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If You Love Your Children, This Is Why You Should NEVER Feed Them Hotdogs Again…. EVER!

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Doctors have sent this alert out to parents: STOP FEEDING YOUR KIDS HOTDOGS!!

Hot dogs are in American favorite, there’s no doubt about it. I remember having hotdogs and mac & cheese mixed up as well as hot dogs on the grill for Fourth of July.

But according to new research, kids who consume more than a dozen Hotdogs per month are nine times more likely to develop childhood leukemia.

Additionally, mothers who eat one hot dog per week during pregnancy increased their child’s likeliness of developing brain tumors later on in life.


Equally, a father who often ate hotdogs before conceiving a child also imparts a high likeliness of cancer to his child.


So what is causing this problem? NITRITE ADDITIVES.

Nitrites are an additive added to hotdogs, usually to combat botulism. During the process of cooking the dog, nitrites combined with amines that are naturally present in the meet to form N-nitroso, which is a seriously carcinogenic compound.

If you must feed your family hotdogs, look for nitrites free meats or limit the amount of hot dogs you and your family. You can also request the supermarkets begin carrying nitrite free hot dogs exclusively and lobby your local school board to ditch hotdogs that contain nitrites.

Will you still feed your kids hot dogs?

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Mysterious Pattern Discovered On Chinese Mountains

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Over a decade ago, a local by the name of Gao Shuxian of Chengdu, Sichuan Province climbed onto a newly built tower on top of a mountain in Matou, once there, while enjoying the beautiful landscape in front of him, he noticed something mysterious at the northern part of the forest, at that time he was unable to figure out what he was looking at. Ten years after he visited the region again, only this time, he did so using satellite maps and once again noticed the mysterious and odd shapes in the forest.

“When I was standing on the signal tower 10 years ago, I saw that some trees in the cedar woods were somewhat different from the other trees. They were growing in lined radial patterns. I thought it was amazing, but I was unable to get the whole picture because the signal tower I was standing on was not high enough,” Gao told a reporter, according to Tencent News.


While looking at satellite imagery, Gao identified three patterns formed by the trees which oddly resembled the Chinese Character “犇,” character used for “go fast”. This Chinese character is created by three “bull” characters “牛” side by side.

The mysterious characters in the forest spread from north to southwest covering over 1,200 acres of beautiful forests.


Interestingly, the mysterious pattern clearly stands out from the rest of the trees having a distinctive color and shape. The entire pattern is around 1km long and over 600 meters wide.

So far, no one has been able to fully explain or understand what the curious patterns are. Were they created on purpose? Do they have a meaning behind them? Or is it possible that this is the result of Mother Nature and Pareidolia playing tricks with our mind?

According to the discovered of the mysterious patterns, these are located at latitude of 30 degrees: a location connected to numerous mysteries.

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Red Sea: Archaeologists Discover Remains of Egyptian Army From the Biblical Exodus

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Red Sea: Archaeologists Discover Remains of Egyptian Army From the Biblical Exodus

Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry announced this morning that a team of underwater archaeologists had discovered that remains of a large Egyptian army from the 14th century BC, at the bottom of the Gulf of Suez, 1.5 kilometers offshore from the modern city of Ras Gharib. The team was searching for the remains of ancient ships and artifacts related to Stone Age and Bronze Age trade in the Red Sea area, when they stumbled upon a gigantic mass of human bones darkened by age.

The scientists lead by Professor Abdel Muhammad Gader and associated with Cairo University’s Faculty of Archaeology, have already recovered a total of more than 400 different skeletons, as well as hundreds of weapons and pieces of armor, also the remains of two war chariots, scattered over an area of approximately 200 square meters. They estimate that more than 5000 other bodies could be dispersed over a wider area, suggesting that an army of large size who have perished on the site.

This magnificient blade from an egyptian khopesh, was certainly the weapon of an important character. It was discovered near the remains of a richly decorated war chariot, suggesting it could have belonged to a prince or nobleman.


Many clues on the site have brought Professor Gader and his team to conclude that the bodies could be linked to the famous episode of the Exodus. First of all, the ancient soldiers seem to have died on dry ground, since no traces of boats or ships have been found in the area. The positions of the bodies and the fact that they were stuck in a vast quantity of clay and rock, implie that they could have died in a mudslide or a tidal wave.


The shear number of bodies suggests that a large ancient army perished on the site and the dramatic way by which they were killed, both seem to corroborate the biblical version of the Red Sea Crossing, when the army of the Egyptian Pharaoh was destroyed by the returning waters that Moses had parted. This new find certainly proves that there was indeed an Egyptian army of large size that was destroyed by the waters of the Red Sea during the reign of King Akhenaten.

Archaeological Proof of Moses Crossing The Red Sea
Posted by Library of Most Controversial Files on Wednesday, January 14, 2015

For centuries, the famous biblical account of the “Red Sea Crossing” was dismissed by most scholars and historians as more symbolic than historical.

This astounding discovery brings undeniable scientific proof that one the most famous episodes of the Old Testament was indeed, based on an historical event. It brings a brand new perspective on a story that many historians have been considering for years as a work of fiction, and suggesting that other themes like the “Plagues of Egypt” could indeed have an historical base.A lot more research and many more recovery operations are to be expected on the site over the next few years, as Professor Gader and his team have already announced their desire to retrieve the rest of the bodies and artifacts from was has turned out to be one of the richest archaeological underwater sites ever discovered

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Ancient Cannibalistic Ritual Inspired Christian Eucharist, Claims Controversial New Book

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A new book about the origins of Christianity, written by the Israeli historian, Amram Eppstein, has stirred some violent outrage across the world by linking the Eucharist, one of the central sacraments of the Christian faith, with an ancient Babylonian ritual involving disturbing acts of cannibalism.


In his controversial book, entitled The Babylonian Origins of the Christian Religion, Professor Eppstein claims that the acts of drinking wine and eating bread,  symbolizing the flesh and blood of Christ, are actually inspired by a ritual in honor of the Babylonian goddess of the Underworld, Ereshkigal.

As the First Lady of the Underworld, the winged goddess Ereshkigal was one of the most important deities of the Babylonian pantheon.

This ritual, called the Arumkhvär, presumably involved drinking the blood and eating the flesh of sacrificed children, in order to obtain some form of blessing from the goddess.

The children that were sacrificed in this ceremony, had to be “sons of virgin mothers” to be pure enough for their sacrifice to appease the deity. The boys were drained of their blood, which was collected in a large vessel, and their flesh was cut into small pieces and distributed to the audience.
Worshippers eating the flesh of the child, were believed to receive forgiveness for any of their actions that might have displeased the goddess.
“This ancient Babylonian ceremony was almost identical to the Christian Eucharist, except that the cannibalistic part of it was not purely symbolic” says Professor Eppstein. “The son of a virgin mother would be sacrificed to pay for the sins of the entire community and to ask the goddess for forgiveness. The worshippers would eat his flesh and drink his blood, much like modern Christians still do, but in a strictly symbolic way.” 
According to him, the early Christians only adapted this popular ritual which was still celebrated across much of the Middle East during Jesus’ lifetime, by turning it into a less violent event.
This 5000-year old alabaster recipient was found in the ruins of the temple of Ereshkigal, in the ancient city of Ur. It was presumably used to collect the blood of the victim, before being passed around by the worshippers, who would a drink from it.

It is well-known that the ancient Mesopotamian cultures have influenced the Jewish and Christian traditions, like the biblical story of Noah which seems to have been inspired by the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, but Professor Eppstein’s claims seem to have hit a sensitive chord with many Christians.
Many scholars have thus denounced his theories as anti-Christian, noting that there is little evidence other than “a few similarities” between the rituals, to prove that the Arumkhvär actually inspired the Eucharist.

Despite the critics it has raised and the controversy surrounding it, Professor Eppstein’s book has already become a best-seller in eleven countries and multiple translations of the work are under way.

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Archaeologists Claim To Have Found Ancient City of Sodom

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A team of archaeologists working on a 10-year excavation near the Dead Sea believe they have unearthed the remains of the ancient city of Sodom, detailed in the book of Genesis. This startling discovery was not only done by using the Bible to locate the city, much of the findings confirm the Biblical account of a once-thriving, wealthy metropolis that met sudden, swift destruction as it burned to the ground from a super-powerful explosive force. The findings continue the steady stream of ancient evidence that continues to confirm the accuracy of the Holy Bible.

Making The Case For Sodom’s Discovery




A map of the “kikkar” or well-watered plains of the Jordan river.

