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What’s twisting our antenna,

January 25, 2012?

President Obama may be in contempt if he fails to show up tomorrow in a Georgia court.  The main complaint claims he is not a natural born citizen and should not be permitted on the Georgia ballot for re-election.

Yup, we’ve heard it all. The birth certificate was forged, his dad was born in Kenya, etc.  No one has followed the events surrounding Obama’s citizenship better than http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/.

Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi on Friday, denied a motion by the president’s lawyer to stop a subpoena that requires Obama to show up in person.

His Order on Motion to Quash Subpoenas:

ORDER ON MOTION TO QUASH SUBPOENAS

Defendant, President Barack Obama, a candidate seeking the Democratic nomination for the office of the President of the United States, has filed a motion to quash the subpoena compelling his attendance at the hearing on January 26, 2012.

In support of his motion, Defendant argues that “if enforced, [the subpoena] requires him to interrupt duties as President of the United States” to attend a hearing in Atlanta, Georgia. However, Defendant fails to provide any legal authority to support his motion to quash the subpoena to attend. Defendant’s motion suggests that no President should be compelled to attend a Court hearing. This may be correct. But Defendant has failed to enlighten the Court with any legal authority. Specifically, Defendant has failed to cite to any legal authority evidencing why his attendance is “unreasonable or oppressive, or that the testimony… [is] irrelevant, immaterial, or cumulative and unnecessary to a party’s preparation or presentation at the hearing, or that basic fairness dictates that the subpoena should not be enforced.” Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 616-1-2-.19(5).

Defendant further alludes to a defect in service of the subpoena. However, the Court’s rules provide for service of a subpoena upon a party, by serving the party’s counsel of record. Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 616-1-2-.19(4). Thus, the argument regarding service is without merit.

Accordingly, Defendant’s motion to quash is denied.

SO ORDERED, this the 20th day of January, 2012.

MICHAEL M. MALIHI, Judge via http://www.therightsideoflife.com/2012/01/

Attorney Orly Taitz said-

This is 100 times bigger than Watergate. 

There are high ranking judges and federal officials who are involved in this cover up. The ramifications of this trial will be enormous.- via http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/01/23/136655/georgia-judge-orders-president.html#storylink=cpy

There is not one, but four cases regarding Obama’s eligibility.

 

In response to the conspiracy theories, the White House released the President’s long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, reaffirming that he was born at 7:24 pm on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Nearly 3 years after the eligibility questions arose.

The principle of stare decisis means that a decision made by a superior court (as the Supreme Court) is binding precedent which an inferior court cannot change. (Source: Wikipedia, http://goo.gl/hSOkT)

Therefore, what does this mean to attorney Van R. Irion, Rep. Mark Hatfield and attorney Orly Taitz?  EVERYTHING.  The U.S. Supreme Court case Minor v. Happersett (argued: February 9, 1875, decided: March 29, 1875) defined what ‘natural born citizen’ meant and thus established ‘binding precedent’.  Because this decision emanated from a Supreme Court, all lower courts must honor this decision when deciding similar cases.  And those similar cases are the four that will be heard January 26, 2012 in the (lower court) Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. http://akhilleuslight.tumblr.com/post/16348062865/georgia-judge-michael-malihi-orders-obama-to-hearing-on 

Blame it all on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  Lawyer Phip Berg was a supporter of her candidacy for President.  Way back in 2008, Berg filed the first legal challenge to Obama’s constitutional eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.

Barack Obama- Barry Barack Mohammad Hussein Dunham Sottero Obama Jr., no matter how you spell it, will be having a tough legal day.  Will he show?  ROFLMFAO. 

Likely-

The Georgia Democrats’ attorney, Mike Jablonski, could walk into the January 26 administrative hearing with a self-authenticating, certified copy of President Obama’s birth certificate and hand it over to Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi. The Chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party may attest to the Executive Committee’s certification of President Obama to the ballot in keeping with Georgia election statutes. via http://ohforgoodnesssake.com/?p=20771

The White House says that Pres. Obama has no public events tomorrow or Friday. http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete/2012-01-26.

Where is Newt, Paul, Santorum and Gingrich’s comments?  Mum.  Romney can’t say much either.  People are now beginning to question Romney’s citizenship.

Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather, faced in 1884 with arrest for the practice of polygamy, packed up his five sister-wives and progeny and high-tailed it south of the border to Mexico. Mitt’s father George Romney was born in Mexico, which conferred Mexican birthright citizenship to him regardless of his parents’ nationality.

I know, you’re saying to yourself, this is crazy! It doesn’t matter where George Romney was born because his parents were Americans. George Romney even pursued the presidency himself in 1968 and his eligibility was not questioned. And furthermore, Obama’s rival in 2008, John McCain, was himself born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone to American-born parents, and when the question of his own eligibility for the office began to percolate, the Senate passed a non-binding resolution declaring him to be a natural born citizen. via- http://www.angryblacklady.com/2012/01/11/what-hath-orly-taitz-wrought-the-rise-of-the-mitt-romney-birthers/

“The most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen.  That means you guys.”  Barack Obama. That’s pretty funny considering that the courts found that Berg did not have standing to bring his lawsuit forward.

The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay, to George Washington in 1787 in a letter wrote:

Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on any but a natural born citizen.

This just in-

Watch the proceeding live!  From Atlanta, Georgia and Article II Political Action Committee will be on site with uncut, uncensored, complete,  live streamed gavel-to-gavel video coverage of the first ever “Obama” Constitutional Presidential eligibility hearings. For live video coverage from the hearings, it will be presented here beginning at 9am eastern time. via http://www.examiner.com/paulding-county-republican-in-atlanta/live-coverage-of-the-2012-obama-eligibility-hearings-set-for-january-26?CID=obinsite

A blast from the past article- http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/birther-debate-rages-on-over-obama-birth-certificate-in-hawaii/

 Stay tuned and have a good day; one day it will be your last.  God Bless.

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What’s twisting our antenna,

January 2o, 2012?

Jewel, The Black Bear!

A black bear named Jewel in Ely, Minnesota is apparently days- maybe hours away from giving birth to cubs in her den.  Way better than watching O.J. Simpson but just as addicting, you can watch her on a live webstream!

Bear researchers have put up a video camera inside her bear den so all the world can watch!  It’s infrared for night time viewing as well.  On Monday morning Jewel was doing what bears normally do in the winter, curl up in a ball and sleep.  Through the week though, Jewel has become more active, grooming herself, and fidigitting around, and well- let’s just say paying attention to down there.  We can’t take are eyes off this bear.  Its on ustream  http://www.ustream.tv/jewelblackbear where we warn you, you will become addicted.

Jewel’s sister bear has her own facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lily.the.black.bear .

Jewel is being observed as part of the Wildlife Research Institute, WRI where the research is focused on, “…improving coexistence between people and bears in an increasingly urbanized environment.” The North American Bear Center’s website is http://www.bear.org where you can also catch a live feed.  With a great opportunity being lost to share bear news on Twitter, WRI is “bearly” tweeting, @bearstudy.  WRI is using #jewel and #dencam to follow. UStream is interactive as always.

Being part of WRI, we’re not sure if that means she is on protected/unprotected federal or state land.  Maybe she is on private land?

We’re going to leave our tinfoil hats off today in the name of Jewel, and won’t mention President Obama’s Land Grab Act- officially the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, 2009.  But if you want to read more may we suggest http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/the-land-grab-omnibus-bill/  and or http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/oils-dirty-little-secret-the-land-grab-act/  .

It sure beats the heck out of FOX and CNN blabbering about Gingrich’s ex-wife and tax returns.

Wonder what the names of the cubs will be.  Any ideas??  Maybe Obama’s daughters if there are two of them?  – ooooh, WRI should have run a contest to name them for publicity.  Baaahaa, win a free trip to MN- in the summer please.

Good Luck Jewel.

Stay tuned and have a good day; one day it will be your last.  God Bless.

