Lockheed Skunk Works director says ESP is the key to interstellar travel (Video)

Posted by: Alejandro Rojas

According to a UCLA engineering alumnus, in 1993 a fellow alumnus, who happened to run one of

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works logo.
(Credit: Lockheed Martin)

the most advanced and secretive aircraft development organizations in the world, says the key to the technology that will allow us to travel to the stars, without taking a lifetime to get there, lies in ESP.

Ben Rich was the director of Lockheed’s Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991. Skunk Works is a division of Lockheed Martin that develops super high-tech aircraft, and is responsible for developing the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber, and the F-22 Raptor.

In a recent interview with Open Minds, Jan Harzan, the new director of the Mutual UFO Network, told us about a presentation by Rich he attended in which he feels Rich shared some amazing insight. Like Rich, Harzan received an engineering degree from UCLA. In 1993, Harzan received an invitation from the alumni association to attend a talk by Rich at the alumni center.

Harzan attended the lecture with his friend Tom Keller, who is also an engineering alumnus of UCLA and shares Harzan’s interest in UFOs.  Keller wrote a book on the topic titled, The Total Novice’s Guide to UFOs, which was published in 2010. Harzan estimates there were about 200 engineers in attendance.

Rich’s presentation consisted of a slide presentation outlining his 40 years with Skunk Works. The last aircraft he discussed was the F-117 which was developed in the early 80s, but was not revealed to the public until the late 80s. Rich alluded to more advanced technologies which have been developed since the F-117 but still remain secret.

F-117 Nighthawks (Credit: US Air Force)

Harzan says, “He intimated that there was a lot of other stuff going on that he could not talk about.” It was here that Harzan says things began to get really interesting. Harzan told us, “He ended his talk with a black disk zipping out into outer space, and he ended it with these words: ‘We now have the technology to take ET home.’”


Harzan says after this statement the crowd laughed, but he and Keller were shocked. He says, “Tom and I just looked at each other, ‘Did he really just say that, and are these people really not getting that what he is saying is real?’”

After the lecture, Harzan says 20 or so engineers gathered up around Rich to ask more questions. One lady asked about the technology to take ET home, but Rich sort of ignored the question. However, after being pressed by a couple of the other attendees, Rich asked one of the engineers if they thought it was possible to travel to the stars.

The engineer replied, “I don’t know, it would just take a long time to get there.” To which Rich responded that it would not. He told the group, “We found an error in the equations and we now know how to travel to the stars, and it won’t take us a lifetime to do it.”

Harzan says Rich did not say what equations he was referring to, but Harzan assumes they are what are known as Maxwell’s equations. However, he admits that this is just a guess.

Ben Rich in front of an SR-71 Blackbird. (Credit: Lockheed Martin)

Finally, Rich excused himself and began walking towards the door. Harzan called to Rich to ask him one last question. He told Rich, “I have a real interest in the propulsion you are talking about that gets us to the stars. Can you tell me how it works?”

Harzan says Rich stopped and looked at him, then asked Harzan if he knew how ESP worked. Jan says he was taken aback by the question and responded, “I don’t know, all points in space and time are connected?” Rich replied, “That’s how it works.” Then he turned around and walked away.

Harzan doesn’t know if he gave the answer Rich was looking for, or if Rich was simply referring to ESP as being the key to how the technology works, but he does believe there is something to Rich’s response.

Harzan says he feels he left the presentation with three very important clues, “One, we have the technology to take ET home. Two is there is an error in the equations… Finally, the way ESP works is the same way that this technology works. So there you have it. All that is left up to us is to go figure it out.”


Source: http://www.openminds.tv/lockheed-skunk-works-director-says-esp-is-the-key-to-interstellar-travel-video-1092/

Eric Davis, Physicist, Explains Why Scientists Won't Discuss Their UFO Interests

Two spaceships enter a wormhole in outer space to get to another part of the galaxy in this illustration of the type of faster-than-light propulsion system in development by physicist Eric Davis, who is also an outspoken proponent of UFOs.

For a very long time, the scientific community has been wary of studying UFOs, and the scientists themselves hesitate to talk about their beliefs of unexplained aerial phenomena.

But that attitude is changing, and many scientists are joining the discussion without fear of ridicule.
"UFOs are real phenomena. They are artificial objects under intelligent control. They're definitely the craft of a supremely advanced technology," says physicist Eric Davis, a researcher of light-speed travel.

Davis, a research physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, studies propulsion physics, which he hopes will one day allow humans to travel easily and quickly through our galactic neighborhood.

VIDEO: Eric Davis explains how humans will be able to travel through space at faster-than-light speed.

He's aware of the public perception -- mostly from skeptics and debunkers -- that no legitimate scientists would ever touch the subject of UFOs.

"They're wrong, naive, stubborn, narrow-minded, afraid and fearful. It's a dirty word and a forbidden topic. Science is about open-minded inquiry. You shouldn't be laughing off people. You should show more deference and respect to them ... Scientists need to get back to using the scientific method to study things that are unknown and unusual, and the UFO subject is one of them."

Davis is one of several scientists who are presenting their views this weekend on a variety of UFO-related topics at the 2013 MUFON Symposium in Las Vegas.

