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donderdag 22 mei 2014

We Have Been Misled By An Erroneous Map Of The World For 500 Years

An explanation for the use of a false map, and why we should switch to teaching our kids a map based on true relative size, was featured in The West Wing, see the clip below.
As mentioned in the video, the map can be used to make certain areas like the US mainland and Europe much larger, giving an illusion of power and importance attributed to its size. Areas like Africa are shown to be much smaller than they truly are. As the image below shows, the size of Africa is comparable to the total size of China, the United States, India and multiple other European countries.
Click the image to view full size.
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A sphere cannot be represented on a flat plane without distortion, which means all map projections are distorted in one way or another.
Below is an example of the Gall-Peters projection map, as mentioned in the video above.
Click image to see full-size.
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maandag 21 april 2014

Artifacts Of Unknown Origin - Messengers From Space?


MessageToEagle.com - Ancient past on Earth was definitely a world of higher science, complex machines, electricity and metallurgy.

A strange metal object of unknown origin was found in the inside of a geode - a natural mineral that as we know, requires millions of years to be formed.
It is mostly unusual to find a piece of metal which is both polished and manufactured, inside a geode.



The geodes are hollow rocks that contain crystalline structures in their interiors, but certainly not metal fragments. In a very distant past, someone placed this metal object inside the geode.



An uncommon stone embedded with screw-threaded metal bar from a collector in Lanzhou Mr. Zhilin Wang. He found this stone on a field research trip to the Mazong Mountain area located on the border of Gansu and Xijiang provinces.
The pear-shaped stone is extremely hard and has a mysterious black color. It is about 8 x 7 cm and weighs 466 grams.


The most surprising part of the stone is the embedded 6 cm cone-shaped metal bar which bears clear screw threads.


The stone is one of the most valuable in China and in the world. There are many hypotheses about the formation of this stone, but all seem to be incredible.
The screw-threaded metal bar - clearly a manufactured item - is tightly enclosed in the black lithical material.


Yet the fact that it was buried in the ground long enough for hard rock to form around it, which rather means that it must be millions of years old.
The screw thread width remains consistent from the thick end to the thin end, instead of varying due to the growth of organisms.
There have been many speculations regarding this kind of artifacts.
Could it be a stony meteorite - a messenger from outer space - having a message from an extraterrestrial civilization to humanity?.
How was the stone formed? It is strongly suspected of being not of this world or at least created by someone who possessed both sophisticated and advanced knowledge.

These are not isolated cases of metal objects being found within solid rock; many others have been found, too.
In early 2000s, a strange rock was found in the suburbs of Moscow, Russia in which were embedded two screw-like objects. Another rock found in Russia, when subjected to X-ray examination, was found to have eight screws within it.