According to reports:

“Now having completed the tenth season of excavations, an archaeological team headed by Steven Collins of Trinity Southwest University, New Mexico, has unearthed a goldmine of ancient monumental structures and artifacts that are revealing a massive Bronze Age city-state that dominated the region of Jordan’s southern Jordan Valley, even during a time when many other great cities of the “Holy Land” region were either abandoned or in serious decline.

Known as Tall el-Hammam, Collins has been leading excavations at the imposing mound, or tel, since 2005…. Tall el-Hammam seemed to match every Sodom criterion demanded by the text,” he says. “Theorizing, on the basis of the Sodom texts, that Sodom was the largest of the Kikkar [B&E:”kikkar” means “plain”, precisely how this area is described in the biblical text] cities east of the Jordan, I concluded that if one wanted to find Sodom, then one should look for the largest city on the eastern Kikkar that existed during the Middle Bronze Age, the time of Abraham and Lot. When we explored the area, the choice of Tall el-Hammam as the site of Sodom was virtually a no-brainer since it was at least five to ten times larger than all the other Bronze Age sites in the entire region, even beyond the Kikkar of the Jordan.” (source).


Dr. Steven Collins (left) and a colleague atop the foundation of a Sodom city wall.

Collins and his team were able to locate this massive, buried city by using the Bible as their guide. “It all came from analyzing the Biblical text regarding the location of Sodom,” says Collins. “The quintessential passage holding the geographical key to Sodom’s location is Genesis 13:1-12.” A Bible scholar, Collins based his excavation on the locations highlighted in the text of Genesis:
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; Unto the place of the altar, which he had make there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

The view of Sodom and Gomorrah today from Bethel-Hai, the land Abraham kept after he and Lot separated.

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.- Genesis 13:1-13.


In their tenth year, the team has dug deep to unearth a great deal of the city.

In this passage, Abram, a faithful believer in God, through whom the covenant to bring forth the Messiah and receive the Promised Land was made, tried to resolve a conflict with his new phew Lot. Both men were prosperous land owners with a great deal of cattle and servants. To bring an end to the disputes between their workers, Abram offered to dive the land and give Lot the first choice of which area he desired. Lot, thinking of his potential wealth, chose the “all the plain of Jordan.”


An artist rendering of the ancient city of Sodom based on the recent excavation.

Jordan was a reference to the Jordan river, and specifically the plain on the eastern side of the river. Lot then pitched his tent toward Sodom, facing this thriving city that was in extreme rebellion against God. Soon Lot himself would be drawn to live there, a detail that also held significance in the excavation.


Middle Bronze (MB2) gateway complex: A, Early Bronze (EB3) city wall; B, Early Bronze (EB3) gateway; C, Middle Bronze (MB2) city wall; D, Middle Bronze (MB2) left tower; E, Middle Bronze (MB2) tower entry; F, domestic area. Courtesy Mike Luddeni.

Sodom was situated in an extremely strategic location. It had waterways, trade routes and served as a key trade city during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (3500 – 1540 BC). This was truly a legendary city. The Bible supports this as the city is mentioned over 45 times in Scripture. Collins’ own search confirmed how impressive this ancient metropolis was:
“The site is monstrous,” say Collins. He describes the site as consisting of both a lower and upper city. It features Early Bronze Age (3500 – 2350 BCE) evidence for a 5.2 meter thick city wall (built and then re-built stronger following an earthquake) as much as 10 meters in height and made entirely of mudbricks, with associated gates, towers, at least one roadway, and plazas. During the Middle Bronze Age (2000 – 1540 BCE), new construction, even more massive than those of the Early Bronze Age, replaced the old. To fortify the upper city, the Middle Bronze Age inhabitants built a massive mudbrick defensive rampart system. “It was a huge undertaking, requiring millions of bricks and, obviously, large numbers of laborers.” (source).


Collins and a colleague stand atop of a rampart or defensive wall one would have to scale to attack the well-defended city.

In Genesis 14, a confederacy of Kings who lived east of Sodom attacked the city, forcing Bera, the king of Sodom, to flee. The Bible records specifically that although a number of cities were attacked during this war: “And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.” (Genesis 14:11-12). The “goods” of Sodom and its sister city Gomorrah, were of great value. Abram led an assault against the attackers who ransacked Sodom and kidnapped his nephew Lot and was offered the “goods”- most likely, cattle, gold, silver and other portable items, as a reward for rescuing the city. But he refused any payment: “That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich…” (Genesis 14:23). This verse not only demonstrates the humility Abram had before God (as he did not want to give any human benefactor credit for his victory) it reinforces the wealth of Sodom and its royalty.

The Supernatural Destruction of Sodom Confirmed?


Left: pottery melted from extreme heat found at Tall el-Hammam. Right: “trinitie” stone recovered from ground zero of the New Mexico nuclear blast test in 1945 with similar bubbling and pock marks.

Perhaps most startling in the discoveries by Collins and his team was confirmation of the a swift, devastating destruction of the city in the Bronze period. Based on evidence gathered during 10 years of excavation, Collins discovered that despite its ideal location and prominence, Sodom suddenly became a “wasteland” for 700 years with no human habitation. Why? It appears that the city burned under supernatural levels of heat:

One possibility could have something to do with a Middle Bronze period ash layer discovered at various excavation areas of the Tall. The “red palace”, so-called because of the red discoloration of the mudbrick due to a burning, could be another clue. Evidence of fiery destructions are commonplace among archaeological sites across the Levant, usually associated with conflict and military campaigns. Recovered pottery shards evidencing exposure to very high temperature levels, much higher than what would be expected from heating from a kiln or oven, could be yet another clue. Collins has hypothesized that the latter could have resulted from an ancient ‘airburst’, a mid-air explosion caused by an object in the air above the ‘target’ area, such as that of an incoming meteor. (source).

Dr. Collins attributes the reddish hue to of much of the bricks in the city to an ancient explosion.

The bible records in Genesis 18, The Lord Jesus Christ and two angels announcing to Abram that they intend to destroy Sodom because of rampant wickedness and perversion
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? – Genesis 18:20-23.
Abraham pleaded with God to spare Sodom (where his nephew still lived) and God agreed that if there were even 10 righteous people in the cities he would spare them. The next chapter records the angels who went to rescue Lot and his family from Sodom before its destruction. And in this encounter the Bible gives insight into the level of depravity in this bustling metropolis:
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. – Genesis 19:1-7.
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WWIII HAS BEGUN ! Chinese Warplanes Join Their Russian Counterparts in Devastating Air Raids Against Obama Backed ISIS Terrorists

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China has told Moscow that they will join in the bombing in Syria from their Aircraft Carrier. This has HUGE implications folks. HUGE!

It is a well-known fact that the Nation of Iran today has two chief allies, Russia and China. They have stood by Iran through the thick and thin especially with controlling interest as permanent members of the United Nation’s Security Council. Without Russian and China, Shiite Iran would have been history decades ago.


Today again, they are proving that they will be prepared to stand in opposition to the United States and NATO because all four are vying for world dominion. So also the rest of the world’s prophetic nations are aligning themselves either for or again either of two global forces.


China To Join Russian Air Strikes In Syria, Russia Gains Iraq Air Base

BELGRADE – DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that China sent word to Moscow on Friday, October 2, that J-15 fighter bombers would shortly join the Russian air campaign that was launched Wednesday, September 30. Baghdad has moreover offered Moscow an air base for targeting the Islamic State now occupying large swathes of Iraqi territory, debka.com reports.

The J-15 warplanes will take off from the Chinese Liaoning-CV-16 aircraft carrier, which reached Syrian shores on September 26, according to DEBKAfile. This will be a landmark event for Beijing: its first military operation in the Middle East as well the carrier’s first taste of action in conditions of real combat.


Thursday night, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi, made this comment on the Syrian crisis at a UN Security Council session in New York: “The world cannot afford to stand by and look on with folded arms, but must also not arbitrarily interfere (in the crisis).”

A no less significant development occurred at about the same time when Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, speaking to the US PBS NewsHour, said he would welcome a deployment of Russian troops to Iraq to fight ISIS forces in his country too. As an added incentive, he noted that this would also give Moscow the chance to deal with the 2,500 Chechen Muslims whom, he said, are fighting with ISIS in Iraq.



DEBKAfile’s military sources add that Al-Abadi’s words came against the backdrop of two events closely related to Russia’s expanding role in the war arena:

1. A joint Russian-Iranian-Syrian-Iraqi war room has been working since last week out of the Iraqi Defense Ministry and military staff headquarters in Baghdad to coordinate the passage of Russian and Iranian airlifts to Syria and also Russian air raids. This command center is also organizing the transfer of Iranian and pro-Iranian Shiite forces into Syria.

