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THOSE STRANGE “APOCALYPTIC”(?) SOUNDS

When this story first came in, I read about it, and then quickly thought, "well that will probably not make the finals cut this week," but boy, was I wrong, as more and more people sent this story in, and offered comments in some cases. When one is in the high octane speculation business, one is wrong about 99% of the time and right a mere fraction of that (that would be the other one percent, for those of you who suffered under Common Core). So what's the problem? Apparently, people all over the country are hearing loud "booms" or "explosions", and there's no known source for them.  And this wouldn't be the first time strange noises have been heard. A few years ago, they were hearing them in Russia and Canada. And no one seems to have a clue as to what is causing them:

Apocalyptic Sounds In The Sky: No Explanation For "Mysterious Booms And Flashes Of Light" All Across America

As one might expect, my antennae are pulsing with suspicion, and I've a little high octane speculation to add to the mix, and it concerns the following statements:

For weeks, Americans all over the country have been rattled by extremely loud booming sounds that seem to have no explanation, and they are often accompanied by “mysterious flashes of light”. 

These strange booms are shaking homes and rattling windows, and some witnesses say that they sound like cannons being fired.  And even though the “mystery booms” and accompanying flashes of light have been captured on camera all across the nation, so far the authorities do not have a reasonable explanation for why they are happening.  Unfortunately, it does not appear that this strange phenomenon is going to go away any time soon.  In fact, the Sun is reporting that the frequency of these “mystery booms” appears “to have gathered pace over the past week”…

To make matters more even incomprehensible, as the article also notes, there is no accompanying seismic activity, which would seem to rule out geophysical explanations, but I'm going to take the plunge anyway. But before I do, the article also notes that the "booms" heave been heard in Rhode Island, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, New Orleans, and Tuscon, Arizona. Beyond this, we don't have much information upon which to speculate. Yet, in spite of the fact there's no reported seismic activity accompanying these booms, people are apparently experiencing some sort of physical shock wave from them.

To my mind, all these things are clues, and if there is (1) no seismic shock  and yet (2) physically experienced shock wave  phenomena, and (3) flashes of light, then I can think of a few mechanisms that might account for it, the first being very shallow ground shock waves, which might not necessarily show or, or be recognized, as seismic events, which might show up if peizoelectric rock is suddenly stressed, released energy in the form of the shock wave and a flash of light.  OK, I know all of that is reaching, so that brings me to the following. The second possibility might be something happening in the air, such as a sudden release of lightning which anyone who has experienced a thunderstorm can attest, these events can send powerful shockwaves through the air and shallow ground shock waves.

So what might be causing such unusual events as lightning with no thunderstorms around? Here the problem in my speculative hack-from-South-Dakota opinion is just about anyone's guess. Are we looking at natural phenomena that are the result of new stresses and strains in the ecosphere, things like HAARP, the rapidly shifting magnetic pole, resonance effects from all the electromagnetic soup we live in? Who knows.  But there could just be the outside possibility we might be looking at something deliberate, along the lines of Tom Bearden's speculations on interferometry loading energy into certain areas which is suddenly released, which could account for both the shock wave and flashes of light.

To put all this country simple: it's the shallowness of the shock waves (registering no seismic effect, or no recognizable seismic effect), plus the sound and light, that suggests to me that this might be something deliberate, and that "someone" is playing with "something," all the better to get people thinking in terms of something "apocalyptic."

See you on the flip side...

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MORE CONCERNS ABOUT CERN: THEIR NEW PROPOSED COLLIDER’S MAGNETIC ...

Last week, you'll recall, I blogged about CERN's plans for an even bigger particle collider, one with an enormous 100km (60 miles) circumference. At the time I posted, I pointed out that the energies such a collider would be operating that would be... well, to use the late Art Bell's expression, "gimongous", dwarfing even the enormous energies and magnetic field strengths of the current Large Hadron Collider.

Mr. P.J. spotted this article, and shared it:

Designing Magnets for the World’s Largest Particle Collider

Now, the subtitle of this article says it all: "To produce a field of 16 teslas for CERN's Future Circular Collider, scientists must invent a new class of magnets." But wait, there's more:

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, man-made magnetic fields—roughly 200,000 times stronger than the Earth’s—accelerate particles into one another at nearly the speed of light. Experiments by this world-renowned particle accelerator have provided critical data supporting the Standard Model, a theory describing how particles in our universe behave and interact. But physicists are keen to know whether the model holds up for particles at even higher energies.

More experiments must also be done to extend the Standard Model, to answer questions such as why the universe has so much matter compared to antimatter, what exactly is dark matter, and why neutrinos have mass. CERN, the research organization behind the LHC, hopes to explore these mysteries with its proposed next-generation facility, the Future Circular Collider (FCC).

On 15 January, CERN released its first report outlining potential designs for the FCC, with input from more than 130 institutions. The facility would come with an estimated price tag between €9 billion (US $10.2 billion) and €21 billion, and part of the facility could open as soon as 2040.

If realized, the FCC will produce magnetic fields nearly twice as strong as the LHC, and accelerate particles to unprecedented energies of 100 tera-electron volts, compared to the LHC’s energies of 13 TeV. Whereas the magnetic system at the LHC can achieve strengths of 8.3 teslas, the FCC system would be able to achieve 16 T. (Emphasis added)

To achieve this feat, superconducting magnets of niobium tin will have to be used:

More than 4,500 magnets will be required for the FCC, and those magnets must rely on new designs and materials. The magnets currently used in the LHC are made of niobium titanium (NbTi)—but for the FCC, scientists will switch to the more powerful superconducting material niobium tin (Nb3Sn).

“The only superconducting material suitable in producing accelerator magnets achieving 16 T is Nb3Sn,” says Arnaud Marsollier, head of media relations at CERN. However, this material is sensitive to the tiniest deformation. This is problematic considering the extreme changes the material will undergo, which could degrade its superconducting properties. Therefore, scientists need new designs to minimize stress on these systems.

Now, most readers of my books, and in particular, The Third Way, and of my various blogs on the subject of conCERNs about CERN, will be familiar with one of my high octane speculations about the device: with magnetic field strengths several magnitudes stronger than the local field strength of the planet itself, I've always thought it possible that planetary effects could ensue from using the device, via resonance, and that these effects could affect everything from weather to aggregate human behavior, and possibly even, via the magnetic coupling between the Earth and the Sun, have affects on the Sun itself. I've even entertained the speculation that with such strong magnetic fields buried under the Earth, that such effects might even extend to the dynamo operating in the interior of the planet, which in turn would affect the magnetosphere itself. Perhaps the strange sudden shifting of the magnetic north pole is somehow related to these hypothesized effects.

Now, if you're wondering just how strong a tesla is, this article is helpful:

What is Magnetic Field Strength?

Take note of what is stated at the beginning of this article:

Magnetic field strength is a measure of the intensity of a magnetic field, given in teslas (T), the standard unit. One tesla is equal to one weber per square meter, where one weber is the equivalent per second that is required to induce an electromotive force of one volt. Another way to define a tesla is that a magnetic field of 1 tesla must exert force of 1 newton on a wire of 1 meter carrying 1 ampere of current. This is a lot of force for a magnetic field to exert, as a newton is the force necessary to accelerate a 1 kg weight at 1 meter per second squared.

If all that sounds complicated, people can just think of magnetic field strength in teslas by reference to known field strengths. For instance, the Earth's magnetic field is equivalent to 1/30,000th of a tesla. Still, this is enough for birds to navigate by and to keep a compass hand pointed north. The magnetic field of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is about ten times stronger than Earth's, or 1/3,000th of a tesla. This is caused by charge circulating through metallic hydrogen in its interior.

