JFK's mistress was assassinated by the CIA 'because she knew too much about his assassination'

The suspicious death of one of President John F. Kennedy's mistresses just months after his death has sparked numerous conspiracy theories.

The latest version posits that socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer, a beautiful divorcee who was close friends with the Kennedys and is widely known for having a lengthy affair with the playboy President, was shot in a cover-up operation by the CIA.

A new book alleges that, in her preoccupation with her lover's assassination and ensuing personal investigation, she may have gotten so close to the 'truth' that the CIA found her to be a threat.

As a result, agency operatives staged a shooting to make it look like she died due to a sexual assault that turned violent.

Whether or not the theory is true, there are a number of questionable components to the story of the months leading up to her death on October 12, 1964.

Her ex-husband, Cord Meyer, was a CIA agent himself and the couple were card-carrying members of Georgetown's starry social set, which included then-Senator John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. Read More

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UC Scientists Testing HIV Prevention Pill

FOSTER CITY (KCBS) – The University of California is testing a potential HIV prevention pill in a first-of-its-kind study in the state.

The UC-based California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) has awarded grants totaling $11.8 million to see if a current HIV drug can be used to prevent the onset of the virus.

The antiretroviral pill Truvada, made by Foster City-based Gilead Sciences, Inc., was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2004 to treat HIV patients. An international trial has shown it works as a preventive measure in select gay and bisexual populations, according to Dr. George Lemp, the director of CHRP. Read More

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Vacuum tubes could be used for super-fast public transport

Imagine hopping on the Tube in London on your way to work in the morning - and getting off near your office in New York City just three-quarters of an hour later.

If the designers of one revolutionary idea for the public transport of the future are right, that's just what we could be doing one day.

Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is an airless, frictionless form of transport which, its designers say, is safer, cheaper and quieter than trains or aeroplanes.

Using airless vacuum tubes, six-seat, 183kg passenger pods are designed to reach phenomenal speeds of up to 4,000mph (6,500kph), using far less energy than conventional transport methods.

That would allow passengers to travel from New York to Los Angeles in just 45 minutes, from New York to China in just two hours, or all the way round the world in six hours. Read More

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Strange coincidences regarding 9/11 and 7/7: Is a coming attack on London in 2012 fact or fiction?

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Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us? (Documentary)

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Weather Control as a Global Weapon with Author Bob Fletcher

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Revealed; Official1959 fears from U.S. and UK over President Obama's 'anti-American' and 'anti-white' father

In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough.

Last year he even had to publish his birth certificate to silence doubters who suggested he was not born an American.

Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed about his father, who was categorised with others as ‘anti-American and anti-white’ when he moved to the United States in 1959.

Mr Obama Snr had grown up in Kenya under British rule and aroused the fears of both colonial officers and American officials when he won a chance to study in Hawaii. The officials felt Kenyan students were ‘academically inferior’ with a ‘bad reputation’ for turning anti-American.

A memo from a British diplomat in Washington to Whitehall – released today by the National Archives in West London – sets out their concerns about the young Kenyans.

Dated September 1, 1959, it says: ‘I have discussed with the State Department. They are as disturbed about these developments as we are. They point out that Kenya students have a bad reputation over here for falling into the wrong hands and for becoming both anti-American and anti-white.’

In one of the Foreign Office files, the future president’s father appears on a list of Kenyan students as ‘OBAMA, Barack H’ – they shared the same name. Read More

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Welcome Signs That China's Attitude to North Korea Is Changing

Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak on Monday that his government attempted several in-depth talks with Pyongyang to express its "deep concern" over the North's planned rocket launch.

Hu added Beijing is urging Pyongyang to give up the rocket launch plan and focus on improving the livelihood of its people. Regarding the controversial issue of Beijing's repatriation of North Korean defectors arrested in China, Hu said his country is "taking a lot of interest and giving consideration" to the issue. It "respects the position" of South Korea and will "strive to ensure that the issue is resolved smoothly."

Judging from Hu's comments as quoted by a South Korean official, China is taking a more positive line on the North Korean missile and defector issues. But the position will not become fully clear until Chinese media reports about the summit are released. Read More

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Wasting a Trillion Dollars to "Prevent" Global Warming Is Stifling Economic Recovery

Last March 29, 2012, the President of the United States told two untruths when he called on the Congress to end taxpayer giveaways to the oil industry and instead to double-down on investments in clean energy industries “that have never been more promising”.

