Blue Skies on Saturn

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Mimas drifts along in its orbit against the azure backdrop of Saturn's northern latitudes in this true color view. The long, dark lines on the atmosphere are shadows cast by the planet's rings.

Saturn's northern hemisphere is presently relatively cloud-free, and rays of sunlight take a long path through the atmosphere. This results in sunlight being scattered at shorter (bluer) wavelengths, thus giving the northernmost latitudes their bluish appearance at visible wavelengths.

At the bottom, craters on icy Mimas (398 kilometers, or 247 miles across) give the moon a dimpled appearance.

Images taken using infrared (930 nanometers), green (568 nanometers) and ultraviolet (338 nanometers) spectral filters were combined. The colors have been adjusted to match closely what the scene would look like in natural color. See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia06142.html for a similar view in natural color.

The images were obtained using the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Jan. 18, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (870,000 miles) from Saturn. Resolution in the image is 8.5 kilometers (5.3 miles) per pixel on Saturn and 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) per pixel on Mimas. The image has been contrast-enhanced to aid visibility.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . For images visit the Cassini imaging team home page http://ciclops.org.

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1,000 Banks to Fail In Next Two Years: Bank CEO

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The US banking system will lose some 1,000 institutions over the next two years, said John Kanas, whose private equity firm bought BankUnited of Florida in May.

“We’ve already lost 81 this year,” Kanas told CNBC. “The numbers are climbing every day. Many of these institutions nobody’s ever heard of. They're smaller companies.” (See the accompanying video for the complete interview.)




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Coverage under Obamacare will require an implantable microchip.

There's a pretty starling thing in the bill that 95% of Americans won't like.


The Obama Health care bill under Class II (Paragraph 1, Section B) specifically includes ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable." Then on page 1004 it describes what the term "data" means in paragraph 1, section B:

14 ‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to in15
formation respecting a device described in paragraph (1),
16 including claims data, patient survey data, standardized
17 analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of
18 data from disparate data environments, electronic health
19 records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the
20 Secretary"

What exactly is a class II device that is implantable? Lets see...

Approved by the FDA, a class II implantable device is a "implantable radiofrequency
transponder system for patient identification and health information." The purpose of a class II device is to collect data in medical patients such as "claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary."


This sort of device would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option. With the reform of the private insurance companies, who charge outrageous rates, many people will switch their coverage to a more affordable insurance plan. This means the number of people who choose the public option will increase. This also means the number of people chipped will be plentiful as well. The adults who choose to have a chip implanted are the lucky (yes, lucky) ones in this case. Children who are "born in the United States who at the time of birth is not otherwise covered under acceptable coverage" will be qualified and placed into the CHIP or Children's Health Insurance Program (what a convenient name). With a name like CHIP it would seem consistent to have the chip implanted into a child. Children conceived by parents who are already covered under the public option will more than likely be implanted with a chip by the consent of the parent. Eventually everyone will be implanted with a chip. And with the price and coverage of the public option being so competitive with the private companies, the private company may not survive.

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The blog of Philip Garrido, serial rapist and kidnapper:

The disturbing blog of American kidnapper, Phillip Garrido has been posted on the net, I have posted a link below, here is his disturbing last post with a few of the 165 comments he received when people realised who he was

Friday, August 14, 2009
Something Brand New Has Taken Place!

During the month of July 2009 JM's Enterprises, 1215 Willow Pass Road * Pittsburg CA,(925) 439-8118 was the host to a powerful demonstration, the Creator has given me the ability to speak in the tongue of angels in order to provide a wake-up call that will in time include the salvation of the entire world.

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Posted by themanwhospokewithhismind at 9:23 PM 165 comments

Link to his blog

Here are some of the comments posted after he was arrested

christine said...
You're a psychopath, Phillip.

I wish you're neighbors had been more nosy. How could we let people who act schizophrenic 'homeschool' their children without any questions.

