Centauri Dreams
8,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, the star designated Kepler 1625 may be harboring a planet with a moon. The planet, Kepler 1625b, is a gas giant several times the mass of Jupiter. What David Kipping (Columbia University) and graduate student Alex Teachey have found is compelling though not definitive evidence of a moon orbiting the confirmed planet. If we do indeed have a
Whether or not there is an undiscovered planet lurking in the farthest reaches of the Solar System, the search for unknown dwarf planets and other objects continues. Extreme Trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) are of particular interest. The closest they come to the Sun is well beyond the orbit of Neptune, with the result that they have little gravitational interaction with the giant planets. Conside
A new paper from Jason Wright (Penn State) and colleagues Shubham Kanodia and Emily Lubar deals with SETI and the ‘parameter space’ within which we search, with interesting implications. For the researchers show that despite searching for decades through a variety of projects and surveys, SETI is in early days indeed. Those who would draw conclusions about its lack of success to this point fail t
Can rapidly advancing laser technology and optics augment the way we do SETI? At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Phil Lubin believes they can, and he’s behind a project called the Trillion Planet Survey to put the idea into practice for the benefit of students. As an incentive for looking into a career in physics, an entire galaxy may be just the ticket. For the target is the nearest
Last Monday’s article on the Trillion Planet Survey led to an email conversation with Phil Lubin, its founder, in which the topic of Breakthrough Starshot invariably came up. When I’ve spoken to Dr. Lubin before, it’s been at meetings related to Starshot or presentations on his DE-STAR concept. Standing for Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation, DE-STAR is a phased las
Proxima Centauri b is back in the news, although I’ll confess that in my case, it’s rarely out of my thoughts — I’ve been obsessed with the Alpha Centauri system since my youth. The latest comes through work by Anthony Del Genio and colleagues (NASA GSFC), who describe in Astrobiology their new simulations with regard to potential habitability. You’ll recall the issues here. A planet this close t
Craig Murray
The radical road up Salisbury Crags got its name because pro-democracy labourers building it held meetings there to avoid bans within the city of Edinburgh, back in the era of Peterloo. This is precisely where Historic Environment Scotland are banning tomorrow’s Independence rally, and if we accept it we are turning our back on our heritage. As somebody who has addressed half a million people in
Bellingcat’s attempts to gild the Chepiga lily are now becoming ludicrous. The photo they published today is a very obvious fake. Many people have noticed that the photo of Chepiga on this wall appears to be hanging in completely different lighting conditions from the others. That is indeed a good point. But there is a more important point here, and that is to do with sequencing. Except for Chepi
A fringe venue at the Labour conference was evacuated last night after the screening of a film about my friend Jackie Walker was cancelled by a terrorist bomb threat. Jackie, a black Jewish prominent critic of Israel, is currently among those suspended from the Labour Party over accusations of anti-semitism which are, in her case, nonsense. What is astonishing is that the state and corporate medi
I am just back from a family funeral – one of a succession – and a combination of circumstances had left me feeling pretty down lately, and not blogging much. But I have to drag myself to the keyboard to denounce a quite extraordinary set of deliberate lies published in the Guardian about a Russian plot to spring Julian Assange last December. I was closely involved with Julian and with Fidel Narv
The evidence mounts that Russia is not telling the truth about “Boshirov” and “Petrov”. If those were real identities, they would have been substantiated in depth by now. As we know of Yulia Skripal’s boyfriend, cat, cousin and grandmother, real depth on the lives and milieu of “Boshirov” and “Petrov” would be got out. It is plainly in the interests of Russia’s state and its oligarchy to establis
Like many, my first thought at the interview of Boshirov and Petrov – which apparently are indeed their names – is that they were very unconvincing. The interview itself seemed to be set up around a cramped table with a poor camera and lighting, and the interviewer seemed pretty hopeless at asking probing questions that would shed any real light. I had in fact decided that their story was highly
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
“Putting a price on carbon” was always going to be unpopular with people who use fossil fuels out of necessity and for fun – viz., a large portion of the population in a well-off northern country that, climate change notwithstanding, still gets pretty cold in the winter. In other words, Canadians, with their furnaces, SUVs and snowmobiles. After 40 years of neoliberal conditioning to the idea all
Give Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party their due: They got a large and enthusiastic crowd out last night to their rally in Calgary against taking action on climate change. Leastways, I’d say 1,500 warm bodies at a rally on any topic should concern the government they came out to yell at, no matter what the issue, which in this case was technically the Trudeau Government’s policy of p