The physicist, who recently won an award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for his study, "Faster-Than-Light Space Warps, Status and Next Steps," knows many colleagues who quietly study UFOs.

"There are scientists who are aware of evidence and observational data that is not refutable. It is absolutely corroborated, using forensic techniques and methodology. But they won't come out and publicize that because they fear it. Not the subject -- they fear the backlash from their professional colleagues. The impact on their career might be detrimental and they'd get bad publicity.



"It's not an acceptable, funded line of research. The National Science Foundation does not accept UFOs as a subject for scientific study."

It may come as a surprise that many scientists have been interested in UFOs for decades.

For 20 years, astronomer J. Allen Hynek was the U.S. Air Force scientific consultant on UFOs during its famous Project Blue Book UFO study that ended in 1969.

Watch this 1977 video of Hynek talking about astronomers and UFOs. 

Davis believes that the domain for UFO investigations doesn't really belong in the hands of scientists.
"It's the domain of military intelligence," he suggests. "The fact that [unknown] craft are flying around Earth is not a subject for science -- it's a subject for intelligence-gathering, collection and analysis. That's because UFOs are not a natural phenomenon, and that's what science studies."


Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/20/physicist-eric-davis-mufon-symposium_n_3620126.html

New views of Sun's atmosphere reveal structures unknown to science

Launched late last month, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (ISIS) is designed to observe little-explored lower layers of the Sun's multi-level atmosphere in unprecedented detail – and its first images are already turning up surprises.

 On the left is a section of the Sun as seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. On the right, the same section as seen by IRIS. Notice the increased levels of detail.

IRIS is equipped with a suite of ultraviolet-sensing and spectrographic instruments that enables it to peer past the Sun's outer atmosphere into the chromosphere, the so-called "interface region" that serves as an energy conduit between the Sun's low-level photosphere and its outer corona. When it comes to solar dynamics, astrophysicists hypothesize the chromosphere is where the magic happens. 

Somewhere in this region, surface temperatures (which hover in the range of 5,000–6,000 Kelvin) skyrocket to the 1,000,000–3,000,000 Kelvin temperatures observed in the Sun's roiling outer sheath. It drives solar wind, and gives rise to the ultraviolet emissions that affect Earth.

Via NASA:

As IRIS's telescope door opened for the first time ever on July 17, the imaging spectrograph began to observe the sun. IRIS's first images show a multitude of thin, fiber-like structures that have never been seen before. The observations reveal enormous contrasts in density and temperature throughout this region, even between neighboring loops only a few hundred miles apart. The images also show spots that rapidly brighten and dim, which provide clues to how energy is transported and absorbed throughout the region.

"The quality of the images and spectra we are receiving from IRIS is amazing — this is just what we were hoping for," said Alan Title, IRIS principal investigator at Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, Calif. "There is much work ahead to understand what we're seeing, but the quality of the data will enable us to do that."
 

Read more about the IRIS mission and its first glimpse of this mysterious solar region here and here.

Source: http://www.io9.com

UFO/Alien Disclosure

This lists contains countries that have actually disclosed, those that are in litigation to disclose all or specific files and countries that have released significant aspects of UFO and alien encounters.

This is happening in rapid fashion and will continue until we have some undeniable facts put forward that the UFO and Alien Phenomena is real. 

This list will be updated monthly or when additional countries determine that these files should be released to the public.

There has been some new rather startling information that has come out of Russia in February 2013 & July 2013, check the Russian Links below for details

Click on the country for the source.
1.   Argentina
2.   Australia (new info May 2013)
3.   Brazil (new info Apr 2013)
4.   Canada
5.   Chile
6.   China
7.   Denmark
8.   Finland
9.   France
10. Germany
11. India
12. Ireland
13. Japan
14. Mexico
15. New Zealand  (Additonal Report)
16. Peru
17. Russia (New Report Feb 2013)(New Report July 2013)
18. Spain
19. Sweden
20. Ukraine (not in English)
21. United Nations
22. United Kingdom (Additional Files July 2012)(June 2013)(June 2013)
23. Uruguay
24. Vatican City (Educating Humanity on Vatican Disclosure)


It is very clear that mankind is being prepared for disclosure. It is no coincidence that more than 20 countries have started partial or full disclosure. Also comments and actions from the Vatican and the UN indicate that the "so called powers" want some of this information to become public. The preparation process is well under way and it is not that difficult to connect the dots. The time frame for proof is expected to be late 2013 - 2014.

On a final note, full, honest and complete disclosure may never happen. At best, we can expect some type of limited or partial disclosure. - See more at: http://www.educatinghumanity.com/p/ufo-and-alien-disclosure-list-of.html#sthash.8hb6czd6.dpuf

How to Train the Brain to Release Fear-Based Thinking

HJ: Fear-based thinking is simply a habitual response to external stimuli. Therefore, it can easily be changed by adopting a new set of beliefs and habits that serve to raise our consciousness rather than limit it. We simply need to identify the underlying cause of our fear reactions and this can be done by tracing the emotions and thoughts that arise during situations that stimulate this response in us back to their source. By practicing basic mindfulness, we can detach from the experience of fear and observe it objectively, which then allows us to analyze it from a perspective free from its effects. In fact, simply practicing mindfulness loosens fears’ grip on us dramatically because we stop unconsciously identifying with the emotion. We begin to observe it as an aspect of ourself instead of a defining characteristic of our conscious experience.

