Srinivas Laxman | Mumbai | September 23

Times of India - Did India’s maiden Moon mission Chandrayaan-1 find water on the lunar surface before the project was aborted? There were indications on Tuesday that it had. An announcement about a ‘‘major discovery’’ made by Chandrayaan-I is expected on Thursday, and the buzz is that this could be about water on the Moon.

If true, credit for this much-awaited discovery, however, could go to Nasa’s Moon Minerology Mapper (M3), one of the payloads on board Chandrayaan. The Rs 386-crore craft was launched on October 22 last year and terminated on August 30 following a communication failure. One of the mission’s main goals was to sniff for water.

For now, neither Isro nor Nasa is speaking about the discovery.

An announcement is expected at a media interaction scheduled for Thursday at the Nasa headquarters in Washington DC.
 

Indian critics have compared this to trying to make lemonade out of a lemon (Chandrayaan was an embarrassing failure for India)

Peter Wallsten | Washington | September 14

LAT - Amid a rebirth of conservative activism that could help Republicans win elections next year, some party insiders now fear that extreme rhetoric and conspiracy theories coming from the angry reaches of the conservative base are undermining the GOP's broader credibility and casting it as the party of the paranoid.

Such insiders point to theories running rampant on the Internet, such as the idea that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus ineligible to be president, or that he is a communist, or that his allies want to set up Nazi-like detention camps for political opponents. Those theories, the insiders say, have stoked the GOP base and have created a "purist" climate in which a figure such as Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) is lionized for his "You lie!" outburst last week when Obama addressed Congress.

Rich Bowden | July 28

The Tech Herald - The Russian navy is the latest to join the bandwagon of world official agencies anxious to declassify its encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).

According to Svobodnaya Pressa news website, records of unexplained encounters by submarines and ships of the Russian navy have been revealed to the public for the very first time.

** France opens secret UFO files covering 50 years
** Is there anybody out there? How the men from the ministry hid the hunt for UFOs
** MoD: Files released on UFO sightings

SMH - A young London stockbroker - reportedly worried about losing his job - put on an expensive suit, bought himself a glass of champagne from a fancy eighth-floor restaurant, and leapt to his death, his parents say. Anjool Malde was to celebrate his 25th birthday tonight. He had created flyers to promote his party, which was being staged by the event management company he started with friends. But on Sunday, the Oxford graduate is believed to have taken his own life by jumping from the rooftop of the Coq d'Argent hotel.

A story I glanced at earlier but moved on, but wait money laundering, intelligence investigations, a 24 year old with achievements of men 10-15 years older, hmmmm.

...will absolutely take place july 8 at 4:05.06...

Gail Shister | New York | June 18

TVNewser - TVNewser has learned legendary CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, 92, who once held the title of "Most Trusted Man in America," is gravely ill, according to multiple CBS News sources. The network began updating his obituary more than a week ago, a source adds.

CBS News executive Linda Mason, designated to speak on Cronkite's behalf, had no comment.

Buggy whips, long-time objects of derision from college accounting faculty teaching the costs and problems of holding outdated inventory, are once again viable. With the costs of oil production soaring, and with world supplies of petroleum reaching scarcity, transportation planners are looking to encourage production of buggies and therefore buggy whips.

The emergency need for buggy whips has spawned a worldwide search for supplies left over and stored at the beginning of the automobile age.

Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite | June 6

Sunday Telegraph -
Over three days last week a group of senior ministers, with a degree of co-ordination and timing, severely damaged the Prime Minister and came close to toppling him.

The background to the plot began less than two years ago, when Mr Brown he took over from Tony Blair. He offered Government jobs to a number of leading supporters of the former prime minister in a bid to heal the damaging divisions of the old TB-GB wars that had scarred Mr Blair's premiership. Many of those who accepted – including James Purnell, David Miliband, Hazel Blears, John Denham and Caroline Flint – did so despite their profound doubts over Mr Brown's suitability as Prime Minister.

As time went on – and Mr Brown's time at Number 10 lurched from crisis to crisis – those doubts grew. Last summer Mr Miliband had the chance to strike against Mr Brown after writing a provocative newspaper article, but failed to so.