Two well-heeled older men who never wanted for anything during their upbringings and now live comfortable, privileged lives will be getting together in Calgary this evening to talk about just how very, very angry they are. The idea of a $15-per-hour minimum wage makes them very, very angry. The idea that someone would remove a statue to a 19th Century colonial-era politician in belated acknowledg
I imagine most journos working nowadays for the moribund and increasingly far-right Postmedia newspaper chain daydream about making a miraculous escape from their travails – perhaps a modest Lotto 6/49 win or a generous inheritance from a beloved auntie. But you have to admit that Paula Simons, until now a city columnist for the Edmonton Journal who didn’t have a topical beat so much as a deft ab
A lot of Canada’s Conservatives were wearing long faces yesterday about the impact of the freshly inked United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on this country’s dairy industry. As political sins go, this small hypocrisy is a minor one. Why not let the sitting government take the rap for a treaty with our big, bullying neighbour that is certain to be unpopular with a small but vocal and well-financ
Even if you’re no fan of Rick Strankman, United Conservative Party MLA for Alberta’s dinosaur country, you have to feel a little sympathy for the poor guy, skidded from his nomination by a candidate more appealing to party leader Jason Kenney. Mr. Strankman, 65, may not have been the sharpest knife in the UCP’s cutlery drawer, but as a Wildrose Party candidate elected to represent the Drumheller-
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Physicist Dies at 96 After Selling Nobel Prize to Pay Medical Costs Pentagon Wants to Create Bioengineered Insect Army to Protect Crops Mattress Firm has filed for bankruptcy and could close up to 700 stores Venezuela Has Officially Launched Its Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency The president of Interpol has reportedly vanished after going to China Russian Prosecutor With Ties To Veselni
From Jenna Orkin Top FBI Official Linked to Reporter (David Corn) Who Broke Trump Dossier Story Another old antagonist of Mike's. World Economy At Risk Of Another Financial Crash, IMF Warns FBI Clears Kavanaugh, Says White House The FBI's Kavanaugh report is ready, but senators only get a single copy to read, in 1-hour shifts, under intense security The FBI reportedly only interviewed 9 people ab
From Jenna Orkin International Court of Justice Orders US to Lift New Iran Sanctions Chosen One? New Film Claims Trump's Election Wa Act of God Trump's Showdown Kavanaugh FBI Report Won't Be Released To Public: McConnell US Gross National Debt Soars $1.27 Trillion In Fiscal 2018, Hits $21.5 Trillion The Real Reason Why Amazon Is Hiking Minimum Wages UK University Bans Clapping At Performances To
From Jenna Orkin Facebook Flaw: Fake Messenger Accounts Can't Be Reported PUERTO RICO'S LARGEST NEWSPAPER RUNS COLUMN BLAMING JEWS FOR HURRICANE MARIA AFTERMATH "Unsafe And Unprofessional": Chinese Warship Comes Within 45 Yards Of US Destroyer In South China Sea Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15 following pressure from Bernie Sanders Ron Paul: Venezuela's Socialism... And Ours Half a mill
From Jenna Orkin Rachel Mitchell Analysis of Ford/Kavanaugh "Brett Has Not Told The Truth" - Kavanaugh College Friend Details "Violent, Drunken Behavior" To FBI Student Who Refused to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance Expelled The UK will send 800 troops to the Arctic to 'demonstrate we’re there' to the Russians This Fascinating World Map Was Drawn Based On Country Populations "Historic Judgment" As
From Jenna Orkin Trump Administration Sees 7 Degree Rise in Global Temperatures by 2100 America's Most Expensive Fighter Jet Totaled in First Ever Crash Kristinn Hrafnsson Replaces Julian Assange as WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief W. Virginia’s Decision to Allow Smartphone Voting for Midterms Raises Serious Security Concerns Danske Bank Moved $235 Billion in “Suspicious” Payments Through Estonian Branc
GlobaLove Think Tank
It starts with a hard issue that can be painted black or white when really its a rainbow reflecting society Mess up the colors and you get Rwanda or Sarajevo The conservatives are playing pure detective with the fate of convicted criminals of the worst sort coincidentally both are female The justice system is the foundation of society do not fuck with Judges Juries or executioners of Justice Its
In a David vs Goliath battle with the loyal opposition praying for defeat Justin Trudeau played a terrible hand extraordinarily well and emerged with only a couple of flesh wounds The Dairy concessions were nothing new we had already agreed to the same terms with Europe and TPP Patent Protection was a complete loss but try fighting big Pharmacy when the live on your border Great Job Justin suck i
Government and Taxes
Last week I got a friend request in fb from Curtin Winsor Jr., I accepted because he's a former Atlas Director. But I noticed that his profile has no work or profession, no address, no posting. Then he said that he's helping friends secure a $100,000 and up grant from the UN and US federal government. Purpose is to help people start a business, repair a house, etc. then he gave me a tel no. that
