In late June, 1954, Prize-winning “amateur” French physicist Maurice Allais, was managing a specially-designed series of “paraconical pendulum experiments” to explore inertial and gravitational phenomenon…

One afternoon, unknown to the technician on duty, at the time quietly conducting routine pendulum experiments in the vibration-free, underground, windowless laboratory that Allias had created for this specific scientific work … a partial solar eclipse took place over “the City of Light” — June 30, 1954…

Allais used the phrase “a brutal displacement” … to describe the “sudden, extraordinary backwards movement” of the pendulum his laboratory chief had seen (and carefully recorded!), even while not knowing its “mysterious” cause … until later that same afternoon.

Allais’ eventual (1999) explanation for his pendulum’s erratic eclipse motions was to propose that “empty” space, in fact, has some kind of underlying “structure”… or “strain” – a changing “anisotropy” (in other words, a changing “aether!”) – and, that during a geometric alignment of planetary bodies (the Sun and Moon, during an eclipse …) that underlying, constantly “changing spatial structure” is briefly, physically ALIGNED with the Sun, Moon and Earth…

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… Schmidt said there was a complicated motif of some 50 animal figures on the T-shaped pillar that was discovered in the previous season’s excavations. He said this was first of its kind, adding, “We see an eagle motif catching a snake on the same pillar, and it shows us that these figures tell us very developed stories. We will work with a team of foreign scientists and archaeologists in order to examine and solve the symbols on the artworks in Gobeklitepe. We are currently in the process of forming some international working groups to solve and understand this symbolic world. A working group will come to Sanliurfa in October and a small symposium will be held on this issue.”

via: The Archaeology News Network

Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FOOD, INC. and WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century.

Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities already struggling with its ill-effects, the film features activist Erin Brockovich and such distinguished experts as Peter Gleick, Alex Prud’homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert Glennon.

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Excavating for the first time in the sprawling complex of Xultzn in Guatemala’s Peten region, archaeologists have uncovered a structure that contains what appears to be a work space for the town’s scribe.Its walls are adorned with unique paintings – one depicting a line-up of men in black uniforms, and hundreds of scrawled numbers – many calculations relating to the Mayan calendar, and stretching up to 7,000 years into the future.

via Mail Online.

Live conversation with Brien Foerster of www.HiddenIncaTours.com about his investigations into pre-Inca cultures and the Sacred Valley of Peru, the many strange stone artifacts of Tiahuanaco, and the statues on Easter Island.  Brien is assistant director of the Paracas History Museum which has an extensive collection of different types of elongated skull identified as being evidence of the ancient Peruvian Paracas culture and is working closely with Lloyd Pie to establish the precise nature of these remains.

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These lovely sharpie drawings are a collaboration between Matt W. More (previously) and aarn who turned Matt’s vector drawings into machine language and then fed the instructions to a 3-axis CNC machine wielding a black Sharpie marker that proceeded to draw the prints. Each print from the limited edition is signed and numbered and comes with the Sharpie used to make it. Available in the MWM Graphics Shop.

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“Right now, there’s an imbalance between the north and the south poles,” Jonathan Cirtain, NASA’s project scientist for a Japanese solar mission called Hinode, in a recent article on NASA’s website. “The north is already in transition, well ahead of the south pole, and we don’t understand why.”

Further, the asymmetrically reversing solar magnetic field could have an effect on Earth, resulting in increased solar flares and the accompanying bursts of radioactive particles called “coronal mass ejections,” or CMEs, that can hit Earth and cause brilliant Northern Lights displays and problematic geomagnetic solar storms, according to NASA scientists.

“This usually leads to a double peak in the sunspot number and CME rate as a function of time,” Nat Gopalswamy, a solar scientist NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in an email to TPM [...]

via Sott.net

For the visually minded: http://galacticresonance.tumblr.com/

Upon digging around a bit further I stumbled on this video which sums up the contents of the article quite nicely based on research material presented in The Field by Lynne McTaggart – see previous posts for her audiobook and an interview.

The Kuril Islands are located in Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast region and stretch approximately 1,300 km 810 miles northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater Kuril Ridge and Lesser Kuril Ridge, all of which were captured by Soviet Forces in the closing days of World War II from the Japanese.

The “extreme danger” facing tens of millions of the Japanese peoples is the result of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster that was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.

According to this report, Japanese diplomats have signaled to their Russian counterparts that the returning of the Kuril Islands to Japan is “critical” as they have no other place to resettle so many people that would, in essence, become the largest migration of human beings since the 1930’s when Soviet leader Stalin forced tens of millions to resettle Russia’s far eastern regions [...]

via EUTimes.net