The first untruth is that we have been giving special benefits to the oil industry. That would only be true if one includes the industry’s “social costs”, the costs of pollution from emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, but not if you also include the “social benefits” which environmental extremists always ignore. Indeed, the “social costs” have not been very costly while the “social benefits” have been enormous. The alleged social costs include health effects while the evidence is clear that we are living longer healthier lives. The industrial revolution which raised living standards throughout the world was made possible by plentiful and cheap fossil fuels.

The huge expenditures and costs placed on households and businesses by the government (EPA et al) and so-called clean air laws have had no measurable effect on climate change. Indeed, a growing number of physicists, geologists, archeologists¸ and other climate change scientists reject the “undeniable” anthropogenic or man-made global warming (AGW) theory and argue that natural forces, especially the sun’s magnetic disturbances and their effect on the amount of cosmic rays reaching the earth, are more likely the major cause of climate change. An experiment is under way at CERN, the world’s foremost nuclear laboratory to test that hypothesis. The world is spending trillions of dollars on the basis of unproven AGW theory. Read More

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'Vampires' turn villages ghost towns in Tamil Nadu, India

The villagers have painted holy namam signs outside homes.

For the past few months, Gundalapatti, Mottangurichi and other villages in and around Dharmapuri of Tamil Nadu have been wearing a deserted look after 6 pm every day. People confine themselves indoors and no one steps out after sunset for fear of a ghost attack.

As bizarre as it may sound, the villagers believe blood-sucking vampires (Ratha Kaatteri) have been attacking their cattle and could harm them as well.

For some strange reason, the cattle have been dying one after the other. The villagers have painted holy namam signs outside homes and written messages on doors asking vampires to spare them for the day.

Amused, members of Dravidar Kazhagam have announced a Rs 1-lakh reward to anyone catching a vampire in the villages.

“It is a big hoax. Anti-socials whose illegal night activities such as bootlegging and liquor brewing have been disturbed are spreading rumours and killing cattle,” said O. Jayaraman, who announced the reward.

“Since people are not willing to believe us, we have challenged them with this reward,” he said. Source

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Last Atlantis shuttle mission: Shuttle astronauts taken aback by odd sighting in space

If you're looking for proof of extraterrestrial life -- or just like a good government cover-up conspiracy -- you'll want to check out this video of the space shuttle Atlantis' final mission. Read More

Note: You will notice at the end that the feed conveniently shifts to a conference and away from the video tracking of the three, triangularly arranged objects the astronauts could not identify.

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Two Arrests Over 'Anti-Terror Hotline Access'.....Even Though Scotland Yard Denied their hotline was Hacked

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the police investigation into alleged attempts to access an anti-terror hotline and record conversations.

The youths, aged 17 and 16, were taken into custody on Thursday evening after an investigation by the police central e-crime unit.

The pair was arrested at an address in the West Midlands on suspicion of offences under the Malicious Communications Act and the Computer Misuse Act.

They are both currently in police custody in the West Midlands.

The arrests come after Scotland Yard denied its computer systems were hacked after a recording emerged of a confidential phone discussion between counter-terrorism officers. Read More

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Mystery Bang West Midlands: Typhoon jets caused loud bang that shook houses in Midlands RAF planes responding to an emergency signal

A loud bang heard across the Midlands was caused by two Typhoon jets responding to an emergency, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The aircraft were responding to an emergency signal coming from a small civilian helicopter, which could indicate it had been hijacked or 'gone rogue', said an MoD spokesman.

During the incident one of Royal Airforce Typhoon's emitted a sonic boom that shook houses in Coventry, Rugby and Leamington.

The MoD response was standard procedure and the emergency signal from the helicopter turned out to be a false alarm, the spokesman added.

Police and fire services in the West Midlands were inundated with phone calls about the noise shortly after 6pm from concerned members of the public in Bath, Swindon, Coventry, Rugby and Oxford.

Many people on Twitter and other social networking sites confirmed they had also heard the noise, some as far as Swindon and Oxfordshire. Read More

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Met Denies Anti-Terrorism Hotline Hacked

Scotland Yard has denied its computer systems were hacked after a recording emerged of a confidential phone discussion between counter-terrorism officers.

Activists from the Teampoison hacker collective claimed they were able to breach security and make the recording, which was posted on YouTube a few hours later.

It appears to be a recording of officers discussing an earlier attack by Teampoison members.

This earlier attack involved the counter-terrorism hotline being bombarded with prank calls allegedly launched by Teampoison computers.

But a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said: "We are confident the MPS communication systems have not been breached and remain, as they always have been, secure.

