Here is the other one that i think was one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GDgZ-8uC67A
Here is the other one that i think was one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GDgZ-8uC67A
Ashtar - Confirmations of Arrests and Changes
"Well, Greetings Everyone! We are so thrilled, because we have the perspective to assure you that all of the news you have heard, that is the Truth coming out. It's happening now. There is much that has already been accomplished, and there is a little bit more to do, that is true. And while we do not give dates, we can assure you that this is all set in motion, and is not to be reversed or sabotaged in any way.
"We are in control, and what that means is that your Freedom is our first and foremost mission. And when we talk about your Freedom, there are many aspects to it, but we tell you this, we have all that we need in the way of Love, Compassion, Forgiveness and Gratitude to do the co-partnership Mission with you, to clear the way, as it were. And we are clearing!
"We have left, or shall we say, we have created a legacy of this clearing. We have kept you informed, and there are many sources which are telling the same Truth, the same stories, as that which we present. And they are stories such as: The underground bases have been taken over by the Galactic Forces; the places of refuge, which those we call the dark hats have created for themselves - we've taken those over. They have star wars kinds of technology given to them by those who wanted to be the supreme controllers, but who were controlling them into doing all of the, shall we say, the dirty work on Planet Earth, and so they have some Stealth technologies, space technology. We've got that taken care of, too.
"They are not escaping to any of their bases, on Planet, or off, or under the surface of Planet Earth, because we have closed those options to them, not so that we can just become the rulers in their place, but so that you, Beloved Ones, will finally be able to enjoy your birthright here on Planet Earth, your Freedom, so that you can focus upon Love, and feel the great upliftment as you prepare for your Ascensions. And you will no longer have to look behind you, or look over your shoulders with any kind of fear about who might be watching you or be about to do some kind of damage in your life.
"Now we know, we know, the fallout is not completely cleaned up, and we're talking about all kinds of fallout. We're talking about those of you who have lost your home spaces, we're talking about those of you who may not even always have enough to eat. Go to your community places of help, Beloved Ones. They're there, and there are more and more in the communities who are stepping forward to be there, because everybody is equal. There is nobody who is any less than anyone else, and money is about to not be the great 'determinator' of who has, you know, the one or two percent, and who has not.
"So if you need a little help, reach out for it, because the time is short, and you yourselves will have an opportunity to pay it forward. We have closed off the escape routes. We are confiscating the ill-gotten dollars that they have stolen from you, and indeed from most of the world. We are about to redistribute it, so that everyone has a fair and equal share. In apprehending, or completing the arrests, which have begun - they were begun some time ago. You heard it yourself. You heard one of the clones identified, and there are many others, and there are holograms, and there are those who are still in their Human bodies out there running around in panic.
"And they are in panic trying to put together some extremely destructive plans and programs, and we're here to tell you: 'It's not happening!' There may be some remnants only for the purpose of providing evidence, because all of these ones being arrested will be tried, or have been tried, and their trials have been filmed, and they will be presented as present moments, but many of them have already been dealt with, those who were deemed to be the most empowered to do the most destruction. So be advised of that.
"And when you see that a great big Yertle - you remember Yertle the Turtle. Look it up - Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle. When the Yertles of this World are officially toppled, the World is going to breathe a collective sigh of relief, but our mission, Beloved Ones, is to spread that relief now. You have had some opportunities to see people who suddenly have a burden lift off and they breathe easier, they stand taller, they are in Joy at their new-found Freedom from the burdens that have stressed them so in all of their beings, not just their physicalities.
"No, they have not been stressed in their Spiritual Beings, but they have been cut off from their connections with that which you call their Higher Dimensional Selves. And that, Beloved Ones, is a lonely feeling. It is a feeling that can create such despair. It can keep a beautiful, beautiful Being of Light down in the 'dumpies. And so when people can breathe easier, when people can focus upon themselves, and their progress, and their passions of what they are here to do, they shall indeed be expressing themselves with the Freedom and the Truth of Who They Really Are. Now our mission, Beloved Ones, is to assure everyone that all is well, in all of the Kingdoms of Mother Gaia, not just Human.
"If the Earth trembles a bit, and we're not talking 9.2 here, but if the earth trembles a bit, you know it's the Animals, and did you know the Plants and the Crystals feel it? So it is to assure everyone - not just the Humans - everyone within your Kingdom, within your realm, that all is well. It is to be discerning. It is no secret by now that the recent heinous destructions which have taken place have been caused by these ones in their mad efforts to continue to control. These ones have been so programmed they will slit their own throats; not a pretty picture, we know, but we want you to be very certain of this, they will do that, or the throats of their life partners, their children, anyone that gets in their way.
"Where do you think all of these shooters, and acts of violence, created by people who are absolutely seemingly, just all of a sudden going crazy, out of their minds -where do you think that comes from? It comes from the programming that's been broadcast to them. They're not aware that they've been programmed, but somebody has given them the signal to let the program be expressed.
"It is to send them Love, and it is to send Love and Compassion, Forgiveness, and Gratitude to all concerned. These programs are being switched off. There are still a few of them so that people will respond from a Higher Dimensional perspective with loving messages, and with absolute intention, and calling forth a Peace on Earth, because that is the only reason to have such things taking place, whether it be those who are still engaged in some kind of war - and make no mistake, there are many wars going on. Just look at the continent of Africa - many wars still going on - not just Afghanistan, which is in the news.
"And there are still those who are trying to create wars in places such as the country of Syria, and there's even a little bit of rumbling going on in the country of Korea, but it will come to naught. We aren't going to allow any more major wars to get started. We have that capability. And whose name are we acting in anyway, Beloved Ones, but yours? You've given us this permission. You have called for Peace on Earth, and we are answering your call more than ever, and you, Beloved Ones are answering your call more than ever. We stand together in this!
"And so our mission is to soar - and we shall be doing that soon in our Exercise -but it is to soar and share the higher vibrations with the Planet, and with all. Now we have been telling some people, we've been telling everyone recently to get ready, because people are coming and asking questions that you all have the answers to, Beloved Ones. You know all about what's happening. You know about the transitions. You know about NESARA. Yes, and some of you are even working so magnificently to open the doors with that movie called 'Thrive.'
"Pay it forward, Beloved Ones, and share it, share Who You Really Are! Shine your Lights, and be prepared to answer the questions that are coming forth, because there are so many. And yes, the questions will be asked by everyone who does not have this knowledge, by everyone who does not know already that the mission is to pay it forward with this information. So be prepared, Beloved Ones. It doesn't mean you have to study. It doesn't mean you have to do any homework. You already know how to answer these questions.
"If someone comes forward and says,'I am down in the dumpies!' Give them some glad news, some reason to be joyful. If you have any kind of healing capabilities that are not dormant, in other words that you have already awakened to, use them. And if you haven't wakened up to the fact that you have healing capabilities, healing gifts, then go within your heart and ask.
"Everyone who sends messages from the heart is a healer. Think about that! So what can you tell someone who is down in the 'dumpies? You can say, 'I send you Love from my heart. I ask you to open your heart to receive,' and go from there. It's that simple. It sounds a little over-simplified, but it is the simple answers which are the Light and the Way, because they are Truth.
"Some of you are writing inspirations and Truths for the World. This is wondrous indeed. Some of you are doing pictures, or music, or sitting down and telling stories. Some of you are already in the teachers' positions, and it is all wondrous indeed. But you're all here to share the good news, so think about how you can find your passion, and express in the way of your passion while you are sharing.
