I came across the article below and instantly felt sick to my stomach. I have been writing for years about the danger of allowing our technology to overtake our humanity. I do not think my warnings could be clearer to us than the article below which describes how we will be brought to a road that may be the start of human life becoming integrated with machines and computers making us something far less than human. I fear and dread this idea .
Could this be what took those from another place in this universe from living creatures to machine like half beings more machine than biological? Can this be the type of alien form that can withstand space travel, visit all types of atmospheres and want us for our flesh and blood?
I do not think this is a fabulous leap of science- I think this is a leap towards the end of humanity. I fear this road and hope it fails and stalls every step of the way.
Long ago I felt that what we consider "Aliens"- were in fact beings that were built rather than born . I know from personal experience they are cold and far different than the living warm blooded life forms that we are. I think that part of the reason we are being visited by other creatures is because we still are all life made biological beings and continue to efficiently reproduce that way.
I think blood type as well as genetics plays a large factor in who is abducted and why in many cases of reported close encounters of those who report being taken by beings that are not human.
Imagine a million years of crossing life with machine driven by computers rather than souls and you can only imagine a being more steel than flesh and blood.
This type of creature could have lost the ability to produce the needed material to continue the living portion of their makeup and find a easy quick answer in taking what is needed from the body structure of human beings.
How simple to collect those of us who fit their needs. How simple to take whatever it is they may need, when they need it - knowing there is a lot more available when they need it all over our planet . Even if only a small percentage of us carry the exact biological material they need or prefer obviously we are plentiful enough and easily used . I believe this is why family blood lines are followed and taken and why those with Rh- blood or of certain human descents are followed and taken.
It seems these creatures can easily block human memory and have been using us at will for as long as man has walked on this planet. A even harsher thought is that they developed a human branch that does what they need and have included in the cell structure of these humans a form or a homing device that makes them easily found so they can be snatched when needed for use.
I believe that which makes us living beings is also the draw that brings many of our visitors in our direction. We may be the easy access to a cup of DNA when needed without the trouble of keeping a living farm of their own. It would be logical to simply visit this planet full of life, take what is needed and continue doing that as it may be needed.
I reject the technology being developed by the Russians in the article I have on my site describing being able to transplant a human brain into a robot body within ten years as insanity by our own kind to destroy mankind .
I am revolted by the idea and simply had to have my say on this subject. Find this article on my site .
Human minds could be downloaded into robots within 10 years, allowing human beings to 'live forever', says the Russian entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called 'Avatar'. Itskov, a media entrepreneur, claims to have hired 100 scientists to reach this goal - and is now looking for other scientists to help with the project. 'This project is leading down the road to immortality,' says Itskov. 'A person with a perfect Avatar will be able to remain part of society. People don’t want to die.'
James Cameron's Avatar: Dmitry Itskov's 'Avatar' project aims to 'load' human minds into robotic bodies within 10 years
Itskov, a 31-year-old media entrepreneur, says that he aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years. He says his technology will be of interest at first to the 'disabled and close to dying'
‘I understand these are some very big challenges for scientists,’ Itskov says. ‘But I believe in something you call ‘The American Dream.’ If you put all your energy and time into something, you can make it a reality. Itskov envisages surgically 'transplanting' a human consciousness into a robot body within 10 years. He hopes to then 'upload' minds without surgery, leaving human bodies as empty husks as their owners 'live on' inside robots. The project is called Avatar after the James Cameron movie, set far in the future, where human soldiers use mind control to inhabit the bodies of human alien hybrids as they carry out a war against the inhabitants of a distant world.
'The next effort of science will be to create a new body for the human being,' says Itskov, speaking at the Global Future 2045 conference. 'It will have a perfect brain-machine interface to allow control and a human brain life support system so the brain can survive outside the body.' Itskov says that the system will at first be of interest to, 'Disabled people and people at the edge of dying.' 'The third phase will be to create an artificial human brain,' he says - a computer environment into which human minds can be uploaded.
The Daleks' cyborg leader 'Davros': The first stage of Itskov's project will be to transplant a human brain into a robot. Itskov says that the system will at first be of interest to, 'People at the edge of dying.'
Measuring brain waves with EEG machine: Recent breakthroughs have allowed scientists to 'see' what is inside people's heads for the first time - but could the technology really be used to create robot Avatars?