August 27, 2009 3:42 PM

E James said...
why do we suffer these animals to live? search megan's list and find dozens of them breathing your air within 4 blocks at most. When are we doing to decide that children deserve our protection. Death Penalty for Child Molesters

August 27, 2009 4:07 PM

starstorm777 said...
I'm a conspiracy theorist and research things such as mind control...but LOL@this dude...he's psycho...5150 someone send him his meds!

August 27, 2009 4:39 PM

Steve H. said...
you sick bastard

August 27, 2009 5:02 PM

missyrose said...
You sick mother fxxker.......how dare you steal the soul of that child. You desire to slowly burn with oil dripping on your head to fuel the fire for the crimes you have committed against an innocent child.

August 27, 2009 5:18 PM

missyrose said...
You sick mother fxxker.......how dare you steal the soul of that child. You desire to slowly burn with oil dripping on your head to fuel the fire for the crimes you have committed against an innocent child.

August 27, 2009 5:20 PM

Jessica said...
I hope they put you in general population.

August 27, 2009 5:35 PM

Ingrwn said...
I'm always amazed how it seems to be those whom feel they are righteous that cause the most grief.He would make an intersting study. Just when did he go "click" and get a messiah complex.
Abuse as a child I bet. And the mind control stuff....did he actually think he had enough control that he could flaunt it? What a dirt bag. Too bad he wont be put in general population. He also needs to have a big ol con tattoo the girls names on his forehead.

August 27, 2009 6:27 PM

sandeshells said...
I don't understand people like you. You have ruined so many lives and judgement will come. I pray for this entire family and I hope you and your wife rot till you face the Lord and then Let the Lord judge. God bless this family with healing, love and hope and life.

August 27, 2009 6:43 PM

goosmoo said...
I wonder if he'll be able to control his own sounds when he becomes someone's b*tch in prison.

He won't get the death penalty, but he'll very likely die in prison. Other than possibly his wife I doubt anyone will be disappointed when that happens.

August 27, 2009 7:05 PM

D said...
How can you HIDE BEHIND GOD when you do this to a child! And then continue to hurt this child for 18 years. You will get what's coming to you when you pass from this world...but until then, I say we we beat you once a day for every day you kept her prisoner!!!

August 27, 2009 7:14 PM

vw said...
I hope you and your wife get the electric chair.

August 27, 2009 7:31 PM

Jenny said...
He does hide behind God as so many do. Mine was an alter boy as a child. I can say that God surely delivered the Hell that man paid for with my flesh. The same will happen again, God does give back!

August 27, 2009 7:39 PM

kattaztrophe said...
Hell is hot freek boy, better pack your swimsuit!

August 27, 2009 8:37 PM

northwindfilms said...
i would glady burn in hell, to see your dead lifeless carcass at the tips of my fingers.


It makes me happy to know that you're going to get mutilated into a bloody pile of goo in prison. Hopefully one of the guards will leak some pictures of your lifeless body battered and beaten to death with blunt objects.

The Judge should make sure you're placed into a cell full of Aryan Nation's. They'd LOVE to say hello.


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SOLAR SURPRISE

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SOLAR SURPRISE: Even during the deepest solar minimum in a century, the sun has the capacity for surprise. Larry Alvarez got one yesterday when he bent over the eyepiece of his solar telescope in Flower Mound, Texas. "I thought it would be just another day with a vanilla-wafer solar disk, but I was in for a blazing shock when I checked out the edge of the sun," he says. "There was a huge worm popping out of the apple--a prominence of magnificent proportions!" Here is what he saw:


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D. rad Bacteria: Cure for Swine Flu?

Never mind astronauts, what about ordinary people NOW!

D. rad Bacteria: Candidate Astronauts
Credit: Michael Daly (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), DOE
Explanation: These bacteria could survive on another planet. In an Earth lab, Deinococcus radiodurans (D. rad) survive extreme levels of radiation, extreme temperatures, dehydration, and exposure to genotoxic chemicals. Amazingly, they even have the ability to repair their own DNA, usually with 48 hours. Known as an extremophile, bacteria such as D. rad are of interest to NASA partly because they might be adaptable to help human astronauts survive on other worlds. A recent map of D. rad's DNA might allow biologists to augment their survival skills with the ability to produce medicine, clean water, and oxygen. Already they have been genetically engineered to help clean up spills of toxic mercury. Likely one of the oldest surviving life forms, D. rad was discovered by accident in the 1950s when scientists investigating food preservation techniques could not easily kill it. Pictured above, Deinococcus radiodurans grow quietly in a dish.