"This, Beloved Ones, is the mission of the moment. Of course taking care of, and nurturing yourselves, remain on your mission plate. That is always true, always. So be sure that you are accomplishing that, and then look inside your hearts, and see what you can do. Even if it is five minutes, or less in the daytime or the nighttime where you say, 'Hello World, I've got some great news for you. The times are changing. The good times are here. Rejoice, and here's some Love, because you deserve it!!!'
"Now how's that for helping people get up and out of the 'dumpies? And, the more you do that, the more you help. That is our mission, Beloved Ones. You know I've been talking about Love, Compassion, Forgiveness and Gratitude for so long; that's all you need to express! The Joy comes with that. Even if you make it some kind of a mantra and send it out. Even if you share it with your children or your grandchildren, this is the World, as we have partnered to create it. It is to lift up, and vibrate at that Higher Dimensional rate, and to make the Ascension fully conscious, and yes, with your Beloved Bodies. But you have the ability, even as your bodies are changing now, you have the ability to be the director of those changes.
"Now if you know somebody who's not feeling quite tip-top in their physicality, it is not to berate them, it is not to give them a hard time. 'Oh, what are you doing taking that, 'don't you know, blah, blah, blah.' No, no, no, it is to simply say, 'Here's some Love; open your Heart if you choose to receive it. It will help you to lighten up, it will help you through this Ascension Preparation,' and I will remind you that there is no dis-easement, or impairment, or disability when you ascend.
"There is only Light and Love, and you can recreate yourself in any manner that you choose. You'll be in your Light Body. You can have wings if you wish to, you won't need them, but you can have wings if you've always wanted some beautiful, silvery, gossamer wings. You'll be shining a great Light, which has often been depicted by the master painters as a halo. Do you want to look in the mirror and see your halo? Go for it, it's there, and more and more of you are starting to make these changes within yourselves. And it is to remind others that these changes are their birthright just as much as yours. It is to share that great news.
"Now if you want to, talk about the World of finances crumbling, the World of cleaning up the environment because it has been so disrespected and so polluted, if you want to, share the news that there are new governments and people, Light Worker People. Yes, they have Human uniforms on, but they're like you, Beloved Family, they're Light Workers in the Human disguise, and they are ready to take their place as leaders Worldwide.
"And they know Who They Really Are, and they know that we are here with them to partner in all of these glorious ways that you've been hearing about. And they're standing ready, because we're clearing out the ones who have betrayed your trust. This too has been going on for a while, but it is becoming more and more evident.
"You heard the Masters Tara and Rama, our Beloved News Team, Truth Tellers. Obama signed the bill that was presented to him by those who are - they shall be called traitors - to give the authority to those who are doing the arrests. So what do you do, Beloved Ones? Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, and Gratitude - thank them for showing their true colors! Thank them. Well, to be very honest with you, they're not very colorful. They're kind of dark and dim, but they've done their parts so well! So go ahead, give them a round of applause. Send them Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, and Gratitude, and say, 'Thank you for doing what you did. I have reclaimed my birthright. I have become sovereign within my Divine Self, so I don't need you doing your outrageous stuff anymore, because I know the difference! And I'm wide awake, and I am part of the new society, a society that is based in Love, a society that shall create Institutions of Peace, a society where the communities shall be in recognition of the Divine-ness in all Beings, and the communities shall come together with Gratitude and Love, and the communities shall celebrate endlessly, and everyone in the communities shall be free to express and contribute, each according to his or her own passion!!!'
"Think about it, Beloved Ones, no one's going to tell you what your passion is. Someone can say to you, 'Oh, I Love what you have just painted, you have a great gift for it.' And guess what? You are free to say, 'Well, thank you so much. That is my passion. I've been spending all of these years in a J-O-B job, and guess what, I just received the abundance to buy myself some new paint brushes and paints, and I'm going for it.' You also have the right to say, 'Well thank you. I just tried this, and even though it does seem to have something that is attracted to you, here, you can have it, because,I just discovered that my real passion is climbing mountains, and taking pictures with my camera.'
"Do you see? How does that feel? Nobody is going to tell you what you have to do. The only guidelines for you will be your own Heart, your own sense of your own sovereignty, as well as the sovereignty of everyone else. It will not be up to you to tell your children, for instance, 'Well you must go to this school, because this is the one where you can learn to do what I've done in my J-O-B job, and I want you to come in and take over for me when I retire.' That's kind of a familiar one is it not in the Western World? No more of that, no more of that!
"It is up to each and every one of you to start identifying your passions. This would be an ideal opportunity for you, Beloved Ones, if you are not totally in touch with what you have passion for - and don't limit it to one. You can have as many passions as you have passion for! I like that, don't you? Well, you could start making a list, and you don't have to say, 'When I grow up I'm going to do this or that.'
"You know, there's that interesting commercial on TV - it does get you to thinking doesn't it? But after all you're going to be as young and rejuvenated as you want to be, so what difference does it make what your age is? You don't have any kind of what you call mandatory retirement age. You can do whatever it is that you choose to do, very, very soon. So start making your passion list. You can call it your 'living list.' It's different from the bucket list, because you're not going to die you know. You're going to go on, and on, and on, so don't be limited!!!
"What are you going to do after you make your Ascensions? What have you got passion for? You're going to get back on your ship; you're going to join me on my ship; you're going to fly in your own merkabahs; you're going to go to Inner Earth; you're going to be an ambassador; you're going to be a galaxy-wide famous chef, or artist? You can do whatever you choose to do, including coming back to help 3D Earth where you can, let's just say, take a break from it anytime you choose, because you'll be an Ascended Master. Not that you're going to let it get you down in the 'dumpies. As the new 3D Earth regresses, you're simply going to smile, and be what you call a resource person, a counselor, if you choose to, but you don't have to.
"When you ascend - we have this question come a lot - yes you will re-unite with your ancestors, your Soul Family. You can sit in fabulous discussions with anyone that you've ever wanted to meet. And yes, your Beloved Animals that you have parted from in this lifetime and others, or who have left you, will be there, happy, joyful. There are so many choices and options for you. You are unlimited, so put that 'recognizing my unlimitedness' on your mission plate, because it's time for you to know it. We're not just here speaking a bunch of pretty words for you to get inspired for what you call a few minutes. We're telling you Truth, and it's lasting Truth, because it always has been, and always will be. It's not just something for the now moment, to just forget about when we say farewell.
"BELIEVE IT, ACCEPT IT, AND KNOW IT THROUGHOUT YOUR ENTIRE BEING!!! Because you know what? We already see it there. Yes, we're scanning even now, and we see it within each and every one of you. So, let's get excited!!! We're on a roll here, everybody! We are Family. We are Love. And yes, yes, we are moving into Higher Dimensional Lifestyles together, because we have come to accompany you along the way. We have come to take your hands, to partner with you, and we are here with you in every moment. So we absolutely advise you from our Hearts to yours, to take what we have said right into your beings, and know it!
"When you know Who You Really Are, you don't have any room for fear. Whatever you are experiencing now that is the last remnant of dark events, or dark controls, dark programs that have got you kind of involved, just know that that's not Who You Really Are. You are not a victim. The Sun is shining brightly upon each and every one of you - or the Stars - and it is for you to believe it, to stand tall in front of your magic mirrors. 'Mirror, mirror, on the wall, tell me, tell me, all that I need to know in this moment about me. Who Am I really?' Look in there, and get the answer right from your own eyes. You are Divine. You are a Sovereign Free Being, you are Citizen of the Universe, and you are in mission-accomplished even now.