His final goal, he says, is to upload human minds into holographic bodies. Holograms give plenty of advantages. You can walk through walls, move at the speed of light, he says. ‘Remember in Star Wars, Obi-Wan’s hologram? That was pretty amazing.’ Itskov says he wants to work with DARPA - the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency in the U.S military. DARPA is already researching ways for its troops to use their minds to remotely control androids who will take human soldiers' place on the battlefield. The Pentagon's hi-tech research arm, has earmarked $7million for research into the project, also nicknamed Avatar. According to the Darpa's 2013 budget: 'The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.'
You know your living in the Era of 2012 when you receive emails like the one below from your cable provider :
Important information about your TV service
Between 2/29 and 3/8, you may notice a very brief interruption in TV service due to Sun Outages. These interruptions last only a few minutes and are caused by the sun's interference with satellites that deliver TV service. The service will be restored automatically and there is nothing you will need to do. For a complete schedule of anticipated times and channels affected, click here.
Thank you.
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You are going to have to forgive me for this somewhat twisted posting. My intention was to discuss the videos being shown concerning the Apollo Moon walk. You can find them all over you tube as well as other sites showing what seems to be a rehearsed film showing the astronauts dancing across the surface of the moon as well as another video discussing another person standing on the sidelines of the filming of the astronauts...
I do not know what to think about the man on the moon controversy other then the fact it makes me wonder what the truth really is concerning it all?
I know we all have had our questions about the flag flying . It should be impossible that a flag would be flying as the one shown in all the photos over the years or like the one in the video I will add at the bottom of this posting. There is no wind or air flow to float a flag in the manner shown in the famous photos and videos of the moon landing. That is the first big clue I had something was wrong.
I clearly recall sitting in my living room watching the footage of the flag being planted on the moon with my family. At first my glance of watching the flag waving I turned to my family and asked them if that was possible since there was no air movement at all on the moon. My family became suspicious at that very moment of what we were being shown.
Of course we all have been fed the answers of why the flag was flying including the air needed to lift it was generated from the equipment on the moon that we had running while there.. Towards that idea I can only find a flat refusal on my part to buy in to that thinking.
The next thing that always bothered me was the famous photos of the footprint of man on the moon which shows a well defined boot print of one of the astronauts steps. Again my reaction is a big question mark.? How is it that soil that is like wispy dust or talc like in consistency without any moisture at all form any kind of print? It just is not possible. At best there would have been a disturbance of dust but never a defined foot print as we have all been fed as truth.
Lastly if we did this feat so many years ago why are we still struggling to get our butts back into space ? Would we not be building bases all over the moon if we had actually achieved landing on it- and safely returning to earth so many years ago?
I do not think we were capable of that landing on the moon back in 1969. Apparently we have not be capable since either. I hate to say this but my opinion of our moon landing event is very much slanted towards it did not happen side of things.
I was searching for a video to show the flag and demonstrate the videos out there on this subject when I came across all kinds of things attached to this subject including shuffle dancing astronauts. This is where I take a left turn off of the base of this article to a side bar of discussing another huge problem with everything we think or are told is truth.
If you search a subject using the internet you will be carried along a wild ride of some truth , a few facts smothered with tons of fiction, fantasy and silliness all in one huge pot. This is a fact of life of the internet and for that matter our media system. It is why nothing is clearly understood . The confusion of it all makes it nearly impossible to find ones way from point A to point B without wild detours that quickly take you far from your original road in no time at all.
While I looked for videos to make my point with my thinking on the moon landing scenario I found myself landing with shuffle dance routines as well as a shuffle dancing astronaut. All in good fun but quickly taking me off track and on to something else.
I decided to simply throw it all at my readers to try to make my point that today's way of using the internet to search for answers to any question can be a tedious walk through tonnage of material that can waste your time and help you lose your way.
I live in an area where all the kids are in to the shuffle dance craze . . I love to watch them and know if this craze continues we will soon end our overweight teen problem. If you disagree try to do this dance as long as they do !. Any way I found it amusing and disturbing at the same time that while searching for material for this article I ended up in shuffle dance land.
This happened while I simply followed the links starting at the Apollo 17 moon landing until my search for moon landing videos became weirdly crossed with the shuffle dance craze. I decided to add a bit of how my journey started and where it ended while trying to search for material on the serious subject of the space race . I started out OK but ended with shuffle dancing astronauts. I fear this is the way of most subjects on the net and why things we should take seriously end up as nothing more than jokes or a good dance routine!.
Maybe one day I will believe we have gone where no man has gone before but until better proof is offered I have to say the man in the moon seems to sit there untouched and alone . As far as the shuffle dance craze - well I think it is great fun to watch and wonderful for those who can do it!.
Below find videos on my site and my slow decline from the moon to shuffle dancing!
