The tragic murder of JonBenèt Ramsey on December 25, 1996, remains one of the top unsolved murder mysteries ever. And ever since this case took center stage in the media, for months and years, I followed it pretty closely – at least for awhile. It seemed to me, that the media was trying the case in the public spotlight – and only focusing on the parents and the “pageants”. It seemed to me that no one was even considering that it could have been an intruder that killed JonBenèt – as some evidence of an intruder was found. The media (and law enforcement) focused their investigations solely on the parents and that was what was being reported.

The majority of the “facts” being reported by the media were wrong. The media constantly reported inaccuracies, made false claims, and reported rumors about “evidence” that was being fed to them without checking the “sources”. Sources that were also inaccurate, outright false allegations, rumors, and concocted “evidence” on the favor of the “parents” did it.

It is now 2012, and it has been 16 years since the brutal murder of JonBenèt Ramsey that fateful night. And the mystery of who her killer(s) are remains a mystery. This case just gets weirder with each passing year.

So I decided to read up on all the actual “facts” about this case. And oh my, there are theories abound. All kinds of theories.

Here are just a few of the theories. Of course we have the theory that John and/or Patsy Ramsey killed their daughter and covered it up. Then Burke Ramsey theories. Intruder theories. Acquaintance theories. Friendly acquaintance theories. Even a pedophile sex ring operating in Boulder theories and dozens more.

Theories of just about every kind have been proposed. Now as far as suspects, those are plentiful as well. Not only are JonBenèt’s family suspects, including John (father), Patsy (mother), Burke (brother), Melinda (half-sister) but so many others as well.

Other suspects include the “Amy Attacker”, the “Candy Can Man”, John Mark Karr, Fleet White (who found the body with John), Bill McReynolds (Santa), some unknown intruder, Randy Simons (photographer), the Ramsey neighbors the Barnhills, Jeff Merrick (former Access Graphics employee), Chris Wolf, Doug Stine, Linda Hoffman-Pugh (housekeeper), and on and on. The list doesn’t end there.

What I can finally say, is that after reading hundreds of pages of all the different websites devoted to this case and the memory of JonBenèt Ramsey, I have my own conclusions.

I’ll make this real clear. This is only my opinion of the facts that I have researched including: the available autopsy photos, autopsy findings, and videos, movies, and documentaries I’ve seen, forums, other websites, and books written about this murder case.

I do not claim to have any expertise in any field of authority or have any training of any kind that constitutes anything other than this is just my opinion on this murder case, which remains unsolved.

I have always, almost with certainty, believed that the parents of JonBenèt Ramsey had NOTHING to do with this murder. Until I started my research the last two months. Certain aspects of this case bothered me. Evidence and circumstances that just didn’t fit.

These things just gnawed at me. Over and over. They just didn’t fit. And yes, I had sleepless nights as well. I kept coming back to them. I went back and forth. No it wasn’t the Ramsey’s. Then it was. Then it was someone else. Then there was other new evidence, like DNA, that has since come to light with new technology, that seems to clear the Ramsey’s once and for all.

But–

Here are the things that bothered me:

First, the famous (3 pages) Ransom Note. Have you ever read the ransom note? Here’s a copy for you to read above. It is definitely a hoax. It is staged and there is no two ways about it. The analysis of the note that has been done by plenty of people – and their conclusions — are the same as mine. It was staged, as an after thought. The “author” of the note can’t make up it’s mind if it should be “we” and “us”, or “I”, “me”, or “my”. It isn’t like any other ransom note. It is 3 pages long, one of the longest, if not THE longest ransom note in history. It starts out describing some “small foreign faction”. Yeah right. It doesn’t get to the point. “They” have to describe who they are. Really? Most ransom notes state something like “we have your daughter, and if you ever want to see her again, do this and we’ll be contacting you”.

Another thing interesting in the note, is the fact that “they” tell John Ramsey to get the money from “his” account. Really? They have to tell him to get money from HIS account? Where else would he get the money from? Unless the writer was Patsy and they had individual and joint accounts and she inadvertently slipped when she wrote “his” account. Which is possible, right?

Another interesting thing about the note is the ending. It is definitely pointing a finger at John. Very personal towards him over and over. It just sounds like a woman wrote this note. The tone of what is said is definitely a woman’s. Many experts that have analyzed the ransom note have come to the same conclusion.

Everyone knows that the ransom note was written on and with what was found in the Ramsey home. The pad and the pen were both from their house. But did you know that there was a practice note or a draft left at the house on the same pad?  It started as “Mr. and Mrs. I” and the I wasn’t finished. It was on the page just before the real ransom note. Analysis of the pad (basic legal pad) was the pages 1-12 were missing. Pages 13-16 had notes and lists. Pages 17-25 were also missing. Page 26 was the practice note with bleed through from page 25 which was missing. The actual ransom note was on pages 27,28, and 29. Since the note was so long, it took some time for someone to sit down, in the dark, and write out that note. Someone who knew they had ample time to write a rambling ransom note.

And the amount of the ransom of $118,000 is so odd you almost have to laugh. The theory here, as everyone knows, is almost the exact amount of the bonus that John Ramsey had just received. Whoever thought of that amount, was stupid. They needed to grow some balls and ask for 5 million or more. These were wealthy individuals and could afford more than a measly $118,000 for their daughter.

Okay, enough about the note.

Second thing that bothers me is the FACT that Patsy Ramsey greeted the police at the door wearing the same outfit she had worn the night before at the Christmas party. Really? Patsy was known to never wear the same outfit twice. Much less put on an outfit that she wore for parties and then wear again for a plane trip early the next morning? I don’t buy that. Something about this bothers me and others. It seems more plausible that Patsy had been up all night – covering up maybe?

The third thing that bothers me is the FACT that JonBenèt was found with underwear/panties on her that were size 12/14! That size is 3 times the size she normally wore which was size 4/6. This bothers me too. It screams that someone either redressed JonBenèt or she put them on herself for some unknown reason, like perhaps playing doctor with Burke down in the basement. And JonBenèt’s bed upstairs in her room was dry and not wet. (she was a bed wetter and theories say that is the reason Patsy snapped and killed her child.) Urine stains were found in the next room from where her body was found. Supposedly Patsy says the oversized underwear was a gift for a niece, and that it was gift wrapped and stored in the basement. Only someone from the family would have known what was in the package (a pair of underwear) and put them on JonBenèt after she urinated in her other panties in the room next door in the basement, and made her put on the oversized underwear.

The fourth things that bothers me is the circumstances of the house. This was Christmas day/night. Gifts had been opened and they lived in an upscale neighborhood. We all know that Christmas time is prime time for burglaries. And it bothers me that the alarm was not even on. That a window in the basement had supposedly been broken for over a month per John’s testimony. They were remodeling the basement and had workers in and out all the time. You would think that they could spring for fixing a broken window that someone could easily climb through. It was found that approximately 6 or 7 windows in the house were not secured and at least one door. I have a problem with that. Why have an alarm system?

The fifth thing that bothers me is the bat. A bat, not belonging to the Ramsey’s apparently, was found outside on the north side of the house. Just laying on a stone ledge, like it had been placed there and not thrown. Although a neighbor reported hearing a “clanging” sound like metal on concrete, it doesn’t appear to have been thrown but placed there on the ledge. This evidence is out of place. It doesn’t belong there. It wasn’t the murder weapon, per the experts, so why would someone have a need to place the bat outside of the house? It just doesn’t fit. But since the weapon that made the blow to JonBenèt’s head hasn’t been found, the bat could likely be the murder weapon and not the large flashlight found in the kitchen that most believe is the murder weapon. A fiber or fibers were found on the bat that matched to the carpet in the basement. So it is connected to the murder? Also, bike tracks were also found in the grass leading away from the house. Hmmmm.

A couple of other things that don’t make sense also are out of place. The bag of rope found in the guest bedroom and the Danish book, “The Grand Design” by David Pilgrim, found on the 3rd floor which is the Ramsey’s bedroom. Here is another hmmmm.

Okay the suitcase under the window in the train room also bothers me. The suitcase, which was found beneath a window, also had a small piece of broken glass on it. The contents of the suitcase; a duvet, a pillow sham, and a Dr. Seuss book was inside. The Ramsey’s recognized the suitcase but stated that it wasn’t kept in that location and the contents were kept somewhere else and not inside the suitcase. It seemed to have just been moved since no dust or debris (other than the broken glass) was found on it. Okay, so the contents to me seem like stuff that one would need for kidnapping a child. A book for her to read, a blanket, and a pillow sham to use on any pillow. Right? Or was the suitcase staged? Why would a kidnapper leave the things he gathered for the child he wants to kidnap under a window?