"So stay with it, Beloved Ones, stay on track. We're doing this together, because you asked us to come and be with you, and our Hearts are full of Thanks and Love for you. This is the most historic moment in the history/herstory of Planet Earth, the greatest story ever told throughout the Universe!!! And We Are One in Sovereign, Divine Love. So let's move on together, and bring it right into what remains of 3D on Planet Earth, that all may share this Love, this Joy, and this Oneness with Who We Are. And so it is! Salut!"
Ashtar's message was followed by The Beatles, Here Comes the Sun
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Transcription by Arnold Neal Troeh
Ashtar Teleconference, March 20, 2012, given through Susan Leland www.AshtarontheRoad.com © Ashtar On The Road Publications 2004-2012. All rights reserved; however, this is a gift to all of us and it may be distributed freely on condition that all accreditation is acknowledged and that no part is altered or deleted.

Photo: Name Withheld; Digital Manipulation: Jesse Lenz
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become known as “the principle,” marriage to multiple wives.

Today Bluffdale is home to one of the nation’s largest sects of polygamists, the Apostolic United Brethren, with upwards of 9,000 members. The brethren’s complex includes a chapel, a school, a sports field, and an archive. Membership has doubled since 1978—and the number of plural marriages has tripled—so the sect has recently been looking for ways to purchase more land and expand throughout the town.
But new pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand. Just off Beef Hollow Road, less than a mile from brethren headquarters, thousands of hard-hatted construction workers in sweat-soaked T-shirts are laying the groundwork for the newcomers’ own temple and archive, a massive complex so large that it necessitated expanding the town’s boundaries. Once built, it will be more than five times the size of the US Capitol.
Rather than Bibles, prophets, and worshippers, this temple will be filled with servers, computer intelligence experts, and armed guards. And instead of listening for words flowing down from heaven, these newcomers will be secretly capturing, storing, and analyzing vast quantities of words and images hurtling through the world’s telecommunications networks. In the little town of Bluffdale, Big Love and Big Brother have become uneasy neighbors.
Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.
But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”
For the NSA, overflowing with tens of billions of dollars in post-9/11 budget awards, the cryptanalysis breakthrough came at a time of explosive growth, in size as well as in power. Established as an arm of the Department of Defense following Pearl Harbor, with the primary purpose of preventing another surprise assault, the NSA suffered a series of humiliations in the post-Cold War years. Caught offguard by an escalating series of terrorist attacks—the first World Trade Center bombing, the blowing up of US embassies in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and finally the devastation of 9/11—some began questioning the agency’s very reason for being. In response, the NSA has quietly been reborn. And while there is little indication that its actual effectiveness has improved—after all, despite numerous pieces of evidence and intelligence-gathering opportunities, it missed the near-disastrous attempted attacks by the underwear bomber on a flight to Detroit in 2009 and by the car bomber in Times Square in 2010—there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created.
In the process—and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it’s all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever.
When construction is completed in 2013, the heavily fortified $2 billion facility in Bluffdale will encompass 1 million square feet.

A $9.7 million facility for ensuring that only cleared personnel gain access.
Designated space for technical support and administrative personnel.
Four 25,000-square-foot facilities house rows and rows of servers.
Can power the center for at least three days.
Able to pump 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day.
About 60,000 tons of cooling equipment to keep servers from overheating.
An electrical substation to meet the center’s estimated 65-megawatt demand.
Video surveillance, intrusion detection, and other protection will cost more than $10 million.
Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan
A swath of freezing fog blanketed Salt Lake City on the morning of January 6, 2011, mixing with a weeklong coating of heavy gray smog. Red air alerts, warning people to stay indoors unless absolutely necessary, had become almost daily occurrences, and the temperature was in the bone-chilling twenties. “What I smell and taste is like coal smoke,” complained one local blogger that day. At the city’s international airport, many inbound flights were delayed or diverted while outbound regional jets were grounded. But among those making it through the icy mist was a figure whose gray suit and tie made him almost disappear into the background. He was tall and thin, with the physique of an aging basketball player and dark caterpillar eyebrows beneath a shock of matching hair. Accompanied by a retinue of bodyguards, the man was NSA deputy director Chris Inglis, the agency’s highest-ranking civilian and the person who ran its worldwide day-to-day operations.
A short time later, Inglis arrived in Bluffdale at the site of the future data center, a flat, unpaved runway on a little-used part of Camp Williams, a National Guard training site. There, in a white tent set up for the occasion, Inglis joined Harvey Davis, the agency’s associate director for installations and logistics, and Utah senator Orrin Hatch, along with a few generals and politicians in a surreal ceremony. Standing in an odd wooden sandbox and holding gold-painted shovels, they made awkward jabs at the sand and thus officially broke ground on what the local media had simply dubbed “the spy center.” Hoping for some details on what was about to be built, reporters turned to one of the invited guests, Lane Beattie of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. Did he have any idea of the purpose behind the new facility in his backyard? “Absolutely not,” he said with a self-conscious half laugh. “Nor do I want them spying on me.”
For his part, Inglis simply engaged in a bit of double-talk, emphasizing the least threatening aspect of the center: “It’s a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the intelligence community in its mission to, in turn, enable and protect the nation’s cybersecurity.” While cybersecurity will certainly be among the areas focused on in Bluffdale, what is collected, how it’s collected, and what is done with the material are far more important issues. Battling hackers makes for a nice cover—it’s easy to explain, and who could be against it? Then the reporters turned to Hatch, who proudly described the center as “a great tribute to Utah,” then added, “I can’t tell you a lot about what they’re going to be doing, because it’s highly classified.”
And then there was this anomaly: Although this was supposedly the official ground-breaking for the nation’s largest and most expensive cybersecurity project, no one from the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for protecting civilian networks from cyberattack, spoke from the lectern. In fact, the official who’d originally introduced the data center, at a press conference in Salt Lake City in October 2009, had nothing to do with cybersecurity. It was Glenn A. Gaffney, deputy director of national intelligence for collection, a man who had spent almost his entire career at the CIA. As head of collection for the intelligence community, he managed the country’s human and electronic spies.
Within days, the tent and sandbox and gold shovels would be gone and Inglis and the generals would be replaced by some 10,000 construction workers. “We’ve been asked not to talk about the project,” Rob Moore, president of Big-D Construction, one of the three major contractors working on the project, told a local reporter. The plans for the center show an extensive security system: an elaborate $10 million antiterrorism protection program, including a fence designed to stop a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling 50 miles per hour, closed-circuit cameras, a biometric identification system, a vehicle inspection facility, and a visitor-control center.
Inside, the facility will consist of four 25,000-square-foot halls filled with servers, complete with raised floor space for cables and storage. In addition, there will be more than 900,000 square feet for technical support and administration. The entire site will be self-sustaining, with fuel tanks large enough to power the backup generators for three days in an emergency, water storage with the capability of pumping 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day, as well as a sewage system and massive air-conditioning system to keep all those servers cool. Electricity will come from the center’s own substation built by Rocky Mountain Power to satisfy the 65-megawatt power demand. Such a mammoth amount of energy comes with a mammoth price tag—about $40 million a year, according to one estimate.
Given the facility’s scale and the fact that a terabyte of data can now be stored on a flash drive the size of a man’s pinky, the potential amount of information that could be housed in Bluffdale is truly staggering. But so is the exponential growth in the amount of intelligence data being produced every day by the eavesdropping sensors of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. As a result of this “expanding array of theater airborne and other sensor networks,” as a 2007 Department of Defense report puts it, the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)
It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the world’s 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. By 2015, market research firm IDC estimates, there will be 2.7 billion users. Thus, the NSA’s need for a 1-million-square-foot data storehouse. Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.