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What’s twisting our antenna,

January 19, 2012?

Phobos-Grunt, what really happened?

The Phobos-Grunt Probe destined for Mars has apparently completed its earth orbit, crashing onto our Blue Marble somewhere, sometime on January 15, 2012.  We asked last month if HAARP had something to do with its failed mission in December in this article- http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/did-haarp-hit-phobos-grunt-conspiracy-mars/

Russian Federal Space Agency specialists prepare the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on October 18, 2011. ”Crashed into ocean: Russian Federal Space Agency specialists prepare the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on October 18, 2011.”

Looks like we aren’t the only ones questioning HAARP in Alaska, and other radar installations.

Lt. Gen. Nikolay Rodionov, a former commander of Russia’s ballistic missile systems, says covert U.S. radio beams — not any Russian screw-ups — scrubbed the interplanetary trip

In a November 24, 2011 interview with the Russian news agency Interfax, Rodionov said ‘powerful American radar’ in Alaska ‘could have influenced the control systems of our interplanetary rover,’” Nash wrote in his post:

Rodionov was quoted saying the U.S. wants to use the ionosphere as part of its missile defense, although he did not elaborate. A subsequent article in India’s The Hindu expanded on Rodionov’s statement, indicating that he was likely referring to the U.S.’s (HAARP) observatory established in 1993. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/russians-blame-us-militarys-alaska-haarp-array-mars-probe-failure

ESA failed to contact it, suggesting that the data was encrypted.  Russia claims to have gotten telemetry and had exchanged data.  If they did, it wasn’t enough to spare Phobos-Grunt’s demise.

Numerous satellite tracking sites were able to pinpoint its location- until apparently, the last hours of Phobos life.  Either communication was lost, demand exceeded band-with or there was some other nefarious reason we couldn’t track its apparent final demise- if in fact, it has crashed at all.

www.n2yo.com/?s=37872   www.satview.org/   www.satflare.com/track.php?q=phobos

Oh wait!  The Federal Space Agency of Russia said it suffered a DDos-attack says http://lenta.ru/news/2012/01/16/hacked/ via:

Eugene Kaspersky
e_kaspersky Eugene Kaspersky

Russian Space Agency fails 2 report the fall of Phobos-Grunt due 2 a hacker attack http://bit.ly/z4hTfh <- DDoS a good excuse 4 everything

Website of the Federal Space Agency of Russia suffered DDoS-attack in the night from Sunday to Monday, January 16. Об этом сообщает “Интерфакс” со ссылкой на начальника пресс-службы Роскосмоса Алексея Кузнецова. Informs “Interfax”referring to the head of the press service of the Russian Space Agency, Alexei Kuznetsov.

По его словам, из-за атаки сайт ведомства не смог своевременно сообщить о факте падения “Фобос-Грунта”. According to him, due to the attack site office was unable to timely report the fact of the fall of the “Phobos-Grunt.” Утром 16 января на веб-ресурсе Роскосмоса висела стандартная “заглушка” от хостинговой компании “Мастерхост”, которая гласила: “Виртуальный сервер не существует или временно не функционирует”. On the morning of January 16 on your Web server hung Roscosmos standard “stub” of the hosting company “Masterhost”, which read: “Virtual Server does not exist or is temporarily not functioning.”

HACKED?

And it gets better-The  U.S. Removes Phobos-Grunt Data from Web! http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/awx/2012/01/18/awx_01_18_2012_p0-415578.xml&headline=U.S.%20Removes%20Phobos-Grunt%20Data%20from%20Web

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The website, Space Track, is managed by U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) at Offutt AFB, Neb.,

…the military deviated from normal practice when it removed links to the spacecraft’s reentry predictions while neglecting to publish final reentry data for the defunct probe Jan. 15. Instead, the site posted a vague statement asserting Phobos-Grunt “decayed within the forecast period of 16:59-17:47” GMT….

Weeden, a former U.S. Air Force officer who directed the Joint Space Operations Center’s orbital analyst training program, has no idea what would motivate the U.S. military to break with standard protocol for Phobos-Grunt. But he says the unusual steps taken by the military raise questions about the reliability of its data with regard to high-profile or important events such as Phobos-Grunt.

“This also appears to run counter to the expressed policy of the U.S. government to improve its data-sharing efforts on space situational awareness, and undermines efforts by other U.S. government agencies such as NASA and the State Department to communicate with the public and other countries on reentries,” Weeden says.

Got your tinfoil hat on yet?

Phobos was allegedly stuck around 201km perigee and 275 km apogee and had gradually declined when reports came in that it had crashed 17:45 UTC, 1:45 EST.  Crashed where?  Did it crash at all?  The leading answers are the Pacific, central Brazil, some place off Chile or the Atlantic.  

Previously Russia’s envoy to NATO and now Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin isn’t ruling out that the launch could have failed from U.S. radar saying on Tuesday, ‘This theory has a right to exsist. I am taking the investigation into the reasons for the Phobos-Grunt failure under personal control.’  Rodionov and Rogozin don’t stand alone in the HAARP theory.

The Soviet Union once a country united is nothing, if not cohesive in lying blame on others.  Roscosmos head Vladamir Popovkin sad the probe could have been caused by, “interference from a foreign technical facility.”

“Experts do not dismiss the possibility that the probe could have accidentally come under the impact of emissions [from a U.S. radar stationed on the Marshall Islands], whose megawatt impulse triggered the malfunctioning of on-board electronics.” Kommersant, the business daily citing an unnamed source in the Russian Space industry.”

In the Marshall Islands, it is The Kwajalein Mission Control Center (KMCC) that  provides the central control, command, communications, and computing essential for directing the realtime data collection efforts of the RTS sensors.  A high bandwidth submarine fiber optic transmission system provides encrypted connectivity between KMCC and the entire range. complex….http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/earthquake-conspiracy/

If the Marshall Island Control Center had nothing to do with Phobos-Grunt demise, at the very least shouldn’t they have been tracking it?

Many Russian officials and military brass blame many natural calamities on HAARP. Tatiana Astrakhankina, a former Duma deputy, has been quoted as saying: “The catastrophic flood in Germany, France and the Czech Republic, tornadoes near the Italian coast, which had never witnessed tornadoes before, are nothing but the results of U.S. geophysical weapons tests.” In 2002, the Defense Committee created a table showing the adverse climate impact of the HAARP tests of ionosphere and magnetosphere modifications. http://indrus.in/articles/2012/01/19/what_brought_down_phobos-grunt_14560.html

Photo © RIA Novosti. “The Phobos-Grunt inter-planetary probe.”

Phobos-Grunt fragments have crashed down in the Pacific Ocean,” Russia’s Defense Ministry official Alexei Zolotukhin told RIA Novosti, adding that the fragments fell in 1,250 kilometers to the west of the island of Wellington.

The spacecraft allegedly fell at about 21:45 on Sunday Moscow time [17:45 GMT].

The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, previously said the probe would break up during reentry into the atmosphere and none of the fragments are likely to reach the Earth.  http://en.rian.ru/world/20120115/170769403.html

Now- is that a hacked report from RIA? You tell me.

If a tree falls over in the woods and there is no one to see it or hear it, did it really fall?

Radar image of Phobos Grunt  The German Tira (Tracking and Imaging Radar) facility saw Phobos-Grunt during its last days.

Phobos-Grunt was a 13.5-tonne spacecraft’s with an estimated 7.5 tons of fuel,  stored in aluminum tanks that should have exploded upon reentry making quite a scene.  Perhaps visible from the ISS and certainly visible to at least on of the 1,000′s of other orbital satellites, no?  German tracking shared this undated photo suggesting that the Phobos-Grunt last days were on fire.

A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation’s pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames Sunday, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile’s coast, officials said.

Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, which had become stuck in Earth’s orbit, landed in water 1,250 kilometers (775 miles) west of Wellington Island in Chile’s south, the Russian military Air and Space Defense Forces said in a statement carried by the country’s news agencies.