In this wonderful article below by Jackie Kosednar, she leads us by the hand through both understanding fear-based thinking and overcoming it in our life.

- Truth 

Stop the Fear: How to train the brain out of fear based thinking

By Jackie Kosednar | The Mindful Word

It seems there’s a lot more fear in the world these days. Having struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I at first believed it was only me who was afraid. But as I began to notice that wide-eyed look more often in the eyes of others—clients, schoolteachers, shop clerks and especially my own—I realized I was seeing fear.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, there has been a lot more to worry about. Remember the Y2K fear of a worldwide computer crash? For the first time in history, we were all afraid at once. On New Year’s Eve, the world held its breath until it figured out everything was OK.

Then the real thing happened: September 11, 2001, and the after events, making our global world truly rock with fear. With the near instantaneous ability of communication technology, mass fear spread like a far-reaching fog, affecting everyone to one degree or another.



Our brains can go crazy from imagining the worst. Our money is unsafe because the stock market is unsafe. If our money is unsafe, our families are unsafe. War can happen any minute—our physical safety is threatened. Add to that the strange weather patterns across the globe. Because there’s more to be afraid of, our mental health can be severely challenged. Why we fear

Fear manifests in different ways. Perhaps we become sharper than usual with people; perhaps we have more fights and conflicts with others, or simply more “bad days.” Maybe we’re worrying more, making little things out to be bigger than they are. If you’ve been traumatized or have PTSD, it doesn’t take much to trigger an over-reactive brain. When that happens, internal fire alarms go off, forcing the body to produce the chemicals we need to get ready to fight or run. Fear can thus cause a lot of problems in the psychology and relationship departments.

We all have a survival part of our brain that’s designed to help us stay safe. When it can’t get us safe, it never signals the body to relax and release the peaceful healing chemicals that follow a fear episode. And so we live in a state of tension that stiffens our muscles. This tension can be subtle as vague, increased worry, or it can be as severe as a panic attack.

Fear energy is not only destructive, it’s contagious. Not only do we manufacture it without thinking about it, but we can catch it from others. Think of how mass panic occurs—it’s simply fear energy gone wild. We all pick up a lot of fear when we read about terror and murder in newspapers or talk about fearful things with others. To stay in such a state of constant tension is a strain on the body and mind. Too much can wear down our mental and physical health. How to handle fear

The good news is that there are many antidotes for fear. When we know the nature of something, we can figure out how to master it. We can take control of our thinking and refuse to entertain fear thoughts as best we can. Worry is a useless activity. If the brain isworrying, it means it doesn’t have a solution. If it doesn’t have a solution, it goes round and round, creating more fear. When you catch yourself worrying, you’re free to just turn it off—think of something else: God, your family, the tulips you planted months ago.

We can control our brains. We can train the brain out of fear thinking. We can drown out persistent negative thoughts with positive affirmations such as, “God is with me; all is well.” Create a thought that comforts you and repeat it over and over instead of thinking. This is especially effective with restless nights. Lull yourself to sleep by repeating a positive phrase. When the brain thinks, it triggers chemicals to match the thoughts. When you’re resting, you want only rest chemicals and healing brain waves.

You can even practice not thinking at all in your daily activities. Much thinking is a waste of time as it’s preoccupied with worry. Practice turning your brain down or off. If you have a problem to solve, talk it over with yourself and find a solution. You don’t have to talk to yourself 24 hours a day, especially if your self-talk is negative.

Another mental antidote to manufacturing fear is to stop negative talk. Don’t talk about scary world events with people and look on the dark side. Give up scary novels and websites. Give up the newspaper for a while. You can cut down to only Sundays or read only the headlines to stay informed. Avoid negative news programs and documentaries. All these things excite the primitive brain and make us more fearful and uncomfortable. Don’t go into agreement with the mass panic the press perpetuates. Don’t contribute to the fog of mass fear.

In your personal life, don’t allow your brain to imagine the worst or buy into worst-case scenarios. Look on the bright side; make up positive stories about what could be happening rather than negative predictions of what might happen. Avoid negative gossip.

If you’re highly over-reactive in the fear and anger departments, there are many therapies to reduce and eliminate emotional overloads and post-traumatic stress disorder in just a few sessions. Get the help you need to eliminate the panic attacks, anger and restless nights.

The most powerful antidotes for fear are spiritual. The opposite of fear is love. Fear begets stress, for all stress is some degree of fear. Love always begets peace and safety. The most peaceful place in the world is in the arms of someone who loves you. That is why we get so upset if the ones we love leave us. The mind and body need to feel safe, protected and loved. When they do, feel-good, healing chemicals are produced that support the health of the body. The brain tells the body what kind of chemicals to produce according to the thoughts it thinks. Thinking “All is well,” “We are safe,” or “I am loved” allows both body and mind to relax, unwind, rest and rejuvenate.

We may also find peace in our relationship with a higher power. Spiritual people develop a core belief system from faith that may go something like this: “I’m OK because God is OK. No matter what, God and I are forever. If this world passes away, I will still be with God. I’m not sure what that looks like, but I trust God enough to know that I will be OK with it. The world is God’s business, and I can let God handle it. God will always love and help me.” With a belief system such as this, the brain can produce a core feeling of safety.