The last thing that really bothers me is the supposed “heart” drawn in JonBenèt’s hand. Here is a closeup of the so called “heart” above. To me, it doesn’t look like a heart. It looks more like a “V”. And I’m not the only one who thinks that it looks like a “V”. Now remember, the ransom note was signed “Victory, S.B.T.C.”. And there is speculation as to what the initials mean. Most believe it stands for “Saved by the cross”. I think the initials stand for “Saved by the child”. So all together, the note was signed “Victory, saved by the child” and that matches the “V” drawn in JonBenèt’s hand. She was sacrificed somehow in the mind of the killer.

Then just the other day, I was reading the transcript from an interview with Patsy Ramsey on 6/23/98 with the Broomfield police found at www.forumsforjustice.org (link below). At line 41, where they were asking Patsy to describe what she did when she found the note and if she screamed or yelled or ran upstairs for John or what she did – and I found this stated by Patsy:

PATSY RAMSEY: I remember my voice
4 was just cracking. I mean it was like “John”,
5 like that. I mean like, I can’t even, you know,
6 I hear my scream and I hear his scream when he
7 came up from the basement, I mean it was just a
8 horrible thing. You know, it was just –

Do you see it? She states that she could hear John’s scream as he was coming up FROM THE BASEMENT! Patsy has always said that she awoke that morning of December 25, after John, and that she could hear the shower going and assumed he was in the shower. But this totally contradicts previous statements. She is clearly stating that John was not upstairs in the shower – but coming up from the basement. For me, this is a bombshell. It shows that John was in the basement and no one knows for how long he was down there. Not even Patsy.

There are other circumstances of this case that don’t fit either. But the above are the ones that gnawed at me over and over. There just seems to be too many things that show that staging took place. Things like the Danish book, the rope in a bag, the suitcase under the window, the chair blocking the door, the ransom note, the heart in her hands, and the house not being secured, Patsy’s outfit, the oversized panties found on JonBenèt, and so on.

The Ramsey’s had all night to stage the house for a cover-up. They wrote the note, took off JonBenèt’s nightgown and tossed it aside, covered her up with a blanket, put tape over her mouth and tied her hands, drew the heart or V in her hand, broke a paint brush and made a garrote and put around her throat, stuffed some stuff in a suitcase and put under a window that could be used to enter/exit, put a chair to block a doorway, put some rope in a bag and left it in the guest bedroom, put the Danish book in their room on the dresser, and placed the bat on the stone ledge outside of the house. They left the pineapple in a bowl in the kitchen which had Patsy’s and Burke’s fingerprints, took the flashlight upstaris and then called the police. And the rest is history. Doing these things just made the evidence just baffling enough that nothing makes sense.

Either it was a bad staging of the crime or the perp was not at all sophisticated in crime. In this case, there truly is evidence that an intruder was responsible. And there is evidence that things were staged and there was a cover-up. It can’t be both. But yet there is evidence of both.

My conclusion? Well, of all the lawsuits that the Ramsey’s have filed, the only one’s they have gone after very aggressively (and won) were regarding Burke. And of all the questions that they have answered over the years, the only questions they seem to not have answered pertained to Burke. And they always denied that the unknown voice on the 911 call was Burke. Burke supposedly acknowledged that he was “pretending’ to be asleep that night. Burke was never a suspect due to his age (aged 9 at the time). And in their own book, “The death of innocence”, they strongly urged law enforcement to look at their “inner circle”. So I suspect that Patsy and John Ramsey FIGURED OUT who actually killed JonBenèt which may have included Burke or Burke told them.

Here is scenario:  That Burke and an unknown friend (probably on a bike which left the tracks in the grass) were downstairs playing with JonBenèt. The friend was probably older than Burke, who was nine at the time, and more sexually curious. It was Christmas and they had plenty of toys to play with. Burke and JonBenèt must have woke up during the night and went to the kitchen to have pineapple and then to the basement to play with new toys or play “doctor”. The friend showed up and came inside. There were allegations that this wasn’t the first time that Burke had been caught playing “doctor” with JonBenèt. The older unknown friend could have been sexually assaulting JonBenèt and Burke told her they were just playing “doctor”. JonBenèt probably wet her pants while they were in the hallway, leaving the stain. Burke and his friend started making fun of JonBenèt for wetting her pants. So she gets the present for her cousin, the oversized underwear, and puts them on.  Then something went wrong. Probably a blow to the head with a bat or the flashlight was stronger than anticipated and this actually knocked JonBenèt unconscious. It was just a game they were playing. It wasn’t intentional I don’t think. It was an accident. So they moved her body to the “wine cellar”. Later on, JonBenèt wakes up. So start playing again. The friend continues to do sexual things with JonBenèt. The friend makes the garrote and jokingly chokes JonBenèt as a game. But something goes wrong and she dies.  Burke and his friend panicked. The friend left the house on his bike, and laid the bat on the ledge outside the house after wiping it clean. Burke ran and woke his father and he then proceeded to cover up. Why is not real clear. But since evidence supports the fact that JonBenèt had prior sexual abuse, that may be the reason that an intruder had to be arranged for the crime. Since John would surely have been accused of the sexual abuse (incest) of his daughter when the prior sexual abuse was later discovered. He had to make it look like an intruder strangled and sexually abused his daughter. Patsy may not have even been in on the cover-up. It could have all been John and Burke’s doing. But Patsy could have written the note and not knowing why. John could have woken her up and told her that something happened to JonBenèt and he needed her to write a ransom note. Patsy did so, but at the end of the note, she started getting angry that John was making her write the note and either not knowing the full truth or not knowing whether they would get caught. Or something like that.

Although almost all of the handwriting experts ruled out Patsy as the author of the ransom note, she was ambidextrous. She could have easily disguised her writing. I can even do that. I am left-handed and I can write like a left hander, a right hander, or with my right hand. I practice writing with my right hand every so often. I read where it helps you to remember things. So I practice. And looking at my writing with my right hand – no one could tell that it was my writing. So the note could have been written by Patsy in my mind despite what the experts say. And it has even

I just can’t believe that if this murder was truly an intruder that did it– then why did all the staging go on? There would be no need for staging if they were truly innocent. The only plausible explanation is that they were covering up for the only other person in the house. And that’s just my thoughts.

I can’t help but wonder what way this case would have gone if the ransom note was never written. The ransom note is the problem. Police knew it was bogus the moment they read it. That may be the reason why law enforcement never looked at anyone else but the immediate family. The ransom note was the problem from the start. If it had never been there – this case would probably have a whole different outcome.

But since DNA has come along way since 1996, new evidence has been found. Unknown male DNA has been found on 3 separate items of evidence and all 3 match the same person. So some unknown person was in the room that night. Was it the killer’s? A Hi-Tec shoe imprint has also been found that doesn’t belong to the Ramseys. Other evidence found:  partial handprint, a palm print, pubic hair on the blanket, scuff marks under the basement window, hair, fingernail scrapings with unknown male DNA,and several fibers from various places. Law enforcement, the D.A.’s office, and prosecutors have all completely cleared the Ramsey’s of this crime due to the DNA evidence. But the DNA has yet to be identified to a person.  Is it yet a still unknown friend of Burke’s or the family? An intruder – one who brought a bag of rope, a book written in Danish, a bat, but not the note? Instead spent plenty of time in the house writing more than one ransom note, and didn’t leave an obvious point of entry or exit but snuck around the whole house leaving the book, the rope bag, the bat outside, and strangled JonBenèt in the basement with a flashlight from the kitchen, without being heard?

Look, we all have different faces. Ones that the public sees and ones that no one sees that are behind closed doors. We never know what goes on behind doors. Many murderers have shocked people who knew them and never would have thought them capable. But it happens. It isn’t pretty. It’s quite sick actually. But nonetheless, it happens in this world.

I have always, as I followed this case, believed the Ramsey’s were getting prosecuted by the media circus that ensued when the case went public, a trial by media they say. I was certain that the family had nothing to do with it. But after spending the last two months reading everything that I could find, I had to change my thinking. The family didn’t kill their daughter. But they DO KNOW WHO DID and helped cover it up. The Boulder police screwed up from the start and everyone knows it – even they admit that. The house wasn’t secured, they didn’t do proper searches of the house, people were coming and going, and they didn’t take the note seriously at first. It was just a bad investigation by the police all around. They weren’t the ones that even found the body! It was Fleet White and John Ramsey that found the body. And then the police let John move the body from the basement to upstairs. Then officer Arndt moved the body again! Critical evidence was compromised from the start. It’s just too bad. JonBenèt was a beautiful child, and had her entire life ahead of her. She deserves to have her killer brought to justice.