The data stored in Bluffdale will naturally go far beyond the world’s billions of public web pages. The NSA is more interested in the so-called invisible web, also known as the deep web or deepnet—data beyond the reach of the public. This includes password-protected data, US and foreign government communications, and noncommercial file-sharing between trusted peers. “The deep web contains government reports, databases, and other sources of information of high value to DOD and the intelligence community,” according to a 2010 Defense Science Board report. “Alternative tools are needed to find and index data in the deep web … Stealing the classified secrets of a potential adversary is where the [intelligence] community is most comfortable.” With its new Utah Data Center, the NSA will at last have the technical capability to store, and rummage through, all those stolen secrets. The question, of course, is how the agency defines who is, and who is not, “a potential adversary.”
Once it’s operational, the Utah Data Center will become, in effect, the NSA’s cloud. The center will be fed data collected by the agency’s eavesdropping satellites, overseas listening posts, and secret monitoring rooms in telecom facilities throughout the US. All that data will then be accessible to the NSA’s code breakers, data-miners, China analysts, counterterrorism specialists, and others working at its Fort Meade headquarters and around the world. Here’s how the data center appears to fit into the NSA’s global puzzle.—J.B.

Four satellites positioned around the globe monitor frequencies carrying everything from walkie-talkies and cell phones in Libya to radar systems in North Korea. Onboard software acts as the first filter in the collection process, targeting only key regions, countries, cities, and phone numbers or email.
Intelligence collected from the geostationary satellites, as well as signals from other spacecraft and overseas listening posts, is relayed to this facility outside Denver. About 850 NSA employees track the satellites, transmit target information, and download the intelligence haul.
Focuses on intercepts from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Codenamed Sweet Tea, the facility has been massively expanded and now consists of a 604,000-square-foot operations building for up to 4,000 intercept operators, analysts, and other specialists.
Focuses on intercepts from Latin America and, since 9/11, the Middle East and Europe. Some 2,000 workers staff the operation. The NSA recently completed a $100 million renovation on a mega-data center here—a backup storage facility for the Utah Data Center.
Focuses on intercepts from Asia. Built to house an aircraft assembly plant during World War II, the 250,000-square-foot bunker is nicknamed the Hole. Like the other NSA operations centers, it has since been expanded: Its 2,700 employees now do their work aboveground from a new 234,000-square-foot facility.
The NSA has long been free to eavesdrop on international satellite communications. But after 9/11, it installed taps in US telecom “switches,” gaining access to domestic traffic. An ex-NSA official says there are 10 to 20 such installations.
According to a knowledgeable intelligence source, the NSA has installed taps on at least a dozen of the major overseas communications links, each capable of eavesdropping on information passing by at a high data rate.
At a million square feet, this $2 billion digital storage facility outside Salt Lake City will be the centerpiece of the NSA’s cloud-based data strategy and essential in its plans for decrypting previously uncrackable documents.
Some 300 scientists and computer engineers with top security clearance toil away here, building the world’s fastest supercomputers and working on cryptanalytic applications and other secret projects.
Analysts here will access material stored at Bluffdale to prepare reports and recommendations that are sent to policymakers. To handle the increased data load, the NSA is also building an $896 million supercomputer center here.
Before yottabytes of data from the deep web and elsewhere can begin piling up inside the servers of the NSA’s new center, they must be collected. To better accomplish that, the agency has undergone the largest building boom in its history, including installing secret electronic monitoring rooms in major US telecom facilities. Controlled by the NSA, these highly secured spaces are where the agency taps into the US communications networks, a practice that came to light during the Bush years but was never acknowledged by the agency. The broad outlines of the so-called warrantless-wiretapping program have long been exposed—how the NSA secretly and illegally bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was supposed to oversee and authorize highly targeted domestic eavesdropping; how the program allowed wholesale monitoring of millions of American phone calls and email. In the wake of the program’s exposure, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which largely made the practices legal. Telecoms that had agreed to participate in the illegal activity were granted immunity from prosecution and lawsuits. What wasn’t revealed until now, however, was the enormity of this ongoing domestic spying program.
For the first time, a former NSA official has gone on the record to describe the program, codenamed Stellar Wind, in detail. William Binney was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agency’s worldwide eavesdropping network. A tall man with strands of black hair across the front of his scalp and dark, determined eyes behind thick-rimmed glasses, the 68-year-old spent nearly four decades breaking codes and finding new ways to channel billions of private phone calls and email messages from around the world into the NSA’s bulging databases. As chief and one of the two cofounders of the agency’s Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, Binney and his team designed much of the infrastructure that’s still likely used to intercept international and foreign communications.
He explains that the agency could have installed its tapping gear at the nation’s cable landing stations—the more than two dozen sites on the periphery of the US where fiber-optic cables come ashore. If it had taken that route, the NSA would have been able to limit its eavesdropping to just international communications, which at the time was all that was allowed under US law. Instead it chose to put the wiretapping rooms at key junction points throughout the country—large, windowless buildings known as switches—thus gaining access to not just international communications but also to most of the domestic traffic flowing through the US. The network of intercept stations goes far beyond the single room in an AT&T building in San Francisco exposed by a whistle-blower in 2006. “I think there’s 10 to 20 of them,” Binney says. “That’s not just San Francisco; they have them in the middle of the country and also on the East Coast.”
The eavesdropping on Americans doesn’t stop at the telecom switches. To capture satellite communications in and out of the US, the agency also monitors AT&T’s powerful earth stations, satellite receivers in locations that include Roaring Creek and Salt Creek. Tucked away on a back road in rural Catawissa, Pennsylvania, Roaring Creek’s three 105-foot dishes handle much of the country’s communications to and from Europe and the Middle East. And on an isolated stretch of land in remote Arbuckle, California, three similar dishes at the company’s Salt Creek station service the Pacific Rim and Asia.
Binney left the NSA in late 2001, shortly after the agency launched its warrantless-wiretapping program. “They violated the Constitution setting it up,” he says bluntly. “But they didn’t care. They were going to do it anyway, and they were going to crucify anyone who stood in the way. When they started violating the Constitution, I couldn’t stay.” Binney says Stellar Wind was far larger than has been publicly disclosed and included not just eavesdropping on domestic phone calls but the inspection of domestic email. At the outset the program recorded 320 million calls a day, he says, which represented about 73 to 80 percent of the total volume of the agency’s worldwide intercepts. The haul only grew from there. According to Binney—who has maintained close contact with agency employees until a few years ago—the taps in the secret rooms dotting the country are actually powered by highly sophisticated software programs that conduct “deep packet inspection,” examining Internet traffic as it passes through the 10-gigabit-per-second cables at the speed of light.
The software, created by a company called Narus that’s now part of Boeing, is controlled remotely from NSA headquarters at Fort Meade in Maryland and searches US sources for target addresses, locations, countries, and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email. Any communication that arouses suspicion, especially those to or from the million or so people on agency watch lists, are automatically copied or recorded and then transmitted to the NSA.
The scope of surveillance expands from there, Binney says. Once a name is entered into the Narus database, all phone calls and other communications to and from that person are automatically routed to the NSA’s recorders. “Anybody you want, route to a recorder,” Binney says. “If your number’s in there? Routed and gets recorded.” He adds, “The Narus device allows you to take it all.” And when Bluffdale is completed, whatever is collected will be routed there for storage and analysis.
According to Binney, one of the deepest secrets of the Stellar Wind program—again, never confirmed until now—was that the NSA gained warrantless access to AT&T’s vast trove of domestic and international billing records, detailed information about who called whom in the US and around the world. As of 2007, AT&T had more than 2.8 trillion records housed in a database at its Florham Park, New Jersey, complex.