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zondag 13 april 2014

The Extraterrestrial Presence in our World Today: What You Aren’t Being Told


Alien-Zoom-HDWhile many acknowledge the presence of extraterrestrials in our world, the crucial understanding lies in why they are here and what their real motives are. To truly understand this, we must identify what races are here, the extent of their involvement in human affairs, and their overall goals and intentions. This is not a simple task but it can be done by reviewing the proper sources: firsthand accounts of ET experiences, high-level military and insider information, thorough investigation work of the UFO and ET phenomenon, and even messages originating from non-human entities themselves. After researching this subject deeply over the last few years, I have discovered highly disturbing evidence revealing that there is a nefarious extraterrestrial agenda to systematically exploit and enslave humanity in an attempt to gain control of the planet and its resources. Through the use of persistent and extremely subtle forms of manipulation, along with direct physical intervention, several races of extraterrestrial beings are competing for the eventual control of Earth during this critical stage in humanity’s transformation and awakening.
The intention is not to eradicate human beings but to employ them, to have them become workers for a greater “collective.” To fully comprehend how this could be taking place, we must first briefly review the ET phenomenon and some of its recent historical accounts. While this information may be shocking and unbelievable at first, I encourage you to verify these things for yourself using the sources provided or additional research.
It is important to know that the main ways this Intervention is able to take place successfully without us realizing it is through secrecydeception, and manipulation. The other most effective tools used are ridicule and denial.  Additionally, further persuasion, pacification, and inducement is directed to humans unknowingly via mind-altering frequency-based technology. In some cases, even death comes to those who dare expose this largely hidden aspect of life. You will not hear this information ever spoken about seriously in the controlled media and even by many UFO or ET enthusiasts/researchers.
It is something we refuse to accept or face seriously because we fear the consequences of having to acknowledge this without distortion and taking full responsibility for what this really means. Even if we don’t acknowledge, believe in, or accept the reality of something, it does not change the reality itself. Once you start to accept the idea that extraterrestrial beings are actually hiding in our world and carrying out highly sophisticated and treacherous plans against our very freedoms, the full implications of this scenario begin to sink in on a deeper, more genuine level.
This article will be split into two parts. Part 1 will cover general background information regarding the nature of human-extraterrestrial engagement over the last 60 years. Part 2 will introduce a series of messages from a group of ET beings known as the Allies of Humanity, who have observed our world and the nature of the extraterrestrial intervention that is taking place. Their detailed Briefings are vital for humanity to understand and comprehend at this time.  Without understanding how this ET intervention affects us from a bigger picture perspective, we will likely remain lost and misguided.
The seriousness of this threat to our human freedom cannot be understated. We must become informed and educated about these matters. We must be willing to face these uncomfortable truths head on with great sobriety and clarity.  For when we can truly see what is going on behind the scenes, we can then take action to stop it. Do we value our human sovereignty? Or are we willing to let technologically-advanced beings take advantage of us for profit and for other motives? These are important questions that we must ask ourselves as we continue to face these alarming issues with courage and determination.
***************  PART 1 ***************
vril1In the 1940s, Nazi German occult secret societies such as the Thule and Vril societies made contact with Grey aliens through through telepathic means using a variety of ritualistic methods. [1] These meetings continued for some time until contact was established on the physical plane, where it is highly likely that exchanges of information and technology of an advanced nature took place. Prior to this, the Nazis had developed their first UFO in June 1934, and were actively engaged in building disc-type craft that operated using implosion-based technology. [1] The newly-gained ET insights gave the Nazis a great advantage in the air during WWII, with powerful flying saucer craft and exotic forms of energy production being available to them. Additionally, the Germans colonized Antarctica in 1938 calling the territory Neuschwabenland, where it is said that they have kept flying saucer and advanced human genetic engineering research alive and well, even to this day. [2] Following the war, a huge number of Nazi scientists and high ranking officials were given safe passage to various parts of the world: South America, Antarctica, and even the USA through Operation Paperclip. No study of the ET phenomenon is complete without understanding the occult connection between Nazi Germany and ETs, which continues to operate in secret on a scale greater than most are willing to entertain. [3]
In the early 1950s, the first meetings between various extraterrestrials and the US government took place directly with Dwight Eisenhower as president. These encounters are well-documented, and it is reported that meetings with both benevolent and malevolent ETs (4 groups) took place up until the mid 1960s. [4] Apparently, the US rejected further relations with benevolent ETs that wished to assist humanity in its spiritual development because they requested that we permanently disarm our nuclear arsenal. This was viewed with great suspicion and no exchange of technology was offered. However, it appears that a treaty was signed by the Greys and the US government in 1954 known as the Grenada Treaty. This deal was engineered between the treasonous Majestic-12 group (MJ-12) and the Greys (serving the oppressive Orion Group) and involved the transfer of information and technology, in exchange for certain freedoms they could exercise within the United States. [5]Essentially, this MJ-12 group gave these ETs access to vital resources: human and cattle for “medical experiments”, which are more accurately known as abductions.  The terms were that only a very small amount of humans could be taken, they had to be returned to their original location, their memories had to be wiped following the encounter, and the ETs had to submit a list of all abducted humans at regular intervals to MJ-12. After only a few years of this, it became clear that the ETs violated this agreement with impunity by taking more than a thousand-fold the amount of people that they promised. This birthed the modern human-alien war that is known within all major militaries across the world in deep secret. This period also marked the beginning of human abductions and cattle mutilations and could be considered the ultimate act of terrorism ever perpetrated against the people of the world.