Those very small magnetic strengths may seem to be nothing, but note for a moment that birds migrate - it is thought - by using magnetic field lines through the magnetite in their beaks and brains. In the presence of field strengths several orders of magnitude larger than that, what happens? Short answer: we don't really know. The article tries to reassure us with this:

A typical loudspeaker magnetic generates a strength of 1 to 2.4 teslas.

But then it follows that statement with this:

The magnetic field necessary to levitate a frog is about 17 teslas. The strongest electromagnets, which make use of superconductors, measure approximately 20 teslas. The strongest continuous magnetic field yet generated is 45 teslas, at Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, while the strongest pulsed magnetic field obtained non-destructively was 100 teslas at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

And now CERN wants to double those field strengths(perhaps they plan experiments in frog levitation). So, while these magnets may not be the 100 teslas at Los Alamos, I suspect that interesting things might "begin to happen" when one adds rotation, and maybe the odd magnetic precessional wobble or two... And add all these systems and their enormous magnetic fields together, and my high octane speculations about (un?)intended resonance effects on other systems gets very murky indeed. And then there's that curious wording of the last phrase of the sentence quoted above: "..while the strongest pulsed magnetic field obtained non-destructively was 100 teslas at the Los Alamos National Laboratory." You don't say. What about the destructive ones?

But, as I say, it's all high octane speculation, a fantastic "yea, but what if...?".

See you on the flip side...

 

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TEST YOUR DNA AT HOME, SHARE IT WITH THE FBI

This story was spotted by many people, but I want to zero in on one particular individual who shared it, Mr. K.L., who, when sharing it, asked a very significant question in his email. But first a little background. In the 2015 Secret Space Program Conference in Bastrop, Texas, I offered the speculation that (1) if one suspected that humanity had, or has, "genetic cousins" that are "out there somewhere", and (2) if one suspected that this group interacted with humanity not only in the past but also is doing so in the present, and thus (3) that "they" may be here and walking among us, then one was presented with the "nightmare contact scenario," one explored countless times in science fiction books, short stories, and even television series. The famous series from the 1970s, The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes, was predicated around precisely this theme. If "they" look like us and walk like us and more or less talk and act like us, how would one detect them?

The only way, I averred at the conference, would be through genetic sequencing.

Well, with that in mind, ponder the following story which Mr. K.L. and many others shared:

One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Secretly Sharing Data With The FBI

Just one week ago, we warned that the government — helped by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget) — was embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database.

As it turns out we were right, but we forgot one key spoke of the government's campaign to collect genetic information from as many individuals as possible: "innocent", commercial companies, who not only collect DNA from willing clients, but are also paid for it.

FamilyTreeDNA, one of the pioneers of the growing market for "at home", consumer genetic testing, confirmed a report from BuzzFeed that it has quietly granted the Federal Bureau of Investigation access to its vast trove of nearly 2 million genetic profiles.

While concerns about unrestricted access to genetic information gathered by testing companies had swelled since April, when police used a genealogy website to ensnare a suspect in the decades-old case of the Golden State Killer, that site, GEDmatch, was open-source, meaning police were able to upload crime-scene DNA data to the site without permission. However, the latest arrangement marks the first time a commercial testing company has voluntarily given law enforcement access to user data.

Worse, it did so secretly, without obtaining prior permission from its users

And the concluding paragraph:

And, of course, if every person's DNA is in one giant genetic database, there would be no mistakes. Now if only the risk of abuse of this information was also nil, then everything would be great. Alas, as Snowden revealed when he exposed the flagrant abuses at the NSA years ago, this will never be the case especially when the "objective and impartial" FBI is involved.

Now, before we get to today's high octane speculation courtesy of Mr. K.L.'s question, let's first dispatch with the obvious. A national DNA database, as the article strongly implies, is the natural outgrowth not only of the value of such genetic technologies as forensic evidence, but also the natural outgrowth of the FBI's mandate to investigate crime, particularly interstate crime, and to run national criminal databases. In other words, there may be nothing more to this than just that (though, as the reader might have guessed, I strongly suspect this is not the case, and that much more is involved). This alone should give one pause, for a national database of everyone's DNA, while providing a great forensic tool, could - in my imagination - also be used to plant evidence and to frame people for crimes they did not commit. If that sounds fanciful, consider only the double standards we've seen in the past few years, along with galloping abuses of power in the Department of (In)Justice. With DNA samples of individuals ready to hand, and with appropriate cloning techniques, evidence could perhaps be fabricated implicating virtually anyone for anything. And at this juncture, I wouldn't put anything past the kind of Gestapo Meullerism we've seen lately.

But I suspect there's a much deeper level to all of this, as implied by my introduction to this article, and by Mr. K.L.'s very important question: "Why the FBI?" Beyond the reasons cited thus far, there is one other very interesting and to my mind compelling reason, the reason laying behind the High Octane Speculation that I am going to entertain. The other mandate of the FBI is counter-intelligence within the territory of the USA. Thus, if one suspected that those genetic cousins really do exist, and that they resemble us strongly, the way to uncover potential infiltration is precisely through genetics, and to do so in terms of a national database. And of course, the interesting thing is, one can make the whole operation do "double duty", and one need never acknowledge "deeper reasons" for the accumulation of such a database, such as I am suggesting.

It's just a crime fighting tool. Nothing else to see here. Move along...

See you on the flip side...

 

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MORE ON MALAYSIA AIR FLIGHT 370: ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS, AND DRILLS

I've been fascinated by the story of the disappearance (and presumed crash) of Malaysia Air Flight 370 ever since it disappeared (and presumably crashed) on March 8, 2014. The mere fact that this story remains unresolved is an indicator, perhaps, that something is very amiss, and that something very strange might be going on with the story. Within a week or so of the story breaking, I interviewed with the late George Ann Hughes on The Byte Show, and outline the emerging theories, and came to my first hypothesis that the aircraft had simply gone "poof" and that it may have been the victim of a "Bermuda triangle" like phenomenon, or the victim of some sort of exotic energy technology. That may seem like quite a stretch, until one considers the other theories being floated at the time: it was shot down by missiles (which would have left radar and other clues), it was crashed deliberately by a crazy pilot (or copilot). These were quickly shunted aside, as character witnesses came forward to dispute that the pilot was either depressed or of low character. Missile shootdowns would have left debris.

Then came the stories that the aircraft had diverted from its flight path, flew back over the Malay Peninsula, heading roughly in the south westerly direction. Some eyewitnesses seemed to corroborate this story. Thus arose more theories that made the rounds on television and the internet. There was the "Diego Garcia" theory, that the plane had been diverted and actually landed at the super-secret US-UK base on the island. Then an American general - I forget his name - appeared on a major American lamestream media network and advanced an even kookier theory that he had "inside information" to the effect that the flight had been diverted to Iran, with the help of the always-byzantine-never-to-be-trusted-Russians and their evil-criminal-super-genius-mastermind Vladimir Putin, where it would be repainted and used in a subsequent terrorist act. Supposedly, in the general's scenario, the aircraft flew through Indian airspace, and avoided detection by Indian air defense radar by flying closely behind another civilian airliner.

It was in that context of nuttiness that I advanced my own "outrageous" theory.  Then came the stories of it flying more or less due south, and crashing in the Indian Ocean somewhere off the coast of western Australia, and searches immediately commenced, and found... nothing. When I interviewed with George Ann Hughes, I cautioned - long before the Indian Ocean crash theory emerged - that if a crash site was advanced in the Indian Ocean, to be suspicious, because that ocean is very deep, and only a few countries possessed the technology to do deep sea searches. I even warned, in that interview, against the possibility of "salting" a debris field.