The video shown below is something to Consider when deciding to prepare for the ERA of 2012 . I have written many articles in hopes people will start to understand that the future may be a difficult road for all.
It is always best to do all you can to prepare any way you are able for what may be coming our way. The most that can happen is that you do not need to use your supplies . This will not harm you in any way other then having a few extra items stored in your home.
However- the worst that can happen if you have not prepared in any way is that you and your family may have problems trying to survive what may be the worst of times that may be fated for our future.
I will admit I have not paid much attention in the past to what was being found by the remote viewing experiments that were being done.
After viewing this video I feel I need to rethink my opinion on this subject . Clearly by the results talked about in this video it would be wise to consider the findings that are coming from this means of remote viewing.
I believe this is like many things in the paranormal and must be conducted by those who have professional well trained individuals who know what they are doing. This is not an area I would give my attention to if it was being done by a bunch of people who want to give it a go.
Like many areas of the unknown you have to have some type of background and knowledge in the subjects you are researching . With that said I feel that the warnings offered by those who have background and knowledge in the practice of remote viewing should be looked at and used as a consideration as a way to foresee that which may be coming.
Watch this video and search out other material by those with credentials that have background and professional standing before forming your own opinion on this subject.
As for being prepared for the Era of 2012- well , what have you got to lose? As our grannies have all told us - it is always better to be safe than to be sorry.
Very interesting Orb seen moving among . Read witness report below:
Hi here are three classic selected white orb shots over Whittier, California in February. I selected these from some 200+ I have acquired while taking hundreds of pictures of chemtrails.
Mufons new site layout is real nice. I can show you three sequential pictures with a chemtrai to give you bearings. . All three pictures, and I have more from this shoot. Were shot in the same minute, timed by j-peg # and date. The one white orb up high, is crystal clear, appears to look like a moon! The others descend or are moving. In an arc path. Of many similar groups shots I have. I thought these would look nice and clear. Thanks, Guy from Whiitier....keep looking at the sky! You will see something!
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I have been very lucky over the years to have people from all over the world send me emails concerning events that they have encountered or found confusing or something they could not explain . I also have had many emails filled with opinions about the paranormal .
I admit to having difficulty keeping up with my emails but will say I am grateful for all who have taken the time to write to me.
I decided to share with all of you to the best of my ability what the people are telling me is happening to them and what concerns them .
One subject that continues to bring me many emails is the ongoing strange sounds that are being heard all over the world.
I find this a very difficult area to pin down or find answers to for various reasons. First and foremost I have found that the type of noise the people write about relates directly to where the person lives. Location and sounds heard go hand in hand.
The people who live in less populated densely wooded areas like the parts of Canada or the open forested areas of the United States are reporting a more organic biological growls or howling being heard that they cannot pinpoint or find its root cause .
Those living in cement covered highly populated city type areas are reporting a loud mechanical type noise that they are not able to track with a metal slant to its echo . This noise is very loud and offensive to those who are reporting hearing it.
Lastly people living in a more suburban area mix of both open wooded areas and pockets of population are reporting an annoying hum that sounds very much like a diesel engine idling in the distance. The problem is that no matter how far and wide they search they cannot find the source.
The common reaction to those reporting any type of noise is concern as they all insist they have never heard the noises or sounds they are hearing before in their areas. The next reaction is fear as all have tried in vain to find the source of the noises without any luck. It is clear strange sounds are being heard that do not belong in the areas heard all over the world.
I had one email from a woman who not only was complaining she was suffering from a ongoing annoying noise in her area but she thought she may have a clue to why we are now hearing the sounds worldwide.
I am not sure how to tie her suggestion into a working theory however she feels our ever growing and expansion of wireless and addiction to technology may be a root cause to a new gaggle of distracting sounds that are somehow being caused by the madness of our times. Could all these new noises be a product of a huge grid of gadgets and wireless technology overloading our sky, land and ...ears?
I am not sure if those in the wilderness hearing screams across the tree tops they are not able to identify would agree with this idea however it could connect with the city and suburbanites out there who cannot come up with any other explanations.
I have heard and tried to find the cause of an annoying Hum that comes and goes in my area without success . I am open to any logical explanation to why we have all these strange sounds being reported . For now it will have to stay on the shelf with a hundred other unknowns.
The next subject that I have had a large amount of emails about are reports of disappearing planes.
I happened to have shared this experience not only once but twice in my life. Both times I was with a family member who also watched this happen. Simply said I was looking at a clear blue sky when I noticed a bright plane flying along in the sky that simply disappeared before my eyes. Both times the sky was cloudless and both times the plane never returned to be seen again. I will tell you this is a very uncomfortable experience to view as it has no logical explanation .