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Artificial looking cave opening found on Antarctica

Artificial looking cave opening found on Antarctica

Notice that the type of material composing the "lid" is totally different from the surrounding rocky material.





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A Particle Physicist Looks At The Turin Shroud

Analytical Results on Thread Samples Taken from the Raes Sampling Area (Corner) of the Shroud Cloth (Aug 2008)
Excerpt: The age-dating process failed to recognize one of the first rules of analytical chemistry that any sample taken for characterization of an area or population must necessarily be representative of the whole. The part must be representative of the whole. Our analyses of the three thread samples taken from the Raes and C-14 sampling corner showed that this was not the case....... LANLs work confirms the research published in Thermochimica Acta (Jan. 2005) by the late Raymond Rogers, a chemist who had studied actual C-14 samples and concluded the sample was not part of the original cloth possibly due to the area having been repaired.
Robert Villarreal
http://www.ohioshroudconference.com/

Shroud Of Turin Carbon Dating Overturned By Scientific Peer Review - Robert Villarreal - Press Release video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEJPrM...

Shroud Of Turin's Unique 3 Dimensionality - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8RVPd...

Shroud Of Turin - Historical Proof And 1978 STURP Findings - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaDV_Q...

THE SHROUD AS AN ANCIENT TEXTILE - Evidence of Authenticity
http://www.newgeology.us/presentation...

Why The Carbon 14 Samples Are Invalid, Raymond Rogers per: Thermochimica Acta
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Intelligent Design - The Anthropic Hypothesis
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Fake Dutch 'moon rock' revealed

A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say.

It was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969.

When Mr Drees died, the rock went on display at the Amsterdam museum.

At one point it was insured for around $500,000 (£308,000), but tests have proved it was not the genuine article.

The Rijksmuseum, which is perhaps better known for paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, says it will keep the piece as a curiosity.

"It's a good story, with some questions that are still unanswered," Xandra van Gelder, who oversaw the investigation that proved the piece was a fake, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

"We can laugh about it."

The "rock" had originally been been vetted through a phone call to Nasa, she added.

The US agency gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in the 1970s.

US officials said they had no explanation for the Dutch discovery.


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Bright Bolide, Coming soon

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Bright Bolide
Credit & Copyright: Howard Edin (Oklahoma City Astronomy Club)
Explanation: On September 30, a spectacular bolide or fireball meteor surprised a group of amateur astronomers enjoying dark night skies over the Oklahoma panhandle's Black Mesa State Park in the Midwestern US. Flashing past familiar constellations Taurus (top) and Orion, the extremely bright meteor was captured by a hillside camera overlooking the 2008 Okie-Tex Star Party. Astronomy enthusiast Howard Edin reports that he was looking in the opposite direction at the time, but saw the whole observing field light up and at first thought someone had turned on their car headlights. So far the sighting of a such a bright bolide meteor, produced as a space rock is vaporized hurtling through Earth's atmosphere, really is a matter of luck. But that could change. Earlier this week the discovery and follow-up tracking of tiny asteroid 2008 TC3 allowed astronomers to predict the time and location of its impact with the atmosphere. While no ground-based sightings of the fireball seem to have been reported, this first ever impact prediction was confirmed by at least some detections of an air burst and bright flash on October 7th over northern Sudan.


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Mutilated cow investigated. Coyotes!

Mutilated cow investigated
The StarPhoenixAugust 21, 2009
RCMP continue to investigate the discovery of a mutilated cow north of Saskatoon.

On Wednesday, Neil Bartsch found the dead animal on a patch of bloody grass in a pasture off 71st Street between Idylwyld Drive and Highway 16.