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travisgrayeyesHuman abductions by ETs have been reported all over the world and persist to this day. [6] These activities have been widespread and more frequent than people would think over the last 50 years. Understanding this phenomenon and why this is happening is crucial; it is not benevolent in nature. [7] A large number of abductee experiences are recalled through hypnosis. The examination of reproductive organs and the extraction of sexual fluids and tissue is often reported, giving credence to a larger hybrid-interbreeding program that is occurring. Unfortunately, many people who are taken are not returned and do not live to tell their tale. There are joint human-alien underground bases that operate around the world, usually involving highly risky and dangerous genetic experiments for a variety of nefarious purposes. Some of the more well-known underground bases include Area 51 near Groom Lake, Nevada and Dulce in New Mexico. [9]  Reading first-hand accounts of what interaction is like at these bases is chilling. [8] Kidnapped humans kept in cages, highly grotesque genetic experiments involving the splicing of several creatures, among other things have been reported and this gives a definitive account that these interactions are against human will. We are talking about thousands of innocent people, including women and children, being tortured and dying unspeakable deaths. This needs to end now — these places must be exposed for what they are!  [10]
******* Highly Recommended Additional Sources *******
For seasoned conspiracy researchers, I find Commander X‘s material highly interesting, accurate, and to-the-point. His former experience within high levels of military clearly shows, and it is a great blessing that there are patriots like him who would dare speak out on such matters. These are short books, but they are essential for anyone who really wants to understand some of the details that comprise this bigger picture.
“The world’s foremost academic expert on UFOs and alien abductions provides the first evidence-based explanation of a mystery that has perplexed scientists for decades.  Based on more than 700 hypnotic-regression interviews with alien abductees and a Roper survey of 6,000 adults, The Threat reveals why the aliens are here and what they want, explains why their agenda has been kept secret, and exposes their frightening plans for earth and its inhabitants. In a direct, authoritative challenge to researchers who believe the abduction phenomenon is essentially benevolent and spiritually uplifting, Professor David M. Jacobs proves that there is a far more disturbing and potentially dangerous plan underway, with possible alien domination at its core.”
***************  PART 2 ***************
“Your ability to recognize the truth of what we are about to impart is absolutely fundamental for your survival, for your advancement, and indeed, for the preservation of the very freedoms that you hold most dear.  For the Greater Community into which you are emerging is perhaps far different from what you may have thought before…” — The Allies of Humanity
The Allies of Humanity is being presented to prepare people for a whole new reality that is largely hidden and unrecognized in the world today. It provides a new perspective that empowers people to face the greatest challenge and opportunity that we, as a race, have ever encountered.  The Allies Briefings contain a number of critical if not alarming statements about the growing extraterrestrial intervention and integration into the human race and about the extraterrestrial activities and hidden agenda.
The purpose of the Allies Briefings is to address the dramatic and far-reaching implications of this phenomenon, to challenge our human tendencies and assumptions regarding it and to alert the human family to the great threshold we now face.  The Briefings provide a glimpse into the reality of intelligent life in the Universe and what Contact will really mean. For many readers, what is revealed in the Allies of Humanity will be entirely new. For others, it will be a confirmation of things they have long felt and known.
To truly understand this challenging message, we must confront and question many of the prevailing assumptions and tendencies regarding the possibility and the reality of Contact. These include:
  • denial;
  • hopeful expectation;
  • misinterpreting the evidence to affirm our beliefs;
  • wanting and expecting salvation from the “visitors”;
  • believing that ET technology will save us;
  • feeling hopeless and submissive to what we assume is a superior force;
  • demanding government disclosure but not ET disclosure;
  • condemning human leaders and institutions while maintaining unquestioned acceptance of the “visitors”;
  • assuming that because they have not attacked or invaded us, they must be here for our good;
  • assuming that advanced technology equals advanced ethics and spirituality;
  • believing that this phenomenon is a mystery when in fact it is a comprehensible event;
  • believing that ETs in some way have claim to humanity and to this planet;
  • and believing that humanity is irredeemable and cannot make it on its own.
The Allies Briefings challenge such assumptions and tendencies and explode many of the myths we currently have about who is visiting us and why they are here.”
********* Summary of the Allies Briefings *********
This summary represents only a general overview and does not include many of the important details that make a complete comprehension of the Allies Briefings possible.
1. Humanity’s destiny is to emerge into and to engage with a Greater Community of intelligent life in the Universe.
2. Contact with other forms of intelligent life represents the greatest threshold that humanity has ever faced. The results of this Contact will determine humanity’s future for generations to come. This Contact is happening now.
3. Humanity is unprepared for Contact. Researchers are still unable to clearly see who is visiting our world and why. Governments are not revealing what they know, and most people are still in denial that this phenomenon is even occurring.
4. Because of this lack of preparation, humanity’s true allies sent representatives to a location near Earth to observe the extraterrestrial presence and activities within our world. The Allies of Humanity Briefings represent their report.
5. The Briefings reveal that our world is undergoing an extraterrestrial Intervention by forces that, as demonstrated by their actions, are here to subvert human authority and to integrate into human societies for their own advantage. These forces represent non-military organizations that are here to seek human and biological resources. The Allies refer to these forces as the “Collectives.” The Collectives do not value human freedom.
6. Because the Intervention is being carried out by small groups of intervening forces, it must rely primarily upon deception and persuasion to achieve its goals. The Allies Briefings describe in detail how this is being accomplished and what we must do to stop it.
