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Bionic Humans

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The Future of Bionic Humans: What’s Next in Bio-Hacking?

Jim McLauchlin, LiveScience Contributor
Date: 18 June 2013
3D illustrated wireframe human head in a virtual, binary cyberspace tube
In his newest novel, “The Eye of God,” James Rollins discusses a posthuman future and the world of bio-hacking, where biology merges with the hacker mindset to bring about the likes of cyborgs, superhuman implants and garage science.
CREDIT: Tonis Pan | Shutterstock

James Rollins has one foot planted firmly in science, the other in the unknown.

Rollins has his doctorate in veterinary medicine, but when the bestselling author sits down to write, his signature is creating works grounded in history and scientific plausibility, yet still shrouded in mysticism — Think Michael Crichton by way of Dan Brown.

In his newest novel, “The Eye of God” (William Morrow, June 25, 2013), a high-tech satellite crashes to Earth, creating a wrinkle in space-time. The satellite’s final image is a time-displaced snapshot showing the entire U.S. East Coast in smoldering ruin. It’s a tragedy that will happen … in four days.

The frantic quest to avert the tragedy leads multiple teams of DARPA’s SIGMA agents through the triads of Macau, underneath the Aral Sea, and into possession of the skull of Genghis Khan.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The book also explores the shady world of bio-hacking, a real movement that merges biology and the hacker mindset with outcomes ranging from cyborglike humans and “superhero” implants to genetic experiments carried out in garages. Rollins shares his thoughts on bio-hacking and what tomorrow will look like. Get ready for a posthuman future.

LiveScience: One of the characters in your new book has been “bio-hacked,” with rare Earth magnets implanted in his fingertips. You said this “allows people to experience electrical fields in amazing ways.” How so?

Rollins: Well, your fingers aren’t going to stick to your refrigerator, for starters. And you’re not going to set off alarms when you go through metal detectors. They’re very tiny little magnets that sit right next to a sensory nerve at the end of your fingertips. They’re so sensitive that when they encounter any kind of electromagnetic field, they vibrate. And the vibration that the nerve picks up sends a signal that allows you to experience the quality and pitch of that electromagnetic field. I’ve talked to a few people who have had this done. Some do just one or two fingers; some all. But the people I’ve interviewed have said that if they’re walking down the street and they pass over an underground electrical conduit, they can actually feel the waves of energy coming off that. Over time as they develop more sensitivity, they can qualify fluidity, shape, movement, and one guy even mentioned color of electromagnetic fields. It’s an entirely different sixth sense!

LiveScience: So what are the practical applications of implants such as these?

Rollins: Well, some people get them just for the pure expansion of the senses. But one guy I spoke to was an electrical engineer, and he said he could determine if a hard drive was spinning properly inside its housing without even opening it up. He could feel the pattern of the energy. One other guy said he could actually feel which cylinders in his car were misfiring when he was fixing his engine.

LiveScience: You mention in your notes at the end of “The Eye of God” that you want to get these implants. But you haven’t. Why not?

Rollins: Pain! [Laughs]. Across the board, all the people I interviewed said it’s a fairly uncomfortable procedure. The other thing I’m waiting for is longer-lasting magnets. They have to change these out when they wear out, about once every two years, and new types of rare Earth magnets are in development that should have almost unlimited longevity. They’re also going to coat the magnets with polymers that should lessen the chances of tissue reaction and possible infection. The medical side of me is always concerned with ‘How safe is that? How sterile is that?’ So I’m waiting for some more safety studies to be done before I do my own.

LiveScience: Is there any fear on your part? Pain is just pain — You pop some ibuprofen, and you’re okay. But is there anything dangerous in this?

Rollins: I don’t think so. Infection is a possibility, and some people have complained of some numbness secondary to this. My intrigue outweighs any fear I might have.

LiveScience: You mention other bio-hacks in your book, such as tattoos with luminescent ink, people who get tiny jewelry implanted in the whites of their eyes, and implanted RFID chips that people can use as wearable storage devices. To a layman, this stuff sounds…crazy.

