British scientists study Hawaiian happy face spider

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5199409/British-scientists-study-Hawaiian-happy-face-spider.html

The spider, which measures just a few millimetres across, has developed bizarre markings giving the appearance of a smiling face.

Scientists think the spider, which has the scientific name Theridion grallator and is harmless to humans, has evolved the patterns to confuse predators.

It is under-threat of extinction in the rainforests of the Hawaiian island chain in the Pacific.

Dr Geoff Oxford, a spider expert from the University of York, said: "I must admit when I turned over the first leaf and saw one it certainly brought a smile to my face.

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Alarma Social, ¿Cómo Se Crea?

Periodistas de Telecinco pillados por sorpresa con cámara oculta por la Coordinadora Antifascista de Madrid, Colectivo La Plataforma

135 years of UFO sightings

http://www.disclose.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3576
What is often claimed to be the earliest picture of a UFO, the pic on the left was taken from the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1870. The one on the right shows an object that hovers over the sawmill in Ward, Colorado, in April 1929.

Underneath, searchlights converge on an unidentified object over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942. The bright blobs around the flashes are anti-aircraft shells exploding.
On the left an amateur photograph of a UFO taken in Passoria, New Jersey, in July 1952. On the right, some UFOs were photographed flying over the Capitol building during a wave of sightings above Washington DC, in 1952.
Pic by an anonymous French doctor on March 23, 1974 in Tavernes, Var, during a major UFO flap over France.
This picture was taken by Carlos Diaz on March 23, 1981 in the Ajusco National Forest, Tepoztlan, Mexico. Diaz claimed to have been abducted by whatever entities were piloting the "craft".
This display of coloured lights was photographed by a police officer over I-84 near Waterbury, Connecticut, on May 26, 1987 after several cars lost power and stalled.
Photograph of a circular, multi-coloured object 200ft above the over the Kincardine Bridge. The photographer had to lie flat on his back to get this shot.

To see many more, go to the disclose.tv forum, here...

Mind-Reading Device Sends Twitter Messages

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/mindreadingdevicesendstwittermessages

[.......i c a n r e a d y o u r m i n d.......]

Twitter messages are so short - a 140-character limit - that you have to really think about what you want to say.

For Adam Wilson, thinking is all he has to do.

Earlier this month, Wilson thought of a tweet (the name for a post to the social networking site) and poof, his computer read his mind and sent the darn thing. At just 23 characters, Wilson's message, "using EEG to send tweet," was done with a computer setup that interprets brain waves.

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Government set to scrap Titan prison plans

·Proposals for three 2,500 capacity jails likely to be replaced with plans for five 1,500-place prisons.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/24/titan-prisons-jack-straw

The government is set to abandon plans for three 2,500-capacity Titan prisons, it emerged today.

The justice secretary, Jack Straw, is instead expected to announce plans for five 1,500-place jails on Monday.

Two of those are set to go ahead immediately.

Although sources denied the decision had anything to do with the budget or making savings, the scheme was identified in today's Guardian as one likely to be axed as a public spending squeeze puts pressure on government departments.

Other initiatives under threat are believed to include the identity card scheme, building a successor to the Trident missile and new military aircraft carriers.

"We have consulted on plans for new prisons and have listened carefully to all views," a Ministry of Justice spokesman said.

"The justice secretary will make a statement on this issue shortly, and we cannot comment further on speculation.

"Since 1997, the government has increased prison capacity by 24,000 places and we remain on course to increase the total number to 96,000 by 2014."

Source: guardian.co.uk

El 'lobby' de los transgénicos controla la política alimentaria del Gobierno

·El reciente veto de Alemania a estos productos deja a España como principal defensor.
·La ministra Garmendia presidió el mayor grupo de presión nacional.
http://gnosistema.blogspot.com/2009/04/el-lobby-de-los-transgenicos-controla.html

[La ministra Garmendia]

España se ve cada vez más sola en Bruselas a la hora de defender los cultivos de alimentos transgénicos. En los últimos meses, países como Grecia, Austria o la República Checa han prohibido la plantación de este tipo de productos dentro de sus fronteras. A ellos se les unieron recientemente Francia y Alemania, que vetaron a sus agricultores el uso de la semilla del maíz de Monsanto, la empresa líder del sector, denominada MON-810, aludiendo a supuestos riesgos sanitarios y medioambientales. Pese al aluvión de prohibiciones, la Administración española continúa defendiendo al sector en Bruselas y nuestro país copa el 80% de la producción de transgénicos de Europa.

Con un Ejecutivo que ha hecho del ecologismo uno de sus pilares, esta actitud podría sorprender, pero sus detractores esgrimen un motivo más que evidente: el lobby del sector ha logrado infiltrarse en el Gobierno. Prueba de ello es que la ministra de Innovación y Ciencia, Cristina Garmendia, ostentaba el cargo de presidenta de Asebio, considerado el mayor grupo de presión de los transgénicos en España, en el mismo momento de recibir la llamada de Zapatero. Su actual jefe de gabinete, Jorge Barrero, era el secretario general.

