Save the cheerleader, save the world.
- Russia lays claim to the North Pole, Putin’s scientists declaring an underwater ridge in the Arctic is part of Russia’s continental shelf. It’s the start of another Cold War.
- Evidence suggesting WTC-7 was destroyed by a controlled explosion may turn me into a conspiracy believer.
- A review of Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Jonathan D. Moreno PhD, explores secret mind-control technology used by the American Government/Military (Amazon US or UK).
- In the shadow of HG Wells, 19th Century French astronomer Camille Flammarion was just as influential in science & fiction.
- Omega: The Last Days of the World by Camille Flammarion, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg (Amazon US), and Premonitory Dreams (Amazon US or UK).
- Many of humanity’s creative and scientific insights originated in dreams. Does a blue frog count?
- Is this mindblowing 3D crop circle a message from beyond or just manure to fertilize the crops?
- Mormon tourists are flocking to Aztec ruins in Mexico, where they believe Old Testament tribes settled. If sitting on a tour bus full of blue-haired American Mormon retirees is your kinda thing.
- Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu has overtaken Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, but you won’t see Mexicans dancing in the streets with confetti, trombones and elephants.
- The Pope has given the thumbs up to open St Paul’s tomb. That’s the Vatican Pope, not Zahi Hawass.
- Pre-Incan rulers used precise observatories to assert power and control the sun.
- Guarded by the Terracotta Army, a pyramid-shaped chamber has been found inside the tomb of Emperor Qinshihuang.
- Chinese archaeologists have begun excavating a 2500-year-old tomb containing 47 coffins made of a rare wood called nanmu.
- Ten ancient tombs dating back 1800 years were destroyed during the construction of an IKEA store in China.
- In 2001, a figure was photographed inside a rainbow halo atop China’s Zhushan Mountain. Buddha, the Virgin Mary… or the irrepressible Monkey?
- A strange yellowish melon-shaped UFO was spotted in Turkey by witnesses including the local Police Academy. Hopefully not like the films.
- The affidavit of Lt Walter G Haut and his confession that an ETV was recovered at Roswell in 1947 can be read here.
Thanks Greg.
Quote of the Day:
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
H.G. Wells