The cow's genitals and udder are missing, the flesh part of its head is stripped to the bone and the tongue is gone. It's likely the two-year-old cow was dead for up to 36 hours before Bartsch found it in the pasture that he has rented for nearly 20 years.

Neil and Mary Bartsch believe the cow had been stabbed and that parts of the animal had been deliberately cut out, but a veterinarian and professor at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan is not convinced.

"That's very typical of scavenging," said Dr. John Campbell, who examined the carcass in the pasture.

"Magpies and coyotes will go for those areas (the rear, abdomen and internal organs) very typically. It's soft tissue."

He concedes that it's not as common for scavengers to chew at the tongue and head area, but he wonders if dogs, in addition to coyotes, might have gotten to the carcass.

A necropsy will not be performed on the cow.

"It was fairly decomposed. You couldn't really make a whole lot of conclusions about why she died," said Campbell.

The Bartschs, whose farm yard is closer to Warman, still think something suspicious happened.

"This was not an animal (that inflicted the wounds)," says Mary.

Bartsch's other cattle in the pasture, six cows and their calves as well as a bull, remain healthy and unharmed.

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Cynthia Mckinney Reveals 5,000 Executed Post Katrina

Cynthia McKinney tells CR 10 about 5,000 mostly
men executed in N.O. post Katrina



Hurricane Katrina activism
McKinney has been an advocate for victims of Hurricane Katrina and a critic of the government's response. Over 100,000 evacuees from New Orleans and Mississippi relocated to the Atlanta area, and many have now settled there.

During the Katrina crisis, evacuees were turned away by the Gretna Police when they attempted to cross the Crescent City Connection Bridge between New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana.[41][42] Rep. McKinney was the only member of Congress to participate in a march across the Crescent City Connection Bridge on November 7, 2005, to protest what had happened on that bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.[43]

In response, McKinney introduced a bill[44] on November 2, 2005, that would temporarily deny federal assistance to the City of Gretna Police Department, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, and the Crescent City Connection Division Police Department, in the state of Louisiana. The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, but was not acted on. However, in August 2006, a grand jury began an investigation of the incident.[45][46]

McKinney chose to be an active participant in the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, despite the Democratic Party leadership's call for Democratic members to boycott the committee. She submitted her own 72-page report.[47] She sat as a guest along with only a few other Democrats. In questioning Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, McKinney referred to a news story in which the owners of a nursing home had been charged with negligent homicide for abandoning 34 clients who died in the flood waters. McKinney asked Chertoff: "Mr. Secretary, if the nursing home owners are arrested for negligent homicide, why shouldn't you also be arrested for negligent homicide?"[48]

The Congressional Black Caucus' Omnibus Bill (HR 4197) was introduced on November 2, 2005, to provide a comprehensive response to the Gulf Coast residents affected by Hurricane Katrina. The second title of the bill was submitted by McKinney, seeking a Comprehensive Environmental Sampling and Toxicity Assessment Plan, or CESTAP, to minimize harm to Gulf Coast residents from the toxic releases into the environment caused by the hurricane.[49]

At the request of McKinney, the [50] Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, chaired by Thomas M. Davis, held a previously unscheduled hearing titled "Voices Inside the Storm" on December 6, 2005.
Rep. McKinney along with Rep. Barbara Lee (CA), produced a[51] "Katrina Legislative Summary," a chart summarizing House and Senate bills on Hurricane Katrina. On June 13, 2006, McKinney pointed out on the House floor that only a dozen of the 176 Katrina bills identified on the chart had passed into law, leaving 163 bills stalled in committee.

On August 2, 2007, McKinney participated in a press conference in New Orleans to launch an International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which she described as an effort to seek justice for the victims of those hurricanes and their aftermath.

