Dancing Polar Bear, or IS IT?

Most people assumed the polar bear was doing a dance, but it was actually an elaborate attempt to signal to the humans the exact date and time an approaching asteroid would obliterate the planet. Included in this interspecies communication was a simple solution, a way to nudge the earth into a slightly higher orbit for 24 hours, thus avoiding the collision. But would the humans be smart enough to understand? They ignored all the global warming messages. Well, it couldn’t hurt to try…

‘Only 50 years left’ for sea fish

That does it. We need another planet. We have a few billion humans too many. We are destroying all other life on Earth. We are a plague of locusts. We will breed until the food is exhausted, then we will go extinct. If there IS a global conspiracy to reduce human population, this is why. I favor new birth control pills in the water supply or spiking the vaccines rather than war or other mass extermination of living people. In 50 years with no new births we could cut our population down dramatically. How about HUGE tax breaks to people without children?

There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study.

Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the rate of decline is accelerating.

Writing in the journal Science, the international team of researchers says fishery decline is closely tied to a broader loss of marine biodiversity. – bbc

This is a vast piece of research, incorporating scientists from many institutions in Europe and the Americas, and drawing on four distinctly different kinds of data.

Catch records from the open sea give a picture of declining fish stocks.

In 2003, 29% of open sea fisheries were in a state of collapse, defined as a decline to less than 10% of their original yield.

Bigger vessels, better nets, and new technology for spotting fish are not bringing the world’s fleets bigger returns – in fact, the global catch fell by 13% between 1994 and 2003.

Historical records from coastal zones in North America, Europe and Australia also show declining yields, in step with declining species diversity; these are yields not just of fish, but of other kinds of seafood too.

I suppose they might just leave the plans out for nuclear bombs where anyone could read them if they really wanted to have some big wars.

Arson suspect pleads not guilty

A man arrested on charges of setting two wildfires this summer is also considered a person of interest in the Southern California mountain fire that claimed the lives of five firefighters.Raymond Lee Oyler, 36, was arrested Tuesday at his mother’s home in Banning on two counts of arson linked to June wildfires in the Banning Pass area and two counts of possessing fire-making materials, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. – boston

…Oyler now faces 11 counts of arson and five counts of murder for the deaths of five firefighters in the Esperanza fire near Cabazon. If convicted, Oyler could get life in prison or the death penalty if the district decides to seek it. – kesq

Fire-making materials? Matches? What’s the evidence against this 36 year old car mechanic?

Oyler, [minor criminal record but no arson convictions] who was arrested on Tuesday in connection with two fires set earlier this year, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that he was innocent.”I haven’t done anything with any fires. Fires hurt people,” Oyler told the paper. “All I know is I didn’t do this and they’re trying to pin this on me. They need to find the real person.” – reuters

Former Agent Says Google and CIA in Partnership

Former CIA clandestine case officer Robert David Steele made some very hot comments on his appearance on the Alex Jones radio show. Steele cites his contacts within the agency with the information that Google and the CIA are involved with one another.

Steele said, “I think that Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government – that is a huge mistake and I?m hoping they?ll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off.”

In reference to Google’s fight against the U.S. Department of Justice for the privacy of its users, Steele claims that it was an elaborate charade intended for the public eye.

“Google was a little hypocritical when they were refusing to honor a Department of Justice request for information because they were heavily in bed with the Central Intelligence Agency, the office of research and development,” concluded Steele.

From reports, Steele did not bring evidence to light in order to back up his claims, and neither Google nor the CIA are yet commenting on the matter. – dtech

Obviously. Google (as a search engine) is a gateway to the best sources of public information on the planet. Every intelligence agency wants to know who is finding what and how. I think many (hopefully most!) in the CIA still ideologically support US citizen’s civil liberties and the Constitution. Let’s all hope I’m right.

Lost Moon landing tapes discovered

After addressing Earth, the American astronaut set up a package of scientific instruments, including a dust detector designed by an Australian physicist. The data collected by the detector was sent back to ground stations on Earth and recorded on magnetic tapes – copies of which are as rare as the ‘misplaced’ original video footage of the 1969 touchdown.

Last week, up to 100 tapes, clearly marked “NASA Manned Space Center”, turned up after a search in a dusty basement of a physics lecture hall at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. One of the old tapes has been sent to the American space agency to see whether it can be deciphered and ‘stripped’ of any important data which may have survived the ravages of time.

