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7.31.2009

Bob Dean -European Exopolitics Summit- 6.25.2009

"Why the greatest story in human history has never been told"
In this historical presentation,
Bob Dean shows a number of previously suppressed NASA images.

Dean concluded his delivery by stating that there are bases on Mars...

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Giant anvil-shaped cloud hovering 75,000ft above Earth is photographed by Space Station astronauts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1202973/Pictured-Spaceship-shaped-cloud-hovering-Earth-captured-astronauts.html
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/30/article-1202973-05E0F94F000005DC-676_964x633_popup.jpg
A giant, anvil-shaped cloud bubbles up towards the Earth's stratosphere, looming over West Africa. The amazing formation would be invisible to anyone on the ground and would even be obscure from a regular passenger jet since they can reach up to 75,000ft. But astronauts captured the astonishing picture from hundreds of miles up as they orbited the globe on the International Space Station.
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Solar Activity 6.18-7.30.2009

University Of Alabama Implements Mandatory Vaccination Program

·New students informed: No jabs, no enrollment.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/university-of-alabama-implements-mandatory-vaccination-program.html
http://www.imageboo.com/files/ovxbtnl3hyf0j6lpqkxt.jpg
Another major school institution has implemented a mandatory vaccination policy that bars both new and current students who haven’t received the meningitis and MMR shots from enrolling for the coming academic year.
The University of Alabama recently sent out an e mail to all its students informing them that they had to provide proof of several different immunizations before they could register for their course.
Failure to provide such proof would mean the students would be forced to take the shots on campus at the Student Health Center – refusal to do so would prevent them from enrolling and could also lead to further judiciary punishment.
[...]
The e mail also informs juniors and seniors already living on campus that they need to get a meningitis shot if they haven’t received one in the last four years, even though as the advisory admits, “This is NOT a regular childhood immunization and it was not a requirement when you entered the University of Alabama.”
Please, read more...
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Russian camera can see human soul

http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-07-30/soul-aura-kirlian-device.html?fullstory
http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/7407kirlianbig.jpg
The instrument, which was presented as something involved in the study of death, turned out to have been designed as a medical diagnosis tool. With about 15 years of development behind it, its inventor claims that it’s an affordable early-diagnosis tool, capable of identifying any disease, from an ulcer to a brain tumor, by scanning irregularities in an aura.
It's actually a modern application of a well-known phenomenon called Kirlian effect, named after Semyon and Valentina Kirlians, a Russian couple who greatly contributed to popularizing it back in 1960s. Kirlian experimented with photographing objects with high voltage applied to them. The strong electric field causes faint corona discharges around the edges, which can even be seen with the naked eye.
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The Love Police - Illegal to be in a Hurry

A short and simple little clip where the police are shown to use any excuse
to try and retrieve something from the poor man.

9/11 Truth Happens

Points to ponder:
1. $5 million spent on the initial investigation compared to $50 million spent on Bill Clinton's impeachment.
2. Pentagon loses $2.3 Trillion the day before 9/11.
3. FEMA coming to New York on September
10th for a drill simulating hijacked airplanes crashing into the WTC buildings on the next day.
4. Footage of the "supposedly" boeing airplane crashing into the Pentagon, one of the most guarded places on earth with over 300 security cameras, not released.
5. WTC 7 falling like a pack of cards. The BBC reported this incident 30 minutes before it actually happened. 9/11 Commission Report and mainstream media completely ignored it. Most of the people still don't know that 3 buildings fell that day.
6. Testimonies of many witnesses, like William Rodriguez, were omitted from the final report.


