

   Love and Light.

   David

   Diabolus ex Machina
   by Clyde Lewis

   "War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton
destruction, and irresponsible murder." --Alexander Berkman  Who would have
believed that 2006 kicked off the way it did? It was almost as if 2005 refused
to go away and in the first month we were already wishing it were 2007. It even
seems as though I have to write about the year that "was" and we haven't even
finished off the first month.

   Scandals and war continue to plague us, and who would have thought that in the
United States we would be talking about possible criminal activity in the White
House? Who would have even fancied the idea that the United States is a country
that illegally spies on its own citizens and eliminates those who speak out
against the fascist activities of the elite?

   Who knew?

   If this has surprised you, then you are really asleep.

   It is time to look through the lenses of those individuals that have already
had their eyes opened and understand that politics are dead. There are no
Democrats or Republicans, no red state against blue state, just a leviathan
state that is against you.

   What was once conspiracy theory is becoming our reality. What once got me
dirty looks and jeers are now getting me questions on what needs to be done in
order to fight back.

   I am afraid that we may be too late. All we have to do now is watch as the New
World order feeds on those who are too stupid to acknowledge that the great
downfall has begun.

   The mainstream media is showing us the new scorched earth policy. The media
now is an infomercial for the encroaching police state and is being used as a
device to uphold the destructive attitudes of fascism.

   No longer do we have a media that challenges an empire. It merely stands idly
by as the empire grows at an astonishing rate.

   While in history a scorched earth policy entailed destroying all land and
buildings so that nothing was left for the enemy. The media has liquidated the
nation's ability to heal from terrorism. The networks continue to report the
so-called dangers of living on this planet and the television dramas are set in
courtrooms, police precincts, and morgues.

   If we continue on our path of electronic destructive group dynamic there will
be many that will feel the need to surrender to whatever invisible enemy that is
manufactured by an already crazed and out of control government.

   The surrender will be gradual and will be accomplished quietly and willingly.
   Those who are in control and those who can see beyond the manipulations will
survive.

   The Revolution is being numbed into submission. Our passive nation is too
preoccupied with paying the bills and watching the Super bowl. While watching
your television you will be told to buy more, to be an army of one, to drink
more and eat more because you never know when you are going to die.

   If you were to believe the hype and propaganda given to us by the White House
you would believe that the New Year started off well. We were told by our
leaders that the United States is on the fast track to a full economic and
emotional recovery from all of the broken promises and lies that we have had to
endure throughout this never ending war for the preservation of terror.

   If we are to believe the hype and the propaganda we are doing a great job in
the Middle East. The repetition of the words "job well done" seemed to be as
hollow as a family that applauds on the game show "Family Feud" when the slow
member of the family blurts out the most insipid answer.
   "In my line of work you have got to keep repeating things over and over an
over again, for the truth to sink in to kind of catapult the propaganda"—George
W. Bush  The trumpeting of the great economy, and reassurance of Iraq's
progress, did nothing to take away the pain of knowing that nearly 3,000
soldiers have died fighting a war on a flimsy premise.

   So the propaganda had to come with an expected and a not at all too stunning
Diabolus ex Machina.

   With all of our so-called progress we still have to fear the bogeyman of
terror.
   We still have to take some time out of our lives to participate the all too
familiar Orwellian ritual of gazing upon the face of our own Emmanuel Goldstein,
Osama bin Laden.

   Goldstein of course was a state manufactured arch-villain in George Orwell's
classic book "1984." He would always appear on television screens in the Two
Minute Hate ritual and people would yell and scream to be protected by 'Big
Brother'."

   In 2006 the Orwell estate should sue the Bush administration for copyright
infringement.

   Osama bin Laden came from out of nowhere speaking of renewed interest in
conducting widespread terror attacks on the United States while offering a truce
at the same time.

   It seemed convenient that bin Laden appeared. His appearances can be timed up
to the very minute that the Bush administration sees trouble on the horizon.
   It is never brought up in the mainstream media that when Osama bin Laden's
threat tapes are released coincidentally at the time when George W. Bush is
desperate in trying to drum up support for his outlaw regime.

   The Patriot Act is about to lapse and of course the timing of bin Laden's
threatening words couldn't be more perfect. It would even be more predictable
that before the Patriot Act is reviewed again that we hear of a terror threat or
even a terror event just prior to the hearings.

   That of course can be called a conspiracy theory or some half-baked
speculation but the record speaks for itself. Days before the November 2004
election a bin Laden tape surfaced and many people believe that it created some
last minute mind changing with some of the voters.

   Why would we want to change horsemen in the middle of an apocalypse?
Especially when that madman in a turban has said those frightening words on
tape.

   Bin Laden appearing again on Al Jazeera in January is no coincidence. It has
been planned in order to take the focus off of the Jack Abramoff bribery
scandals, George W. Bush's blatant disregard for the constitution in regards to
illegal spying on the American people, and Al Gore coming from out of nowhere to
take a swat at the president about the wiretap scandal.

   Amazing how Al Gore showed up to fight for Democracy some six years too late.
   "What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the
conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law
repeatedly and persistently." -Al Gore  Who would have thought that Al Gore had
it in him? Now if we could only get him to admit that there have been other
Presidents that have been involved with criminal activity. Perhaps Gore could
give us a bit of information on the super secret eavesdropping program called
Echelon? Why won't Al Gore speak about how Echelon was allowed to randomly troll
U.S. telecommunications systems looking for anyone who may have wanted to plot
against the government?

   Why doesn't Gore point this out?




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#8824 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 10:49 am
Subject: Man Sees Fleet Of Several Objects - Photo And Video
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Dear Friends,

   Click the link if you don't receive the images or can't access the video link.

   http://www.ufosnw.com/guadalaj11252006.htm

   Love and Light.

   David

                     Man Sees Fleet of Several Objects. Takes Video and Photo
Photo of Objects Taken by Witness
   CLICK HERE TO PLAY VIDEO (3.3 MB)

Location of Sighting
   Date of Sighting: November 25, 2005
Time of Sighting: 2 PM Local Time
Duration of Sighting: Not Known
Date Reported: January 31, 2006
Location of Sighting: Guadalajara, Mexico
Latitude:  20.7 Degrees North
Longitude:  103.4 Degrees West
Number of Witnesses: One
Weather: Cloudy

   Description (In Witness's Own Words With a Few Edits): I was driving my car
and I saw 40 or maybe more orbs moving in the sky. I stopped the car. The
objects were moving from southwest to northeast and the velocity varied. I had
my camera nearby and I took video & photos. They had metallic texture in black
and different shapes. They moved in groups and some of them changed the shapes.
The distance was about 150 meters. The sight was near to the town center. I
didn't see any aircraft in the area or any type of exhaust coming from the
objects.

   Investigator's Notes:  The video and photo taken by witness somewhat resemble
the types of objects video taped and photographed for the past decade in Mexico.

   The witness wrote his report in English, but I made some corrections. I need
to make sure that I did not distort what he said with these corrections. I have
written to the witness asking more questions about his experience.  The
photograph shows many more objects than the video.  The witness said that he saw
40 orbs. He has interchangeably referred to his sightings as UFOs, objects, and
orbs. This is not indicative of a fabrication, but more likely the result his
attempt to articulate his experience in English. I believe this video to be
real.  I don't know for sure what was video taped.





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#8825 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 10:59 am
Subject: Mind At Light Speed - A New Kind Of Intelligence
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Dear Friends,

  
http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/media/mind-at-light-speed-a-new-kind-of-i\
ntelligence.html

   Love and Light.

   David

   Mind at Light Speed - A New Kind of Intelligence  January 31st, 2006 Thomas
Herold-->by Emil Venere Print Email
   Advanced optics such as lasers, crystals and holograms may work in concert
with quantum theory to revolutionize computers in this century, promising
tremendous speed and abilities that exceed the human brain, according to a new
book.

   Computers created within the next two decades could revolve around a
technology in which laser beams converge inside crystals the size of sugar
cubes, forming holographic images for processing huge amounts of information,
says the author, Purdue University physics Professor David D. Nolte.

   In his book, "Mind at Light Speed: A New Kind of Intelligence," Nolte
describes how optics-based computer technologies may evolve over three
generations during the next century.

   The first generation, which is well under way, has seen the Internet
transformed by fiberoptic cables, optical switches and other devices that are
based on photonics, or using visible light signals to transmit data.

The second generation, perhaps by the year 2020, will revolve around new types
of optical processors. These "holographic computers" might use crystals that
receive and manipulate data-laden images, processing information much faster
than conventional computers.

   Perhaps after 2050, a network connecting such computers might achieve
intelligence, Nolte says.

   "Imagine luminous machines of light made from threads of glass and brilliantly
colored crystals that glow and shimmer, pulsating to the beat of intelligence,"
Nolte writes in the epilogue of this book.

   Photonic applications in computing could extend far beyond the Internet, he
says.

   "One example is a machine that is able to sift through faces in a crowd to
look for terrorists."

   The third generation, possibly during the second half of the 21st century,
could use "quantum optical" technologies to create computer networks capable of
solving problems that currently are "uncomputable."

   Photonics is the optical equivalent of electronics:
Instead of using electrons to transmit and process information, photonics uses
photons, or tiny units of light.

   Conventional computers transmit and process pieces of information in serial
form, or one piece at a time. However, future computers may use "parallel"
streams of data, allowing transmission of images – billions of pieces of
information – all at once instead of one piece at a time, Nolte says.
   The result would be much faster networks and computers.

   "Our lives are filled with images, so why not have machines that operate on
images as their principle unit of information?" he says. Nolte has written about
130 peer-reviewed journal articles and specializes in "dynamic holography," in
which crisscrossing beams of laser light are used to create and control images.
   The evolution of optical computer applications has already begun.

   "Optoelectronic" technologies now use lasers to transmit data on glass fibers.

   However, conventional optoelectronics has a major drawback. First, electronic
signals have to be converted into light pulses for transmission over the
Internet. Later, at the opposite end of the transmission, the light pulses must
be converted back into electronic signals, a series of ones and zeros called
binary digits, or bits, which the computer can understand.


   "In optoelectronics, all of the control, all the intelligence, is in the
electronics, in the transistors and the software driving it," Nolte says. "What
we really want to do is get rid of some of those electronic circuits in the
middle so that you can actually have light acting on light. If you could have
light staying in the optical domain, it’s a lot faster, a lot more efficient,
and it makes a lot more sense."
   The human eye is a good model for an optical machine, he says.

   "Light is an intrinsically parallel data structure," Nolte says. "Your eyes
have a huge data-receiving capacity. Streaming into your eyes right now is about
a gigabit, or a billion bits of information, per second."

   But conventional technologies cannot easily supply the transmission capacity
of the human eye. For images to be transmitted over the Internet, they must
first be converted into a series of pixels, or picture elements. The pixels are
then transmitted in serial form, one at a time, until the image has been
received at the other end of the line.

   The Advantage of Fiberoptics
Advances in fiberoptics have made it possible to transmit data in several
wavelengths of light simultaneously along the same fiber, through a technology
called wavelength division multiplexing. Currently, such channels can transmit
16 or 32 color channels at the same time. But the data are still sent serially
as bits on each color channel, limiting the Internet’s speed.

   "The eyes need or want to see a gigabit per second. That means your eyes want
to have a gigabit coming out of every computer screen, and then you are talking
huge data rates on network trunk lines. You are talking petabits of data rate,
or a one with 15 zeros after it, on the trunk lines."

   That is more than a thousand times faster than current Internet technologies
can handle on a single fiber.

   Reaching such astonishing capacities will require not only fiberoptic lines
that can transmit a thousand colors at the same time, but also a whole bevy of
photonic devices, such as switches and processors in which light controls light
inside transparent crystals.

   "There are no such fully optical switches yet in the Internet, but they are
being developed in laboratories," Nolte says.

   The crystal switches will reduce the need to convert light pulses into
electronic signals, but it is unlikely they will ever entirely replace electrons
inside computers.

   "The optical image processors probably will not replace more conventional
processor chips altogether but will work alongside electronic microprocessors,"
he says. "People expect that optics is going to replace chips like Pentium
processors. That’s wrong. Electronics will always be the simplest way of doing
computation and control."

   Transmitting Data with Photons
Photons, on the other hand, are far better than electrons at transmitting data
over long distances, such as network lines. They also could be used inside of
computers to process and transmit information. Specialized photonic components
operating on images would be capable of processing a million bits of data in the
same amount of time that electronic circuits can process 32 bits.
   "I am talking about machines that have optical processors that keep the image
always in the image domain so that it never gets chunked up into pixels," Nolte
says. "Then the image becomes the unit of information instead of the measly
bit."

   Photons also would be ideal for possible future technologies in "quantum
computing."

   Today’s computers work by representing information as a series of ones and
zeros, in a code that is relayed by transistors, which are minute switches that
can either be on or off, representing a one or a zero, respectively.

   Quantum computers would take advantage of a strange phenomenon described by
quantum theory: Objects, such as atoms or electrons, can be in two places at the
same time, or they can exist in two states at the same time. That means
computers based on quantum physics would have quantum bits, or "qubits," that
exist in both the on and off states simultaneously, making it possible for them
to process information much faster than conventional computers.

   A string of quantum bits would be able to calculate every possible on-off
combination simultaneously, dramatically increasing the computer’s power and
memory.

   "You can do a lot of great quantum information processing with photons because
they are so easy to work with," Nolte says. "What you gain with quantum
computing is the ability to solve problems that are unsolvable otherwise. You
are talking about processing capabilities that exceed human comprehension."

   A future Internet of quantum computers might be able to "self-organize" itself
into an intelligent network of nodes.

   "This would be something that really looked a lot like a quantum brain," Nolte
says.