Then alleged debris began to wash up in French colonial islands off the east coast of Africa. Case settled, and I moved to the position that the flight might indeed, after all, have crashed in the Indian Ocean. But then one of the regular readers of this site in Australia, and a pilot, began to email me pointing out discrepancies in some of the alleged debris. I'm not a pilot, and as most people know, I don't go anywhere near airplanes. So I'm not in a position to evaluate those claims. But shortly after this, the Malaysian ambassador, who was tasked with collecting this debris and returning it to Malaysia, was murdered. Had he seen something to suggest a hostile takedown? or a takedown by exotic means? Or conversely, had he seen something to suggest that the alleged debris really was not debris from the flight? Again, we don't know. But with those additional "facts" added to the story, I moved back to entertaining my "it just went 'poof'" hypothesis, by the above-mentioned means.

So now we come to the most recent twist in this strange saga, in the following shared by Mr. D.W.:

’Missing’ data foils new MH370 lead

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was ‘shot down in military training exercise’ claims first book released about lost jet

The first article seems to account for the discovery of alleged debris off of Madagascar and other French islands in the western Indian Ocean:

WHEN you drop a pebble in a pond, you hear a 'plop' and see ripples begin to expand across its surface. If you were beneath the surface of the pond, you'd hear a slightly different 'plop'. All involve waves. And all radiate outwards from the source. So if you can hear it, you can learn a lot about the rock that dropped.

It's a technique used by the world's militaries to track and identify submarines and warships over great distances. It's also a key component in sensing nuclear weapons tests, which is why a worldwide network of hydroacoustic (under water microphones) has been in operation for decades.

Two of these ocean acoustics recorders were in a position to pick up MH370's impact with the Indian Ocean. But only one, based in Australia, has supplied reliable data.

The other was positioned at the secret US defence facility at Diego Garcia, in the heart of the Indian Ocean. Much of its data from the relevant time frame is distorted. And 25 minutes of it is inexplicably missing.

What emerges from these recordings is something intriguing in and of itself, for they pinpoint not one, but two potential crash zones:

Writing in The Conversation , Kadri explains an attempt was made to use recordings of underwater acoustic waves to locate the aircraft in 2017. Noises potentially associated with the crash were detected by hydrophones off Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, and another at the secret US military facility at Diego Garcia, in the central Indian Ocean.

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One puts the crash site further north in the Indian Ocean than previously believed.

The other points to a flight course taking MH370 closer to Madegascar(sic).

The second article linked above outlines yet another theory that the aircraft may have been downed during a military exercise, to crash in the Gulf of Thailand.

So where are we now? More or less where we were in the first weeks after the flight's disappearance: We don't know where it went down, we don't know why it went down, and we don't know the motivation (if any) of those who brought it down. .

What I do suspect, however, is that someone knows what happened to Flight 370, and they seem eager to avoid any resolution of the story. It is perhaps even possible, to extend my speculations, that this latest round of evidence is another attempt at obfuscation.

See you on the slip side...

 

 

 

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MORE ANTARCTIC STRANGENESS: LARGE CAVITY UNDERNEATH THE POLAR ...

Just when you thought that there could not possibly by any more stories of high strangeness coming out of Antarctica, something comes along to ignite the speculative imagination, and today's story, shared by Mr. J.Q., and followed up by many others, is no exception. This story, as most regular readers of this website, or for that matter of my books, are aware, the "High Antarctic Strangeness" began with Hermann Goering sponsoring the Nazi expedition of 1938-39 to the continent, with strange ties to Rudolf Hess. Then of course came the inevitable (and monotonously repetitive) "Nazi last Battalion" stories about Admiral Byrd and Operation High Jump being kicked out by die hard Nazis holed up in their secret flying saucer research and assembly facilities in the continent. I've not subscribed to such theories for a variety of reasons that are not necessary to research here. But American Admiral Richard Byrd did lead a postwar expedition to the continent, and he did leave much earlier than the expedition was scheduled. The expedition was planned at the highest levels, including then Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and then Secretary of the Navy John Forrestal. On his return, Byrd wrote a lengthy article for National Geographic, appeared on a few television shows, and then the story was forgotten, until his son, who was invited to give a speech on a major anniversary of his father's expedition to the National Geographic, never showed up, went missing, and was subsequently found murdered in an abandoned warehouse in Baltimore. As if that's not enough high strangeness, the Admiral's relative, Colonel Byrd, just also happened to own a stake in the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, TX on Nov. 22, 1963, where you-know-who supposedly accomplished the world's greatest feat of marksmanship with a misaligned telescopic site on a World War Two Italian carbine rifle.

But wait, it gets stranger. We then saw former US Secretary of State John Kerry taking a "detour" to the continent during a diplomatic junket during one of the most hotly contested elections in American history. We were told he wanted to check out global warming first hand. Uh huh. That was followed up by former Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who tweeted a number of curious things before and after going to Antarctica, things like "getting ready to go to the launchpad," and allegedly, that what he saw there was "pure evil." The Patriarch of Moscow, Kiril III also made the trip, to bless the Russian Orthodox chapel there, and to have his picture taken.

Then came the strange pictures of perfectly rectilinear blocks of ice - rectangular icebergs - breaking off from the ice shelf, just as a NASA aircraft snapped the photo, which we were informed was purely accidental because they weren't really all that interested in perfectly rectangular icebergs of about a kilometer's length. Uh huh. Following that escapade, a number of videos showed up on YouTube from various people in the alternative research field, with truly strange and anomalous things allegedly showing up on google earth, and equally cleverly being hidden from them. Many of these strange pictures appeared to show holes or openings - again, some of very rectilinear nature - in the surface of the ice and rock.

Well, now there's this, and as one might imagine, it has my high octane speculation motor working in overdrive, and my suspicion meter in the red zone:

Scientists Have Detected an Enormous Cavity Growing Beneath Antarctica

Now, in the context of all of the above high strangeness, consider the following paragraphs from the article;

Now, a stunning new void has been revealed amidst this massive vanishing act, and it's a big one: a gigantic cavity growing under West Antarctica that scientists say covers two-thirds the footprint of Manhattan and stands almost 300 metres (984 ft) tall.

This huge opening at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier – a mass infamously dubbed the "most dangerous glacier in the world" – is so big it represents an overt chunk of the estimated 252 billion tonnes of ice Antarctica loses every year.

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"Thanks to a new generation of satellites, we can finally see the detail."

Rignot and fellow researchers discovered the cavity using ice-penetrating radar as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge, with additional data supplied by German and French scientists.

According to the readings, the hidden void is but one ice casualty among a "complex pattern of retreat and ice melt" that's taking place at Thwaites Glacier, sectors of which are retreating by as much as 800 metres (2,625 ft) every year.

The complex pattern the new readings reveal – which don't fit with current ice sheet or ocean models – suggest scientists have more to learn about how water and ice interact with one another in the frigid but warming Antarctic environment.

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The Thwaites Glacier actually holds in neighboring glaciers and ice masses further inland. If its buttressing force disappeared, the consequences could be unthinkable, which is why it's considered such a pivotal natural structure in the Antarctic landscape.

Just how long it will stay, nobody knows – which is why scientists are right now embarking on a major expedition to learn more about Thwaites.

What they'll find remains to be seen, but it's inarguably among the most important scientific research being conducted in the world right now.