Rollins: It’s all true.

Are there people doing even crazier stuff?

Rollins: There are. It gets very strange. I went to a — for lack of a better term — a “body modification fair” in San Francisco to research this …

LiveScience: It’s always San Francisco, isn’t it?

Rollins: It seems like it! And in talking to the people there, one woman there asked to have arms exchanged between a pair of twins. Now that wasn’t done. And that seems a load of crazy to me. But places like this are where you find the cutting-edge stuff. Now the RFID chips … that’s another thing I’m tempted to do. That can be almost like a universal passcode for you — you grab your cellphone, and it automatically unlocks because it picks up the RFID chip code. Only you can access your laptop.  You can unlock your car with it. It can be very handy.

LiveScience: Please tell me no right-minded doctor could possibly switch arms on twins, for cryin’ out load.

Rollins: No. Definitely not. Even the implantation of the RFID chips is not legal right now under California law. When stuff like this is done, it’s all back-room stuff.

LiveScience: The guy who does these implants in your book is alternately described as a “grinder” and an “evolutionary artist.” It’s very shady now, but do you think society will get to a place where we are more accepting of, say, the implantable RFID chip?

Rollins: Yes. I think that’s the trend, and where we’’re heading. There’s a whole “transhuman” movement, which is the merging of biology and machine. Google Glass is one small step, and now there’s a Japanese scientist who’s developed the contact lens equivalent of Google Glass. And those are two things you put right on, if not in, your body. So I think we’re already moving that way, and quite rapidly

LiveScience: I don’t want to put any words in your mouth, but would you call yourself an advocate for the transhuman movement?

Rollins: Yes. You don’t need to put the words in my mouth. I’m fully on board. I think it’s the next evolutionary step forward. There are limits to our biology, and I think the next expansion in our biology will be the merging of machine and man.

LiveScience: Okay. Let’s go larger. I believe you’re also an advocate of the theory that we might all be holograms, right?

Rollins: It’s such a weird concept, but in researching this book, I went to Fermilab, the National Particle Accelerator Lab just outside of Chicago. And in talking to these people, these highly applied scientists, I asked what I always ask in these situations. I asked, ‘What in your research disturbs you? What keeps you up at night?’ And I got a great answer…

One of the gentlemen said, ‘Well, one of the things that we’re now studying is that possibility that the entire universe might be just a fabrication, a gigantic hologram.’ My mind immediately went right to Star Trek’s Holodeck, and … I didn’t quite buy it. But he was quite serious, and said that from a mathematical standpoint … it’s highly likely that the entire universe is defined by equations written on the inside sphere of the universe. They’re actually going to be doing a test later this year at Fermilab using a device called a holometer to test this theory to see if the universe actually is a hologram. So in the next year I guess we’re all going to find out, right? We’ll see if we’re all fabrications … just like the characters in my novels, right [laughs]?

For more on James Rollins and his interest in comic books, visit LiveScience sister site, Newsarama.com.

from:    http://www.livescience.com/37507-biohacking-james-rollins.html

The Growing RIft in Africa

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Why Is Africa Ripping Apart? Seismic Scan May Tell

Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor
Date: 19 June 2013
Lakes along the Great African Rift Valley
 This radar image highlights portions of three of the lakes located in the Western Rift of the Great Rift Valley, a geological fault system of Southwest Asia and East Africa: Lake Edward (top), Lake Kivu (middle) and Lake Tanganyika (bottom).
CREDIT: ESA

Arrays of sensors stretching across more than 1,500 miles in Africa are now probing the giant crack in the Earth located there — a fissure linked with human evolution — to discover why and how continents get ripped apart.

Over the course of millions of years, Earth’s continents break up as they are slowly torn apart by the planet’s tectonic forces. All the ocean basins on the Earth started as continental rifts, such as the Rio Grande rift in North America and Asia’s Baikal rift in Siberia.