The reports on this issue are the same no matter where they are seen. People are reporting that while looking at a clear blue sky they notice a plane flying along doing nothing unusual or concerning. As the people casually watch the plane fly by the plane simply vanishes before their eyes. It happens in an instant. You are there looking at the plane and as you look it is simply gone!
I was called by a reader who was a bit shaken a few days ago who was driving along the open road in New York. She was driving along the Ocean Parkway area of Long Island when she and her husband noticed an extremely bright almost neo white plane flying along in the great open cloudless blue sky . Suddenly before their eyes the plane disappeared- it simply blinked out of the sky.
They pulled off the road and got out to look around as they could not believe what they had just seen. Miles out over the ocean , way too far for the plane to have traveled they noticed another white gleaming plane. They watched that plane and again right before their eyes this plane also simply disappeared. The sky was pure blue not a wisp of a cloud anywhere. The couple stood and waited to see if the two planes would reappear. They stood there watching but after about 15 minutes gave up and went along their way. They were very upset and confused on what it was they had witnessed.
I have no idea at all what it is that so many of us are seeing happen with this disappearing plane event. I imagine it could be a cloaking system. I do not understand why they would be using it over areas where millions of people can see it take place ? I will leave this subject in the same pile with HAARP technology and all that remains unknown with all of those unknowns.
Another area that I receive a great many emails about is the downfall of the paranormal as a serious subject that needs serious study. The people who are interested in really understanding the truth behind so many unknowns are growing in concern about how badly the paranormal has fallen in recent times.
Those who desire answers are disgusted with silly sites that will address anything on any level including huge amounts of fake videos, photos and reports. It has not gone un noticed that the subjects considered unknown have been a play park for most which pushed out or turned off those who try to take it seriously.
I understand this as I too have been forced to a point that I feel my time is wasted by way of the internet in finding the answers I set out to find when I first entered this arena.
What can I say concerning this other than it is as it is due to those who dominate keeping it at this level. It also seems to be an area that being competitive for attention and time rather has overshadowed anything remotely close to a group of like minded people looking for answers. I do not see any changes coming in the near future to move the paranormal from its present course.
I will admit I was very sad to see some parts of the paranormal taken over by powers that should have placed all the unknowns on a road to truth yet instead seemed to crumble what they got their hands on instead of moving it ahead. It appears we are now moving backward instead of foreword in understanding all the things that we should understand.
Lastly an ongoing group of questions comes to me regularly asking me why I think UFOs and aliens ( if that is what pilots UFOs ) do not land openly and meet and greet us?
Of course the emails come in many forms with many questions however they all come down to having the same concerns.
I have tried many times during my time writing articles about the UFO/ alien subject to make one hard point . Unfortunately no matter how I try to explain my answer to this I find I am unable to say it in a way that is understood. I will try this one last time to reword my answer to this question in order to explain my thoughts on this issue.
Humans view every subject, every experience, every part of living on earth as a human. Human opinions, knowledge and understanding is based on human encounters and experiences on this earth.
Understanding this to be true it is very hard for humans to think. relate to or experience anything other than a human.
Here lies the problem. Non -human beings are other life forms that are NOT human. They do not think like, react like, or relate like humans to ANYTHING as a human does. Knowing this you must understand that we do not think like other beings and other beings do not think like humans. We may be similar in some or maybe even many areas but the main focus for us has to be to understand that other life forms are not human so STOP asking them or waiting for them to act like they are. If you want to understand why alien life forms do anything at all you must stop thinking like a human!
The closest we can get to understanding other life forms is to try to relate to their behavior by way of how we may react to similar scenarios.
Think about how we handle our science projects when we reach out to decipher areas that we wish to observe or harvest or control . We first watch by simple observation or by taking a slice of the object at hand so we can slap it under a microscope to view it . We do what we want to fill our curiosity about the fundamentals of how it works. We then either capture it to use as we please, dissect it , experiment on or simply tag and track what we are studying.
Rarely do we stop to introduce ourselves, invite the object of our curiosity into our labs, homes or hearts- we simply observe, use or discard what we were investigating . Of course we also have moments when we develop conquer or breed what we have studied for our benefit. That is a outcome not to be forgotten.
Other life forms that are much older, far different, very advanced certainly share our ways in these areas. If they felt we were worth more of their time at this time in history we would know it. Until then they decide how we interact. Obviously for them keeping us at arm's length to observe maybe use - is exactly how they want it.
