Centauri Dreams
How extraordinary that we can sometimes tell so much from so little.
Extraordinary too how careful we must be to make sure we’re not reading
too much into small sample sizes. All of which brings me to the Japanese
Hayabusa probe, a spacecraft that survived continual mischance on its
journey to asteroid 25143 Itokawa, but was somehow able to return tiny
grains of surface material to Earth. And usi
One of the memorable things about 1995 (and this was also the year of
the first detection of an exoplanet around a main sequence star) was the
release of the Galileo spacecraft’s descent probe. Dive into that
howling maelstrom, it would seem, and instant obliteration should
follow. But the probe had been designed with a heavy duty heat shield to
protect it during its journey. It kept transmitting
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft carries three cameras as it makes its way to
the asteroid called Bennu, a suite that is collectively known as the
OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS). So now we’re into the realm of
OSIRIS-REx acronyms, and these should become familiar in coming months
just as New Horizons’ instruments like LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance
Imager) and PEPSSI (Pluto Energetic Particle Spectro
This morning we have an image of MU69, the Kuiper Belt object to which
New Horizons is heading, with arrival and flyby scheduled for January 1,
2019. This just after the first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu by the
spacecraft now heading there for observation and sample return,
OSIRIS-REx. By way of comparison, the first glimpse New Horizons had of
Pluto/Charon came during an optical navigation tes
Meteorites have proven a useful tool for probing the nature of the
early Solar System. Although I missed it at the time, Thomas Kruijer
(University of Münster) and colleagues announced results last year from
their study of the age of Jupiter based on measuring isotopes in
meteorites. The age of Jupiter is an open question, but because current
formation models have gas giants forming large solid c
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth , by Adam
Frank. W.W. Norton & Co. (2018), 272 pp. Although he has published
several previous books and is well represented in the technical
literature, Adam Frank (University of Rochester) found himself suddenly
thrust onto the public stage with an op-ed he wrote in the New York
Times in 2016. Chosen by the paper’s editors, the title “Ye
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Happy Labour Day! Overall union membership may be shrinking, but the
number of workers who wish they had a union and would vote to join one
if they could appears to on the rise. This tells an interesting story
about the state of affairs in North America as the last long weekend of
the summer rolls around again. Alas, in Canada as in the United States,
the Labour Day weekend has lately become an o
Funny, isn’t it? Less than six months ago, tout le monde political
Alberta was demanding harsh application of “the rule of law.” This was
nearly universally interpreted to mean that no legal challenge or
protest against the construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline
Expansion Project could or would be tolerated. The government of British
Columbia’s determination to exercise its right to mount a
Yes, Donald Trump is a liar and a braggart, but the American
President’s boast yesterday morning that cowed Canadian trade
negotiators have all but folded and any new trade deal they sign will be
totally on U.S. terms has a ring of truth. Given his track record, it’s
certainly not impossible to conclude Mr. Trump was just engaging in his
usual pathological hyperbole about how smart he is and how
No doubt they were chuckling discreetly at Kinder Morgan headquarters
in Houston yesterday as they counted up their additional spare change.
They had, after all, just managed to sell off the Trans Mountain
Pipeline to the Liberal government led by Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, backstopped by Premier Rachel Notley’s Alberta New Democrats,
at the very moment the Federal Court of Appeal de
WASHINGTON, D.C. – I see Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign affairs
minister, is also in town tonight, so if I happen to see meet her
strolling on the National Mall or enjoying a beer at Kramer’s Books,
I’ll say hi for you-all. I’ll also have some advice for her, worth what
she paid for it, that she’s about as likely to take as my advice to her
on Canada-Russia relations. To wit: Don’t be in too
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Not to be negative, but the federal New Democrats
might want to hold off scheduling the nomination to choose Linda
Duncan’s successor until just after next spring’s provincial election.