The giant rift in Eastern Africa was born when Arabia and Africa began pulling away from each other about 26 million to 29 million years ago. Although this rift has grown less than 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) per year, the dramatic results include the formation and ongoing spread of the Red Sea, as well as the East African Rift Valley, the landscape that might have been home to the first humans.

“Yet, in spite of numerous geophysical and geological studies, we still do not know much about the processes that tear open continents and form continental rifts,” said researcher Stephen Gao, a seismologist at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo. This is partly because such research has mostly focused on mature segments of these chasms, as opposed to ones that are still in development, he explained.

Seismic SAFARI

Geodynamic models suggest that below mature rifts, a region called the asthenosphere is upwelling. The asthenosphere is the hotter, weaker, upper part of the mantle that lies below the lithosphere, the planet’s outer, rigid shell. So far, there are two contenders for what might cause this upwelling: anomalies deeper in the mantle or thinning of the lithosphere due to distant stresses.

To help find out which of the two different rifting models is correct, the Seismic Arrays for African Rift Initiation (SAFARI) project installed 50 seismic stations across Africa in the summer of 2012, each spaced about 17 to 50 miles (28 to 80 kilometers) apart.

“One of the techniques that we will use to image the Earth beneath the SAFARI stations is called seismic tomography, which is in principle similar to the X-ray CAT-scan technique used in hospitals,” Gao told LiveScience’s OurAmazingPlanet. “The only differences are that our sources of the ‘rays’ are earthquakes and man-made explosions, and the receivers are the seismic stations such as the 50 SAFARI stations.”

Altogether, these arrays encompass a length of about 1,550 miles (2,500 km) and are located in four countries — Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.

“I think the project has a positive impact on local communities,” Gao said. “Some of our 50 SAFARI seismic stations are on local schools, and the teachers and students were excited and were proud about the fact that their school was selected for a high-tech scientific instrument. We believe that this project showed some kids that the outside world is different and even fascinating.”

The arrays will image the areas under the Okavango, Luangwa and Malawi rifts, the southwest and southernmost segments of the East African Rift system. These so-called incipient rifts are not yet mature and could thus shed light on why and how rifting occurs.

“This is the first large-scale project to image the structure and deformation beneath an incipient rift,” Gao said. “The Okavango rift in Botswana is as young as a few tens-of-thousand years, while most other rifts such as the Rio Grande and Baikal rifts are as old as 35 million years.”

Upwelling or thinning?

If thermal or dynamic anomalies deep in the mantle are responsible for rifting, then upwelling from the asthenosphere should already be occurring beneath these incipient rifts. In contrast, if thinning of the lithosphere is the cause of rifting, then any levels of upwelling should be insignificant because the lithosphere should not have thinned adequately for major upwelling to occur yet.

A magnitude-5.6 earthquake in November near the northern end of the Indian Ocean’s mid-ocean ridge sent out seismic waves that were more than 1 second slower than predicted. This supports the idea that the mantle layer beneath Southern Africa is hotter than normal, perhaps due to a jet of magma known as a mantle plume that geologists have proposed exists beneath this area.

To image the structures beneath these rifts and pin down what the rifting mechanism in Eastern Africa is, researchers need data from more than just one event. The seismic arrays will be deployed for 24 months, and each station will sample the Earth for seismic waves 50 times per second.

“We are anxious to see if there are melted rocks in the mantle beneath the rifts, if there is convective mantle flow that is driving the rifting process, and how much the crust has been thinned in different portions of the rifts,” Gao said. “But this cannot be done until next summer, when all the data recorded by SAFARI are processed.”

The scientists detailed their findings to date in the June 11 issue of Eos, the online newspaper of the American Geophysical Union.

from:    http://www.livescience.com/37542-african-rift-valley-seismic-array.html

Lourdes Site FLooded

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Floods close Lourdes pilgrimage site in Pyrenees

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  • Buildings are surrounded by flood water near Lourdes, southwestern France, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. French rescue services and police are evacuating hundreds of pilgrims from hotels threatened by floodwaters from a rain-swollen river in the Roman Catholic shrine town of Lourdes. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

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LOURDES, France (AP) — Heavy floods in southwest France have left two dead and forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels.