Verizon was also part of the program, Binney says, and that greatly expanded the volume of calls subject to the agency’s domestic eavesdropping. “That multiplies the call rate by at least a factor of five,” he says. “So you’re over a billion and a half calls a day.” (Spokespeople for Verizon and AT&T said their companies would not comment on matters of national security.)
After he left the NSA, Binney suggested a system for monitoring people’s communications according to how closely they are connected to an initial target. The further away from the target—say you’re just an acquaintance of a friend of the target—the less the surveillance. But the agency rejected the idea, and, given the massive new storage facility in Utah, Binney suspects that it now simply collects everything. “The whole idea was, how do you manage 20 terabytes of intercept a minute?” he says. “The way we proposed was to distinguish between things you want and things you don’t want.” Instead, he adds, “they’re storing everything they gather.” And the agency is gathering as much as it can.
Once the communications are intercepted and stored, the data-mining begins. “You can watch everybody all the time with data- mining,” Binney says. Everything a person does becomes charted on a graph, “financial transactions or travel or anything,” he says. Thus, as data like bookstore receipts, bank statements, and commuter toll records flow in, the NSA is able to paint a more and more detailed picture of someone’s life.
The NSA also has the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in real time. According to Adrienne J. Kinne, who worked both before and after 9/11 as a voice interceptor at the NSA facility in Georgia, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks “basically all rules were thrown out the window, and they would use any excuse to justify a waiver to spy on Americans.” Even journalists calling home from overseas were included. “A lot of time you could tell they were calling their families,” she says, “incredibly intimate, personal conversations.” Kinne found the act of eavesdropping on innocent fellow citizens personally distressing. “It’s almost like going through and finding somebody’s diary,” she says.
But there is, of course, reason for anyone to be distressed about the practice. Once the door is open for the government to spy on US citizens, there are often great temptations to abuse that power for political purposes, as when Richard Nixon eavesdropped on his political enemies during Watergate and ordered the NSA to spy on antiwar protesters. Those and other abuses prompted Congress to enact prohibitions in the mid-1970s against domestic spying.
Before he gave up and left the NSA, Binney tried to persuade officials to create a more targeted system that could be authorized by a court. At the time, the agency had 72 hours to obtain a legal warrant, and Binney devised a method to computerize the system. “I had proposed that we automate the process of requesting a warrant and automate approval so we could manage a couple of million intercepts a day, rather than subvert the whole process.” But such a system would have required close coordination with the courts, and NSA officials weren’t interested in that, Binney says. Instead they continued to haul in data on a grand scale. Asked how many communications—”transactions,” in NSA’s lingo—the agency has intercepted since 9/11, Binney estimates the number at “between 15 and 20 trillion, the aggregate over 11 years.”
When Barack Obama took office, Binney hoped the new administration might be open to reforming the program to address his constitutional concerns. He and another former senior NSA analyst, J. Kirk Wiebe, tried to bring the idea of an automated warrant-approval system to the attention of the Department of Justice’s inspector general. They were given the brush-off. “They said, oh, OK, we can’t comment,” Binney says.
Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,” he says.
There is still one technology preventing untrammeled government access to private digital data: strong encryption. Anyone—from terrorists and weapons dealers to corporations, financial institutions, and ordinary email senders—can use it to seal their messages, plans, photos, and documents in hardened data shells. For years, one of the hardest shells has been the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of several algorithms used by much of the world to encrypt data. Available in three different strengths—128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bits—it’s incorporated in most commercial email programs and web browsers and is considered so strong that the NSA has even approved its use for top-secret US government communications. Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithm—trying one combination after another to unlock the encryption—would likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (1036).
Breaking into those complex mathematical shells like the AES is one of the key reasons for the construction going on in Bluffdale. That kind of cryptanalysis requires two major ingredients: super-fast computers to conduct brute-force attacks on encrypted messages and a massive number of those messages for the computers to analyze. The more messages from a given target, the more likely it is for the computers to detect telltale patterns, and Bluffdale will be able to hold a great many messages. “We questioned it one time,” says another source, a senior intelligence manager who was also involved with the planning. “Why were we building this NSA facility? And, boy, they rolled out all the old guys—the crypto guys.” According to the official, these experts told then-director of national intelligence Dennis Blair, “You’ve got to build this thing because we just don’t have the capability of doing the code-breaking.” It was a candid admission. In the long war between the code breakers and the code makers—the tens of thousands of cryptographers in the worldwide computer security industry—the code breakers were admitting defeat.
So the agency had one major ingredient—a massive data storage facility—under way. Meanwhile, across the country in Tennessee, the government was working in utmost secrecy on the other vital element: the most powerful computer the world has ever known.
The plan was launched in 2004 as a modern-day Manhattan Project. Dubbed the High Productivity Computing Systems program, its goal was to advance computer speed a thousandfold, creating a machine that could execute a quadrillion (1015) operations a second, known as a petaflop—the computer equivalent of breaking the land speed record. And as with the Manhattan Project, the venue chosen for the supercomputing program was the town of Oak Ridge in eastern Tennessee, a rural area where sharp ridges give way to low, scattered hills, and the southwestward-flowing Clinch River bends sharply to the southeast. About 25 miles from Knoxville, it is the “secret city” where uranium- 235 was extracted for the first atomic bomb. A sign near the exit read: what you see here, what you do here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay here. Today, not far from where that sign stood, Oak Ridge is home to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and it’s engaged in a new secret war. But this time, instead of a bomb of almost unimaginable power, the weapon is a computer of almost unimaginable speed.
In 2004, as part of the supercomputing program, the Department of Energy established its Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility for multiple agencies to join forces on the project. But in reality there would be two tracks, one unclassified, in which all of the scientific work would be public, and another top-secret, in which the NSA could pursue its own computer covertly. “For our purposes, they had to create a separate facility,” says a former senior NSA computer expert who worked on the project and is still associated with the agency. (He is one of three sources who described the program.) It was an expensive undertaking, but one the NSA was desperate to launch.
Known as the Multiprogram Research Facility, or Building 5300, the $41 million, five-story, 214,000-square-foot structure was built on a plot of land on the lab’s East Campus and completed in 2006. Behind the brick walls and green-tinted windows, 318 scientists, computer engineers, and other staff work in secret on the cryptanalytic applications of high-speed computing and other classified projects. The supercomputer center was named in honor of George R. Cotter, the NSA’s now-retired chief scientist and head of its information technology program. Not that you’d know it. “There’s no sign on the door,” says the ex-NSA computer expert.
At the DOE’s unclassified center at Oak Ridge, work progressed at a furious pace, although it was a one-way street when it came to cooperation with the closemouthed people in Building 5300. Nevertheless, the unclassified team had its Cray XT4 supercomputer upgraded to a warehouse-sized XT5. Named Jaguar for its speed, it clocked in at 1.75 petaflops, officially becoming the world’s fastest computer in 2009.
Meanwhile, over in Building 5300, the NSA succeeded in building an even faster supercomputer. “They made a big breakthrough,” says another former senior intelligence official, who helped oversee the program. The NSA’s machine was likely similar to the unclassified Jaguar, but it was much faster out of the gate, modified specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, like the AES. In other words, they were moving from the research and development phase to actually attacking extremely difficult encryption systems. The code-breaking effort was up and running.
The breakthrough was enormous, says the former official, and soon afterward the agency pulled the shade down tight on the project, even within the intelligence community and Congress. “Only the chairman and vice chairman and the two staff directors of each intelligence committee were told about it,” he says. The reason? “They were thinking that this computing breakthrough was going to give them the ability to crack current public encryption.”