Then again – given the fraught relationship these days between the
federal NDP and the Alberta branch of Canada’s social democratic party –
perhaps not! Ms. Duncan, of course, is the NDP Member
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Electric Cars Exceed 1 Million in Europe as Sales
Increase by 42% Argentina’s Central Bank Hikes Rates to 60% as Currency
Collapses Blue Orchard Bees video . Google stumbled in robotics — but
evidence is mounting that it's getting ready for a big comeback, and it
could take on Amazon Texas Spent $7 Million to Fight AC in Prison. It
May Cost Only $4 Million to Install Earth's "Big
From Jenna Orkin Miami Will Be Underwater Soon - Its Drinking Water
Could Go First NASA Discovers Bubbling Lakes in Remote Arctic Detroit
Shutting Off Drinking Water in All Schools Because of Lead, Copper
Contamination Rupiah Plunges To 1998 Asian Financial Crisis Low Amid
Emerging Market Liquidation Argentine Peso Crashes Back To Record Low -
Emergency 1500bp Rate-Hike Fails Farage For London Ma
From Jenna Orkin Obsolescence of Advertising in Information Age They'll
find a way. Judge Rules Against Alex Jones and InfoWars in Sandy Hook
Lawsuit M elting Arctic Real Time Horror Story Second Hanford
Radioactive Tunnel Collapse Expected Vaccine Gap Between Japan and UK A
Philadelphia refiner has a $120 million plan to create a machine that
turns food scraps into natural gas Argentine Central
From Jenna Orkin Rising Sea Levels to Cost $14 Trillion Annually by
2100 Snail Venom 100 Times More Potent than Morphine video . Human Brain
Cells Transplanted to Mice Russia Reports Unidentified Helicopters
Delivering Weapons to Taliban, IS Americans are contracting STDs at a
unprecedented rate, and 'super gonorrhea' is coming in hot Facebook
Engineer's Stunning Admission: "We Tear Down Posters
From Jenna Orkin CIA and Saudi Arabia Conspired to Keep Details of 9/11
Secret, New Book Says - Newsweek(!) Got Set to Borrow Nearly a
Trillion, Up 84% From Last Year Pollution Causes "Huge" Reduction in
Intelligence, Study Finds Leading journalists join call for EU copyright
reform "'Free access to the web will endure because the internet
giants, which now use editorial content for free, can rei
From Jenna Orkin Vietnam Demands Monsanto Pay for Damage from Agent
Orange Nearly Half of Republicans Think Trump Should Be Able to Close
News Outlets US 2nd Fleet Reactivated, Preparing For Arctic Warfare With
"Bad Actors" Venezuela orders banks to adopt cryptocurrency Turkey's
currency plunges amid ongoing feud between Washington and Ankara
"Terrorist Attack" Manual Targeting Atlanta Hospital F
GlobaLove Think Tank
The UTES are the future always have been since we program still in the
womb and they hit our world mostly fully formed by DNA and Mothers love
So do we tell them the truth and make them all cynical and not loving
the status quo life or do we program them with stories of the Skygod and
a bad experience in the after life Well we have IMHO done the SkyGod
thing over and over maybe six or seven times
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Government and Taxes
Talking about GDP growth, Obama stands out as the ONLY administration
that never achieved an annual growth rate of 3% or higher since WW2.
Bush Jr, Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson,
Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman – ALL of their administrations have seen
growth of 3% or higher. From this simple but important criteria, 8 years
of "hope and change" was the lousiest administration
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last August 24, 2018. PRIVATE
property rights is among the cornerstone of a free and dynamic economy.
If people have no sense of control and ownership over their house, car,
cellphone, appliances, savings, they will not work hard, invest, and
accumulate wealth both at the household and macro or country levels.