The military space tracking facilities were monitoring the probe’s crash, its spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said. Zolotukhin said the deserted ocean area is where Russia guides its discarded space cargo ships serving the International Space Station.

RIA Novosti news agency, however, cited Russian ballistic experts who said the fragments fell over a broader patch of Earth’s surface, spreading from the Atlantic and including the territory of Brazil. It said the midpoint of the crash zone was located in the Brazilian state of Goias.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/failed-russian-spacecraft-will-crash-on-earth-within-hours-agency-says/2012/01/15/gIQA1e9U0P_story.html

Julius Whittington

@JJWBlackRyder Julius Whittington wrote-
 
#Phobos-Grunt Reported to have fallen in the Pacific west of Chile @ approx. 17:45 UTC – graphic via #GoSatWatch http://pic.twitter.com/UMWOkGax
pic.twitter.com/UMWOkGax

In Chile’s South?

Turn your antennae to ALMA, The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub millimeter Array or radio telescope in the Atacama desert of norther Chile. At 16,500 feet, (5,000 meters) scientist are tracking supernovae, black holes, and the final frontier.  Apparently ALMA can not track one little lost satellite.  Is the new fiber-optic system capable of outbound communication interruption to a satellite?

What else is in the region of the alleged fall?

The Brazilian Decimetric Array (BDA) in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil is a 38-element radio telescope interferometer working in the frequency range of 1.2-6.0 GHz.- wiki. And what is the frequency of HAARP?

Two firings from the probe’s hydrazine-fueled cruise stage were planned over South America shortly after launch in November and it failed in the same region.

Certainly, it seems Phobos-Grunt was down and destroyed before it could have passed over South America.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16491457

Rather convenient if the reports are true that there was no one to witness Phobos-Grunt’s crash.  Shouldn’t there be a black box of sorts?

NASA and the Brazil Space Agency have Inked a Earth Sciences Agreement, http://moonandback.com/2011/10/27/nasa-brazil-space-agency-ink-earth-sciences-agreement/ What else may they have agreed to cooperate on?

Our personal favorite failure blame lies with an asteroid.

members of the official investigation team suspect the United States of ‘accidentally’ lobotomizing the probe right after it was launched. In this scenario, the Americans were innocently beaming radar signals deep into space to get measurements of a passing asteroid, and forgot to warn Russia. The probe passed through the beam by chance and its autopilot was fried. http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/space-flight/russian-probe-crash-sparks-new-controversy .

Last, but not least- The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC)  an international governmental forum for the worldwide coordination of activities related to the issues of man-made and natural debris in space has, of course, no comment. http://www.iadc-online.org/index.cgi?item=home

Roscosmos is expected to hold a news conference tomorrow, January 20, 2012.  Yeah, we’re really holding our breath.

Stay tuned and have a good day; one day it will be your last.  God Bless.

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What’s twisting our antenna,

January 10, 2012?

The Doomsday Clock, a relic of the Cold War nuclear arms race is still ticking, and today it will move forward or backward.

Today the Doomsday Clock rests at six minutes to midnight.  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will announce it’s decision in Washington, D.C. this afternoon.  The B.A.S. board of directors includes 18 Nobel laureates among its experts. 

“We do not advise Americans that doomsday is near and that they can expect atomic bombs to start falling on their heads a month or year from now.” www.thebulletin.org/content/doomsday-clock/timeline

Hmm, maybe two years?  The farthest the clock has been from midnight was 11:43 when the U.S.A. and Soviets signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in 1991.

Nuclear weapons have been a great deterrent, but we have places like North Korea, Pakistan and Iran who are in development.  Would they be willing to sell them to terrorists like the Tali-ban? 

In the late 60′s we recall standing in line for our Polio shots along the halls of elementary school.  On the walls were the atomic symbol that the school was a bomb shelter.  Today, the drills to put our heads under the desk to cover our head drills seem most asinine.  So too does getting the Polio shot, which the U.S. government claims to have millions of doses in storage- somewhere.

Maybe worse than selling a nuke is the prospect of securing a nuclear weapons site and keeping track of fuel rods. 

Lana Sator sneaked into a Russian Rocket Factory and takes pictures and posts to LiveJournal.  http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/160176.html#cutid1

NPO Energomash Academician VP Glushko, is a leading company in the world to develop  powerful liquid rocket engines.  You would think there would be some kind of security. 

Their engines power the modern Soyuz, the Zenit 3SL, and the Angara and Baikal launch vehicles. Heck, their RD-180 engine powers the first stage of the Atlas V, an American rocket. More importantly, they have specially strong ties to the Russian military.

And yet, she found nobody. No guards, no security. Nothing. Just a few CCTV cameras here and there in rooms packed with huge machinery. http://gizmodo.com/5873441/this-girl-sneaked-into-this-russian-military-rocket-factory

This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

If a girl can just walk about a working factory unnoticed, imagine what a terrorist could have done?  Is it plausible that the lack of security was related to the doomed Phobos Grunt mission?

We’d venture to say the factory has since beefed up its security.  Wonder where she will attempt to visit next.  CERN, HAARP, EISCAT, Chernobyl…?

Whatever happens to the clock, time marches on.  Right? Just ask the Mayan people.

UPDATED.  The Doomsday Clock has been moved 1 minute closer to midnight!

That represents a symbolic step closer to doomsday, a change from the clock’s previous mark of six minutes to midnight, set in January 2010. 

The clock is a symbol of the threat of humanity’s imminent destruction from nuclear or biological weapons, climate change and other human-caused disasters. In making their deliberations about how to update the clock’s time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain. via http://www.space.com/14194-doomsday-clock-2011-apocalypse.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

Stay tuned and have a good day; one day it will be your last.  God Bless.

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What’s twisting our antenna,

December 21, 2011?

Did HAARP hit the Phobos-Grunt Probe?  Probably not, but put your tinfoil hats on anyway.

Soyuz expedition 30

A Soyuz rocket launched successfully from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome this morning on its way to the ISS.  We woke up early to watch a beautiful launch. The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft  is also known by its US designation of 29S.  http://www.universetoday.com/92014/video-soyuz-launches-for-holiday-hookup-with-the-international-space-station/

On December 17, 2010,  from the new $800 million facility in French Guiana, “A Russian Soyuz rocket fired six satellites into space Friday, launching missions to serve defense agencies in Europe and Chile with high-resolution imagery and electronic intelligence.”  http://www.spaceflightnow.com/soyuz/vs02/111217launch/

In the post Shuttle era it is a huge sigh of relief.  In August, an unmanned Progress cargo ship headed for the space station crashed – the rocket that failed was the same kind used by the Soyuz. 

The rocket that launched Phobos was a Zenit-2.

The Fobos-Grunt or Phobos-Grunt or just Phobos  is an attempted Russian probe that was designed to collect rock and samples from one of Mars’ moons Phobos, and bring them back to Earth to study.  It also carries China’s first Mars satellite, Yinhou-1.  A pretty ambitious effort considering this is Russia 16th failed mission attempt to the Red Planet. 

Phobos was launched on 9 November 2011 at 02:16 local time (8 November 2011, 20:16 UTC)  from the Cosmodrome. Apparently, subsequent rocket burns intended to set the craft on a course for Mars failed, leaving it stranded in low Earth orbit. It’s stuck around 201km perigee and 275 km apogee giving skywatchers plenty of looks.

Skywatcher Phobos-Grunt Photo

 
Sky watcher Ralf Vandebergh snapped this shot of the stranded Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt on Nov. 29, 2011, from the southern Netherlands.
CREDIT: Ralf Vandebergh  View full size image  pix link-http://www.space.com/13811-russian-phobos-grunt-spacecraft-unresponsive.html

At about two and a half hours into the mission, something went haywire and it is now expected to mostly burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.  So why the failure?