7. This extraterrestrial Intervention is being focused in four arenas:
  • It is influencing individuals in positions of power and authority to cooperate with the Intervention through the promise of greater wealth, power & technology.
  • It is creating hidden establishments in the world from which the Intervention can exert its influence in the Mental Environment, seeking to make people everywhere open and compliant to its will through a “Pacification Program”.
  • It is manipulating our religious values and impulses in order to gain human allegiance to their cause.
  • It is taking people against their will, and often without their awareness, to support an interbreeding program designed to create a hybrid race and a new leadership who would be bonded to the “visitors”.
8. Those extraterrestrial visitors who have been potentially beneficial to humanity have all retreated from the world in the face of the Intervention. Those remaining are alien races who are not here for our benefit. This leaves us in an unambiguous situation regarding the extraterrestrial presence. This enables us to clearly see what we are dealing with. Otherwise, it would be impossible for us to tell friend from foe.
9. The Allies Briefings emphasize the grave danger in our accepting and becoming reliant upon ET technology offered by the Intervention. This will only lead to our becoming dependent on the “visitors,” resulting in our loss of freedom and self-sufficiency. No true ally of humanity would offer this to us. The Allies emphasize that we have earth-based solutions to all the problems that we face. What we lack as a race is unity, will and cooperation.
10. In spite of the great challenge we now face, humanity still has a great advantage if we can respond in time. The Allies Briefings reveal both the Intervention’s strengths and its weaknesses. One of the Intervention’s weaknesses is its reliance upon human acquiescence and cooperation to achieve its goals.
According to Greater Community rules of conduct within the region in which our world exists, Intervention is not allowedunless it can be demonstrated that the native people welcome and approve of it. Here, our voices can have power in the Greater Community. At this moment the Intervention has few critics.
But if enough people can become aware of it and speak out against it, the Intervention will be thwarted and must withdraw. This is the first step in humanity’s preparation for dealing with the realities of life in the Universe. This step and all the steps that follow give humanity its one great chance to overcome its long-standing conflicts and to unite in its own defense for the preservation of the world. 
The Allies affirm that we as human beings have the spiritual and collective power to do this and that we must do this if we want to survive and advance as a free and independent race in the Greater Community.
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The majority of the Briefings can be read online for free (in 7 languages). Please consider reading some of these Briefings! They contain some of the most important messages that humanity needs to understand at this time, written simply and to-the-point.
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This all may sound hard to believe at first, but it is extremely important to consider this information with an open mind, for the implications are huge. The tendency to remain in denial and dismiss anything that doesn’t fit into our preconceived ideas of what is possible remains strong, but we must learn to look beyond the veils and face the hard truth. In essence this is all just another aspect of nature playing itself out on a scale grander than we are used to — but this time we are not at the top of the ‘food-chain’. Humanity has arrogantly assumed that we are always going to be “kings of our dominion” but that very notion is being challenged to the core.
We must be very careful when it comes to accepting “offers” of ET technology in order to save us and our planet. It is one thing if we develop and implement free energy technology for ourselves, but it is an entirely different thing to accept this technology from a non-human source. This would NOT be an exchange with “no-strings attached,” even under the guise of “love, light, peace, and brotherhood”. You can bet that these beings are going to be very persuasive, unlike anything we’ve ever come across. Especially given their superior ability to read and influence us on the mental/emotional level, they are going to appeal to our deepest longings and hopeful spiritual aspirations. Therefore, the ONLY way to become strong and discerning is to cultivate our inner connection to the Knowledge we hold within ourselves — contact with our Higher Self. This is the key.
Of course there are positive and loving beings in the universe. However, the ones that are here physically intervening in human affairs and abusing us as if we were ants are not here for our benefit or spiritual advancement. They are here to absorb our collective power and energy into their economic empires of trade and commerce that take place in this belt of the universe. A rather grave threat and realization that we’d rather not face, indeed. However, if we fail, Earth would be mined of its resources and we would be placed under a new world order that would be harsh, exacting, and beyond anything we can imagine. They will continue to use their main weapons of manipulation, persuasion, and pacification to achieve their goals — but we are able to see through this with the eyes of discernment and clarity through Knowledge.
All of this is not taking place for no reason. There is a climax to this and it is building with each passing day. By the time they reveal their presence and intentions openly, it will be too late to take effective action to stop them. We must speak out about this now! There is a real reason that people go to great lengths to expose these conspiracies and present the implications to the public — because our very freedoms and way of life, the pursuit of happiness, and our creative expression depends on it.
There has never been a greater threat to human freedom than this one — and the overwhelming majority are not even aware this is taking place. However, through this tremendous challenge lies our golden opportunity: the ability to unite humanity and to stand up for our freedom, exercising our power through inner Knowledge and maintaining control over our planet. This is the way we will establish a new paradigm of unity, peace, cooperation, and order. We are going to have to earn it and it’s not going to be easy — this is going to take tremendous courage, relentless discernment, and a genuine passion for freedom!
Please share and discuss this message with those you know. Our very freedoms depend on this understanding reaching critical mass and starting an active resistance against the ET intervention! These beings are counting on us remaining complacent, ignorant, and unwilling to face them directly. How will we answer the call?
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley
Source: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/04/29/the-extraterrestrial-presence-in-our-world-today-what-you-arent-being-told/

