NASA Rover Makes Historic Mars Landing, Beams Back Photos

NASA rover Curiosity makes historic Mars landing, beams back photos (Reuters, Aug 6, 2012):

NASA’s Mars science rover Curiosity performed a daredevil descent through pink Martian skies late on Sunday to clinch an historic landing inside an ancient crater, ready to search for signs the Red Planet may once have harbored key ingredients for life.

Mission controllers burst into applause and cheers as they received signals confirming that the car-sized rover had survived a perilous seven-minute descent NASA called the most elaborate and difficult feat in the annals of robotic spaceflight.

Engineers said the tricky landing sequence, combining a giant parachute with a rocket-pack that lowered the rover to the Martian surface on a tether, allowed for zero margin for error.

“I can’t believe this. This is unbelievable,” enthused Allen Chen, the deputy head of the rover’s descent and landing team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles.

Read moreNASA Rover Makes Historic Mars Landing, Beams Back Photos

Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfires Are Now The New Normal In America

Flashback:

Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory: ‘Worldwide Water Conspiracy’ (FULL LENGTH):


Dead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfires Are Now The New Normal In America (Economic Collapse, Aug 5, 2012):

As you read this, the United States is experiencing the worst drought it has seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.  As you read this, nearly half of all corn crops in the United States are in “poor” or “very poor” condition.  As you read this, 38 major wildfires are ripping across the central and western United States.  The brutal wildfires in Oklahoma have been so bad that they have made national headlines.  The price of corn has hit a brand new record high this summer and so has the price of soybeans.  More than half of all the counties in this country have been declared to be “natural disaster areas” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at this point.  Things are so bad for ranchers that the CEO of Smithfield Foods is projecting that meat prices will rise by “significant double digits” in the months ahead.  Sadly, this drought is projected to continue throughout August and into September.  As you will read about below, some meteorologists are even openly postulating that there may not be enough moisture to avoid another drought next year.  Yes, things are really bad this year, but when you step back and take a look at the broader picture they become truly frightening.According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, as of July 31st close to two-thirds of the continental United States was experiencing at least some level of drought….

Keep in mind that brown is “severe drought”, red is “extreme drought” and dark brown in “exceptional drought”.

This is truly a historic drought.  We have never seen anything like this in modern times in the United States.

The week before, this is how the U.S. Drought Monitor described conditions in the center of the country….

“Over 90 percent of the topsoil was short or very short of moisture in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, with virtually all (99 percent) short or very short in Missouri and Illinois”

There had been some hope that rain would bring relief to farmers in the central part of the country, but instead things just keep getting worse and worse.

Read moreDead Crops, Extreme Drought And Endless Wildfires Are Now The New Normal In America

Canada: Gentilly Nuclear Reactor Releases 200 TRILLION Becquerels Of Tritium Every Year

Canadian Nuclear Expert: Reactor is releasing 200 trillion becquerels of tritium every year — Becomes a part of your body and all living things — Gives off beta particles which produce damage that can result in cancer (AUDIO) (ENENews, Aug 5, 2012):

Interview with Gordon Edwards
SolarIMG
May 7, 2012

Wikipedia: Gordon Edwards was born in Canada in 1940, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 1972, he obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Queen’s University. […] Edwards has worked widely as a consultant on nuclear issues and has been qualified as a nuclear expert by courts in Canada and elsewhere.

Excerpts at 2:00 in and 13:00 in

  • Gentilly reactor [in Quebec, Canada] releases 200 trillion becquerels of tritium every year
  • Tritium is a chronic problem
  • No way it can be filtered out of [drinking] water
  • Becomes a part of all living things
  • Beta particle goes ripping through nearby molecules
  • Sometimes manifests itself as cancer

‘Mission Mind Control’ (Video – ABC News Special, 1979)


YouTube Added: 22.07.2012

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In 1979, just two years after U.S. Senate hearings revealed disturbing information about a secret government mind control program code-named Project MKULTRA, this one-hour documentary covering some of the clandestine, illegal activities involved in this mind control project was released.

One of the topics covered by this intriguing film is the bizarre activity of a man named George White, who operated outside of the law while directly under CIA direction.

At minute 47 into the documentary correspondent Paul Altmeyer states, “And what of George White, the man who helped the agency in so many of its programs. Shortly before his death, he wrote to his boss at the CIA, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, and summed up his career by saying, ‘It was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill and cheat, steal, deceive, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all highest.'”