I don’t believe, from any of the evidence, that the parent’s of JonBenèt, John or Patsy, killed her. They didn’t have anything to do with her death. And the evidence went to a grand jury twice, and both times they said there wasn’t any evidence of either parent being involved, despite what law enforcement believed. But my top suspects would probably be Burke or more likely, a friend of Burke’s. I have a suspicion that whoever the “Secret Santa” was, was probably the one that was involved. It was someone close to the family. And John and/or Patsy knew who it was, but for some reason only they know, they had to cover it up. Maybe we will never know the truth – but I am sure that given the evidence, the circumstances, and the people involved, that this murder mystery can be solved.

There have obviously been several books written on this murder mystery as well as movies, documentaries, and websites, all devoted to the memory and murder of JonBenèt. First, the Ramsey’s themselves wrote a book titled “Death of Innocence”. A mini-series “Perfect Murder, Perfect Town” was aired on CBS, from the book by Lawrence Schiller, that spurred interest into the cold case. Former detective on the case, Steve Thomas, wrote “JonBenèt-Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation”. Other books include: “The Case That Haunts Us” by John Douglas. “Presumed Guilty: An Investigation into the JonBenèt Ramsey Case, Media, and the Culture of Porn” by Stephen Singular. “Foreign Faction: Who Really Kidnapped JonBenèt?” by James Kolar. “Who Killed JonBenèt Ramsey” by Cyril H. Wecht and Charles Bosworth Jr. And “In My Opinion, JonBenèt Ramsey: The Travesty of Innocence- Now Hear the Truth” by John Walker. “A Little Girl’s Dream? A JonBenèt Ramsey Story” by Eleanor Von Duyke. “Death of a Little Princess: The Tragic Story of the Murder of JonBenèt Ramsey” by Carlton Smith. “The Other Side of Suffering: The Father of JonBenèt Ramsey Tells the Story of his Journey from Grief to Grace” by John Ramsey. “An Evening with JonBenèt Ramsey” by Walter A. Davis. Even Linda Hoffman, a possible suspect, wrote a book “The Death of Innocent”, but I can’t find where it was ever published. And there are probably more.

I have read more websites, books, forums, comments from others, and seen every documentary possible than I could possibly list. The best place to learn all the details, and I mean almost every detail from the beginning is at JonBenèt Ramsey Case Encyclopedia –link below  http://jonbenetramsey.pbworks.com/w/page/11682477/FrontPage

Just some of the sources:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/20/jonbenet-ramsey-detective-new-book-casts-doubt-on-intruder-theory/

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/ramsey/index_1.html

http://jonbenetramsey.pbworks.com/w/page/11682477/FrontPage

http://www.forumsforjustice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9945

http://www.topix.com/news/jonbenet-ramsey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142791

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/ramsey/it_5b.html

http://www.acandyrose.com/crimescene-thebody.htm

http://crimeshots.com/CrimeScene1.html

If you could travel into the “future” a thousand years from now, what technology that we have today do you think will still be around in the future?

I often think about what it will be like in the future. Seems silly, I know. But just 200 years ago, who would have thought that we could talk to anyone, just about anywhere on the planet, basically instantaneously? Or have live television, in color, at any time?

We’ve had some great inventions. Some that have transformed the world as we know it. From telephones, television, cell phones, computers, fiber optics, stealth planes, ground penetrating radar, microchips, and on and on.

Truly fascinating technology, that we use every single day. How long do you think you could go without having all this at your fingertips? A day? A week? Longer? I doubt it.

The latest report I heard on the radio is that 1 in 5 people check their cell phone every 5 minutes. Really? Others check their phones every 30 minutes, which is most of us. I think it would be hard for someone to go a whole day without a phone. And since I just recently had a hard drive crash on my computer – I know that my life was just about as close to chaos that one could get without my computer.

But if we could go into the future a 1,000 years – will cell phones or smartphones still be around?  Or do you think that phones will no longer be carried around in our hands – they would be implanted into our heads or eyes? With a blink, we can call anyone, anywhere. I can 100% say that phones of some sort will still be around. We, as a species, are yakkers. We love to talk. So talking won’t go away. And even if we somehow evolve into telepaths/ESP, that won’t stop us from yakking. I can’t imagine having ESP and having to listen to everyone else’s thoughts all the time. Hope someone invents some thought blocking ear muffs.

What about our favorite pastime – the television? Will our walls become giant TV screens that are so real that we can’t tell real life from the fake screen? Will we even have TV in the future? Maybe we will be wired into “smart houses” and get all our information downloaded instantly. No need to sit and watch a screen or read a newspaper.

What about fiber optics? Will we even have wires criss-crossing the globe and under oceans? Or will some other way of communication be invented? Maybe in the future, all communication will be done through the air, like Wi-Fi signals of today. We won’t have to have modems, or cables, or hotspots. The whole world will be wired as a hotspot. Maybe even some kind of subspace communication will be invented that revolutionizes communication the way the telephone did.

How about cars? Will cars even be around? Will we have flying cars? Or even trains for that matter? Or could our mode of transportation be more in the realm of teleportation. I’m hoping so. Getting sick of sitting in traffic.

If I think even harder, simpler things like – an oven – would that still be around in a 1,000 years? Or could our eating habits take on a life of nothing more than being a nutrition pill? I hope that doesn’t happen. We’d have no need for chewing –so would we lose our teeth?  A species that had no teeth? Yikes. Picture that one.

What about computers? Can’t live without them. Since computers have taken over our world, many older industries have died or are being phased out of existence. One instance – the postman. What will our computers look like in the future? I’m thinking they will be flexible, can be rolled up, tiny, and able to be carried in your pocket. We may even be able to interface with a massive global computer network directly with our brains. That would be cool. Will we need satellites orbiting the Earth to facilitate global communication like we do today? Or will we have some gigantic “force field” around the Earth that everyone has access to anywhere on the planet that can have GPS, incredible photos and zoom capabilities, and tracking technology that no one could hide from? No need for dozens of little satellites for each country like we have today.

And what about money? Will banks even be around in a 1,000 years? Banks seem to be a staple in today’s world. The economics of countries depend on them. Billions of transactions take place everyday through banking systems. What could be in store for the future? Maybe we won’t even have money then. What could we use instead of pieces of paper for money? Gold? Time? Information? Or something else?

Then I think that maybe humans may not even be here in a 1,000 years. Then all this thinking about technology in the future is a waste of time, right? Maybe we will still be here, but we won’t truly be “human” anymore. More robot than human, like in the movie “AI: Artificial Intelligence”. Then what? DO we keep going on? Keep inventing technology until we are no longer what we are today?

What weird and wacky technology do you think will take the place of the “can’t-live-without” technology of today?  I can’t be the only one who thinks about stuff like this. There must be some great minds out there that have some good ideas about the future, right?

Neil Armstrong died Saturday in Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 82. His death was due to complications of heart surgery he had earlier in the month according to family members.

Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, went into space twice. In 1966, he was Commander of the Gemini 8 mission. His second trip into space, was in July 1969, along with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in the now infamous Apollo 11 mission, that was the first landing on the moon in history.

The Lunar module, “the Eagle”, landed at the area of the moon known as “Tranquility base” on July 20, 1969. Armstrong’s first step on the moon, for all of humanity, was taken on July 20, 1969 at 10:56 pm (Eastern time). That moment put himself and all of humanity into the history books forever. Neil Armstrong was 38 years old at the time.

The Apollo 11 mission was Neil’s last trip into space. But Armstrong became an American hero, and inspiration for generations to come, and became a space legend for the entire world. He will be missed.

I have to say, the man had some courage to strap himself to a rocket that was basically sitting on a bomb of fuel and blasting into space for a 250,000 mile 4 day journey to the moon. It had never been done before, to walk on the moon. I can’t imagine what went through his mind at the time of blast off.

His famous phrase, “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” will be remembered forever. It was truly a historic moment in time.

Many tributes have been made to the late greatest hero of all time since the news of his death has spread. Below is just a few of the words given tribute to a man who will forever be remembered. We wouldn’t be where we are today without him.

“Neil was among the greatest of American heroes — not just of his time, but of all time,” said President Barack Obama. “When he and his fellow crew members lifted off aboard Apollo 11 in 1969, they carried with them the aspirations of an entire nation. They set out to show the world that the American spirit can see beyond what seems unimaginable — that with enough drive and ingenuity, anything is possible.”

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said the former astronaut “today takes his place in the hall of heroes. With courage unmeasured and unbounded love for his country, he walked where man had never walked before. The moon will miss its first son of earth.”