[edit] Department of Defense Homicide Accusation
On Sept. 28, 2008, at a press conference, McKinney announced that she had spoken with a constituent whose son was a National Guardsman. The constituent claimed her son had disposed of 5,000 bodies for the Department of Defense during the week of Hurricane Katrina. She further believed that there were credible reports that the bodies were prisoners who had all been shot in the head and dumped in a Louisiana swamp. McKinney said that the story had been corroborated by anonymous "insider" sources.
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Kings of Conspiracy - Illuminati Threatened

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Morning Glory Clouds Over Australia

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Morning Glory Clouds Over Australia
Credit & Licence: Mick Petroff; Tip Thanks: James Holmes (Cairns)
Explanation: What causes these long, strange clouds? No one is sure. A rare type of cloud known as a Morning Glory cloud can stretch 1,000 kilometers long and occur at altitudes up to two kilometers high. Although similar roll clouds have been seen at specific places across the world, the ones over Burketown, Queensland Australia occur predictably every spring. Long, horizontal, circulating tubes of air might form when flowing, moist, cooling air encounters an inversion layer, an atmospheric layer where air temperature atypically increases with height. These tubes and surrounding air could cause dangerous turbulence for airplanes when clear. Morning Glory clouds can reportedly achieve an airspeed of 60 kilometers per hour over a surface with little discernible wind. Pictured above, photographer Mick Petroff photographed some Morning Glory clouds from his airplane near the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.


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Swine Flu Conference Planning to take kids from schools & Mass Vaccinations and Quarantines

The first INTERNATIONAL Swine Flu Conference finishes today 21st August. As Jesse Woodrow states in this video, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY MENTION OF THIS ON ANY NEWS NETWORK.
PLEASE go to google news and type in "Swine Flu Conference" You would think it would be the top news article.
IT ISN'T EVEN MENTIONED !! WHY NOT?

This is the pdf Jesse referring to in the video-
http://www.cesa.net/DOCS/08192009.PDF


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ARE SUNSPOTS DISAPPEARING?

QUIET SUN: According to NOAA sunspot counts, the longest stretch of spotless suns during the current solar minimum was 52 days in July, August and Sept. of 2008. The current spate of blank suns is putting that record in jeopardy. The sun is entering its 43rd consecutive day with no sunspots, and there are none in the offing. Deep solar minimum continues.

ARE SUNSPOTS DISAPPEARING? Sunspots are made of magnetism. The "firmament" of a sunspot is not matter but rather a strong magnetic field that appears dark because it blocks the upflow of heat from the sun's fiery depths. Without magnetism, there would be no sunspots.

That's what makes the following graph a little troubling:



According to Bill Livingston and Matt Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, sunspot magnetic fields are waning. The two respected solar astronomers have been measuring solar magnetism since 1992. Their technique is based on Zeeman splitting of infrared spectral lines emitted by iron atoms in the vicinity of sunspots. Extrapolating their data into the future suggests that sunspots could completely disappear within decades. That would be a bummer for Spaceweather.com.

Don't count out sunspots just yet, however. While the data of Livingston and Penn are widely thought to be correct, far-reaching extrapolations may be premature. This type of measurement is relatively new, and the data reaches back less than 17 years. "Whether this is an omen of long-term sunspot decline, analogous to the Maunder Minimum, remains to be seen," they caution in a recent EOS article.

Sunspot number: 0
What is the sunspot number?
Updated 21 Aug 2009

Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 42 days
2009 total: 184 days (79%)
Since 2004: 695 days
Typical Solar Min: 485 days
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Updated 21 Aug 2009

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Nothing Lasts Forever

Just as the fun fair is gone!

Perhaps this is also one of the hidden messages held within this wonderful annual phenomenon.

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FLYING ISLANDS

FLYING ISLANDS: On August 14th, gravity was revoked in the Netherlands--or so it seemed when photographer Rik ter Horst looked out across the water and saw Schiermonnikoog Island floating in mid-air:

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"It was just a mirage," he says. Temperature gradients in the air over the cool, open water caused light from the island and its surroundings to curve in unusual ways en route to the camera. The apparent gap between the island and the sea is actually an upside-down image of the sky above. Note the hint of antenna pointing into the water. But don't look too closely, cautions Horst. "You might start believing islands can fly."

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