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#8826 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 11:06 am
Subject: Solid Plasma
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Dear Friends,

   http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/00current.htm

   Love and Light.

   David


Credit: DMR, COBE, NASA, Two-Year Sky Map
Caption: Microwave image of the entire sky. To a radio telescope space is full.

     Feb 01, 2006
Solid Plasma
   Plasma is the so-called fourth state of matter, but is actually the primary
substance of "reality". It can be in states that loosely resemble the other
three, including the solid state, but there are always important differences.

   The media are biased. Not the news media, the media of human sensation. Of all
the things we might sense, we pick out only a few. Our sensory system arose as
an adaptation to the exigencies of living on the surface of a stony planet. One
consequence is that sensations we classify as "solid"--things that are opaque,
reflective, resistant to pressure, sharply bounded--seem more "real" than other
classes of "states." The prototypical "real" substance is stone.

   It took a long time for people to recognize the reality of such things as
air--transparent, indefinite boundaries, indistinct resistance. People had to
accumulate a lot of experience with "derivative effects" before they filled in
the gap in their "solid" senses with the concept of a "gas."

   It's taken even longer to fill in the gap around the concept of electricity.
The aurora--a "glowing vacuum"--seems spooky and "unreal." To produce the
aurora, electric currents flow in "empty tubes" that are several kilometers in
diameter. The currents generate light and radio waves and x-rays that consume
more power than is produced by all our "solid" coal-burning, oil-fired and
water-driven generators. These currents are comprised of widely separated
(compared to our usual experiences of density) charged particles.

   Irving Langmuir called the medium that carried these currents "plasma" because
of its lifeblood-like behavior, and the name stuck. But astrophysicists talk
about them in euphemisms: solar "winds," "rains" of electrons, "impacts" of
ions, "clouds" of ionized gas. At least the words seem more solid, more real,
than the thin ethereal plasma.

   But our perceptions are no longer confined to biological senses operating on
the surface of a stony planet. Most of our perceptions of the universe now come
from electronic sensors, many of which are located in plasma. Their sensations
are almost entirely of electric and magnetic qualities.

   For them, plasma is the primary substance of "reality." For them, the universe
is composed of electrical currents flowing in networks of circuits coupled
across scale differences from the galactic to the atomic. For them, the widely
separated particles of stone and gas that we call "planets" and "stars" are
barely noticeable dust motes, ethereal specks caught in the web of circuitry.
For them, plasma is "solid."

   Our artistry and the tools we've made with it have enabled us to reach out
from the inheritance of our biological origins to touch the electrical
"solidity" of the cosmos. But our thoughts and theories have yet to catch up.
The book of future cosmology will be written in the language of plasma.



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#8827 From: "William Hamilton" <astroxplorer@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 4:18 pm
Subject: Source of Reality
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Professor Jahn is Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied
Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has been chairman of the AIAA
Electric Propulsion Technical Committee, associate editor of the AIAA Journal,
and a member of the NASA Space Science and Technology Advisory Committee. He is
vice President of the Society for Scientific Exploration and Chairman of the
Board of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories consortium. He
has been a long-term member of the Board of Directors of Hercules, Inc. and
chairman of its Technology Committee, and a member and chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc. He has received the Curtis W. McGraw
Research Award of the American Society of Engineering Education and an honorary
Doctor of Science degree from Andrha University.

I am impressed with his ongoing research in the Engineering Anomalies lab along
with Brenda J. Dunne.

Here is a brief on it:
  Engineering Anomalies Research
Investigators: R.G. Jahn and B.J. Dunne
Support: Several philanthropic organizations and individuals

The interaction of human operators with sensitive information processing devices
and systems is studied by combining appropriate engineering facilities and
techniques with a selection of protocols and insights drawn from modern
cognitive science.  In this work, premium is placed on extraordinarily precise
yet robust instrumentation, tight environmental and quality control, multiply
redundant on-line data collection and processing, rapid accumulation of large
data bases, and sensitive analytical measures to facilitate extraction of small
systematic trends from high levels of background noise, while rejecting spurious
artifacts.  Under these rigorous conditions, certain aspects of these
human/machine interactions are found to yield anomalous effects currently
inexplicable on the basis of established physical concepts and statistical
theory.

Over its 25-year history, the program has produced immense databases generated
under highly controlled laboratory conditions, indicating the existence of small
but replicable and statistically significant correlations between operator
intention and the output characteristics of a variety of random digital and
analogue processors.  Current experiments involve several microelectronic,
mechanical, fluid dynamical, acoustical, and optical devices, and a
complementary program of remote perception research, from which a number of
technical, psychological, and environmental correlates have been identified. 
Complementary analytical studies and theoretical models have been developed to
facilitate the extraction of the most salient correlations from the empirical
data, and to help explicate the basic phenomena in fundamental terms.

I am impressed with their book Margins of Reality and there 2004 paper on
addressing the failure of contemporary scientific
theory to correlate and explicate anomalous consciousness-related physical
phenomena (like psychokinesis) that I have uploaded
this paper to my website here:

http://www.astrosciences.info/mysteries.html

Just click on "Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality"

Sincerely,

Bill Hamilton
AstroScience Research Network
http://www.astrosciences.info/
"Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily
decay" - A. Einstein


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#8828 From: "Jahnets" <Jahnets@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 5:44 pm
Subject: 1:11
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Last night at 12:58 I got up and dropped into meditation. The wind was
blowing at around 15-20 mph here. I first wrapped myself in white light and
then extended it outwards around the property. I rose out of my body and
began a wave of white light from the west coast of the US to the tip of
Florida. In order that I didn't miss anything, I did it again this time
reaching out for Nova Scotia. As I did this I saw gray shadows flow into the
Atlantic ocean. Let the salt water purify them. I did this a few more times
and then realized I had forgotten Alaska. I decided to send the waves all
the way through Canada because it seemed silly not to. Then did the same for
Mexico and South America. I wrapped the only other person that I knew for
sure was part of this as he had responded to me. I also sent out healing for
a neighbor. Then I did something I had never done before. I have wrapped the
Earth in white light before and actually felt like it helped. This time I
went to the core and made it shine brighter and brighter white light so that
it was permeating the solid earth outwards and out into space like an aura
around Earth.  That is when Pallas showed up and gave me a high five. She
then worked with me. Then Zeus showed up and lent his energy also. When I
finished it was 1:19 and the wind had stopped blowing but only momentarily.
I am writing this only so if anyone else contributed their energy last night
they will know what I experienced. In a couple of hours at 11:11 pst I will
do it again if you want to help.

Jahnets





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#8829 From: "Jahnets" <Jahnets@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 5:57 pm
Subject: RE: Source of Reality
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The one thing I would say in regards to their controled circumstances is
that it may be holding them back. I say this because those times that I can
say I exhibited psycokinetic abilities were when there was a high emotional
issue within what was happening. I am not sure how else to phrase that. I
wasn't in an emotional state to begin with, but what was about to happen I
could not accept emotionally so I stopped it. Anger seems to fire it too
sometimes. That night help their studies... ;-)



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   Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:19 AM
   To: Astrosciences
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   Subject: [ufodiscussion] Source of Reality


   Professor Jahn is Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied
Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has been chairman of the AIAA
Electric Propulsion Technical Committee, associate editor of the AIAA
Journal, and a member of the NASA Space Science and Technology Advisory
Committee. He is vice President of the Society for Scientific Exploration
and Chairman of the Board of the International Consciousness Research
Laboratories consortium. He has been a long-term member of the Board of
Directors of Hercules, Inc. and chairman of its Technology Committee, and a
member and chairman of the Board of Trustees of Associated Universities,
Inc. He has received the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American
Society of Engineering Education and an honorary Doctor of Science degree
from Andrha University.

   I am impressed with his ongoing research in the Engineering Anomalies lab
along with Brenda J. Dunne.

   Here is a brief on it:
   Engineering Anomalies Research
   Investigators: R.G. Jahn and B.J. Dunne
   Support: Several philanthropic organizations and individuals

   The interaction of human operators with sensitive information processing
devices and systems is studied by combining appropriate engineering
facilities and techniques with a selection of protocols and insights drawn
from modern cognitive science.  In this work, premium is placed on
extraordinarily precise yet robust instrumentation, tight environmental and
quality control, multiply redundant on-line data collection and processing,
rapid accumulation of large data bases, and sensitive analytical measures to
facilitate extraction of small systematic trends from high levels of
background noise, while rejecting spurious artifacts.  Under these rigorous
conditions, certain aspects of these human/machine interactions are found to
yield anomalous effects currently inexplicable on the basis of established
physical concepts and statistical theory.

   Over its 25-year history, the program has produced immense databases
generated under highly controlled laboratory conditions, indicating the
existence of small but replicable and statistically significant correlations
between operator intention and the output characteristics of a variety of
random digital and analogue processors.  Current experiments involve several
microelectronic, mechanical, fluid dynamical, acoustical, and optical
devices, and a complementary program of remote perception research, from
which a number of technical, psychological, and environmental correlates
have been identified.  Complementary analytical studies and theoretical
models have been developed to facilitate the extraction of the most salient
correlations from the empirical data, and to help explicate the basic
phenomena in fundamental terms.

   I am impressed with their book Margins of Reality and there 2004 paper on
addressing the failure of contemporary scientific
   theory to correlate and explicate anomalous consciousness-related physical
phenomena (like psychokinesis) that I have uploaded
   this paper to my website here:

   http://www.astrosciences.info/mysteries.html

   Just click on "Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality"

   Sincerely,

   Bill Hamilton
   AstroScience Research Network
   http://www.astrosciences.info/
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necessarily decay" - A. Einstein


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#8830 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 6:31 pm
Subject: Is Consciousness The Root Of All Things?
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Dear Friends,

  
http://www.quantumbiocommunication.com/media/is-consciousness-the-root-of-all-th\
ings.html

   Love and Light.

   David

   Is Consciousness the Root of all Things?  February 1st, 2006 Thomas
Herold-->by Michael Sharp
   I wanted to talk a little bit today about building a bridge between the world
of science and spirit and I wanted to talk about myself as an example of such a
bridge. In order to do that, you’ll need to know a little bit about me.

   By training, I am a sociologist. I studied at the University of Alberta in
Canada, received my PhD, and went on to do standard sociological type things. I
edit a journal, publish sporadically, and try to fulfill my professional duties
and family responsibilities as best as I can.

   Nothing remarkable, I agree. But this traditional academic side is not the
only side of me. You see, a couple of years ago I found out that in addition to
being a sociologist, I am also a mystic. After doing a bit of personal
“experimentation” with what could be called “spiritual technologies”, I began to
have an expansion of consciousness that, if I were to rigidly adhere to the
dominant scientific cannon (i.e., materialism), I would be hard pressed to
explain. A lot happened to me. I began thinking in millennial terms (i.e., we
are currently moving through a significant and prophesied transition in the life
systems on this planet), I became sensitive to “energies” and “fields”, and,
perhaps most interestingly, I began to write spiritual books.

   Now writing spiritual books isn’t in and of itself remarkable. A lot of people
do it. What was strange for me was that I was writing with no external reference
point. That is, I wasn’t researching what I was writing. I simply sat down at
the computer, “opened up” my consciousness, and the ideas began to flow. What
was fascinating to me was that they were ideas that my physical body and mind
were not familiar with. That is, I had no external reference point. The fact was
a lot of what was coming out of me I had not known before I wrote about it. It
was new and the only source was inside of me. Like Alice down the rabbit hole,
“curiouser and curiouser”.

   Back when I started this in 2002 I couldn’t talk about this to my colleagues.
The problem was, I had no scientific frame of reference. The only reference I
had was the New Age movement or New Age spiritualities and while I personally
had to admit that something was going on that couldn’t be explained within the
standard materialist cannon, there was no way I could use the lingo of the New
Age movement in respectable scientific circles. Not without becoming a laughing
stock anyway.

   And so there I was existing in two worlds all at once. I had a traditional
academic career and a blossoming career as a mystic and I couldn’t figure out
how to bridge the two. Not that I didn’t want to bridge the two. I did. Nobody
likes leading a double life. But the problem of bridging was made difficult
especially considering the kinds of things I was writing. I wrote, for example,
a new creation story (The Song of Creation), a book on “Ascension”, a book on
meditative practices and activating chakras and kundalini, and even a book on
the spiritual technology of the Tarot. All of these topics had precedent within
spiritual circles but not one of them made any sense in scientific circles.

   How to bridge?   For a long time I struggled with a need to bring my two
careers together but then the pieces started to fall into place. The first piece
of the bridge came when I wrote my last book, entitled /The Book of Light: The
Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness, and the Universe Within You. This
book is deeply mystical.

   In it I talk about the nature of consciousness and its relation to the
physical universe and I present a theory of the fabric and unfolding of
consciousness that is, in my mind at least, remarkably logical and consistent.
It is also a bit revolutionary when judged against standard church or scientific
dogma.

   For example, in the book I say consciousness is the root and everything around
us (including us and even the dimensions of time and space) is just a part of
that fabric of consciousness. I also say “we are all god” and make a distinction
between God with a big “G” and God with a little “g”. God with a big “G” is all
of us “in God” and God with a little “g” is what we normally think of as God.
That is, God as omnipotent overseer of creation.


   The theory of creation that I came up with all made sense to me and I liked
the theology that came out (it was non-hierarchical, inclusive, empowering, and
unifying), but it wasn’t enough. Even though the book made sense to both my
mystical side and my scientific side, in my mind it wasn’t the bridge.

   Something was missing - but what?
   Now, I’d like say “and then, it hit me”, but it didn’t really. The remaining
components of the bridge, i.e., the realization that a connection between the
two areas could be made, crept up on me slowly and came in the form of a hundred
little enlightenments. For example, I came across some of the writings of some
ancient mystics and realized that I had managed, in my mystical isolation, to
come up with identical theories of consciousness.