2. Baghdad and Moscow have just concluded a deal for the Russian air force to start using the Al Taqaddum Air Base at Habbaniyah, 74 km west of Baghdad, both as a way station for the Russian air corridor to Syria and as a launching-pad for bombing missions against ISIS forces and infrastructure in northern Iraq and northern Syria.

Russia has thus gained a military enclave in Iraq, just as it has in Syria, where it has taken over a base outside Latakia on the western coast of Syria. At the same time, the Habbaniyah air base also serves US forces operating in Iraq, which number an estimated 5,000.

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World War 3: Russia will Attack Israel in the Golan Heights

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World War 3: Russia will Attack Israel in the Golan Heights
Well, time does change things doesn’t it? We now have more pieces of the puzzle than we had before and it is all falling into place. This document will be kinda long for some of you, but I guarantee you that if you read it all the way to the end you are going to see some pretty cool stuff.
Many people were under the impression (including myself) that Israel would have to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in order for Russia to attack Israel. Israel no longer has to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in order for Russia and company to attack Israel.
Since 1967 when Israel captured the Golan Heights, Syria has wanted it back but they were not militarily capable of taking it back.
Enter Russia and company.
Now Syria has the power to get it back from Israel, or at least try anyway.
According to Wikipedia:
It says,
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Internationally recognized as Syrian territory, the Golan Heights has been occupied and administered by Israel since 1967.
However, the international community reject Israeli claims to title to the territory and regards it as sovereign Syrian territory.
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So LEGALLY the Golan Heights STILL belongs to Syria.
But RIGHTLY and SCRIPTURALLY it belongs to Israel.
Yes, once again, there is going to be a fight over it but this time Russia will be involved and scripture will be fulfilled.
But there is a new twist to the situation, they found huge oil deposits in the Golan heights and this land has now become VERY valuable and Syria is going to want it back.
Check out this link and be sure to scroll down and see the map to see where the oil is located:
The Syrian government has been losing a lot of land to ISIS and the rebels and now Russia has come into the picture to reclaim this land for Assad.
Syria has pretty much been destroyed and it is going to take a lot of money to rebuild the country and the huge oil deposits in the Golan Heights worth BILLIONS of dollars can really help out. Syria is definitely going to want this back because legally according to the international community it is theirs anyway.
The problem is this: Israel is NOT going to give up the Golan Heights.
After Russia and company clear ISIS out of Syria all Assad has to do is say, “While we are at it, let’s get the Golan Heights back also”.
Iran, Hezbollah, Sudan, Libya, Turkey and others would just be chompin’ at the bits to help drive Israel out of the Golan Heights.
And the international community that says it belongs to Syria, has to back Syria in this.
Doesn’t look to good for Israel.
Nevertheless, scripture will be fulfilled and it will all go down as the Lord said it would.
In the old testament scriptures, the Golan Heights was known as Bashan.
Check out this link:
Now for those if you reading this and you are unfamiliar with the holy scripture, there is a prophecy in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 that tells us about this upcoming battle in the Golan Heights.
There will be a coalition of armies that come together and they will come into the land of Israel and the Lord will defeat these armies in the land of Israel. The nations listed in Ezekiel 38 are:
Magog = Russia
Persia = Iran
Ethiopia = Sudan
Libya = Libya
Gomer and Togarmah = Turkey
… plus others will be involved also.
They will come into the land of Israel and be destroyed there as this map indicates:

Valley of the Pyramids Discovered on Mars − New NASA Images Deepen the Mystery

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It seems that a major ancient site has been unveil this time, an entire valley of pyramids resembling to those on Earth.

Could this place represent one of the former Martian settlements, or is this just another rock coincidence, as NASA scientists claim?

Before they officially announced that liquid water has been found on Mars, and that chances of finding alien life on the planet’s surface have increased, analysts studying Martian data had already speculated it for many years.

Images that were available since the mission begun showed different areas looking like riverbeds or even dried out ponds. Some even ventured as far as stating they have seen a reflective material very similar to water but, before NASA makes the official announcement it doesn’t actually count, does it ?


It took a decent amount of time before they officially admitted it, even though the information was known and accepted by many analysts before that.

It is speculated that NASA is delaying the announcements of important discoveries on Mars in order to have sufficient time to analyze all the aspects and more important, to optimize the public’s reaction as much as possible.

Now, if they were making breakthrough discoveries, it would take them a few years to release the news to the public in an official manner, besides the fact that the released information might be filtered and also designed to be far less spectacular than in reality.

In other words, NASA is releasing only desired information, all the other really important discoveries remaining under a deep veil of secrecy, away from public’s eyes.

Keeping this in mind, we could be looking at a monumental discovery – an ancient pyramid site used by the former Martian civilization. Even today, it’s hard for humans to understand and build such a complex structure as the Great Pyramid, raising questions about the people who built it in an ancient time.

Judging by the straight lines and the body of the pyramid showing precise angles, it is likely that it has been constructed by someone rather than a natural phenomenon, even if water and wind are present on the planet’s surface and are able to shape many types of terrain.
A dense layer of dust is covering the valley, along with all traces of life. Only the Great Pyramids stand as a reminder of a former alien civilization very similar to our own.

Whether an advanced alien race who built those monuments still exist in our galaxy, or if the pyramids on Mars are somehow connected to those on Earth we are yet to find out.​

Until further NASA announcements about the distant Red Planet, we put our faith into the open-minded to seek the truth and share it with the world.

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Huge Mysterious City Floating in the Clouds Over Foshan Guangdong, China

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Huge Mysterious City Floating in the Clouds Over Foshan Guangdong, China

The apparition which was witnessed by hundreds of shocked local residents only lasted a few minutes before completely disappearing.

One possibility, discussed on several forums, is mirage, a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. Another possibility is a Fata Morgana, one kind of superior mirage.

However, others have the raised the fear that this mysterious phenomenon was possible the result of a project Blue Beam test, a holographic technology performed in order to test the reactions of the residents of the city Foshan or it was a temporarily vortex of a possible parallel universe.

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Prestigious Heart Surgeon’s Confession Reveals the Truth About Heart Disease

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A physician’s word is often taken very seriously and with little skepticism.

An opinion from one or two doctors, when made in a professional office or hospital, can persuade a worried patient to take drugs with complex side-effects, or even undergo traumatic treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy.

Yet, when the same doctors, with years of experience and thousands of satisfied customers, give an opinion that questions a therapy established by mainstream medicine, the mainstream media calls them irresponsible, or quacks, or even criminals.

Many doctors are highly admirable people, bu they are still human beings. They all make mistakes, they all learn from them, but the really good ones are willing to admit to them.

Which brings us to Dr. Dwight Lundell. He’s an experienced heart surgeon and retired Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital in Mesa, Arizona. Not so long ago, Dr. Lundell made the following statement of confession:

“We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.

“As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
“I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled 'opinion makers.' Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

“The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake.

“The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice. It Is Not Working!”
“These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible.”

Not surprisingly, Lundell’s statement regarding the medical establishment’s approach to treating heart disease caused a ripple in the medical industry.

It challenged the validity of statins – commonly known as cholesterol-lowering medications– such as Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor, and others.

The reason Lundell’s statement created such a buzz is because statins are big business. In the United States alone, about 25% of the population takes statin medications. They cost from as little as $53 per month to more than $600.

Pfizer’s Lipitor went on sale in 1997 and its lifetime sales have surpassed $125 billion. AstraZeneca’s Crestor was the top-selling statin in 2013, generating $5.2 billion in revenue that year alone. The statin industry is estimated at around $30 billion in sales per year.

Nevertheless, in the United States, more die each year of heart disease than ever before.

Lundell went on to say:

“The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

“The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.
“I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.

“While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.”

Simply, it is the foods that are baked or soaked in soybean oil and ones that are processed for long shelf-life that are creating an extreme imbalance of omega-6 and omega-3 fats in people’s bodies. Lundell estimates the ratio of imbalance “ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6.” A healthy ratio is closer to 3:1.


But what makes Lundell’s statements controversial is that cholesterol does not cause heart disease…which makes statin drugs superfluous. And he suggests a treatment to heart disease that doesn’t make Big Pharma any money:
“Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
“Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today. The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.

“Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.
“What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.”

It probably comes as no surprise that Lundell has been portrayed as a quack by the mainstream medical establishment. The main argument to back up his “quackery” was that his medical license was revoked in 2008… although the man was already retired and had no plans to return to the surgery room.