Eleven minutes after launch, it was in an elliptical orbit around 345km above the Earth.  In the attempt to raise the orbit and get Phobos on its mission to Mars, two firings from the probes 13 tons of hydrazine fueled tanks were planned. 

Russian Space agency officials say neither burn took place.

The Phobos-Grunt That Wasn't. A Roscosmos rendering of Phobos-Grunt approaching Mars and its moon Phobos. Roscosmos

Along comes an amateur astronomy taking a mediocre video that captures what appears to be Phobos with an unidentified object nearby.

Video of the “Phobos – Grunt Engine Burn – Failed – Passage pelo Brasil – retido na órbita,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INOwSWTHe20&feature=player_embedded  The video appears to show a red flare on a supposed Phobos and another dropping object at about a minute in.

Two Objects in Orbit from amateur satellite watcher Ted Molczan http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Nov-2011/0069.html

I have just received word from the project that there seems to be a serious problem.

After the planned first burn of the engine, the spacecraft was not found in the predicted orbit. Alternative radar
observations preliminarily show that there are two objects in the orbit with parameters the same as before the planned
engine burn. Observers are requested to attempt to discover the spacecraft in the initial LEO parking orbit.

This is the official pre-launch estimated TLE of the LEO parking orbit:

1 55500U 11000A   11312.95486111 -.00010748  00000-0 -11606-4 0    14
2 55500  51.4279   0.6058 0106375  25.7555 298.8256 15.98414689    33

I imagine that one of the two objects seen on the radar could be the final stage of the booster. Accurate descriptions
and counts of the number of objects seen, as well as position and time would be useful.

Ted Molczan

That  makes TWO REPORTS OF TWO OBJECTS near Phobos in Earth’s orbit.

Want to go for THREE REPORTS of Objects Near Phobos? http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Nov-2011/0087.html

Here in Brazil some observers reported that they observed the probe in the
“illuminated phase” of the expected path.

But one of my colleagues (called Heverton) that lives in the city of
Umuarama of state of Paraná (south of Brazil -
*http://tinyurl.com/umuarama*), makes a report at 23:00 (UT)that saw
two objects in the orbit, in the own words:
*
“I saw, but I found odd. First I saw a point a little slow, but I think it was
the ISS. Then I saw Phobos and right behind it a point with a light a little
weaker. I think it was the remains of the rocket??
If my eyes not deceived me, I saw the light getting a little stronger
at the estimated
time of ignition. Too bad I can do any record”*

I asked more accurate details about the observation and today he wrote:
*
“Accurately I can not say anything, but I saw it from about 20:55:30 and
20:57:00 (22:55:30 and 22:57:00 UT) . The brightness of the probe was greater
than the ISS shines normally, but much less bright than it was Jupiter. The
position, the best I can remember I tried to sketch with the help of
Stellarium*:”

- http://twitpic.com/7cczec/full

Regards
Carlos Bella

ROSCOSMOS home page http://www.federalspace.ru/?lang=en is quiet on Phobos and the objects.  Vladimir Popovkin has not been and has said, “The probe will break up during reentry into the atmosphere and none of the fragments are likely to reach Earth.” http://en.rian.ru/science/20111213/170212896.html

Yeah. Okay.

It was reported on December 6 buy columnist Leonard David from Space Insider that, “Pieces of the spacecraft had begun breaking off and re-entering the atmosphere with the rest of it expected to follow by early January. After consulting with Russian mission managers, the European Space Agency has stopped attempting to communicate with the vehicle, with one analyst noting that the mission “appears dead in the water”.-http://www.space.com/13846-phobos-grunt-russia-mars-mission-doomed.html

Was Phobos attacked by aliens?  There are hundreds of satellites besides this one to assail.  Was it the fact that we were about to invade Mars with an Earth species?  Oh, yes we were.  The Living Interplantetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) from The Planetary Society stored a package of micro-organisms onboard in the return capsule.  The bacterium Deinoccus radiodurans, a tiny microscopic invertebrate with eight legs and is known for its ability to survive high doses of radiation. http://planetary.org/programs/projects/life/facts.html

If it wasn’t the aliens or just some screw up along the way could it have been HAARP?  Lt. Gen. Nikolay Rodionov, a former commander of Russia’s ballistic missile systems, says covert U.S. radio beams — not any Russian screw-ups — scrubbed the interplanetary trip

In a November 24 interview with the Russian news agency Interfax, Rodionov said ‘powerful American radar’ in Alaska ‘could have influenced the control systems of our interplanetary rover,’” Nash wrote in his post:

Rodionov was quoted saying the U.S. wants to use the ionosphere as part of its missile defense, although he did not elaborate. A subsequent article in India’s The Hindu expanded on Rodionov’s statement, indicating that he was likely referring to the U.S.’s (HAARP) observatory established in 1993.

Rodionov was quoted saying the U.S. wants to use the ionosphere as part of its missile defense, although he did not elaborate. A subsequent article in India’s The Hindu expanded on Rodionov’s statement, indicating that he was likely referring to the U.S.’s (HAARP) observatory established in 1993.http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/russians-blame-us-militarys-alaska-haarp-array-mars-probe-failure

Nothing personal but if anyone is going to use the ionosphere, I hope it is the U.S.A.  So what was HAARP up to?

magnetometer plot...NOV 8, 9
     
    Ending Date: (YYYYMMDD)

All things considered, a flea on a camel’s ass makes more of a hicup than that.  

So maybe it wasn’t exactly HAARP. Or maybe HAARP was on re-runs from a previous day.  Could it have been an early warning radar interference mechanism?  Could it have been the Russians themselves? 

Recall Project Woodpecker and it’s satellite jamming efforts.  This was followed by the Duga-2, built on the same site and also used as our daily entry picture.

File:Woodpecker array.jpg

Woodpecker tracked launches from the far east and submarines in the Pacific Ocean as the missiles flew toward. It’s site lies within the 30 kilometer Zone of Alienation around the Chernobyl power plant.  It’s debatable if it remains operational today.

Woody Woodpecker

The Russian space program generally speaking is like the U.S. program, running out of money.  So who does have the money and the science to kill Phobos? 

Remember the lost cosmonauts?  http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/default.htm Wasn’t one allegedly held in China?  Good like minded communists think alike.  What advantage would they have in disabling Phobos?

 Phobos mission to go to Phobos has failed, sort of–

*Maybe it was intercepted by extraterrestrial intelligence

*Maybe it was the powers that be in a New World Order

*Maybe it will crash on Earth causing a disaster

*Maybe the bacteria on board is linked to cancer, AIDS, or anthrax

*Maybe it was HAARP

*Maybe it just didn’t work

*Maybe it will land in a populated area/70% of Earth is water.

*Maybe Phobos is well on its way and this is a different satellite

*Maybe the Martians are hanging a do not disturb sign

Andrew Basiago has stated that, in the late 1960s, he participated in a secret United States program that examined the concept of time travel using a machine that was developed by the Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla.  http://listverse.com/2011/06/22/top-10-people-shrouded-in-controversy/
  

0 61 Mars Spirit Figure

One can always check out alleged-visual evidence that is is drawn from, verifiable in, and supported by the official science data-  http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/

OR…

Courtesy: NASA/APL

Now let’s see what it probably resembles:

Enlarged…

Considering the shadows and contour, this is what comes up by deduction…

Courtesy: Artvision
By Yves Vaillancourt

Back to what is probably reality-

Recent tracking on Phobos is from twitter @OrbitOps Phobos Grunt visibility 2011-12-21 UTC 24 hrs

Also tracking re-entry-

Phobos Grunt

Phobos Grunt

Stranded on Earth orbit
Monitoring its orbital decay and assisting in analysis, prediction and visual of its re-entry http://bit.ly/PhG-reentry

You can follow track Phobos Grunt and a multitude of other satellites live at http://www.satview.org/?sat_id=55500U

While we are watching the skies, you may be interested to know that private space company SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is due to make its first launch to the space station Feb. 7 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster.