   Then I read up on the Sociology of Religion (a sub field of my beloved
sociology) and realized that academics do research spiritual topics. Third, I
began to become more aware of consciousness research. And fourth, I read the
description of an experiment with with chicks at Quantum Bio-Communication. In
this remarkable experiment chicks are apparently able to control a moving robot
simply by their unconscious intent!

   And then, it hit me.
   I understood why that experiment worked the way it did. I had the theory and I
had written about it in The Book of Light and The Dossier of the Ascension. I
even had a phrase to describe the impact of consciousness of physical matter.
“As above in consciousness, so below in Matter” (I consider this a “grounding”
of the more common As above, so below).

   Well, “I” didn’t have the theory. We did! The mystics had it. We, sitting in
our mystical trances, had been talking about the nature of consciousness and
reality, and how the two interconnect, for so long that the result of that
experiment would be totally unsurprising to us. In fact, if you told a mystic
about that experiment you’d probably get an inscrutable Buddha Smile. The words
“I told you so” would be behind that grin.

   But what was really amazing to me was that I had found an actual physical
experiment that fit the theory of consciousness I had developed in The Book of
Light. For a scientist trained in a materialist paradigm and understanding the
profound resistance to non-materialist research, the smack was profound. And so
was the impact on my budget. I now had a name and a research area. I could now
find the authors and the books and so I plunked myself down and started buying
from Amazon.

   I’m still new in the process. I’m only marginally familiar with the area of
consciousness research but I already feel like I have found a home. I understand
what’s going on and I “resonate” (New Age term describing the realization of
affinity) with the research.

   Now I just have to fill in the gaps.

   But I know, it won’t be that hard. The bridge is already there.

   Science and spirituality, science and mysticism, have converged. It’s a done
deal and its there in our mutual interest in consciousness.

   That’s the bridge!
   It is our mutual interest in consciousness that is the root from which a new
scientific paradigm is growing. I can already see the contours of the new
paradigm and although the outlines are hazy still, I know its going to be
different. The new paradigm is going to be as different from our current science
as science was from religion when it took over after Galileo.

   It is very exciting. Perhaps most exciting is the potential for unification.

   Speaking both as a scientist and mystic, I believe that this new paradigm will
be a unified paradigm. The new science/spirituality will provide our little
community on earth with the Holy Grail of research inquiry enlightenment inquiry
– a grand unified theory of everything.

   It is already here. The seed has been planted and if I may be so bold, let me
suggest a mantra for the new unified theory of everything that will as scientist
and mystics continue to merge in the middle of the bridge. It is a simple mantra
that bridges science and mysticism with a simple, mutually understood concept.
Any mystic would understand it and it opens the Book of Light for the rest of
us.

   The mantra is simple: ”Consciousness is the root of all things.”

   It is the collective realization of this simple axiomatic principle and the
gradual unfolding of our understanding of it that will unify science, bridge it
with mysticism, and usher in an entirely new paradigm of scholarly inquiry.
   Count on it!

   About Michael Sosteric, PhD.
Michael Sosteric writes under the pen name of Michael Sharp.


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#8831 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 6:53 pm
Subject: Bush's "Real State Of The Union Address"
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Dear Friends,

   LOL! Requires Quicktime.

  
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   Love and Light.

   David

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#8832 From: "William Hamilton" <astroxplorer@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 8:11 pm
Subject: Solar system: A planet more, a planet less
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Solar system: A planet more, a planet less?
Scott S. Sheppard1

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Abstract
Further observations of an object dubbed 2003 UB313, which lies beyond Neptune,
show that its diameter is around 3,100 kilometres. This makes it larger than
Pluto, the smallest 'traditional' Solar System planet.

The number of objects detected in the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune -
so-called trans-neptunian objects - is increasing rapidly. This is mainly due to
large, sensitive digital detectors on telescopes and sophisticated software,
running on high-speed computers, that can detect moving objects. More than 1,000
of these objects have been discovered since the first one - other than Pluto -
was detected in 1992. On page 563 of this issue, Bertoldi et al.1 describe
observations of the brightest such object, known as 2003 UB313. They find that
it has a diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, making it the largest Solar System
object discovered since Neptune, and the first known trans-neptunian object
larger than Pluto (Fig. 1).

Figure 1: Size matters.

2003 UB313 is currently the fifteenth-largest known Solar System object, with a
diameter larger than those of Pluto and the neptunian moon Triton, but smaller
than those of Earth's Moon and Titan, the largest of Saturn's satellites. Other
objects, besides the eight undisputed major planets, that are larger than 2003
UB313 are Jupiter's satellites Callisto, Io, Europa (not pictured) and Ganymede
(the largest moon in the Solar System). Behind Pluto, the next-largest known
trans-neptunian objects are 2005 FY9, with a diameter of about 1,800 km, and
Sedna (1,700 km). A handful more are larger than Ceres, the largest asteroid in
the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

High resolution image and legend (32K)


Determining the size of distant objects such as 2003 UB313, which is 97 times
farther from the Sun than is Earth, is not straightforward. Pluto was discovered
in 1930, but it took decades to get a handle on its diameter: initial estimates
put its size at similar to that of Earth, but now it seems that it is smaller
than the Moon. As 2003 UB313 is about three times farther from the Sun than is
Pluto, modern technology cannot resolve it: it appears as just a point of light
even in images of the highest resolution.

There are, however, indirect methods for measuring the size of an unresolved
object2. When sunlight strikes the surface of an object, a fraction of the
incident light is reflected back into space. This fraction is known as the
albedo of an object and can be observed in the visible region of the
electromagnetic spectrum. An object is therefore optically bright either simply
because it has a large diameter (and so more surface area from which to reflect
light), or because it has a high albedo. To determine the albedo and diameter of
an object separately, we need to determine what proportion of the incident light
it reflects and what proportion it absorbs. This can be done by measuring the
object's thermal radiation, because absorbed incident light warms a body's
surface and is re-radiated back into space as heat. At its distance from the
Sun, 2003 UB313 should receive enough sunlight to have a temperature of about 25
kelvin (-248 °C), the exact value depending on its albedo. At that temperature,
a perfectly absorbing and emitting object would emit peak 'black body' radiation
at a radio wavelength of around 0.1 millimetre.

Bertoldi and colleagues1 used the radio telescope operated by the Institute for
Millimetre Radio Astronomy (IRAM) in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of
southern Spain to make observations at the requisite wavelength, and thus detect
for the first time the thermal radiation of 2003 UB313. Combining these
observations with observations at visible wavelengths3, they find that 2003
UB313 has a very high albedo, with about 60% of the sunlight that strikes it
being reflected back into space. The authors also determined that the diameter
of 2003 UB313 is 3,100 kilometres (to within 300 km). Pluto's diameter, by
comparison, is around 2,300 km.

The diameters and albedos of only about a dozen trans-neptunian objects have so
far been measured accurately. Most of these results stem from thermal
measurements at millimetre and submillimetre radio wavelengths, or still smaller
far-infrared wavelengths, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The albedos
measured range from around 3% to 60%, possibly with slight systematic variations
because of modelling uncertainties in the degree to which the objects' surfaces
emit thermal radiation in the different wavelength regimes4, 5, 6. Although the
data are sparse, it seems that the largest objects have the highest albedos.
This could be because gravity on these objects is large enough for them to have
active atmospheres and so be able to retain volatile gaseous substances that
could brighten their surfaces.

The trans-neptunian object 2003 UB313 is not unique. It is typical of many of
the icy planetoids that populate this region of the Solar System - known as the
scattered Kuiper disk - in that its orbit is highly elliptical, with a distance
of closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) near the orbit of Neptune. This type
of orbit is unlike that of Pluto or other objects in the nearer, classical
Kuiper belt, but is common to many trans-neptunian objects. Such bodies keep to
less-elliptical orbits just beyond Neptune, lying 35 to 50 times farther from
the Sun than Earth is. Like Pluto, 2003 UB313has a satellite. Physical
observations3 of the surface of 2003 UB313 have also shown it to be remarkably
similar both to Pluto and to Neptune's satellite Triton (thought to be a
captured Kuiper-belt object), both of which have high albedos and methane ice on
their surface.

These observations lead inevitably to the question of whether 2003 UB313 itself
qualifies as a planet. The minimum size required for this has never been
strictly defined. Until the nineteenth century, the term 'planet' was
uncontroversial: a planet was any object that had a fairly circular orbit around
the Sun, and that did not show any cometary activity such as a coma or a tail.
By 1807, the word encompassed Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, which are in the
belt of objects between Mars and Jupiter. In the mid-nineteenth century, the
growing number of such objects being discovered caused the term 'asteroid' or
'minor planet' to be coined. A similar situation is now looming with Pluto, 2003
UB313 and the rest of the trans-neptunian objects. Although the largest of these
are much bigger than the largest main-belt asteroids, they also form an ensemble
of bodies of probably very similar formation and evolutionary history.

Whichever way you care to count them, with the discovery and measurement of the
size of 2003 UB313 there are no longer nine major planets in the Solar System. A
committee has been formed by the International Astronomical Union to mull over
several competing definitions of the term. One fairly simple solution is that
anything orbiting the Sun and larger than a certain minimum size counts as a
planet. The size is likely to be arbitrary: a round-number radius of 1,000 km,
or perhaps the size of Pluto itself. These bounds stem from a perceived need to
maintain Pluto's 'traditional' status as a planet, and would leave us with ten
current planets, including 2003 UB313.

A second possible definition is that anything with a high enough mass to be
spherical is a planet. Although this is a physical criterion, determining
whether or not an object meets it is complicated. It would also increase the
number of known planets by several factors. A third alternative is that any
object that has a unique orbit (which means that it is sufficiently far removed
from other orbiting bodies), and that dominates its local environment
gravitationally, should be known as a planet. This definition has the most solid
scientific basis, as objects with similar formation and evolutionary histories
would be grouped together. It would leave us with eight planets: Pluto would not
fulfil the criteria.

A final proposal for what constitutes a planet takes into account the fact that
the currently known major planets are themselves remarkably different, and can
be split into sub-categories. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, for example, are
terrestrial planets whose compositions are dominated by rock. Jupiter and Saturn
are gas giant planets dominated by their hydrogen and helium envelopes. Uranus
and Neptune are ice giant planets, dominated by gases other than hydrogen and
helium. The trans-neptunian objects, or ice dwarf planets, are probably composed
of large amounts of volatile solids such as methane ice and water ice.

So 'planet' is a term, seemingly, that can be bent to any number of uses. But
whatever the planet-definition committee decides will be secondary to the naked
fact of our rapidly expanding scientific knowledge and understanding of the
Solar System. With further improvements in instrumentation and software, there
may be further surprises in store.

Top of page
References
   1.. Bertoldi, F. , Altenhoff, W. , Weiss, A. , Menten, K. M. & Thum, C. Nature
439, 563-564 (2006). | Article |
   2.. Jewitt, D. , Aussel, H. & Evans, A. Nature 411, 446-447 (2001) | Article |
PubMed | ISI | ChemPort |
   3.. Brown, M. , Trujillo, C. & Rabinowitz, D. Astrophys. J. 635, L97-L100
(2005). | Article | ISI | ChemPort


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#8833 From: "William Hamilton" <astroxplorer@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 8:24 pm
Subject: from Whitley Streiber
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What About that Object...
There are an exceptional number of internet hoaxes around at the moment. People
are uneasy, and the frightening hoaxes reflect that.

Recently, an email has been racing around the 'net and appearing on message
boards claiming that Spanish language news media are reporting that a huge
object is going to strike off the northern California coast on February 6.

We requested more information from a number of the news outlets mentioned, and
had a Spanish speaking staffer search their websites.

None of the Spanish language news media mentioned in the email knew anything
about the object or had any report of it on their websites. Conventional
astronomical tracking sites show no such object, as well.




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#8834 From: "Campaign for Cooperation in Space" <peace@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 9:37 pm
Subject: Proposed U.N. Decade Of Contact Would Establish Diplomatic Relations With Advanced E.T.s
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Proposed U.N. Decade Of Contact Would Establish Diplomatic Relations With
Advanced E.T.s

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - For the first time in almost 28 years, the United Nations
General Assembly may be debating the issue of establishing diplomatic relations
with advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations that may now be visiting Earth.

On December 16, 2005, a Resolution to establish a United Nations Decade of
Contact was formally transmitted to the incoming President of the General
Assembly, H.E. Jan Eliasson of Sweden by a group of Non-Governmental
Organizations, including the U.S.-based Disclosure Project, the Campaign for
Cooperation in Space, and the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium.

U.N. General Assembly President Eliasson was Sweden's Ambassador to the United
States from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Steven Greer, Director of the Disclosure Project,
has held informal briefings on the Extraterrestrial presence with high-ranking
United Nations officials.

The United Nations has used a 10-year public policy focus period to address
other issues of global importance, such as the United Nations Decade of Women
and the United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty.

Almost twenty-eight years ago, on December 18, 1978, the United Nations General
Assembly voted to approve decision 33/426, inviting U.N. Member States "to take
appropriate steps to coordinate on a national level scientific research and
investigation into extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects,
and to inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research and evaluation
of such activities."

United States Was Sole U.N. Member Nation Which Unsuccessfully Attempted to
Block 1978 UN E.T. Resolution

One prominent researcher of Extraterrestrial issues has noted that the United
States U.N. Delegation attempted to block the 1978 U.N. General Assembly E.T.
Resolution.

The researcher notes, "India is specifically mentioned in two U.S. State
Department documents referenced in Clifford Stone's book 'UFOs Are Real.'