House Speaker John Boehner, from Ohio, said: “A true hero has returned to the Heavens to which he once flew. Neil Armstrong blazed trails not just for America, but for all of mankind. He inspired generations of boys and girls worldwide not just through his monumental feat, but with the humility and grace with which he carried himself to the end.”

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/us/neil-armstrong-obit/index.html

Originally posted July 8, 2012 from www.huffingtonpost.com

Happy anniversary, Roswell, N.M. It was 65 years ago today that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming local military officials had captured a flying saucer on a nearby ranch. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened.

“It was not a damn weather balloon — it was what it was billed when people first reported it,” said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran. “It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the word ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about.”

Brandon served as an undercover, covert operations officer in the agency’s Clandestine Service for 25 years, where he was assigned missions in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He spent his final 10 years of CIA service on the director’s staff as the agency’s first official liaison to the entertainment and publication industries. It was during this time, in the mid-1990s, that he walked into a special section of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., called the Historical Intelligence Collection.

“It was a vaulted area and not everybody could get in it,” Brandon told The Huffington Post. “One day, I was looking around in there and reading some of the titles that were mostly hand-scribbled summations of what was in the boxes. And there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell.

“I took the box down, lifted the lid up, rummaged around inside it, put the box back on the shelf and said, ‘My god, it really happened!’”

What exactly did the box contain that had such a powerful impact on Brandon?

“Some written material and some photographs, and that’s all I will ever say to anybody about the contents of that box,” he said. “But it absolutely, for me, was the single validating moment that everything I had believed, and knew that so many other people believed had happened, truly was what occurred,”

None of this comes as a surprise to Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear-physicist-turned-UFOlogist, who was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident.

In the late 1970s, Friedman began to uncover former military eyewitnesses who had been involved with the original events that took place at Roswell in 1947.

Despite the fact that the military changed its story overnight, saying on July 8, 1947 that a flying disk had been captured but claiming on July 9 that a weather balloon had been recovered, Friedman’s early investigative efforts prompted many Roswell witnesses to come forward and tell their stories. Numerous researchers have dug up more facts in the years since.

“It’s been 65 years since things took place at Roswell,” Friedman told HuffPost. “How much more widely known could it be — everywhere I’ve spoken in the world, they ask about Roswell.”

“What we really need now is the Woodward-Bernstein of the UFO world to bring out the disclosure,” said Friedman. “Maybe Chase Brandon is a foresight of something going on.

“It’s time for the retirement of the mythical part — where we don’t have all the pieces — to be replaced by the true story of what happened, all the details, and we certainly don’t have them.”

Brandon is currently promoting his book, “The Cryptos Conundrum,” a science fiction story about the history of Earth, contact with extraterrestrials and imagined cataclysmic events on our planet.

He remains steadfast about the pieces of the Roswell puzzle he’s willing to share, and he emphasizes there’s no internal CIA policy that prevents him from revealing any details of what he saw in that box at the agency headquarters.

“Nobody tells any of us that we can’t say anything about sources, methods, classified information having to do with working for the Central Intelligence Agency,” Brandon said. “We all sign a secrecy agreement that says we understand we are forbidden to do that by law, and that is an inherent part of keeping and safeguarding what we do, how we do it, why we do it, out of national security concerns.

“I’m not reluctant to talk about it — I won’t talk about it. I’m telling you there was a box that had stuff in there having to do with Roswell, and I looked through it, and it validated everything I believed in, and that’s all I have to say about it. I will go to my grave being mindful of the two hats that I wear: My personal one and the one that will forever reside on my head as a former CIA officer.”

Source link:

Roswell UFO Was Not Of This Earth And There Were ET Cadavers: Ex-CIA Agent Says

Scientists at CERN have announced that they have FINALLY found the elusive Higgs-Boson particle or God particle! After years of smashing protons together at amazing speeds, at the LHC (Large Hardon Collider), located in Geneva, it seems they have reached an end to the long search that has lasted almost 50 years. This is astonishing news. If true, this will end the long sought after (and expensive) search for this particle. Now that the Higgs has been found, the current Standard Model of physics and particles is safe.

Scientists around the world cheered and popped champagne when the news spread around the world. It certainly is a day to celebrate.This is exciting news for the field of physics.

But I suspect, since there are hints that the Standard Model isn’t still quite correct, that it will change as we find more evidence for more and more particles and anything else that doesn’t quite make sense.

But Kudos to the scientists that found what they are calling the “Higgslike” particle. And so what is so great about this particle anyway?

A quote from the New York Times article:

Confirmation of the Higgs boson or something very much like it would constitute a rendezvous with destiny for a generation of physicists who have believed in the boson for half a century without ever seeing it. The finding affirms a grand view of a universe described by simple and elegant and symmetrical laws — but one in which everything interesting, like ourselves, results from flaws or breaks in that symmetry.

And another:

According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an invisible force field, a cosmic molasses that permeates space and imbues elementary particles with mass. Particles wading through the field gain heft the way a bill going through Congress attracts riders and amendments, becoming ever more ponderous.

Without the Higgs field, as it is known, or something like it, all elementary forms of matter would zoom around at the speed of light, flowing through our hands like moonlight. There would be neither atoms nor life

The Higgs particle is thought to bestow all other particles in the Universe with mass. Currently, of all the particles we know about, the mass of these particles is all over the map. Scientists believed, for a long time now, that there was one particle that gave all other particles their mass. So this is why the Higgs-Boson particle is often referred to as the “God particle”.

My question is – What gives the Higgs-Boson particle its ability? And if there is one particle that is a “manifestation of an invisible force field”, then why can’t there be more of them out there?

I guess we’ll have to wait and see. It will takes months and even years to study all the data from the LHC and confirm that this was indeed the Higgs-Boson particle discovered.

But for now, the scientists can gloat for awhile, stand tall, and puff out their chests. They deserve it. They got something right and have proof of it – for now. But I’m sure it will change, probably sooner than later. We have taken a giant leap in physics if the Higgs-Boson particle has truly been found. It can explain a lot of the how’s and the what’s that still need explaining.

We still don’t know the whole picture. The Standard Model for physics is safe for now. And we will continue to use it to “explain” the world of physics and particles. But it isn’t over by a long shot.

I can’t wait for the next BIG discovery!

Source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?pagewanted=all

As I watched “Through the Wormhole” with Morgan Freeman one night, a thought popped into my head. It was the episode about whether the “Universe” was ALIVE. If the universe was a living thing or not.

I remember being fascinated by the fact that scientists have found what they call a “Cosmic Web” that is the largest structure in the universe. A web that connects everything in the universe together. Everything is connected.

As I watched the video above, the simulation of this cosmic web looked a lot like neurons in the brain. A neural network of some sort. The commenters on the video seemed to think the same thing. That the web looks like a network of dendrites and neurons that we see in our brain and in the brains of other animals on this planet.

So, then it hit me. Could we be nothing but a parasite in the Universe? Or what about a virus? Is that all that we are in the grand scheme of things? A nuisance?

And the answer may just be YES. We could truly be nothing more than a virus or bacteria to the universe. Could we be doing harm to the universe? Are we a malignant tumor? Or the “good” bacteria? It could be that the cosmic web acts just like our bloodstream in our body. Simulations sure do look a lot like bloodstreams. Funneling blood to all the vital areas of the body or to the vital areas of the universe. Galaxy’s could be blood clots or something similar. Who knows.

If we are a virus, or bacteria, or some kind of parasite – then we KNOW that we are not alone.

How many times have you encountered a single virus or bacteria? They grow and multiply like crazy and we have literally thousands and thousands of different types of bacteria and viruses just on this planet. I can’t imagine how many other types are out in the universe. There must be billions and billions.

It just struck me funny that we could be a pest to the universe. Here we are thinking that we are gods. That we are figuring out the entire universe and how it functions. How the universe works and building technology to explore the universe more and more. Are we really that smart after all?

We must be smart bugs. We can one day possibly invent the technology that will shed light on the fact that we are mere pests in the overall scheme of it all. Like roaches. Like meningitis. Like influenza. Like mucus. Like a cold. Like phlegm. Ugh!

So when ET actually lands on the Whitehouse lawn and says “Hi Earthlings” then we can snicker just a little – since we know that he’s the same as we are. Just another pesky pest of the universe!

HA HA HA HA HA

Mysterious mass deaths of animals and sea creatures have continued around the globe. We just don’t hear about it as much. Here’s a story from CNN that was a top story in today’s news about the latest mystery of pelican deaths as well as the earlier mystery of mass dolphin deaths.