Last but not least- The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC)  an international governmental forum for the worldwide coordination of activities related to the issues of man-made and natural debris in space has of course, no comment. http://www.iadc-online.org/index.cgi?item=home 

Stay tuned and have a good day; one day it will be your last.  God Bless.

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What’s twisting our antenna,

Friday, December 8, 2011?

Eclipse.  

As far as astronomy goes, we’d hardly call any of us experts.  We write from America’s  farmland, nestled between two major city airports and have an grass airstrip in the backyard.  A few folks are licensed pilots, and have served in the Air Force flying F-16′s and some bomber plane that the old man can’t remember the name of anymore.  We’ve always thought that flying, whether to the moon, planets or on an airplane is a privilege- not a right.   Baldwin should take heed.

The great thing about being rural is the night sky and no city lights. We have a good view of  weather fronts, contrails, chem-trails, satellites, and the sky in general.  A few favorites are NASA’s Solar Monitor, PUniverse (Physical), and Space Weather http://spaceweather.com/.  Last night we purchased SkySafari for iphone and highly recommend it.   http://www.southernstars.com/products/skysafari/index.html

All that Maxwell Smart could do with the phone in his shoe was talk.

We’ve turned our cell phones into a satellite and airplane tracking devices, but nothing beats the naked or enhanced telescopic eye.   A few days ago we found a UFO or something odd from the GOES satellite that we’ve never seen before. 

   

Judge for your self what it could be– http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/thats-no-bird-or-plane/

If God didn’t exsist, man would have invented him. Or something like that.  If Twitter didn’t exsist, we’d have to rely on Facebook and never see the half of what gets posted and miss out on all the public has to share around the world.  Except of course in France, where using the word Facebook and Twitter is prohibited.

In the free for all of the press, a judge in Oregon decided that bloggers are not journalists.   

In a decision with implications for bloggers around the country, a federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case…. “What could be more mainstream than the Internet and the top of the search engine?’’ she said.http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2011/12/08/judge-says-blogger-not-journalist/4LFxisYM0RdW3AxNOwgTCI/story.html

The judge said she had no media affiliation nor education relating to her writing.  That’s one for main stream media and zero for independent authors and websites like Ahrcanum.  For the record, we have over 600 articles dating back almost four years.  The CEO and Czar has a related Bachelor of Science Degree and so do others who contribute. Humph, that makes us a journalists- even if our proof reader quit.  

If independents authors are to be dismissed so easily, why is every Tweet stored in The Congressional Library? And just who has access to the master list of Tweets? 

“We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that was sent out and declared to be public,” Bill Lefurgy, digital initiatives program manager at the library’s digital information infrastructure and preservation program, told FederalNewsRadio.com.http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/12/library-of-congress-to-store-tweets-based-on-twitter-deal/1

Score a zillion for free speech, unless you are Joe Gordon, the man who translated and posted on his blog about the longest ruling monarchy.  When visiting Taiwan, they arrested him and sentenced him to two years in jail.  HE IS A U.S. CITIZEN.

Before the verdict was read out, Lerpong was allowed to speak to reporters.  “I’m not Thai, I’m American. I was just born in Thailand. I hold an American passport. In Thailand there are many laws that don’t allow you to express opinions, but we don’t have that in America,” he said. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2011/12/09/2003520321

Guess Joe was wrong. 

Also on Jun 23, 2011 – A food blogger in Taiwan was sentenced to 30 days in jail, given two years probation and fined 200000 New Taiwan Dollars.  He wrote that noodles were too salty at a restaurant.  www.huffingtonpost.com Noodles for heaven sake! 

And so we shake our head.  Our heads will be looking up as always.  Tomorrow if the weather cooperates, we may catch a glimpse of the eclipse.  If not we’ll turn to Live webcasts: Hong Kong; India; North Dakota; Nevada.  And  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/lunar-eclipse-feed/, plus  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/12/how-to-watch-saturdays-total-eclipse-of-the-moon-on-your-computer.html,

Drop us a comment if you find more- send us tweets of your pix too.

The next total lunar eclipse visible in North America will be on April 15, 2014.   A partial eclipse will be visible to most of the continent less than a year from now on Nov. 28, 2012.

In good journalist ethics, we found this lovely photo highlighting the halo of the moon last night.  Jupiter is by its side and what appears to be an airplane.  Used with permission (thanks!) from; 

Graham Bowes

London

“Where to start? Picture-taking designer with a curiosity about life, the universe and everything! Oh and a Galaxy Zoo moderator.”

This photo is on it’s second trip to the Library of Congress.  After this article is published,  it automatically Tweets and it will also be in the Library.   

While we were howling at the moon, the sun had its own eclipse of a kind.  A cloud of plasma was eclipsed by a dark magnetic filament. December 8/9, 2011. NASA pix.

 

 

Stay tuned and have a good day, one day it will be your last.  God Bless.

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What’s twisting our antenna tonight,

Tuesday, December 6, 2011?

UFO?  NASA GOES satellite catches photo of unknown object in Earth Atmosphere.  

WordPress and YouTube do not seem to be in communication anymore thanks to the Google update.  You’ve got to click the link directly to see, well- something over the ocean between California and Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2oslTvDwaQ

The message of something being out there gets lost until you see the images for yourself.

December 4, 2011 when all is fairly normal…

1112040845G13_color.jpg 04-Dec-2011 07:22 107K

And at a few short hours later, we want to know what is a triangle doing on our coast?

1112041145G13_color.jpg 04-Dec-2011 10:49 125K

What in the Sam Hell is that triangle thingy ma bopper?  Is it coming or going?  Up or Down?  The images come from reliable NASA GOES Satellite.  http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeseast/fulldisk/3band_color/  This is NASA folks, the most reliable scientists going!

Could it be  from Fukushima?  A giant amount of super heated particles damaging the ozone layer?  Is that why HAARP picked up absolutely NOTHING?  That is one heck of an entry for Phobos-Grunt. Not.

You can connect a few HAARP and EISCAT dots- possibly heating the ionosphere here- http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/haiti-earthquake-conspiracy-haarp-eiscat/

 Even The HAARP Magnetometer is quiet-

magnetometer plot...
Ending Date: (YYYYMMDD)

There are are whole bunch of other Satellites checking on our blue marble.  Maybe someone else has time to search the databases for oddities on December 4, 2011.?.

Sensors

…and more at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Did GOES just catch a simple Aurora?

Aurora Over Antarctica

Hmmm, a triangular aurora?  An piece of debris on the lens?  Some kind of data corruption?  Moon dust?  Martians landing? Martians taking off?

   
Strange Image of Earth.

Whatever that thing is, it appears to be  HUGE.
MAP  2.5 2011/12/04 12:30:29   38.051  -118.873 6.1  CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP  2.5 2011/12/04 12:03:12   61.491  -149.889 32.2  SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP  2.5 2011/12/04 11:16:51   51.433  -173.768 26.1  ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP  4.9   2011/12/04 10:44:36   19.905   -45.777 9.9  NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP  5.2   2011/12/04 10:23:54   19.815   -45.734 10.0  NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
MAP  4.8   2011/12/04 10:13:04   24.659   122.111 70.6  TAIWAN REGION
MAP  4.7   2011/12/04 09:46:19  -37.827  -179.677 33.1  EAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND
MAP  2.7 2011/12/04 09:45:26   38.751  -122.699 1.7  NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Maybe it is God.  Maybe it’s the Devil. Maybe it just stinks that we’ll probably never know. Then again, maybe it’s CERN.
The tunnel – to the final answer?H/T @ADG_UK on Twitter.

Stay tuned and have a good day; one day it will be your last.  God Bless.

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What’s twisting our antenna today,

November 30, 2011?

The light bulb; we maybe getting screwed and we’re going on a rant.