I understand this is a frightening bit of information to digest. I wish I could say I believe all life forms that visit and observe us are wonderful loving beings out for only our benefit who care deeply about our species however that is simply not how I think it is . I believe we may be kept at arm's length for some time to come. I also know I could be wrong and things could change in a moments time concerning our observing visitors.
To be honest I have no idea who or what these other beings are or where they come from. They could be aliens from another planet. They could be dimensional beings or time travelers of our own kind returning in time. They could be transporting from another universe or from a source we could not even imagine.
The main thing for us to understand is that we have no idea what we are dealing with. We do know they are there. Many of us have had to deal with these creatures first hand . Others have seen them flash across the sky or hover above their homes. The fact is we do not know what it is that so easily does these things on their terms with little or no concern to what or how we feel about it.
Knowing this do not keep trying to give them human thinking, human emotions, human type logic or for that matter human science limitations. You will spend your time spinning your human wheels but will not be any closer to understanding who or what these beings are much less understand why they do anything.
My advice would be to avoid contact with these beings if possible .
Realizing how far we are as a society from being able to deal with all of these unknowns saddens me deeply. It is hard to watch as we continue on down a path of blindness laughing our way while fabricating all kinds of fiction in hopes we can be the next big you tube or abduction case of flying about the universe with happy Yoda type aliens telling you the meaning of all things !.. Funny how not one of those stories ever actually gives us the answers to what the aliens have told them !
For me I am going to keep my head low and my loved ones as safe as I can from having to deal with the unknown. I not only found it to be a hard place full of harm and pain- I have found it a place you face alone with only despair as your companion. We will know when the unknown wants us to -and not a moment sooner.
Be careful out there. In some areas of life you simply have to realize you may never know and it may be best left at that.
As my grandmother would say :
" “May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.”
Are We Fat for a Reason and Military Men and the Paranormal
I had a very interesting email sent to me from a reader who wrote to me after I published my article about the Era of 2012.
My article spoke about my feeling that we now are living in a time period when many different difficult problems could come to be for the human race and our changing planet.
I spoke about the benefits of being prepared in life suggesting keeping emergency supplies , extra food, water and items to cook and care for your family at hand.
One of the people who read my article sent me an email asking my opinion of something I had not thought of before. This reader wanted to know if I thought mother nature was guiding us to being able to survive times of destruction and hardship by making us fat. At first this gave me a chuckle but had to admit the readers argument gave me pause to wonder.
The reader feels that nature gives help via instinctively pushing us to do what we need to in order to survive. Fattening up to endure times of hardship has been part of mother nature's plan since the beginning of life. The email simply states that it would be a natural driven need to put on bulk in order to survive a long period of time when finding a food source may become a huge obstacle for surviving. This reader feels that we may be seeing an extreme amount of obesity now for reasons other than a overeating lazy society. This reader feels that there could be a possible connection between our bulking up as a instinctive need that nature has imbedded in us to be able to survive possible difficult earth disasters to come.
I found this very amusing and did a quick search to see if there was fact to back this idea. I did find that if two people are equal in basic health the fatter one will indeed last longer than the average weight one in times of a shortage of food .
I also watched a dooms day preparation TV show that showed people who were getting ready for what they anticipate will be hard times ahead by gaining large amounts of weight to be able to outlast their thinner fellow humans.
I am now suffering from not knowing what to do. Do I pass up those fresh hot crisp fries at my local drive through or do I blast in and shovel down a large order just in case hard times are around the bend.... Just another problem to ponder in the impossible pond known as the paranormal!
Military Men and Unknown Objects and Experiences.
Over the years I have routinely been sent stories from men who have served in the military telling me they have both seen UFO's that were followed by unexplained strange events happening to them while they were serving their country.
The stories may vary from man to man but the basic facts all are the same. The man has a UFO sighting which is followed shortly by being sent to strange places by their commanding officers where they are forced to either take part in an odd event that they cannot remember or are subjected to being in an area where they have seen and interacted with aliens .
I have gotten many emails along these lines however I do not feel I am equipped to deal with this type of report and shy away from writing about them.
I will tell you I do think that our military as well as many other militarizes around the world do have connections with the beings who pilot the unknown objects seen all over the world. I also think we have , do and will continue to use our men and women in our armed forces to test many secret or developing projects. Many of these projects may be harsh and frightening however I do think it has gone on, does go on and will continue to go on.
