The following footage was taken by NASA's spacecraft STEREO-B. STEREO consists of two space-based observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind. Many people in the UFO community are convinced this curious triangular-shaped object is a huge UFO heading towards our planet. NASA on the other hand has dismissed the theory and calls the object "a trick of the light". What do you think?
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/index.php/...

Moridin
12.19.20.11

This video is a testament to why we NEED Ron Paul NOW!! Please watch this and share it with anyone who you can get to listen.

Such a tragedy.

http://moridinskeep.blogspot.com/2011/12...

In the Seventies and Eighties, Yugoslavian science magazine Galaksija pumped out dozens of mind-blowingly weird covers that could easily be mistaken for prog rock LPs. Here's but a sampling of the many triptacular designs that hit Balkan newstands several decades ago.

http://www.worldsbiggests.com/2011/12/15...

Some very sad news today that Anne McCaffrey has passed away. She wrote many wonderful stories and opened the minds of many readers.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/11/r-i...

She will be sadly missed

What is the government hiding?
Part Three
(August 4th 2011)
Claiborne Pell: Section One

(United States) The story of the late Claiborne Pell is that of a great man who served his nation and worked to change its history for the better. Were it not for his feats of heroism during the war, which before this account have never been publicly reported he would have likely never have come to the attention of those at the highest levels of our government expect as a potential donor.

During his teenage years Pell attended the St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. It was at this time that Pell developed a unique interest in the occult. Despite this fact, Pell also remained a devote Episcopalian. He took a particular interest in the legend of the Spear of Destiny and drew others into his belief system including a friend who was a member of Europe’s Princely class, whom I shall refer to as Mr. L. Pell and Mr. L began to correspond by mail, using false names, with well known occult figures. Pell wrote in his diary of these correspondences and of their content. He humorlessly noted that Aleister Crowley lacked any true knowledge of the Spear but that he was well skilled in the black arts. Pell considered him dangerous.

Another man who corresponded with Mr. L was Otto Rahn, Pell would latter befriend Rahn during his Princeton years. Rahn escaped from Nazi Germany in 1939. After traveling to Iceland where he lived for a period of time, he moved to New York where he was offered work by the United State’s government. Rahn was issued a new identity by the United States government and spent the majority of his life as a tenured member of the faculty of Princeton University. Rahn became acquainted with Pell after a dinner talk given by the former to the members of one of Princeton’s bicker clubs known as the Colonial Club. Rahn who had lectured on a topic of the Holy Grail, a popular subject at the time, was intrigued by Pell’s questions. It is possible that Pell manipulated himself into the good graces of Rahn as he had extensive knowledge of Rahn’s earlier correspondences with Mr. L.

During Pell’s Princeton years, the two men would form an occult study society called ORMUS. Pell’s relationship with Rahn was strictly of a platonic nature. Pell was aware that Rahn was practicing homosexual and did not object to his friend’s lifestyle which was highly discreet by today’s standards. The two men often smoked marijuana during the practice of ceremonial magic but Pell’s interests in the occult were primarily academic. This academic interest resulted in Pell writing several articles on the subject of the Spear of Longinus, some of these writing are today stored at the Princeton University Library.

In 1940, Pell graduated from university but stayed in contact with Rahn primarily by mail. Prior to Pearl Harbor, Pell enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and would not again see Rahn until near the completion of World War II. At the onset of war, Rahn was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at training Area F in Bethesda, MD before moving on to a permanent assignment at 70 Grosvenor Street in London.

Rahn was assigned to a special project related to the study of the Nazi belief in the esoteric. Rahn worked closely with Ian Fleming, a Royal Naval Intelligence Officer, during the period that Rudolf Hess flew to the United Kingdom on the direct orders of Hitler. Rahn served as Fleming’s unofficial translator and assistant when Fleming was given access to Hess. Fleming did not meet with Hess until he had been placed under house arrest by the Allied forces.

Originally Hess traveled to Britain on behalf of Hitler. Hess attempted to appeal to Churchill’s distrust of the Soviet Union by proposing a shifting of alliances. Hess was flatly turned down. Hess proved to be an amicable prisoner and willingly collaborated during the course of the war.

Hess’ arrival in Britain was expected by British Intelligence, which had encouraged Hess’ journey. The original hope was that Hess would travel with a peace plan that Churchill would find to be acceptable.