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(CNN) — Authorities in Peru are investigating the death of over 538 pelicans, along with other birds, on the northern coast of the country, the Peruvian ministry of production said Sunday.

The new environmental investigation comes on the heels of an incident earlier in April when 877 dolphins washed up dead on the same stretch of coast.

It was not immediately clear if the deaths were connected.

The birds appear to have died on the beach, and more tests are needed to determine the cause of death, the ministry of production said.

The Peruvian Sea Institute surveyed about 43 miles (70km) of beach coastline on Sunday and estimated that 592 birds were dead along the shore.

State-run TV Peru estimated that up to 1,200 birds had been found dead on the 100 miles (160km) of northern shoreline extending from Punta Negra in Piura to San José in the state of Lambayeque.

The deaths began less than two weeks ago, local fishermen say.

The investigation into the mystery surrounding the dolphins is still ongoing. Peruvian Deputy Environment Minister Gabriel Quijandria told CNN the dolphins may have died from an outbreak of Morbillivirus or Brucella bacteria.

The Peruvian government has put together a panel from different ministries to analyze a report by the Peruvian Sea Institute (IMARPE). Officials have been able to conclude that the dolphins’ deaths were not due to lack of food, interaction with fisheries, poisoning with pesticides, biotoxin poisoning or contamination by heavy metals.

“When you have something this large, my gut would tell me that there’s something traumatic that happened,” Sue Rocca, a marine biologist with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, told CNN. She raised a number of possibilities as to what could have killed the animals, including acoustic trauma.

Preliminary reports ruled out that seismic sound waves created by oil exploration in that stretch of sea could have killed the birds, the environment ministry said.

They also expressed concern for the fishermen in the area and restated their commitment to protecting the country’s marine ecosystem.

(Peru investigates mystery pelican deaths – CNN.com

If you haven’t heard about the Doomsday Vault yet, well here you go. The vault is interesting, but there’s more to the story.

It’s located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, which is part of the Svalbard island group, which is about 810 miles from the North Pole. The official name is “Svalbard Global Seed Vault”, but the media has dubbed it the “Doomsday Vault”. Its purpose it so store seeds from all over the world in case of loss of seed banks due to war, equipment failure, natural disasters, and of course global devastation.

It was paid for entirely by the Government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT), and cost about $9 million in US Dollars. It officially opened on February 26, 2008. It can hold up to 4.5 million seeds. As of March 2010, the seed count was at 1/2 million. The Operation of the vault and its costs will be paid by Norway Gov’t and the GCDT. The trust gets funded by various organizations. More on that later.

Why did they put it near the North Pole? Well, for several reasons.

First, it’s about 430 feet above sea level, so it will stay dry. Second, the area has a lack of tectonic activity. And third, the permafrost will continue to preserve the seeds even if equipment fails. Seeds could be preserved for hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years.

So why are we doing this? Seems kind of weird to store seeds way up on the top of the Earth, a place that is very cold, with frigid temperatures, security systems protecting the site, and underground. If there is a global disaster – how could anyone get to it? And actually be able to use the seeds?

It seems kind of a waste of money. Some others think so as well. Stating that a huge giant wave would devastate the facility and all its contents would be washed away from a tsunami or some other natural disaster.

Okay, lets say an asteroid, a big one hits the Earth. Devastates the entire world. But some people do survive – as always. Probably the dumbest. Anyway, they survive. What if they don’t even know about the Global Seed Vault? What good does it do us then?

Or what if much of the land between the survivors and the North Pole has been cratered in or blown up from the asteroid hit. How do they get to the vault, if they even know about it? What if all the permafrost has melted from the heat of the impact and the vault has sunk down into water? Or something else? What good is the vault then?

Lets say that survivors do make their way to the vault. Once they are there – how do they get inside? There are security systems protecting the vault. Can it be broken into? Will it vaporize them if they did? It was built 390 feet inside of a sandstone mountain.  What good is the vault then?

This is just my first thoughts when I learned about the Doomsday Vault. I first thought it was really cool that someone actually was thinking about the future of mankind. And doing something about preserving what we would need in order to survive a global disaster.

But then when you think about it, it doesn’t make sense. Who could possibly get to the location and break it open and use the contents of seeds? Okay. Now what. The vault has dual blast proof doors, two airlocks, and walls of reinforced concrete. Let’s assume the survivors have finally gotten to the seeds somehow. They brought dynamite with them. No, they brought a nuclear weapon with them. No, oh they got in somehow – okay. Help from aliens. Now they have to pick some seeds and carry them back down to a place that can grow crops. They throw some bags of seeds into some garbage bags that were just inside the vault facility. I made that up, I know. So now the survivors each carry a garbage bag of seeds back down the long treacherous road closer to sea level. Hundreds of miles to go. Carrying bags of seeds.

Okay, the survivors are now near ground that looks like it can support vegetation. Took them several weeks to get there on foot. Okay, now they find some stuff around that can be used to plow the ground up. They do so and plant some seeds. Now they just have to wait for the crops to grow. Sun is blocked out a lot of the time, but maybe enough gets through that will enable the seeds to grow. Only water is no longer abundant. So they must split up and some go to find water and bring back some for the crops and themselves. The rest stay there to tend the crops. They are safe now. They have seeds and they planted the seeds.

They die before the crops begin to grow. Good going doomsday vault.

Okay, that’s my take on this global seed vault plan. I know it may seem silly, and I may may be way out there, but I may be right. But that’s just the start of it. What’s really being stored inside this vault?

You know, what’s really interesting is who is financially backing this project. That’s where this project gets REALLY interesting. Guess who is spending millions and millions on this project?

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Syngenta Foundation
• Monsanto
• DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred
• CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research)

Yep, that’s right. The same groups and foundations promoting GMO (genetically modified) plant seeds and agrichemicals, and population reduction schemes. The same companies and groups that are the largest owners of patented GMO plant seeds, promoters of the green revolution, promoters of genetic purity through agriculture change. The backers of bio-engineering plants and seeds and bio-warfare.

It is well known that the Rockefeller Foundation along with powerful financial interests back in the 1920’s and 30’s, were trying to justify creating a genetically engineered master race, once called eugenics, but now known as genetics. I suspect that these groups have never stopped – and evidence has been uncovered over the years pointing to just that.

The same Rockefeller Foundation basically financed Hitler’s eugenics programs. Hitler called it “Aryan Master Race”. The Rockefeller Foundation called it “The Project”. We know now, that with Operation Paperclip, most of the German scientists came over to the United States after the war, including eugenics scientists. They were free to continue their research.

The Rockefeller Foundation promoted the Green Revolution – which finally emerged as a grand family scheme to monopolize the agribusiness. But it was already too late. The Green Revolution did its course.

The largest plant breeders are Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Syngenta, and they own the rights to GMO plant seeds. Monsanto and the US Gov’t together own the rights to the plant “Terminator” or  “Genetic Use Restriction Technology or GURT”. This technology is genetically engineered into commercial seeds to commit “suicide” after one harvest. That way, farmers must come to them to buy more seeds. Hence they control the food chain and what is planted and grown. Control, control, control.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood International and an eugenicist, created the Negro Project of 1939, to “get rid of the Negro population”. She was an intimate friend of the Rockefellers. Epicyte, a small California company, had made a development of genetically engineered corn which contained a spermicide which made the semen of men who ate it sterile. Really. Yes, they did. This is true.

This Epicyte had joint ventures with DuPont and Syngenta to spread the technology to them. Oh, and Epicyte got the money from the US Department of Agriculture to research and develop this technology, along with continuing to promote and finance the “terminator” technology.

Then in the 1990’s, the WHO (World Health Organization) launched a vaccination campaign in Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Mexico to vaccinate against Tetanus, and gave vaccines ONLY to women in the ages from 15-45. When no men were being vaccinated, a catholic organization grew suspicious and had the vaccines tested. They found that the vaccine contained human Chorionic Gonadotropin or hCG. This is a hormone that when combined with a tetanus carrier stimulates antibodies and renders a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy.

It later came out that the Rockefeller Foundation along with the Rockefeller’s Population Council, the World Bank (home to CGIAR), and the United States’ National Institutes of Health had been involved in a 20-year-long project begun in 1972 to develop the concealed abortion vaccine with a tetanus carrier for WHO. In addition, the Government of Norway, the host to the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault, donated $41 million to develop the special abortive Tetanus vaccine. Really now. How interesting.

What a bunch of scoundrels! So we have the organizations that promote population control and bio-engineering as a weapon – and they are guarding the future of mankind? Huh? Did I miss something?

So it makes me wonder what kind of seeds are actually being preserved in this seed vault. Is it really for our best interest? For all of mankind? Or a way to manifest a new master race? A way to control us forever?