He was not called a quack when he was performing surgeries, but once he took his 25 years of practice and discerned what he believes is the cause of heart disease, it was then that he was attacked by his peers.

Which brings up the question if Lundell came onto the American Medical Association’s radar as he was working on and promoting his book, The Cure for Heart Disease, which was published in 2007.

Millions of dollars are made from heart disease treatment and statin medications. This established industry does not want anyone to interfere.

Lundell said it himself:

“Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.”

And it sure is easier to discredit a retired heart surgeon and chief of surgery with 25 years of experience if you revoke his license.

Dr. Dwight Lundell’s full statement, here.


By Alex Pietrowski, Waking Times

6 Government Secrets That Go Far Beyond Edward Snowden’s Surveillance Leaks

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6 Government Secrets That Go Far Beyond Edward Snowden’s Surveillance Leaks

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many, and various, and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.”– John C. Calhoun, the 7th Vice President of the United States (source)

There are a number of important issues that need constant attention and reiteration when it comes to creating awareness, and one of them is government secrecy, which is happening on multiple levels, so I apologize if you’ve already come across this information from us. It really makes no sense to say that we live in a democracy when, as former Canadian defence minister puts it, “The veil of secrecy has to be lifted, and it has to be lifted now … trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects which both the Congress and the Commander in Chief know nothing about.” (source)

We’ve been warned by many about the world of secrecy. This is precisely why President Eisenhower warned us about the “acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex,” and that we must “never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” (source)

When we are talking about government, we are talking about corporations that dictate government policy. We do not live in a democracy, we live in a “corporatocracy,” where corporations are above the government, and the banks are above them.

Here is a great video clip from the documentary Thrive that I’ve shared before; I apologize if you’ve seen it before, but it’s fitting.

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“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation … The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties … [and] control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”– (source)(source) John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York City from 1918-1925
The Black Budget World

The black budget world is the pinnacle of government secrecy, at least in North America. It involves programs that are extremely classified and deal with everything from technology to information and more. In fact, Edward Snowden’s leaks were the very first to prove the existence of clandestine black budget operations in the mainstream world, despite the fact that they’ve been investigated before.

“There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” – Senator Daniel K. Inouye, the highest ranking Asian-American politician in United States history (source)

The topic was discussed in 2010 by Washington Post journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin. Their investigation lasted approximately two years and concluded that America’s classified world has become so large, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it, or how many agencies do the same work. (source)

A 1997 US senate report described them as so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress. (source)

Is this where all of the missing money from the federal reserve system has gone? For example, in July of 2001, in front of the house appropriations committee, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld stated that the financial systems of the department of defence are so snarled up that they can’t account for approximately 2.6 trillion dollars in transactions. (source)

According to RT news, for the past couple of decades many trillions of dollars have been pumped into these black budget programs. (source)

You can read an article that goes more into detail about the black budget HERE.

A lot more is going on here that goes well beyond surveillance, and the black budget is basically the umbrella of surveillance and other programs that are not known to the public.



Who Really Created ISIS & The Truth About ‘Terrorism’

“Another threat that Obama mentioned was ISIS. Well, who on Earth armed them? Who helped to arm the Syrians that were fighting against Assad? Who created the necessary political/informational climate that facilitated this situation? Who pushed for the delivery of arms to the area? Do you really not understand as to who is fighting in Syria?” – Russian President Vladimir Putin (source)(source)

Vladimir Putin recently expressed his concern when it comes to so-called ‘terrorists,’ and he’s not the only one. David Stele, a 20-year Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, said that most terrorists are false flag terrorists, created in the United States. He has said that every single terrorist attack in the United States has been a false flag attack. You can read more about that HERE.

“They say Muslims are terrorists, but it just so happens that terrorists are Made in America. They’re not the product of Muslim society, and that should be abundantly clear to everyone on this floor.” – Dr. Michel Chossudovsky, the University of Ottawa’s Emeritus Professor of Economics, spoken at the International Conference on the New World Order (source)(source)

“The US is reviving terror scare with ISIS to promote the terror war industry.” – FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds (source)



We even have documents that tie Al Qaeda to the CIA.

“Malcolm X once said ‘If you’re not careful newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed & loving the people who are doing the oppressing.’ Never has this quote been more relevant than in the way the media paints most conflicts in the Middle East. It’s always ‘sectarian’ or ‘religious’ so we can think Arabs are uncivilized people – that THEY can’t get a long. When in reality, most of the conflicts we see today, from Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, to Syria, are a direct results from Western & imperialist intervention & meddling.” – Mnar Muhawest, Editor-in-Chief of Mintpress News (source)





What Is Happening In Space?

Space news has been at an all time high lately, especially with the recent discovery of water on Mars.

Also in the news recently, the Russian government has called for an international investigation into the United States moon landings. They are concerned about the disappearance of film footage from the original moon landing, as well as the missing 400 kilograms of lunar rock that was taken from multiple missions. You can read more about that here.

Perhaps one of the strangest things is the recent disclosure of UFO files by multiple countries around the world. These files indicate that governments have spent a great deal of resources investigating this very serious/real phenomenon.

For example, here is an article that sources various documents detailing what happens when a UFO is tracked on radar.

Here is a document (1 of thousands of pages) from the FBI illustrating what type of documents were typed up, and the ‘important’ people they were sent to. It provides details of extraterrestrial bodies and craft on pages 21 & 22. You can read more about that document here.

Here is an NSA document pertaining to UFOs, and here is another.

“I’m skeptical about many things, including the notion that government always knows best, and that the people can’t be trusted with the truth. The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.” – John Podesta, Councillor to Barack Obama, former Chief of Staff at the White House under the Clinton administration, and current head of Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign (taken from Leslie Kean’s 2010 New York Timesbestseller, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record, in which Podesta wrote the forward)

Here is a video of him at the National Press Club speaking about the issue.

Here is the latest batch of files released by the UK government.

Keep in mind that these files, in my opinion and according to my research, are not even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to government secrecy about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Who knows what information remains hidden from the public, or why it is so?

All of these now-public documents and statements, like the one below, have people turning their heads.

To view some more statements like the one below, you can browse through THIS heavily sourced article.

“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.


The Manipulation of Science

Government secrecy is a shady area to explore, because how much does the government really know? If corporations dictate governmental policy and influence major decisions, is it really government secrecy that we’re talking about, or corporate secrecy?

When we think of science, we think of logic, deductive reasoning, and truth. But what science is turning into is information that has been manipulated and distorted for the sake of corporate interests. Scientists today are muzzled, paid off, threatened, and in many cases, completely misled, resulting in an abundance of fraudulent research.
“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.” – (source)(source) Arnold Seymour Relman (1923-2014), Harvard Professor of Medicine and Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious imporance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” – (source) Dr. Richard Horton, current Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” – (source) Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and long time Editor-in-Chief ofThe New England Medical Journal

The list goes on and on. In 2005, for example, Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, currently a professor in disease prevention at Stanford University, published the most widely accessed article in the history of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In the report, he stated:

“There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.”

It’s not only in the medical field, think about all of the suppressed science in the black budget world. We are talking about all subjects, from engineering to physics.

Scientists working for the Canadian government are starting to raise their voices, accusing the federal government of “muzzling” them and their findings on various issues, particularly when it comes to climate change. Apparently, the union representing this group of researchers will be taking “the unusual step of demanding Ottawa enshrine scientific independence in their collective agreement.” (source)

You can read more about that here.


Invention Secrecy

New documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal how the Patent Office has been using a secret system to withhold the approval of some applications.

This 50-page document was obtained by Kilpatrick Towsend & Stockton, LLP, who commonly represent major tech companies that include Apple, Google, and Twitter (to name a few). You can view that entire document HERE.

The program delaying patent applications is called the Sensitive Application Warning System (SWAS). Usually, when an application is submitted for a patent approval it requires a couple of examiners who work with the patent office to put it through their process of approval. This process usually takes approximately 1 to 2 years, but applications that are filed in SAWS must be approved by several people, and can be delayed for a number of years.