In addition to giving the NSA access to a tremendous amount of Americans’ personal data, such an advance would also open a window on a trove of foreign secrets. While today most sensitive communications use the strongest encryption, much of the older data stored by the NSA, including a great deal of what will be transferred to Bluffdale once the center is complete, is encrypted with more vulnerable ciphers. “Remember,” says the former intelligence official, “a lot of foreign government stuff we’ve never been able to break is 128 or less. Break all that and you’ll find out a lot more of what you didn’t know—stuff we’ve already stored—so there’s an enormous amount of information still in there.”
That, he notes, is where the value of Bluffdale, and its mountains of long-stored data, will come in. What can’t be broken today may be broken tomorrow. “Then you can see what they were saying in the past,” he says. “By extrapolating the way they did business, it gives us an indication of how they may do things now.” The danger, the former official says, is that it’s not only foreign government information that is locked in weaker algorithms, it’s also a great deal of personal domestic communications, such as Americans’ email intercepted by the NSA in the past decade.
But first the supercomputer must break the encryption, and to do that, speed is everything. The faster the computer, the faster it can break codes. The Data Encryption Standard, the 56-bit predecessor to the AES, debuted in 1976 and lasted about 25 years. The AES made its first appearance in 2001 and is expected to remain strong and durable for at least a decade. But if the NSA has secretly built a computer that is considerably faster than machines in the unclassified arena, then the agency has a chance of breaking the AES in a much shorter time. And with Bluffdale in operation, the NSA will have the luxury of storing an ever-expanding archive of intercepts until that breakthrough comes along.
But despite its progress, the agency has not finished building at Oak Ridge, nor is it satisfied with breaking the petaflop barrier. Its next goal is to reach exaflop speed, one quintillion (1018) operations a second, and eventually zettaflop (1021) and yottaflop.
These goals have considerable support in Congress. Last November a bipartisan group of 24 senators sent a letter to President Obama urging him to approve continued funding through 2013 for the Department of Energy’s exascale computing initiative (the NSA’s budget requests are classified). They cited the necessity to keep up with and surpass China and Japan. “The race is on to develop exascale computing capabilities,” the senators noted. The reason was clear: By late 2011 the Jaguar (now with a peak speed of 2.33 petaflops) ranked third behind Japan’s “K Computer,” with an impressive 10.51 petaflops, and the Chinese Tianhe-1A system, with 2.57 petaflops.
But the real competition will take place in the classified realm. To secretly develop the new exaflop (or higher) machine by 2018, the NSA has proposed constructing two connecting buildings, totaling 260,000 square feet, near its current facility on the East Campus of Oak Ridge. Called the Multiprogram Computational Data Center, the buildings will be low and wide like giant warehouses, a design necessary for the dozens of computer cabinets that will compose an exaflop-scale machine, possibly arranged in a cluster to minimize the distance between circuits. According to a presentation delivered to DOE employees in 2009, it will be an “unassuming facility with limited view from roads,” in keeping with the NSA’s desire for secrecy. And it will have an extraordinary appetite for electricity, eventually using about 200 megawatts, enough to power 200,000 homes. The computer will also produce a gargantuan amount of heat, requiring 60,000 tons of cooling equipment, the same amount that was needed to serve both of the World Trade Center towers.
In the meantime Cray is working on the next step for the NSA, funded in part by a $250 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It’s a massively parallel supercomputer called Cascade, a prototype of which is due at the end of 2012. Its development will run largely in parallel with the unclassified effort for the DOE and other partner agencies. That project, due in 2013, will upgrade the Jaguar XT5 into an XK6, codenamed Titan, upping its speed to 10 to 20 petaflops.
Yottabytes and exaflops, septillions and undecillions—the race for computing speed and data storage goes on. In his 1941 story “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges imagined a collection of information where the entire world’s knowledge is stored but barely a single word is understood. In Bluffdale the NSA is constructing a library on a scale that even Borges might not have contemplated. And to hear the masters of the agency tell it, it’s only a matter of time until every word is illuminated.
James Bamford (washwriter@gmail.com) is the author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America.
source; wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/23/ap-sources-obama-taps-jim-yong-kim-world-bank/
But you have to ask yourself, is a university president/physician a good choice? And, yes, the US still will be controlling the World Bank via their choice, should he get the job.
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| Depth | 10.7 km (6.6 miles) |
| Region | SOUTH AUSTRALIA |
| Distances | 317 km (196 miles) SSW of Alice Springs, Northern Terr., Australia 370 km (229 miles) WNW of Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia 415 km (257 miles) NW of Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia 1926 km (1196 miles) WNW of CANBERRA, A.C.T., Australia |
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March 22, 2012: A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8th through 10th dumped enough energy in Earth’s upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years.
“This was the biggest dose of heat we’ve received from a solar storm since 2005,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA Langley Research Center. “It was a big event, and shows how solar activity can directly affect our planet.”

Mlynczak is the associate principal investigator for the SABER instrument onboard NASA’s TIMED satellite. SABER monitors infrared emissions from Earth’s upper atmosphere, in particular from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), two substances that play a key role in the energy balance of air hundreds of km above our planet’s surface.
“Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,” explains James Russell of Hampton University, SABER’s principal investigator. “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.”
That’s what happened on March 8th when a coronal mass ejection (CME) propelled in our direction by an X5-class solar flare hit Earth’s magnetic field. (On the “Richter Scale of Solar Flares,” X-class flares are the most powerful kind.) Energetic particles rained down on the upper atmosphere, depositing their energy where they hit. The action produced spectacular auroras around the poles and significant1 upper atmospheric heating all around the globe.
“The thermosphere lit up like a Christmas tree,” says Russell. “It began to glow intensely at infrared wavelengths as the thermostat effect kicked in.”
For the three day period, March 8th through 10th, the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy. Infrared radiation from CO2 and NO, the two most efficient coolants in the thermosphere, re-radiated 95% of that total back into space.

In human terms, this is a lot of energy. According to the New York City mayor’s office, an average NY household consumes just under 4700 kWh annually. This means the geomagnetic storm dumped enough energy into the atmosphere to power every home in the Big Apple for two years.
“Unfortunately, there’s no practical way to harness this kind of energy,” says Mlynczak. “It’s so diffuse and out of reach high above Earth’s surface. Plus, the majority of it has been sent back into space by the action of CO2 and NO.”
During the heating impulse, the thermosphere puffed up like a marshmallow held over a campfire, temporarily increasing the drag on low-orbiting satellites. This is both good and bad. On the one hand, extra drag helps clear space junk out of Earth orbit. On the other hand, it decreases the lifetime of useful satellites by bringing them closer to the day of re-entry.
The storm is over now, but Russell and Mlynczak expect more to come.
“We’re just emerging from a deep solar minimum,” says Russell. “The solar cycle is gaining strength with a maximum expected in 2013.”
More sunspots flinging more CMEs toward Earth adds up to more opportunities for SABER to study the heating effect of solar storms.
“This is a new frontier in the sun-Earth connection,” says Mlynczak, and the data we’re collecting are unprecedented.”
Stay tuned to Science@NASA for updates from the top of the atmosphere.
Author:Dr. Tony Phillips| Production editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA
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Footnote: (1) No one on Earth’s surface would have felt this impulse of heat. Mlynczak puts it into perspective: “Heat radiated by the solid body of the Earth is very large compared to the amount of heat being exchanged in the upper atmosphere. The daily average infrared radiation from the entire planet is 240 W/m2—enough to power NYC for 200,000 years.” |
There is interesting information here. There is copyright notice.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/03/feeding-homeless-banned-in-major-cities.html
My gf told me that this was discussed on WGN news this morning......tell me what you think.