The 9/11 Truth Movement
http://www.911truth.org

Veterans for 911 Truth
http://www.v911t.org/

Fire fighters for 911 Truth
http://firefightersfor911truth.org/

Architects and engineers for 911 Truth
http://www.ae911truth.org/

Scholars for 9/11 Truth
http://www.st911.org/

Pilots for 9/11 Truth
http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/

Lawyers for 9/11 Truth
http://lawyersfor911truth.blogspot.com/

Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth
http://pl911truth.com/

Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth
http://mp911truth.org

Patriots Question 9/11
http://patriotsquestion911.com/
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Crop Circles -2009 Update- Numbers 55, 56, 57 & 58

[***NOTE: The old number 55, from the previous post, 'Crop Circles -2009 Update- Nº 55 +USA!' is now 56 (with better images!), and the new 55 is a belated addition reported on July 28, and updated, in Crop Circle Connector, on July 31***]

[Formation Nº 55 @ Winterbourne Bassett - nr Avebury, Wiltshire - reported July 28, 2009]

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/winterbourne/200907winter1.jpg
"I don’t know if you heard that a formation was reported on the 28th of July at Winterbourne Bassett. The farmer destroyed it early in the morning before anyone had the chance to photograph it from the air or visit it on the ground.
Today I went over there to take a look at the sad remains of the formation. All I could make out was that it had been fairly large (seems to have spanned five tram lines) and that the periphery had been made up by a ring about one metre wide. From the few sections of stalks still lying on the ground, it looked like the pattern must have been quite complex.
To my great joy, I discovered that the farmer had not cut grapeshot at the corner of the field. Seeing the elegant swirl in that little circle (about to metres in diameter), I can only imagine that the lay in the main formation must have been very beautiful."
· Eva-Marie Brekkestø ·

[Formation Nº 56 (old 55) @ Ogbourne St Andrew - nr Marlborough, Wiltshire - reported July 29, 2009]
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/ogbourne/P7300445.jpg
[...this is a much better image!]

[Formation Nº 57 @ Winterbourne Bassett - nr Avebury, Wiltshire - reported July 31, 2009]

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/winterbourne2/200907winter6.jpg
[The big blank circle is Nº 55! The farmer must be annoyed :) ]

[Formation Nº 58 @ Hackpen Hill - nr Broad Hinton, Wiltshire - reported July 31, 2009]

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/Hackpen/hackpenhill.S.jpg
[Those farmers...]

Benjamin Fulford Blog -7.31.2009

·Rothschild’s are desperately seeking gold now that they know the Fed is being unwound.
http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/2009/07/31.html
7.31.2009
We are hearing reports that many members of the Rothschild family, including Tokyo-based Stephan de Rothschild, are desperately seeking to trade toxic financial waste for gold. It is clear they know the US Federal Reserve Board’s days are numbered.
They probably have so much real estate and art treasures to their name that they really do not need that gold. The smarter members of the clan must already have all the gold they will ever need and more stashed away in Swiss banks. Those who could not see the writing on the wall may have to try to do something the rest of us already have to: work for a living.
[Source: benjaminfulford.typepad.com]
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7.30.2009

Crop Circles -2009 Update- Nº 55 +USA!

[Formation Nº 55 @ Ogbourne St Andrew - nr Marlborough, Wiltshire - reported July 29, 2009]
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/ogbourne/09osaair.jpg

[+USA! Formation @ Wilbur, Lincoln County, Washington - reported July 23, 2009]

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2009/USA/crop2a1.jpg

Washington Post admits [nonchalantley]- 'Flu vaccine has mercury'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072903607_2.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&sid=ST2009072903827
http://www.prisonplanet.com/images/november2007/151107vaccine.jpg
[...]
Some of the vaccine will be stored in multi-dose vials containing thimerosal, an antibacterial additive that contains mercury. But there will also be single-dose syringes without thimerosal, a substance that some assert is harmful to children.
Among the many unanswered questions is whether two doses[!!!] will be necessary to provide full protection, how close in time two shots can be given and how big the dose will be. Vaccination programs may start before the answers are known.
Clinical trials in which the prototype vaccine will be tested in hundreds of children and adults are just beginning[!!!!!]. Data on the effectiveness of one shot will be available in mid-September; [!]two shots[!], in late September.
Please, read more...

[It seems we don't have to wait that long! Look...]
Homeless people die after [an illegal?] bird flu vaccine trial in Poland
·Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus.
Read more of this...
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Richard C. Hoagland On 'Coast To Coast' -2009

Richard C. Hoagland discussed space-related stories, such as a report about a Japanese probe crashing into the moon. He also shared his theory that an interplanetary war could be taking place in our solar system-- conducted, not by ETs, but between factions of a secret government.