Muddy floodwaters swirled Wednesday in the grotto where nearly 6 million believers from around the world, many gravely ill, come every year seeking miracles and healing. It has been a major pilgrimage site since a French girl’s vision of the Virgin Mary there in 1858.

Heavy rains around the region inundated town centers and swelled the Gave de Pau river, forcing road closures.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on BFM television that a man in his seventies died Wednesday, swept away by the river. The Interior Ministry says it is the second person who has died in this week’s rains.

The spokesman for the Lourdes pilgrimage complex, Mathias Terrier said that the site in the foothills of the Pyrenees wasn’t likely to reopen before the end of the week.

Rescue services evacuated hundreds of people from nearby hotels. Authorities were particularly concerned with bringing weak and sick pilgrims to safety.

“We need more reinforcements in the area to face these floods, which are really exceptional,” Valls said while visiting Lourdes on Wednesday. He said days of sustained rains and sudden snowmelt made the flooding worse, and left some villages isolated.

The website for the pilgrimage complex, which includes several buildings and a sanctuary nestled beneath a rocky hillside, carried a dramatic rundown of the rising waters.

Throughout Tuesday, masses were gradually cancelled. One by one, entrances to the sanctuary were cordoned off. The live video feed of the grotto went down. Then the electricity was cut off, and then phones.

“A vision of the apocalypse in the Sainte Bernadette Church, where the big movable partition is threatening to fall. The water has risen above the stairs of the choir,” read one announcement.

Terrier said waters reached 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) in the grotto. A group of 3,000 children scheduled to come for the day Wednesday were told to stay away. Volunteers offered to help clean up the site when the waters recede.

from:    http://news.yahoo.com/floods-close-lourdes-pilgrimage-pyrenees-090133766.html

(NOTE:  Interesting that another site of pilgrimage is being flooded just as the “season” starts.)

 

India Massive Floods

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Indian floods leave tens of thousands stranded in Uttarakhand state

Death toll from catastrophic floods during mass pilgrimage in Himalayan state put at over 1,000 after monsoon deluge

A pilgrim is helped by a villager along a path damaged by a landslide in the state of Uttarakhand

A pilgrim is helped by a villager along a path damaged by a landslide in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

Tens of thousands of people, including pilgrims, tourists and local villagers, remained stranded on Thursday and an unknown number have been killed after torrential rains in the eastern Himalayas breached a glacier, flooded mountain rivers and triggered scores of landslides.

The horrific natural disaster, described by some as a “Himalayan tsunami”, was triggered by excessively heavy rainfall of more than 220mm (8.6in) on Sunday in a region home to the headwaters of the river Ganges.

As army helicopters ferried survivors down to the plains for a second day on Thursday, the official death toll passed 150, but unofficial estimates put the number of dead in the thousands.

Floods and landslides are an annual occurrence in Uttarakhand state – where the disaster struck – but the loss of life is much larger than in previous years as the monsoon arrived in India a month early, well before more than 60,000 Hindu and Sikh pilgrims who had trekked to the Himalayan holy sites of Kedarnath and Hemkund had returned home.

According to the Hindu religious calendar, Tuesday marked the day on which the Ganges descended to earth and when the rush of pilgrims is at its peak at the ancient Shiva temple in Kedarnath, a steep nine mile (14km) trek from the nearest bus stop.

Just three miles further north across the Kedar Dome mountain peak lies the Charbari glacier. The rains appear to have breached this glacier, sending a huge torrent of ice, rock, mud and water across the mountain, engulfing Kedarnath town.

It is unclear how many pilgrims and priests died at Kedarnath, but the account of one survivor, Kalyan Singh Jadaun, a middle-aged shopkeeper from Rajasthan, suggests a heavy loss of life.