I advise people however to not try to shove all unknowns into one box and think that every strange encounter is part of some government black operation. I think many reasons exist for many odd experiences. One of the reasons may be military testing . But that is just one reason or explanation for one set of unknowns. I am sure the answers to so many of our unknowns is as long and complicated as the list of strange unknowns that so many encounter each and every day.
The only real question for us to be concerned with is how long will we all happily stay dumb and numb about all of these things and not demand real research done by trained professionals who will be funded and allowed to find the answers without fear of losing their jobs or being ridiculed for daring to reach truly beyond and in to the unknown? Until then we all will remain living in the dark ages of all things considered paranormal. It just all makes me sad!
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Mississippi Delta earthquake: America's Haiti waiting to happen?
Scientists predict a Haiti-magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid fault during the next 50 years. The fault runs under the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest parts of the US.
n 1811 and 1812, the New Madrid fault zone that zig zags through five states shook so violently that it shifted furniture in Washington, D.C., and rang church bells in Boston. The series of temblors changed the course of the Mississippi River near Memphis, and historical accounts claim the river even flowed backward briefly.
Geologists consider the New Madrid fault line a major seismic zone and predict that an earthquake roughly the magnitude of the Haiti earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) could occur in the area during the next 50 years.
That forecast is of particular concern because the New Madrid zone sits beneath one of the country’s most economically distressed areas – the Delta. In many counties in the Mississippi Delta, the poverty level is triple the national average.
Moreover, the area is comparatively less prepared to deal with a huge earthquake than are other seismically active areas in the US, says Mark Ghilarducci, vice president of James Lee Witt Associates, a crisis and emergency management consulting company in Washington.
“There have not been enough resources applied for retrofitting that there could be,” Mr. Ghilarducci says. “I would like to see far more retrofit programs, strengthening of buildings, especially masonry buildings, tying down bridges. That builds resiliency in a community.”
Efforts to prepare
Neither the federal government nor local governments are unaware of the threat.
Numerous interstate task forces and coalitions have organized over the last decade to prepare for a castrophoric earthquake. Education programs focused on survival kits and family disaster planning occur yearly in states. Yet, experts say, few families have kits in their homes.
Last November, the Obama administration’s Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group held five stakeholder meetings around the country, including Memphis. They solicited input on how “to improve long-term disaster recovery with a particular focus on catastrophic disasters.”
The New Madrid fault zone crosses five state lines and the Mississippi River in at least three places. It extends from northeast Arkansas through southeast Missouri and into western Tennessee, western Kentucky, and southern Illinois.
In the 1800s, few people lived in the region. Today, it is densely populated and includes Memphis and St. Louis.
“All the faults are active,” says Haydar Al-Shukri, director of Arkansas Earthquake Center. “We would see an earthquake 10 times larger than the Haitian earthquake or even those in California because of the amount of distance the seismic waves of the earthquake would travel.”
Delta rife with poverty
Even with government efforts at preparation, much remains to be done, says Ghilarducci, the emergency management consultant.
In many areas, people still live in shanties. Healthcare is sparse. Even clean water is scarce in some places. Often, public and private buildings, are decades-old and fragile. They have yet to be retrofitted or strengthened. Hundreds of towns could see severe structural damage, and large segments of the population displaced, Dr. Al-Shukri says.
“You still have a lot of places with cinderblock structures,” he adds. “That is the worst kind of structure you can build in a place with earthquakes. These concrete blocks are very stiff, and they do not have flexibility, so they can’t yield to seismic vibrations.”
The challenges are particularly daunting in rural areas. Given that federal dollars most often target metropolitan areas, people could be cut off from supplies for days. To help mitigate this threat, Memphis Light, Gas & Water was given a grant of $2.6 million to reduce the risk to its electrical grid from earthquakes.
“Disasters aren’t entirely a government issue,” Ghilarducci says. “If people live further out, they need to have something to be self-sufficient for a couple of days until help can reach them.”
Scientists have sequenced the genome of an extinct group of humans which spread around the world 100,000 years ago, using a small fragment of a human finger bone found in a cave in Siberia. The new, high-resolution genome scan will allow scientists to study how present-day humans evolved from our ancestors. It was sequenced from DNA extracted from a tiny sample - 10mg - of fossilised finger bone.
The entrance to Denisova cave in Siberia: The scientists sequenced the genome from 10mg of fossilised bone
Along with the Neanderthals, the Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. ‘We hope that biologists will be able to use this genome to discover genetic changes that were important for the development of modern human culture and technology.These changes enabled modern humans to leave Africa and rapidly spread around the world, starting around 100,000 years ago’ says Dr. Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute. The genome represents the first high-coverage, complete genome sequence of one of our ancestors.