Because the whole world is more stressed these days, it’s important to make more time for stress reduction. Fit stress reduction into your budget. Buy that Jacuzzi tub you’ve been wanting forever. Go get a massage a few times a month or do other kinds of bodywork. Take a meditation class or learn to deepen your practice of meditation. Make your daily prayer time a higher priority. Spend relaxing time with your family, and remember to love those you love.

By using these ideas or others, we can all reduce stress, not only for ourselves but for our world. The more stress we reduce, the better our mental and physical health, and the more successful we function on all levels. Our life takes on a higher quality when we stop and smell the roses.

Jackie Kosednar was the publisher of Alaska Wellness Magazine until her death in 2012. Previously published in Alaska Wellness Magazine.

- See more at: http://www.thehealersjournal.com/2013/07/05/how-to-train-the-brain-to-release-fear-based-thinking/#sthash.f0MesOML.dpuf

Entrance of 777 Portals Continues Up-Step Processing…

Entrance of 777 portals continues up-step processing to 7th dimensional awareness and energetic operations, on individual, collective, and planetary Gaia levels.

Stabilization of coalescing dimensional harmonics will begin after full 777 up-step is achieved at those levels. Current awareness proceeds satisfactorily at individual levels, each at one’s own pace.

Star influences are strongest current influence on those with higher 7D awareness.

Gaia portals are all undergoing this up-step process.

http://gaiaportal.wordpress.com/

New Portals for Assistance in the “humanity to Hue-manity” Conversion Process have Opened

New portals for assistance in the “humanity to Hue-manity” conversion process have opened during the 7-3 to 7-5 period. Such are aligned with new Higher Light influxes currently ongoing.

Current portals also enable more facile communication with Inner Earth beings. No longer are such exchange portals limited to a few limited locations, eg., Shasta. Communication exchanges with Inner Earth beings will now occur readily, and often.

Fabricated “Light Work” is being exposed for what it is, and that “purity of intent” is lacking in such. Following Higher Light Guidance in Self is the norm at this time point.

http://gaiaportal.wordpress.com

Ben Fulford (July 1 2013) ~ Trillions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Bonds Now In The Possession Of The White Dragon Society

Benjamin Fulford

 

Last week, representatives of Asian groups asked the White Dragon Society to help them cash trillions of dollars’ worth of historical bonds issued by the Federal Reserve Board. The WDS agreed on the condition the funds be partly used to finance a massive campaign to end poverty, war and environmental destruction. For example, here is a picture of one of a set of 60 boxes each containing $125 billion worth of bonds:

If the Federal Reserve Board and the BIS refuse to cash these historical bonds, then the relentless campaign against them will continue. This campaign has so far removed from power Pope Maledict, J. Rockefeller, Queen Beatrix of Holland, 26 top Pentagon generals, the CIA head Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, the King of Saudi Arabia and many others. Last week, in a major cabal defeat, Sabbatean mafia stooge Julia Gillard was removed from the Prime Minister’s office of Australia. Next will be anybody else who stands in the way of efforts to save the planet including Ben Bernanke and Barak Obama.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was removed from office 3 years ago immediately after he had agreed to use new energy technology to remove salt from sea water in order to turn the Australian desert green, according to MI6 and Australian Secret Intelligence Organization (ASIO) agents. The coup that removed him was arranged by Federal Reserve Board agents, the sources said. Immediately before he was removed, a warning of an impending nuclear terror attack against Japan was given to the Australian embassy in Tokyo to deliver to Kevin Rudd, ANSIO agents say. However, the embassy instead warned the Feds who initiated the move to ouster Rudd.

Australian military and security types are now going to insist that the murder in 1967 of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt be properly investigated.

http://www.harold-holt.net/Page02.htm

The trail will lead to Henry Kissinger, multiple sources say. From there the trail will go to the gangster families who own the Federal Reserve Board. In other words the investigative trail is grinding towards them on charges of both murder and the issuing of fraudulent bonds.


The bonds pictured above and below are part of a batch of bonds given to a Chinese Nationalist army general by a US general back in the 1930’s. We have confirmed with a master list at the Federal Reserve Board that they are genuine. The Feds have been trying to buy up bonds like this for a tiny fraction of their cost and then dump them in the garbage. However, the owners of this batch are insisting on full payment and they have the means of enforcing their demands.

Here, printed on what looks like monopoly paper, are some genuine Fed million dollar bills:

These are separate from the bonds in the boxes. They are part of vast mountain of such instruments the Feds spread around Asia without any intention of ever returning the gold and treasure they traded them for.





Both the Chinese Communist government in Beijing and the Nationalist government in Taiwan have countless trillions of dollars worth of these bonds. If they present a united front and force the Feds to pay money, the Feds can be driven out of business. The real question, of course, is what to do after the Feds are busted.

On this front, there are several different groups with competing agendas. One is the Neil Keenan group suing on behalf of the Dragon family. This lawsuit, if it is ever accepted by any court, would restore the rights to the traditional treasures of Asia to the old royal families of Asia, including the Qing dynasty heirs.

However, the Chinese Communist Party and some Asian secret societies do not want to turn the clock back 100 years and return to dynastic rule. Nor do many people in the West want to replace a secret Western family group with a secret Asian family group.