They will be in perpetual stress and fear that som
I don't like academics fanning climate alarmism. My friend since 3+
decades ago at the UPSE, Dr. Oggie Arcenas, wrote a paper where his
opening sentence is terribly wrong, "Among the weather anomalies and
climate shocks that are known in the modern world today, perhaps the
most known are the “wonder twins” El Niño and La Niña..." Again, Oggie
is my friend, very jolly and friendly guy until now, b
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 21, 2018. On Aug. 16,
2018, Thursday near-midnight, a Xiamen Airlines plane skidded at the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and caused the runway closure
for some 36 hours. The result was a nightmare for thousands of
passengers. Many arriving flights were rerouted to Clark and Mactan-Cebu
airports while passengers departing from NAIA were
I am reposting another good article from a friend, Nick Smith of Lion
Rock Inst. in HK. This was published in March 2018. Is Everything Under
Control? Nick Sallnow-Smith Chairman, The Lion Rock Institute You may
not think it from my title but this piece is about the Budget. Let me
explain. Human beings, when faced with the chaos of nature, crave some
degree of certainty. Governments respond to th
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last August 20, 2018. On Aug. 13,
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Carlito
Galvez, Jr. admitted that China’s radio warnings to Philippine aircraft
and ships in the South China Sea (SCS) are “a daily occurrence.” The AFP
leadership has actually been mum about this, giving only occasional
admission of such China warnings until BBC, one o
A year before his death, Sen. Joseph McCarthy made the connection
between Freemasonry, Communism, and Judaism. He cited B ritish General
Charles Cornwallis 1781 prophecy of the Masonic (Communist) takeover of
America. "Cornwallis well knew that his military defeat was only the
beginning of world catastrophe that would be universal and that unrest
would continue until mind control could be accompl
Lisa (now 40) says that for her father, Steve Jobs, her very existence
was a disappointment and a source of shame. "Aspasia", who has rubbed
shoulders with Illuminati men, explains why they can't satisfy their
sexual needs in normal committed relationships. Reader: " Most of the
current leaders of European countries have no children" By Aspasia
(henrymakow.com) These power men have no interest in
The world's most used herbicide - glyphosate - was found in all of the
14 most popular German beers tested in 2016. Sustainable Pulse Director
Henry Rowlands stated: "Stone-Age industry-funded science suggested that
the higher the dose of a chemical the more dangerous it was; however
modern independent science has discovered that many toxic chemicals have
as much or more of an influence on our he
Rich, a reader, responds to Some #MeToo Women are Complicit Many women
are governed by emotion. They are natural Cabalists. They make up
reality. Robbed of their natural and social role, they are keen to wreak
revenge on men, instead of the feminists who betrayed them. Disclaimer:
I realize many women are capable of objectivity but this is a warning I
wish I had heard 50 years ago. Men are blinde
With all the noise and confusion over gender and sexual harassment,
with women's heads so inflated, men need a reminder of how to approach a
woman. Essentially he must have a role for her in his life, and he has
to enlist her. This role must be in her best interests too. Ultimately,
in a long-term relationship, women trade power for love. Men want power.
Women want love. Heterosexual marriage is
Illuminati Jewish banker Jacob Schiff pulled the strings on the
"Russian" Revolution, including the savage murder of Czar Nicholas II
and his family in July 1918. The same power is behind the New World
Order. from July 9, 2011 by Krister (henrymakow.com) In July 1918,
Illuminati Jewish banker Jacob Schiff sent a direct order t hru US
diplomatic channels to the Bolsheviks in Russia to murder Czar
This past weekend was an auspicious date for the Democratic Party to
attempt to come together in the name of unity. As DNC members gathered
at the Hyatt Regency Chicago to discuss whether or not to pass a package
of reforms spurred by the turbulent 2016 primary contest, it couldn’t
have escaped them they were doing so not only in the same city that 50
years ago saw party divisions boil over into
Roe Will Fall. We Must Be Ready for It. Within a few years, abortion
will likely be illegal in close to half of U.S. states—if we’re lucky.