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UFOs

[Crop circle been made at 0:52!]

The Ego -3 Takes

"If you look at the cycles of the moon, it starts as a thin crescent and then gradually waxes until it becomes full; then it gradually wanes back into another crescent and then it is gone.
The moon reflects sunlight like humans reflect information. We wax and wane and when we become full moons, our egos are full. We think we have this knowledge when in fact, the information we have is pure. And how it reflects or shines off of us, is something we take credit for as though the moon could take credit for its brightness when, in fact, it is only reflecting light from the sun.
We have to understand that we are ego-less just as the moon is without light. It and we are simply reflectors. The ego is not responsible for the information. It can reflect the information in creative ways, but the information itself is pure".
· Maynard James Keenan ·


"Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender.
You will then experience Bliss."

· Sri Sathya Baba ·


Gangaji video about Revealing the Strategies of the Ego

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Astronauts, admirals, generals discuss UFO cover-up

http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Astronauts-admirals-generals-discuss-UFO-coverup
http://mysteriousearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/russia_kgb_ufo.jpg
Hundreds of government and military officials have gone public in discussing a UFO cover-up, some claiming to have been personally involved.
An intriguing article [...] presented the text and video of a recent C-SPAN interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin...
[...]
An additional recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle quotes Aldrin...
[...]
Mercury and Gemini astronaut, Gordon Cooper, has gone on record describing a personal UFO experience...
[...]
Roscoe Hillenkoetter, an admiral and former chief of the CIA, stated, in a 1960 article in the New York Times...
[...]
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has stated...
[...]
General Vasily Alexeyev of Russia's Space Communications Center has publicly commented...
[This is all over the place now. If anyone wondered what Disclosure would look like, then this is it. In a C-SPAN interview?? That's -almost- a public channel! Now let's see how asleep are the masses...]
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A Spiritual 'Conspiracy'

con·spire
[From Latin con·spirare : "breathe together"]
1. To plan together secretly to commit an illegal or wrongful act or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.[This is the modern -distorted- definition...]
2. To join or act together; combine.
[...and, of course, this one's the closest to the real meaning. In fact, the singers/actors in a choir did excatly this: ''breathe together"]
http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m7d29-A-spiritual-conspiracy
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/301220550_b80c558da9.jpg?v=0
On the surface of our world right now
There is war, violence, and craziness
And things may seem dark.

But calmly and quietly
At the same time
Something is happening underground.

An inner revolution is taking place
And certain individuals
Are being called to a higher light.

It is a silent revolution
From the inside out
From the ground up.

This is a global co-operation
That has sleeper cells in every nation.
It is a planetary Spiritual Conspiracy.

You won't likely see us on T.V.
You won't read about us in the newspaper.
You won't hear from us on the radio.

We don't seek glory.
We don't wear any uniform.
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles.

We are in every country and culture of the world
In cities big and small, mountains and valleys
In farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.

Most of us work anonymously
Seeking not recognition of name
But profound transformation of life.

Working quietly behind the scenes
You could pass by one of us on the street
And not even notice.

We go undercover
Not concerned for who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done.

Many of us may seem to have normal jobs.
But behind the external storefront
Is where the deeper work takes a place.

With the individual and collective power
Of our minds and hearts
We spread passion, knowledge, and joy to all.

Some call us the Conscious Army
As together
We co-create a new world.

Our orders come from the Spiritual Intelligence Agency
Instructing us to drop soft, secret love bombs
when no one is looking.

Poems ~ Hugs ~ Music ~ Photography ~ Smiles ~ Kind words
Movies ~ Meditation and prayer ~ Dance ~ Websites
Social activism ~ Blogs ~ Random acts of kindness…

We each express ourselves
In our own unique ways
With our own unique gifts and talents.

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
That is the motto that fills our hearts.
We know this is the path to profound transformation.

We know that quietly and humbly
Individually and collectively
We have the power of all the oceans combined.

At first glance our work is not even visible.
It is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains.

And yet with our combined efforts
Entire tectonic plates
Are being shaped and moved for centuries to come.

Love is the religion we come to share
And you don't need to be highly educated
Or have exceptional knowledge to understand it.