One great example of delayed patent applications comes from Dr. Gerald F. Ross. He filed a patent application for a new invention he had devised to defeat the jamming of electromagnetic transmissions at specified frequencies. It was not until June 17, 2014 (almost 37 years later) that this patent was granted. (source)

It’s also important to note (as reported by the Federation of American Scientists) that there were over 5,000 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2014, which marked the highest number of secrecy orders in effect since 1994.(source)

This is all thanks to an act many people are unaware of. It’s called the “Invention Secrecy Act” and it was written up in 1951. Under this act, patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders. These orders can restrict their publication if government agencies believe that their disclosure would be harmful to national security. (source)(source)

As Steven Aftergood from the Federation of American Scientists reports:

The 1971 list indicates that patents for solar photovoltaic generators were subject to review and possible restriction if the photovoltaics were more than 20% efficient. Energy conversion systems were likewise subject to review and possible restriction if they offered conversion efficiencies “in excess of 70-80%. (source)
He goes on to illustrate why this is so concerning:

One may fairly ask if disclosure of such technologies could really have been “detrimental to the national security,” or whether the opposite would be closer to the truth. One may further ask what comparable advances in technology may be subject to restriction and non-disclosure today. But no answers are forthcoming, and the invention secrecy system persists with no discernible external review.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the United States has been engaged in discussion with eight Pacific nations to come to an agreement on the terms of the TPP. It is a free trade contract that would allow for a more open system of exchange between the United States and less developed nations, apparently, and it has been wrapped in secrecy since discussions began within the Bush administration in 2005.

This is one (of multiple) example(s) of global economic/political partnerships and deals that is happening behind the back of the public eye.

Below is a video of Robert Reich, an American political economist and professor who served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, talking about the deal. He was also Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

The TPP is not really “secret,” but it sure does seem that way, which is why I chose to raise awareness about it here.

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By Arjun Walia, Collective-Evolution
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Alien Megastructure For Dummies: What Is A Dyson Sphere?

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Alien Megastructure For Dummies: What Is A Dyson Sphere?

Proponents of solar power know that only a tiny fraction of the sun’s total energy strikes the Earth. What if we, as a civilization, could collect all of the sun’s energy? If so, we would use some form of Dyson sphere, sometimes referred to as a Dyson shell ormegastructure. Physicist and astronomer Freeman J. Dyson first explored this idea as a thought experiment in 1960. Dyson’s two-page paper in the journal Sciencewas titled Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation because he was imagining a solar-system-sized solar power collection system not as a power source for us earthlings, but as a technology that other advanced civilizations in our galaxy would, inevitably, use. Dyson proposed that searching for evidence of the existence of such structures might lead to the discovery of advanced civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy, and indeed, in 2013, several groups of astronomers have begun a search for the telltale signs of Dyson spheres.



The central dot in this image represents a star. The simplest form of Dyson sphere might begin as a ring of solar power collectors, at a distance from a star of, say, 100 million miles. This configuration is sometimes called a Dyson ring. Image via Wikipedia.

Originally, some envisioned a Dyson sphere as an artificial hollow sphere of matter around a star, and Dyson did originally use the word shell. But Dyson didn’t picture the energy-collectors in a solid shell. In an exchange of letters in Science with other scientists, following his 1960 Science article, Dyson wrote:
A solid shell or ring surrounding a star is mechanically impossible. The form of ‘biosphere’ which I envisaged consists of a loose collection or swarm of objects traveling on independent orbits around the star.

As time passed, a civilization might continue to add Dyson rings to the space around its star, creating a relatively simple, but incredibly powerful, Dyson sphere. Image via Wikipedia.

A Dyson sphere might be, say, the size of Earth’s orbit around the sun; we orbit at a distance of 93 million miles (about 150 million kilometers). The website SentientDevelopments describes the Dyson sphere this way:
It would consist of a shell of solar collectors (or habitats) around the star. With this model, all (or at least a significant amount) of the energy would hit a receiving surface where it can be used. [Dyson] speculated that such structures would be the logical consequence of the long-term survival and escalating energy needs of a technological civilization.
And of course science fiction writers have had a field day writing about Dyson spheres. In fact, Dyson admitted he borrowed from science fiction before he began his technical exploration of the idea of a megastructure gathering energy from its star. Olaf Stapledon first mentioned this idea in his 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, which Dyson apparently read and used as inspiration.


View larger. | Eventually, as a civilization evolved – aided by the boundless energy gathered from its star – its surrounding Dyson sphere would surely evolve as well, in ways that are hard to predict. This artist’s concept of a Dyson sphere is via SentientDevelopments.com



View larger. | Here is a completely fantastic artists’ concept of a Dyson sphere. I like it. Notice the little moon or planet on the left side, being ravaged for raw materials. This image – called Shield World Construction – is by Adam Burn. More about it here. Via FantasyWallpapers.com

As mentioned above, astronomers in 2013 are now seriously discussing the search for evidence of Dyson spheres in the space of our Milky Way galaxy. Frustrated by decades of seeking radio signals from intelligent civilizations beyond Earth – and not finding any – a few have begun to contemplate this new search strategy. What would they be looking for? Consider that if a system of solar power collectors – a megastructure – were put in place around a star, the star’s light, as seen from our perspective, would be altered. The solar collectors would absorb and reradiate energy from the star. It’s that reradiated energy that astronomers would need to seek.

Stephen Battersby at New Scientist wrote a great article about this search, released in April 2013. The article is available by subscription only, but if you search on the title (“Alien megaprojects: The hunt has begun”), you might find an alternative link.

There’s also a very cool diagram published in New Scientist that helps explain astronomers’ new search, which you can see
here.

Bottom line: A Dyson sphere would consist of orbiting solar collectors in the space around the star of an advanced civilization. The goal would be to ensure a significant fraction of the star’s energy hit a receiving surface where it could be used to the civilization’s benefit. Freeman J. Dyson, who in 1960 became the first scientist to explore this concept, suggested that this method of energy collection be inevitable for advanced civilizations. In 2013, some groups of astronomers are seriously discussing the best ways to search for Dyson spheres in the space of our Milky Way galaxy.

By Deborah Byrd, EarthSky
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Astronomers Found Giant Alien ‘Megastructures’ Orbiting Star Near the Milky Way

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Astronomers Found Giant Alien ‘Megastructures’ Orbiting Star Near the Milky Way

A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would “expect an alien civilization to build”, astronomers have said.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.

“I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright told The Atlantic. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”

The snappily named KIC 8462852 star lies just above the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. It first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009 when the Kepler Space Telescope identified it as a candidate for having orbiting Earth-like planets.

But KIC 8462852 was emitting a stranger light pattern than any of the other stars in Kepler’s search for habitable planets.

Kepler works by analyzing light from distant places in the universe — looking for changes that take place when planets move in front of their stars. But the dip in starlight from KIC 8462852 doesn’t seem to be the normal pattern for a planet.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale told The Atlantic: “We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”


In 2011 the star was flagged up again by several members of Kepler’s “Planet Hunters” team – a group of ‘citizen scientists’ tasked with analysing the data from the 150,000 stars Kepler was watching.

The analysts tagged the star as “interesting “ and “bizarre” because it was surrounded by a mass of matter in tight formation.

This was consistent with the mass of debris that surrounds a young star just as it did with our sun before the planets formed. However this star wasn’t young and the debris must have been deposited around it fairly recently or it would have been clumped together by gravity – or swallowed by the star itself.

Boyajian, who oversees the Planet Hunters project, recently published a paper looking at all the possible natural explanations for the objects and found all of them wanting except one – that another star had pulled a string of comets close to KIC 8462852. But even this would involve an incredibly improbable coincidence.


That’s when Wright, the astronomer from Penn State University and his colleague Andrew Siemion, the Director of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) got involved. Now the possibility that the objects were created by intelligent creatures is being taken very seriously by the team.

As civilisations become more technologically advanced, they create new and better ways of collecting energy — with the end result being the harnessing of energy directly from their star. If the speculation about a megastructure being placed around the star system is correct, it could for instance be a huge set of solar panels placed around the star, scientists say.

The three astronomers want to point a radio dish at the star to look for wavelengths associated with technological civilisations. And the first observations could be ready to take place as early as January, with follow-up observations potentially coming even quicker.

“If things go really well, the follow-up could happen sooner,” Wright told The Atlantic. “If we saw something exciting… we’d be asking to go on right away.”

By Lee Williams, The Independent
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Putin Blows The Whistle On Who Really Created ISIS And How It Continues To Grow

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Putin Blows The Whistle On Who Really Created ISIS And How It Continues To Grow


Wow…it’s like a real-life Game of Thrones. This video should make us all think twice about who is the world’s biggest bad guy:

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Oxford University: The Illuminati Breeding Ground

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The following is an article written by David Icke for the Oxford University students newspaper.

Oxford University is the centre of a nexus that dictates and manipulates what is taught to students at all levels of "education."

It is controlled through a network of organizations, including the Round Table secret society created by followers of the Oxford University professor, John Ruskin.