"We are satisfied that any recording would have been made via the receiving handset only and not from an attack on internal systems.

"The public can remain confident in the ability to communicate in confidence and that the integrity of the Anti-Terrorist Hotline remains in place." Read More

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Big Bang In Coventry Area Blamed on Tiny Earthquake

The Ministry of Defence is investigating reports of a loud bang that has been heard across a large part of England.

Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service also said it was looking into what caused the mysterious noise heard at about 18:10 BST.

Reports have come from across the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.

One Coventry resident said his house shook. "I thought somebody had thrown a brick through the window," he said.

Some of those who heard it said the sound lasted just a few seconds.

The MoD said it was looking into reports of a loud bang in Oxfordshire.

The British Geological Survey also said it was investigating the incident.

There were reports of the noise being heard in Bath, Swindon, Coventry, Rugby and Oxford.

Birmingham Airport dismissed suggestions the sound could have been caused by a sonic boom as a plane came in to land. Source

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Mars Attacks: Military Prof Says Pentagon Has Plan to Fight Aliens

Following the Second World War, a newly minted national security state designated the Soviet Union as a mortal enemy. It inaugurated the Cold War, a multiple trillion dollar, decades-long bonanza for the military-industrial complex Eisenhower would later warn about. Korea, Vietnam, and dozens of other countries around the world became the battleground for an epic (if largely mythical) and profitable struggle against an enemy created by Wall Street bankers (who also empowered Hitler and the Nazis).

Following the takedown of the Soviet Union, the ruling elite manufactured the specter of Islamic terrorism. This fictional enemy has provided an effective if limited pretext for continued military adventures and mass expenditures. It has also fed the growth of a domestic police and surveillance state. However, like the Soviet “threat,” the Islamic boogeyman does not have the capacity to truly frighten the masses and stampede them into unquestioning servility. It does not have the capacity to inculcate them with the proper fear-based mentality for permanent war.

Enter the alien threat. The scheme was pushed over the Easter holiday on Australian television by Professor Paul Springer from the U.S. Air Command and Staff College. During an interview, Springer said the government and the Pentagon have plans for an alien invasion. Read More

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Iran says it captured Israel-backed ‘terrorist team’

TEHRAN — Iranian security forces have arrested an Israeli-backed “terrorist team” that was planning attacks inside Iran, the Intelligence Ministry announced Tuesday, four days before crucial nuclear talks with world powers.

The announcement, reported by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), said that “terrorists, backed by the Zionists,” were arrested after months of intelligence operations in central and border provinces and that the “Zionist regional headquarters” was discovered in another country in the region. The ministry did not specify when or where the arrests were made or say how many alleged terrorists were rounded up. In Iran’s ideological vocabulary, Israel is called the “Zionist state.”

Although the report did not name the regional country, Iranian media in recent months have quoted several officials as saying that neighboring Azerbaijan has sheltered operatives plotting attacks in Iran. Read More

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Thousands queue for 'hugging saint'

Thousands of devotees will be flocking to Melbourne's Sandown racecourse over the next two days for spiritual fulfilment in the arms of India's so-called "hugging saint".

Mata Amritanandamayi is known to her followers as Amma, which means "mother".

Despite being born into an Indian family of untouchables, it is estimated Amma has hugged more than 31 million people around the world.

As part of her visit to Melbourne, Amma is hoping to raise money in support of a humanitarian aid campaign.

She will be hugging people for 20 hours a day in four-hour shifts, and, speaking through a translator, she says she never runs out of energy.

"I'm not like a battery that dies away after being used for some time. I'm eternally connected to the power source," Amma said. Read More

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Beirutopia: Could Lebanon's capital become a garden city?

(CNN) -- The legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the inspiration behind an ambitious plan to grow a rooftop forest high above Beirut's crowded streets.

The cityscape is currently overshadowed by concrete highrises, with parkland making up just 3% of Lebanon's capital, according to a study by the American University of Beirut.

The lack of greenery has contributed to poor air quality and trapped heat, among a host of other environmental issues, claims architect Wassim Melki. This led him to the the unconventional idea of greening over the city's rooftops.

"We want to cover the top of nearly every building in the city with trees," said Melki.

Challenging though it sounds, Melki's proposal does not involve complicated drainage systems or engineering. Read More

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San Antonio Fireball or Flying Jet?

NASA was quick to put out conflicting reports:

*** head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, confirmed that the incredible video footage was a fireball.

*** Few hours later another NASA expert to show nothing more exciting than a flying jet and its contrail

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