END SECTION ONE

To be continued…

Mr. X is the penname of a member of the Council of National Defense. All rights reserved by the author.

BBC reporter describes Disc shaped craft is spotted circling near Stansted

Check out the link on BBC News:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14387365

Troubling News:

LONDON (AP) -- When the English Defense League sprang to life two years ago, it had fewer than 50 members - a rough-and-tumble bunch of mostly white guys shouting from a street corner about what they viewed as uncontrolled Muslim immigration.

Now, the far-right group mentioned by confessed Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik as an inspiration says its ranks have swollen to more than 10,000 people, a spectacular rise its leaders attribute to the immense global power of Facebook and other social networking sites.

"I knew that social networking sites were the way to go," EDL leader Stephen Lennon told The Associated Press. "But to say that we inspired this lunatic to do what he did is wrong. We've never once told our supporters its alright to go out and be violent."

A Facebook page under Breivik's name was taken down shortly after the attacks last week. A Twitter account under his name had only one Tweet, on July 17, loosely citing English philosopher John Stuart Mill: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests."

Norwegian investigators have pored through data on Breivik's computer and say they now believe he was acting alone. They have also said they haven't found any links of concern between Breivik and far right British groups such as the EDL.

In addition to Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter, the Internet hosts thousands of forums for far-left, far-right and other extremist groups. In Germany alone, far-right groups ran some 1,000 websites and 38 online radio stations as of late last year with many aimed at recruiting followers. Social networking sites, complete with politically charged music, are particularly drawing younger audiences who increasingly get their information outside of traditional media.

Extremists "still favor online chat platforms - often with several hundred participants - but they are increasingly turning to social media," said Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which called the danger of recruitment "considerable."

Intelligence and law enforcement officials have mixed feelings about the sites. On one hand, they recognize the potential for recruiting groups or individuals into violent movements. On the other, the sites allow officials to track and catch perpetrators. Germany's interior minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, told local media this week that he's more worried about extremists who go underground and "radicalize in secret."

Most agree that the most violent criminals often give little to no clear warning of the deadly acts they are about to commit, and that sometimes it's difficult to know when a person is simply boasting or whether their online activity suggests they could become killers.

What's undeniable is the social media's power to bring together people with like-minded views.

"Fifty years ago, if you believed that the Earth was populated by spies from Jupiter, it would have taken you quite some time to find someone else who shared the same belief," said Bob Ayers, a London-based former U.S. intelligence official. "That's not the case today. Social networking sites have changed the mathematics of things, and with that change, comes both pros and cons."

Several of the email addresses to which Breivik sent his 1,516-page manifesto hours before the Oslo bombing matched Facebook profiles of people flaunting neo-Nazi or ultra-nationalist symbols.

Those profiles, in turn, were set up to connect with like-minded people. One apparently Italian addressee - whose profile picture shows a swastika, the SS-symbol, and a skull - linked to Facebook groups representing "Fascist Music," the biography of former Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, as well as firearms.

His list of 462 "friends" showed several people with similar profiles, including some with the symbols or illustrations of the Knights Templar, a group that Breivik said he joined after meeting with a group of right-wing men in London.

Another addressee, showing off his pumped up torso and shaved head, lists the anti-immigration British National Party as his political views.

The British National Party, which won its first seat in European parliamentary elections last year, recently encouraged its members to use social media outlets. It even suggested that supporters use hashtags such as (hash)nationalist and (hash)BNP - techniques designed to capture a larger audience on a specific topic.

"Social networking is an important way of keeping in touch with the British National Party, and taking small, easy actions to promote our fight for our identity and culture," the BNP said on its site. "It's just one way you can make a difference and show you care about the cause we all believe in."

The group recommended its supporters post pro-nationalist quotes on Facebook to inspire friends to take action.

Some analysts say that although it's clear social media plays an important role in strengthening the far-right's sense of identity and solidarity, it's too early to say how much Facebook and Twitter have helped contribute to extremist violence.

"The fact that we have more blogs, more online forums, doesn't mean we have a greater risk of terrorism," said Matthew Goodwin, a politics lecturer who recently published a book on the far right in Britain. "Even if they hold radical, extreme views, it doesn't mean they're pro-violence."

Facebook says it relies on its community to police the site and usually only steps in when individuals or groups are inciting violence or hate. It would not comment on whether it was cooperating with law enforcement agencies looking into the Norway massacre.