Another group, now going by the name One People’s Public Trust (OPPT)

http://www.slideshare.net/ernestrauthschild/five-star-trust-history

has tried to take up the cause of the old Marion Horn Five Star Trust case to get their hands on the vast funds they believe will flow to the victors of the ongoing financial war. While the original Five Star Trust case seems to be legitimate, the OPPT is very opaque and many sources claim it is a cabal front. The OPPT is saying they will produce about 25 million millionaires if they win but they do not talk about what will happen to everybody else. Red flags are also raised by the involvement of Guy de Rothschild, of the French branch of that family, who was in on the 311 tsunami and nuclear terror attack on Japan. A representative of De Rothschild called last week and expressed surprise that Japan was doing just fine and that there was in fact no nuclear holocaust going on here.

Yet a third group claiming vast funds is the Casper group. They seem to represent groups with legitimate claims of having been ripped off by the Federal Reserve Board. This is definitely true in the case of the small farmers all over the USA who were conned out of their land by fraudulent bank deals.

They have support in the military but have not put forth a clear plan for what they want for the planet.
The US military is also up to its eyeballs in Iraqi Dinars. It is not a good idea to enrich the Bush crime family and reward them for their rape of Iraq by allowing them to cash in on all the Iraqi Dinars they stole. Any Dinar revaluation must not include that Bush/Carlyle crime syndicate.
A fourth group, the gnostic illuminati, for their part, are calling for a complete end to hereditary bloodline rule. One of their platforms is a 100% inheritance tax aimed at accomplishing this goal.
However, that will not go well with people who spent a lifetime paying down their mortgages and want to leave their house to the children who grew up in it.

So, how about giving the right to create money to everybody? The problem, of course, is that in such an event a trillion dollars would soon become the price of a single piece of bubble gum. Ultimately, internet based currency like Bitcoin may be one way to democratize the process of money creation without causing inflation.

However, the idea of a totally free market where everybody pursues their personal desires without worrying about the greater good, and money is just a commodity, is part of the reason the planet is in such trouble now.

The White Dragon Society, for its part, is proposing to carry out what it calls Operation Santa Claus, that is make everybody happy.

The idea would be to allow the traditional royal families of Asia to issue money based on their historical treasures. At the same time, the old Western bloodlines could, after the mass murderers are removed, also be allowed to issue money. However, in both cases the money would need to be spent in the real world carrying out big humanitarian or development projects. No more money games or “trading platforms” where trillions of dollars are created out of thin air and spent by cabalists on bribes, baubles and goons.

Also, under Operation Santa Claus, the bad people have to pay for their crimes meaning all the victims of Federal Reserve Board fraud, including US family farmers and Chinese merchants, would be compensated. At least one hundred years of organized fraud against the people of the world will need to be rectified once the Fed is busted.

Also, to make sure the average person on the street understands things have really changed, the WDS is proposing a jubilee. The idea is to eliminate, in a one off deal, all debts public and private. If you are paying a mortgage, you will no longer have to and the house will be yours. If you are renting an apartment, you will no longer have to pay rent and the apartment is yours. If you are an old lady living from rental income, the government will pay you the same amount you got from rent.
Of course, making this real means busting the Fed or forcing it to cough up the money. To bust it, of course, means we need to take these bonds to the Fed and insist that they cash them “or else.” Believe me, they do not want the “or else,” to happen.

The WDS has also long proposed creating a new meritocratically staffed agency charged with the job of ending poverty and stopping environmental destruction. It should have an annual budget of at least $1 trillion or 20 times more than the World Bank has.

Until this is made possible, the cabal will continue to be put under increasing pressure.

Scientists estimate that 60 billion alien worlds could support life

Image credit: Lynette Cook

A new estimate suggests that 60 billion planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone may support life.
It was only recently that scientists used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to conclude that one Earth-size planet is likely in the habitable zone of each red dwarf star (which happens to be the most common type of star). But as Space.com explains, “a group of researchers has now doubled that estimate after considering how cloud cover might help an alien planet support life.”

So what does cloud cover have to do with potential habitability? Dorian Abbot, assistant professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, and member of the research team, explains, “Clouds cause warming, and they cause cooling on Earth . . . They reflect sunlight to cool things off, and they absorb infrared radiation from the surface to make a greenhouse effect. That’s part of what keeps the planet warm enough to sustain life.”

Red dwarfs are dimmer and cooler than our yellow dwarf sun, which makes the habitable zone of red dwarf systems much closer to the star than it is in our solar system. Because of their tighter orbit, these habitable planets around red dwarfs would apparently become tidally locked–the same side of the planet would always face its star.

Simulated cloud coverage on a tidally locked planet. (Credit: Jun Yang)

According to Space.com, researchers modeled air and moisture movements over tidally locked planets using 3D simulations. And based on these simulations, “The team found that any surface water would result in water clouds. What’s more, highly reflective clouds would build at the point of the star-facing side where it’s always high noon. This would have a cooling effect in the inner ring of the habitable zone, meaning the planets there would be able to sustain water on their surfaces much closer to their star.” The research conducted by this team of scientists from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University was published on June 27 in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Source:
http://www.openminds.tv/scientists-estimate-that-60-billion-alien-worlds-could-support-life-1066/

Office of Poofness – Key Events Approach – 6/30/13

Greetings and Salutations, 
 
Many of you have have asked us to pass along your questions for ZAP to respond. Below are a few questions and answers that you may be extremely interested in.