Now, as Mr. J.Q. pointed out in his email to me, it takes a little reading between the lines to see what is not being talked about, and what is not being talked about are the usual things one might attribute to massive melting of an Antarctic glacier. There's no mention of global warming (though it seems to be implicated from some of the remarks). There's no mention of volcanism. And there is mention of a bit of "mystification" in that "new readings" do not seem to "fit with current ice sheet or ocean models."

In other words, they don't have a clue.

Now, when I read this article, I couldn't help but think of all those strange "independent" videos purporting to show all sorts of strange stuff in Antarctica. I still remain very skeptical of many if not most of those pictures, but some did appear to be holes or openings in the surface of some considerable size, and they did not look to my layman's eye to have been "photoshopped." Putting today's featured article together with those, and it would appear that Antarctica may perhaps be honeycombed with all sorts of underground structures. And that brings back the possibilities that Admiral Byrd's Operation High Jump may have encountered something "down there," something which, perhaps, Secretary of State Kerry was sent to "talk with." Who knows? But if that is the case, and if the current scientific crews seem to be at a loss on what mechanism is causing the cavity under the Thwaites glacier, and if they're not talking about how perfectly rectilinear icebergs manage to break off, then perhaps it's time to entertain the hypothesis that "someone" may be down there, and perhaps be using some sort of high technology to create the situation, or to give the appearance of "high technology."

Yea, I admit, I walked right off the end of the twig once again on that one. But when all that high strangeness in Antarctica is added up, it's far more strange than the massive melting occurring there.

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

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WHO’S BUYING THOSE BONDS?

This article was spotted and passed along by Ms. K.M., and it's in that "gimongous whopper doozie" category, and definitely one for all the financial sleuths out there. As one might imagine, I have my own high octane suspicions and speculations to offer, but first, the article. Nose to the ground, get ready, sniff:

Nobody's Buying US Treasuries Except "Other Investors" & Mutual Funds?

The article begins by asking the $64,000,000,000,000,000 - allowing for missing money, inflation, and lots of derivatives - question (and yes, I know that $64,000,000,000,000,000 is way more than the mere pocket change of $17,000,000,000,000,000 in derivatives that's been reported. But I'm allowing for (1) their penchant for non-stop lying (2) consistent fraud, (3) a repertoire of accounting tricks rivaling the processes of "renormalization" in physics, and (4), just as in physics, a stubborn adherence to "the model" and its cooked books, even though the cooked books are telling them there's something wrong with the model. Of course, that could be due to all the physicists that went into Wall Street and hatched the golden egg of "econophysics" and taught all those traders a thing or two about accounting tricks and cooking books... But I digress. Where was I?)

Oh yea.

The article begins by asking the $64,000,000,000,000,000 question and modeling the circumstances behind that question:

Today's question: Who buys and holds America's federal debt?

To begin, the chart below shows the growth of US debt (split between public marketable debt and non-marketable Intra-Governmental holdings) and Federal Funds rate since 1970.  Public marketable debt is skyrocketing while debt held by Intra-Governmental trust funds continues slowing.

Hereupon follows a couple of helpful graphs, and then more commentary:

But thanks to the quarterly publication of the Treasury Bulletin, the Treasury roughly details the changing ownership of US Treasury bonds in four buckets; the Federal Reserve, Intra-Governmental surplus trust funds, foreign held, and domestically held.

Below, which of those four buyers bought and held all that debt from 2009 through 2014 (blue columns) versus 2015 through 2018 (green columns).  The changing buyer types before, during, and post QE are quite radical.

Radical you say? what's so radical about this? Well after more breakdowns of who is buying what, we get this handy summary:

This means the domestic public has been left to purchase an unprecedented $3.2 trillion, or 84% of all issuance since QE ended.

Yup. You read that correctly, gentle reader: the numbers are saying that John and Susy Q. Public rushed right out to buy bonds when quantitative easing ended. Yes... I remember it well, the long lines, the endless waits to take home my bonds and coupons.

But wait, there's more! This massive figure also represents "other investors", and who might those be?

"Other Investors" vaguely includes:

  • Individuals
  • GSE's (government-sponsored enterprises; Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, etc.)
  • Brokers / Dealers
  • Bank Personal Trusts and Estates
  • Corporate and Non-Corporate Businesses
  • and yes, somehow the category titled "other investors" wasn't vague enough...even among the heading of "other investors" comes the bullet point of "other investors" which seems wide open to interpretation

All this can be seen in the Treasury Bulletin December 2018, page 51...Table OFS-2 Estimated Ownership of US Treasury SecuritiesSource; Office of Debt Management, Office of the Under Secretary of Domestic Finance.

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Yes, that's right, under the heading of "Other Investors" there is a sub-category of "Other Investors"; call them "Other Investors, Squared." But wait, it gets even more fun, and here, I just have to cite the Zero Hedge article at length, because not even Hjalmar Schacht could come up with a convincing explanation for this one (or, maybe he could, but we'll get back to that):

Finally, perhaps the biggest question of all is who is buying all the middle and longer dated issuance? As QE was officially completing its taper in September of 2014, the spread between the 2-10yr and 2-30yr was 200 to 275 basis points, respectively. Simply put, the 2yr offered just 22% of the return of the 10yr and a 1yr offering less than 5% of the 10yr. If one wanted yield, one had to buy the longer dated issuance and could use significant leverage to take advantage of the fat spread.

However, by mid 2018, the spread of the 2-10 and 2-30 had plunged to just 30 and 45 basis points...and now on even the 1 year vs. 10 year is just 8 and 44 basis points. Heck, the 1 year is now offering 97% of the 10 year yield at just 10% the duration....and even a 1 month bill gets you within 21 basis points of the 10 year (offering 92% of the yield for less than 1% of the duration?!?).

Given this, only a buyer without profit motive would use leverage to borrow short to buy long dated debt with a negative return assured. (All emphases added)

Let that one sink in for a moment: "only a buyer without profit motive would use leverage to borrow short to buy long...with a negative return assured." So who could that be? Well, one possibility is that Johnny and Susy Q. Public felt such a surge of patriotism and noblesse oblige for the befuddled, struggling banksters, that they wanted to lend a helping hand, and mortgaged their, their children's, and their children's children's future and rushed out to stand in line for their bonds and coupons. If you believe that, I have a few suspension bridges for sale, cheap, which I'll be happy to finance with gold-backed bearer bonds (I'll meet you at the border of Switzerland and Italy, and I'll be carrying those bonds in a false bottom in my briefcase. Don't worry about the fact that those bonds are in denominations that supposedly never existed, or that they contain little spelling errors and so on. That's how we know they're authentic). All this is to that that it leaves a very different party and possibility which we'll get back to in our high octane speculation of the day. But Zero Hedge sees the same difficulty and implication that I do, and that by now, you probably do too, and here it is:

So, the Fed isn't buying and has in fact rolled off a massive quantity of mid duration US debt, foreigners aren't buying, banks aren't buying, insurers aren't buying, American's aren't buying savings bonds, state nor local governments are buying, and there is little to no spread to compensate any leveraged "investors" to buy mid to longer duration US debt.  Yet the Treasury tells us that "other investors" (suddenly became hyper-interested just as QE ended) and have come up with over $3 trillion in cash since 2015 to buy low yielding US debt like never before?!?

Is there any party (aside from central banks or central bank conduits) that could come up with such gargantuan quantities of dollars to yield so little and do it essentially without leverage???  Tell me again, who buys US Treasury's...and particularly who buys mid and longer duration US debt (responsible for setting the 30yr mortgage rate)???  Otherwise, this may sadly be the smoking gun of an active, accelerating, and perhaps unraveling Ponzi scheme?