Jadaun and his wife had just emerged from a guest house at 6.30am on Monday to join a stream of pilgrims heading toward the temple when the debris began rushing in.

“We were walking the 50 metres to the temple when we saw a huge chunk of ice and rock breaking not far away, and heard commotion and shouting,” he told the Indian Express.

“Local priests were telling people to run to high ground as the glacier broke up and a huge stream came rushing down the mountain. We ran back to our house. There was a mad scramble to climb the stairs to the third floor as everyone tried to reach as high as they could.”

In the melee, his wife was pushed back and when the torrent of water hit the building she was still on the second floor. “It swept her away, tossing her along with rocks and huge blocks of ice,” said Jadaun. “I saw her being washed away.”

Jadaun was rescued by an army helicopter. He said that after the deluge he saw “a large number of bodies strewn around” Kedarnath.

Heavy rain and swollen rivers also caused havoc over a swath of mountainous territory extending from Kedarnath down to the plains, washing away homes, hotels, roads and bridges. The impact was also felt in the western Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, where many foreign tourists were also stranded. Even parts of the capital, Delhi, are flooded due to the overflowing river Yamuna.

“Several factors, both natural and man-made, came together to cause this extraordinary disaster,” said Deb Mukherjee, an expert on the Himalayas. “The sudden cloud burst, the nature of Himalayan geology and the often environmentally unsound development of the region have all contributed to the tragedy.”

from:    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/india-floods-thousands-stranded-uttarakhand

Novosibirsk Region earthquake 6/19

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Moderate earthquake in the greater Novosibirsk region, Russia – Hundreds of houses damaged

Last update: June 19, 2013 at 2:39 pm by By

Update 14:31 UTC : As expected, many buildings in the epicenter area were damaged. Early reports mentioned a total number of at least 500 damaged houses, some of them with collapsed walls. Other reports say that at least 5000 chimneys were destroyed by the quake. Many people left their houses, some of them due to the fear of a imminent stronger quake, which was spreaded by local TV agencies, and some of them because of the destruction. The total damage is estimated to 150 mio rubles.
Due to this damage, this earthquake has been categorized ad CATDAT Orange

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Update 04:25 UTC : The work in local coal mines was stopped after the earthquake to check whether there is any damage in the underground.

Update 00:20 UTC : Ministry of Emergency Situations is currently making an assessment in the epicenter area. The have not reported any damage or injuries so far, but ER does expect at least minor damage in a radius of 10 to 20 km around the epicenter.

Update 00:09 UTC : After a search in the historical damage database, we could not find any damaging historical earthquakes in the epicenter area, a good sign !

Update 23:56 UTC : No specific information so far in the Russian press. Certainly no more than what our readers are telling here. RAS has no report on the earthquake yet.

Update 23:48 UTC : As can be seen on the map below, no historic important earthquakes in the region since 1900. The epicenter is however below soft soil (farming fields). Soft soil is known as dangerous for earthquake waves. It will take a number of hours, normally until daylight, to find out whether damage was inflicted.

Update 23:34 UTC : Earthquake-Report.com calls this earthquake moderately dangerous because it is close to populated locations and because of the shallow depth.
When you are one of the people who experienced this earthquake, please fill in the form behind “I Felt A (not Listed) Earthquake”. Thank you.
Если вы один из тех, кто испытал это землетрясение, пожалуйста, заполните форму позади “Я чувствовал (не указана) Землетрясение”. Спасибо.

Update 23:23 UTC : Preliminary Magnitude M5.3 at a depth of 9.8 km = moderately dangerous

Update 23:17 UTC  : No agency has reported the seismological data so far. We are following up every minute.