From ZAP……….HI ALL

Q&A

Every week we hear “this is the week” for us to get deliveries, after a while we become immune to the propaganda. We see nothing week after week yet are asked to believe that all is going well and we will be greatly rewarded for our patience without any logic or reasoning behind the statements. You may see progress at higher levels moving funds all around the world but we need to see and hear some type of progress that we can monitor at our level to know it’s real.

ALTHOUGH THIS IS PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE, THROWING OUT SENSITIVE INFORMATION WHILE THE FORCES BATTLE BEHIND, WILL UPSET THE BALANCE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. IF YOU WERE DOING BATTLE WITH A FOE, WOULD YOU WANT THAT FOE TO KNOW WHAT YOU WERE UP TO?

Why at this point in the process can’t someone speak in “plain talk” and be more accurate on exactly where we are right now in the pay out process? With the events of the last few weeks behind us now please let us know our current status and provide your reasoning as to why you think we will be notified and an update on when.

THIS CAN NOT BE ABOUT THE MONEY, ALTHOUGH MONEY IS IMPORTANT TO BUY FOOD AND KEEP A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD. HOWEVER, RIGHT NOW, WE ARE ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE MASSIVE FUNDS RELEASES WHICH WILL BEGIN THE WEEK OF THE 8TH. THESE FUNDS RELEASES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE F&P THOUGH, AND ARE COMING FROM ANOTHER DIRECTION.

By what method will we be notified for F&P? Mail Carrier, Public Courier, Bank Courier or other?

COURIER PIGEON. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A RECEIVING COOP, YOU WON’T GET THE NEWS…. IT WILL BE VIA SECURE MAIL DELIVERY. (SORRY, COULDN’T HELP THAT ONE) (I WAS THINKING OF SEMAPHORE THOUGH…)

When we are notified will it just be a number to call the bank and set up an appointment or other information? When we go into the bank to do our paperwork will we find out the schedule and the amount of our payout?

THIS IS INFORMATION I DO NOT KNOW. MY WORK IS AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL THAN THE F&P, BUT I DO HEAR SOME SALIENT DETAIL FROM TIME TO TIME AS IT CORRELATES TO MY WORK.

We have been told it could take 90 days to settle everyone. If this is true and since many are in immediate need, in your opinion, would we be able get a loan based on our future income if we find our payout to be several weeks or months away?


FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, IT IS A LUMP SUM PAYMENT. USE IMMEDIATELY, BUT REMEMBER, DON’T GET STUPID ABOUT IT…USE SOME FOR IMMEDIATE BILLS AND SOME STUFF, BUT KICK BACK AND REFLECT ON THE REST. BE WISE.

Many people have been involved in the PP for more than 10 yrs to 15 yrs when sign ups were closed. Yet you have commented that everyone will benefit from the PP. Are there any special benefits for those of us who have been involved and waiting for the last 10 yrs to 15 yrs for this to finally payout? Is it that we will be given cash pay outs through F&P and PP settlements to pay off our loans, salt some away and help others while people that will participate from now forward will not be receiving cash settlement funds but will be able to participate through volunteering to help with a humanitarian program? Please explain because some folks feel as though they have been waiting all these years for settlements and now new people will not have to wait and receive the same benefits.

REMEMBER FIRST AND FOREMOST IT IS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY. IT IS ABOUT PEOPLE AND THIS BLUE BALL WE CALL HOME. THOSE THAT RUSHED IN TO GET IN ON THE MONEY WAITED. THOSE THAT WAITED ON THE OUTSIDE DID NOT GO THROUGH THE DAILY ANXIETY OF “WHERE’S THE MONEY”. CONSIDER YOURSELF FORTUNATE. YOU DID NOT HAVE TO HAVE THAT DAILY BURDEN ON YOU. IN THE END, EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A PACKET OF MONEY TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR IMMEDIATE NEEDS, TAKE CARE OF BILLS, AND BREATHE, WITH THE ONES IN THE PROGRAMS RECEIVING FIRST. THEN WE ALL GET TO THE REAL WORK AT HAND: THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, AND THIS IS WHERE I/WE COME IN WITH A HELPING HAND

Why were the RVs attached to the PP when that was not the original plan? THEY ARE NOT
It seems unfair that we have been made to wait on RVs when the F&P and the PP are ready to be paid out. AS ABOVE.

Nearly 200 hundred currencies have been agreed upon and are ready to RV why has it taken some long to prepare the Dinar and the Dong? Is it true that while the Dinar is approx. $3.42 in country and the Dinar currently being held by folks in the US will payout at a rate nearly double the $3.42 rate?

I AM NOT ALLOWED TO REVEAL THIS. BUT THE BASE RV POINT WILL BE ACROSS THE BOARD TO PREVENT ARBITRAGE.

How can Iraq afford to pay out such a high rate? Can the Iraqi economic system sustain such a high payout?