"Facebook has a team of professionals that removes content that violates our policies, which includes content that's hateful, makes actionable threats, or includes nudity and/or pornography," said Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes.

Daniel Hodges, a spokesman for Searchlight, a UK magazine that campaigns against far-right extremism, said the Internet has allowed "all sorts of appalling viewpoints" to be read by anyone. "How many people over the world today have now read Breivik's manifesto?" he said.

The Internet often lets groups like the EDL come across as more powerful than they really are, he said.

"(The Internet) allows them to reach their membership relatively speedily, relatively anonymously. It enables them to give a perception of a significant critical mass. But many far right activists live online, not in the real world," Hodges said.

During a recent British election, the BNP suffered from a lack of grassroots support on the ground, even though its website received massive online traffic.

The definition of what counts as hate speech also varies from one country to another, and in the U.S. much of it is protected under the First Amendment. Denying the Holocaust, for example, is illegal in many European countries but not in the U.S.

U.S. laws also protect Internet companies from being held responsible for the content on their sites.

Rather than automatically take down pages that are in the gray area, some civil libertarians think it's better for social media sites to "err on the side of caution" and let the community handle it.

"Facebook and social media in general tend to be very self-correcting," said Jillian York, director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group in San Francisco.

"A lot of times you see people who oppose the hate speech taking over the (hate) groups. That tends to be more effective than taking the page down."

The Czech Republic's counterintelligence service called the Internet the "No. 1" propaganda tool for extremists in their terrorism report last year.

"There is a significant increase in activities of far right extremists in social networking sites, especially on Facebook. In connection with that, a relatively new phenomenon has appeared of groups which are joined, besides the extremists, also by common citizens ... As a result, the extremist views are becoming popular and spread among the public."

Germany viewed the threat in a similar way.

"The use of the Internet has become a fixture for German right-wing extremists in spreading their ideology, preparing their activities, campaigns and other events as well as the communication with their followers and sympathizers," Germany's domestic intelligence agency said in its latest report published earlier this month.

Lennon, meanwhile, may find himself spending even more time in the virtual far-right world. The 28-year-old newlywed with a handful of missing teeth is banned from going anywhere near protests. He also claims to have had his assets frozen pending a police investigation.

Despite the setbacks, Lennon said his group is growing - and even moving beyond the need for social media.

"We'll keep talking to people about what the EDL stands for, but we don't actually need places like Facebook anymore. We've already built our network and it's growing."

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Also contributing to this report were Barbara Ortutay in New York, in Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels, Karel Janicek in Prague, Juergen Baetz in Berlin and Sylvia Hui in London.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/E...

The polygamist household in The Learning Channel reality show "Sister Wives" has submitted a lawsuit against the state of Utah, challenging anti-bigamy statues that make polygamy illegal. The lawsuit holds that bigamy laws breach the family's right to religious freedom, and they want an injunction issued against any possible prosecution for violating anti-bigamy and polygamy laws. Source of article - Polygamist family from Sister Wives show taking Utah to court by Newsytype.com.

Claims of why suit should pass

The Brown household, featured on reality television show "Sister Wives," is suing the state of Utah, as reported by the International Business Times, to prevent prosecution against family patriarch Kody Brown and his wives. Many Utah polygamists end up being charged with bigamy. Due to fear of these same criminal charges hitting the Browns, the household moved last year from Utah to Nevada. Now the household wants to move back to Utah. The Christian Science Monitor states that bigamy is an enormous problem. It is a third-degree felony in the state. The family is hoping the suit will give them an injunction against criminal prosecution. It states the branch of the Mormon church that the Browns belong to practices polygamy making it a First Amendment right to do so.

Can Utah get involved?

Brown's lawyer said that because heterosexual relationships involving more than one partner aren't illegal, polygamy shouldn't be either. Two suits similar against Utah were not successful, whether they were in federal court or state court. The Browns don't currently face any charges, though authorities in their hometown of Lehi, Utah, were looking into filing charges after the family started starring in the show on TLC. Each state views bigamy differently, but essentially the offense is entering into more than one marriage. All of Kody Brown's unions are "spiritual," he states, as he is only legally married to one of his wives. The suit contends that as the relationships are consensual and are only official in the Fundamentalist Mormon church the household is part of, the state thus has no business interfering, as reported by Courthouse News. Some polygamists are able to get away with it in Utah. Several suggest this is due to the state's involvement with the LDS church in history. There are some Fundamentalist Mormons that will marry young girls and older men together. This is what happened to Fundamentalist Mormon leader and convicted sex offender Warren Jeffs.

