Archive for January, 2009
Roland ‘2012′ Emmerich To Direct ‘Foundation’
Columbia won an auction late Thursday for screen rights to “Foundation,” Isaac Asimov’s ground breaking science fiction trilogy. The film will be developed as a directing vehicle for Roland Emmerich…
Originally published as a series of eight short stories in Astounding Magazine beginning in 1942, “Foundation” is a complex saga about humans who are scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, living under the rule of the Galactic Empire.
A psycho-historian who can scientifically read the future sees an imminent empire collapse, and sets to work preparing to save the knowledge of mankind.
The emergence of Sony and Emmerich at the controls of “Foundation” is a surprise development, and one that owes at least a bit to the animosity between Warner Bros. and Fox over “Watchmen.”
What Analog TV Has To Do With HAARP
The Government is soon going to end all analog TV broadcasts. They will then require that you to use a government issued converter box to receive the new all digital signal.
This video reveals the truth behind this evolution and the impact it will have on all of our lives.
William Rodriguez and Annie Machon: Ex MI5 Whistle Blower
In 2007 I traveled across Europe with William Rodriguez and Annie Machon while filming my Feature length documentary The Elephant In The Room. We traveled across the south west of England, France, Holland and Germany for Just over two weeks.
Spreading the word about William’s experience of the events of 9/11 which directly contradicts the Official story. Annie Machon the former MI5 officer turned whistle blower organised the tour and spoke before William about her experience working at the heart of the secret state.
Milky Way: Bigger Than We Ever Thought
Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore.
The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda’s equal.
Scientists mapped the Milky Way in a more detailed, three-dimensional way and found that it’s 15 percent larger in breadth. More important, it’s denser, with 50 percent more mass, which is like weight. The new findings were presented Monday at the American Astronomical Society’s convention in Long Beach, Calif.
That difference means a lot, said study author Mark Reid of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. The slight 5-foot-5, 140-pound astrophysicist said it’s the cosmic equivalent of him suddenly bulking up to the size of a 6-foot-3, 210-pound NFL linebacker.
China’s Electronic Junkyard
Time has a photo gallery and accompanying brief article about Guiyu, a city in China where much of the world’s discarded cell phones, computers, and iPods are sent for “recycling.”
Getting rid of unwanted electronics is problematic; every day Americans throw out more than 350,000 cell phones and 130,000 computers, which have the potential to leak lead, mercury, and other poisons into the soil and water supply.
Thus, American “recycling” companies ship our worn-out gadgets to Guiyu, where peasants heat circuit boards over coal fires to recover lead, and use acid to burn off bits of gold. Rates of cancer, miscarriage, and childhood lead poisoning are very high.
Growing Up Star Wars
This fantastic, extensive Flickr set is a collection of pictures taken from 1977 to 1985 involving young Star Wars fans. Taken at the height of fanaticism for the film, the photos show how an array of Star Wars-themed costumes, toys, crafts, and interior decoration allowed these kids to (temporarily) escape from reality and grow up in a sci-fi world.
War, Crowds Complicate Obama Inaugural Security
Midway through the article you’ll find this:
An estimated 8,000 police officers, about half from outside the Washington area, will be deployed, said Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty. Some 10,000 National Guard reserve troops and 7,500 active-duty soldiers will also take part.
That’s 17,500 soldiers! That’s a whole division!
And here is said article:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first U.S. black president will take place on Tuesday amid unprecedented security aimed at protecting him as well as the record crowds expected to attend.
With about 1.5 million people expected to take part in three days of festivities — including the swearing-in, parade and inaugural balls — tens of thousands of police and troops will guard the land, skies and waters around Washington.
The Homeland Security Department and other authorities see no credible or specific threat of an attack. But they say they are prepared for a wide range of potential catastrophes, including a…
Thais ‘Leave Boat People To Die’
Thai soldiers are detaining illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Burma and forcing them back out to sea in boats without engines, survivors say.
Survivors say their hands were tied and they were towed out to sea with little or no food or water. About 500 migrants are now recovering from acute dehydration in India’s Andaman islands and the Indonesian province of Aceh.
Thai officials were not immediately available for comment. But sources in the police and army confirmed to the BBC’s Jonathan Head in Bangkok that asylum seekers are being pushed out to sea. They did not provide further details about the practice.
Thousands of poor Burmese and Bangladeshis try to reach south-east Asian nations in search of work.
‘Without food’
Survivors rescued by Indian coast guards say hundreds of other asylum-seekers are still missing after leaving Bangladesh and Burma since the end of November. They told the BBC that they paid agents to take…
Harry Potter, Your Invisibility Cloak Is Nearly Ready…
Look out, Harry Potter: researchers have advanced the study of cloaking—rendering objects invisible by forcing light waves to act as if the objects weren’t there.