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Earth changes are impending, however this is part of her birthing
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Send her Love, hold her in your Heart, embody her to help her
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I don't know how to get a blog bumped up so sorry if I shouldn't have done this. It is not mine but instead of starting a new one I wanted to keep the original going. Please look.
https://earthchanges.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nasa-rockets-going-to-light-up-the-sky
There are a few things here I would take issue with or at least ask a few questions about. My own sources, and Amy has been given these says this object is about four Jupiter masses, and the four earth mases is assumed to be disinfo, or at least a wrong assumption made by Harrington.
Now, if this object is between ourselves and the sun, or anywhere in the vicinity, and based on Jim maccaneys models and reasoning which I believe to be pin point accurate, there would by now be huge, indeed massive solar storms engulfing the earth. This object and assuming it is a brown dwarf and going off historical records, has an iron or iron Nickel core, at least there is ferrite in it and maybe a massive layer of ferrite on its surface or in a cloud around it. This we can infer from the story of the Israelites and Moses, though I think a lot of that is myth, though the central facts can be ascertained from the Ipuhwar manuscript amongst others.
So, we must tighten up our reasoning and assumptions. It is my belief if this object is real and is anywhere near to us, it is either on the far side of the sun waiting our presence there maybe this or next summer, or, it is as yet in the Mars /Jupiter orbit, and may be currently crossing this plane hence the twerm, planet of the crossing.
Now, as far as ZT goes, I have many issues here. Where do you get the idea the Pentagon reads this website , daily for updates? Maybe for a few laughs and jokes on the gullibility of its readership, and the sheer brazenness of the person who writes this website. I have read it many times and there is a lot of value therein, but again it makes assumptions we are in no way able to prove nor disprove. NL , the leader of the website may well be a contactee and my source who has vanished now says she is genuine, and her facts are genuine. . Again we have no way of knowing this and are left once again making assumptions.
so, the only thing we have left are the edicts passed by Obama, and a stupidly compliant congress-- or do they know something we are not privy to- and we also have the FEMA camps and the many underground bases. .
Quite frankly from my own point of view, and perspective, there are far to many so called facts and less solid information that can tie any of these together.
My own postilion is to read and listen and enjoy whilst getting prepared mentally spiritually and physically which is most important, for we are like the powers that be playing a waiting game and we must be patient and still enjoy life all the same. Live each day and enjoy it. Many are not able to, many do not know how to, and prefer to hide within the shadows of fear and Closed minds, and live with conspiracy theories written on their sleeves. I do not refer to anyone on this forum but make only a generalized point.
One thing that does make me think is this. If this large object was discovered in 1983, I believe by Harrington, where was it then, where has it bean on its journey to the inner solar system, and where is it now? If we have its orbit trajectory, we can say a few things about it. First it is coming from the outer solar system with its speed differentially increasing. We need to know its initial velocity,at say, just outside the planet Plutos orbit, To me Pluto is a planet!!!) the kuiper belt, . next we need to ascertain its interaction with the gas giants, as it enters the asteroid belt, all these factors will interplay with each other. It is bound it slow down near Jupiter Saturn and Uranus.
next we need t ascertain how its speed will increase once it is past Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus, after it has crossed the planetary ecliptic it must be increasing its speed.. so, what date was it at its mid point shall we say?
then we need to know where earth was at this time, thus we then have a calculation as to how its orbit will affect the earths as the earth goes round the sun. Now, this object may interact on two occasions or it my interact when it is at its farthest point from the sun, and the earth catches up to it, in summer or autumn, as the earth rotates around the sun, it will then interact where this object begins speeding up again and leaving the vicinity of the sun for its return journey out of the solar system.
so, where are we now? it is made more complicated by the fact the earth and the solar system are traversing the galactic plane which is a once in a hundred thousand year event, not the exact the exact time frame. anyhow, there are said to be severe torsion field stresses acting upon the earths core, and this is one interpretation of the earth changes at present.
Now if this giant object is anywhere near us, it will have dual effects . . it will have an electromagnetic effects on the sun causing massive solar storms, it will also have an effect upon our orbit, and movement around our axis of rotation. it will have a major effect upon the magnetosphere and will cause a pole shift, along with a crustal slip and axis tilt, pulling the south pole of earth towards I believe the north magnetic pole of planet x,
I could go on about mountain building, gravity waves, about the shift of the earth with respect to the oceans , thus we have coastal and inland flooding. On and on an on.
In the end the imminence of these changes are determined /guessed from what little data we have, backed by the circumstantial evidence of the geopolitic situation, and the ensuing police state in all major countries, , it does seem to all tie together.
so, I continue to read and study and listen, but am lighthearted about it. I live on the periphery of society, it may be quite different for those with jobs and mortgages. those who are entrenched in some way in the system. those who are glued to the media taking what they hear as truth instead of some a paradigm of belief. Read from a poorly written script.
I believe the best and most we can do, is to get prepared on all levels, have a few weeks supply at least of food, a source of fresh water and a water filter, and if things start to deteriorate, and we see signs that say these events are for real, then we can take things to another level altogether. and in the end, simply enjoy life, spring is here and summer not far way, and the only way to live life is in the present.
There is HAARP activity in the range of the Japan quake starting 20:00 March 20th and continuing to noon March 21st. A chart of the Japan quake is included at the bottom for comparison purposes.
Note the activity started weakly about two hours before the quake in Mexico on 20 March and gained strength 10 hours later, stopping around noon on 21 March. (My assumption is the bigger the horizontal line the stronger it is.)
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BE AWARE: Obama's recent 'National Emergency Martial Law Executive Order' is FOR A REASON. FEMA, DHS and NASA are expecting something BIG, but they've been covering up the real reason for obvious reasons. The public would be furious to know that the elite have been stripping the economy of equity to funnel massive funds into their survival preparations while denying civil defense for the public.
This is a heads up for tomorrow. Recently I've seen multiple articles and videos warning that March 22 is a likely time for serious Earth changes. And this morning, someone forwarded me THIS VIDEO.
This goes deeper than the Spring Equinox compendium that I sent you yesterday. If you read that, you got a lot of spiritual philosophy mixed with current politics, economics and the science behind the '2012 Shift Portents'... more information than you probably wanted:)
But I didn't mention this, and I hope you're ready for it now.
There's a lot of Internet chatter this last week -- and a lot of hysteria -- about the martial law executive order that Obama issued regarding an 'imminent' national emergency. They know what's coming. I've reported on this before. Earth changes have been accelerating for reasons that the mainstream media won't touch because it could incite panic, chaos and disruption of the prevailing "BS" (Belief System) that 'all is well'.
'Normalcy Bias': From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental state where people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation. [1]
Who wants to believe that the world is facing massive Earth changes? Not me.
But I'm not stupid either. I know that government 'insiders who know' have been preparing hundreds of underground shelters feverishly. I know that FEMA has been warning that the New Madrid Fault in the middle of the U.S. is on the verge of splitting wide open, with FEMA ordering a billion dollars of food reserves a year ago for the New Madrid region. And I know where they get their information... more than 10,000 pages of 'off-planet' intel (Zeta Talk website) with millions of visits and 40% of the visiting ip addresses being the Pentagon or governments of the world. They know that this is the most accurate information on global Earth changes as relates directly to the inbound trajectory of a 'heavy mass object'.