Who will light up your life now that the standard incandescent light bulb is all but extinct?  Energy efficiency standards for light bulbs will begin to phase in on Jan. 1, 2012.  Readers might want to hope for light bulbs in their stockings this year. 

We hope Santa’s sled can land with the news that the Present Global Cooling Rate is  .09 C / month.  Are we sure we want cooler?? Via

@SurfSkiWxMan

Tim Kelley NECN November 30, 2011  

We could blame President Obama with all his global warming, tree hugging pandering to General Electric.  One can even go back to the Bush era with Congress passing an energy conservation measure that set standards to ban most ordinary incandescent bulbs.  But you know what? It is you and I that are to blame.  We voted them into office.  Some of them bought into global warming.  My vote may have canceled yours out, and the lefts effort to save the planet and some money in the process, has back fired.  Talk about being dim witted.

When a government can regulates what kind of light bulb you can buy, it becomes rather apparent just exactly how much might and power it has over its people.  The government also regulates what kind of toilet and shower faucet you use in an effort to save water.  For more than a hundred years,  incandescent light bulbs have lit up our homes and business just fine.
  

Since 1901, this incandescent bulb has been burning in a fire station in Livermore, California. http://www.snopes.com/science/lightbulb.asp 

There is some debate on who invented the light bulb, but it wasn’t Thomas Edison.  He just got the patent. http://whatthefluffy.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/who-invented-the-light-bulb-wrong/

In September 2010-The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States closed marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison’s innovations in the 1870s.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html

Are you still relying on General Electric, GE bringing good things to life? 

G.E. CEO Jeffrey Immelt leads Obama’s new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. The panel replaces the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker….

Forget about ethics challenges in having a CEO whose income is determined by stock performance leading a panel designed to recommend government policies. G.E. (2009 revenue: $157 billion) is a huge government contractor and is always in the market for new subsidies and incentives. via http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/21/obama-teams-ge-iran-palaver-peters-arrives-white-house/
The Jobs Council’s October report to the President-http://www.jobs-council.com/2011/10/10/jobs-council-releases-taking-action-building-confidence-interim-report-to-the-president/  

The report includes five major initiatives to increase employment while improving competitiveness:

  1. Measures to accelerate investment into job-rich projects in infrastructure and energy development;…

 
Plug into reality here.  American jobs have left for China to produce mercury laden light bulbs to bring good things to life back here in America.  You see those mercury-containing CFLs will never be made here under strict environmental regulations and the unions. CFLs made in India and China have environmental standards that are virtually non-existent. http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/obamas-cold-day-in-hell/
 
 
The Jobs Council guru has moved even more GE infrastructure to China.  
…is all part of a “plan to invest about $2 billion across China” over the next few years.  But moving core pieces of its business overseas is nothing new for GE.  Under Immelt, GE has shipped tens of thousands of good jobs out of the United States.  Perhaps GE should change its slogan to “Imagination At Work (In China)”.  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/ge-ceo-jeffrey-immelt-the-head-of-obamas-jobs-council-is-moving-jobs-and-economic-infrastructure-to-china-at-a-blistering-pace
 
Are the very people that have been entrusted with solving the unemployment crisis shipping jobs out of the country? In a New World Order, is America going to be last and sit in the dark with these crap light bulbs, with our new lamps designed to fit the funky base sizes and with proper ventilation?
 
 
The constituent materials in a typical CFL vary widely, because there are many technologies that can achieve the same (or at least similar) results. In general though, the basic ingredients are …http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm
  • glass
  • steel
  • silicon (in ICs, transistors, MOSFETs, diodes, etc.) *
  • mercury + mercury vapour **
  • fibreglass and epoxy resins (PCB, semiconductor cases) *
  • aluminium (electrolytic capacitor) *
  • various plastics (main housing, film capacitors) *
  • ferrites / ceramics (resistor bodies, choke cores) *
  • copper wire and PCB traces *
  • phosphors **
  • a small amount of high temperature plastic insulation
  • (lead free?) solder
  • plating material for exposed metal, probably nickel
 
You can’t just throw away an CFL bulb.  Because mercury is cumulative, you have to dispose of it in a toxic waste depot.  Right.  Got one right next door.  If you happen to break a bulb, look out for the mercury vapor and mercury containing phosphor powder.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a HAZMAT sheet for instructions,   http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf
 
The EPA claims the new CFL use less energy than incandescent bulbs, and will actually result in less mercury being released because the power plants won’t have to make as much energy.  We’re pretty sure we only pay for actual energy used, but power companies still have to provide the full voltage and current.  Coal supplies around 50% of the electricity in the U.S., but  there is no mention of clean coal, instead focusing on an award winning new light bulb and five million smart meters. 
 
Why is it the governments job to install smart meters on our power grids?  Wouldn’t the private sector do just as good of job and create private sector jobs?  So help me…are those smart grids manufactured in China? At least not all of them are–
 

Obama Solyndra: Corporate Crony Capitalism

obama solyndra.jpg

 

Like Solyndra, a number of “smart grid” companies have received taxpayer backing. But federal financing was not enough to keep Beacon Power, a manufacture of flywheel energy storage technology, from going bankrupt. They may not be the last smart-grid company consigned to that fate.

Beacon received a $43 million loan guarantee from the same stimulus-funded Energy Department program that financed Solyndra. Late last month the company filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection…

Ener1, which, with subsidiary EnerDel, has received more than $120 million in federal grants, announced early last week that it had replaced its president, its chief executive, and its top financial officer. The company manufactures lithium-ion batteries for smart-grid energy storage.

That move came about a week after NASDAQ delisted Ener1 for a failure to comply with SEC filing requirements.  http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/17/smart-grid-manufacturers-the-next-green-sector-under-fire/

  Meanwhile from energy dot gov-
…the President’s goals of generating 80 percent of electricity from clean energy sources by 2035 and putting one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.  http://energy.gov/articles/five-million-smart-meters-installed-nationwide-just-beginning-smart-grid-progress 
 
The Coal Industry has gotten better in the U.S. Is it a perfect means of energy production? No.  Obviously some smart grids are in trouble and some are smarter than others.  Oil, gas and the recent shale and sands drilling have there own drawbacks.  Still politicians have no problem accepting money. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/induscode.php?id=E1210&year=
 
Total For Coal mining: $13,482,214

Total For Alternate energy production & services: $22,655,301

The taxpayer is footing the bill to the green economy, companies, lobbyists and light bulbs that don’t work very well.  No wonder we’re going broke.
 
At least Ron Paul, “railed against government plans to transition from the incandescent light bulb to more energy saving light bulbs, citing Rand’s 1937 novel Anthem.  The similarity, according to Paul, is that “individual choice is banned and the collective basically runs society.” http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/nov/29/legacy-ayn-rand-rand-and-ron-paul-and-paul-ryan/
 
 
So if we pull out our tin foil hat.  Why are we being mandated into buying these new light bulbs?  Is it not only because it hurts the U.S.  industry as they emit light, but maybe to track your habits and internet connections? 
 
Think Nicola Tesla for a minute.
 
Did Tesla lay the ground work for Wifi through a light bulb with this patent? 
 
 U.S. Patent 454622 (G.patent; PDF)System of Electric Lighting – 1891 June 23 – Apparatus devised for the purpose of converting and supplying electrical energy in a form suited for the production of certain novel electrical phenomena, which require currents of higher frequency and potential. It specifies an energy storage capacitor and discharger mechanism on the primary side of a radio-frequency transformer.    http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/haarp-wifi-lightbubls-teslatechnology-wifi-through-led-lamps/
 
So Tesla is long dead and while he had a lot of patents, he died with little money.  Fathom this little dose of reality from companies looking to harness similar technology.
 