donderdag 27 maart 2014

'If We Find ET He/She Will Be More Advanced Than We Are'


MessageToEagle.com - Are we alone in the universe? It's a question that has always fired the human imagination. The more we learn, the more unlikely it seems that Earth is a lone miracle inhabiting life amid galaxies of lifeless planets.
Many eminent scientists are positive that it is just a matter of time before we find other life in the universe.
But exactly how we'll encounter our inter-galactic neighbours, and whether they'll be just a few cells or full-blown ET lookalikes, they are less sure.
'We are going to find life in space in this century,' Dr. Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) said emphatically at last week's European Commission Innovation Convention.


'There are 150 billion galaxies other than our own, each with a few tens of billions of earth-like planets. If this is the only place in the universe where anything interesting happening then this is a miracle.

And 500 years of astronomy has taught us that whenever you believe in a miracle, you're probably wrong.'


How will discover life in space? Dr Shostak sees it as a 'three-horse race' which will probably be won over the next 25 years.
We will either find it nearby, in microbial form, on Mars or one of the moons of Jupiter; we will find evidence for gases produced by living processes (for example photosynthesis) in the atmospheres of planets around other stars; or Dr Shostak and his team at SETI will pick up signals from intelligent life via huge antennas.


Dr. Suzanne Aigrain, Lecturer in Astrophysics at Oxford University, who studies extrasolar planets or exoplanets (planets around other stars than the sun), represents horse number two in the race.
Speaking at the Convention, Dr Aigrain noted that, based on her studies, she would also bet that we are not alone. 'We are very close to being able to say with a good degree of certainty that planets like the Earth, what we call habitable planets, are quite common [in the universe] ...


That's why when asked if I believe there's life on other planets, I raise my hand and I do so as a scientist because the balance of probability is overwhelmingly high.'

Dr. Aigrain, and the groups that she works with, have so far been using light - electromagnetic radiation - as their primary tool to look for planets around stars other than the sun. Habitable planets are defined as those that are roughly the size of the earth where the surface temperature is suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface.
The life 'biomarkers' that Dr. Aigrain and her colleagues look for are trace gases in the atmospheres of the exoplanets that they think can only be there if they are being produced by a biological source like photosynthesis.

Dr Shostak and SETI, meanwhile, seek evidence of life in the universe by looking for some signature of its technology. If his team does discover radio transmissions from space, Dr Shostak is quite certain that they will be coming from a civilisation more advanced than our own.

'Why do I insist that if we find ET, he/she/it will be more advanced than we are? The answer is that you're not going to hear the Neanderthals. The Neanderthal Klingons are not building radio transmitters that will allow you to get in touch.'
If we do find life on other planets or intercept a radio signal, what are the consequences? Finding a microbe that isn't an earthly microbe will tell us a lot about biology, but there will also be huge philosophical consequences. In Dr Shostak's words, 'It literally changes everything'.

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maandag 24 maart 2014

Foreign Ministry goes on strike, all Israel's embassies and consulates abroad to close


Foreign Ministry


Services needed for everybody from new immigrants to employers bringing in foreign workers will be brought to a halt.