Its creators describe it as 'a leap in the study of extinct forms of humans.' The researchers had previously sequenced the genome at a lower resoulution using the fossil. The earlier genome allowed researchers to find, for instance, that present-day inhabitants of New Guinea have 4.8 per cent Denisovan DNA.
This tooth, thought to have come from a five to seven-year-old child, was found in the same cave, and was the first evidence of the existence of Denisovans - now thought to be a crucial 'key' to tracing man's evolution
The new technique allowed the researchers to sequence every position in the Denisovan genome 30 times over, a far more detailed scan, according to a paper published in the journal PLoS One. ‘The genome is of very high quality’, says Dr. Matthias Meyer. ‘We sequenced it so many times that it has fewer errors than most genomes from present-day humans.' This level of resolution was sufficient to establish the relationship of Denisovans to Neandertals and present-day humans, but often made it impossible for researchers to study the evolution of specific parts of the genome.
The now-completed version of the genome allows even the small differences between the copies of genes that this individual inherited from its mother and father to be distinguished.
The Leipzig group has now made the entire Denisovan genome sequence available for the scientific community over the internet.
The genome is also expected to reveal new aspects of the history of Denisovans and Neandertals.
'We want to make it freely available to everybody already now’ says Pääbo. ‘We believe that many scientists will find it useful in their research’.
The finger bone was discovered by Professor Anatoly Derevianko and Professor Michail Shunkov from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008 during their excavations at Denisova Cave.
Human occupation at the site is thought to have started up to 280,000 years ago.
The finger bone was found in a layer which has been dated to between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago.
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How sad this man has to relate this information via Hollywood references in order for society to understand it.. Makes me sad we are this way. This video will be very hard for many people to digest. It is however a large dose of truth however like it or not.
I first wrote about this odd subject back in 2008. I thought it was extremely strange at the time however since I had not heard any more about the strange half cat mutilations I thought they had stopped and our pets were not still suffering this awful fate.
Sadly I was wrong as once again I am being sent reports from all over the world reporting people are finding their beloved pet cats dead and cut in half.
The cats are left in what seems a purposeful fashion in a place that the owners could not miss them once they start to look for their family pet. This alone is a very odd element in the cat mutilations of the half cat dilemma.
The cats are all cut perfectly in half with the top half left for the family to find of the pets front paws and head while the bottom half of the cat is nowhere to be found. Again as in the cases reported years back the cats top potions are found bloodless and clean. They are left looking more like a cat hand puppet than a dead cat .
The people reporting this horrid find are all extremely upset not only from finding their little cat dead but by the fashion in which they were killed and left for the families to find them.
Recently I was sent emails from Canada, southern California , England and South Africa. I did a fast web search to find that this is an issue presently in Boulder Colorado when I came across this posting :
... expand investigation after another catbodyfound. Posted on26 January 2012. ... Police believe a dead catfound on Avenue H ... for killing and mutilating about a half dozen cats ...
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One of the emails sent to me came from Lisa in South Africa. She describes these horrible mutilations from the viewpoint of an owner who lost a cat in this fashion. Lisa wrote:
"Hi Holly
I read your article on cat mutilations and just wanted to let you know it's not just happening in one continent
Yesterday morning I got up to feed my cat just like I always do and let her out. About 4 hours later my husband looked out the window to find my cat cut in half and dumped in my garden.
We live in South Africa.
We thought maybe it was some sort of ritualistic African crap but after reading different things on the internet we realized it is going on all over and all very similar.
There was no blood around the body or in fact in the body. She was cut through her mid section underneath her front legs. We have no idea where the rest of her body is and no trace to who might have done this to her.
We live in an enclosed complex surrounded by electric fence so I have no doubt in my mind that it was someone living very close by especially as they put her body in my yard so they obviously knew she was my cat.
Poor little thing was only 4 months old and never bothered anyone. I just don't understand how people can be so cruel.
I want to raise awareness of the situation surrounding this animal cruelty and I wish with every breath I have that such things were punishable as if it were done to another human.
ANIMALS have feelings too! I cry when i think how scared my poor cat must have been to endure something so horrible and brutal and disgusting.
i wish people would understand that when you have animals you are suppose to love and protect them from everything that might harm them just like you do children.
I have 2 children and it scares me to think if they can do this to a animal, there is nothing stopping them doing to another person. Our Sylvia was not just my cat- she was like one of my children and it pains me to think that she is never coming home I can't even begin to express how sad I am that we lost her in such a horrific way!