 
Since the Telegraph itself has been instrumental in trying to topple Brown, I've marked this as 'unproven'. It's an interesting read, whether fact or fiction

Just in from American Free Press.
I love the adverts at the bottom of the page, Gideons, Scriptures for America, Poem of the Man God, Miracles of St Joseph...

AFP’s (heh ~graham) editor crashed the secret meeting of the global elite and uncovered some scary schemes.

Bilderberg boys are a bunch of grumpy old men but remain fiercely dedicated to usurping sovereignty in the United States and throughout the world. Patriots can celebrate their setbacks but never let up: Bilderberg still threatens the sovereignty of all nations while fighting for world government.

Here are a few of the talking points and concerns for this year’s meeting:

•The future of the US dollar and US economy: The plan is for the Bilderberg Group players, through their allies in Washington and Wall Street to continue to deceive millions of savers and investors who believe the hype about the supposed up-turn in the economy. They are about to be set up for massive losses and searing financial pain in the months ahead. The bank “stress tests” now being conducted by Washington are little more than a shameless hoax: Based on the irrational assumption that the economy won’t get as bad as it already is!

Tehran | April 11

AFP - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards has accused the Netherlands of plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime by supporting the opposition through the media and the Internet, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

"One of the countries which has given financial support to the opposition over the past few years is Holland," according to a statement issued by a centre run by the Guards, the Khorasan newspaper said.

It said the parliament in the Netherlands had in 2005 adopted a 15 million euro budget proposed by a Dutch MP of Iranian origin which was used to fund Persian Internet sites hostile to the Islamic regime and to help rights groups.

http://www.forwardon.com/view.php?e=Id1200c8f6b7f5f813

Behold: The Synthesis...

Reading the OKGazette over a ribeye steak at Bev's Restaurant, I chortled at finding this:

Oklahoma lawmaker talks about plotting diabolical forces

State Rep. Mike Ritze, R-Broken Arrow (Oklahoma) ...His 'revelation' of the 'Bavarian Illuminati Conspiracy' is one story, but for me, this interview is itself another in that he, a Republican Oklahoma lawmaker, actually spoke out publicly about such things as war profiteering, Halliburton, no-bid contracts, et al.

New Yorker: Obama & Biden chipped or wearing tracking devices?

By Russ Kick at 2 March, 2009, 5:04 pm

While profiling White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza saw something interesting in Emanuel’s office. It's mentioned only in passing:

Obama Orders 17,000 U.S. Troops to Afghanistan
February 18th, 2009

Ian Munro | New York | November 14

Sydney Morning Herald - Speculation is mounting in the US that Hillary Clinton could take control of the country's foreign affairs policy as president-elect Barack Obama considers her for his secretary of state.

Senator Clinton lost the Democratic Party nomination to Senator Obama, but she is understood to be a strong candidate for foreign affairs, along with the decorated war hero Senator John Kerry.

The former first lady flew to Senator Obama's home city of Chicago on Thursday on what her office described as "personal business". The New York senator is reportedly in strong contention for the role.

Both NBC News and The Washington Post reported that Senator Clinton was in the running for the most senior diplomatic post, and the current affairs website Politico.com reported that several senior advisers to Senator Obama were supporting her for the position.

Russia unexpectedly closed its air space for a moment and forced air planes to land causing a delay of 3 hours. Somehow I assume that there will be no more truthful information on the incident.

And has the UFO over Viet Nam already identified publicly?

Either I'm missing something, or if this passes, the secretary of the treasury can buy and sell mortage securities at gun-point.

From the WSJ
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/09/20/treasurys-financial-bailout-proposal-to-congress/

Choice quotes:

(a) Authority to Purchase.–The Secretary is authorized to purchase, and to make and fund commitments to purchase, on such terms and conditions as determined by the Secretary, mortgage-related assets from any financial institution having its headquarters in the United States.