The most prominent of these Ruskin groupies was Cecil Rhodes, the first head of the Round Table, and banker Alfred Milner, who replaced him. Both of these men grotesquely abused the black people of Southern Africa and paved the way for apartheid.

The Round Table is at the centre of a network that includes the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States (CFR), the US-based Trilateral Commission (TC), and the Bilderberg Group (Bil).


I have been exposing the Bilberberg Group while being called "mad" for many years and now even the mainstream media is having to acknowledge its existence.

These groups have among their membership the top people in global politics, business, banking, the media, military, education, etc., and they co-ordinate a common policy and agenda between apparently unconnected people, countries, and organizations.

The Round Table was hatched at Oxford University and when Rhodes died in 1902 he left money in his will to fund "Rhodes Scholarships" that take overseas students to Oxford.

These Rhodes Scholars return to their own countries and again and again end up in positions of power. Bill Clinton and the former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, are but two examples.

The Round Table is itself part of a much bigger web and its agenda is for a global centralized fascist state with a world government, central bank, currency, army, and a micro-chipped population connected to a global computer. When I first began to expose this in books like.

And The Truth Shall Set You Free and The Biggest Secret I was, as usual, dubbed a "nutter". Now look around you with open eyes and open minds and you can see that this structure is unfolding so fast.


The European Union was vital to this plan and this is why so many operatives for the groups outlined above have been involved in its creation - many of them Oxford students together going back to the Second World War.

The reason for the obsession with centralization is obvious. If you are a few who wish to control the lives of billions, the last thing you want is diversity of decision-making. There are simply too many people and locations to control.

Instead you need to centralize the key decisions and the more you centralize, the more power you have to increase the pace of centralization. This is why centralization in all areas of life, politics, business, banking, media, military, has quickened with every year.

The control of "education" is vital to this agenda. In fact, the aim of this network is not "education", but indoctrination.

The idea is turn out adults who see life and history in a way that maintains the population in subservience and ignorance. This allows the network or "Illuminati" to advance its agenda without challenge from the mass of the population.

The technique to achieve this is very straightforward and has proved to be stunningly effective over thousands of years. You "teach" and emphasize "information" that will encourage people to believe what you want them to believe and see the world as you wish them to see it.

At the same time you ignore and suppress alternative information that may prompt people to see another reality. The media do this every day and so the public are constantly misled about world events, people in the news, and so on. "Education" is precisely the same and just think about this for a second.

If you wanted to create a structure in which you could indoctrinate young people into your way of thinking, what would be the idea way of achieving this? To have control of what those young minds see and hear day after day for the first 18 years+ of their lives. And that is precisely what we have with today’s "education" system.

Now that would be OK if the children and students were given all information available and encouraged to think for themselves. But so often, to pass exams and progress within the system, you have to tell the system what it wants to hear - the system’s version of reality. What was it the Nazis said?

The bigger the lie the more people will believe it. The "education" system, with Oxford at its centre, is little more than a propaganda ministry designed to turn out adults who think "correctly".

As with all mind manipulation, they offer carrots and sticks to "encourage" compliance. Students are rewarded for submitting to the system’s version of events, while those who challenge and question are marginalized, not least by low grades.

The other prime role of Oxford is to take selected students (often selected by bloodline for reasons explained in my books) and prepare them for life as an operative for the network, or "Illuminati", within politics, business, finance, the media, etc.

The Rhodes Scholars are an example of this. Such selected students "get lucky" and enter positions of power because doors open for them that are denied to the, literally, unitiated. I will give you an example.

Oxford University: The Illuminati Breeding Ground

In my book And The Truth Shall Set You Free, I feature the research of Dr Kitty Little. She is a long time researcher into the corruption and infiltration within the British Intelligence agencies.

Her scientific career has included research for the Ministry of Aircraft Production during the Second World War, followed by nine years at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.

In her submission to the 1995 Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life, she tells the story of an attempt to recruit her into the Communist Party at Oxford University in 1940.

The Communists, she said, had gone "underground" by joining the University Labour Party and she attended a meeting of a Labour Party "study group" in a room at University College.

The main speaker at the meeting, who clearly believed he was among friends, began to reveal the plot to destabilize the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, ready for a Marxist/Fascist (same thing) takeover.

She later realized that this was part of the plan designed to introduce the global centralized control called the New World Order.

The plot was outlined by the speaker at that Oxford meeting to destroy the United Kingdom defenses, engineer a Marxist/Fascist takeover of Rhodesia and South Africa and to use what became known as the European Community, now Union, as a smokescreen to hide the changeover to a centralized Marxist/Fascist rule of Europe. The plan was also to destroy British manufacturing industry.

He went on to describe how members of the political section of this subversive organization were going to infiltrate the British Parliament and civil service, some entering each of the political parties.

Many would go into the right wing of the Labour Party, others to the left wing of the Conservatives. Eventually there would be a fusion into a new "Centre Party".

Put the majority of Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrat politicians together and, if you ignore the rhetoric and look at the policies, that’s what we now have in fact - a one party "consensus".

The speaker at Dr Little’s meeting said that the British distrusted extremists and so posing as "moderates", occupying the centre ground, would allow them to dismiss their opponents as "right wing extremists".

This subversive organization did not have a name, he said, because that would make it harder to prove it existed.

The speaker said he had been chosen to be the political head of this organization and expected himself one day to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. All this was said in 1940 and that man did indeed become Prime Minister.


His name was Harold Wilson

Wilson (Bilderberg Group - "Bil") was Prime Minister for the period 1964 to 1976, except for four years when his friend at Oxford, Ted Heath (Bil), took over between 1970 and 74.

Dr Little says that when she made her story public, the Daily Express writer of intelligence "exposes", Chapman Pincher, showed a copy of her allegations to Harold Wilson. He was issuing libel writs like confetti at the time, but his only reaction to Dr Little was to say she had mistaken him for a Tom Wilson.

She knew she had done nothing of the kind, but she checked the entire University records and there was not even one T. Wilson enrolled there in this century!

She knew Wilson as an economics fellow at Oxford because it was he who researched and compiled most of the "Beveridge" Report, which created the Welfare State and the Social Security system after the war.

William Beveridge was Wilson’s economics master at Oxford and, Dr. Little says, he was little more than a figurehead who put his name to it. On the surface the report was admirable in many ways, but from the perspective of today it can be seen to have wider implications.

It created dependency and control, while destroying opportunities for self-reliance and independence outside the elite-controlled system.

Now that dependency has been created the Welfare State is being dismantled and much of what is left is being handed over to privatization - the elite bankers in other words - and the rug pulled from under the dependent people.

Wilson resigned abruptly in 1976 and was replaced by Jim Callaghan (Bil), who became a joint president of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

His fellow presidents were Lord Carrington (TC and Bilberberg chairman) and Harold Wilson’s former Chancellor and Home Secretary, Lord (Roy) Jenkins (TC, Bil), who, with Lord David Owen (TC, Bil), Bill Rogers (Bil), and Shirley Williams, left the Labour Party in the early 1980s to form a centre party, the SDP, now the Liberal Democrats.

All these people worked closely with another prominent member of the Labour Government under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.

This was the Bilderberger, Trilateralist, chairman of the International Monetary Fund Interim Committee, and council member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Denis Healey. All of these people were heavily involved with Ted Heath in taking the UK into the European Community.

I wonder when they were in the highest political offices in the land, if Wilson, Heath, Jenkins, and Healey, ever got together and pondered on the remarkable twist of "destiny" that led four people who were at Oxford University in the same period to become the leading political names of the 1960s and 70s, just as the United Kingdom was committing itself to the European Community.

Indeed Jenkins would go on to be president of the European Commission and Heath would take the UK into the community, now union. Wilson (Jesus College and University College), Healey (Balliol), Jenkins (Balliol) and Heath (Balliol), are such an inspiration to us all. Look at what an Oxford education can do for you.

In this same period, the Liberal Party leaders also did Oxford proud in the form of Jo Grimond (Balliol and Bil), and Jeremy Thorpe (Trinity College), the author of the book, Europe: The Case for Going in.

Lord Jenkins also went on, of course, to become Chancellor of Oxford University. He has also been described as something of a guru to UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

Today Blair is another "centre ground" extremist in Downing Street who is pressing for the UK to join the Euro and concede what is left of its independence to the Illuminati-controlled super state.

Blair received a law degree in 1975 from St. John’s College at Oxford University and is a member of the Bilderberg Group, as is his mentor, Peter Mandelson (St Catherine’s, Oxford), and his chancellor, Gordon Brown.

Oxford University is a nexus for the control of what is "taught" in education and a breeding ground for the Illuminati placemen and women of the next generation.