Yes, it certainly could be the harbinger of a rapidly unraveling Ponzi scheme. Or it could be something else entirely; it could be yet another indicator that my long-ago hypothesized "hidden system of finance" is so awash in money, that it is buying up that debt for one reason, and, as Zero Hedge has intimated, that reason is not profit, which leaves only one other: leverage, influence, control, and power. I'm reminded of Dr. Tatyana Koriagina's article in Pravda shortly before 9/11, that the US would be attacked on its own soil by a powerful internationalist group of people with assets in excess of $300 trillion. In other words, the "other investors, squared" would be the sort of people with enough money to throw around, to buy lots of sophisticated technology, the kind that can pulverize buildings, burn down houses leaving surrounding forest intact, that sort of thing. Or to put it differently, that post-war hidden system of finance, and the players in it, are gobbling up more and more of the open public system. And, as Zero Hedge intimates, that could mean that the inherently fraudulent nature of that system could also be unraveling quickly. After all, why else would you now want to take the entire federal budget black?

Or to put all this high octane speculation "country simple," what we're looking at, I believe, is a bit of confirmation that there was and is such a hidden system of finance.

And it's now beginning to eat up everything.

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

 

 

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CONSCIOUSNESS, BIOPHOTONS, AND MULTIVERSES

Every now and then I get one of "those" articles that's so stunning in its implications that I have to blog about it, if simply for the sheer fun of crawling out to the end of the High Octane Speculation twig, and launching myself into thin air and just let the speculations run where they will. Well, this article that was spotted and shared by Mr. V.T. is definitely one of "those" articles:

Scientists Discover Biophotons In The Brain That Could Hint Our Consciousness Is Directly Linked To Light

What grabbed me here was this:

Scientists found that neurons in mammalian brains were capable of producing photons of light, or “Biophotons”!

The photons, strangely enough, appear within the visible spectrum. They range from near-infrared through violet, or between 200 and 1,300 nanometers.

Scientists have an exciting suspicion that our brain’s neurons might be able to communicate through light. They suspect that our brain might have optical communication channels, but they have no idea what could be communicated.

And that led the author or authors of the article to ask an obvious question:

This raises the question, could it be possible that the more light one can produce and communicate between neurons, the more conscious they are?

In other words, in contrast to the "older" model of consciousness being a kind of "either/or" question, with humans obviously "conscious" and rocks obviously not, and animals in some frustrating philosophical no-man's land in between ("dumb animals"), might it be more of a spectrum or continuum? Well, maybe. Personally, I've always been more comfortable with the latter view than the former, and I suspect that anyone who has owned a pet is too; they certainly don't behave or act as simply "dumb biomechanical machines."

However, there's a catch in the article, and it's revealed by that very "continuum of consciousness" idea: do more biophotons and neurons not indicate a materialist view of the mind, i.e., that mind and consciousness arise solely from materialistic causes? It may seem that way, but the author/s of the article are quick to catch the implications of the finding, which, when one thinks about it a bit, flips the whole argument of emergent consciousness from material causes on its head:

Just think for a moment. Many texts and religions dating way back, since the dawn of human civilization have reported of saints, ascended beings and enlightened individuals having shining circles around their heads.

From Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, to teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity, among many other religions, sacred individuals were depicted with a shining circle in the form of a circular glow around their heads.

In other words, that famous verse from Genesis that many of us learned in Sunday school - "Let there be light" - might be a kind of biophysical euphemism for "Let there be conscious existence." But they don't stop there:

But one of the most exciting implications the discovery that our brains can produce light gives, is that maybe our consciousness and spirit are not contained within our bodies. This implication is completely overlooked by scientists.

Quantum entanglement says that 2 entangled photons react if one of the photons is affected no matter where the other photon is in The Universe without any delay.

In other words, the patterns of biophotonic activity, if they do give rise to consciousness, means precisely that that a specific pattern could be entangled somewhere else in the universe, and hence, that specific consciousness is not localized within "this particular brain" but could, in fact, be localized in several brains. That really captured my imagination, for it seems to square with many other hypotheses, from Dr. Rupter Sheldrake's "morphogenetic field" to the idea - voiced by Bearden and some other authors - that each species has its own unique "electromagnetic signature", which signature again is a non-local phenomenon; even the idea of epigenetics seems to be implied by the idea, i.e., that there is some mechanism influencing evolution that is beyond the sum total of material "bits of information" (the genome itself), influencing development.

It's that possibility of the entanglement of biophotons that could also impact on something else: the multi-verse theory of Everett and Wheeler, who first posited that interpretation of quantum mechanics. The idea is, that for every set of possible observations, there must be a "timeline" or "universe" actualizing that potential (to put it crudely). They were, it should be noted, very uncomfortable with their own idea, because it seemed to make no sense. Plus, it gave rise to all sorts of thorny problems: if there were a multitude of universes, was it possible for one to "bleed through" into the other? Conventional wisdom would say no. But if those multiverses are a reflection of "entangled biophotons," something very different would seem to result, for the first result is: the template of an individual consciousness itself might be non-local, but it is found present simultaneously in a multitude of "universes" (or if one prefer, timelines), and it's that which might account for "bleed through" or "overlap" of one into the other. If all this high octane speculation be true, then a great deal will have to be re-thought, from reincarnation to multiverses, for it would appear that this idea of an entangled, non-local template of consciousness would be, more or less, a common surface uniting them all.

See you on the flip side...

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FOIA REQUEST REVEALS BIZARRE SECRET PROJECTS WORLD

Several people spotted this one and passed it along this week, and it makes for some... well, very intriguing reading.

UFOs, warp drives, stargates: Freedom of Information query reveals secret list of Pentagon research projects

A glance at some of the paper titles - and remember, these are the unclassified papers - is quite a read:

Intertial electrostatic Confinement Fusion, Dr. George Miley, Univ. of Illinois.
(Philo Farnsworth's plasmators and fusors, anyone?)
Pulsed High-Power Microwave Technology, Dr. James Wells, JW Enterprises.
(I'll bet that's useful if you want to burn down a few houses but leave the surrounding shrubbery untouched.)
Advanced space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering, Dr. Hal Puthoff, EarthTech International
(Engineering the fabric of spacetime... sounds a bit like Gabriel Kron, and other conCERNS.  But here's one of my favorites:)
Invisibility Cloaking, Dr. Ulf Leonhardt, Univ. of St. Andrews
(But no, the US Navy still denies it was ever trying to make ships invisible to radar during WWII.)
Traversable wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy. Dr Eric Davis, Earthtech International
High Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications, Dr. Robert Baker, GravWave.
(Didn't Thomas Townsend Brown propose something similar in the 1950s? Well, he did, and "whew!" thank goodness they're still looking into it, even though they told us they never snatched up Brown's project.)
Antigravity for Aerospace Applications Dr. Eric Davis, EarthTech International.
Field Effects one Biological Tissues Dr. Kit Green, Wayne State Univ.
Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications, Dr. G. Shvets, Univ of Texas at Austin
Warp Drive, dark energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, Dr. R. Obousy, Obousy Consultants
Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms Dr J. Williams, Ohio State Univ.
Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter, Dr. W. McCarthy, Programmable Matter Corporation
Space Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality, Dr. J Cramer, Univ. of Washington
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applicaions, Dr. S. Macheret, Lockheed Martin
Negative Mass Propulsion, Dr. F., Winterburg, Univ of Nevada.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
But what emerges from this bizarre list? What's the common theme? For one thing, space, and its manipulation at all levels, from "higher dimensionalities" to "nonlocality", quantum entanglement for communications, traversible wormholes and programmable metamaterials (useful for long distance space ships able to make instant repairs against micro-meteoric bombardment). There's even a bow to the late 1950s Brookings Report, with the mention of "magnetohydrodynamics", a term that, to my knowledge, first appears in the Brookings report. And invisibility? We all know the story of the Philadelphia Experiment. Engineering the fabric of space-time? That's another nifty way to accomplish invisibility, traverse wormholes, and manipulate higher dimensionalities. (Reading this list makes one wonder if British hacker Gary McKinnon, who claims to have uncovered evidence of a secret American "space fleet", might have uncovered something whose mere existence pointed in the direction of these types of papers.)
In other words, if one views these papers from a wide and long view, one discovers that their subject matter extends back some decades to the Brookings Report, to the work of T.T. Brown, Gabriel Kron, and others, and that that work never stopped.
And there's something else that emerges, besides the obvious determination to dominate space in every way and at every level, from materials science to the ability to manipulate the fabric of spacetime itself. This list of papers, if one thinks about them in a certain way, seems oddly to corroborate the concerns of the alternative research field: UFOs, 5G and its biological effects, microwave weapons, California fires and pulverized trade center buildings on 9/11... it all seems to be here...
And there's one more thing... Developing this type of technology, assuming the papers represent something more than just mere "brainstorming", will require a lot of money over several decades. Something, say, on the order of $21,000,000,000,000? If money is missing, this may be one very strong reason why...
See you on the flip side...