(b) Necessary Actions.–The Secretary is authorized to take such actions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the authorities in this Act, including, without limitation:

i remember posting the question a few months back when the catholic church decided it was necessary to announce that you can believe in both gOD and aliens. i remember asking "what's coming, what are they preparing for?"

well, i think i know now. the entire purpose of the pheonix mission is to find out if life could, or does exist on mars. if the average person were to suddenly find out that life does in fact exist, or had existed at one time on a foreign planet, they would no longer be able to rationalize christianity. christianity doesn't allow for life on other planets. the bible clearly says....

Peter Popham | Rome | June 14

The Independent - President George Bush was given such a splendid welcome by Pope Benedict XVI yesterday that rumours started flying that the President, like Tony Blair before him, was on the verge of converting to Catholicism.

It was a Vatican visit such as no other head of state has ever enjoyed. Instead of greeting him, like all previous high-ranking visitors, in the papal library of the Apostolic Palace, the Pope took Mr Bush round the medieval St John's Tower then gave him a tour of the Vatican gardens, culminating in a brief open-air concert by the Sistine Chapel Choir.

By Phil O'Leary, Military Correspondent

Sydney (Morning Wallaby) - Hopping mad and looking for revenge, a pair of weaponized kangaroos escaped a secret military compound outside Sydney, Australia Sunday evening.

Authorities remained mum on the subject, but a nearby barkeep was more than happy to oblige.

"We wuz chock-a-block with customers, mate, when all of a sudden, in barges these two surly buggin' roo's. I asks 'em what they want, and you should'a seen the look they gave me...alls me regulars starts creepin' out the back, an' I feels a trickle of sweat drip right down me mug."

The barkeep, Bud "Sharktooth" O'Mally, stood his ground, refusing to serve the rogue marsupials, who eventually took the hint and buggered off.

Gordon Thomas | London | March 21

Canada Free Press - Britain's GCHQ, the government communications agency that electronically monitors half the world from space, has confirmed the claim by the Dalai Lama that agents of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the PLA, posing as monks, triggered the riots that have left hundreds of Tibetans dead or injured.

GCHQ analysts believe the decision was deliberately calculated by the Beijing leadership to provide an excuse to stamp out the simmering unrest in the region, which is already attracting unwelcome world attention in the run-up to the Olympic Games this summer.

For weeks there has been growing resentment in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, against minor actions taken by the Chinese authorities.

Spitzer's Mouthpiece Has His Own Secrets to Hide

...But from this reporter’s perspective it is Dieter Snell himself who ought to be in the hot seat answering questions, not about a petty state corruption probe but questions that go to the heart of the greatest mass murder in U.S. history: 9/11.

It was just four years ago Saturday, March 15th, 2004, when Snell led me into a windowless conference room at 26 Federal Plaza, the building that houses the FBI’s New York Office (NYO). It w

James Orr | February 18

The Guardian - A transcript claiming to detail Lee Harvey Oswald's plot to assassinate President John F Kennedy has been discovered in an old courtroom safe.

The record – described as reading like a conspiracy theorist's dream - appears to minute talks between Oswald and Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald after Kennedy's assassination.

Today, the Dallas County district attorney's office said other documents found included letters from former district attorney Henry Wade, the prosecuting lawyer in Ruby's trial.

But the apparent record of the conversation between Oswald and Ruby was probably fake, said the district attorney, Craig Watkins, and was instead likely to be long-forgotten material for a proposed film.

Oswald says in the transcript: "I can still do it, all I need is my rifle and a tall building; but it will take time, maybe six months to find the right place; but I'll have to have some money to live on while I do the planning."

This is the official sappy government FCC site touting the "benefits" of digital TV.
http://www.dtv.gov/

Note all of the marketing hype. I can become a "DTV Deputy". I can get info in spanish. Note how the entire site is geared towards the simplemindedness of a five year old. To me at least it is chock full of subliminals diverting your focus away from the Satanicness it will bring. In order to get to this let's click on the FAQ section on the left, that stupid looking TV remote control. After that go to Why are we switching to digital TV. Here is the answer.

"An important benefit of the switch to all-digital broadcasting is that it will free up parts of the valuable broadcast spectrum for public safety communications (such as police, fire departments, and rescue squads). Also, some of the spectrum will be auctioned to companies that will be able to provide consumers with more advanced wireless services (such as wireless broadband). "