 
The outlook for piping music into office space or the shop floor is about to get a lot brighter. Lighting solutions company Osram Sylvania and audio innovator Artisan have teamed up to produce the MusicLites system – a 10W LED light bulb with a 70mm full range hi-fi audio speaker built in. The inclusion of a 2.4GHz wireless transceiver means that compatible audio devices can send music sound signals to the unit, which then pumps out both sound and light. http://www.gizmag.com/musiclites-led-speaker-wifi-lighting/15112/
 
Emits sound and light? Cool!
 
Four years ago:   WiTricity Corp. http://www.witricity.com/ 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers announced  they had made a 60-watt light bulb. The breakthrough, disclosed in Science Express, an online publication of the journal Science, is being called “WiTricity” by the scientists glow by sending it energy wirelessly, potentially previewing a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get juice without having to be plugged in. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2007-06-08-mit-wireless-power_N.htm

Guess who invests in WiTricity?

  General Electric

GE! 

…WiTricity Corp were also winners. GE didn’t disclose the amount of the funds that came from its venture-capital partners. When GE announced winners of the first contest, with a prize pool of $55 million, it planned to contribute about half the total. GE projects the power grid technology market will reach $20 billion by 2015.

Who else invested?

FOLLOW THE $$$$

As the exclusive licensee of this MIT intellectual property, WiTricity Corp. was founded by Prof. Soljačić and several colleagues from MIT.  WiTricity Corp. received its initial venture capital funding in November of 2007 from Stata Ventures and Argonaut Private Equity.  Stata Ventures is a technology investment firm managed by Ray Stata, the founder, Chairman, and former CEO of Analog Devices.

Still got your tin foil hat on? 

Watch TeraDiode company. TeraDiode’s ultra-high brightness, direct-diode lasers enable many defense applications, including infrared countermeasures, target designators and directed energy weapons. http://teradiode.com/applications/defense/

DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS, like maybe HAARP?

Who may have invested in TeraDiode? On November 21, 2011 http://optics.org/news/2/11/19

The round was led by Argonaut Ventures – the same private equity firm owned by the George Kaiser Family Foundation that invested heavily in bankrupt solar firm Solyndra – while Stata Venture Partners, which invested $4 million through TeraDiode’s series A round in 2009, also took part. Camros Capital and others made smaller contributions to the latest financing.

The joint venture of Comcast and General Electric formed NBC Universal.  Imagine the company that sells a light bulb that delivers Wifi and TV, Radio, Internet, content.  Talk about an IPO.  Where is Apple?

And check out this old news- July 11, 2011- MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions and WiTricity, the technology leader in wireless power, today jointly announced that has entered into a technology transfer and license agreement. http://www.mediatek.com/en/News/news_content.php?sn=80

Sadly regarding patents-  according to John Hennessy, president of Stanford University-

We need to get the money. I mean, the backlog is over 600,000 [sic, patent]applications. Now, not all those patents were grant, but that’s three years worth of patents just to put it in perspective.  So we’ve got to invest in order to make this process work faster and that’s an American competitiveness issue for us….http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-07/patent-office-must-control-funds-mit-leader-says-transcript-.html

Wow. more than a half a million patents in backlog.  Wonder what the backlog looks like on those patents being stolen?  Have fun reading them by a CFL lamp.

For our readers in liberal land who are convinced that the lights aren’t going out http://mediamatters.org/research/201111280004

Will the last one out shut off the lights?

(copyrights by respective owners.  WiTricity is a proprietary technology of WiTricity Corporation, and should not be used to refer to wireless electricity in a generic sense.)

In keeping with full disclosure- some of the writers have and may own stock in Cisco, Western Digital and NBC Universal; not in the other above aforementioned companies-at least not yet! 

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What’s twisting our antenna today,

November 29, 2011.

The Flu, Anthrax, Plague and Vaccines.

The U.S. Government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the widow and family of  The National Inquirer Florida tabloid photo editor, Robert Stevens who was  killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks.  The document also says the U.S. is not admitting fault and she has to return sensitive documents. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/boca-raton/fl-anthrax-award-20111129,0,3694250.story

Whatever is in those sensitive documents surely would have been brought out in a trial.  Who will be the first to file a FOI?  The FBI continues to blame Bruce Ivins out of  Fort Detrick- he never got a trail and is an alleged suicide victim over dosing on Tylenol.  There’s a lot of doubt about that, some which we’ve written about prior here=http://wp.me/paBV0-JF.    Another scientist, Steve Hatfill was also accused but was cleared and got a $5.8 million settlement for invasion of privacy.

There is also the admission that the government has lost track of thousands of vials including anthrax, the plague, and Ebola in June of 2009. http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/ft-detrick-lab-missing-9000-virus-vials-scientists-still-dying-from-unnatural-causes/.  Think hard for a minute, 2009- the midst of the swine flu pandemic and a declaration of emergency from the WHO and President Obama.  The WHO has rescinded its emergency- did the White House?  

Less people died from H1N1 than the seasonal flu, even though millions of us caught it with some suffering significant side effects like the Swine Flu Rash, which is still the number one read article here at Ahrcanum-  http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/swine-flu-rash-hives-symptoms/

Remember this headline?–

Apr 24, 2009 – MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where….

In January of 2010, we anticipated that:

Yes, H1N1 could change into a more deadly form, perhaps mixing with the H5N1 bird flu virus circulating widely in poultry.  From http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-11-24/CDC-confirms-cases-of-new-swine-flu-virus/51384636/1

November 24, 2011.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed three cases of a new flu virus, which originated in pigs but apparently spread from person to person…

In a report released late Wednesday night, the CDC noted that, as part of “routine preparedness,” it has already produced a “candidate vaccine virus” that could be used against this new strain, and has given it to vaccine makers.

The CDC id’s a new strain and there is a vaccine in the mix already? Dang that was fast.  What about testing?  Want to be a Guinea pig?  How about testing out an anthrax shot?

The Obama Care folks have authorized yet another vaccine trial, this one to test an anthrax vaccine on children.

A key panel of government advisers Friday recommended that the federal government sponsor a controversial study to test the anthrax vaccine in children to see whether the inoculation would protect young Americans against a bio terrorist’s attack.  Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/28/MNA31LNQ5S.DTL#ixzz1cHY6hIhd

Would you ever think to knowingly allow your child to be a part of an anthrax vaccine test?  How about any other vaccine test?   The U.S. government is supposed to obtain informed consent before giving an unapproved and experimental vaccine to anyone.  Yet in 1998, the Pentagon began a controversial mandatory immunization program for military personnel that was challenged in court over questions about the vaccine’s safety and reliability. 

The federal government has spent something like $1.1 billion to stockpile the anthrax vaccine to protect Americans in the event of an attack.  Imagine if the federal government spent an addition $1.1 billion on our borders with Mexico to protect Americans?

“The U.S. Government must do a better job of preparing for anticipated emergencies…. Some scenarios can be anticipated and it is incumbent upon the U.S. Government to plan for them,” the panel said at the time. “Such scenarios include the potential exposure of children to anthrax spores; therefore, the U.S. Government should undertake clinical trials to determine the appropriate pediatric dose of anthrax vaccine.” Read more: http://www.thestatecolumn.com/health/obama-review-anthrax-panel/#ixzz1cJCYYJlp

The German government did a good job at stockpiling an H1N1 vaccine and today are burning it.

Around €250 million worth of swine flu vaccine [sic  Pandemrix]  was due to go up in smoke on Tuesday – as Germany disposed of 16 million doses that people refused to take during last year’s outbreak of the potentially deadly virus. http://www.thelocal.de/national/20111129-39181.html

What about the smallpox vaccine purchase to the tune of $443 million? 

Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world’s richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor. …Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a “sole-source” procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal. The contract calls for Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation’s biodefense stockpile. The price of approximately $255 per dose…http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/13/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113

 

How about a universal rip off— er, vaccine instead?