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last Monday, October 01, 2018. People are rational, they seek convenience and safety for themselves, their families and friends. Thus, if it is very inconvenient and unsafe to take multiple rides from house to work and vice versa, say tricycle from house and village, jeepney or bus, MRT/LRT, jeep again to office, repeat the 4 rides going back home, then people
Last week, September 25, I attended the alumni reunion of those who attended the International Academy for Leadership/Freiheit (IAF) of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). IAF is in Gummersbach, Germany, near Cologne. I attended the 8-days seminar (morning till evening) on "Civil Society and Local Government" in October 2008. I like the venue, The German Club Manila, in Makati Cit
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on September 27, 2018. President Duterte’s government can be described currently as having double inflation in both consumer price index (CPI) and political insecurity index. His economic managers’ usual and repeated alibi on why the country’s inflation rate is high is mainly because of external factors like high world oil prices and high US interest rates. T
Today, a friend posted supporting the bullying of Sen. Ted Cruz and wife by some Dems activists/supporters, I commented on it. See the rest of exchange, the language in particular of this Dino Abellanosa . People love to brag and announce their self-righteousness and insecurity. So be it.
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last September 24, 2018. Most electricity consumers have that single most important concern and “vested interest” — to have cheap, competitively priced and stable electricity supply. Meaning no brownout even for a minute and yet the price is affordable. The climate alarmism movement — less rain or more rain, less/no flood or more flood, less storms or more sto
henrymakow.com
Society --Jew and non-Jew alike --is in the grip of a satanic cult that routinely engages in magic and sorcery. We must acknowledge the malevolent nature of Cabalist Judaism and Freemasonry or we are doomed. Texe Marrs' Voices from the Dead is an important step in this direction. by Henry Makow. Ph.D. A satanic cult dedicated to our enslavement and destruction controls society. Yet because they a
(left. In 1952, Bella Dodd, a former member of the CPUSA executive testified to a Senate Committee about Communist subversion .) Illuminati = Cabalist Judaism = Freemasonry = Communism = Satanism Below, Randy Engel explains that Communists infiltrated and brought the church into disrepute. Protocols of the Elders of Zion -17: "When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court...we shall come
The holiest day in the Jewish Calendar, Yom Kippur, begins this Evening. While less than a third of Jews attend services, even fewer understand the prayer which condones lying and confirms the true satanic nature of Judaism . "On Yom Kippur the infamous Kol Nidrei prayer is recited, almost always explained away to the public as a blessed ceremony of begging God for forgiveness for oaths that were
In a satanic cult, values are inverted and depravity is normalized. A henrymakow.com reader sent the email below to the President of Algonquin College in Ottawa to protest a sex bingo and another sex-oriented event on campus. Sex bingo, held at many schools, is like regular bingo, except a drag queen is the caller, dildo-shaped markers are used, and the prizes are sex toys, like vibrators. Genera
Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947) was a Jewish psychologist, who pioneered the Tavistock Institute, the Illuminati's center for mass brainwashing. He advocated the use of terror to induce a passive state in the public. (from April 21, 2006) By Henry Makow Ph.D. It is more effective to manage society by mind control than by physical coercion. The events of 9-11 and the "war on terror" mostly are exercises
(Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau endorsing the idea that society should become a satanist freakshow) Incredible as it sounds, humanity is controlled by the Illuminati (i.e. Freemasonry.) We are being inducted into this satanic cult at the lowest level. Freemasonry controls and exploits its members by making them sick. Nowhere is this more evident than the official promotion of gender dysph
In These Times
Everything about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week screamed of righteous indignation over being forced to answer for allegations that he may not be as stainless as his most ardent supporters have avowed. Judge Kavanaugh didn’t just dismiss the claims of his accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, he did everything in his power to portray
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—The lot doesn’t look like much: Short stacks of tires line a small rectangle of flattened cardboard boxes, all interspersed with bright green vines of invasive kudzu. To Rev. Majadi Baruti, however, it’s a pumpkin patch and future urban farm. The tires are planters for young Sugar Baby pumpkins, the cardboard will keep weeds down and attract worms to fertilize the soil, and the k