Are we getting sick of the governments of the world, big business, and big pharma and oil companies conspiring against humanity? YES!!!

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

http://bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_industryweapons31.htm

When I watch the news these days, it’s hard to imagine that we are still evolving. With the world in such chaos, seems that every story is about some despicable act that man has done. Countries testing missiles. Wars going on. Economies devastated. Sex rings and trafficking people. Drugs at every corner. Tensions surrounding politics. Stupid people in control.

One story that sunk my heart was about Justice. A little 4 month old puppy that was lit on fire and burned and chased by a group of boys in Pleasant Grove in Dallas. See the video below.

View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.

Justice has since died. He didn’t survive the cruelty dealt to him by man. Hope he rests in peace. Good news, a suspect was arrested on April 21st, in Justice’s case – Darius Ewing – has turned himself in. Dallas Police are still looking for the other boys that were also involved in the torture. The SPCA has upped the reward to $25,000 for any information.

And then the story about Johnathan Ramsey, 11 years old and also from Dallas, who was starved to death by his father and stepmother. His body was recovered April 21st in Ellis county and both parents have been arrested. Johnathan’s “parents” said they starved him as a form of punishment. Really?

How could people be so stupid!

It’s amazing that we are still considered intelligent at this point. Don’t you ever wonder this sometimes?

Then I read the article about how our brains have shrunk about the size of a tennis ball. And the debate about whether brain size means dumber or more efficient.

This downsizing of the human brain is an evolutionary fact – and has taken some scientists by surprise.

The Cro-Magnon man, had the biggest brain of any human, who lived around 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Now our brains are about 10% smaller – which is quite a chunk of gray matter. So Why?

So this begs the debate about whether the evolution of man is actually de-evolving or devolution. I think it is. But here’s some theories on the mystery of the shrinking brain.

People started living together more and more. So the need for each person to know a lot about a bunch of different disciplines was no longer needed. More people living together in more complex societies could protect each other better, grow food for more, divide labor up, and people could specialize more. So brain size didn’t need to be bigger. Each person didn’t need to be the smartest to survive.

Some think this is a dumbing-down process. David Geary, a cognitive scientist, says “as human society grows increasingly complex, individuals don’t need to be as intelligent in order to survive and reproduce”. No kidding. His studies found that brain size decreased as population density increased. You don’t have to stay smart with a bunch of people around. Okay – I get this. And I agree. But our population is now close to 7 billion people – how smart do we need to be with that many people?

Brian Hare, an anthropologist, thinks “the decrease in brain size is an evolutionary advantage”. “That a smaller brain is the signature of selection against aggression”. So basically we’ve been domesticated like dogs, turkeys, and cats. Domesticated animals have smaller brain sizes than their wild counterparts, but are smarter for they can understand human gestures, are less aggressive, and interact with humans, like a child.

Somehow I disagree with that. We aren’t getting less aggressive. I see more aggression every day. It’s like our inner primal aggression has been suppressed for so long that it wants to come out. But that’s just my opinion.

Others think that the smaller brain is more leaner and more efficient. That man has just developed more sophisticated forms of intelligence than our ancestors. Technology has helped us create more ways of doing things in better ways.

But what about technology? Is technology making us dumber? I can safely say that we aren’t using our brains anywhere near what we did in the past. Computers are doing the thinking for us now. We just control the remote, the buttons to the computer.

We are losing the benefit of our senses. Technology seems to be taking over.

For instance, our eyes look through mostly glass these days. We look through microscopes, telescopes, binoculars, windshields, TV screens, computer monitors, cell phones, windows, glasses, and so forth. It’s no wonder so many people are far sighted. Will we one day lose our ability to see up close for good?

And what about smell? We have invented gobs of scents – scents to cover up odors, scents to wear all day, scents of nature, etc… We don’t even use our noses anymore. We just cover up the smells we don’t want and spray on what we do want. Will we lose our sense of smell generations from now?

Now let’s talk muscles. Raise your hand if you have to get up to change the channel on your TV. Hmmmm. Not many hands. We don’t use our muscles as intended either. We barely move. We sit in cars to transport ourselves. We sit behind desks looking at computer monitors. We sit in front of TV’s. So we are getting weaker and fatter. We don’t even cook real food anymore. It’s all processed. But that’s our society. Will we lose our limbs at some time in the future? Will we become like the famous “Star Trek” episode about the big brains that lost their bodies since they didn’t use them anymore? Will we become just brains?

Oh yeah, forgot, our brains are shrinking- so I guess that’s a NO. If we do become just brains, we won’t be Big Brains, we’ll be Tiny Brains. And that’s if we survive at all, which is a big question mark in it self.

What about our minds? We have some awesome technology today. And it’s getting better everyday. But does anybody know how to build it? I mean does one person know how to build a whole computer from scratch? And does any one person know how to write software programs?

Technology is all wonderful and everything, but what happens if technology goes away? Can you survive without technology? Let’s say a solar flare zaps technology into oblivion. What would we do? We can’t survive without our technology. And after people kill each other after they de-evolve into barbarians after a week without technology – the few who do survive will not have a clue about how to go about and re-create the technology again. Could you feed yourself on your own? Could you clothe yourself? Could you provide shelter for your family without technology? Hmmm. That’s what I thought.

Our brains are getting smaller because we aren’t using all the little gray matter that we have. We have to look up from our computer screen every once in a while. Look up from the video game you are playing every once in a while. Smell the roses – with your own nose. Touch them with your hands. Feel them. Take your shoes off and go running in the grass. Squeeze your toes into the grass. Put the Ipad down and look up. Stop downloading another app. Look up at the sky. There are other people. Talk to them face to face.

Some people believe that technology is the suicide of mankind, and we have already started hanging ourselves. I have to say, that I’m inclined to agree. If I hear one more story about someone dying in a car crash because they were texting – I’m gonna scream. It just shows you how stupid humans are getting.

Our brains aren’t getting more efficient or leaner. It’s getting BORED!

Sources:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/02/132591244/our-brains-are-shrinking-are-we-getting-dumber

http://news.discovery.com/human/shrinking-brains-intelligence-110207.html

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Body-of-Starved-Boy-Recovered-148395295.html

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Puppy-Doused-With-Lighter-Fluid-Set-on-Fire-146842355.html

Is the rising Autism rates really a mystery?

I’m sure everybody who’s watched the news lately has heard the reports of the release of a new study conducted by the CDC that the rate of autism is rising – now 1 in 88 children are being diagnosed as having the disorder.

Wow! That’s a 78% increase from the estimates from 2007 that were at 1 in 150 children. That’s a SIGNIFICANT rise. So what’s really going on?

There were actually two studies conducted. The study by the CDC, which concentrated on 8 year olds, since diagnosis is usually found by that age, was published in the journal “Pediatrics” that has gotten the national press involved. And the national news has been going full force with the results of the study.

Why is everyone so surprised by these results? Read on.

The CDC is trying vigorously in calming the “alarmists” citing that better diagnosis, more awareness, and expansion of the umbrella of autism that now includes more conditions under the disorder are causes for the very sharp increase in rates of autism. Really?

Well the CDC is not convincing everyone. The debate is continuing as to whether other factors are the cause of the rising rates or is the rate of autism really rising that much so fast?

Rates of autism in 2006 were shown by the CDC as 1 in 110. While in 2007, rates were 1 in 150. Somehow these rates don’t mesh. Now, this study was done on 2008 records – which now says 1 in 88 have ASD (autism spectrum disorder). That’s a whopping 78% increase (they say) from 2006.

Here’s more.

Questions arise from the study revealing some disturbing results – from the CNN article:

However, there are some striking parts about the study, which used data from 2008 collected in 14 sites across the United States. The rate of autism increased by more than 45% from 2002 to 2008 in numerous sites. It was a larger and more consistent increase than from 2002 to 2006. Also intriguing is that the increase was very uneven in terms of geography, gender, race and ethnicity.

Some sites had nearly five times as many children with autism as others. In several sites, almost 1 in 33 8-year-old boys were diagnosed with autism. This seems difficult to believe, particularly when these sites had smaller samples and children with less severe intellectual disabilities.

So, what are the implications of the study? The CDC researchers are aware that it’s critical to identify the sources of variability in their data. For example, why were nearly twice as many children diagnosed with autism in Utah than in Colorado or Arizona? If the rates are really increasing, does it mean that many more children, particularly those from ethnic or racial minorities who are often missed, could have autism and we just don’t know yet?