A CURRENCY IS BASED ON THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY. IRAQ IS PARTICULARLY RICH IN OIL AND METAL. COMMON SENSE HERE

Please list the 5-10 major currencies of the world that will be moving us forward into this new era.

THE MARBLE, THE LUMP OF COAL, THE MAPLE SYRUP, THE ROAST BEAST,….THE QUESTION DESERVED THAT AS THE ANSWER IS: ALL CURRENCIES WILL BE DONE AND THEY WILL ALL MOVE FORWARD AS ONE. STABILITY IS KEY, NOT PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT (THE OLD WAY).

Are there any current or historical documents regarding the “Prophesies” or the “Divine Plan” that you can point us to so we can read and learn more about the history of the changes our planet is going through now?

OH BOY…I AM SURE THERE ARE, BUT I GET MY INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM UPSTAIRS (WHERE WE WILL ALL END UP TOUCHING EVENTUALLY). THE URANTIA BOOK IS PRETTY GOOD FOR CLARITY AND FINDING OUT ABOUT OURSELVES, WHERE WE CAME FROM, WHAT WE ARE DOING HERE, ETC. THE DIVINE PLAN IS ABOUT EVOLUTION OF OUR HUMANITY, AND THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE (AND THE GENE POOL).

Are the changes going to be shared equally around the planet in order to put all countries on a more even keel? Will medical, mechanical and electronic advancements be readily shared around the planet?

YES AND YES…THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT IN A BIG WAY.

Can you provide us with anymore news about the “Republic.” Can you provide any news updates about returning to the original US Constitution?

NOPE. NOT YET. JULY 1 WILL BE INTERESTING THOUGH.

IN OTHER NEWS, THE SASQUATCH HAS BEEN SIGHTED IN UPPER MONGOLIA…AGAIN. WHEN YOU MEET UP WITH ONE OF THAT SPECIES, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE CALL THEM A WOOKIE. THEY TAKE GREAT OFFENCE TO THAT. THEY ARE QUITE ARTICULATE IN FACT.

THE OLD MAN HAS APPROVED THE PUSHING OF THE BUTTON, AND THAT EVENT WILL BE FELT IN THE WEEK OF JULY 8 AS I SAID ABOVE. MANY CHANGES WILL BEGIN AT THAT TIME, AND A RELEASE OF MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF FUNDS…MORE THAN 300T INTO THE SYSTEM TO BEGIN THE REBALANCE. ALSO, I UNDERSTAND THAT OBAMA WILL TAKE A VACATION AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH, AND MAY EXTEND THAT TIME TO A YEAR OR TEN. WOULD BE INTERESTING IF THE REPUBLIC WAS ANNOUNCED IN HIS ABSENCE…WOULD HE COME BACK TO VOTE FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT? TIME WILL TELL.

Now listen up, this is important.

WHEN THE TIME COMES, THE RECONSTRUCTION WILL BEGIN. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WELL….WHEN A TORNADO GOES THROUGH A TOWN AND DESTROYS IT, WHAT HAPPENS? THE TOWN IS REBUILT BIGGER AND BETTER, AND ON MORE SOLID FOUNDATION AD TECHNOLOGY SO IT CAN WITHSTAND THE NEXT TORNADO. THIS IS A GOOD METAPHOR TO THINK ABOUT. THE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WILL TRANSFORM AND HEAL THIS BLUE BALL, AND PROVIDE FOR THE PEACE AND PROSPERITY THAT IS OUR LEGACY.

SHORTLY, IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO, A SPECIAL WEBSITE WILL BE CREATED BY A SATELLITE TO INTAKE PROJECT SUBMISSIONS. THE CRITERIA FOR THE PROJECT SUBMISSIONS, BOTH LARGE AND SMALL, WILL BE: “HELPS OTHERS, AND DOES NO HARM”. IT CAN BE FOR PROFIT, OR NON PROFIT. MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. AS LONG AS IT HELPS OTHERS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION. SO NO CASINO, OR OIL, OR TOXIC WASTE DISPOSAL IN SEWER SCHEMES PLEASE, OR THEY WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE WITH A BIG “NO” PASTED ON THEM.

THE PRIMARY CRITERIA FOR PRIORITY PROJECTS WILL BE: KIDS FIRST, SENIORS SECOND, AND EVERYTHING ELSE THIRD. GROK?

DO NOT RUSH TO SUBMIT AS THAT WILL ONLY OVERLOAD THE SERVERS I THINK. TAKE YOUR TIME, AND THINK YOUR PROJECT THROUGH. IT CAN BE A SUMMARY OR FULL BUSINESS PLAN. IF IT IS A SUMMARY, WE WILL HELP YOU WITH FLESHING OUT THE BUSINESS PLAN AT THE RIGHT TIME. ALL PROJECTS WILL BE CONSIDERED.
FUNDING FOR THESE PROJECTS IS ALREADY IN PLACE IN THE MANY Q’S, SO DO NOT WORRY ABOUT GETTING IN FIRST BECAUSE THE MONEY MAY RUN OUT. IT WON’T.
AND SO BEGINS THE NEXT PHASE OF THIS OUR WORK.
 
MUCH FUN AHEAD.

AND A SPECIAL HUG AND KISS TO CHRIS/TOM FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND HELPING HAND DURING A TIME OF NEED. THANKS.