"The first reference is in Doc. 5-20b State Dept. Teletype, Nov 18, 1978, which
states in a teletype marked CONFIDENTIAL in four places:

[Begin excerpt]

"'Last year Grenada requested our support and Misoff [Misoff = Mission officer,
likely the then-U.S. U.N. ambassador] had to scramble hard behind the scenes to
water down the resolution and, in effect, delay a vote for one year. Another
consideration is whether to issue a disclaimer on statements made by U.S.
nationals on the Grenadian delegation. If last year's instructions still obtain,
it would appear that the Indian suggestion would be about as far as we would be
willing to go on the issue. Leonard.'

[End excerpt]

"Note the U.S. was the only nation trying to sabotage the resolution by putting
pressure on other member states.

"The next reference to India takes place in Doc. 5-22 State Dept. Teletype, Dec.
2, 1978 which states, in part:

'1. Subsequent to the introduction of the Grenadian UFO resolution, Misoff
[Misoff = Mission officer, likely the then-U.S. U.N. ambassador] has engaged in
two separate informal negotiating sessions, which included representation from
Austria, USSR, and Grenada. In an attempt to arrive at a mutually agreeable
compromise solution of the problem. India and FRG [Federal Republic of Germany:
West Germany] representing EC-P [?] have been apprised of our discussions . . .'

"From my reading of the previous sentence, this might mean West Germany was
likely also interested in supporting the resolution."

"Gairy was overthrown on the day he was supposed to be meeting with Kurt
Waldheim to discuss UFOs. He left Grenada on March 12, 1979 for face-to-face
meetings with Waldheim and the coup took place the next day according to this
historical reference:

"'Thus, in a broadcast on Radio Grenada, Maurice Bishop announced the first coup
d'etat in modern times in the English-speaking Caribbean and the advent of the
Grenadian revolution on 13 March 1979 . . . Gairy had left the island the
previous day for talks at the UN in New York with Kurt Waldheim on Unidentified
Flying Objects and cosmic phenomena . . . On Monday 12 March Gairy flew to
Barbados on the first leg of his journey to New York. At Grantley Adams
International airport he was met by Frank Ortiz, the US Ambassador, before he
boarded his plane for the flight northwards. As he touched down the final
hurried plans were being completed for his overthrow. As workers in the
telephone exchange on the Carenage in St. George made sure the island was cut
off from the outside world forty-six men were receiving their last instructions
from the leaders of the NJM . . ." [NJM = New Jewel Movement, the Marxist group
that overthrew Gairy.]' Source: O'Shaughnessy, Hugh. Grenada: An Eyewitness
Account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean History that Provoked it. (New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.), 1984, pp. 77-8.

"Stone's book also contains another incriminating document regarding U.S.
attempts to sabotage the resolution with a reference that is found within Doc.
5-22 State Dept. Teletype, Dec. 2, 1978:

"'We think referral of the matter to the Outerspace Committee (OSC) without a
preordained mandate as to what action is to be taken, provides the flexibility
the OSC needs to take whatever action it deems appropriate. It will also obviate
the need to vote on a resolution (and gamble on the results).'

The researcher concludes, "Clearly, the U.S. Government's intent was to ensure
the resolution was doomed to fail from the very beginning."

The documented attempted sabotage of the 1978 UN General Assembly E.T.
Resolution by officials of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations run counter to
U.S. President Jimmy Carter's public policy positions on UFOs during the 1976
U.S. Presidential campaign. Jimmy Carter was U.S. President in December 1978 at
the time of the adoption of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution.
Carter himself in 1973 publicly reported he had a close Encounter of the First
Kind with a UFO (Night Light) in October 1969, in the company of 10 members of
the Leary, Georgia Lion's Club while he was running for Governor of Georgia.
Four years later, while Governor of Georgia, Carter filed a public UFO sighting
report, dated September 18, 1973. In his 1976 U.S. Presidential campaign against
President Gerald R. Ford, Carter stated publicly he would release government
files on UFOs.

Former Canadian Minister of Defence Hon. Paul Hellyer

Former Canadian Minister of Defence, Hon. Paul Hellyer has requested that the
Canadian Parliament hold hearings on the issue of relations with
Extraterrestrial civilizations.

On September 25, 2005, at the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium held at Convocation
Hall, University of Toronto, former Minister of National Defence Hellyer stated:
"UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head." He stated, "The
United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the
aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having
any warning. The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth
emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most
important problems facing our planet today."

U.N. Decade of Contact

Mr. Hellyer, Canada's former Minister of Defence, supports a United Nations
Decade of Contact. Mr. Hellyer writes, "To turn us in the direction of
re-unification with the rest of creation Alfred Lambremont Webre is proposing a
'Decade of Contact' - an 'era of openness, public hearings, public funded
research, and education about extraterrestrial reality.' That could just be the
antidote the world needs to end its greed-driven, power-centered madness."

A United Nations Decade of Contact has four Objectives:

DISCLOSURE: Open, transparent, official governmental disclosure and
declassification of all past and present programs related to extraterrestrial
presence on Earth.

DECADE OF CONTACT: Public funding by U.N. Member Nations and by the UNITED
NATIONS of a 10 year process of formal public education, scientific research,
educational curricula development, strategic planning, community activity, and
public outreach about the extraterrestrial presence on Earth and the future of
Earth in regard to the populated universe.

DISARMAMENT: A permanent ban on all space-based weapons and warfare in space
through a Space Preservation Treaty Conference.

DIPLOMACY: UNITED NATIONS Public Interest Diplomacy seeking to make contact with
Off-Planet Cultures now visiting Earth.

The Disclosure Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, on May 9, 2001,
held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in which
numerous high-level military-intelligence, governmental and private sector
witnesses publicly described experiences and evidence establishing that advanced
Extraterrestrial civilizations are interacting with our terrestrial civilization
at this time.

On May 20, 2005, Brazil, a major U.N. Member Nation took official measures in
support of a United Nations Decade of Contact. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
openly allowed examination of classified UFO documents in several military
facilities in Brasilia, the Federal Capital.

A military-intelligence spying technology known as "remote viewing" originally
developed at Stanford Research Institute in the mid-1970s by Dr. Hal Puthoff and
Russell Targ has also yielded replicable data regarding the existence of
advanced Off-Planet Cultures now visiting Earth.

The United Nations General Assembly has consistently voted in favor of a treaty
banning weapons and warfare in space. On December 8, 2003, the U.N. General
Assembly voted 174 – 0 in favor of a treaty banning weapons in space, with the
United States and Israel abstaining.

One spokesperson for the grass-roots network supporting the United Nations
Decade of Contact said, "2006 may prove to be an important anniversary of the
1978 U.N. General Assembly Resolution which formally urged U.N. Member Nations
to research the existence of extraterrestrial life including Unidentified Flying
Objects."

The spokesperson continued, "That U.N. Resolution passed, despite a sabotage
campaign by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The United States Mission to
the United Nations cannot thwart humanity's right to explore our relationships
with other intelligent civilizations for much longer. 2006 will see
breakthroughs for the Decade of Contact and for eventual public interest
diplomacy with advanced, ethical Off-Planet Cultures now visiting Earth."

CONTACT:

Campaign for Cooperation in Space
Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
Tel: 604-733-8134
Information: http://www.peaceinspace.net

Washington, D.C.: Dr. Steven Greer, The Disclosure Project
Tel: (540) 456-8302 (Office)
http://www.disclosureproject.org

Toronto, Canada: Victor Vigianni, Exopolitics Toronto Symposium
Tel: 905-278-5628
http://www.exopoliticstoronto.com

Please sign this Petition to the United Nations General Assembly for a UNITED
NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT
View this petition and your signature at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/529287855

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
http://www.un.org/ga/60/

TEXT OF THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT RESOLUTION
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/star_dreams_initiative/2005/12/united_nations_.html

Note: A print version of the UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT Petition, and a
feature article can be found in a forthcoming UFO Magazine (www.ufomag.com).

URL of this Article:
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2006/02/proposed_un_dec.html






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#8835 From: "Campaign for Cooperation in Space" <peace@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 9:02 pm
Subject: Proposed U.N. Decade Of Contact Would Establish Diplomatic Relations With Advanced E.T.s
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Proposed U.N. Decade Of Contact Would Establish Diplomatic Relations With
Advanced E.T.s


UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - For the first time in almost 28 years, the United Nations
General Assembly may be debating the issue of establishing diplomatic relations
with advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations that may now be visiting Earth.

On December 16, 2005, a Resolution to establish a United Nations Decade of
Contact was formally transmitted to the incoming President of the General
Assembly, H.E. Jan Eliasson of Sweden by a group of Non-Governmental
Organizations, including the U.S.-based Disclosure Project, the Campaign for
Cooperation in Space, and the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium.

U.N. General Assembly President Eliasson was Sweden's Ambassador to the United
States from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Steven Greer, Director of the Disclosure Project,
has held informal briefings on the Extraterrestrial presence with high-ranking
United Nations officials.

The United Nations has used a 10-year public policy focus period to address
other issues of global importance, such as the United Nations Decade of Women
and the United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty.

Almost twenty-eight years ago, on December 18, 1978, the United Nations General
Assembly voted to approve decision 33/426, inviting U.N. Member States "to take
appropriate steps to coordinate on a national level scientific research and
investigation into extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects,
and to inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research and evaluation
of such activities."

United States Was Sole U.N. Member Nation Which Unsuccessfully Attempted to
Block 1978 UN E.T. Resolution

One prominent researcher of Extraterrestrial issues has noted that the United
States U.N. Delegation attempted to block the 1978 U.N. General Assembly E.T.
Resolution.

The researcher notes, "India is specifically mentioned in two U.S. State
Department documents referenced in Clifford Stone's book 'UFOs Are Real.'

"The first reference is in Doc. 5-20b State Dept. Teletype, Nov 18, 1978, which
states in a teletype marked CONFIDENTIAL in four places:

[Begin excerpt]

"'Last year Grenada requested our support and Misoff [Misoff = Mission officer,
likely the then-U.S. U.N. ambassador] had to scramble hard behind the scenes to
water down the resolution and, in effect, delay a vote for one year. Another
consideration is whether to issue a disclaimer on statements made by U.S.
nationals on the Grenadian delegation. If last year's instructions still obtain,
it would appear that the Indian suggestion would be about as far as we would be
willing to go on the issue. Leonard.'

[End excerpt]

"Note the U.S. was the only nation trying to sabotage the resolution by putting
pressure on other member states.

"The next reference to India takes place in Doc. 5-22 State Dept. Teletype, Dec.
2, 1978 which states, in part:

'1. Subsequent to the introduction of the Grenadian UFO resolution, Misoff
[Misoff = Mission officer, likely the then-U.S. U.N. ambassador] has engaged in
two separate informal negotiating sessions, which included representation from
Austria, USSR, and Grenada. In an attempt to arrive at a mutually agreeable
compromise solution of the problem. India and FRG [Federal Republic of Germany:
West Germany] representing EC-P [?] have been apprised of our discussions . . .'

"From my reading of the previous sentence, this might mean West Germany was
likely also interested in supporting the resolution."

"Gairy was overthrown on the day he was supposed to be meeting with Kurt
Waldheim to discuss UFOs. He left Grenada on March 12, 1979 for face-to-face
meetings with Waldheim and the coup took place the next day according to this
historical reference:

"'Thus, in a broadcast on Radio Grenada, Maurice Bishop announced the first coup
d'etat in modern times in the English-speaking Caribbean and the advent of the
Grenadian revolution on 13 March 1979 . . . Gairy had left the island the
previous day for talks at the UN in New York with Kurt Waldheim on Unidentified
Flying Objects and cosmic phenomena . . . On Monday 12 March Gairy flew to
Barbados on the first leg of his journey to New York. At Grantley Adams
International airport he was met by Frank Ortiz, the US Ambassador, before he
boarded his plane for the flight northwards. As he touched down the final
hurried plans were being completed for his overthrow. As workers in the
telephone exchange on the Carenage in St. George made sure the island was cut
off from the outside world forty-six men were receiving their last instructions
from the leaders of the NJM . . ." [NJM = New Jewel Movement, the Marxist group
that overthrew Gairy.]' Source: O'Shaughnessy, Hugh. Grenada: An Eyewitness
Account of the U.S. Invasion and the Caribbean History that Provoked it. (New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.), 1984, pp. 77-8.

"Stone's book also contains another incriminating document regarding U.S.
attempts to sabotage the resolution with a reference that is found within Doc.
5-22 State Dept. Teletype, Dec. 2, 1978:

"'We think referral of the matter to the Outerspace Committee (OSC) without a
preordained mandate as to what action is to be taken, provides the flexibility
the OSC needs to take whatever action it deems appropriate. It will also obviate
the need to vote on a resolution (and gamble on the results).'

The researcher concludes, "Clearly, the U.S. Government's intent was to ensure
the resolution was doomed to fail from the very beginning."

The documented attempted sabotage of the 1978 UN General Assembly E.T.
Resolution by officials of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations run counter to
U.S. President Jimmy Carter's public policy positions on UFOs during the 1976
U.S. Presidential campaign. Jimmy Carter was U.S. President in December 1978 at
the time of the adoption of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution.
Carter himself in 1973 publicly reported he had a close Encounter of the First
Kind with a UFO (Night Light) in October 1969, in the company of 10 members of
the Leary, Georgia Lion's Club while he was running for Governor of Georgia.
Four years later, while Governor of Georgia, Carter filed a public UFO sighting
report, dated September 18, 1973. In his 1976 U.S. Presidential campaign against
President Gerald R. Ford, Carter stated publicly he would release government
files on UFOs.