The film also mentions that Dr. Gottlieb destroyed the records of the mind control programs in 1973. He and many others involved in these projects did not want the public to ever know about the many illegal and immoral activities they had sponsored in their quest of control over the mind. Thankfully, he forgot to destroy the financial records, which contain highly incriminating information. These declassified documents can be ordered by anyone using the information at this link.

Though the CIA denies that the mind control techniques developed in their secretive projects were successful, an abundance of evidence in this film and elsewhere suggests otherwise.

Read more‘Mission Mind Control’ (Video – ABC News Special, 1979)

Fukushima: Japan Dropped More Than 168 Hiroshima Bombs On Itself … Based On The Most Moderate Estimate And Cesium-137 Alone

66 years later, Japan dropped more than 168 Hiroshima atomic bombs on itself (Cs-137 base) (Fukushima Diary, Aug 5, 2012):

At 8:15 AM 67 years ago, Hiroshima got the first atomic bomb in the world.

So far, 280,959 people died. Only within this year, no less than 5,729 people are added to the list. (cf. Ministry of health concealed the survey data of atomic bomb victims)

They hold a ceremony every year and state they won’t let the world repeat the same tragedy, but Japanese government is still reluctant to admit the fact that black rain fell not to pay the compensation.

As a matter of fact, they shall give the statement to themselves.

According to the report of Japanese government in 2011, which is presumed to be the most moderate estimate, Fukushima reactor1 ~ 3 emit as 168 times much cesium-137 as Hiroshima atomic bomb by August of 2011.

When it comes to Iodine-131, it was 63,000 tera-Bq in Hiroshima, where it was 160,000 tera-Bq in Fukushima. As to Strontium-90, it was 58 tera-Bq in Hiroshima, where it was 140 tera-Bq.

Moreover, there was no emission of Cs-134 in Hiroshima, so it is not comparable with Fukushima.

The data is not published to count possible emission from reactor4, also, sea contamination is not counted either.

It has been about 17 months since 311. It’s been like having a Hiroshima atomic bomb every 3 days since 311.

It can be more than that in reality because radiation still keeps leaking.

Read moreFukushima: Japan Dropped More Than 168 Hiroshima Bombs On Itself … Based On The Most Moderate Estimate And Cesium-137 Alone

Quarto Reich: Italy Goes ‘There’ Again

Quarto Reich: Italy Goes “There” Again (ZeroHedge, Aug 6, 2012):

Just because Italy’s 2 Year bond yield has plunged, bringing its cost of short term funding to manageable levels, if only for a day or two, it is suddenly “obvious” that it will not need Germany’s goodwill ever again. Sure enough…

The Daily Mail explains:

An Italian newspaper owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has caused controversy by printing a front page headline which said ‘Fourth Reich’ above a picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Read moreQuarto Reich: Italy Goes ‘There’ Again

Coca Cola CEO Muhtar Kent Confronted On Bilderberg (Video)


YouTube Added: 06.08.2012

Decription:

Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange got a chance to talk to the CEO of Coca Cola Muhtar Kent. Kent acted like most of the influential people that attend the Bilderberg meeting when questioned about their attendance and pretended he was deaf. Those of you who are wondering like Luke, Muhtar Kent does speak English and fully understood the serious question raised to him.

Related info:

Senator Rand Paul Attempts To Get Journalist Arrested And Stripped Of Press Credentials For Asking Tough Questions (Video)

Rand Paul Confronted On Bilderberg: ‘No Comment’ (Video)

‘You F—ing Americans. Who Are You To Tell Us, The Rest Of The World, That We’re Not Going To Deal With Iranians’ (Business Insider)

In other news:

Standard Chartered Bank accused of scheming with Iran to hide transactions (Guardian, Aug 6, 2012)


‘You F—ing Americans. Who Are You To Tell Us, The Rest Of The World, That We’re Not Going To Deal With Iranians’ (Business Insider Aug 6, 2012):

Today the New York State Financial Authority accused UK investment bank Standard Chartered of having facilitated $250 billion worth of transactions on behalf of Iran (you can download the full complaint here).