I hope and pray one day there will be an explanation to this situation as loosing something you love in this way leaves only unanswered questions which really hurt when it is your cat.
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We can only sit and wonder if it was done for personal kicks? Was it for voodoo medicine or some silly ritual? I could go on and on but now can only hope that one day people will understand that animals are just as important as humans and this is a horrible dangerous thing that is happening..
Lisa from South Africa"
I know that cats are often targets of malicious humans and slaughtered for many reasons ranging from fun - to using them as a meat source and eating them.
I remembered when I was a child a demented young man in my town had built an entire cat torture camp deep in the dense woods. He would catch cats in the area and take them to this camp where he would torture the poor animals to death. When his camp was found the local police discovered hundreds of dead animals hanging from dozens of trees in this twisted bizarre camp.
Cats are eaten in many parts of the world the same as we eat chickens or pigs. I am aware that the world does not hold the same view on cats as pets with family member status that we do in western cultures.
The thing about these cat mutilations is that not only have they been going on for years in North America they happen all over the world in the same manner.
Sometimes both parts of the cat can be found but most common only one half of the cat can be located. The location of the found body half is usually clean of blood, which is odd considering the animals are cut perfectly in half which has to be a messy business. The cuts are perfectly done with clean precision which would need a very sharp cutting edge and a skilled hand.
The strangest thing about the cat mutilations is the neat skill of the incision that cuts the cat in half. It is not torn or ripped or shredded. The method of cutting the cats in half is clean and done with a surgeons skill.
This has been going on for years with many pet owners finding the gruesome remains of half of their cat found often in an area that made it impossible for them not to miss when the owners went looking for their missing pet.
The fact all the internal mess and blood that would happen during the slaughter of the cat is never found also is very odd. It appears the cats may be taken to another area and returned once they are prepared to be found for the owners in this strange puppet like half cat corpse. In the above email from the poor women in South Africa this horrible thing was done quickly as her cat was only missing for four hours.
I find these half cat mutilations extremely odd. The first thing that strikes me as being strange is that this has been going on for many years in different parts of the world.
Next of course is the nature of the mutilation. Why would anyone or group of people want to cut a cat perfectly in half? The more I think about this situation the more questions I come up with. Why would anyone take the time to make a perfect incision and take the effort and time to either remove or clean up most of the blood and mess that certainly is involved with cutting an animal in half? If it is being done elsewhere why do they return the clean half remains of the dead cats? Also why do they keep the other half?
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I realize that cow mutilations have been going on and investigated for a very long time. I also realize that the cow mutilations have similarities to what is happening with the half cats. They both seem to be useless acts with the dead animals corpse left in areas visible for their human owners to find.
I truly have no answers to who what or why pet cats are been slaughtered in this manner and left to be found by their owners.
It cannot be one person who is doing this as I have had reports from all corners of the world concerning half cats being found . Maybe it is the hideous actions of a group or cult? Perhaps this is an act of initiation to a strange club or gang or cult? I imagine it could be that killing innocent animals may be considered some kind of badge of honor or request for entry to a cult or gang to prove some kind of twisted act of violence by way of attacking kitty cats and kittens. I find it childish , moronic and cowardly , but it could be a possibility.
It was suggested to me that this could be some sort of need by private companies or secret projects to provide them with organic material for biological programs they are working on. I have my doubts about that as wouldn’t it be far easier to simply catch and keep the cats or empty the overcrowded animal shelters as a source for live animals. I doubt if this was the cause they would leave half of the animal to be found by the poor pet owners.
Can the half cat mutilation be some sort of step in some kind of large underground game being played out in secret by its players? Could this be some sorted thrill found in the deviant side of the erotic pleasure spectrum only a few partake in? I have had all of these things suggested but cannot figure out if any of these ideas are correct or even close to the base of why the cats are being slaughtered without reason- and left cut in half.
Of course more than one person has brought UFO and alien involvement to my attention as who may be mutilating and leaving the half cats. I would question the reasons they would leave the cat half to be found yet realize that we understand very little about visiting beings or why they abduct humans so must leave this as a open possibility with the cat half mutilations.
My opinion with this subject is one of confusion and questions. I know that this is going on. I just have no idea at all why or by who..
If you have found your cat sadly in this fashion please let us know. If you have an idea who or why this is happening please forward that information to us as well. Since this horrid activity is once again rearing its ugly head I think it is time we started to examine it with a bit more concern and interest. It is far too strange to go unanswered.
For me I am going to add a bit more thought and protection towards my own pets. It seems the longer one lives the stranger this world becomes.
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