Former Canadian Minister of Defence Hon. Paul Hellyer

Former Canadian Minister of Defence, Hon. Paul Hellyer has requested that the
Canadian Parliament hold hearings on the issue of relations with
Extraterrestrial civilizations.

On September 25, 2005, at the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium held at Convocation
Hall, University of Toronto, former Minister of National Defence Hellyer stated:
"UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head." He stated, "The
United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the
aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having
any warning. The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth
emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most
important problems facing our planet today."

U.N. Decade of Contact

Mr. Hellyer, Canada's former Minister of Defence, supports a United Nations
Decade of Contact. Mr. Hellyer writes, "To turn us in the direction of
re-unification with the rest of creation Alfred Lambremont Webre is proposing a
'Decade of Contact' - an 'era of openness, public hearings, public funded
research, and education about extraterrestrial reality.' That could just be the
antidote the world needs to end its greed-driven, power-centered madness."

A United Nations Decade of Contact has four Objectives:

DISCLOSURE: Open, transparent, official governmental disclosure and
declassification of all past and present programs related to extraterrestrial
presence on Earth.

DECADE OF CONTACT: Public funding by U.N. Member Nations and by the UNITED
NATIONS of a 10 year process of formal public education, scientific research,
educational curricula development, strategic planning, community activity, and
public outreach about the extraterrestrial presence on Earth and the future of
Earth in regard to the populated universe.

DISARMAMENT: A permanent ban on all space-based weapons and warfare in space
through a Space Preservation Treaty Conference.

DIPLOMACY: UNITED NATIONS Public Interest Diplomacy seeking to make contact with
Off-Planet Cultures now visiting Earth.

The Disclosure Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, on May 9, 2001,
held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in which
numerous high-level military-intelligence, governmental and private sector
witnesses publicly described experiences and evidence establishing that advanced
Extraterrestrial civilizations are interacting with our terrestrial civilization
at this time.

On May 20, 2005, Brazil, a major U.N. Member Nation took official measures in
support of a United Nations Decade of Contact. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB)
openly allowed examination of classified UFO documents in several military
facilities in Brasilia, the Federal Capital.

A military-intelligence spying technology known as "remote viewing" originally
developed at Stanford Research Institute in the mid-1970s by Dr. Hal Puthoff and
Russell Targ has also yielded replicable data regarding the existence of
advanced Off-Planet Cultures now visiting Earth.

The United Nations General Assembly has consistently voted in favor of a treaty
banning weapons and warfare in space. On December 8, 2003, the U.N. General
Assembly voted 174 – 0 in favor of a treaty banning weapons in space, with the
United States and Israel abstaining.

One spokesperson for the grass-roots network supporting the United Nations
Decade of Contact said, "2006 may prove to be an important anniversary of the
1978 U.N. General Assembly Resolution which formally urged U.N. Member Nations
to research the existence of extraterrestrial life including Unidentified Flying
Objects."

The spokesperson continued, "That U.N. Resolution passed, despite a sabotage
campaign by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The United States Mission to
the United Nations cannot thwart humanity's right to explore our relationships
with other intelligent civilizations for much longer. 2006 will see
breakthroughs for the Decade of Contact and for eventual public interest
diplomacy with advanced, ethical Off-Planet Cultures now visiting Earth."

CONTACT:

Campaign for Cooperation in Space
Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
Tel: 604-733-8134
Information: http://www.peaceinspace.net

Washington, D.C.: Dr. Steven Greer, The Disclosure Project
Tel: (540) 456-8302 (Office)
http://www.disclosureproject.org

Toronto, Canada: Victor Vigianni, Exopolitics Toronto Symposium
Tel: 905-278-5628
http://www.exopoliticstoronto.com

Please sign this Petition to the United Nations General Assembly for a UNITED
NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT
View this petition and your signature at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/529287855

UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY:
http://www.un.org/ga/60/

TEXT OF THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT RESOLUTION
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/star_dreams_initiative/2005/12/united_nations_.html

Note: A print version of the UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF CONTACT Petition, and a
feature article can be found in a forthcoming UFO Magazine (www.ufomag.com).

URL of this Article:
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2006/02/proposed_un_dec.html






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#8836 From: "William Hamilton" <astroxplorer@...>
Date: Wed Feb 1, 2006 8:29 pm
Subject: EXPERTS CLAIM OFFICIAL 9/11 STORY IS A HOAX (off topic, but interesting)
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EXPERTS CLAIM OFFICIAL 9/11 STORY IS A HOAX
Scholars for 9/11 Truth call for verification and publication by an
international consortium.


Duluth, MN (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 -- A group of distinguished experts and
scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John
McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have concluded that senior
government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on
9/11.

They have joined with others in common cause as members of "Scholars for 9/11
Truth" (S9/11T), because they are convinced, based on their own research, that
the administration has been deceiving the nation about critical events in New
York and Washington, D.C.

These experts suggest these events may have been orchestrated by elements within
the administration to manipulate Americans into supporting policies at home and
abroad they would never have condoned absent "another Pearl Harbor."

They believe that this White House is incapable of investigating itself and hope
the possibility that Congress might hold an unaccountable administration
accountable is not merely naive or wishful thinking.

They are encouraging news services around the world to secure scientific advice
by taking advantage of university resources to verify or to falsify their
discoveries. Extraordinary situations, they believe, require extraordinary
measures.

If this were done, they contend, one of the great hoaxes of history would stand
naked before the eyes of the world and its perpetrators would be clearly
exposed, which may be the only hope for saving this nation from ever greater
abuse.

They hope this might include The New York Times, which, in their opinion, has
repeatedly failed to exercise the leadership expected from our nation's
newspaper of record by a series of inexplicable lapses. It has failed to
vigorously investigate tainted elections, lies leading to the war in Iraq, or
illegal NSA spying on the American people, major unconstitutional events. In
their view, The Times might compensate for its loss of stature by helping to
reveal the truth about one of the great turning-point events of modern history.

Stunning as it may be to acknowledge, they observe, the government has brought
but one indictment against anyone and, to the best of their knowledge, has not
even reprimanded anyone for incompetence or dereliction of duty. The official
conspiracy theory--that nineteen Arab hijackers under control of one man in the
wilds of Afghanistan brought this about--is unsupportable by the evidential
data, which they have studied. They even believe there are good reasons for
suspecting that video tapes officially attributed to Osama bin Laden are not
genuine.

They have found the government's own investigation to be severely flawed. The
9/11 Commission, designated to investigate the attack, was directed by Philip
Zelikow, part of the Bush transition team in the NSA sector and the co-author of
a book with Condoleezza Rice. A Bush supporter and director of national security
affairs, he could hardly be expected to conduct an objective and impartial
investigation.

They have discovered that The 9/11 Commission Report is replete with omissions,
distortions, and factual errors, which David Ray Griffin has documented in his
book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. The official
report, for example, entirely ignores the collapse of WTC7, a 47-story building,
which was hit by no airplanes, was only damaged by a few small fires, and fell
seven hours after the attack.

Here are some of the kinds of considerations that these experts and scholars
find profoundly troubling:

   a.. In the history of structural engineering, steel-frame high-rise buildings
have never been brought down due to fires either before or since 9/11, so how
can fires have brought down three in one day? How is this possible?

   a.. The BBC has reported that at least five of the nineteen alleged
"hijackers" have turned up alive and well living in Saudi Arabia, yet according
to the FBI, they were among those killed in the attacks. How is this possible?

   a.. Frank DeMartini, a project manager for the WTC, said the buildings were
designed with load redistribution capabilities to withstand the impact of
airliners, whose effects would be like "puncturing mosquito netting with a
pencil." Yet they completely collapsed. How is this possible?

   a.. Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700°F, the temperature of jet
fuel fires does not exceed 1,800°F under optimal conditions, and UL certified
the steel used to 2,000°F for six hours, the buildings cannot have collapsed due
to heat from the fires. How is this possible?

   a.. Flight 77, which allegedly hit the building, left the radar screen in the
vicinity of the Ohio/Kentucky border, only to "reappear" in very close proximity
to the Pentagon shortly before impact. How is this possible?

   a.. Foreign "terrorists" who were clever enough to coordinate hijacking four
commercial airliners seemingly did not know that the least damage to the
Pentagon would be done by hitting its west wing. How is this possible?

   a.. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, in an underground bunker at the
White House, watched Vice President Cheney castigate a young officer for asking,
as the plane drew closer and closer to the Pentagon, "Do the orders still
stand?" The order cannot have been to shoot it down, but must have been the
opposite. How is this possible?

   a.. A former Inspector General for the Air Force has observed that Flight 93,
which allegedly crashed in Pennsylvania, should have left debris scattered over
an area less than the size of a city block; but it is scattered over an area of
about eight square miles. How is this possible?

   a.. A tape recording of interviews with air traffic controllers on duty on
9/11 was deliberately crushed, cut into very small pieces, and distributed in
assorted places to insure its total destruction. How is this possible?

   a.. The Pentagon conducted a training exercise called "MASCAL" simulating the
crash of a Boeing 757 into the building on 24 October 2000, and yet Condoleezza
Rice, among others, has repeatedly asserted that "no one ever imagined" a
domestic airplane could be used as a weapon. How is this possible?
Their own physics research has established that only controlled demolitions are
consistent with the near-gravity speed of fall and virtually symmetrical
collapse of all three of the WTC buildings. While turning concrete into very
fine dust, they fell straight-down into their own footprints.
These experts and scholars have found themselves obliged to conclude that the
9/11 atrocity represents an instance of the approach--which has been identified
by Karl Rove, the President's closest adviser--of "creating our own reality."


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#8837 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 12:12 pm
Subject: Major Anomaly In Chandler's Wobble
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Dear Friends,

   http://www.mayanmajix.com/art2262.html

   Love and Light

   David

   The Major Anomaly In Chandler's Wobble - 2005/2006

by Michael Mandeville
Feb 1, 2006

   There is a relatively large, developing anomaly in the spiraling motion of the
spin axis, including an huge phase shift, a shortening of the length of the
normal 7 year cycle, the tightening of the spiral motion into an exceptionally
small spiral, and a major acceleration in the drift of the Spin Axis (secular
drift of the poles, or so-called True Polar Wander). This anomaly is on-going
and portends major changes in tectonic activity during ensuing years.

   (ECB – February 1, 2006, MWM) For two weeks now there has been almost no
movement of the spin axis. The track of the wobble for the past two weeks has
added almost nothing to last week's graph which is shown below (at the linked
site - see the January 18 note).

   AS PREVIOUSLY SUMMARIZED: The phase and magnitude of Chandler's Wobble is
undergoing a profound shift. I suspect this lack of movement is an awesome
portent of sudden tectonic changes, judging by the results of the last major
anomaly in the movement of the spin axis during 1934-1938. If tectonic activity
mirrors that period in the coming years, we will see two periods of major
increase in tectonic activity One period will be for about 14 months when the
spin axis does continue its progression of movement into the next 7 year X WAVE
cycle of Chandler's Wobble. This first spiral turn will produce a major increase
in volcanic activity, possibly by as much as as 100% over last year or even
more. This 14 month spiral turn should also produce a similar increase in
general earthquake activity in the Northern Arc of the Pacific Rim of Fire -
should be unusually strong in Japan, Alaska, California. This means from now
through to the middle of 2007. Then for the next some 14-16 years, world
  earthquake activity 7.0 plus should be double that of the general yearly
average.

   Please note that this doubling of activity 7.0 plus during the next 14 years
will be on top of the general trend of increase in earthquake activity in the
3.0 to 7.0 range, which is increasing in the range of 50% per decade. These
numbers are uncertain and are not predictions, but they do reveal a range of
realistic possibility based on the averages of the past. An acceleration in this
range over the base of the past few years would doubtless substantially increase
destruction of human habitats. The first surge may come in as little as 90 days
but is probably not all that likely during the next lunar period.

   See the background report (as of Jan 18, 2006) and the latest plot: Go
immediately and see the current wobble track. This introduction and all updates
related to polar motion is written with the graph at
http://www.michaelmandeville.com/earthmonitor/polarmotion/2006_anomaly_wobble.ht\
m

Return of the Phoenix: I am not finished yet with Book Three. NO ETA. It is very
soon – a matter of days.

SOLAR VORTEX

Sunspot Count is 0, Flux is 78 and falling, practically 0% probability of solar
flares and ionic wind, Fluxgate Monitor is virtually flat line though not quite
mirror flat revealing no ionic wind hitting the Earth.

Venus is pulling ahead of Earth now as Earth similarly pulls ahead of Saturn
after a relatively long alignment. Meanwhile Mercury is nearly on the opposite
side of the Sun betwixt alignments with Neptune and Uranus. Mercury will dance
by Uranus during this next three days

Then the planets will be almost all mutually spreading apart, weakening their
mutual influences through to about the 21st of February. On February 25 Mercury
| Mars and then begins a quick success of alignments every several days with
Saturn, Earth, and then finally on March 21 Mercury will be in very close
alignment with Venus and Jupiter to choreograph what is likely to be a major
affair of sunspots and storms on the Sun.

Expect Sunspot Counts to fall away now through to about February 14, then
another modest to strong blip about the end of the month for the Mercury | Earth
alignment, to be followed by a major peak on about March 14 for the Spring
Equinox Three-Way between the two inner-most planets and the giant, near-star
Jupiter.

We are 3 days past the New Moon, which is still very close to the Earth in the
South Node. The next Full Moon is Feb 13, which will be close to Apogee, hence
it will be a "weak" syzygy window. There is probably little to worry about from
major tectonic activities until the end of February.