Should Republicans continue their control of the House, Senate and White
House, within a decade or two they could easily move to pass a total
abortion ban, extending the right to life guaranteed in the 14th
Amendment down to the moment of conception— and have
The Democratic primary for a Delaware Senate seat this year is
showcasing the sharp divide in the party. Incumbent Tom Carper, a
pro-corporate white male centrist with a track record of anti-choice
votes faces a challenge from Kerri Evelyn Harris, a Black woman and
antiwar Air Force veteran with working-class roots and a transformative
progressive agenda. The Democratic Party establishment has ra
In Storm King Art Center’s Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, 17
artists offer unique responses to the destruction and destabilization
wrought by planetary warming. The works, installed across Storm King’s
museum and 500-acre campus, include the accusatory gaze of Jenny
Kendler’s sculpture, “Birds Watching”: 100 eyes, each belonging to a
different species of bird threatened by climate change,
On August 7, Rashida Tlaib won the Democratic primary for Michigan’s
13th Congressional District, replacing longtime African-American Rep.
John Conyers. Tlaib’s victory has been showered with mainstream press
around the fact that she’s the daughter of Palestinian immigrants and
would become the first Muslim woman elected to Congress. (Tlaib is
running unopposed, and will most likely win in Novemb
Emmett Sanders was incarcerated at age 18 and spent 22 and a half years
in prison. When he spoke with In These Times in June, he had only been
home for 18 months. After getting the lay of the land—learning things
like how to write a résumé and use a cell phone, and what the hell a
Google was—he threw himself headlong into the work that now consumes so
much of his daily life: advocating for voting
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Source: Crónica and Planeta UFO Date: 08.26.2018 Argentina: Impressive
UFO Photographed over Neuquén. Paranormal Phenomena Chronicle: An oil
worker in Rincón de las Cenizas saw the flying object and did not
hesitate to capture a record of the shocking moment. An oil industry
worker took this crisp photo showing an alien spacecraft in the skies of
Patagonia. This UFO was seen in a wilderness known
Source: Chacoadentro.com and Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO)
Date: 08.27.18 Argentina: UFO Reported in a Field in Sáenz Peña A
cattleman reported seeing "an oval-shaped object with many lights" in
the early hours of the morning and asked for NASA's intervention. A
65-year-old man reported an encounter with a UFO in the early hours of
this Monday morning at his property in Colonia Napenay,
NIGHT WANDERERS: THE ARMIES OF DARKNESS by Scott Corrales and Manuel
Carballal (C) 2002 Few of the simple pleasures of life are as satisfying
as taking a walk through the woods: we can enjoy the subtle interplay
of light and shadow, the calls of myriad unseen birds, the occasional
glimpse of wildlife...but these sensory pleasures soon turn terrifying
in the dark of night: sounds are magnified, th
Source: www.nuevodiarioweb.com.ar and Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía
(FAO) Date: 08.24.18 Argentina: Ojo de Agua Commissariat Receives
Complaint Against a Cattle-Killing UFO (Santiago del Estero) *** Goats
and cows began dying in bizarre fashion after strange red lights
appeared in the sky *** Two local residents appeared before Ojo de Agua
Station 31 on Sunday and Monday. Both live on the edge
UFO: Saucers of the Colonial Era By Scott Corrales [Abstracted from the
book INEXPLICATA - UFOs in Latin America and Spain] It’s hard for us to
imagine what crossing the Atlantic in a Sixteenth century sailing ship
must have been like. Creatures of comfort that we are, the privations
and unsanitary conditions of a galleon or caravel would be the stuff of
nightmares, and the risk of shipwreck on a
[ Editor's Note : As usual, officialdom dismisses the cattle mutilation
epidemic by blaming the usual suspects - the red muzzled mouse,
vultures and foxes. Argentina is experiencing a repetition of the events
of 2002, which were 'explained away' at the time by SENASA, the
government's agricultural service ] Source: Todo Noticias (Argentina)
and Pablo Omastott (FAO) Date: 8.7.2018 Argentina: No Ch
Land Destroyer
September, 3 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The Washington Post has
now repeatedly used its platform to systematically cover up extensive US
political interference across Southeast Asia. Last month, the
Washington Post attempted to deny US interference in Cambodia . Its