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Una joven china se gana la vida con los recados que le encargan los internautas

http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=606493&idseccio_PK=1007&h=

Nadie tiene más jefes que Chen Xiao: 220 millones de internautas chinos. La oferta del comercio por la red en China se ha disparado en los últimos años, pero nadie había vendido antes su tiempo. Chen es la versión actualizada de aquellos pioneros, campesinos ambulantes, que 30 años atrás empezaron a levantar sus imperios económicos vendiendo zapatos o remendando medias. La red ha relevado a aquellos caminos polvorientos.
"Estás en tu derecho de disponer de mi vida, y yo tengo la obligación de servirte", aclara su web personal. A cambio de apenas 8 yuanes (9 céntimos de euro) por 8 minutos, 20 yuanes (2,30 euros) por hora o 100 yuanes (11 euros) por un día, acepta cualquier misión. Las tarifas excluyen los gastos de transporte e incluyen una fotografía que da fe del cumplimiento. Su especialidad son los regalos: "Si quieres regalarle algo a alguien, solo necesito una leve descripción para acertar". Trámites administrativos, acudir a fiestas de aniversario mortecinas, fotografiar un parto, cuidar mascotas, entregar comida a domicilio... Chen ha hecho casi de todo. El casi alude a encargos inmorales, ilegales o violentos. Las propuestas deshonestas han sido habituales. Acude con un amigo si el asunto huele mal.

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Piden repetir el proceso "Pirate Bay" por pertenencia del juez a grupos de derechos de autor

·Es miembro de la Asociación Sueca por los Derechos de Autor (SFU) y de la Asociación Sueca por la Protección Legal Industrial (SFIR)[Conflicto de intereses aquí? Ninguno!]
http://www.lavanguardia.es/internet-y-tecnologia/noticias/20090423/53688572524/piden-repetir-el-proceso-pirate-bay-por-pertenencia-del-juez-a-grupos-de-derechos-de-autor-internet-.html

Copenhague. (EFE).- La defensa de los cuatro responsables del portal "The Pirate Bay", uno de los principales en el mundo para intercambiar y descargar archivos por Internet, solicitó la repetición del juicio al conocerse la pertenencia del juez a varios grupos de defensa de los derecho de autor.
Tomas Norström, el juez de primera instancia de Estocolmo encargado del proceso, es miembro de la Asociación Sueca por los Derechos de Autor (SFU) y la Asociación Sueca por la Protección Legal Industrial (SFIR), informó la emisora de radio P3. Los abogados que representan como acusación particular a varias multinacionales estadounidenses del sector audiovisual en el juicio son también miembros de la SFU.

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[También pasó que...]
Los proveedores suecos se niegan a cerrar 'The Pirate Bay'

[A raiz de que un tribunal de Esto-es el-colmo dictara sentencia de...]
Un año de prisión para los gestores del portal 'The Pirate Bay'

[Y a todo esto, hay un estudio que dice que...]
Music pirates are 10 times more likely to buy music

Tuvan Singing - Mongolian Humai

[...words can't describe this. Just watch and -listen!]

[...also watch this one: Tuvan Throat Singing]

Berlusconi perfila una lista europea con gogós, modelos y actrices de TV

http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=606067&idseccio_PK=1007

La Eurocámara está avisada. El Pueblo de la Libertad (PDL), el partido de Silvio Berlusconi, que probablemente será la mayor formación conservadora del Parlamento Europeo tras las elecciones de junio, contará con una inédita lista de vedetes, modelos, gogós y actrices de series televisivas. Todas llegarán a Bruselas y Estrasburgo debidamente preparadas tras un curso especial de formación europea, que incluye información sobre la OTAN, el Banco Central Europeo, el registro comunitario de patentes y los varios adminículos necesarios para representar a Italia en Europa y no sucumbir en el intento. "Quiero jóvenes y caras nuevas para ofrecer una imagen renovada del PDL en Europa", ha dicho Silvio Berlusconi, obviando que unos meses atrás había anunciado que para Europa eran necesarios "técnicos y personas preparadas".

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[Algunas de las candidatas de Berlusconi para las euro-elecciones...]

Angela Sozio

Barbara Matera

Camilla Ferranti

Eleonora Gaggioli

[...qué plantilla! Política en estado puro! :D ]

Feynman~The Last Journey Of A Genius

A Nobel-winning physicist, inveterate prankster, charismatic speaker, gifted teacher and musician, Feynman (1918-1988) charmed plenty of contemporary and future scientists with accounts of his colorful personal and professional adventures in the bestselling "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and explained the fundamentals of physics in "Six Easy Pieces." He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, expanded the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics, and -- politics be damned -- cut to the truth behind the Challenger disaster.

Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology, and his natural curiosity, excitement and sense of wonder live on in videos like this one... Enjoy!

Alan Keyes: Government Will Stage Terror, Declare Martial Law

http://www.infowars.com/alan-keys-government-will-stage-terror-declare-martial-law/

Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes has given perhaps his most dire warning yet, saying that the Obama administration is preparing to stage terror attacks, declare martial law and cancel the 2012 elections, which is why they are demonizing their political enemies as criminals and terrorists.

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[...and watch this]

Jeff Rense Interviews The Webbot's Cliff High

Jeff Rense interviews Cliff High of Half Past Human regarding his views on upcoming events for this year and beyond. In this interview, High reveals his forecast for the economy, environment, social structure and politics.
High employs a technique based on radical linguistics to reduce extracts from readings of dynamic postings on the internet into an archetypical database. With this database of archetypical language, he is able to calculate the rate of change of the language.
The forecasts of the future are derived from these calculations. The calculations are based on a system of associations between words and numeric values for emotional responses from those words. These 'emotional impact indicators' are also of his own devising. They are attached to a data base of over 300/three hundred thousand words. This data base of linked words/phrases and emotions is the lexicon from which the future forecasting is derived.
Cliff High calls his future viewing the ALTA reports for 'asymetric language trend analysis'. The ALTA reports are available by subscription.

[Part 1...][Part 2...]
Cliff High in conversation with Michael St. Clair & G22, Cliff presents predictions by his webbot for March 2009-Nov 2009.

The Orion Project

[Introduction...][About The Scientists...][The Transition...][The Supression...]

La fórmula divina

¿Qué tienen en común una tarjeta de crédito, la reproducción de los conejos, la coliflor y el Partenón? La respuesta es 1,618033... el número áureo.
http://gnosistema.blogspot.com/2009/04/la-formula-divina.html

Pero qué tiene de especial ese número? ¿Por qué no es como los demás? Del mismo modo que el número Pi (3,141592...) representa el cuerpo geométrico más perfecto, la esfera, 1,618033... es el número de la belleza. El monje del siglo XV Luca Pacioli, quizá influido por la idea de que los nuevos conocimientos debían adaptarse a las creencias de la Iglesia, lo llamó La Divina Proporción e indicó: “Tiene una correspondencia con la Santísima Trinidad, es decir, así como hay una misma sustancia entre tres personas –Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo–, de igual modo una misma proporción se encontrará siempre entre tres términos, y nunca de más o de menos”. Lo que se esconde tras esta esotérica frase, más propia de alquimistas y ocultistas que de matemáticos, es ese número, el cual se cree que fue bautizado por Leonardo da Vinci con el nombre de número áureo. Siglos más tarde el matemático estadounidense Mark Barr le asignó la letra griega fi, en honor al escultor Fidias, que lo usó en sus obras.

Aprende más sobre 1,618033...en gnosistema.blogspot.com

Andy Gilmore - Geometric Design

Feature Film: Waking Life

Jaime Maussan - UFO Conference 2005

The Obama Deception

Apollo Moon Pics - Anomalies!

[Look at the images below. The shaded yellow/orange highlights the amazing 'duplicate rocks' of the lunar surface, as depicted by the Apollo mission. Duplicate rocks?! Really well done image stitching...to hide what?]

Interesting things mentioned about UFO Disclosure

UFO Ring Type

William Henry on Stargates

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/whenry.htm

William Henry 's breakthrough research on stargates in ancient art, myth and texts has been documented in 14 books and numerous DVD programs. Hundreds of thousands of listeners hear him regularly as the co-host of Whitley Strieber 's Dreamland. He ?is also a regular contributor on Coast to Coast AM? with George Noory.

In his temple-quests in Egypt, France, Scotland and America, William uncovered and followed a visual code of this Way to the Stars in ancient art. What he discovered and brought to the world 's attention is truly amazing. The symbolism used by the ancients to depict their gods traveling the stars matches that used by modern science to symbolize wormholes.

To watch William Henry's great interview on CMN go here...

...or to learn more about William Henry's work, go here: www.williamhenry.net

CNN: Former astronaut: Man not alone in universe

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/20/ufo.conference/index.html

(CNN) -- Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere.

Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments.

He delivered his remarks during an appearance at the National Press Club following the conclusion of the fifth annual X-Conference, a meeting of UFO activists and researchers studying the possibility of alien life forms.

Mankind has long wondered if we're "alone in the universe. [But] only in our period do we really have evidence. No, we're not alone," Mitchell said.

"Our destiny, in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. ... We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there."

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Vid...