Love arises from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse
Of all living beings.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Nobody else can do it for you.
Yet don't forget, we are all here supporting you.

We are now recruiting.
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.

For in this spiritual conspiracy
All are welcome, and all are loved.
The door is always open.


~ Author Appropriately Unknown
[Source: www.examiner.com]
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7.29.2009

NASA Lunar Orbiter -Anomalies

Operación Pandemia

Humanity's Expression

Man's struggle for freedom is one of the greatest tests and gifts we have as a sentient species.
Nothing feels as good as fighting the good fight.
Some things really are worth life itself. An ideal, a belief, and a love.
The resistance is now. You are free.

As the pace of change in the world accelerates and more and more people are waking up in a spectacular global awakening out of the illusion thrust upon us since birth, we may find that some people are too far gone down the false-rabbit hole consciousness to ever truly wake up. So many of us work for the powers that be; so many of us consider ourselves the resistance. There will be friction, but good always wins in the end over tyranny. Never lose the belief that what we are doing is right. We must wake up as many people as possible. Nothing is more beautiful than the truth.
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Humanity - The World is Yours

If you lose all fear, and realize you are an infinite being, you become invincible. There is nothing that anyone can do to you. Shit will always happen. What defines your soul is how you react to the shit that will inevitably stick to you at some point or other. It's illusory bullshit anyway. If life is just a ride, help others to see this. Stop the fevered egos (to borrow a line from Bill Hicks) from hurting your fellow brothers and sisters through spreading their favourite disease - fear.

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MSNBC Implies People Skeptical Of Government Are Psychologically Insane

During a discussion of the Obama birth certificate controversy, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and his guests implied that anyone who questions the official 9/11 story, thinks the Bilderberg group are exercising power to create a world government, people who are worried about gun control and immigration,
or even people who are merely skeptical of government,
are psychologically insane.

http://www.prisonplanet.com.htm
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Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation

http://www.paoweb.com/sn072809.htm
http://www.lightgatherings.com/images/navigation/Ummac%20Dan%20Symbol.jpghttp://gfop.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/gfol.jpg
7 Cauac, 2 Pop, 5 Caban
Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for, 'Be One! Be in Joy!') We come again with more to tell you. This reality of yours continues to crumble, with cracks, everywhere, widening rapidly just below the surface. Panic is rampant among the cabal, their every escape route having been blocked and their modes of transportation denied them by our Earth allies. Now the final endgame events are in play, and we watch with confidence as the 'nooses' descend over the heads of these beleaguered miscreants! These final acts set the stage for the preconditions of our arrival: the global delivery of the prosperity funds; the sudden changes in major governments; and the comprehensive national and personal debt-forgiveness programs. The new regimes are dedicated to worldwide peace and cooperation, and to a full-out effort to remove man-made pollution from your world. The latter will necessitate the revealing of long-suppressed and hidden technologies, as well as the ending of the UFO cover-up. However, all this merely heralds the revelation of a far more significant and actively suppressed fact: your sensational transformation into fully conscious Beings of Light!
This fundamental overhaul of your dualistic realm is a crucial element of the divine plan. The dark took over your world completely after the fall of Atlantis some 13 millennia ago. During the first seven millennia you went through four golden ages, but your dark overlords, the Anunnaki, crushed each one by global flood, fire from the sky, fire from the earth, and a second flood, respectively. These bouts of destruction were wreaked upon you in an effort to expunge the fragmented memories you retained from the last ages of Atlantis and the carefully preserved tales of the motherland of humanity, Lemuria. These memories still lie within you, and this is why all attempts to validate these memories are 'interfered with' by the dark cabal. And yet fact-based stories from "the Hollow Earth" persist to challenge the factoids pulled over your eyes by the dark. As long as these all-powerful reality-spinners can keep you believing in their cockamamie version of reality, then their control over you endures. Once you take back your inner powers, the dark realm can no longer survive, and this inevitability scares the cabal like nothing else!
[...]
Our coming en masse is the culmination of your present journey. To get you there, a series of specially orchestrated maneuvers has begun, which include letting the world in on what has been brewing for the past few decades. The reality you know is about to be drastically changed, with the grand gift of global prosperity being merely the first phase in an operation that leads directly to first contact. We have taken on a great deal of responsibility to move this mission forward as rapidly as possible. We do this gladly, knowing that this process is the best way to arrive at first contact. We are here under divine decree and, accordingly, are willing to do what is necessary to fulfill our mission. And so the divine moment for bringing in your glorious future approaches!
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Benjamin Fulford Blog -7.29.2009