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BEHIND BREXIT: THE UK MILTARY, INTELL & OTHER STUFF

In last Thursday's News and Views from the Nefarium I spoke about Brexit and the sound drubbings Birtish Prime Minister May received in the House of Commons last week, losing a vote on her Brexit deal by the largest no-confidence measure in modern British history, and exceeding that against Ramsey MacDonald, decades ago, by scores and scores of votes. Labour opposition quickly brought a no confidence measure, which she survived.  But there's no doubt that May's government, like Mad Madame Merkel's and globaloney Marionette Macron's, is faltering and weak, and the reason for that weakness are their policies.

After last week's News and Views however, I expressed my hope that British viewers would pass along any insight, information, or theories about the whole process that they had, because the picture over here across the pond is, well, inadequate and confusing in the extreme.

Well, they did so, in spades. Therefore in this blog, I want to try to review what some Britons shared with me.

One mystification I had was cleared up by a gentleman. My mystification concerned why Mrs. May didn't simply resign after her Brexit deal lost overwhelmingly in the House of Commons, with many even in her own Tory party voting against her. After watching or listening to a few British television or radio shows, I came away more or less with the opinion that the consensus was that May had to stay, rather than risk a general election and the possibility of a Labour government under Mr. Corbyn. In other words, better the incompetent devil you know, rather than the incompetent devil you don't. And I emphasize the "incompetence" angle, because listening to the shows, the word (or its opposite) made its way into the discussions many times.

One of the videos I stumbled across was former British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who resigned from Mrs. May's cabinet last year over dissatisfaction and disagreements with Mrs. May's Brexit policy. I "knew" Mr. Johnson in a sort if "distant" and "casual" way at Oxford, having bumped into him a few times in the Union Society and having helped his campaign  for the presidency of the Union Society in a small way. Recently Mr. Johnson reemerged into the spotlight, giving a policy speech at the British JCB company, a manufacturer of heavy construction equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMO8W4QnlQQ.  I don't know about you, but this sure sounds to me like the beginning of a bid to become the leader of the Tory Party. Significantly, the effect of this speech is "get Brexit over and done with", and it's the classic "Bojo" style I remember from his Oxford days.

At a deeper level, one gentleman in the UK informed me of something I did not know, namely, that under the Blair Government, the Labour Party "modernized" the parliamentary process, the net effect of which was to concentrate prerogative power in Downing street and the Prime Minister's cabinet, a fact he argued that was one of the sources of the contempt of Parliament proceedings vote against Premier May last year. This gentleman's  insight rings true to me, because in 2003 the Blair Government reviewed the workings of the British government, including a thorough review of the reserved powers of the Crown (which are still considerable, contrary to the popular American view).

Another lady in the United Kingdom tied Brexit to the wider and growing continental movement against the political destruction of national cultures and sovereignties, and she indicated that the Belgian government had collapsed, or was in the process of doing so, because the protests against globaloneyist policies have spread to that country and had become violent. The reason? That country, seat of the very European Union itself, had rejected the UN migration treaty, which would, by Belgian lights, dismantle what few border controls there are left. She emphasized that that news, however, came through a contact on the continent, because no news source is reporting it, so take that with a bag of salt.

This lady had another insight, wondering if one part of the Brexit agenda may simply have been to find out how many people bought into "EU Propaganda." She even entertained the speculation that the Brexit referendum may have been "misreported", with the actual percentage of voters wanting out of the EU being much higher, but it was reported as "52%" because that was much more divisive. I too have wondered the same thing, and I suspect we're not alone.

Yet another gentleman sent along the following article, and this one was a complete shock to me, because the article, and the letter to Prime Minister May on which it is based, alleges that Mrs. May's Brexit 'deal" with the Eurocrats would essentially surrender the United Kingdom's military and considerable intelligence capabilities to the likes of Mad Madam Merkel and Marionette Macron, or to put it even more crudely, to the perpetual insanity of a Guy Verhofstadt, who never met a globaloney policy he didn't adopt and advocate with religious zealotry.

In any case, this article and letter is the occasion for today's high octane speculation:

Dearlove Guthrie Letter Published

Now, as you might have guessed, when a former head of MI-6 writes the Prime Minister in conjunction with a British Field Marshal as part of a group letter that her Brexit deal would surrender "British national security by subordinating UK defence forces to Military EU control and compromising UK intelligence capabilities," I tend to sit up and take notice, because here, at last, we get to the "deep state heart of the matter," so to speak. The letter continues by invoking that deep state, and its "special relationships": "It puts at risk the fundamental Anglosphere alliances, specifically the Five Eyes Alliance and thereby threatens western security." To read between the lines a bit (but not too much), the letter alleges that May's Brexit deal would compromise not just British, but American intelligence capabilities and independence, and the careful "special relationship" that British, Canadian, Australian, American, and New Zealander intelligence have with each other, by subordinating them to "an undemocratic organization, the European Commission", an organization that "offers subordination, not partnership." The letter even alleges that the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland has been weaponized by the EU. Reading between the lines even more, the letter and its Annex are really saying that the Brexit deal is a not too subtle attempt by Germany and France, in the guise of the EU, to gain a measure of access and influence within a wider "Anglosphere" intelligence network.

This makes some sense to me, because shortly after the Brexit referendum occurred, it appeared as if Great Britain was taking measured steps - as I predicted it might - to revitalize the Commonwealth itself as a soft power bloc, and as one British lady put it to me, there certainly was a heavy dose of "Commonwealth marketing and symbolism" going on with the recent royal wedding of a British prince to, notably, an American "socialite."

Of course, all of this is still reading tea leaves, and your guess is as good as mine. And it may be even that today's or tomorrow's news will completely upset this apple cart of speculation. But for now, these letters seem to indicate that there are very major and powerful forces in play that one way or another, want to see Great Britain completely out of the EU fiasco. We're watching, it would appear, a Wimbeldon show down, not between Borg and McEnroe, but between "intelligence and electronic surveillance" and "globaloney banksters" and a certain very powerful family, also with deep roots in Britain.