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  1. 3km (2mi) W of Starobachaty, Russia
  2. 5km (3mi) SSE of Bachatskiy, Russia
  3. 14km (9mi) ESE of Gur’yevsk, Russia
  4. 21km (13mi) SSW of Belovo, Russia
  5. 1048km (651mi) ENE of Astana, Kazakhstan

Most important Earthquake Data:

Magnitude : 5.3

Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2013-06-19 06:02:09

GMT/UTC Time : 2013-06-18 23:02:09

from:    http://earthquake-report.com/2013/06/18/moderate-earthquake-southwestern-siberia-russia-on-june-18-2013/

CHile/Argentina Border Quake 6/19

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Strong earthquake along the Chile / Argentina border region

Last update: June 19, 2013 at 10:04 pm by By

Update 22:02 UTC : ONEMI Chile reports the following MMI values :
Región: Valparaíso
MMI IV Calera, Calle Larga, Concón, La Ligua, Los Andes, Petorca, Quillota, Rinconada
MMI V : Zapallar
MMI IV : Villa Alemana :
Región: Metropolitana de Santiago
Max : MMI III

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Update 21:57 UTC :  There was of course NO tsunami danger as the Magnitude was far too weak and as the epicenter was below the Andes

Update 21:54 UTC : Universidad de Chile Santiago is reporting a Magnitude of Ml5.3 at a depth of 77 km

Update 21:53 UTC : This earthquake was of course also felt in  Argentina, ie Mendoza

Update 21:41 UTC : GEOFON Germany is the first to report and publishes a Magnitude of 5.5 at a depth of 100 km = harmless

Update 21:39 UTC : We are of course scanning all possible sources, but nothing yet

Update 21:37 UTC : No values yet for Magnitude. Most people visiting from Santiago and Valparaiso

When you are one of the people who experienced this earthquake, please fill in the form behind “I Felt A (not Listed) Earthquake”. Thank you.

The depth of the hypocenter is making this earthquake felt in a very wide area.

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Most important Earthquake Data:

Magnitude : 5.3

Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2013-06-19 18:29:13

GMT/UTC Time : 2013-06-19 21:29:13

from:    http://earthquake-report.com/2013/06/19/strong-earthquake-chile-argentina-border-region-on-june-19-2013/

Your Color Vibe for THursday, June 20

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Thursday, June 20:    Rose Indigo

Inspiration and renewal are the two themes that will run throughout the day.  You can find yourself doing things in new ways, finding unexpected answers, and solving problems that had been vexing you for sometime.  This same sense of seeing things anew and approaching them from a fresh perspective will also color your relationships with people today.  You can find some delight in surprising people who always thought you were so predictable.  This can have some far-reaching consequences, so remember today alter on when things start falling into new pattern and opportunities are offered to you that you never thought you would get.  And there is where the renewal comes in.  You will find today a new sense of purpose, a greater appreciation of just WHO you are, and a new joy in what you are.  Your eyes are being opened.  Things are looking different, and you are moving into your own.  You will get hints of all of this in the current energy.

June 16-22 Chromoscope

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June 16-22

The theme this week is Turning the Corner.  If you have been feeling before that everything is different, everything is changing, well, this week it will be undeniable.  So stay centered and open to your intuition.  Much to learn.  Much to understand.  Much to encounter.

 

 

Overall Color for the Week:    Dark Lavender

Emotions are very close to the surface this week, and the best thing to do is allow them to come.  This is not a time for bottling them up because any thing that is bottled up will come spilling out in a deluge later on and that cannot be good.  Look to your intuition in making decisions this week.  Listen to your intuition in dealing with people in all situations.  Things are falling apart and this includes all areas of your life.  When things happen see them as opportunities to do something new, to take a different direction, to rethink some old preconceptions.  Pay attention to your body.  It is shifting and changing and with it come aches and pains and general weirdness.  If you are concerned, then seek advice.  However, if it seems to be a hint to you concerning where you are needing to set your attention, then honor that also.  This is not a week for feeling comfortable.  Accept this and be aware of it.  It will help as the week progresses.  There is a big ouch somewhere in this week.  When it comes, look at it from all angles.  There is more there than meets the eye.  As time progresses you will find that your circle of friends shifts and changes.  There can be some sadness here, but if you take time to go within, you can see that there are certain ones that you deal with who are not truly assisting you.  It can be sad.  The past is always a comfortable cushion regardless of how good or bad it was.  Now can be scary and the future overwhelming, however with the unity of like-minded and open hearted friends, compatriots, and partners, all will be well.  Oh, and a big issue again this week will be the senses, particularly the sense of smell. Be aware to what you are sensing, ask advice, and go within.  Also, along with all the people leaving.  You will be seeing things that make you question what is going on.  Again, go within and find the message.