My 'normalcy bias' is reluctant to report this. Maybe it won't happen! But if it does, it sure provides a good 'natural excuse' for Martial law. And it sure reveals a lot about government preparation of 'relocation camps' and the 'secretive' National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) which Obama signed into law on New Year's Eve.
Here's a short YouTube video about the MARCH 22 PREDICTION:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgPaLfmC16o&list=UU0kNJbW_LWvqL6niPy1wAmg&index=2&feature=plcp
IN SUMMARY: The portents for a Fukishima-like MegaQuake are strong for March 22.
Tomorrow, the Earth and Moon are also in alignment with the Sun... with the 'heavy mass object' in between.
This object has been difficult to see, because it is between the Earth and the Sun, but people are photographing it with Sun filters, and we'll all be seeing it with the naked eye before long.
The Sun's activity has been going ballistic recently with the nearby electromagnets of this 'heavy mass object' which is 4 times the size of Earth and 16 x's the electromagnetics.
As explained in yesterday's Spring Equinox Alert, Earth's magnetic fields have been dramatically diminishing while the Schumann Resonance -- Earth's 'heartbeat', a long-time constant -- has been dramatically increasing. The Schumman Resonance corresponds to the Alpha brain waves of humans; our consciousness thus changing to 2012 "O-Point" (Omega Point) as also explained in a video at the Equinox Alert HERE.
From Alpha to Omega... it's the cosmic scheme of things for 2012.
It may be hard to see, but it's all in divine-cosmic order.
From the beginning, there has been a plan.
With Cosmic Love as the Rule,
Love Rules.
There is no doubt that of recent times, your consciousness levels have grown quite considerably where we are concerned. There is much more interest in us and our craft, in part due to the frequency in which we are now seen in your skies. Unless as an act of disinformation, there has never been a report associated with the Galactic Federation where we have been hostile without reason. Even so we do not cause death and where we are forced to take protective measures, occupants of your craft are first removed before they are destroyed. Often we are forced into such a position when our orders are ignored, and we only give them where we are authorized to intervene. On most occasions it is when nuclear weapons are about to be used, and all of your governments have been warned that we will not allow it to happen. Believe us Dear Ones, some of your military commanders are still intent on using them to start another war. The path to Ascension is protected by us and it is not our place to save you, but ensure the opportunity is there for you to take. In fact, neither you or Mother Earth would be here today but for our actions. God has spoken on this matter, and we are upholding the edict that this cycle will end with Ascension.
The Earth is the jewel in the crown, and long sought after by other civilizations. Attempts have been made to take you over and we have prevented them, but the biggest threat to your lives has come from within. Very soon you will get to learn all about your history, and in detail where recent times are concerned. You have fought a battle without actually realizing what you were up against, and much of it has taken place on the higher levels. All along the real one has been between the Light and the dark, and you have only won through in recent times. You have come so close to defeat, and it is a remarkable achievement to have overcome the dark Ones. It only remains to completely cut their links, and remove them to where they are no longer a danger to you.
Much at present depends on the governmental changes that are being arranged. Naturally there will be opposition, but for those whose fate is decided there is no argument that will save them. We know the truth, and more importantly the motive behind their intentions. Bribery and corruption are rampant in some areas but that will be changed, and once it is we can go ahead by establishing the new Governments. Then and only then will you see the days for celebration become your reality, and peace quickly declared all over the world. At a stroke that will put your feet firmly on the path to Ascension, and no longer will your future be under threat.
Bide your time while the cleansing goes on, and be assured there will be no delays or interference allowed in our dealings with you. Your needs will be provided for including healing with methods generally new to you, that require no use of drugs or the surgeons knife. It will be a time to move on and firmly step into the 21st. Century with all of its new technologies. The impossible will be proved possible and speed and efficiency our byword. Yes, time speeds on but we can adjust to any needs placed upon us, and it is the extent of our resources that will ensure completion as required by you.
We hear your cries and know of your despair as your patience wears thin, but as we often mention - the wait will have been worthwhile. There is so much to look forward to and more than most people appreciate or would imagine. Your comfort and happiness are high on our list, and that includes all that eradicates poverty and hunger. There is an answer waiting to sort out every problem that presently exists, and in comparatively short time all will be addressed. Your willing offers to help have been noted, and we know where you all are so many of you will be called upon to help out. Some training and preparations will be carried out on our craft beforehand, but you will not need much in that way, as we know you are very adaptable and keen to learn.
Just keep on with your daily routine, and keep your sight on the happenings around you from which you may learn the truth of what is happening. It will not be too long before some members of the media will have no option but to report on important events. The idea of deliberate concealment or a distortion of the facts will disappear, with a new resolution to allow proper journalism that has the freedom of truthful reporting. There are few if any big organizations that have not contrived to present only that which keeps you in their control, and regretfully religion is one of those culprits. Most religions have been based on a distortion of the facts, wrapped around outright falsities. As with everything else they will be purged until only the truth remains, and if one wishes to survive in any form whatsoever it will have to acknowledge the truth and abide by it.
As you now realize the changes will be far reaching, so that you no longer live the lie that has passed as the truth. Have you not often thought that there must be something better than what you have experienced? That there must be some purpose in life rather than the aimless routine that kept you tied to the dictates of the Illuminati. The mere fact that you are now being helped to lift the veil that has prevented you from seeing the truth, should encourage you to stand tall and claim the freedom that has been denied to you. Each individual soul is loved no matter what role they are currently playing, and you all have an equal opportunity to move towards Ascension. You can help each other in this respect by supporting those who are awakening, and sometimes confused by what they are understanding. It is indeed a shock to find that you have been deliberately misled about the true purpose of life.
We must not forget the creatures of the Earth, as with the physical changes many species are at risk. Man has not always been kind to them and yet they are here to evolve as you are. Domestic pets are generally well treated, but along with those you call wild, they all need kindness and love. Some souls dedicate themselves to such work, but in the near future much more help will be required.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and will tell you that we have creatures on our planet, and that our relationship is one of respect and love for each other.
Thank you SaLuSa.
Mike Quinsey.
Website: Tree of the Golden Light
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1912/664/Internet_Router_Hubs_Down_All_Over_The_World.html
FYI: Government Buying Out All The 5.56 Military Surplus Ammo & Is Telling Ammo Dealers To Stop Selling To Their Vendors & Civilians.
From: Anonymous Source
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:27 PM
To: The Americas, Israel & Europe
I have been calling allot of ammo distributors and ALL of them are telling me that our government is all the 5.56-.223 cal military surplus ammo. And their also telling the ammo distributors stop selling the ammo to civilians and their vendors because the government is buying it all up from everyone they can. I have also spoken with theses ammo dealers and they told me that the 5.56 and .223 ammo is going way up in price.
For instance...I paid $149.00 for federal surplus 440 rounds of steal core and now at the gun show today it was selling for $440.00 for 420 rounds. I have checked and ALLOT of places online are out of the Military surplus ammo by federal. M193 and M855 SS109 ammo. I did find one place still carrying both these ammo's and good prices still, but their the only place I could find. If interested let me know and Ill forward the info.
I was also told by the same ammo dealers that the government is going to buy all the 9mm and .45 ammo up, so hurry and buy while you can at the lower prices while still available. Guess if they won't take our guns because they figure that there are some many out there, they will just buy all most popular military calibers. Can't shoot a gun with no ammo...stock up now while you still can.
They also said the government will continue to purchase all the ammo through the presidential election and they will continue to until the president tells them to stop. And if obama gets reelected instead of rejected, you know he wont stop the purchasing of all the ammo mentioned above.