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

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CONCERNED ABOUT CERN? NOW THEY WANT A BIGGER ONE (CERN, THAT IS)

(Sung to the tune of Vic Mizzy's theme song for the old television sit com, Green Acres):

CERN'S vision is the place for me,

quark collisions is the life for me,

gluons  spreading out so far and wide,

Keep Sandia I want the Swiss countryside...

So might the CERN theme song go, if they had a theme song, which they should, because they need one. At the minimum, they need a Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ to accompany the show. And they need one because, to this layman's eye, "big science" is approaching the comically surreal and is beginning to have that "Green Acres" quality, where the characters in the story are reading the opening credits, and wondering where the letters hanging in the air are coming from.

So why am I on another tear with my conCERNs about CERN? Well, my conCERNs started when I read a book by a scientist describing the machine in terms of religious ecstasy (see my book The Third Way). To read him, you'd almost think the collider was the cathedral at Chartres. It was like reading some scientific Savanarola, "when a coin into the collection plate doth ring, a stream from the synchrotron doth spring," or something like that. In short, my concern with CERN was, and is, that being a quasi-sovereign entity, it set itself up as some sort of "cosmology cartel," with the college of cardinals teams of scientists interpreting the latest results of their studies experiments for the rest of the world to be duly impressed by and to accede to.  Therein lies my first conCERN, for having a monopoly on all copies of the bible and church fathers results of experiments, you and I can hardly run out into our garages, turn on our own hadron colliders, and check them. The fact that we're dealing with a "cosmology cartel" (as I put it in The Third Way) may in part account for why the Protestants China announced it wants to build its own, bigger version. (Cue music: Anything you can do, we can do better; anything you can build, we can build bigger).

Well, not to be outdone by those pesky Protestants Chinese, CERN, sensing its cosmology cartel might be in some danger of competition, has announced it intends to maintain its meson monopoly by building an even bigger version, according to this BBC story shared by Ms. S.H. and Mr. L.G.:

Cern plans even larger hadron collider for physics search

The graphic in the BBC article says it all, CERN wants a 100km collider, and I find it odd that the graphic depicts its location to run under several interesting terrain features. The cost, as noted in the article, is some twenty billion pounds, all for the following purpose:

The proposal involves digging a new tunnel under Cern and then installing a ring that would initially collide electrons with their positively charged counterparts, positrons.

Stage two would involve colliding protons with electrons.

In other words, they want a collider able to collide matter and anti-matter particles, and then electrons with protons. Think "total annihilation reactions." But wait, there's more:

But observations by astronomers indicated that there was more to the Universe than could be explained by the Standard Model. Galaxies were rotating faster than they should be and the expansion of the Universe is accelerating rather than slowing down. On top of that, the Standard Model cannot explain gravity.

So there must be a deeper process going on, involving yet to be discovered particles. Uncovering them would provide physicists with their much sought after theory of everything, one that would tie together all the forces of nature and unify the twin pillars on which modern physics rests: general relativity and quantum mechanics.

But there's a catch:

The difficulty with Cern's proposals for a larger Large Hadron Collider is that no one knows what energies will be needed to crash large hadrons together to discover the enigmatic, super particles that hold the keys to the new realm of particles.

Cern hopes that its step-by-step proposal, first using electron-positron and then electron-large hadron collisions will enable its physicists to look for the ripples created by the super particles and so enable them to determine the energies that will be needed to find the super particles. (Emphasis added)

Now, you know as well as I do that those unknown energies will be "a lot", and "a lot more" than the current energies of the Large Hadron Collider, and that will probably also mean that those immense magnetic fields in the current Large Hadron Collider will have to become even bigger. And as I've speculated already in conjunction with CERN's little project, it's those large magnetic fields, plus my other speculated possibility that there may be hidden algorithms in its computer selection filters pulling anomalous data and shuffling them to secretive committees for review, that give me pause. Those large magnetic fields, I've speculated, may create large scale resonance effects in the planet, and by implication, outside the planet, and possibly effect systems of planetary scale (like geophysical processes or the weather. In that regard, I've even suggested "hidden data correlation" experiments being conducted in conjunction with this, and speculated on torsion effects and "magnetic precessional wobbles" (to coin a term) in conjunction with it. In fact, I'd be greatly surprised if there were no such data correlation experiments correlating CERN's collider activity and other systems. And now they want to scale it up, and are now talking about looking "for the ripples created by the super particles"... Oh? Ripples in what? Maybe the fabric and lattice-work of space-time itself, maybe, kinda sorta? Well, that would stand to reason, given they've admitted they're also looking for evidence of higher dimensions.

But then there's a real stunner toward the end of the article, because at what point do colliders get so big that the return on investment begins to decline. Indeed, we seem to be in some sort of "collider race" to build the biggest best most smashing cathedral collider:

The UK's former Chief Scientific Advisor, Prof Sir David King, has advised the UK government and the European Commission on large funding requests.

He told BBC News that he believed that the escalating costs of conducting basic research in particle physics means that it is now time to carry out a cost-benefit analysis, especially when it was unclear whether the £20bn machine would discover any new particles.

"We have to draw a line somewhere otherwise we end up with a collider that is so large that it goes around the equator. And if it doesn't end there perhaps there will be a request for one that goes to the Moon and back." (Emphasis added)

In other words, the end process of this collider race is to make a collider of planetary size. No potential for planetary-sized resonance effects there folks. But when we're talking about such highly speculative possibilities as magnetic precessional wobbles and anomalouos torsion effects with the current collider, scale that up and you get "what could possibly go wrong?" Already the Earth's magnetic pole is moving so quickly that its affecting positioning systems, and this "purely natural" phenomenon has geophysicists baffled as to why (hint: you might want to consider that the effect is man-made by considering some of these speculative possibilities, and do so before you build an even bigger collider with even more colossal energies and gimongously huge magnetic fields. Don't believe me? Then see this version of the story shared by Mr. P.J.: Next-generation LHC: CERN lays out plans for €21-billion supercollider).

Now, since I've already crawled way off the end of the high octane speculation twig, I might as well state what's really weighing on my mind, because this collider race seems to confirm my suspicion - as is obliquely admitted in the article - that this is about more than just standard particle physics. It's about building systems able to manipulate physical systems of planetary (if not larger) scale.

Or to put it country simple: it's an arms race.

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

THE DARK OVERLORD 9/11 HACK: RUSSIA’S PAYING ATTENTION

Remember that Dark Overlord hack of emails claiming information about 9/11? The hacking group claims to have uncovered a "treasure trove" of information about insurance company lawsuits regarding 9/11, which it would release to people paying the ransom (in Bitcoins). Well, a second tranche of emails has been released, and Russia, it seems (if no one else), is paying attention. Mr. V.T., Mr. T.H., and Mr. G.B. found these articles:

‘More truth’? Second cache of 9/11 docs released by Dark Overlord hackers

Cybersecurity Expert on Dark Overlord's 9/11 Data: It Might Paint Bigger Picture

When I first blogged about this emerging story, I held out the view that this could be a significant development, in spite of the fact that the information in the first layer of releases did not seem all that significant. A peculiarity of the story is that while the hack seems to have been done by "professionals," the platform - Windows - left many cyber-security people mystified. What I find intriguing is that Russian media, as exemplified by the Sputnik and RT articles linked above, seems to be the only major media still paying attention. The question is, why? We'll get back to that.

But first, consider the interesting interpretation offered by Gary Miliefsky in the Sputnik interview:

Sputnik: Some guests have been saying that the fact that it is insurance companies might make it interesting, in that they tend to ask questions, that the lawyers ask questions that might be rather interesting.