ATMOSPHERIC VORTEX

The solar storm and sunspot ionic impact on the Earth's weather should be
neglibible now through to about the ides of February to reach a peak by February
20 and again about the end of the first week of March. Expect Spring Equinox to
be a very wet, very intense stormy period, by not as extreme as has been typical
during the last several Springs.
All weather will be more mild this year than the last several years but the
weather PATTERNS will continue to be non-normal because of the chaotic mixing
effects which Global Warming Syndrome is inducing into the flow of air. All
local regimes will continue to be perturbed and this perturbance will gradually
get more and more surreal through this time of the rapidly accelerating Change
In The Earth. No normality will be seen for at least the next four millennia.
All biomes will relentlessly migrate and transmute. Catastrophic impact of the
weather in some regions, such as the Carib Basin, will ebb and flow in severity
in response to the modulation imposed by the 7 year cycle in the Wobble, (the
Primary Axis Cycle. In general, the coast lines of the Gulf area, including
Florida, are in process of being destroyed and this process will accelerate.

For all intents and purposes, the Louisiana/Mississippi coasts are now
undergoing human abandonment. The cultural systems of the Americans are
inadequate to the task of responding rationally, their institutions are too
incompetent and corrupted to manage the issues. Perhaps it is just as well. Any
money spend in the region is a waste of effort, the appropriate response along
the coast is migration to higher ground. This will be quite obvious by even the
end of this year or next year at the latest, the continuing punch by superstorms
will exhaust all resources. By 2011, all discussions on these issues will have
become passe and few if any people will actually live year round along the
swampy coast lines.

Florida, you too. Mass migrations will empty some portions of Florida during the
next six years.

For those in the Western States, may this be a badly needed awakening. You can
clearly see now that the institutional matrix of crazy white man world in the
U.S. will disintegrate and collapse in the face of widespread destruction
produced by a 9.0 coastal quake such as struck Sumatra, or the 8.0 plus which
struck in the Himalayas. When you are hit, expect nothing in the way of
government grants, and loans and insurance payments for actually rebuilding your
lives. Whatever is wiped out will be gone and you will become a pioneer once
again surviving on the edge.

GEOPHYSICAL VORTEX

Seismic activity has remained relatively low in frequency and magnitude during
the past seven days. Distribution appears random throughout the Earth. We can
clearly see what happens when the Earth’s crust is NOT wobbling and changing the
location of the Spin Axis. Seismic activity remains at a low level in chaotic
distribution.

So far there has been little to no impact of the New Moon Perigee on seismic
patterns except a modest increase in frequency seems to have begun during the
past 24 hours. Apparently we are past the Perihelion zone and seismic danger
appears to be diminishing rapidly at the moment despite the syzygy.

Volcanic activity is at virtually the same count as the past three weeks, SWVC
reports 5 on the restless list, 61 on alert status, and 21 on the active list.
Most of the active volcanoes are indeed active, no report is more than three
days old and most are as of today, all report ash and gas, and some are still
oozing lava. Popo cooked up 20 puffs during the past 24 hours, the Goddess still
weeps her red tears at Kilauea, but Etna, though still considered actice, is too
clouded up far anyone to see what it is doing. Carib plate volcanism still leads
the world activity and the three on Kamchatka Peninsula are still mirroring St
Helens with remarkable precision, all four are still cooking but just barely as
of the moment.

In summary, world volcanism began a vigorous seasonal upsurge during early
December but has been virtually on a flat line since the Earth’s wobble
disappeared.

GEO-ECONOMIC VORTEX

No change. All bears are more loaded than ever waiting to bag the fools.
Conditions will continue to deteriorate through the year. The only surprise has
been the remarkable durability of the Imperial Smoke and Mirrors Palace. They
appear to have the mass media totally “bedazzled” by their puff and huff
routines.

Meanwhile, you have noticed have you not how carefully the Cabal is managing the
price inflation through the progressive roll up on the price of gasoline.

It is now obviously so well choreographed I doubt any of the primary numbers
used in the economy are real. They are ALL now manipulated values designed to
confuse. Just know the trend, the price of oil is being used to re-value the
dollar. The rate of inflation now appears to be in the 20% range. It will only
take another three years to destroy the “exuberance” in the real estate bubble
through such heavy inflation, thus I think you can conclude that the bull money
is all betting on this inflate.

GEO-PATHETIC POLITICAL VORTEX

The problem is China, Iran, and weird things the Zionists are doing in the
Middle East. China and Iran are the main problems to the Imperial Hegemony
mainly because they can precipitate a massive shift away from use and thus the
value of the dollar. This will weaken the control of the Cabal over the dollar
and thus the world economy. As things stand, the world is flowing inevitably in
this direction.

The main speculation in the world today is that Iran’s ability to leverage this
shift will destroyed by an Imperial assault on Iran’s industrial infrastructure.
A massive bombing campaign, in short. I agree that this is a clear and present
danger. The consequences will be nothing less than the economic, military, and
political destruction of both Israel and the U.S. during the next 20 years,
perhaps portions of Europe as well.

Many people are hyperventilating about catastrophic military and political
events coming during March of this year, or perhaps later, such as in June. I
doubt any major actions during the next six months. The new government of Israel
will be elected in March and it will take them several months to recover from
the loss of Sharon and organize support for their next-wave strategy. Aside from
this, it will take at least six months of manoevering on the U.S. Security
Council to build a rationale for a destructive assault on Iran. As well, I
strongly suspect that the U.S. Military wants to finish building up a large
local Iraqi military force to have the manpower to attempt to block a potential
massive assault on the ground from a million really pissed off Iranians (which
will almost certainly be one of the main Iranian counter-offensives).

And then there are the elections in the U.S. Bush’s war rhetoric is no longer
enough to maintain control of the government. They will want to hold their fire
until after the elections at the end of 2006, attempting in the meantime to show
their duped base that they can in fact hold a macho line and resolve problems
with peace and strong diplomacy. They will devote their resources showing and
conniving to show what a success they have made in Iraq. Through this means they
will attempt to hold onto their control of government through massive
programming and spending of money in the Mass Media for the 2006 elections in
November.

They would then stage their assaults during 2007 and force the completion of a
massive militarization of the U.S. If they get that far to be in enough position
of power…

I think the good news is that this is all entirely too obvious now. We can see
the Masters of War, we now know who they are and the games they are a-playing.



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#8838 From: "Ted Loman" <ufoazbk@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 1:09 pm
Subject: Re: from Whitley Streiber
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So have you've heard any thing else concerning this other than the Fiction
writer

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#8839 From: "Ted Loman" <ufoazbk@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: from Whitley Streiber
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I don't know if I had asked you this or not but have you heard any thing else
concerning this posting?

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#8840 From: "Regan Power" <soulsearcher_22@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 5:45 pm
Subject: Shell posts biggest profit in UK corporate history
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Economic topics don't usually feature on our lists but I thought this
item nicely illustrates how our planetary economy has become disclocated from
cosmic reality.  The news article at

<
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/02022006/325/shell-posts-biggest-profit-uk-corporate-hi\
story.html >

reports how the oil-giant Shell "posted a 3 percent rise in fourth-quarter
current cost of supply (CCS) net profit to $5.395 billion (3 billion pounds),"
(an increase of 13% on the previous year), while production dropped from 3.84
million to 3.5 million barrels of oil per day.

         Is this situation not crazy?  They cut production and increased their
profits!  And they still cut themselves short even then.  At this rate, they
will just have to stop production altogether to turn in a profit of $11.78bn
(£6.55bn)!

         The mind boggles.

         Regan

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#8841 From: "Jahnets" <Jahnets@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 5:53 pm
Subject: RE: from Whitley Streiber
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I haven't yet and I've been asking. It was originally sent to James and he
didn't verify it before sending it out ,but said so in the email. Maybe it
was simply a big ship coming in they didn't want talked about. For some
reason a lot of information coming out of below the border countries gets
shut up real fast...
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   So have you've heard any thing else concerning this other than the Fiction
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#8842 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 6:11 pm
Subject: Rogue Star Dangers Thought Slight
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Dear Friends,

   So much for Planet X ;-)

   http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Rogue_Star_Dangers_Thought_Slight.html

   Love and Light.

   David

   Rogue Star Dangers Thought Slight


The latest discovery brings the total number of known exiles to five.
   by Staff Writers

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2006
Recent research showing there is a small population of hypervelocity stars
streaking through the Milky Way doesn't mean there is much of a risk to
humanity, either of a cataclysmic collision within the solar system or of
significant gravitational disruptions.

   "There are vast empty distances between stars, and so a close stellar
encounter is very unlikely as a hypervelocity star travels out of the galaxy,"
said lead researcher Warren Brown, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.      Brown told SpaceDaily.com that tidal
disruption also is unlikely, unless the encounter occurred at extremely close
range, "because a hypervelocity star travels so quickly there would be very
little time for the gravitational pull to disrupt any planets."      Using the
Multiple-Mirror Telescope in Arizona, Brown and colleagues have spotted two such
stars – each about four times more massive than the Sun – moving fast enough so
the galaxy's gravitation cannot contain them. The first, in the direction of the
constellation Ursa Major, is traveling out of the Milky Way at about 1.25
million miles per hour. It is located about 240,000 light-years from Earth. The
second, in the direction of Cancer, is moving outward at 1.43 million
  miles per hour and is about 180,000 light-years away.      The HSCA team
discovered the first stellar exile last year. A European group has identified
two more, one of which might have originated in the Large Magellanic Cloud,
which is adjacent to the Milky Way. The latest discovery brings the total number
of known exiles to five.      "These stars form a new class of astronomical
objects – exiled stars leaving the galaxy," Brown said, adding that there may be
1,000 such stellar rogues speeding through the Milky Way, or about one star in
100 million. Despite the long odds of discovery, the team found their target by
pre-selecting candidates spread over a large area of the sky.      Stars become
exiles when their path takes them too close to the supermassive black hole that
exists at the Milky Way's center. In general, exiled stars start out as part of
binary systems. Just as engineers can boost the velocity of spacecraft by
maneuvering them close to planets, these stars receive a
  huge gravitational kick from the black hole, enough to eject them completely
from the galaxy, and to break the bond with their binary partner.      One
intriguing prospect regarding galactic exiles is whether they are carrying any
planets along with them. "It is possible that these stars have planetary
systems," Brown said. "If planets do currently orbit the exiled stars, the
planets' motion is relative to the stars and is unaffected by the extreme speeds
of their parent stars."      He said the odds of planets are low, however. "We
believe that … the most likely time for a planet to be either disrupted or
stripped from its parent star altogether is during the encounter with the
massive black hole."      Regarding the possibility of a close encounter with a
rogue star, Brown said although anything massive that passes near or within the
orbits of the planets would disrupt our solar system, "lucky for us, a close
encounter with even one of the galaxy's 100,000,000,000 stars is very
  unlikely. Roughly speaking, there is a 0.01 percent chance of finding a
hypervelocity star within 1,000 light years of Earth at any given time."      In
terms of their ultimate fate, Brown said hypervelocity stars are doomed to
travel alone in the blackness of intergalactic space. "They are traveling at
speeds well over twice that needed to escape the gravitational pull of our
galaxy, and so will never return," he said. "The stars will shine normally until
they end their lives as supernova."


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#8843 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 6:29 pm
Subject: UFO Casebook Latest
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Dear Friends,

   Here's the latest from UFO Casebook.

   UFO Videotaped Near Sonora, CA
   http://www.ufocasebook.com/ja012006video.html

   UFO Photographed In Oaxaca, Mexico
   http://www.ufocasebook.com/oaxaca2005.html

   Triangular UFO Photographed - North Carolina
   http://www.ufocasebook.com/northcarolinaoct2005.html

   Hour Glass Shaped UFO Photographed In Texas
   http://www.ufocasebook.com/kaufman013106.html

   Glowing Object Photographed In Texas
   http://www.ufocasebook.com/kaufman013006.html

   Love and Light.

   David




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#8844 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 6:37 pm
Subject: Man Takes Video Of Spherical Object That Breaks Up
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Dear Friends,

   Click the link if you don't receive the images or can't access the video
links.

   http://www.ufosnw.com/

   Love and Light.

   David

   1. January 18, 2006 - 40 Miles Southwest of Sonora, California

Man Takes Video of Spherical Object That Breaks Up

      View Segment One Video

      View Segment Two Video

      View Segment Three Video

      View Segment Four Video


Drawing by Photographer of Direction Where Object Taped

Red Star Shows Location Where Video Made


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#8845 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 6:58 pm
Subject: Light
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Dear Friends,

   There is only Light ;-)

   http://www.philosophy.org/articles/WR007.html

   Love and Light.

   David


             LIGHT

By Walter Russell
   Chapter XII, The Secret of Light

Light cannot be seen, it can only be known. Light is still. The sense of sight
cannot respond to stillness. That which the eyes “feel” and believe to be Light
is but wave motion simulating the idea of Light. Like all things else in this
electric wave universe the idea of Light cannot be produced. Electric waves
simulate idea only. They do not become idea.   When man sees the light of the
sun he believes that he is actually seeing light when the nerves of his eyes are
but “feeling” the intense, rapid, short- wave vibrations of the kind of wave
motion which he senses as incandescence. The intensely vibrant electric current
mirrored into the senses of the eyes fairly burns them. They cannot stand that
high rate of vibration. The eyes would be destroyed by such a vibration but
light would not be the cause of that destruction. Fast motion, simulating light,
would be the cause. It would be like sending a high voltage electric current
over a wire, so fine that the current would burn it out.

   Man likewise cannot see darkness. The nerves of his eyes, which sense motion,
slow down to a rate of vibration that he can no longer “feel.”
   Man is so accustomed to the idea that he actually sees light in various
intensities illuminating various substances to greater or lesser degree that it
is difficult for him to realize that his own senses are but acting as mirrors to
reflect various intensities of wave motion. But that is all that is happening.
   Every electrically conditioned thing in Nature reflects the vibrations of
every other thing, to fulfill its desire to synchronize its vibrations with
every other thing. All matter is the motion of light. All motion is expressed in
waves. All light waves are mirrors that reflect each other’s condition unto the
farthermost star.
   This is an electrically conditioned wave universe. All wave conditions are
forever seeking oneness. For this reason all sensation responds to all other
sensation.