“BE GOOD, BE LEGAL, TELL TRUTH”

GOD BLESS.

IN LOVE AND LIGHT IN OUR SERVICE

ZAP Poof says…….“Keep your feet on the ground and take no wooden nickels. By now, most know, the political parties are the opposite sides of the same coin and it’s about money. Hold all things in common, is the wisdom as old as dirt. Yes, it can be hard, with emotions and other points of view banging on your head all the time. That’s where your own state of peace needs to be guarded as the most precious to you…never mind, the loudest voice in the room or the ‘internets’. When what we’re all waiting for happens, I will tell you in advance, seek the silence. The world will be skidding sideways and you’ll need to find your bearings. There’s no repeat of the past happening here so unfamiliarity will be the norm for a while until you get used to the new ‘norm’. At this point even the dogs and cats know, something is different and are acting accordingly.” Consultations upon request until the doorbell rings.

Love and Kisses,

Susan & Staff

Office of Poofness

Vatican bank director, deputy resign amid scandal

ROME (AP) — The director of the embattled Vatican bank and his deputy resigned Monday following the latest developments in a broadening finance scandal that has already landed one Vatican monsignor in prison and added urgency to Pope Francis' reform efforts.

An undated photo of Monsignor Nunzio Scarano in Salerno, Italy.

The Vatican said in a statement that Paolo Cipriani and his deputy, Massimo Tulli, stepped down "in the best interest of the institute and the Holy See."

Cipriani, along with the bank's then-president, was placed under investigation by Rome prosecutors in 2010 for alleged violations of Italy's anti-money-laundering norms after financial police seized 23 million euro ($30 million) from a Vatican account at a Rome bank. Neither has been charged and the money was eventually ordered released.

But the bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, has remained under the glare of prosecutors and now Francis amid fresh concerns it has been used as an offshore tax haven.

Last week, a Vatican accountant was arrested as part of Rome prosecutors' broadening investigation into the IOR. Monsignor Nunzio Scarano is accused of corruption and slander in connection with a plot to smuggle 20 million euro ($26 million) into Italy from Switzerland without reporting it to customs officials.


Scarano, dubbed "Don 500" by the Italian media because of his purported favorite euro banknote, acknowledged under questioning Monday that his behavior was wrong but that he was only trying to help out friends, attorney Silverio Sica told The Associated Press.

According to wiretapped phone conversations, Scarano was in touch regularly with both Cipriani and Tulli to get the required bank approval to move large amounts of cash into and out of his IOR accounts. Scarano had two such accounts: a personal one and one called "Fondo Anziani" to receive charitable donations for projects to help the elderly, prosecutors say.

In addition to his Rome arrest, Scarano is also under investigation in the southern city of Salerno for alleged money-laundering stemming from a 560,000 euro cash withdrawal he made from his IOR charity account in 2009. Sica, the attorney, has said Scarano arranged complicated transactions with dozens of other people and eventually used the money to pay off a mortgage.

The group of five cardinals overseeing the IOR accepted the resignations of Cipriani and Tulli and tapped the IOR's current president, German financier and aristocrat Ernst von Freyberg, to serve as interim director, a Vatican statement said.

Von Freyberg, who was named IOR president in February following the clamorous ouster last year of Italian banker Ettore Gotti Tedeschi for incompetence, thanked Cipriani and Tulli for their years of work and said much progress has been made in recent years to bring greater transparency to the Vatican's finances.

"While we are grateful for what has been achieved, it is clear today that we need new leadership to increase the pace of this transformation process," von Freyberg said in a statement.

Italian banker Rolando Marranci was named as acting deputy and another banking expert, Antonio Montaresi, has been brought into a new position as chief risk officer to help ensure the IOR complies with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism norms. Both belong to the Promontory Group, an expert in the field of anti-money laundering which has been retained by the IOR to help it comply with international norms.

The IOR's board has begun the process of finding a permanent director and deputy director, the statement said.

The Vatican bank was founded in 1942 by Pope Pius XII to manage assets destined for religious or charitable works. Located in a tower just inside the gates of Vatican City, it isn't open to the public — only to Vatican employees, religious orders and diplomats accredited to the Holy See.

Last week, Francis announced a commission of inquiry into the bank's activities and legal status to ensure it is in "harmony" with the Catholic Church's mission. It's part of his overall reform effort of the Vatican bureaucracy, mandated by the cardinals who elected him pope in March.

The reason for concern about the IOR is well-founded: The bank has long been the source of some of the greatest scandals of the Holy See, famously implicated in a scandal over the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano in the 1980s, in one of Italy's largest fraud cases.

Roberto Calvi, the head of Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982 in circumstances that still remain mysterious.

Banco Ambrosiano collapsed following the disappearance of $1.3 billion in loans the bank had made to several dummy companies in Latin America. The Vatican had provided letters of credit for the loans.

While denying any wrongdoing, the Vatican bank agreed to pay $250 million to Ambrosiano's creditors.

The late Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, an American prelate who headed the Vatican bank at the time, was charged as an accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy in the scandal, but Italy's Constitutional Court eventually backed the Vatican in ruling that under Vatican-Italian treaties Marcinkus had immunity from Italian prosecution. Marcinkus long asserted his innocence and died in 2006.
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