Gary Miliefsky: Yes, you see the insurance companies who paid out claims, then filed these alternative lawsuits where they're saying we want to get paid back. Let's say there was a manufacturing defect in a car and your insurance company covered it for you, they may go after the car manufacturer. So these documents are very similar in that they're showing insurance companies trying to recoup their losses for payments for 9/11, and in the recouping of their losses, the questions that will be uncovered are "who did they sue?", "why did they sue them?", "what information was uncovered in these lawsuits?", "did they get their money back and who paid them?".

Sputnik: How valuable is the data released by the hackers?

Gary Miliefsky: It seems extremely valuable and I think that if continued layers come out, it will start to paint a post-9/11 picture of how huge claims are paid and reimbursed, and what parties are involved, there're a lot of big names in these documents.

Sputnik: Will it provide the public with more information that will differ from what we know about 9/11?

Gary Miliefsky: It might paint a bigger picture and it may provide some alternative information or some newer pieces of data that was (sic) never before made public, for whatever reason. (Italicized emphasis added)

So what's the message, if indeed there is one? This is where it gets interesting, and it may shed some light on why Russia is covering this story, when no one else seems interested (or, if they are interested, why they might be "prohibited" from doing so). Russia, as I outlined in my 9/11 book, Hidden Finance, Rogue Networks, and Secret Sorcery, was one of those nations - along with Germany, Israel, Jordan, &c - that was passing warnings to the USA that something drastic was about to happen on American soil. In fact, it was Russia that not only passed along confidential warnings, but wrote openly about the possibility prior to the attacks. In July  of 2001, Pravda ran an article by the Russian economist Dr. Tatyana Koriagina, who stated that America would be attacked on its own soil, but that the attack would come from a "network" of a very few people with assets in the trillions of dollars. That information was first uncovered by the late Jim Marrs, who duly reported it in his books about 9/11. Again, Russian Federation President Putin was the one world leader that G.H. Bush contacted that day. Since that event, Russia has sent other messages which few are paying attention to, like Sergei Glazyev's warning that Russia's problems weren't really the "Nazis in Kiev, but the Nazis in Washington."

The mere fact that Russia was warning of the attacks prior to their occurrence means that Russia is watching Dr. Koriagina's "group" closely; and that means, quite simply, that Russia "knows something" which, for whatever reason, it is not saying, but rather, dropping "hints" and "clues" from time to time, not the least of which in my opinion are Mr. Putin's constant challenges to the dogmas of globaloneyism and his constant use of the word "partners" in reference to the Western Powers, a word for which he is often challenged in Russia for being "too weak" and "appeasing" to the West. But Mr. Putin's choice of this word is, if nothing else, an assertion of his central point: Russia will not be a subsidiary or a franchise of the western financial hustlers; it will be a full and sovereign equal. In the context of the remarks in Sputnik, another message is being sent: there is real information in those documents capable of painting a "bigger picture" and of providing "alternative information or newer pieces of data," with the added tidbit that "there're a lot of big names in these documents."

So what's my high octane best speculative guess? Russia already knows what's in those documents, and it does not want the story to die in the hopes that that information will come out, which saves it the difficulty of having to reveal it itself. And of course, there's always the possibility that there is some sort of connection between Russia and the Dark Overlord hackers.

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NEED STABLE FUSION REACTIONS? BOMBARD THE PLASMA WITH RADIO WAVES

Mr. T.M. spotted this one, and it contains one of those "things that make you go, 'Hmmm...'." Scientists at Princeton claim they've found a new way to get rid of troublesome "magnetic islands" in plasmas that can destabilize fusion reactions. But wait until you see what it is:

Scientists Discovered a New Way to Stabilize Fusion Reactions

What's the new technique? Just this:

The work, described in a new paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, deals with a type of structure in plasma that researchers call a “magnetic island.” Magnetic islands can cause complex plasma disruptions capable of shutting down fusion experiments and even damaging reactors.

The researchers found that by bombarding plasma with radio-frequency waves while creating small fluctuations in its temperature, they could stabilize the material and prevent the dangerous magnetic islands from forming.

A second article goes into greater depth ( Scientists discover a process that stabilizes fusion plasmas):

Researchers found in the 1980s that using radio-frequency (RF) waves to drive current in the plasma could stabilize tearing modes and reduce the risk of disruptions. However, the researchers failed to notice that small changes -- or perturbations -- in the temperature of the plasma could improve the stabilization process, once a key threshold in power is exceeded. The physical mechanism that PPPL has identified works like this:

  • The temperature perturbations affect the strength of the current drive and the amount of RF power deposited in the islands.
  • The perturbations and their impact on the deposition of power feedback against each other in a complex -- or nonlinear -- manner.
  • When the feedback combines with the sensitivity of the current drive to temperature perturbations, the efficiency of the stabilization process increases.
  • Furthermore, the improved stabilization is less to likely to be affected by misaligned current drives that fail to hit the center of the island.

If you've been a regular reader of my books over the years, this might sound vaguely familiar, as it did to me, for the idea of  using radio frequency "bombardment" of a nuclear plasma is not new, nor, indeed, from the 1980s. As I detailed in my book The Nazi International, the claim sounds all too similar to that of former Nazi plasma physicist Dr. Ronald Richter, whom, it will be recalled, Argentine dictator Juan Peron introduced to a press conference in 1951 with the bold claim that Dr. Richter had figured out the process of controlling fusion. Needless to say, when Peron made his announcement, most of the world's press denounced the whole claim, with a few papers even going out of their way to consult other former Nazi scientists to render their negative verdict.

Suspicious, Peron started his own investigative committee, headed by one of Argentina's own nuclear physicists, Dr. Jose Balseiro. Balseiro's report to Peron, which I detail in The Nazi International, makes  for some very interesting reading indeed, for not only does he detail Richter's claims to be able to achieve fusion reactions at temperatures far below that thought to be necessary at the time (and, indeed, now), making Richter the first to make a "cold" fusion claim decades in advance of Pons and Fleischmann, but Richter also made the claim that he did this in a rotating plasma, and bombarding it with, you guessed it, radio waves.  And all this months before the USA had exploded the world's first hydrogen bomb. Balseiro's report also details behavior by Richter that is, well, nothing less than bizarre, so bizarre in fact that it contributed mightily to his denunciations in the press, and by privately by Balseiro in his report to Peron, as a fraud.

Even more interesting was what was happening behind the scenes, for while the western press was busily piling on denunciations of Peron and Richter, and Balseiro was privately making his report, the U.S. Air Force quietly sent people to interview Richter, and that report too is a masterpiece of double-speak, roundly denouncing Richter as a fraud and mountebank on the one hand, and yet on the other, lauding him as some sort of "mad genius working in the 1970s", and stating that the man should be watched carefully, i.e., be constantly surveilled and spied upon. In short, the US agents did not, in the final analysis, know what to make of Richter, and covered both possibilities; "he's a fraud, but we'd better watch him closely, just in case he isn't."

Then came Philo Farnsworth's press conference in the mid-1960s, in which he reported he had sustained fusion reactions in a device no larger than a softball, using virtual anodes and cathodes as a means of containing, and stabilizing, his reactions. After his announcement, Farnsworth was shuffled quietly off the stage, and ITT said no more about his devices (which Farnsworth called a Fusor and a Plamator). Then, a few years ago, Lockheed-Martin claimed to have built a fusion reactor which could fit on the back of a truck, and released a picture of a device that looked suspiciously like Farnsworth's Fusor and Plasmator patents. Go figure.

Bottom line? Whatever is going on in the world of fusion, my bet is we're not being told the full story, and it's articles like these that make me wonder if, in fact, it's been around for some time.

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