The vast majority of students are not aware of this because they are not the chosen ones and even many of those who are chosen, overwhelmingly by bloodline, have no idea until much later why they found fortune smiling upon them.

The way to break this circle is through peaceful rebellion with the emphasis on peaceful. What you fight, you inevitably become, which is why you will see no difference between a vehement Nazi and a vehement "anti-Nazi". They are mirrors of each other while they believe they are opposites.

No, the way to bring down this network of power and manipulation is to stop co-operating with it, stop being unquestioningly subservient to it, and to make public the information that the Illuminati-controlled education system and media are so desperate to suppress and discredit.

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China: 125,000,000-Year Old Giant Mummified Penis Baffles Scientists

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China: 125,000,000-Year Old Giant Mummified Penis Baffles Scientists

A team of paleontologists of the Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology made an astonishing discovery, while excavating at a site in China’s Sichuan province. They unearthed a 10-meter (33 feet) long mummified penis dating back to the Early Cretaceous period and estimated to be at least 125 million years old.

The scientists, co-led by Dr Xing Xu and Dr Xiaoting Zheng, have unearthed the gigantic reproductive organ of a previously unknown dinosaur, near the town of Zidong, in a region literally known as a “cemetery of dinosaurs”.

This new species has been named Phallosaurus or Xīyì dà yīnjīng, which means “lizard with a large penis”, as the size of its genital organs exceeds, by far, that of any other known species.

“Just like bulls, Xīyì dà yīnjīng had a fibro-elastic penis containing only a small amount of erectile tissue,” said Dr Xu, the lead author of the paper published by the researchers in the Nature magazine. “This means that there was little enlargement after erection and that penis was quite rigid, even when non-erect. Therefore, males of that species of dinosaurs, had to walk around with 10-meter long penises hanging between their legs, all the time!”

Even if no bones of phallosaurus were ever found and there is very little evidence as to what it might have looked like, Dr. Xu believes that it was certainly an herbivorous creature, as the size of its reproductive organ would have greatly limited its mobility.
Some might think that the size of its genital organs could have been a serious hindrance for this strange dinosaur, but the experts believe, on the contrary, that it could have been the species main tool and defense system.
“Its large sexual organ was possibly used as much as a weapon as for reproductive reasons,” adds Dr. Zheng.
“We believe that the phallosaurus certainly used its large sexual organ to intimidate predators, and it could use it as a gigantic club if it was attacked. It might also have been used in other ways during the mating process. It it not impossible that the males may have undergone some sort of “penis-fight” in order to determine which one was the strongest.”

Sigurdur Hjartarson, owner and founder of the Icelandic Phallological Museum and leading specialist in male reproductive organs, was invited to inspect the penis. He believes the phallosaurus must have weighted at least 20 tons and measured 25 meters long to carry such a member.

In comparison, the title of the world’s largest penis today, goes to the blue whale, which has a penis measuring up to two meters in length. If we consider the size of the reproductive organ proportionally to the size of the animal’s body, the title is won by the barnacle, as this small crustacean has a penis of more than 1.5 times his body length.

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Three Images That Prove The Ancient Builders Of Puma Punku Had Access To Advanced Technology

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Puma Punku is a place where one loses the notion of space and time. This temple complex located near Tiwanaku, Bolivia is one of the most incredible ancient ruins you will find in South America.

Perhaps the biggest mystery involving Puma Punku is, how ancient mankind managed to transport these huge blocks of stone from quarries within 10 to 100 km. How did they manage to achieve this type of precision cuts and how did they place the blocks in such a perfect manner. Engineers and constructors around the world today cannot answer nor replicate these achievements done by ancient mankind thousands of years ago. Archaeologists cannot come to a conclusion and answer how were these amazing blocks of stone transported. Some of them believe that it was accomplished by the large labor force of ancient Tiwanaku. Several theories have been proposed as to how this labor force transported the stones from the quarries to Puma Punku but these theories remain speculative.

Another puzzling mystery at Puma Punku is the assembly of the walls. Each stone was finely cut to interlock with the surrounding stones and the blocks fit together like a puzzle, forming load-bearing joints without the use of mortar. The precision challenges today’s engineering abilities.

The answer to these and other enigmas can be answered by a different approach and different thinking methods.

By looking at images from Puma Punku you can notice a perfection that is baffling, you will notice elegance in every single construction at Puma Punku, but most importantly, you will notice a mysterious pattern that could help explain how ancient man achieved all of this thousands of years ago.

Three Images That Prove The Ancient Builders Of Puma Punku Had Access To Advanced Technology

This image is one of the best examples of advanced technology present at Puma Punku. We are looking at andesite blocks, a material that is extremely difficult to work with. Can anyone explain how ancient mankind managed such perfection, elegance and precision? We believe that this is one of the best examples of highly advanced tools that were made available to ancient man, thousands of years ago.


One of our favorite images of Puma Punku where you can see small holes that are placed with such perfection apart that it is hard to believe that primitive man achieved this with sticks and stones.



Puma Punku is one of the most important places if you want to see what ancient man was capable of. These stone structures are among the biggest ever found.

The H Blocks. A trademark of Puma Punku and perhaps one of the best examples of lost technology. The perfection present within these blocks is staggering. It is difficult to even think that ancient mankind managed to cut, transport and stack these blocks of stone which such perfection without the use of some sort of technology. Not everything can be achieved through force.

What do you think? Is it possible that the ancient builders of Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco had access to advanced technology that has been lost in history? A forgotten, omitted piece of history that mainstream scholars do not seem to be interested in?

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The Secret Space Program built with Reverse-Engineered Alien Technology

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In 1993, during a lecture at the UCLA Alumini Center, Ben Rich, former CEO of Lockheed Martin held a very interesting speech about technological advancements in space engineering in a period of forty years. He concluded his speech with the following quote: We now have the technology to take ET home.” – Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works, 1993

While talking about ET the last image of the slide showed a mysterious black disk-shaped object flying into outer space.

What was Mr Richj telling us with the quote? With the image?

 

Lockheed has designed and built a series of incredible aircraft including the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117 Nighthawk, all of them with state of the art technology that no one else had in their possession. Their aircrafts were unique, fast, and lethal.

Many people believe that Lockheed Martin definitely came into possession of advanced alien technology that they managed to reengineer creating the next generation fighters. Is it possible that Lockheed is responsible for the manned flying saucers? Is it possible that Lockheed combined Tesla’s inventions with re-engineered alien technology which allowed them to create unprecedented aerial vehicles and even spacecraft? Vehicles that have been kept far away from the prying eyes of the public.


As of 2000, if not a bit earlier, people started to think differently, interest in alien life and extraterrestrial technology, governments could keep up with the high interest of the public in those subjects which has probably led to the numerous declassified UFO files made available to the public in recent years.

In an interview with BBC British system administrator Gary McKinnon, the person who hacked his way into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers, said that he had been motivated by the Disclosure Project since “there are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered them.”

According to McKinnon, he uncovered numerous files, among them a spreadsheet containing names and details about extraterrestrial officers and fleet logs. McKinnon searched for the ‘extraterrestrial officers’ in the database of the U.S Military and Navy and concluded that those officers were nowhere to be found. He concluded that these mysterious ‘officers’ had to be Space Marines.

McKinnon saw countless UFO images stored in NASA’s computers at the Johnson Space Center’s Building 8 among other highly classified documents. McKinnon was caught in 2002 facing over 50 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines. Luckily, McKinnon who fled to the U.K. was never extradited to the US and managed to avoid prison. McKinnon firmly believes that extraterrestrial vehicles have been captured by governments around the world, and he also believes that mankind was able to reverse engineer that technology creating highly advanced spacecraft which are today fully functional.

According to Jack A. Shulman, president of American Computer; the invention of the transistor may have been inspired by the study of the remains of a crashed alien spacecraft, basically reverse engineered technology.

Alien Technology? Reverse Engineered Alien Technology

Alien Technology and humans reverse engineering it was first mentioned in 1997 when, American Computer Company (ACC) suggested the possibility that the study of the remains of a crashed alien spaceship in Roswell in 1947, or another crashed Alien spaceship might have been definitive for the development of the transistor, made in 1948 by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain doctors in the Research Center of Electronic Circuits at Bell Laboratories.

The basis for such claims are a series of documents and testimonies that supposedly were in possession of ACC. This theory matches the stories of many others, among them, former Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Corso, who in his book; The Day After Roswell, claims being part of the team that handed the remains of the crashed object and delivered parts to different departments of Bell Laboratories.