Protest banners on Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem: The fight for home starts abroad Photo: Courtesy
Foreign Ministry’s workers committee declared a full-fledged strike on Sunday, closing the ministry and all the country’s embassies and consulates around the world for the first time.
The strike is the latest development in a nearly two-year-old work dispute that the workers declared for improved salaries and work conditions.
Seven months of mediation efforts exploded on March 4 when the workers rejected a Finance Ministry proposal.
The workers then resumed crippling labor measures that had been put on hold during the mediation period.
A number of high-profile visits to Israel were canceled as a result of the measures, as well as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s planned trip to Mexico, Colombia and Panama next month.
In addition, Pope Francis’s planned visit in May is in doubt because of the strike measures.
A statement put out by the workers committee said that the workers declared an “indefinite” strike “in protest of the employment conditions for Israeli diplomats and because of the draconian decision by the Treasury to cut the workers’ salaries.
“Today, for the first time in Israel’s history, the Foreign Ministry will be closed and no work will be done in any sphere under the ministry’s authority,” the statement read.
The decision to strike was slammed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, who called it a “miserable” decision that shows the workers committee has become “hysterical.”
“This move has no benefit, and will only cause more damage to the ministry’s workers,” he said. “I am sorry that these irresponsible steps will come at the expense of the country’s citizens, and as contacts are under way with the Treasury and in the middle of mediation.”
“We will do everything possible to limit the damage caused to the state and its citizens,” Liberman said.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, had no comment on Sunday on the strike that will paralyze the diplomatic corps around the world.
As a result of the strike, no consular services will be available, Israel will not be represented in any international gathering or forum, its ambassadors abroad will not work and services needed for everybody from new immigrants to tourists requiring visas to employers bringing in foreign workers will be brought to a halt.
According to the statement, the ministry’s doors will be locked from Sunday afternoon to everyone, including the ministry’s management and political leadership.
“The Foreign Ministry will be completely closed for all activity, including Israel’s 103 embassies around the world from New Zealand, through Paris, London, Berlin, Washington and Israel’s representation at the UN,” the statement read.
Yair Frommer, the head of the workers committee, said the Treasury declared war on the foreign service and its “dedicated employees who struggle daily for Israel.”
Frommer accused Treasury officials of irresponsibly damaging Israel’s vital interests.
The Treasury officials, he said, will not however be able to “prevent boycotts of Israel, will not foster business transactions that yield huge economic benefits and will not raise our voices at the UN Security Council.”
The workers will not allow the Treasury “to destroy Israel’s foreign service,” Frommer said.
The workers are striking for better pay, as well as compensation for spouses of diplomats forced to forfeit careers in order to join their husbands or wives during their stints abroad.
The Finance Ministry lashed out against the Foreign Ministry workers union, accusing it of “holding the citizens of Israel hostage and harming the vital interests of the state.”
Not only had the workers received a 20 percent wage increase just two years ago, the Finance Ministry said, but they were now demanding a salary bump for their most senior members.
Instead of negotiating over new proposals designed to allay their concerns, the workers abandoned talks and went on strike, the Treasury said. “We call on the union to stop taking aggressive measures and return to the mediation process.”
Niv Elis contributed to this report.

Source: http://m.disclose.tv/news/Alert_Israel_is_closing_all_its_embassies_and_consulates_worldwide/101378#DTV

vrijdag 30 augustus 2013

'Syrian rebels take responsibility for the chemical attack admitting the weapons were provided by Saudis' - source

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In an interview with Dale Gavlak, a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and Mint Press News, Syrian rebels tacitly implied that they were responsible for last week’s chemical attack. Some information could not immediately be independently verified.

“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,” he writes in the article.
The rebels noted it was a result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them.

“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.

As Gavlak reports, Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels died in a weapons storage tunnel. The father stated the weapons were provided to rebel forces by a Saudi militant, known as Abu Ayesha, describing them as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.”
“They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them,” complained a female fighter named ‘K’. “We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”

“When Saudi Prince Bandar gives such weapons to people, he must give them to those who know how to handle and use them,” she warned. She, like other Syrians, do not want to use their full names for fear of retribution.

Gavlak also refers to an article in the UK’s Daily Telegraph about secret Russian-Saudi talks stating that Prince Bandar threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if Russia doesn’t agree to change its stance on Syria.

“Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord,” the article stated.

“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Saudi Prince allegedly told Vladimir Putin.
Mint Press News stated that some of the information couldn’t be independently verified and pledged to continue providing updates on this topic.
Voice of Russia, Mint Press News
 

vrijdag 16 augustus 2013

Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations - Their Technology And Capabilities

MessageToEagle.com - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, "Arthur C. Clarke once wrote a long time ago. In this Xenology article we take a look at who could be out there and what kind of advanced technology they could posses.  "Soon, humanity may face an existential shock as the current list of a dozen Jupiter-sized extra-solar planets swells to hundreds of earth-sized planets, almost identical twins of our celestial homeland.  This may usher in a new era in our relationship with the universe: we will never see the night sky in the same way ever again, realizing that scientists may eventually compile an encyclopedia identifying the precise co-ordinates of perhaps hundreds of earth-like planets, "Dr. Michio Kaku said.On these Earth-like planets there could be livings similar to us, or maybe totally different and perhaps even light years ahead of us when it comes to technology.  So, naturally we might wonder how advanced the physics of extraterrestrial civilizations could be. Several scientists, among them Dr. Micho Kaku have debated how to classify extraterrestrial civilizations.



  
What kind of technology could we expect to find on an alien planet?

"Although it is impossible to predict the precise features of such advanced civilizations, their broad outlines can be analyzed using the laws of physics. No matter how many millions of years separate us from them, they still must obey the iron laws of physics, which are now advanced enough to explain everything from sub-atomic particles to the large-scale structure of the universe, through a staggering 43 orders of magnitude, "Dr. Kaku said. Specifically, we can rank civilizations by their energy consumption, using the following principles:1) The laws of thermodynamics. Even an advanced civilization is bound by the laws of thermodynamics, especially the Second Law, and can hence be ranked by the energy at their disposal.2) The laws of stable matter. Baryonic matter (e.g. based on protons and neutrons) tends to clump into three large groupings: planets, stars and galaxies. (This is a well-defined by product of stellar and galactic evolution, thermonuclear fusion, etc.) Thus, their energy will also be based on three distinct types, and this places upper limits on their rate of energy consumption.3) The laws of planetary evolution. Any advanced civilization must grow in energy consumption faster than the frequency of life-threatening catastrophes (e.g. meteor impacts, ice ages, supernovas, etc.). If they grow any slower, they are doomed to extinction. This places mathematical lower limits on the rate of growth of these civilizations.