A couple of companies have already tested their formulations in people. BiondVax Pharmaceuticals in Ness Ziona, Israel, is working on a vaccine that could be ready as early as 2014, predicts Wayne Rudolph, the company’s vice president for corporate development. Seek, a drug development company in London, hopes to have a market-ready product in three to five years…. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/24/health/la-he-universal-flu-vaccine-20111024 //http://www.biondvax.com/

Still worried about Bird Flu- H5N1?  In a report from 2007- The  bird flu vaccine, produced by the French drug company Sanofi-Aventis, won’t be sold commercially. The government plans to buy and stockpile enough doses for 20 million people, including healthcare workers and emergency personnel. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/28/science/sci-birdflu28

And in the meantime, scientists in the Netherlands have genetically altered the N5N1 avian influenza strain — more commonly known as “bird flu” — making it contagious enough to kill up to half the world’s population.  http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/super-bird-flu-strain-created-by-scientists-is-a-recipe-for-disaster 

The H5N1 virus with five known mutations became capable of airborne transmission after it was passed between ferrets 10 times. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/nov281fluscan.html

Nothing like taking a deadly virus and making into a lethal virus.  Top it all off, the bozos want to publish how they made it so the terrorists won’t have to work so hard to find the information. Sheesh. Good thing we have all those vaccines purchased in 2007 right?

But it’s better not to freak out about it. Stress can weaken your immune system. says http://www.theatlanticwire.com.

Skin Care Expert

@ReneeRouleau Skin Care Expert
FACT: You’re TEN times more likely to get the flu during flu season if you use a tanning bed b/c it weakens immune system cells.

Maybe sitting in a tanning bed isn’t such as good idea in general.  Some studies though, show an increase of Vitamin D keeps the flu away.  Might as well lay at the beach.

God Bless and have a good day.  One day it will be your last.

 
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     What’s twisting our

antenna today,

November 27, 2011.

Enough.  Occupy Wall Street people don’t seem to want to wind down their protests.  Police have been forcibly removing them from NYC to LA. http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/27/occupy_la_eviction_nears_protesters_vow_to_stay.html  Most protests have a clear goal, but this is all over the place.  

Nearest spokesperson - Russell Simmons who’s latest rap is, ’It Is My Moral Duty To Do This,” in supporting the OWS movement.  Do you see a music concert in the future produced by him? 

> Russell Simmons Planning #OWS Concerts - Photo posted in The Hip-Hop Spot | Sign in and leave a comment below!

Russell Simmons wants the business world to understand that the Occupy Wall Street protest and its related movements are not anti-capitalist. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/genre/randb-hip-hop/russell-simmons-talks-occupy-wall-street-1005527552.story

Not anti-capitalist?  How about pro-socialist then?
 
We seen that some protesters with George Soros’  www.MoveOn.org and other front groups.  OWS website has also expressed its “solidarity” with  the AFL-CIO.  http://patdollard.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-revealed-to-be-all-about-obama-front-groups/ So much for staying non-partisan while milling about in parks that no one else can use while they are occupied.   
 
 
Russell Simmons
UncleRUSHRussell Simmons

 
Money comes from making others money. If u make money for others they will throw money @ you #SuperRich
 
And This One-
 
 
Russell Simmons
UncleRUSHRussell Simmons

 
OWS cn set up satellite offices all ovr the country & the revolution shld expand we cn do more from an organized effort out of offices
 
We’re leaning toward the hashtag, #occupymyfootupyourass.  Revolution?  Yes, there is room for improvement, but we’re not liking how Hope & Change and OWS has been working out.  At least Russell seems to be conceding that OWS in our parks, should move to an office.

 

It wouldn’t be America it seems, unless there was a lawsuit being filed.  The LA version of OWS is an injunction–

…argues that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck violated the protesters’ civil rights by ordering the protesters to leave and accuses them of engaging “in “arbitrary and capricious action in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments by first approving the Occupy presence for 56 days before suddenly revoking permission through the unilateral action of defendants.”

A few weeks ago a class action lawsuit was filed against New York City on behalf of the group of people arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011.  It alleges that officers violated their constitutional rights by luring them into a trap and then arresting them. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/nyregion/citing-police-trap-protesters-file-suit.html 

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, http://www.justiceonline.org/index.html is spearheading the lawsuit, but has removed the court filing image from its site.  We figured as much since they stupidly posted the 5 people named along with their physical addresses.  We did a screen shot before they took it down.   Not that we would be so low to post where they live, but you can see it without the addresses here.  http://www2.justiceonline.org/site/DocServer/10-2011_Brooklyn_Bridge_Arrests_-_Class_Action_Complaint.pdf?docID=1742

Represented by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, the suit against Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the City of New York was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Case No: 11 CIV 6957 (Garcia, et al. vs. Bloomberg, et al.). Assigned to Judge Rakoff.

NAMED IN THE LAWSUIT—

karinagarcia10.20.06

Is this the same Karina Garcia that got hit in the head protesting at a Minuteman meeting?  Video with James Gilchrist. http://www.aztlan.net/karina_garcia_defeats_vigilantes.htm

Karina is/was? the Political Chair of the Chicano Caucus at Columbia University in New York City arguing for full rights for all immigrants. http://www.aztlan.net/karina_speaks.htm

Is this the same Marcel Cartier, the rapper who has declared, the “US Gov’t is the world’s largest terrorist” via Poject Nsearch? Marcel Cartier is an independent political rapper. Imagine that he just happens to have a new album “Revolutionary Minded 3″ that has just been released HERE 

From http://huey3man.wordpress.com/tag/marcel-cartier/-

„My question to the NYPD: did you really think that it was a tactically intelligent decision to arrest 700 people?“ asked Cartier. „I think it actually had the opposite effect.“   Cartier added that after being apprehended, he bonded with his brethren that were among those arrested. „We turned those jails into centers of organizing,“ said Cartier. „It was definitely a very energizing experience – it charged me up.“

It made me more committed to the cause and now I really want to see this moment succeed,“ he added. „It gives me so much energy, so much vision to go further.’Source

All fine and dandy and in the true spirit of socialism- someone else is paying the legal bills.

Yari Osorio
Yari Osorio
PSL photo: BIll Hackwell

Yari Osorio is at the very least a contributor to PSL, the website of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.  Here are some of his recent thoughts on immigration education at http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/anti-immigrant-laws-wreck-childrens-lives.html.

Regarding the police, he wrote in another article-

We in the Party for Socialism and Liberation know that there is an alternative and that alternative is socialism, where the police would truly be a public safety force made up of the people and to serve the people. The task of building the confidence and revolutionary spirit in our communities is of paramount importance. We should be responsible for the safety of our communities—the people, not the capitalist police!. via http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/10-11-22-mobilizing-community-against-pol.html

PSL party member Ben Becker rallies the crowd.

PSL party member Ben Becker rallies the crowd.

Benjamin Becker must know or at least know of Osario’s writings since he is the editor of the organizations newspaper, About Liberation.

About Liberation

Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation

Newspaper Editor: Ben Becker

Becker said in a 2008 interview-

“They could be in a coma, they could be on vacation, whether they choose to work is almost a personal decision,” Becker said before he joined the frontlines, armed with catchy slogans and a small P.A. “They will continue to accumulate wealth. And that wealth is not appearing out of thin air, that’s wealth that working people have created for them.” via http://journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/pavement/archive/socialist-and-liberation-party-cry-for-change-with-audio/index.html

Plantiff Cassandra Regan, we’re going to give her the benefit of the doubt as so far her trail in the world of socialism has left a pretty light footstep.  In fact, there is a Cassandra Regan on Twitter and Facebook- but can’t verify its the same person.  

Long and short.  4 of the 5 named have affiliations to either protests or socialism. 

Citizens have the right to be free from government intrusion for lawful activities.  A Freedom of Information Request has been filed by The Partnership to find out if the FBI, Mayors’  Office and/or others might have been in collusion against OWS.  Here’s the brief at http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/occupy-crackdown-legal.html.  Citizens also have the right to free access of roads and parks being blocked by OWS. 

God Bless and have a good day, one day it will be your last.

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