I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, which is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have.” -Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the Moon

 
Solar Warden: The Highly Secret Space Program


According to ufologists and other individuals who have come across classified material during their function in space and governmental agencies there is a secret space program called Solar Warden: Solar Warden maintains a number of fleets which operate in our solar system: their objective… from Earth Defense to Space Exploration. Solar Warden takes advantage of reverse engineered alien technology: utilizing elements and material only available in space, this program has been in function for years, and everything is happening in secrecy, in space.

Does this sound like a Hollywood movie script? Well it might sound just like that but just image the amount of technology and funds that agencies around the world have… Not everything you see is true, but this can be interpreted the other way around as well. There are so many things that most of us have no idea about.

Let’s remember Tesla for a minute, and Tesla’s countless inventions which were clearly way ahead of his time. From UFO’s to advanced propulsion systems Tesla was a man that had envisioned the future before all of us.

Do you think Solar Warden does exist? Is it possible that we reverse engineered alien technology and use it in our advantage? Many people believe we have reverse engineered alien tech and that Solar Warden is just a small piece of the truth hidden from the public.

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UFO Armada Passing Over Bakersfield, California

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UFO Armada Passing Over Bakersfield, California

This guy took three photos, but only one was clear enough to post. I made some closeups below for you to see the UFOs more clearly. If you or someone you know has seen this UFO armada in Bakersfield, please let us know in comments blew.
Eyewitness states:

My neighbor was yelling my name from across the street in a panic, first thoughts was that he needs help, so I ran outside and was in a complete shock as to what I saw. There were hundreds of moving bright bluish white lights spread over the entire sky, slowly moving as a whole. The spread was really hard to calculate but it was at least 40-50 city blocks long. After realizing that this was real I ran and got my wife and kids to come see by this time there were a few cars pulled over and the neighbors started to come out and look up in shock. We all just watched in disbelief as they moved away as a squadron like formation and got higher and harder to see until they were completely gone. My neighbor had his camera and showed me what he got, it was a bit blury, hand held sky photos are always blurred abit, but you can get an idea of what we saw. The photo is just a quarter or less of what we all saw spread across the sky., then I went in and grabbed my camera and tripod to try to get something cleaner but by this time the orbs were flying in every direction getting duller and harder to see, I managed to capture some very strange stuff in the pics attached.




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What's Next for KIC 8462852, the Unusual Star Covered By An Alien Megastructure

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What's Next for KIC 8462852, the Unusual Star Covered By An Alien Megastructure

I want to revisit the paper on KIC 8462852 briefly this morning, as I’m increasingly fascinated with the astrophysics we’re digging into here. The fact that the star, some 1480 light years away, is also a candidate for further SETI investigation makes it all the more intriguing, but all my defaults lean toward natural processes, if highly interesting ones. Let’s think some more about what we could be looking at and why the ‘cometary’ hypothesis seems strongest.

Remember that we’re looking at KIC 8462852 not only because the Kepler instrument took the relevant data, but because the Kepler team took advantage of crowdsourcing to create Planet Hunters, where interested parties could sign up to study the light curves of distant stars on their home computers. KIC 8462852 has been causing ripples since 2011 because while we do seem to be seeing something passing between its light and us, that something is not a planet but a large number of objects in motion around the star. Some of the dips in starlight are extremely deep (up to 22 percent), and they are not periodic.

Here’s how Phil Plait describes the situation:

…it turns out there are lots of these dips in the star’s light. Hundreds. And they don’t seem to be periodic at all. They have odd shapes to them, too. A planet blocking a star’s light will have a generally symmetric dip; the light fades a little, remains steady at that level, then goes back up later. The dip at 800 days in the KIC 8462852 data doesn’t do that; it drops slowly, then rises more rapidly. Another one at 1,500 days has a series of blips up and down inside the main dips. There’s also an apparent change in brightness that seems to go up and down roughly every 20 days for weeks, then disappears completely. It’s likely just random transits, but still. It’s bizarre.
A ragged young debris disk would be the natural conclusion, but arguing against this is the fact that we don’t see the infrared excess that a dusty disk would create. I also got interested in what nearby objects might be doing to this star when I started digging into the paper, which is cited at the end of this piece. Yale postdoc Tabetha Boyajian and colleagues present an image from the UK Infrared telescope (UKIRT) that shows KIC 8462852 along with a second source of similar brightness, as shown in the image below. Notice the ‘extension’ of KIC 8462852 to the left.


Image: Keck AO H-band image for KIC 8462852 showing the companion was detected with a 2″ separation and a magnitude difference ∆H = 3.8. Credit: Tabetha Boyajian et al.

This gets important as we consider the cometary debris hypothesis. The paper argues that the chance alignment possibility is only about one percent. If the companion is at the same distant as KIC 8462852, which is an F-class star, then we would be looking at an M-class red dwarf, roughly 885 AU distant from its companion. From the paper:
At this separation, the second star cannot currently be physically affecting the behavior of the Kepler target star, though could be affecting bodies in orbit around it via long term perturbations. If such a star is unbound from KIC 8462852, but traveling through the system perpendicular to our line of sight, it would take only 400 years to double its separation if traveling at 10 km sec−1. So, the passage would be relatively short-lived in astronomical terms.
Recall that the paper settles on cometary activity as the most likely natural explanation for the unusual KIC 8462852 light curve. We could be looking at a series of comet fragments seen close to the star as they move on a highly eccentric orbit, a collection of objects that has spread around the orbit and may be continuing to fragment. And as seen yesterday, Boyajian and team make the case that both thermal stress and the presence of super-Earth planets orbiting within 1 AU of the star could account for the tidal disruption that would have produced this scenario.


We’ve often discussed cometary disruptions in these pages, speculating on what the passage of a nearby star might do to comets in the Oort Cloud. As per the images above, it’s a natural speculation that the anomalies of KIC 8462852 are the result of a similar scenario. We have no idea whether the companion star is bound to KIC 8462852, but assume for a moment that it is not. A star passing close enough to this system has the potential for triggering a swarm of infalling comets. If the star is gravitationally bound, then we can invoke the so-called Kozai mechanism, ‘pumping up comet eccentricities,’ as the paper puts it. We can explore this hypothesis by studying the motion of the companion star to confirm its bound or unbound status.

The paper, as we saw yesterday, explores other hypotheses but settles on comet activity as the likeliest, given the data we currently have. The kind of huge collision between planets that would produce this signature would also be rich in infrared because of the sheer amount of dust involved, and we don’t see that. You can see why all this would catch the eye of Jason Wright (Penn State), who studies SETI of the Dysonian kind, involving large structures observed from Earth. Because if we’re looking at cometary chunks, some of these are extraordinarily large.

 
So what’s next? The paper explains:

First and foremost, long-term photometric monitoring is imperative in order to catch future dipping events. It would be helpful to know whether observations reveal no further dips, or continued dips. If the dips continue, are they periodic? Do they change in size or shape? On one hand, the more dips the more problematic from the lack of IR emission perspective. Likewise, in the comet scenario there could be no further dips; the longer the dips persist in the light curve, the further around the orbit the fragments would have to have spread. The possibility of getting color information for the dips would also help determine the size of the obscuring dust.
Monitoring of KIC 8462852 will continue from the ground thanks to the efforts of the MEarth project, which will begin the effort in the fall of this year, and that’s going to be useful for tracking the variability of the dips. Remember, too, that problem of lack of infrared excess. Those numbers could change if we really are witnessing a recent event. The paper continues:
Several of the proposed scenarios are ruled out by the lack of observed IR excess but the comet scenario requires the least. However, if these are time-dependent phenomenon, there could be a detectable amount of IR emission if the system were observed today. In the comet scenario, the level of emission could vary quite rapidly in the near-IR as clumps pass through pericenter (and so while they are transiting). The WISE observations were made in Q5, so detecting IR-emission from the large impact scenario, assuming the impact occurred in Q8 is also a possibility. We acknowledge that a long-term monitoring in the IR would be demanding on current resources/facilities, but variations detected in the optical monitoring could trigger such effort to observe at the times of the dips.
What a fascinating object! There has been a media flurry about the SETI possibilities, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t investigate KIC 8462852 in SETI as well as astrophysical terms. No serious scientist is jumping to conclusions here other than to say that there is nothing in the laws of physics that would preclude the existence of civilizations more advanced than our own, and nothing that we know of that would keep us from detecting large artifacts. How they could be detected around other stars will be the subject of a forthcoming paper from Jason Wright and colleagues in The Astrophysical Journal, one we’ll obviously discuss here.

By Paul Gilster, Centauri Dreams
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