·About those Ming who cooperate with the Nazis.
http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/2009/07/29.html
7.29.2009
An informant has come forward with information about a
Chinese Ming faction that has been cooperating with the Bush Nazis. It turns out that a Ming Princess was secretly married to the Taisho Emperor (but impregnated by the Meiji Emperor) as part of a strategic plan to create an “Emperor of Asia.” The group is known as the Baikado or Plum Flower Faction. In Japan now it is the Kanei family that supports them. This is the group that furnished the diplomatic protection to the two “Japanese” recently arrested in Italy with the $134.5 billion[a][b] (or $500 billion, depending on the source). Now, that we have identified these people, they can be easily dealt with. The Japanese members of the Trilateral Commission must wake up to the fact that we know who they are and where they live, but they know almost nothing about us. The Chinese want to establish a meritocracy and not go back to tyrannical imperial rule. Japan wants to end colonial rule.
[Source: benjaminfulford.typepad.com]
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7.28.2009

Obama Forces Smash Israeli Spy Ring Responsible For 9/11 & $18 Trillion Theft

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1257.htm
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/isr2.jpg
by Sorcha Faal
FSB reports circulating in the Kremlin today[July 24, 2009] are reporting that forces loyal to President Barack Obama have begun their long awaited crackdown on the vast Israeli spy network operating in the United States that American Intelligence Officials have long blamed for the financing of the September 11, 2001 attacks upon their country and the massive theft of over $18 Trillion.
According to these reports, and which have been confirmed by Western news sources, US Federal Police Forces have arrested the leader of this vast Israeli spy ring who they have identified as Rabbi Saul J. Kassin[above], and who is the 87-year-old leader of the Sephardic Jewish community in the United States.
Please, read more...
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Catalan TV3 Coverage of The European Exopolitics Summit, 2009 -Barcelona

[Although it's not CNN or MSNBC in its reach, these pieces, from a newscast in one of Spain's main stream media channels -TV3, represent the slow opening/awakening of mass attention to the UFO phenomenon and all its implications.]

Mars' Hale Crater -Anomaly!

Extensive image analysis showed, that no image processing algorithm is known, that may have created the said structures systematically or by chance. Cosine transform/inverse cosine transform (DCT/IDCT) artifacts - so called JPEG pixelation - must be disregarded, since uncompressed TIF imagery is available and detail resolution (raw data unit DCT blocksize) is mapped down to about 2x2pixel. Map colorization programs follow given 2D/3D landscape attributes and are not known to create highly organized, distinctive, geometric patterns on their own. Possible patchwork artifacts (mosaics) can be excluded, since the images in question were taken in a single stripe shot by Mars Express' NADIR- and high resolution stereo camera (HRSC).

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The Orb With A Face

[This is the Orb With A Face...]
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[...and this is the video!]

Silver UFO Sighting During 7/22 Solar Eclipse -China

http://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/news/2009/07-25/1790464.shtml
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/news/2009/07-25/U136P4T8D1790464F107DT20090725133811.jpg
In the Deqing region of the Guangdong province in China, on July 22, schoolchildren gathered on the roof, much like millions of their fellow students, to witness the solar eclipse.
It turns out they saw much more than just the solar eclipse -nor were they the only ones taking an interest in the event.
As they were concentrating on the sun an UFO was seen clearly by all the students -as it directly obstructed their view.
The UFO was a classic silver disc shaped flying saucer. It zigzagged for a while and then, after a few minutes, it shot off at a terrific speed.
One student managed to capture the UFO on a cellphone camera as seen above. The footage has been handed in to the authorities for examination[!].
This UFO event has received massive media coverage and has been reported in all major Chinese newspapers.
Paranormal and UFO personality, Michael Cohen, noted that 'At first glance the UFO seems to be a very clear image of a classic Axthadan probe. This is an important image'
[Source: chinanews.com.cn]
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Mining Saturn's Rings?