article - however - did more to reveal US meddling in the process -
exclusively citing opposition organizations and individual
September 2, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - The worst sort of
deception is that perpetrated by those who pose as defending the most
vulnerable when in reality, are leveraging their circumstances,
exploiting their suffering, and in many cases, playing a direct role in
perpetuating both. This is an apt description of Washington, London, and
Brussels' global-spanning human rights racket - used rep
August 29, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - US National Security
Adviser John Bolton - a tireless proponent of US-led war around the
globe - has recently claimed the Syrian government is preparing to use
chemical weapons to retake territory held by militants in northern
Syria. In response, the US has already threatened to carry out military
strikes against Syria. Bloomberg in its article titled,
August 5, 2018 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - In 2010, Thailand was the
scene of a smaller-scale foreign-backed destabilisation similar to those
carried out by the United States and Europe against nations like Libya,
Syria, Yemen and Ukraine from 2011 onward. Between April and May of
that year, nearly 100 would die and many more injured when US-backed
former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra attempted
America's bid to install a compromised Thai politician into power is
part of a larger bid to encircle China with hostile and dysfunctional
client states. August 20, 201 8 ( Joseph Thomas - NEO ) - The US is
currently pressuring the Southeast Asian Kingdom of Thailand to hold
immediate elections in a bid to return billionaire former prime minister
and now fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra to power. The
August 22, 2018 ( Tony Cartalucci - NEO ) - Associated Press has
revealed that the US-backed, Saudi-led war against Yemen includes the
use of Al Qaeda as a mercenary force against Houthi rebels. This
confirms as fact what was widely dismissed by Western politicians and a
complicit Western media as a "conspiracy theory" since 2011. Evidence
that the US and its allies enlisted Al Qaeda and other ex
Majia's Blog
I'm far too left to be a fan of former Senator John McCain, but I did
very much appreciate his willingness to stand up against torture and to
rebuke the most powerful financial firms for endangering national
security, particularly where uranium trading was involved. Going back
through my files, I found the following letter pasted below that I had
sent McCain on behalf of my university students wh
Nuclear narratives circulating across the news media point to less
regulation and more contamination. In particular, the highly hazardous
and contested Rokkasho "reprocessing" facility under construction in
Japan has been leaking (it also has an active fault under the
facilities) and US nuclear facilities are eroding transparency and
accountability requirements with the support of the US Trump Ad
Fukushima prefecture will remove a controversial statute of a child in a
radiation suit after concern that the statute would be stigmatizing:
Fukushima to remove controversial statue of child in radiation
protection suit. The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/28/national/fukushima-remove-controversial-statue-child-radiation-protection-suit/#.W4cqrs5Kj3g
FUKUSHIMA – Fukushima M
The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal reports that PG&E
suffered a massive loss of control of the utility's databases, leaving
critical information fully available on the Internet for 70 days: Smith,
Rebecca (2018, August 24-25). PG&E Named as Utility Fined in Data
Breach. The Wall Street Journal, A3 As a result of the failure, 30,000
records about PG&E's cyber assets were exposed to the
I realize this series of posts on Fukushima Daiichi's webcam imagery
may seem tiresome to some readers. However, I've been watching the plant
for 7 years and am very aware of changes in emissions patterns. Today
the plant looks drowned, especially as viewed through the cam focused on
units 1 and 2: Now: Yesterday Yesterday I noted that the lens has some
sort of "stuff" on it but that alone does n
The usually clear view during daytime hours is muddied by what looks
like smog: m The bad "air quality" at Fukushima Daiichi has been
building. No idea why other than the removal of melted fuel underway has
stirred up some that is still very hot. Can we rely on TEPCO, or the
industry more generally, to warn us in the event of ongoing
contamination? Perhaps not: Watchdog says TEPCO nuclear disaste
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