Other cases of bigamy occurring

As reported by UPI, a male was charged in October with bigamy in Florida when his wife discovered he had married another woman in Las Vegas. Since Florida only recognizes bigamy if the second marriage happens in Florida, the suit was dismissed this month. The Virginia Pilot Online reports that a Portsmouth, Va., male got convicted of bigamy in June as he married his wife without first divorcing the woman he was married to but had been separated from for years. He could face 20 years. Bobbi Ann Finley, according to the Daily Mail, was convicted of bigamy after marrying 14 different men in the military over a period of almost 20 years. She used the legal spouse status to take all their money after leaving them.

Citations

International Business Times: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/180267/2...,

Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/201...,

Courthouse News: http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/14...,

UPI: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/07/1...,

Virginia Pilot Online: http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/portsmou...,

Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

I'm posting this url so anyone else can tell me what it is they think they see on the top right of the screen at around 53 seconds A light in the sky comes into view you see a light project from it then disappear and that clip is over , what do you think ?

http://vimeo.com/chrisp0/firepower

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Ah, it was a good year, no? We lost our faith in the great American past-time. We lost old Teddy in a freak wrestling match (grizzly bear, big stick.) As a matter of course, apple pie, cheap whores and liquor were at an all-time high (mileage may vary.) Ah, the halcyon days of yore... Ah yes, and there may have been some sort of kerfuffle across the pond, but that is ancient history, my friend. Old Glory marches on.

Without further ado: Here's Tinch with the weather:

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FAY TINCHER--AN INGENUISH VAMPIRE

Theatre magazine, Volume 29, p. 389
Theatre Magazine, June, 1919

The Fay Tincher of black and white fame is gone. Everybody remembers the black and white Fay Tincher--black and white from the feet, that even comedy could not make grotesque, to the jaunty hat invariably reposing on her black hair. She is gone from the realm of comedy -- forever -- she says, and tells the reason why in her own inimitable Fay Tincher manner.
"I have reverted to type! I started out in life--screen life, of course, as a vampire. I played a heavy role in 'Battle of the Sexes,' and then, after that, I started playing comedy roles. In 'Don Quixote' I was featured with DeWolf Hopper, and later in other Fine Arts productions, 'Sunshine Dan' and 'Mr. Good,' I hoped to again play 'heavies' or even ingenue leads, but my reputation as a comedienne always caught up with me and finally forced me to play in two-reel funnicisms.

"Now at last I am to appear in roles I really care for. Screen farce has never appealed to me. Comedy is, at best, a transitory entertainment that seldom lingers in a person's mind after it is over. Drama is a different matter. Drama affects--for drama is life. That is why I want to play in dramas again,--I want to portray life.
"But life, if not a farce, contains a large element of comedy, and when I portray 'vamps,' as has been my ambition for a long time, I am not going to play the Bara-kind of vamp, for in my opinion that sort of vamp has never existed except in the cinema. The ingenuish type of vamp, the saucy salamander, is the only vamp in existence. What man in real life would be infatuated with a dead white skin, grotesque lips and a posed grace that is anything but attractive? It is the vamp who has a sense of humor that can really hold a man. She laughs at him, even as she is seeking to allure him--and he adores it. It's the greatest fun in the world playing vampire roles. I enjoy them. I laugh as I play the most tragic scenes, because I appreciate the satire in them."

Perhaps the term "heavy" is misleading as applied to Miss Tincher--certainly, in appearance she is anything but the popular conception of the word. She might better be described petite, for her five feet two and her one hundred twelve pounds deny any suggestion of undue weight. The "heavy" in this case is the word coined for popular use around the environments of the studio, and it applies to that person, man or woman, whose screen destiny it is to thwart the happiness of the hero and heroine.
She enjoys her business of parting happy couples--on the screen. Away from the camera's watchful eyes she is not so keen about it and does not indulge. James Barrie is her favorite author, which whimsical choice is rather a strong indication of her real personality.

Her grandfather was a Methodist minister, and she is the only member of her family on the stage--indeed, had she yielded to his wishes the screen would have been deprived of that particular light in the cinema world which is Fay Tincher.
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A TRAVELING TENT--
THE LATEST THING IN DRESSING ROOMS

Certainly much of the personality of the individual, especially of the feminine individual, can be learned from her man-