We identified the most shocking details here, but one line stands out and is probably going to end up being a Wall Street Classic

Read more‘You F—ing Americans. Who Are You To Tell Us, The Rest Of The World, That We’re Not Going To Deal With Iranians’ (Business Insider)

This Is how America Will Look Like In 2016

On This Day In 2016 (ZeroHedge, Aug 5, 2012):

For a presidential election taking place when the US debt/GDP has for the first time in 70 years crossed above 100%, in which over 50 million Americans collect food stamps and disability, in which M2 just crossed $10 trillion, in which total US debt is about to pass $16 trillion, and when total nonfarm employees in America (133,235,000) are the same as they were in April of 2005, it is quite surprising that economics has not taken on a more decisive role in the electoral debate. But while both candidates may, for their own particular reasons, not want to bring up the slow motion trainwreck that is the US economy now, in 4 years whoever is running for president will not be so lucky, because as the US debt clock shows, assuming current rates of progression, things are about to get far, far worse.

To wit, this is how America will look like in 2016:

  • Total US debt: $22.2 trillion (an increase of over $6 trillion from today)
  • Total debt per US taxpayer: $180,000
  • Debt to GDP: 130% (30% higher than today)
  • Food stamp recipients: 50 million
  • M2: $14.3 trillion (an increase of over $4 trillion from today)

and:

  • Total US Unfunded liabilities of $147 trillion (or $1.2 million per taxpayer)
  • $950 trillion in currency and credit derivatives, margined courtesy of TBTF banks’ cash deposits (forget about the return of Glass-Steagall. Ever). That’s in the US alone, which means roughly $2 quadrillion worldwide.

Actually, if those numbers do pan out, there very well may not be a presidential election in 2016. So enjoy this one. It may be the last one for quite a while.


(Click on image to enlarge.)

Source: US Debt Clock

Spain’s Stock Exchange Halted For Over 4 Hours Due To ‘Technical Glitch’

Spain’s Stock Exchange Has Been Halted For Over 4 Hours Due To “Technical Glitch” (ZeroHedge, Aug 6, 2012):

Update: IBEX resumes for trade with a nearly 5 hour delay, last seen higher at 1.68%. We can only hope the Knight algo is not to blame for yet another round of headless chicken buying.Last week it was Knight, today it is the Spanish stock market. Following a halt for a “technical glitch” just after 4 am Eastern time, Spain’s stock exchange, the IBEX, is still not trading as of this posting. So how will Spain and the ECB declare victory if they are unable to demonstrate the daily ramp in Spanish stocks (where shorting financials is once again forbidden…. because Europe continues to be “fixed”).

From MarketWatch:

Read moreSpain’s Stock Exchange Halted For Over 4 Hours Due To ‘Technical Glitch’

Eyewitness: 4 Man Team Behind Sikh Temple Shooting – Update: ‘Multiple Shooters’ Involved In ‘Coordinated’ Attack

Eyewitness: 4 Man Team Behind Sikh Temple Shooting (Infowars, Aug 5, 2012):

UPDATE: A separate source has corroborated the other eyewitness claim – a family member whose parents were victims of the shooting said his parents told him there were “multiple shooters” involved in a “coordinated” attack.


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An eyewitness to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin says that a team of four men dressed in black carried out the massacre, contradicting the official narrative that a lone gunman was the culprit.


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Just like the ‘Batman’ massacre, after which eyewitnesses clearly stated that James Holmes had an accomplice, today’s tragedy in Oak Creek is already throwing up questions that may suggest a wider plot.

Speaking with the Associated Press, an eyewitness stated, “Between ten and ten-thirty, four white males who were dressed darkly, dressed in all black clothing, came in and opened fire on our congregation.”

With the federal government already labeling the shootings a “domestic terror incident,” the narrative is already being manufactured to blame the tragedy on conservatives and libertarians, as well as demonizing the second amendment.

President Barack Obama is already positioning himself to politically exploit the incident. Top Democratic strategists have previously welcomed the prospect of domestic terror incidents as a means of boosting Obama’s poll numbers and helping him re-connect with the American people.


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Wisconsin: Sikh Temple Shooter Wade Michael Page Served In U.S. Military Psychological Operations Unit


Photo of alleged gunman Wade Michael Page. (credit: MySpace)

CBS News: Shooter Identified As Former US Military Member (CBS News, Aug 6, 2012):

OAK CREEK, Wis. (CBSDC/AP) — Authorities tell CBS News that the shooter behind the deadly massacre at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin Sunday has been identified as 40-year-old Wade Michael Page.

Page previously served in the U.S. military, but was no longer on active duty, sources tell CBS News.

CBS News reports that Page enlisted in the Army in April 1992 and was given a less-than-honorable discharge in October 1998. He was last stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C., serving in the psychological operations unit.

The Southern Poverty Law Center told the Associated Press that Page was a musician in white power bands whose lyrics express hate against minorities and ethnic groups.