And here’s the “playing down of the increase” by CDC officials in their press statement on October 2, 2011 from the Time article:

“We are extremely concerned about the apparent increase in estimated prevalence of autism spectrum disorders,” said Ileana Arias of the CDC. “However, we urge extreme caution in interpreting this change. An increase in diagnosis does not necessarily mean that more children actually have ASD. Unfortunately, the information that we currently have doesn’t allow us to give a true account of whether the apparent increase is an actual increase or the result of changes in the way we describe and diagnose ASDs.”

So you ask – what is the conspiracy concerning autism?

Our government knows full well what is causing the rate of autism to rise, not just in children, but adults as well, and not just here in the USA. Its going on all over the world.

There are two big factors that are causing autism to rise. Fluoride in our water and Mercury fillings.

That’s what’s causing the increase – especially in children.

We all know that obesity is a fact of life for way too many people. And these days, our diets are full of processed sugar, high fructose syrup, processed meats, and packaged meals full of preservatives. Plenty of pesticides are there as well.

Children are finding themselves at the dentists at younger and younger ages these days – with cavities. Which results in children keeping mercury fillings in their mouth from a much earlier age than ever before in history.

And since the government has forced everyone to swallow water poisoned with Fluoride, which is extremely toxic, we have these two factors to blame for more and more disorders at younger and younger ages.

Don’t be so surprised. It’s a fact. Medical doctors, dentists, and even the almighty CDC KNOW FOR A FACT that Fluoride is toxic and doesn’t decrease tooth decay – but they WILL NEVER admit it. They had so much extra fluoride to get rid of- they came up with the solution to fluoridate our water and tell us it’s “good for us” and “it will prevent cavities”.

English: The extent of fluoridated water usage around the world. Colors indicate the percentage of population in each country that receives fluoridated water, where the fluoridation is to levels recommended for preventing tooth decay. This includes both artificially and naturally fluoridated water.

Bullcrap! There they go again lying to the people. Covering it up. Condemning any dentist or doctor that speaks out and ruining their lives. It goes on and on. It’s never really going to end. So just deal with it. If you have a child that has autism- it’s not your fault.

Quote from Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992:

“Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century.”

Actual evidence shows that fluoridation of water is not safe, doesn’t decrease cavities or tooth decay but actually increases the rates of cancer, dental fluorosis, cavities, osteoporosis, and other health conditions.

Why the push for fluoride in water anyway? Well, the aluminum industry, big pharmaceuticals, and weapons manufacturers pushed the government to add fluoride to drinking water to get rid of the excess toxic substance they had on hand from aluminum, steel, and chemical processing.

Now regulations prohibit legal actions against water suppliers for fluoridating their water. No kidding. Wouldn’t have guessed that- would you?

How did this start? First, way back in 1924, the I.G. Farben cartel was formed, which included Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Pres. of Ford Motor Co., Charles E. Mitchell, Pres. of Rockefeller Nat’l Bank, Walter Teagle, Pres. of Standard Oil, Paul Warburg, Chairman of Federal Reserve, and Max Warburg. Also Herman Metz, from Bank of Manhattan, and ALCOA, American Aluminum Co., and the Dow Chemical company transferred all their technology to Germany.

Later on, Colgate, Kellogg, DuPont, and other companies signed cartel agreements with the I.G. Farben cartel. The powerful lobbying group was actually known as the “Fluoride Mafia”. Cute huh?

After WWII, Charles Perkins was sent by the US government to take control of the chemical plants in Germany. Once there, he learned of a scheme that the Germans used on their population in order to control them. They did it by mass medication of the water with Sodium Fluoride! Both the Russians and Germans had used sodium fluoride earlier on their war prisoners to make them “stupid and docile”.

They found that fluoride causes slight damage to a certain part of the brain making it hard for them to defend themselves and less against authority.

So what exactly is fluoride? It is toxic. Is the strongest anti-psychotic substance known, and is contained in 25% of major tranquilizers. It is a by-product of steel and aluminum production and chemical processing. It is highly toxic to plants as well. It is used as a pesticide, insecticides, and rodenticides, and toothpastes.

But the “powers that be looking out for the people and their health”, promote the use of fluoride and say it is safe, actually beneficial and up to 1ppm is non-toxic and acceptable. Any over 2ppm is a health concern. Really?

Up until 1933, many lawsuits were filed against ALCOA for livestock loss due to consumption of contaminated vegetation caused by their fluoride wastes. Then the PHS (US Public Health Service) got involved over the concern of fluoride poisoning, specifically dental fluorosis. Dental fluorosis is yellowed teeth, brown and even some black stains on the teeth, and 25-30% of children had occurrences of dental fluorosis when the drinking water was fluoridated. But in 1942, Dr. H. Trendley Dean, under the guidance of the PHS, stated that 1ppm were acceptable levels. And Dr. Dean’s research also showed that 1ppm caused enamel fluorosis in around 10% of children, yet it was still acceptable. How nice of him.

So who do you think sponsored the PHS during this time? The department of treasury, which the chief officer was none other than Andrew Mellon – the owner of ALCOA! Dooh!

In 1939, ALCOA hired Dr. Gerald Cox to find a market for industrial fluoride wastes. Dr. Cox was the man that introduced adding fluoride to drinking water at a meeting with water engineers. Why? It was VERY COSTLY to dispose of toxic waste from aluminum manufacturers. So why not get paid for adding it to drinking water?

Sure, why not. And that’s exactly what they did. He sure found a market didn’t he?

Dr. Cox was also a member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council. No kidding.

In 1944, Oscar Ewing, an attorney getting paid $750,000/yr by ALCOA, was made Federal Security Administrator, which would head the Federal Security Agency, which is now the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare. He got the ball rolling and began letting “rat poison” (which has sodium fluoride) be sold by the ton, instead of dime sized containers. Sodium fluoride was a toxic waste, and the aluminum and steel companies were prohibited from dumping it in rivers, lakes, or fields so it wouldn’t poison fish, cattle, birds, etc..

But then Deaf Smith County, Texas did a study and came to their own conclusions. ALCOA began selling sodium fluoride for drinking water. 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan was chosen for the first long term effects of fluoridation, which was to take 10 years. But Mr. Ewing intervened after 5 years and declared the study successful. He then convinced Congress in 1946 and $2 million was directed toward promoting the water fluoridation program for the U.S.

What the study found that was suppressed:

Infant mortality rates in Kansas City, MO increased 13% in the first year of fluoridation. After the fifth year, infant mortality rates increased 36%. (source National Centre for Health Statistics, reported in the Kansas City Star, November 21, 1982)

Here’s a great quote from Dr. Paul Manning’s (nephew of Sigmund Freud) article, “The Federal Engineering of Consent” quoting Edward Bernays:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses must be done by experts, the public relations counsels; they are the invisible rulers who control the destiny of millions…the most direct way to reach the herd is through the leaders. For if the group they dominate will respond…all this must be planned……indoctrination must be subtle. It should be worked into the everyday life of the people…24 hours a day in hundreds of ways… A redefinition of ethics is necessary…the subject matter of the propaganda need not necessarily be true…”

So we are nothing but part of a “HERD” huh? We should be afraid. Very afraid.

How can anyone possibly control the amount of fluoride someone consumes? They CAN’T! It depends on how much water you drink. Foods also contain fluorides. Mostly tea leaves and mouthwashes and almost all beverages. It depends on how much of these foods you consume as well, the climate, lifestyle. Even cooking utensils with aluminum or non-stick surfaces have fluoride and release into foods. Scientists think that most people in places where their drinking water is fluoridated are actually consuming up to 4ppm or more per day just from the water. This is toxic and poisonous to us.  At least 10,000 people die each year in the U.S. from fluoride induced cancer. And in 1985, Dr. M. Diesendorf found that sodium fluoride causes unscheduled DNA synthesis and chromosomal aberrations in human cells.

But I do have to admit, it’s a pretty easy way for the government to make sure that the population continues to be sick. They make BIG MONEY from keeping us sick and in need of doctors, hospitals, and drugs. But guess what? People, cities, more and more are starting to stop this absolute nonsense. Some cities have banned fluoridation of their water. Good for them. More and more are doing the same. But it is a slow process.

It isn’t too hard to suggest that mothers (and fathers)who bore children would pass on the effects of the fluoridation to their young. And the incidences of all kinds of health problems began popping up and increasing ever since. Now it is autism at the center of all this.

So could fluoride consumption be responsible? Probably and for many other types of disorders as well. Not much of a mystery.

Now, for the case of mercury. Mercury is a poisonous metal. We put this stuff in our mouths so we can breathe the fumes with every breath we take. Dental fillings are slowly poisoning us.

