PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, July 4, 2008 Source: Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC announces ambitious BP1.906bn science funding programme The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) on Thursday 3 July announced a three-year BP1. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, July 4, 2008 Source: European Commission GALILEO: the procurement for the first constellation of the European navigation satellites will now start Today the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) have launched the procurement of the first... Read more…

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Thursday, July 3, 2008 Source: Ulysses hanging on valiantly The Ulysses spacecraft, whose mission was expected to end on 1 July 2008, is hanging on valiantly as spacecraft controllers wait for a sign of the fuel freeze that would end the mission. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, July 3, 2008 Source: European Space Agency Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Source: European Space Agency Procurement of full Galileo System Begins Today, the European Commission - with the support of ESA - is launching the procurement of Galileo, a global navigation system composed of 30 dedicated navigation satellites... Read more…

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Source: European Southern Observatory Austria to join ESO on 1 July 2008 Today, at a ceremony in Vienna, the Austrian Minister for Science and Research, Johannes Hahn and the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, signed the formal Accession... Read more…

AP - A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned. Read more…

AP - An appeals judge says the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate the water discharged from ships as a way to protect local ecosystems from invasive species. Read more…

LiveScience.com - With food and fuel costs soaring and the financial costs of global warming becoming reality, a new cure-all prescription has emerged: The average American should eat less. Read more…

Reuters - Hurricane Dolly moved inland after tearing into the south Texas coast on Wednesday with 95 mph (150 kph) winds, pouring torrential rain on the U.S.-Mexico border area and threatening floods. Read more…

AP - The European Union proposed an import ban Wednesday on products derived from seals that are killed in a cruel way, a move that could hurt the annual seal hunt in Canada — the largest in the world. Read more…

AP - Obama tells Israelis he's committed to their security, speaking with Hamas rockets as backdrop ... McCain denies he misstated timing of Iraq surge; says some elements began before Bush's order ... McCain credits Bush for drop in oil and gas prices ... Economy top issue, but energy concerns grow in AP-Ipsos poll ... McCain airs radio ads in U.S. Berlins Read more…

Reuters - Meat and milk from cloned animals may not be safe to be sold in the European Union after all, the bloc's top food safety agency will say on Thursday after a rethink on the issue, EU sources said. Read more…

Take a look at this very recently recorded UFO video (November 2007). It was captured by a construction worker in Costa Rica, using his cell phone to record the encounter. D2 Technorati Tags: UFO Video, Costa Rica Read more…

UFOLOGY, I found out, was not all about science and I found out about that the hard way. Mainstream UFOlogist like Jacques Vallee, Ray Fowler and Kevin Randle among others found out the hard way that the 'quacks' like me were telling the truth. Even the founders of APRO the LORENZENS wrote about Flying Saucer occupants and the weird zone. Read more…

Brad Steiger is looking for true, up-close-and personal encounters with ghosts or monsters. He is not just seeking encounters with good old Bigfoot, cat creatures, or lake monsters, but with the vast menacing menagerie of the creatures from the darkside. Local monsters are welcome. If the experiencers knows, of a troll under a local bridge, that is as important to this book as the Loch Ness Monster. If the experiencers have photos, that would be wonderful. Read more…

What are some of the key points in the report released Thursday, July 10, 2008, that was prepared by Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) investigators? The report's authors, Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, are identified as highly-trained experts in technical and scientific fields relevant to this investigation. Schulze in particular is reported to have an extensive background in radar systems. Although the report itself includes many sections of a highly technical nature, much of the language in it is plain-spoken. Read more…

Are you receptive to messages? If you suddenly found yourself communicating with someone or something that you didn't think was capable of it, how would you react? I faced this question one day as the Earth tapped in to me while I was doing some altered state work. Our Earth is an intelligent, loving being with something to tell us. During a meditation one day she chose to say it to me. It was a surprise to have this communication, albeit a pleasant one. Read more…

After the Texas UFO incident last month, we come to the conclusion that we are not alone in the cosmos. It's time for people in today's world to wake up. We think that we are the center of the universe. We are not. Read more…

Humans are inherently good inside. The problem is the social conditioning for centuries by the upper echelon, religions, governments, the Chits and their underlings. When I was in college one of the courses required watching a set of videotapes on advertising techniques. I was stunned at what advertisers do to ensure consumers buy their products. It is classic memetic engineering. Politicians do the same thing. They study the psychological profiles and every bit of personal information they can accumulate. They even have people go to the courthouse to go through the properties to see what types of communities are where. Read more…

By exploring the ancient monuments and sacred landscapes of the world using a combination of archaeology, legend, and folklore, it is possible to obtain a unique insight into the hidden world of our ancestors. But what marked out a place as 'sacred' or 'special' in the mind of ancient man? There may have been a number of factors, varying from culture to culture and over different time periods. Read more…

Andres was vacationing in Tayrona, a national park in Colombia South America, this is a beautiful place on the north coast of Colombia overlooking the Caribbean. On his first day visiting, Andres was snapping pictures with his digital camera of this island that had a local rudimentary tike like housing on top of it. That day he took many pictures and continued taking pictures for the next week. Read more…

Don has notified us that he is liquidating his personal library of Conspiracy and UFO related books. We thought it would be a good idea to let our readers in on this special event. Below is a list of books available from his UFO/Conspiracy Library. There are some real classics on this list. Don's UFO book list appears below the Conspiracy Section. Read more…

Nearly 2000 years ago the physician Apostle Luke wrote of the missionary travels of Saul and Barnabas. In one interesting passage he wrote: 'And when they had gone through the whole island as far as Papha, they found a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus a man of intelligence. The man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to learn the word of God. But Elymas, the magician was opposing them and seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. Read more…

The author of 'The Tarot of the Bohemians' popularized the Hermetic sciences in the late 19th century. He wrote his books under the pseudonym of 'Papus' and was a well known medical doctor who diagnosed his patients as a clairvoyant. His fame reached Russia where he was the spiritual advisor to the Tsar and Tsarina. Read more…