KILLER SINKHOLES

Sinkhole swallows security guard in Shenzhen, China

CCTV footage captures the moment a security guard in China disappears into a sinkhole which opens up underneath him. People tried to reach the man but he died soon after the accident. Before the collapse, residents in the southern city of Shenzhen had complained of tremors from a nearby construction site.

FLASHBACK - March 5, 2013

A Florida man fell into a sinkhole that opened suddenly beneath the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, calling out to his brother for help as he fell, the brother said Friday.

"I ran toward my brother's bedroom because I heard my brother scream," Jeremy Bush said. "Everything was gone. My brother's bed, my brother's dresser, my brother's TV. My brother was gone."

OUR ALIEN MASTERS

This is one of the most important books ever written on the clandestine world of the UFO cover-up.

Grant Cameron and Scott Crain do more than demonstrate the reality of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth. 

Through tenacious investigation and impeccable research, they  shine a light into the CIA, NSA, Air Force, Navy, and other inside groups that have managed this secret for decades.

And their conclusion is inescapable and shocking: this is a secret that the insiders themselves struggle to understand and contain.

The authors investigate the key elements behind the secrecy and the reality of the extraterrestrial presence on Earth.

Book: UFOs, Area 51, and Government Informants: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals

OUR ALIEN MASTERS

Bradley Manning: 1,000 days in detention and secrecy still reigns

On Saturday Bradley Manning will mark his 1000th day imprisoned without trial. In the course of those thousand days, from the moment he was formally put into pre-trial confinement on 19 May 2010 on suspicion of being the source of the WikiLeaks disclosures, Manning has been on a long and eventful journey.

WAKE-UP CALL

Scientists unveil new detectors in race to save Earth from next asteroid

 

A meteorite crash that caused devastation in Chelyabinsk, Russia occurred on the same day a 40m-diameter asteroid swept to within 27,000km of Earth.

Astronomers at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston were quick to reassure the public that they had plans to provide better warnings of future impacts.

"The hundreds of people injured in Russia show it is time to take action and no longer be passive about these events," said Rick Tumlinson, chairman of the US company Deep Space Industries. His company is preparing to launch a series of small spacecraft later this decade. These are aimed at surveying nearby asteroids to see if they can be mined for metals and ores.

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MATERIEL CHANGE

'Super-material' graphene gets government backing | Science | The Guardian

UK will commercialise material with technological applications ranging from telecommunications and electronics to energy production and distribution.

The atom-thick honeycomb lattice of carbon conducts electricity a million times better than copper, is transparent and is stronger and more stretchable than other conductors.

 

THE QUICKENING

Ice sheet warming faster than thought: study

 

A study of temperature records over more than half a century shows the west Antarctic ice sheet is warming nearly twice as quickly as previously thought.

A re-analysis of temperature records from 1958 to 2010 revealed an increase of 2.4 degrees Celsius over the period, three times the average global rise.

OUR ALIEN MASTERS

Libor scandal grows as the fathers of two mass murderers were to testify

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ESCAPE FREEDOM

Escape from Freedom

Escape from Freedom, known as The Fear of Freedom outside North America, is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychologist and social theorist Erich Fromm.

First published in the US by Farrar and Rinehart in 1941, the book explores humanity's shifting relationship with freedom, with particular regard to the personal consequences of its absence.

Its special emphasis is the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism.

Escape from Freedom (book)

Escape from Freedom Summary & Study Guide (Kindle)

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BIG BROTHER

Student expelled for refusing spychip

A student in a Texas school district has been told she is to be expelled for refusing to wear a student ID badge that essentially places her in an “electronic concentration camp".

“Regimes in the past have always started with the schools, where they develop a compliant citizenry,” John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute said.

“They are getting students used to living in a total surveillance state where there will be no privacy, wherever you go and whatever you text or email will be watched by the government."

IRONY CURTAIN

Moscow bans protest against political repressions 'due to lack of political repressions'

 

The Moscow authorities have refused to grant permission for a rally against “political repressions” and “violations of human rights,” saying that state law does not recognize such a phenomenon in the country.

 

 

LEAF - GEDDIT?

Scientists unlock nature's hydrogen secrets

 

Professor Pace says the discovery takes a leaf out of nature's handbook, for the first time identifying the specific water molecules in a plant's photosystem that are converted into oxygen.

"Nature very early on in the evolutionary process on Earth figured out how to do this particular piece of chemistry with close to 100 per cent efficiency," he said.

OCCUPY THIS

Bank of England official: Occupy Movement right about global recession

 

The Occupy Movement has found an unlikely ally in a senior Bank of England official, Andrew Haldane, who has praised protesters for their role in triggering an overhaul of the financial services sector.

DEMOCRACY DYING

GOP Is Stealing Elections

Mathematics showed changes in actual raw voting data that had no statistical correlation other than programmable computer fraud. This computer fraud resulted in votes being flipped from Democrat to Republican in every federal, senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial election since 2008 (thus far) and in the 2012 primary contests from other Republicans to Mitt Romney.

BIG BROTHER

ASIO insulted by statements it could abuse data retention powers

 

David Irvine, director-general at ASIO, has said it is insulting to think ASIO staff would abuse powers given to it around data retention.

“Most ASIO officers would find it frankly insulting to think that an organisation which prides itself on acting in accordance with the law and very, very heavy accountability processes would allow itself to deviate into unwarranted intrusions into privacy,” Irvine told Background Briefing yesterday.

[ Thankfully powers such as those proposed are not and have never been abused by aneyone, ever. ]

LIFE AFTER LIFE

A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. I followed my father’s path and became an academic neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

"According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent," Alexander writes in the cover story of this week's edition of Newsweek

"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever."
"You have nothing to fear."
"There is nothing you can do wrong."

BOOK: Proof of Heaven
by Dr Eben Alexander [Book & Audio formats]

INVISIBLE WOMEN

Women shelved in Ikea's Saudi catalogue

Swedish home furnishing retailer Ikea has landed itself in hot water in its home country after women and girls were airbrushed out of some of the pictures in its Saudi Arabian catalogue.

A version of Ikea's yearly catalogue, published on its Saudi website, shows images that are identical to those in other editions except for one detail: the women are gone.

JUSTICE LEAGUE

Agence France Presse's slap to photographers

Agence France Presse filed a complaint against Haiti-based photographer Daniel Morel, claiming heengaged in an “antagonistic assertion of rights” after the photographer objected to the use by AFP of images he posted online of the Haitian earthquake.

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As the traditional news media business model disintegrates, photojournalists across the world are finding themselves unemployed. Picture editors have found a novel approach to sourcing photography content: facebook and twitter.

Editors simply copy images from online, without attribution, approval or payment to the photographer.

In this example, AFP took a photographer's work, credited it to another person, sold it for thousands of dollars, paid nobody, and then sued the original photographer for “antagonistic assertion of rights”.

ASTRONOMICAL VALUE

Priceless Tibetan Buddha statue looted by Nazis was carved from meteorite

A priceless Buddha statue looted by Nazis in Tibet in the 1930s was carved from a meteorite which crashed to the Earth 15,000 years ago, according to new research.

The relic bears a Buddhist swastika on its belly – an ancient symbol of luck that was later co-opted by the Nazis in Germany.

Analysis has shown the statue is made from an incredibly rare form of nickel-rich iron present in falling stars.

The 1000-year-old carving, which is 24cm high and weighs 10kg, depicts the god Vaisravana, the Buddhist King of the North, and is known as the Iron Man statue.