In a seminal paper published in 1964 in the Journal of Soviet Astronomy, Russian astrophysicist Nicolai Kardashev theorized that advanced civilizations must therefore be grouped according to three types: Type I, II, and III, which have mastered planetary, stellar and galactic forms of energy, respectively. He calculated that the energy consumption of these three types of civilization would be separated by a factor of many billions. Berkeley astronomer Don Goldsmith reminds us that the earth receives about one billionth of the suns energy, and that humans utilize about one millionth of that. So we consume about one million billionth of the suns total energy.
At present, our entire planetary energy production is about 10 billion billion ergs per second. But our energy growth is rising exponentially, and hence we can calculate how long it will take to rise to Type II or III status.Goldsmith says, "Look how far we have come in energy uses once we figured out how to manipulate energy, how to get fossil fuels really going, and how to create electrical power from hydropower, and so forth; we've come up in energy uses in a remarkable amount in just a couple of centuries compared to billions of years our planet has been here ... and this same sort of thing may apply to other civilizations."Physicist Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study estimates that, within 200 years or so, we should attain Type I status. In fact, growing at a modest rate of 1% per year, Kardashev estimated that it would take only 3,200 years to reach Type II status, and 5,800 years to reach Type III status. Living in a Type I,II, or III civilization.For example, a Type I civilization is a truly planetary one, which has mastered most forms of planetary energy. Their energy output may be on the order of thousands to millions of times our current planetary output. Mark Twain once said, "Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it." This may change with a Type I civilization, which has enough energy to modify the weather. They also have enough energy to alter the course of earthquakes, volcanoes, and build cities on their oceans. 


How "alien" are extraterrestrial worlds?

Currently, our energy output qualifies us for Type 0 status. We derive our energy not from harnessing global forces, but by burning dead plants (e.g. oil and coal). But already, we can see the seeds of a Type I civilization. We see the beginning of a planetary language (English), a planetary communication system (the Internet), a planetary economy (the forging of the European Union), and even the beginnings of a planetary culture (via mass media, TV, rock music, and Hollywood films).By definition, an advanced civilization must grow faster than the frequency of life-threatening catastrophes. Since large meteor and comet impacts take place once every few thousand years, a Type I civilization must master space travel to deflect space debris within that time frame, which should not be much of a problem. Ice ages may take place on a time scale of tens of thousands of years, so a Type I civilization must learn to modify the weather within that time frame. 

Artificial and internal catastrophes must also be negotiated. But the problem of global pollution is only a mortal threat for a Type 0 civilization; a Type I civilization has lived for several millennia as a planetary civilization, necessarily achieving ecological planetary balance. Internal problems like wars do pose a serious recurring threat, but they have thousands of years in which to solve racial, national, and sectarian conflicts.Eventually, after several thousand years, a Type I civilization will exhaust the power of a planet, and will derive their energy by consuming the entire output of their suns energy, or roughly a billion trillion trillion ergs per second.With their energy output comparable to that of a small star, they should be visible from space. 

Dyson has proposed that a Type II civilization may even build a gigantic sphere around their star to more efficiently utilize its total energy output. Even if they try to conceal their existence, they must, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, emit waste heat. From outer space, their planet may glow like a Christmas tree ornament. Dyson has even proposed looking specifically for infrared emissions (rather than radio and TV) to identify these Type II civilizations.Perhaps the only serious threat to a Type II civilization would be a nearby supernova explosion, whose sudden eruption could scorch their planet in a withering blast of X-rays, killing all life forms. Thus, perhaps the most interesting civilization is a Type III civilization, for it is truly immortal. They have exhausted the power of a single star, and have reached for other star systems. No natural catastrophe known to science is capable of destroying a Type III civilization. 


A supernova explosion could be a threat to a type II civilization.

Faced with a neighboring supernova, it would have several alternatives, such as altering the evolution of dying red giant star which is about to explode, or leaving this particular star system and terraforming a nearby planetary system.There are roadblocks to an emerging Type III civilization. Eventually, it bumps up against another iron law of physics, the theory of relativity. Dyson estimates that this may delay the transition to a Type III civilization by perhaps millions of years. But even with the light barrier, there are a number of ways of expanding at near-light velocities. For example, the ultimate measure of a rockets capability is measured by something called "specific impulse" (defined as the product of the thrust and the duration, measured in units of seconds). 
 Chemical rockets can attain specific impulses of several hundred to several thousand seconds. Ion engines can attain specific impulses of tens of thousands of seconds. But to attain near-light speed velocity, one has to achieve specific impulse of about 30 million seconds, which is far beyond our current capability, but not that of a Type III civilization. A variety of propulsion systems would be available for sub-light speed probes (such as ram-jet fusion engines, photonic engines, etc.) 