Bob Dean speaking at the 2009 European Exopolitics Summit, Barcelona.
Extract from his 25/7 lecture, 'Why the greatest story in human history has never been told'

Transparent Aluminum Is ‘New State Of Matter’

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727130814.htm
http://lifeboat.com/images/transparent.aluminum.jpg
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.
In the journal Nature Physics an international team, led by Oxford University scientists, report that a short pulse from the FLASH laser ‘knocked out’ a core electron from every aluminium atom in a sample without disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. This turned the aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation.
''What we have created is a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before,’ said Professor Justin Wark of Oxford University’s Department of Physics, one of the authors of the paper. ‘Transparent aluminium is just the start. The physical properties of the matter we are creating are relevant to the conditions inside large planets, and we also hope that by studying it we can gain a greater understanding of what is going on during the creation of 'miniature stars' created by high-power laser implosions, which may one day allow the power of nuclear fusion to be harnessed here on Earth.’
The discovery was made possible with the development of a new source of radiation that is ten billion times brighter than any synchrotron in the world (such as the UK’s Diamond Light Source). The FLASH laser, based in Hamburg, Germany, produces extremely brief pulses of soft X-ray light, each of which is more powerful than the output of a power plant that provides electricity to a whole city.
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Chinese breakthrough with mice may mean cloning man is closer[!!!]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/nationworld/sfl-tc-nw-stem-cells-0725-0726sbjul26,0,6810838.story
http://www.rikenresearch.riken.jp/frontline/152/images/fig3.jpg
News that Chinese researchers have succeeded in growing healthy living mice from mouse skin cells takes scientists a significant step closer to human cloning[!!!], experts say, and thus figures to reignite an ethics debate.
The new feat — in which animals were grown from cells that had been reverted to embryos — is different from cloning.
Cloning, in which the nucleus is removed from a cell and implanted in a fertilized egg, has never been achieved in humans. Nor has the new technique — using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells — been tested in them. Because that process works in mice, however, it should work in humans.
"We now have the technology to create iPS cells from skin or hair follicles," said Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology Inc., who was not involved in the studies. "...What's very troubling is that if you have a piece of skin from anybody — Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson — you could create a child."
The researchers involved in the new studies said it should not be tried on humans.
"It would not be ethical to attempt to use iPS cells in human reproduction," said Fanyi Zeng of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Her study, she added, was "in no way meant as a first step in that direction."
[Source: sun-sentinel.com]
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Un descubrimiento de la UAB nos acerca al sueño de la invisibilidad

http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite/noticias/detalle-de-una-noticia/un-descubrimiento-de-la-uab-nos-acerca-al-sueno-de-la-invisibilidad-1099409749848.html?noticiaid=1247033268934
http://www.psfk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/invisibility.jpg
Un grupo de investigadores del departamento de Física de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, ha conseguido diseñar un dispositivo que hace invisibles los objetos a un determinado tipo de luz, las ondas electromagnéticas de muy baja frecuencia, que provocan que el campo magnético en su interior sea nulo, dejándolo intacto en el exterior. De esta manera, el dispositivo actúa, de momento de manera teórica, como una capa de invisibilidad que hace al objeto completamente indetectable a estas ondas.
La investigación está basada en una idea inicial de los ingleses Ben Wood y John Pendry, éste último considerado el padre de los metamateriales, y supone un paso adelante en la carrera para conseguir dispositivos que permitan lograr la invisibilidad a las frecuencias de la luz visible.
[...]
La invisibilidad a la luz visible, a los colores del arco iris que podemos ver con nuestros ojos, todavía no se ha conseguido de manera experimental. Pero ya hay científicos que trabajan en otros tipos de luz, como las microondas, con unos resultados experimentales, logrados el año 2006, que supusieron un primer paso hacia la invisibilidad; campos electromagnéticos de baja frecuencia, como las ondas de radio y televisión; e incluso campos magnéticos constantes, como los de los imanes o el de la Tierra.
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