On the larger picture there is movement underneath in all areas.  This includes the Earth, the weather, volcanoes, sea life, politics, medicine, finance, etc.  Something is moving underneath it all.  New vortexes will be opening up in areas throughout the world.  Some will be underwater vortexes, so there can be some odd movements in the waters.  There is also some kind of blight that is making itself felt on the earth.  You will not hear much of this now, but it will become very much to the forefront as time progresses.  In terms of finances, this week it will begin to become obvious that the emperor has no clothes.  The media will make light of this, practicing their time-honored distraction tactics.  The opinions of the financiers will be that we are looking at ‘correction’, temporary glitch, inaccurate reporting.  But there will be more grassroots movements springing up to challenge the illusion that has been spread by the ones in power.  There is a political leader who is poised for a fall.  This will bring about a reworking of a lot of alliances.  In the wake of this more and more information will come spilling out that can cause reverberations throughout the world.  There is a coming together of a group of people who have been overlooked for many years.  These people will be showing themselves as having pretty much been in hiding for so long in order to establish their position and power.  And the pattern continues to form.  On the game board, the pieces are moving erratically, and yet, inexorably falling in their tracks.  Interesting week, but still just the beginning as this is the turning point.  There are people on all levels and in all positions who are making the decision to follow what they know deep in their hearts to be the true way to interact with others.

Your Color Vibe for 6/19

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Wednesday, June 19:     Frosty White

Things are happening.  Things are coming to pass.  Things are getting done.  Somehow, you are feeling that it all does not matter quite as much as you thought it would.  Even as peripheral things that you thought you wanted begin to manifest, you question how important they were after all.  There is an air of melancholia in the current of energy today.  Along with that comes nostalgia of a different type, for things still there but you are feeling as though they are gone.  Allow these feeling to come, to well up, and to move through you.  At the other side is a sense of rightness, a bout of synchronicity, an opening to what the symbols around you are telling you.  This is a day of mysteries and mysteries solved.  You can do as much, find as much, understand as much, become as much as you are open to, as you are willing to go.

Microsoft in the Eugenics Business?

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(as always, do the research, check it out, ask the questions:)

 

Microsoft Buys Eugenics Technology From Merck

 

When you buy Microsoft products, you are now promoting the pharmaceutical industry and its global vaccine agenda. That’s the new reality in which we live, where the world’s largest software company is “in bed” with the world’s largest vaccine pusher.

How so? In 2009, Microsoft purchased a key piece of technology from the drug company Merck, the world’s largest maker of vaccines (which Bill Gates says can help “reduce the global population” by 10 to 15 percent). That technology, as you’ll see below, can conceivably be used to develop eugenics vaccines that target specific races and nationalities with infertility-inducing pharmaceuticals — something that is entirely consistent with Bill Gates’ openly-admitted goal of reducing world population through the use of vaccines (see link to video below).

This gene-targeting vaccine research technology purchased by Microsoft was developed by the company known as Rosetta Biosciences, formerly owned by Merck. Their software is described as a way to “figure out how genes interact with each other, analyze peptides and metabolites, and determine how they relate to gene expression.” (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2009288622_rosetta020…)

An announcement on the Rosetta Biosoftware web site explains, “The deal allows Microsoft to incorporate genetic, genomic, metabolomic and proteomics data management software into the Microsoft Amalga Life Sciences platform for enhanced translational research capabilities.” (http://www.rosettabio.com/company/news/rosetta_microsoft)

This same announcement goes on to say that vaccine maker Merck will “provide strategic input to Microsoft” as a part of the deal. Merck’s strategy, of course, is to make money by pimping vaccines and pharmaceuticals, including the now-infamous Gardasil vaccine.