Bishop Takes Knight

Thousands of marijuana smokers gather in Vancouver to celebrate "420"

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Thousands+marijuana+smokers+gather+Vancouver+celebrate/1515882/story.html

VANCOUVER — Thousands of marijuana smokers gathered in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Monday to celebrate "420," which is dubbed National Pot Smoking Day.

"We're trying to stay upwind," joked Vancouver police Sgt. Jim Patenaude, who was watching with a number of other officers on bicycles as smoke clouds arose from the crowd.

He said police were mainly monitoring the situation for crowd control and public safety.

"We're just here to keep the peace," Patenaude explained.

"It would be totally inappropriate to jump in and arrest."

He estimated about 5,000 people, mainly in the 18 to 20 age range, had gathered by noon, with more expected as the time approached 4:20 p.m. on 4\20.

The significance of 420 is hazy but is believed to be code for smoking pot started by a group of students at a California high school who would meet at 4:20 each day, after detentions finished.

"My alarm on my phone goes off at 4:20 every day," said Jermaine Coe, 16, a Langley Secondary school student who attended the event with friends.

Julia Trudell, 18, who lives near Nanaimo, said she and a friend caught the 8:30 a.m. ferry to attend the 420 celebration.

"It's unbelievable," she said, smoking pot from a purple bong (pipe). "It almost feels fake, it's so unreal."

One booth set up on the plaza was selling snacks for stoners and $1 stickers that said: "Legalize, Regulate, Educate, Medicate."

"We promote cannabis as a wonderful medicine" said the booth's operator, who would only reveal his first name: Jim, 48.

"The only thing that's harming people is the prohibition of it," he said.

Source: vancouversun.com

Un libro de Galeano, furor en EE.UU. gracias a un regalo de Chávez a Obama

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/04/20/um/m-01902127.htm

El libro "Las venas abiertas de América Latina" que el presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez regaló a su homólogo estadounidense, Barack Obama, en la V Cumbre de las Américas en Trinidad y Tobago pasó hoy al segundo lugar de ventas en el sitio en Internet de Amazon.com.

Escrita en 1971, la obra del escritor uruguayo Eduardo GALEANO narra el saqueo de las riquezas del continente durante medio siglo sufrido a manos de las potencias de la época.

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How the man in a van outsmarted Microsoft

http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/how-the-man-in-a-van-outsmarted-microsoft/2009/04/19/1240079538770.html

He has been called a "born creative thinker" and "a man of extraordinarily high principle". Others consider his inventions frivolous and derivative. Not that Frederick Bailier Richardson III - aka Ric Richardson - particularly cares.

As of last week, the 47-year-old inventor, surfer and one-time dirt-biker stands to reap the lion's share of a $US388 million ($537 million) damages award from Microsoft, after a US jury found the software giant had stolen his technology.

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Israeli PM ‘No second Holocaust’

http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=984696

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged yesterday not to allow Holocaust deniers the chance to carry out a second Holocaust against the Jewish people.

He spoke at the ceremony marking Israel’s annual memorial day for the six million Jews killed by Nazis and their collaborators during World War II, but the event fell under the shadow of the UN anti-racism conference in Geneva, perceived in Israel as anti-Semitic.

Speaking at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial and study centre, Netanyahu said: “We will not allow the Holocaust deniers to carry out another Holocaust against the Jewish people. This is the supreme duty of the state of Israel. This is my supreme duty as prime minister of Israel.’’

Source: Reuters through thetimes.co.za

El sol brilla alto para Oracle

·La empresa de tecnología de la información se hace con Sun Microsystems tras la retirada de la oferta de IBM
·La alianza crea un nuevo gigante de la informática empresarial
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=605502&idseccio_PK=1009&h=

Desde el 2005, Oracle, uno de los gigantes del software de Estados Unidos, especializado en bases de datos, ha ido realizando pequeñas y grandes compras de otras compañías informáticas, una furia compradora en la que se ha gastado más de 31.000 millones de euros. Ayer, la empresa californiana sumó la adquisición número 52 de estos cuatro años. Y aunque puede no ser la más costosa, sí representa la primera que puede cambiar el panorama de las tecnologías de la información.
Oracle cerró un acuerdo definitivo de compra con Sun Microsystems, la empresa entre cuyos mayores éxitos están el lenguaje de programación Java, que utilizan más de 1.000 millones de aparatos en todo el mundo, la base de datos MySQL, el sistema operativo Solaris y los servidores. Y aunque quedan procesos burocráticos imprescindibles (desde la aprobación por el accionariado de Sun hasta los trámites legales) se puede augurar la entrada en juego de un nuevo gigante o, en las palabras que usó ayer Bruce Richardson, un analista de Boston, en The Wall Street Journal, ''un gorila'' en el mercado de las infraestructuras informáticas.
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[Also...]
Oracle buys Sun in $7.4bn deal