Cook County Jail, one of the largest in the country, confirmed to In These Times that it has placed all of its divisions on lockdown in response to the verdict in the trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. On Friday afternoon, Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder for killing black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. During lockdowns, people are largely confined to their cells and d
Chicago has long been a city on the brink. Decades of racial stratification, disinvestment, segregation and endemic poverty have left large swaths of the population struggling to survive, while new development has disproportionately favored wealthier residents. The communities left behind by this process are largely Black and Brown, while the beneficiaries are primarily white. Such a system of ra
For other perspectives on this debate, read Peter Frase and Brihana Gray Bernie Sanders stands out among potential 2020 candidates as having the strongest and longest-standing commitment to left principles. But the question at hand is strategy. Should leftist organizations immediately endorse Sanders and begin preparing to campaign for him? The answer is no. There are strategic benefits to waitin
SAN FRANCISCO—In the early morning on September 13, a few hundred demonstrators blocked an entrance to the massive conference center where the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) was getting underway. Within this crowd of protesters, pulsing with music and speeches, a small handful of people locked their arms together in pipes; some encased them in empty oil barrels. The message to outgoing Calif
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Source: Último Momento Noticias (Argentina) and Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO) Date: 10.1.2018 Argentina: Couple Almost "Taken" By a Light in the Old Huergo Resort **What Happened and What Activities Take Place at Night in that Area?** HUERGO. Two friends lived through an odyssey at the so-called old resort in this locality. A man and a woman were listening to music inside a vehicle parke
Source: DIARIO EL POPULAR (Argentina) Date: 30 September 2018 Argentina: Olavarria - A Key Location in the UFO Phenomenon The 12th Federal Meeting of ICOU (United Field Researchers - Investigadores de Campo Unidos) was organized by the Olavarria UFO Investigation center and held at the Science Museum. The event was a tribute to Dante Rivera, one of the pioneers in the phenomenon's research. A mee
Source: Alfonso Salazar Date: 09.05.2018 A Report by Alfonso Salazar Mexico: A Traffic Reporter’s UFO Experiences The late Jorge Olea was a pioneer in traffic reporting from helicopters and a chronicler of police information for thirty-four years in Mexico City. He was a senior collaborator with the Grupo Monitor, becoming the guiding voice of drivers in the valley of Mexico. On his Facebook page
Source: PLANETA UFO and www.noticiaslapaz.com Date: 09.23.2018 Mexico: UFO Phenomenon Remains Highly Active in Los Cabos Adolfo Sánchez Rendiz could not believe what he was seeing on the horizon while driving from San José del Cabo to Cabo San Lucas on the tourist road just around nine o'clock at night. He was able to see two lights over the sea at the Kilometer 19 marker, issuing green flashes.
Source: GIOT and Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO) Date: 09.20.2018 Argentina: An "Invisible UFO" Over Tucumán Photographs taken by Francisco Leal in Amaicha Del Valle, Tucumán (Argentina), Paraje El Remate. The photographer was supervising a project for the provincial authority involving creation of a potable water facility on 09.06.2018 at 17:41 hours. He decided to take some photos of the
Source: Fundación Argentina de Ovnilogía (FAO) Date: 09.13.2018 Breaking News - Startling New Mutilations in Ojo de Agua, Santiago del Estero. By Luis Burgos, FAO The situation is reaching historic proportions. The Justice department intervenes in an Argentinean cattle mutilation case. Statements made by Dr. Renzo Capellini of SENASA (National Food Safety and Quality Service). Full text of the co
Majia's Blog
The EPA has sent Edward Calabrese as its lead witness to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: Conley, Julia (2018, October 3). Making 'Fringe' Scientist Who Argues Exposure Good for People a Key Witness, Trump's EPA Moves to Roll Back Radiation Safety Rules. Common Dreams Provoking outrage among environmentalists, Trump's EPA sent toxicologist Edward Calabrese—who has
Seoul to Express Concern over Tokyo's Plan to Release Fukushima Plant Water (2018-10-02) http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=139728 "...An official of Seoul’s Foreign Ministry revealed the plan to reporters on Tuesday, saying that given the influences of radiation-related issues and public sensitivity to them, it's a legitimate concern for South Korea as a neighboring cou
The civilian nuclear industry is dying because there are less costly market solutions for energy. Nuclear energy was never an efficient, market-based energy option. Now the civilian industry that was heavily subsidized by government is facing aging reactors and decommissioning costs that are exorbitant. The proposed solution is to subsidize nuclear once again NOT by paying for decommissioning, wh
I've been chronicling narratives of Fukushima Daiichi's contaminated water for years now (academic work here and here ). FUKUSHIMA DAICHI IS A CONTAMINATED-WATER PRODUCING MACHINE TEPCO must inject hundreds of tons of water into Daiichi's ruined reactor buildings to cool very hot and radioactive nuclear fuel. Since reactor containment is cracked, much of this water cannot be collected and ends up