Read moreWisconsin: Sikh Temple Shooter Wade Michael Page Served In U.S. Military Psychological Operations Unit

Study: Chemotherapy Can Backfire And Boost Cancer Growth (AFP)

Chemotherapy does never ‘backfire’, …

… because it is directly destroying the immune & endocrine system, damaging the DNA and is causing cancer.

See also:

Chemotherapy And Radiotherapy Make Cancer More Malignant (Video)


Chemotherapy can backfire and boost cancer growth: study (AFP, Aug 5, 2012):

Cancer-busting chemotherapy can cause damage to healthy cells which triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumour growth and resistance to further treatment, a study said Sunday.

Researchers in the United States made the “completely unexpected” finding while seeking to explain why cancer cells are so resilient inside the human body when they are easy to kill in the lab.

They tested the effects of a type of chemotherapy on tissue collected from men with prostate cancer, and found “evidence of DNA damage” in healthy cells after treatment, the scientists wrote in Nature Medicine.

Chemotherapy works by inhibiting reproduction of fast-dividing cells such as those found in tumours.

Read moreStudy: Chemotherapy Can Backfire And Boost Cancer Growth (AFP)

MSM Pushes Malicious Fluoride Lie: Fluoride-Free Bottled Water Is Harming Children, They Claim!

Mainstream media pushes malicious fluoride lie: Fluoride-free bottled water is harming children, they claim! (Natural News, Aug 3, 2012):

The mainstream media is at it again, lying to the public about fluoride. This time, the culprit is HealthDay, a “canned news” service that spits out lies and disinformation to be published by subscribing websites. Recently, HealthDay put out a story by author Alan Mozes claiming that bottled water might be harming children’s dental health because there’s no fluoride in it! (http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=667053)

And to really push their lie, they print the following conglomeration of total disinfo:

Read moreMSM Pushes Malicious Fluoride Lie: Fluoride-Free Bottled Water Is Harming Children, They Claim!

Banksters Arrested In Iceland, Ireland, UK, USA, Switzerland, India, France, Russia, Austria … (Video)


YouTube Added: 29.07.2012

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The rest of the story:

Read moreBanksters Arrested In Iceland, Ireland, UK, USA, Switzerland, India, France, Russia, Austria … (Video)

THE GERMAN PRESS Responds To Mario Draghi: ‘Vengeance Will Be Bitter’

The German Press Responds To Draghi: “Vengeance Will Be Bitter” (ZeroHedge, Aug 5, 2012):

As a reminder from March: Mario Draghi Is Becoming Germany’s Most Hated Man

More from Spiegel:

Germany has long been wary of ECB bond purchases and opposition has only grown since the Frankfurt-based central bank largely ceased buying sovereign bonds last year. Jens Weidmann, head of Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, has been particularly vociferous in his criticism of bond purchases, saying they rewarded debt-ridden countries without demanding reforms in return. Draghi even mentioned Weidmann’s opposition to the program in his Thursday press conference.

Read moreTHE GERMAN PRESS Responds To Mario Draghi: ‘Vengeance Will Be Bitter’

Full Time Jobs -228,000; Part-Time Jobs +31,000 – US Unemployment Rate Rises On Weak Jobs Report

Full-Time Jobs -228,000; Part-Time Jobs +31,000 (ZeroHedge, Aug 3, 2012):

We got the pre-spun job quantity data already, where we learned that nearly 3 times the headline print was due to seasonal and B/D adjustments and is thus nothing but noise. Now we get the quality. As can be seen below, courtesy of Table A9 from the Household Survey, in July the number of part-time jobs added was 31K, bringing the total to 27,925, just shy of the all time record of 28,038. Full time jobs? Down 228,000 to 114,345,000 lower than the February full-time jobs print of 114,408,000. Once again, more and more Americans are relinquishing any and all benefits associated with Full Time Jobs benefits, and instead are agreeing on a job. Any job. Even if it means working just 1 hour a week. For the BLS it doesn’t matter – 1 hour of work a week still qualifies you as a Part-Time worker.

Full time and part-time jobs summary:

US unemployment rate rises on weak jobs report (WSWS, Aug 4, 2012):

The US economy added 163,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate grew to 8.3 percent, the Labor Department reported on Friday. Although the number of jobs created was the most in five months, and higher than had been expected, it was barely enough to keep up with population growth.

The headline figure of jobs created, however, was contradicted by the rise in the unemployment rate, which is based on a different survey. According to this separate survey, the total number of officially unemployed people in the US actually rose to 12.8 million last month. The number of people with a job fell by 195,000, and the number of unemployed grew by 45,000.