   Is Light A Wave Or Corpuscle?
   Much controversy has arisen as to whether light is corpuscular, as Newton
claimed it to be, or waves. There is much evidence in favor of both theories. It
is both. Light is expressed by motion. All motion is wave motion. All waves are
expressed by fields of equal and opposite pressures of two-way motion. The
entire volume within wave fields is filled with the two opposite expressions of
motion—the positive expression that compresses light into solids, and the
negative expression that expands it into space surrounding solids.
   All space within wave fields is curved. Curvature ends at planes of zero
curvature that bound all wave fields. These boundary planes of omnipresent
magnetic Light act as mirrors to reflect all curvature into all other wave
fields in the universe, and as fulcrums from which motion in one wave field is
universally repeated.

   All Matter Is Wave Motion
   Together these constitute what we call matter and space. It has been difficult
to conceive light as being purely corpuscular, for light is presumed to fill all
space. Space is not empty. It is full of wave motion. Corpuscles of matter are
one half of wave cycles of light. Space is the other half.
   There need be no mystery as to whether light is corpuscular or wave, for waves
of motion which simulate the light and darkness of space is all there is.
   The light and motion of solid matter, and of gaseous matter of space, differs
only in volume and condition. Water of earth is compressed into small volume
while water of the heavens is expanded thou sands of time in volume. Each
condition is the opposite half of the cycle of water.
   Water vapor is water turned inside out. It again becomes water by turning
outside in. Expansion- contraction sequences result from this process.

   All Matter Is Simulated Light
   Water of the heavens still is water, and it still is light waves. No change
whatsoever has taken place between the waters of earth and those of the heavens
except a change of its condition from positive to negative preponderance. This
change is due solely to a change of its direction in respect to its center of
gravity.
   All dense cold matter, such as iron, stone, wood, and all growing or decaying
things, are light. We do not think of them as light but all are waves of motion,
and all waves of motion are light.
   Light is all there is in the spiritual universe of knowing, and simulation of
that light in opposite extensions is all there is in the electric wave universe
of sensing. The simulation of light in matter is not light. There is no light in
matter.
   Perhaps the confusion which attends this idea would be lessened if we classify
everything concerning the spiritual universe, such as life, intelligence, truth,
power, knowledge and balance as being the One Light of Knowing, and everything
concerning matter and motion as being the two simulated lights of thinking.
   Thinking expresses knowing in matter but matter does not think, nor does it
know.
   Thinking also expresses life, truth, idea, power and balance by recording the
ideas of those qualities in the two lights of matter in motion, but matter does
not live, nor is it truth, balance or idea, even though it simulates those
spiritual qualities.
   Man’s confusion concerning this differentiation lies in his, long assumption
of the reality of matter. His assumption that his body is his Self, that his
knowledge is in his brain, and that he lives and dies because his body
integrates and disintegrates, has been so fundamental a part of his thinking
that it is difficult for him to reverse his thinking to the fact that matter is
but motion and has no reality beyond simulating reality.
   The light which we think we see is but motion. We do not see light. We feel
the wave vibrations set up by the motion that simulates light, but the motion of
electric waves that simulate light is not that which it simulates.

   Confusion   Concerning Light Corpuscles
   There is much confusion concerning the many kinds of particles of matter such
as electrons, protons, photons, neutrons and others. These many particles are
supposedly different because of the belief that some are negatively charged,
some are positively charged and some are so equally charged that one supposedly
neutralizes the other.
   There is no such condition in nature as negative charge, nor are there
negatively charged particles. Charge and discharge are opposite conditions, as
filling and emptying, or compressing and expanding are opposite conditions.
   Compressing bodies are charging into higher potential conditions. Conversely,
expanding bodies are discharging into lower potential conditions. To describe an
electron as a negatively charged body is equivalent to saying that it is an
expanding-contracting body.
   Contracting and expanding bodies move in opposite directions. Contracting
bodies move radially inward toward mass centers, and expanding bodies move
radially outward toward space that surrounds masses. In this two-way universe,
light which is inwardly directed toward gravity charges mass and discharges
space. When directed toward space it charges space and discharges mass. All
direction of force in Nature is spiral.
   The charging condition is positive. It multiplies speed of motion into density
of substance. The principle of multiplication of motion because of decrease of
volume is the cause of the acceleration of gravity. The discharging condition is
negative. It divides speed of motion into tenuity of substance. The principle of
the division of motion because of expansion of volume is the cause of the
deceleration of radiation.
   One can better comprehend this principle by knowing that what we call
substance is purely motion. Motion simulates substance by its variation of
pressures, its speed and its gyroscopic relation to its wave axis.
   Particles are variously conditioned as to pressure but there are no different
kinds of particles. All are light waves wound up into particles that are doubly
charged. Their position at any one point in their wave causes them to have the
electric condition appropriate for that point.
   Light particles are forever moving in their octave waves. All are either
heading toward their cathode or their anode, which means toward vacuity or
gravity. They are all moving either inward or outward, spirally.

   All Light Particles Are Alike
   All light particles are either expressing the mother- light principle or the
father-light principle. For example, if a particle is on the amplitude of the
wave, it would be a true sphere, and as a true sphere it would be neither
positive nor negative. It might then appropriately be called a neutron. A
particle which is spirally heading inward toward the apex of a vortex in the
process of becoming a sphere might appropriately be called a proton, because of
its expressing the father-light principle.
   Again, if it is moving spirally outward, it could appropriately be called an
electron because it would then be discharging in excess of its charge or
expanding in excess of its contraction.
   Light rays, for example, leaving the sun, are discharging the sun. They are
also discharging themselves because they are expanding into greater volume. They
are also lowering their own potential by multiplying their volume. They reverse
their charge when radially converging upon the earth. They are then charging the
earth and themselves by contracting into smaller volume and are simultaneously
multiplying their own potential by thus contracting.

   Semi-cyclic Alteration
   In an electric current there is a constant interchange between anode and
cathode or positive and negative poles. A light particle expands as it leaves
the cathode in an outward radial direction and contracts as it radially
approaches the anode. This light particle has been the same light particle at
all times in all parts of its journey. Its variation of charge and discharge,
its direction of motion and the condition of wave pressure in which it finds
itself at all times are the sole reasons for its changing from one condition to
another. The light particles are all the same light particles, all being
different only in pressure condition.
   This is also true of the elements of matter. Whether they be iron, carbon,
silicon, bismuth or radium, all are composed of the same kind of light
particles.
   They all seem to have different qualities and attributes, but those qualities
and attributes are likewise given to them purely by the positions they occupy in
their waves.

   All Things Simulate Light
   A particle of light which belongs to an atomic system of sodium has in it all
of the entire range of the elements, besides all of every other creating thing
in the universe. It acts to carry out the purposefulness of the idea of sodium
simply because it is in the pressure condition of sodium, and is a part of the
unfolding pattern of the seed of inert gas of the octave from which it has
unfolded.
   If that same particle unfolded from the seed of the oak, it would be part of
the wood fiber of its trunk, or leaf, or of the chlorophyll which colored its
leaves, but it would be the same kind of particle while fulfilling the purpose
of cellulose as while fulfilling the purpose of sodium.
   All matter in this universe is but differently conditioned motion simulating
light, and all differences in condition are pressure differences.

   Light Does Not Travel
   The speed with which light presumably travels is 186,400 miles per second. The
distance between stars is so great that the speed of light is computed as light
years, for the distance computed by lesser units of time would yield figures so
great that they would be meaningless.
   Light only seems to travel. It is but one more of the countless illusions
caused by wave motion. Waves of the ocean seem to traverse the ocean but they
only appear to do so, for waves are pistons in the universal engines, and
pistons operate up and down. Wave pistons of light, or of the ocean, operate
radially and spirally inward and outward, toward and away from gravity.
   Waves of light do not travel. They reproduce each other from wave field to
wave field of space. The planes of zero curvature, which bound all wave fields,
act as mirrors to reflect light from one field into another. This sets up an
appearance of light as traveling, which is pure illusion.
   The sunlight we feel upon our bodies is not actual light from the sun. What
actually is happening is that the sun is reproducing its own condition on the
earth by extending the reproductions out through cold space into ever enlarging
wave fields until those reproductions begin to converge again toward our center
of gravity into ever smaller wave fields. The heat we feel and the light we see
is dependent entirely upon the ability of the wave fields to reproduce the light
and heat, and that ability is conditioned upon the amount of moisture in the
atmosphere.
   If there were no moisture in the atmosphere, our bodies would carbonize from
the heat thus reproduced. One cannot consistently think of that heat as direct
rays of the sun, for that same sunlight was intensely cold during its reproduced
journey through the immensely expanded wave fields of space between the sun and
earth.
   The light and heat that appear to come from the star or sun have never left
the star or sun.
   That which man sees as light and feels as heat is the reproduced counterpart
of the light and heat that is its cause.
   The rate of vibration in a wave field depends upon its volume. Vibration in a
wave field means the pulse of interchange between its compressed core and the
space surrounding that core. A slow vibration in a large wave field would cool
one’s body, or even freeze it, while fast pulsing interchange in extremely small
wave fields could burn one’s body.
   A lens that multiplies light and heat toward a focal point which sets paper on
fire merely compresses larger wave fields into smaller ones. The rate of
vibration increases for the same reason that the planets nearest the sun move
much faster in their small orbits than those that are far away from the sun.
Kepler’s law covering the speeds of planets will apply to rates of vibration in
wave fields as appropriately as with the movements in the solar system.









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#8846 From: "Jahnets" <Jahnets@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 7:12 pm
Subject: RE: [Astrosciences] Shell posts biggest profit in UK corporate history
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Ah but that is our money... I wonder what would happen if everyone went on
strike for a week and bought no gas...Stayed home if they had to...I bet
prices would fly back down quickly...



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   To: Astrosciences; ufodiscussion@yahoogroups.com
   Subject: [Astrosciences] Shell posts biggest profit in UK corporate
history


           Economic topics don't usually feature on our lists but I thought
this item nicely illustrates how our planetary economy has become
disclocated from cosmic reality.  The news article at

   <
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/02022006/325/shell-posts-biggest-profit-uk-corporat
e-history.html >

   reports how the oil-giant Shell "posted a 3 percent rise in fourth-quarter
current cost of supply (CCS) net profit to $5.395 billion (3 billion
pounds)," (an increase of 13% on the previous year), while production
dropped from 3.84 million to 3.5 million barrels of oil per day.

           Is this situation not crazy?  They cut production and increased
their profits!  And they still cut themselves short even then.  At this
rate, they will just have to stop production altogether to turn in a profit
of $11.78bn (£6.55bn)!

           The mind boggles.

           Regan


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#8847 From: "Jahnets" <Jahnets@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 7:05 pm
Subject: RE: [Astrosciences] Iran.......
jahnetsevolves
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In the Emerald Tablets it is made really clear.  Although I'm beginning to
wonder if when you read them you only get what you are ready for??? I have
no other way of explaining why they are so packed with info and answers for
me, and others not.  At any rate, your question. It says in them that back
during the time of Atlantis there was the (master) he calls him various
things but at one point states they are stars and that we also are stars.
They came down and took human form to help us. One stayed in the temples in
agwanti (close to samadi but different) and would watch the goings on
(remote view) (God is always watching) .They taught humans from all over.
They would choose those who had an aptitude for striving and learning and
bring them to the temple to teach. They were told to search out the light
only. (Not allow dark thoughts in) Out of curiosity or for what ever reason
some men began to search out the darkness (focus on it, give it attention
and thus power and energy)and opened pathways that would harm not only
themselves, but earth too. At that point the Angel came out of Agwanti and
told the other masters to adjust the tilt. Not just the masters but they
refer to the 7. The 7 to me refers to the Titans, gods, planets. See there
is a spirit that has the body of Jupiter that we know of as the King of the
gods, Zeus. You have a male body now but I'm sure in other lives have had
other different bodies. You are not your body...Until you can accept the
fact that the worlds are controled by spirits just like we are it will not
click.  The star in the Earth is not Gaia. It is Gebs son Osiris. When the
president refered to a quote out of some novel about, "Does the angel in the
earth still have control?" Ha Yes he does.

The lion... Babalon is always shown riding a creature. It has been surmised
that it is a lion type being with 7 heads egos, at least the psychological
theories of it. I don't think so. I think the 7 are the gods, this much I
was told. She reconciles the factions within the gods  with love and this
saves humanity. At least the humanity she doesn't judge. There is something
about her passing judgement on the countries. Babalon is Gaia, Hera, Mother
Nature and she is Isis' sister and she is magical as Isis is...  The gods
are shapeshifters. Literally. They can show up as anything they want and be
as physical as they want. They are not just spirits, although that is
usually how people see them. So the idea of her riding the beast(I think) is
simply the reconciliation aspect symbology of being in control and the beast
is matter, the physical body??? She was pulled into physical existance a few
times. Once by Thoth and he states it in the Emerald Tablets, and Parsons
did, and I'm sure many other times. In this case a goddess has incarnated
into a physical body to help show humanity the way. This is not a ordinary
spirit.  That is what Babalon is.  It's the lion I'm puzzled about as I've
seen a lion. Does one show up as a lion to reconcile humanity to animals???
The fact that she is nude to me simply states she knows she is not her body
so has no shame...