This Reuters image licensed by abc news is hereby used solely for educational purposes - please leave a comment in you have a copyright concern Can you see the expression on these women's faces as they listen to Kavanaugh rant? Women of my age are poised for a piercing and echoing "Kavanaugh Scream" should Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed without adequate investigation given the
The HIroshima Court in Japan ruled Sep 25 that Shikoku Electric Power need not suspend operations at the Ikata nuclear plant, declaring that plaintifs aiming to suspend operations there must demonstrate " credible evidence of the risk of a catastrophic volcanic eruption " in central Kyushu (the Japanese island that had hundreds of earthquakes in 2016): Ruling puts onus on anti-nuclear plaintiffs
Northern Reflections
Roger Cohen's reflections on the Kavanaugh hearings are instructive. Everything eventually makes its way back to President Trump: Insidious is the man. Insidious is his pollution of the F.B.I., whose former director, James Comey, he fired after Comey refused to show “loyalty.” Loyalty in this instance meant willingness to shelve, at Trump’s demand, an investigation into dealings between his first
As an old Quebecer, I was particularly interested in Michael Harris' take on the recent Quebec election. Harris writes : The landslide victory of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is a boulder that sends ripples into the furthest reaches of Canada’s political pond. Which is to say, the ascension of Premier François Legault is no regional flash in the pan. It is suddenly open season on incumbents,
It's beginning to look like the fix is in. The truncated F.B.I. investigation of allegations against Brett Kavanaugh has arrived at the White House, which is crowing that there is "no corroboration" of those allegations. It's a dark time in the United States. The Trumpists will soon control all three branches of the American government. But Geoffrey Kabaservice writes that Kavanaugh confirmation
Tom Friedman writes that he grew up in the 1960's when the United States was divided over Vietnam. But what's going on now is much worse than the divisions of the '60's: There is a deep breakdown happening between us, between us and our institutions and between us and our president. We can’t find common ground on which to respectfully disagree; the other side is “the enemy.” We shout at each othe
It's disconcerting to see how conservatives tout ideas -- until other people implement them. Then they go on a tear and furiously reject them. Mitt Romney developed a health insurance program for Massachusetts, then conservatives branded it Obamacare and tried to get rid of it. The same is true of the carbon tax. Gillian Steward writes : Whatever the labels — carbon taxes, carbon pricing, or putt
I'll have something to say about the new trade agreement, when more details are available. However, I understand that Canada's farmers will make concessions under the deal. I'm a city kid. But for forty-five of my seventy one years, my neighbours have been farmers. And a new study concerns me. Kelsey Johnson writes : Canadian farmers are dangerously stressed out, a reality that’s putting this cou
Northerntruthseeker
I have had some commentators ask me why I post articles by Paul Craig Roberts here at this blog, considering the fact that he has NEVER fingered the real culprits behind the majority of the crimes against all humanity, meaning the Jews.... I have had my own issues with Mr. Roberts, including the facts that he seems to continue to be blind about the Jewish problem and how they are indeed the ones b
I want to give everyone a bit of a heads up as to my status and especially what has been happening in terms of family and personal issues... As many are aware, my mother who is now 88 years old is NOT in good shape at all.. Just last week she caught a case of Jaundice which was due to a gall bladder infection... That has cleared up (finally) and the fear that the Jaundice was being caused by her L
I have used this blog for years as a venue to get the message out to people about the dangers that we face from the criminals in charge... I have written about the dangers of vaccines, and the poisons that we ingest on a daily basis and how those poisons are being used to destroy our minds as well as our bodies..... And I have written in the past about how these same criminals have been experiment
I am a very pissed off Northerntruthseeker these days... I have been watching the demise of a once great nation, the United States, due to this incessant circus of this "Kavanaugh raped me" bullshit over the American Jew spew media outlets, and honestly it is so horrendous... Many have been saying that this circus is strangling the American nation, and I am now agreeing with that assertion! I just
In last weekend's rant, I gave my two cents worth in regards to some recent articles released by the liars in the US State Department and of course the Pentagon, where these liars claimed that ONLY some "1100" or so civilians have been "accidentally" killed by US forces operating in both Syria and Iraq over the last decade... I stated that this number was woefully and ridiculously low, for my find
*NTS Note: I actually came up with this parody article about a week ago, and I held off on publishing it until I received a lot of emails asking for my own "two cents worth" about these Kavanaugh "rape victims" stupid allegations.... I