In a paper published in this week’s Science, a team from Duke University and Southeast University in Nanjing, China, reports a new and improved cloak that can conceal a bump—and anything hidden beneath—on a flat surface. Both the surface and the bump (visible at the far left in the photo) must be reflective, however. The new setup is upgraded to function for a relatively broad spectrum of light, whereas previous models had very narrow operational regimes.
Unbelievable FEMA Concentration Camps Being Set Up For Us? If Not Then Who?
There has been allot of talk ALL over the internet about FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) concentration camps being set up all over the United States. Now obviously no one know for 100% sure if this is the case but I found 2 videos that sure seem very very suspicious.
Life on Mars? NASA: There is a Good Chance
The Sun UK: “Nasa reveals life on Mars”
The sensationalizing headline is more than a little misleading, however top NASA scientists are definitely warming up to the idea of theoretical alien organisms called Methanogens expelling methane waste into the atmosphere.
Daniel Pinchbeck: Toward 2012
With the ongoing meltdown of our financial system, we have entered a new epoch of uncertainty, a time of improvisation and discovery. At the same time, we face much deeper threats to our future that must be addressed. The absurd deficit numbers and quadrillion dollar bailouts mean nothing compared to the far more ominous data on the health of the biosphere. Human activity is rapidly eroding the planet’s natural capital, with 90% of the large fish gone from the oceans, with tropical forests and coral reefs disappearing. As climate change accelerates and Peak Oil approaches, sea levels rise and agricultural tables shrink. It is estimated that 25% of all mammallian species — perhaps all species in general — will go extinct within the next three decades.
Such problems go beyond the scope of current policy discussions. My personal hypothesis is that we have reached an evolutionary crisis as a species, and…
‘Watchmen’ Movie Will Be Released In March After All — Settlement Reached
Geeks can now rejoice.
Warner Bros. and Fox have resolved their dispute over Watchmen with the studios scheduled to present a settlement to Judge Gary Feess this morning and request that the case be dismissed.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the deal is said to involve a sizable cash payment to Fox and a percentage of the film’s box office grosses; Fox will not Watchmen property, but it will share in revenue derived from it. The studios released a joint statement last night.
“Warner Bros. acknowledges that Fox acted in good faith in bringing its claims, which were asserted prior to the start of principal photography,” the statement read. “Fox acknowledges that Warner Bros. acted in good faith defending against those claims.”
Politics! (Reality Check)
If only political advertising was this honest! Here’s the facts folks. What they won’t tell you, but is rather obvious to those willing to see through the b.s. and actually listen to what they’re not saying.
7 Things I Learned Working on a Pot Farm
For the stoner sect, working on a pot farm must seem like the equivalent of a fat person winning one of those contests where they get to stuff their shopping cart with as much food as they can in one minute. But I–your faithful blogger—have actually worked on a pot farmer in Mendocino County (part of the Emerald Triangle) and the fantasy isn’t always the same as the reality. So here are 7 truths and fictions about working on a pot farm:
There is a shitload of weed on a farm: TRUE!
You better believe it. Bushels and bushels of freshly trimmed weed stacked to the ceiling, with exotic names as Trainwreck and Purple Indica.
The local police are always ready to bust a pot farm. FALSE!
In Mendocino the local police aren’t concerned about the weed that is grown in the area. If they busted all the farms, that would crash the local…
Our World May Be A Giant Hologram
Marcus Chown: DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn’t look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.
For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves — ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached…
UN Workers Hit in Gaza
The UN is claiming Israel used phosphorous artillery shells in this attack which destroyed food and medical caches. The United Nations says three of its staff are wounded from an Israeli attack on the Gaza strip.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) said the men were injured by a phosphorus attack on their headquarters. A building housing journalists was also hit by Israeli forces, forcing them to evacuate the premises.
Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza strip is now into its 20th day, with Israel pounding densely populated neighbourhoods of Gaza City. The attack on the UNWRA headquarters comes as the Israeli Prime Minister’s spokesman confirmed that an Israeli envoy is in Egypt to secure a truce agreement with Hamas. Basmah Fahim reports.
23 & Me + Google = New World Order…Or Does It? You Decide!
I have been debating about putting this post up for a month or so after I watched a very disturbing video on my favorite site. Leuren Moret a former Livermore laboratories whistle blower mentioned that Google a company who I and most everyone uses at some point during a week at the very least to find something online was moving to Israel.