Rupert Vessey, the vice president of Merck Research Laboratories, openly admits this deal puts Microsoft in the role of being a drug developer. He says, “We look forward to collaborating with Microsoft to develop new bioinformatic solutions to enable and expedite drug discovery and development…”

This is a key statement to understand, because the term “bioinformatic” can only mean one thing. What stores information in biology? These is only one digital storage system in human biology, and that system is, of course, DNA. Therefore, the idea of developing “bioinformatic solutions” really means to develop “gene-targeting drugs and vaccines.”

This is fully consistent with Bill Gates’ admitted agenda of reducing world population with the help of drug company technologies. At a TED conference, he announced in front of a live audience:“…if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [global population] by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”(http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_vaccines_Bill_Gates.html)

See the video yourself at:
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=A155D113455FAC882A3290536575C723

All this comes on the heels of other recent news that Bill Gates is fundingsperm-destroying technologyto cause widespread male infertility (http://www.naturalnews.com/034834_Bill_Gates_sperm_infertility.html). His foundation has also funded genetically modified mosquitoes and other mad science experiments (http://www.naturalnews.com/030940_Bill_Gates_Foundation_genetics.html).

Microsoft the new leader in eugenics technology?

What’s clear from all this is that Bill Gates is pursuing an agenda of human depopulation. This is a similar agenda of those who pursueeugenicsefforts around the globe, including Adolf Hitler and a long list of former FDA Commissioners in the United States. One of the most common ambitions of those in the highest positions of power, it seems, is to cull the human population and eliminate “the little people,” leaving only a “master race” of supreme beings.

Even major universities around the globe are now teaching students that human beings are evil for merely being alive and exhaling carbon dioxide, and that killing off humans is “green” for the planet.

In order to kill off large swaths of human beings, the most efficient mechanism to use is a self-replicating, gene-targeted bioweapon. Microsoft’s Amalga Life Sciences technology, purchased from vaccine developer March, theoretically provides a viable platform to develop precisely such bioweapons. It is interesting that no announcements from the company appear to have been made since being acquired by Microsoft in 2009, indicating that their work is now being conducted in total secrecy, behind closed doors.

U.S. government admits developing weaponized, deadly flu strains

Recent headlines reveal that the United States government has also secretly funded bioweapons research that resulted in the development of super-deadly flu strains that could wipe out far more than just 15 percent of the human population. As revealed in recent news headlines:

“Scientists agreed Friday to a 60-day moratorium on research into a modified avian flu virus that has been demonstrated to be more transmissible among mammals. Although the investigators believe their research has a public health benefit, they acknowledge the fear of some governments and others that the genetically altered virus could escape from labs and infect people.”(http://www.philly.com/philly/health/news/HealthDay660965_20120120_Res…)

That may be precisely the point, it turns out. There is no better way to promote the vaccine profits of the pharmaceutical industry than to actually release an engineered bioweapon virus into the wild. And there is no faster way to reduce the world population than to engineer either a vaccine or a weaponized flu virus that burns through the human population, targeting those of an “undesirable” genetic profile who need to be “cleansed” from the human gene pool.

This about this the next time you think about purchasing Microsoft Office, Windows or some other Microsoft product. By doing so, you are funding what could very well be a global eugenics agenda with the ultimate goal of wiping out a significant proportion of the human race.

Mike Adams
Natural News
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Source: http://www.infowars.com/microsoft-buys-eugenics-technology-from-merck-becomes-drug-development-partner-with-top-global-vaccine-manufacturer/

from:    http://decryptedmatrix.com/live/microsoft-buys-eugenics-technology-from-merck/