   Hi Jahnets,
   Who is the angel in the earth? Also, what did you mean by: 'does the lion
show up first???'
   Thanks! Love, Steve

   On Monday, January 30, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Jahnets wrote:


     George the emerald tablets point out that the aliens(gods) that came
taught us, and we didn't listen and then the world was flipped. That was
when Atlantis sunk and they moved to Egypt and began building pyramids.
Until mankind realizes that the earth is a live beings body and along with
the other titans and the sun will flip according to the angel in the earth.
The angel in the earth is probably waiting for Babalons judgement of the
nations I guess or does the lion show up first???



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#8848 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 7:28 pm
Subject: Tunguska - The Fire In The Sky
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Dear Friends,

   It'll be interesting what Thunderbolts has to say about this event.

   http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/00current.htm

   Here's another view;

   The Installation - Part I

   http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/installation.html

   Love and Light.

   David


Credit: Photograph taken by the Leonid Kulik expedition in 1930   Shattered
trees from the now-famous “Tunguska Event” testified to the force of the
mysterious aerial explosion.


     Feb 02, 2006
Tunguska—the Fire in the Sky
   No one can dispute the occurrence, but how it happened is the subject of
continuing, and often heated, controversy. Despite the best efforts of science,
every acceptable “explanation” leaves inescapable facts still shouting for
attention.

   The event began at about 7:15 on the morning of June 30, 1908 in a remote
region of central Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River. A blue-white
fireball—brighter than the Sun, some said—raced across the sky, then exploded
with the force of a 10- to 15- megaton hydrogen bomb.

   The explosion felled some 60 million trees across an area of 2000 square
kilometers. Yet some trees near the blast center were not burnt and a ring of
burnt trees circling the epicenter was left standing. The thunderous sounds were
accompanied by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows
hundreds of kilometers away.

   The explosion registered on seismic stations across Europe and Asia, and as
far away as Britain meteorologists registered fluctuations in atmospheric
pressure. The resulting pulse of air pressure circled the Earth twice, and
astronomers observed for several nights afterwards a glowing red haze in the
upper atmosphere, though they were not aware of the cause at the time. 
Curiously, reports of an unusually bright night sky began the night before the
Tunguska event and continued for several days afterwards.

   For the next few weeks, reports suggest that the night skies were aglow to
such an extent that one could read in their light. Both the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory reported a decrease
in atmospheric transparency persisting for several months.
   What, then, was experienced by the witnesses to the event: Accounts gathered
by the Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, in his 1930 expedition to the site of
the explosion are consistent enough on many details to be considered generally
reliable. Here is an excerpt from the account of resident Semen Semenov:

   “At breakfast time I was sitting by the house at Vanavara factory facing
North. [...] I suddenly saw that directly to the North, over Onkoul's Tunguska
road, the sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest. The
split in the sky grew larger, and the entire Northern side was covered with
fire. At that moment I became so hot that I couldn't bear it, as if my shirt was
on fire; from the northern side, where the fire was, came strong heat.

   “I wanted to tear off my shirt and throw it down, but then the sky shut
closed, and a strong thump sounded, and I was thrown a few yards. I lost my
senses for a moment, but then my wife ran out and led me to the house. After
that such noise came, as if rocks were falling or cannons were firing, the earth
shook, and when I was on the ground, I pressed my head down, fearing rocks would
smash it. When the sky opened up, hot wind raced between the houses, like from
cannons, which left traces in the ground like pathways, and it damaged some
crops. Later we saw that many windows were shattered…”

   Kulik’s expedition to the Tunguska explosion site was inspired by his belief
that a gigantic meteorite struck the area and that the iron recovered could pay
for the cost of the expedition. He received support from the Soviet Academy of
Sciences. The story is curiously similar to Daniel Barringer’s investigation of
Meteor Crater in Arizona—except that in Kulik’s case neither a meteor nor an
“impact crater” could be found.

   However, a later investigation by mineralogist O. A. Kirova recovered both
magnetite globules and various forms of silicate globules from samples obtained
by Kiril Pavlovich Florensky's expedition in 1958. Thousands of "tiny brilliant
spheres," many fused together, were found embedded like pellets in the earth and
in the trees. Globules of this sort are characteristic of the enigmatic
particles produced when meteoroids enter the atmosphere. (As we shall note in
the submission to follow, the study of such formations leaves many unanswered
questions.) The Tunguska globules occur over a fairly well-defined ellipse, with
high concentrations between 100 and 200 kilometers to the north-north-west of
the epicenter. Florensky suggested that this distribution might be explained by
fallout downwind of the high-altitude location of the final explosion.

   Most astronomers today envision the cause of the destruction as either a small
comet or asteroid exploding a few miles above the surface. Some estimates point
to an object 100 meters in diameter. According to the calculations of
Christopher Chyba of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Maryland, only a stony meteorite would explode at an altitude of 10 kilometers,
the commonly agreed height of the Tunguska blast. A comet of the assumed size
would disintegrate much higher in the atmosphere and cause less damage on the
ground.

   Yet scientists are still arguing over certain unexplained events and the fact
that no samples of the “impacting” object have ever been found. "If a group of
experts cannot agree for almost a hundred years, it's probably a third option,"
says Wolfgang Kundt, an astrophysicist from the University of Bonn in Germany.

   Andrei Ol'Khovatov, an independent Russian physicist who is intrigued by the
Tunguska event, agrees that the impact theory leaves too many unanswered
questions. He points out, for example, that witnesses reported strange weather
and increased seismic activity in the area for days beforehand.

   The absence of a coherent explanation has inspired a host of speculations.
Some exotic theories suggest a miniature black hole passing through the earth,
or a miniature “bomb” of anti-matter. Alternatively, either an exploding alien
spacecraft, or an alien-produced nuclear bomb has been offered. Some suggest
that it was Tesla testing his “death ray”.  As a light-hearted jest amid the
carnival of speculations, electrical theorists wonder if a “microscopic packet
of neutronium” (the fictional content of “neutron stars”) might be the next
explanation offered.

   NEXT: An explanation that works
   To be continued



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#8849 From: "William Hamilton" <astroxplorer@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 7:44 pm
Subject: Re: Shell posts biggest profit in UK corporate history
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Hmmm,

In the U.S. it is Exxon-Mobil that is getting attention.  I helped both
Exxon and Shell make
these profits by purchasing their gasoline at the pump.  They are swimming
in such much
money you would think they would now lower prices, but, as you probably
know,
they are rising again.  Guess they don't feel wealthy enuf.

Bill

By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer
January 30, 2006: 2:41 PM EST



NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Exxon Mobil Corp. set U.S. records for annual and
quarterly profits Monday as it easily topped fourth-quarter earnings
forecasts.

The nation's largest oil company reported net income in the fourth quarter
of $10.7 billion, or $1.71 a share, compared to $8.4 billion, or $1.30 a
share, a year earlier.



                               Special Report full coverage


                               Oil plunges over $2

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Excluding items, Exxon Mobil (Research) earned $10.3 billion, or $1.65 per
share, topping a consensus forecast of $1.44 a share from analysts surveyed
by earnings tracker First Call. It also topped the record for quarterly
profits it set in the third quarter, when it earned $9.9 billion.

Shares of Exxon Mobil gained 2 percent in early-afternoon trading, helping
to take the Dow into positive territory.

For the year the company earned net income of $36.1 billion, or $33.9
billion excluding special items. That's up 31 percent from the $25.9 billion
it earned on that basis year earlier.

Exxon Mobil's 2005 net income for the year comes to $1,146 a second. That
per-second profit is enough to pay for gas for the average American vehicle
to be driven 10,294 miles, at current gasoline prices.

While oil and gasoline prices in the fourth quarter were down from the
levels seen in September, that barely dented Exxon Mobil's top line. Revenue
for the quarter was $99.7 billion, up from $81.9 billion in the year-earlier
quarter, and down only 1 percent from the $100.7 billion in revenue in the
third quarter. Full-year revenue came to $371 billion, or just over $1
billion a day.

The Exxon Mobil earnings statement was almost defensive about the record
profit.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Regan Power" <soulsearcher_22@...>
To: "Astrosciences" <astrosciences@yahoogroups.com>;
<ufodiscussion@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:45 AM
Subject: [ufodiscussion] Shell posts biggest profit in UK corporate history


         Economic topics don't usually feature on our lists but I thought
this item nicely illustrates how our planetary economy has become
disclocated from cosmic reality.  The news article at

<
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/02022006/325/shell-posts-biggest-profit-uk-corporate-hi\
story.html >

reports how the oil-giant Shell "posted a 3 percent rise in fourth-quarter
current cost of supply (CCS) net profit to $5.395 billion (3 billion
pounds)," (an increase of 13% on the previous year), while production
dropped from 3.84 million to 3.5 million barrels of oil per day.

         Is this situation not crazy?  They cut production and increased
their profits!  And they still cut themselves short even then.  At this
rate, they will just have to stop production altogether to turn in a profit
of $11.78bn (£6.55bn)!

         The mind boggles.

         Regan

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#8850 From: Light Eye <universal_heartbeat2012@...>
Date: Thu Feb 2, 2006 7:50 pm
Subject: Debt Limit - We're Not There Yet
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Dear Friends,

   Not by a long shot...

   http://www.etherzone.com/2006/henr020206.shtml

   Love and Light.

   David

             DEBT LIMIT
WE'RE NOT THERE YET
   By: Ed Henry

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   It’s nice to see so many people
   interested in the national debt, but it also seems that some of them are
taking baby steps into an arena where it’s easy to get lost or misdirected.

   In the last week, several good hearts have broadcast the news that the Bush
administration has broken through the statutory debt limit of $8.184 trillion,
even that it’s now operating in “technical default,” and that the nation is
literally in a world of trouble because of this. It just isn’t true. Not yet,
anyway.

   Not Subject to the Debt Limit

   The U.S. Treasury currently lists $57.5 billion “not subject to the debt
limit.” The Daily Treasury Report, Table III-C on January 27, 2006, expresses
this as the debt subject to limit currently standing at $8.126 trillion, well
short of the $8.190 reported as “total debt” outstanding – what leads others to
believe we’ve gone over the limit.

   Although the Treasury attributes this “not subject to…” category to several
obscure accounts like the “unamortized discount” and the “Federal financing
bank,” I am firmly convinced that the real culprit is the government's Thrift
Savings Plan for federal employees. Let me explain.

   Real Trust Funds

   Unlike all of the fictitious trust funds in the “Intragovernmental Holdings”
forty-two percent portion of the national debt, the government does currently
manage eighteen real trust funds, dominated by the Thrift Savings Fund. All
total, these eighteen real trusts hold $68 billion in real money or liquid
assets – and the Thrift Savings Plan is more than 93 percent of that, or
currently $63.5 billion.

   The government doesn’t want you to know this, and they don’t want to list
these trusts with the phony ones that hold nothing but “special” nonmarketable
bonds. So they list them with other real debt under “Debt Held by the Public” or
what ought to be called Investor Debt – debt that was incurred under legitimate
contract instead of substituting for stolen money. Then it becomes debt “not
subject to the debt limit” because it’s legitimate investment and they don't
know where else to hide it.

   The $68 billion in these real trust funds is more than the $57.5 billion “not
subject to the debt limit,” but the Thrift Savings Plan allows federal employees
many choices of where they want their contributions and our “matching” tax money
invested. One of these choices is legitimate treasuries of the kind we issue to
China, Japan, and other nations still willing to loan us money.


                     rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000);   
document.write('');

   You can’t count the same investments or debt twice, and these are already
listed along with "investments" from China, so the difference is probably the
amount federal people have invested in treasuries. And the rest, the $57.5
billion balance, is probably the “unamortized discount” of these 18 trusts
coupled with the investment money still being played with by the “Federal
Finance bank.”

   There’s more

   In 2003, the federal government hit the national debt ceiling in February and
was able to hold at twenty-five million under that amount until late May or just
before half of the “interest” had to be paid to the Social Security and Medicare
trust funds, a dumping action that nevertheless raises the national debt. In
government parlance, $25 million is a pittance so you have to ask how they were
able to stall for so long.

   John Snow's people could do this again. If they do, they will continue holding
“auctions” to borrow from foreign countries and investors. Billions a day in
securities are maturing all of the time. Mr. Van Zeff of the Treasury’s Bureau
of Public Debt, a man few have even heard of, will just have to work a little
harder and faster to make certain the necessary money has been borrowed quickly
after the checks are in the mail. It's just an extension of the "float" action
they're always doing to hold the debt level.

   Once we do come close to the debt ceiling, the Treasury can also “cash-in” the
liquid assets of the Thrift Savings Plan, extending the deadline another month
or so and putting off the stall. This is when you hear Congress critters
screaming that “he’s using our money” even though it will be returned once they
raise the limit. It's often what drives them to immediate legislation.

   In Summary

   With five years in office, this will be the fourth time the Bush
administration has raised the debt ceiling. When George W. Bush took office, the
national debt limit stood at $5.950 trillion, a limit that had been set on
August 5, 1997 :
    On June 28, 2002 , the debt limit was raised to $6.400 trillion.

    On May 27, 2003 , the debt limit was raised to $7.384 trillion.

    On November 19, 2004 , the debt limit was raised to its current $8.184
trillion.

    Secretary of the Treasury, John Snow, is now pleading for another immediate
increase.
   Since taking office on January 20, 2001 , and Alan Greenspan immediately
whisked him away to a private meeting, Bush has increased the national debt $2.5
trillion, a record for any President.

   It took Clinton eight years to add that much debt, but add it he did. Give
George a chance. He’ll beat that record by miles.

   And you cannot write off all this borrowing to the illegal invasion and
occupation of Iraq. This time, the hurricanes that hit New Orleans and the Gulf
Coast will be a major part of the excuse.

   Can you believe it? The man still claims he's "on track" to cutting the
deficit in half.




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