A rise in the unemployment rate can sometimes reflect an increase of rise in the number of people looking for work, which causes them to be categorized as officially unemployed. However, according to the government figure, the number of people in the labor force fell by 150,000, and the employment-population ratio fell by 0.2 percentage points, to 58.4. Thus, unemployment rose even as tens of thousands of people gave up looking for work and therefore are no longer counted as unemployed.

The “real” unemployment rate, referred to as the “U6,” which includes those working part-time for economic reasons and those who have given up looking for work, hit 15 percent of the workforce. The figure has been growing steadily since April, when it was 14.5 percent.

Read moreFull Time Jobs -228,000; Part-Time Jobs +31,000 – US Unemployment Rate Rises On Weak Jobs Report

Should Obama And Congress Be Arrested Under The NDAA? – Reality Check: Is Al-Qaeda An Enemy Or Not? (Video)

See also:

CIA Given Carte Blanche To Supply Intelligence Information To Syrian Rebels

Obama Regime Authorizes Secret U.S. Support For Syrian Rebels (Reuters)

Links on Syria, Libya and Al-CIAda are down below.


Should Obama And Congress Be Arrested Under The NDAA? (ZeroHedge, Aug 4, 2012):

Should President Obama (alongside Lindsay Graham and John McCain) be wearing an orange jumpsuit?

Welcome to the beautiful and surreal reality of life under American corporatism, under a Congress that churns out thousands  and thousands of pages of (often contradictory) legislation a year.

If providing material assistance to al-Qaeda is illegal under the National Defence Authorization Act (2012), and Obama and Congress are sending $25 million of aid to al-Qaeda-affiliated Syrian opposition, aren’t Congress and President Obama violating their own law? Should Obama (or at least the Justice Department) not be using “all necessary and appropriate force” including “the power to indefinitely detain” to prevent Obama and Congress from assisting al-Qaeda? Did anyone in Congress or the Obama administration even bother to read the law that they were signing? Do Federal laws no longer apply to lawmakers?

Reality Check: Is Al-Qaeda An Enemy Or Not?

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The only question left from this abrupt and absurd turnaround — from funding bin Laden’s mujahideen thirty years ago, to ten years ago declaring war on al-Qaeda, to today sending them material assistance — would appear to be whether or not Obama will pull a 1984 and claim that “we have always been at war with Eurasia“.

More on Syria:

Michel Chossudovsky: ‘Panetta Has Blood On His Hands For Supporting Syria Rebels’ (Video)

William Engdahl: ‘World Being Readied For Aggression Against Syria’

Webster Tarpley: NATO’s Al-Qaeda Wing Clipped In Syria (Video)

Read moreShould Obama And Congress Be Arrested Under The NDAA? – Reality Check: Is Al-Qaeda An Enemy Or Not? (Video)

‘Eurozone Crisis: The Bankers Are Happy To Play Nero As Europe Burns’ (Guardian)

Not just one generation will be thrown into poverty.


To prop up the euro – whose survival is vital only for the banks’ balance sheets – a generation is thrown into poverty


In Athens, Angela Merkel is seen handcuffed on the cover of the magazine Crash. The headline demands that European leaders be ‘tried for genocide of the Greeks’. Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP

Eurozone crisis: the bankers are happy to play Nero as Europe burns (Guardian, July 31, 2012):

While Rome burned, Nero put on fancy dress, stood on a tower and played his lyre. He sang of the Sack of Ilium and roasted Christians at the stake to light up his party. The people were taxed to pay for his extravagance, but he appeased them with games of ever increasing spectacle and sadism. He clad slaves in deerskins and had lions eat them. It was immensely popular. When Nero duly fell from grace and committed suicide, he cried: “What an artist dies in me.”

I like the Olympics now that athletes have taken over from fatcats on centre stage, but the media coverage is disproportionate, idiotic and Orwellian. Never has the BBC in particular purveyed such nationalistic opium to the people. Is it really necessary to ignore all news of the city burning for the duration?

Last weekend a small island off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein saw the American treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, and the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, attempt a feat as yet unknown to the Olympics. It is called “save the euro”. This marathon is being played simultaneously and in real time by bankers and politicians in all Europe’s capitals, while a claque shouts “two weeks to save the euro” over and over again.

Read more‘Eurozone Crisis: The Bankers Are Happy To Play Nero As Europe Burns’ (Guardian)