The data are a daily record of the environmental conditions and changes taking place at the lunar site after the Eagle landed safely in the Sea of Tranquility. The most important data were collected after the lunar module blasted off the surface later that day, leaving the still-running instrumentation behind.

The information showed that scientific instruments could be affected by setting them up around landing or take-off sites. They also proved that NASA did go to the Moon. – more

I enjoyed reading and learning from the temperature debate on the replies to the is article.

Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Gay Affair

Update here. He at first denied both drug use and homosexual encounters. Now he has admitted buy meth and Jones has released two voice mail recordings which an expert says matches Haggards voice. No word yet on what the messages say.

Ted Haggard, one of the most prominent and politically powerful evangelical pastors in the country, resigned today as president of the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals ?amid allegations that he carried on a three-year sexual relationship with a male prostitute.? (Details HERE.) The AP reports:

Haggard?also stepped down as senior pastor at his 14,000-member New Life Church pending an investigation by a church panel, saying he could ?not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations.?

?I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity,? Haggard said in a written statement. ?I hope to be able to discuss this matter in more detail at a later date. In the interim, I will seek both spiritual advice and guidance.?

The former prostitute who made the accusations, Mike Jones, also today showed the Denver Post letters and voicemails allegedly sent by Haggard. -think

Wow. Thirty million evangelical republicans totally fooled like blind sheep by their lying president. While you are sitting there in shock, realizing that leaders mislead you, look at the 9/11 truth movement. More rude awakenings await. The comments here are great.

Religion is a mind control and behavior control tool used by crafty manipulative people against those who are easily influenced by rhetoric and wishful thinking. Did you know that Evangelical Christianity is currently being pushed on our troops? In fact, one person has a lawsuit at militaryreligiousfreedom.org about this.

Hypocrisy is easy to find. Ask General Boykin, for example, who Jesus would torture.

One of the major players in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, it now appears, was the same general almost fired last year for describing the war on terror as a clash between Judeo-Christian values and Satan.Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin… is a main strategist for Cambone, who oversees a secret program with the goal of capturing and interrogating terrorism targets. According to Hersh in the New Yorker, the unit brought “unconventional methods” to Abu Ghraib as a way of getting better information about Iraqi insurgents. – babtist

Operation Falcon: 11,000 Americans Arrested and Jailed.

Who knew we had 11,000 fugitives among us?

A week-long sweep targeting unregistered sex offenders, gang members and other violent criminals has led to the arrest of 433 fugitives in Massachusetts and 10,773 nationwide, according the US Marshal Service. In the third and largest dragnet of its kind, dubbed Operation Falcon III, deputy US Marshals teamed with 46 state, federal and local law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts to hunt for some of the region’s most wanted fugitives between Oct. 22 and 28. … The nearly 11,000 fugitives arrested across the country included 364 gang members and thousands of others sought on kidnapping, robbery, burglary, carjacking and weapons charges. More than 230 weapons were collected. … The sweep “has made our nation’s neighborhoods and children safer by taking off the streets some of the worst sex offenders, violent felons and gang members,” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a prepared statement. …

Check out this video from Operation Falcon II.

According to the press releases, which celebrated the dazzling display of law enforcement, the raids netted “162 accused or convicted of murder, 638 wanted for armed robbery, 553 wanted for rape or sexual assault, 154 gang members and 106 unregistered sex offenders.” (CNN) Okay, that’s roughly 1,000 criminals; what about the other 9,000? Traffic tickets, late child-support payments, jay-walking??? – counterpunch

Iran successfully launches long-range ballistic missiles

Iran has successfully launched several dozen long-range ballistic missiles during large-scale military exercises that began Thursday, an Iranian television station reported.The exercises are taking place November 2-12 in southern Iran, and involve ground units, the Air Force, Navy and Basij (militia) forces.

The television station said the first day of the exercises was notable for the successful launch of Shahab-2, Shahab-3 long-range ballistic missiles, as well as of Scud-B, Fateh-110 and other missiles. It added that Iranian specialists had designed all of the missiles. … The Shahab-3 is a modernized version of North Korea’s No-Dong ballistic missile, and reportedly has a range of up to 1,500 kilometers (about 950 miles). It can carry a 1,000- kilogram (2,200 pound) payload. – rian

Oh who cares about Iran’s possibly nuclear missiles. Let’s talk about things that matter…. like.. I heard from my radio that John Kerry INSULTED the troops! (by mistake) That’s all anyone should be talking about for the next 100 years.