"The luminosity of the sun-like stars changes very gradually, over millions of years. This is enough time to mount a massive technological program to move outwards in the planetary system." -Frank Drake Image Credit: AnimaTek Int.

In science fiction, the search for inhabitable worlds has been immortalized on TV by heroic captains boldly commanding a lone star ship, or as the murderous Borg, a Type III civilization which absorbs lower Type II civilization (such as the Federation). However, the most mathematically efficient method to explore space is far less glamorous: to send fleets of "Von Neumann probes" throughout the galaxy (named after John Von Neumann, who established the mathematical laws of self-replicating systems). A Von Neumann probe is a robot designed to reach distant star systems and create factories which will reproduce copies themselves by the thousands. A dead moon rather than a planet makes the ideal destination for Von Neumann probes, since they can easily land and take off from these moons, and also because these moons have no erosion. These probes would live off the land, using naturally occurring deposits of iron, nickel, etc. to create the raw ingredients to build a robot factory. They would create thousands of copies of themselves, which would then scatter and search for other star systems.
Von Neumann Probe: Hypothetical space probes capable of self-replication.

Similar to a virus colonizing a body many times its size, eventually there would be a sphere of trillions of Von Neumann probes expanding in all directions, increasing at a fraction of the speed of light. In this fashion, even a galaxy 100,000 light years across may be completely analyzed within, say, a half million years. If a Von Neumann probe only finds evidence of primitive life (such as an unstable, savage Type 0 civilization) they might simply lie dormant on the moon, silently waiting for the Type 0 civilization to evolve into a stable Type I civilization. After waiting quietly for several millennia, they may be activated when the emerging Type I civilization is advanced enough to set up a lunar colony. Physicist Paul Davies of the University of Adelaide has even raised the possibility of a Von Neumann probe resting on our own moon, left over from a previous visitation in our system aeons ago. (If this sounds a bit familiar, that's because it was the basis of the film, 2001.

Originally, Stanley Kubrick began the film with a series of scientists explaining how probes like these would be the most efficient method of exploring outer space. Unfortunately, at the last minute, Kubrick cut the opening segment from his film, and these monoliths became almost mystical entities)There is also the possibility that a Type II or Type III civilization might be able to reach the fabled Planck energy with their machines (10^19 billion electron volts). This is energy is a quadrillion times larger than our most powerful atom smasher. This energy, as fantastic as it may seem, is (by definition) within the range of a Type II or III civilization.The Planck energy only occurs at the center of black holes and the instant of the Big Bang. But with recent advances in quantum gravity and superstring theory, there is renewed interest among physicists about energies so vast that quantum effects rip apart the fabric of space and time. 

Although it is by no means certain that quantum physics allows for stable wormholes, this raises the remote possibility that a sufficiently advanced civilizations may be able to move via holes in space, like Alice's Looking Glass. And if these civilizations can successfully navigate through stable wormholes, then attaining a specific impulse of a million seconds is no longer a problem. They merely take a short-cut through the galaxy. This would greatly cut down the transition between a Type II and Type III civilization.


Extraterrestrial spacecraft could be using wormholes in space to travel long distances in a short.
 
Second, the ability to tear holes in space and time may come in handy one day. Astronomers, analyzing light from distant supernovas, have concluded recently that the universe may be accelerating, rather than slowing down. If this is true, there may be an anti-gravity force (perhaps Einstein's cosmological constant) which is counteracting the gravitational attraction of distant galaxies. But this also means that the universe might expand forever in a Big Chill, until temperatures approach near-absolute zero. Several papers have recently laid out what such a dismal universe may look like. It will be a pitiful sight: any civilization which survives will be desperately huddled next to the dying embers of fading neutron stars and black holes. All intelligent life must die when the universe dies." Dr. Kaku explained. All this makes us wonder whether there an inevitable end for intelligent life, no matter how advanced the particular civilization may become?"Astronomer John Barrows of the University of Sussex writes, "Suppose that we extend the classification upwards. Members of these hypothetical civilizations of Type IV, V, VI, ... and so on, would be able to manipulate the structures in the universe on larger and larger scales, encompassing groups of galaxies, clusters, and superclusters of galaxies." Civilizations beyond Type III may have enough energy to escape our dying universe via holes in space," Dr. Kaku said.

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