And with the diets of today, all the processed sugars and beverages that we consume daily, children are seeing the dentist at younger ages than ever before. Resulting in mercury fillings in their mouth for life.

So what is mercury? Some suggest it’s the most serious public health problem of today. Chronic mercury toxicity ranks among the highest problems – but you won’t hear it on the news. It is more toxic than lead or arsenic. It’s a heavy metal and the only metal that is liquid at normal conditions. Also called quicksilver. It is used for fluorescent lighting, in medicine, thermometers, and vaccines. Seafood and fish also contain mercury.

Vaccines contain thiomersal, which metabolizes and degrades into ethyl mercury. Thiomersal is also found in most mascara and some other cosmetics. Mercury is also included in skincare products. In 2008, Minnesota banned added mercury in cosmetics. In 2003, Washington and Maine banned mercury blood pressure devices. In 2002, mercury was banned in thermometers and is being phased out of use in thermometers.

In 1990, under the Clean Air Act, mercury was put on the list of toxic pollutants to be controlled with the greatest possible extent. And, mercury is banned in all aircraft for fear of forming an amalgam with exposed aluminum on the craft.

So why is okay to put this stuff in our mouth, right next to our nose and nasal cavity so we can breath the fumes all day long every day? I don’t get it. It has even been found that some patients with lots of mercury fillings done at once, have breathed so much mercury that the mercury reconstituted in the brain back to liquid! How awful!

Remember, thiomersal is widely believed to cause autism. And even though the government says all studies done doesn’t find any correlation between mercury and autism, many still believe it does cause autism. There the government goes again, lying to the people to save their asses and their profits. I believe that mercury causes autism and a host of other diseases – like Alzheimer’s, thyroid problems, Parkinson’s, etc…

The ADA and government scientists know the harm and toxicity of mercury, but still promote its use.

How did we get to this point? In 1812, Joseph Bell, a British chemist, introduced “silver paste” for restoration of a tooth. It was introduced in the U.S. in 1833. But dentists rebelled. They refused to use mercury due to mercury poisoning. They in 1840, formed the American Society of Dental Surgeons and declared mercury usage malpractice and each member signed an oath not to use any materials that contained mercury.

But the poor and uneducated practitioners, increased the usage of the “silver paste” use due to it being cheaper than gold. And it was “user-friendly” for the dentist and durable.

By 1856, most members of the “anti-amalgam” were lost. Wealthy businessmen formed a group to push the toxic mercury – the ADA. yeah, that’s right. And they won the fight.

In 1920, more controversy erupted after Dr. Alfred Stock published articles attacking the mercury fillings for their toxic effects.  He proved that mercury vapor from dental amalgams enters the nose, is absorbed by the mucosa and passes rapidly into the brain. It was found in the olfactory lobe and in the pineal gland. But even this died down after a while.

Now 200 years later, there is 3rd war on “amalgam”. The ADA is trying to kill this debate once and for all. And here’s what they did.

They amended their Code of Ethics to CONDEMN the removal of mercury fillings, if the reason is to eliminate toxic material from the body and recommended by the dentist! Dooh!

So it is ethical to place the poisonous substance in patient’s mouths, but is unethical to remove it. Now that’s stupid and just what a government body with power would think and do. Only the patient can ask for it to be removed without it being unethical.

In 1967, L. Magos conducted research and found, in mice, that mercury vapors are given off by amalgams and absorbed at high rates – 70-100% rate of absorption! And then the vapors oxidizes to its elemental form.

But in the same year, the FDA announced the “acceptance” of mercury amalgam and was added to the Generally recognized As Safe list of drugs. Those bastards!

In 1979, more research began documenting that mercury vapors is constantly released from fillings when stimulated by chewing, brushing, or temperature shifts. A person with 8 mercury fillings uptakes around 10mcg a day.

In 1980, the WHO (World Health Organization) admitted that “the most hazardous forms of mercury to human health are elemental mercury vapor and the short-chain alkyl-mercurials”. Bi 1984, autopsy studies found that the amount of mercury in the kidneys and brain correlated to the number of fillings.

And other research found that mercury was present in blood and tissue of pregnant mothers.

Mercury has a pronounced effect on the human endocrine system and accumulates in the thyroid and pituitary glands, which reduces production of important hormones. (source Carmignani, Finelli, and Boscolo, 1983)

“Mercury inhibits the synaptic uptake of neurotransmitters in the brain and can produce subsequent development of Parkinson’s disease.” (source “Parkinson’s Disease and Occupational Exposure to organic Solvents, Agricultural Chemical and Mercury”, 1981)

“Mercury induces the thyroid gland to absorb an increasing amount of nuclear radiation from the environment”.” (source Trakhtenburg, 1974)

“Mercury ions have been observed to cause chromosomal aberrations and alter the cellular genetic code. Mercury has the ability to induce chromosomal breakage, alter cellular mitosis, cause a drop in T-cell production and kill white blood cells.” (source Vershaeve, 1976)

As the ADA has become the power house group we’ve all grown up with, many have a perception that their statements are scientific truth. But anyone who goes against the establishment, risk loosing their license, career, and income.

But in 1990, CBS’s “60 Minutes” did a major story on the amalgam controversy that had the second highest response for further information. People thought that story would produce a change in the system. Boy were they wrong.

The ADA came out a blazing and a huge campaign to counter the “60 Minutes” story. They sent special letters and news releases to every dentist in the U.S. discrediting the science presented on the program. And even came up with a special program for dentists in case a patient asked about amalgam being safe.

In 1991, Sweden banned the use of mercury in amalgam fillings, then in 1994, banned all mercury usage. The FDA then introduced legislation that required dentists to inform patients of the content of mercury fillings.

In May of 1991, the University of Kentucky established that a relationship of mercury exposure from mercury fillings  to both Alzheimer’s disease and cardiovascular disease. The University of Georgia found determined that mercury from fillings inhibits the effectiveness of antibiotics.

The WHO concluded that mercury from fillings is the greatest source of human exposure, exceeding intake from fish by about 200 percent.

In 1993, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology developed a program for biocompatible dentistry, which uses materials compatible with each patient’s body chemistry.

The State of California passed a law requiring the Board of Dental Examiners to create and update a fact sheet describing the risks and efficacy of various types of dental restorative materials.

In July 1994, the British BBC documentary program “Panorama” did a story on the amalgam controversy. Yet the British government says that mercury is “safe”

Thank goodness that here in the U.S., we can seek out and find dentists that practice non-mercury dentistry, without fear of retribution from the ADA or losing their license. Patients if informed, can ask for other materials for restoring their teeth.

Another note to remember, is that removing amalgam fillings from Alzheimer’s patients has significantly reduced the Alzheimer’s and many if not most, even completely reversed the Alzheimer’s. (source “Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries”, Jonathan Eisen, page 44) Now you won’t ever hear that fact stated in the news. The ADA goes to great lengths to keep that fact from the public.

The bottom line – mercury fillings are slowly killing us. Fluoride is being shoved down our throats without our consent. Both are known toxic and deadly substances. Yet our government continues to keep us in the dark about the harmful effects these substances have on our health.

It is easy to make a case that these substances are responsible for many disorders, especially autism. It’s a proven fact that mercury is a direct cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Fluoride is practically proven to be a link to Parkinson’s disease and Aspberger syndrome. The man who first found that mercury caused autism has since been forced by the ADA and government to retract his study and say that mercury is really “safe” and his study was wrong.

And every year, when you go get your flu vaccine- remember- it has mercury in it. They haven’t ever reduced the mercury in this vaccine. Even though the CDC recommended it not be included in vaccines.  Why? The government has a huge supply of mercury which can’t just be dumped into the sea or rivers or lakes. That would be wrong. They had to find a place to store it. Just like fluoride. They have to find a way to dispose of it. And they found their market – humans.

And they have found another market for mercury. The great new lighting laws (fluorescent) are just another example of the government ridding their wastes upon the people. Haven’t heard of this? The new laws take effect this June, and some are already in effect. Basically, all light bulbs now have to be the “curly queue” type which contain MERCURY! And don’t ever break one. And if you do, don’t call the hazardous team, for they will fine your ass thousands or put you in jail for contamination. Quietly dispose of it, and don’t inhale the fumes. Our government is mandating that most all lighting contain mercury, which will be in every building, household, hospital, business, everywhere. All over our heads every day. Can’t wait for the effects of fluorescent lighting vapors seeping out into the air we breathe and harm us even more. That will come later of course – after it’s too late. To read my article on other suppressed cures, inventions, and the new lighting laws click Here.

Why do we continue to let the government control our health? Our destiny? Continue to keep us sick? When will we revolt? I hope I see the day, if we survive our government, then maybe.

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