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Part 1:  The Ridgeway Overton 9 Rings – Diatonic Scale and Einsteinian Physics

“There are nine rings, but eight spaces between them.  The eight spaces are the diatonic musical scale - the white notes  on the piano:  do re me fa so la ti do.”

- James Lyons, Retired U. K. Aerospace Engineer about Ridgeway pattern

 

July 26, 2013  Petersfield, Hampshire; and Cottingham, East Yorkshire, England - For at least 5,000 years, travelers in southern England have moved more easily from the Dorset coast to Norfolk by going along the high, drier ground called The Ridgeway, now designated as an 87-mile-long National Trail in the U. K.

The Ridgeway includes Overton Hill near Avebury where on July 6, 2013, nine rings were discovered in a wheat field there. The whole pattern was large, 186 feet in diameter measured by Charles Mallett, Director of the Silent Circle research center.

 

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50,000-Year-Old Cypress Forest Discovered 60 Feet Underwater Off Mobile, Alabama

“These stumps are so big, they're upwards of two meters (6 feet) in diameter -  the size of trucks. They probably contain thousands of growth rings.”

- Grant Harley, Ph.D., Geography, Univ. of So. Mississippi

 

The half-mile-long stretch of underwater cypress has been radiocarbon-dated to between 50,000 and 80,000 years old. Its preservation was by sand cover that kept the cypress free of oxygen until Hurricane Katrina on August 23, 2005, exposed the ancient trees at a depth of 60 feet beneath the Gulf waters 15 miles off Mobile, Alabama's shore. That discovery was kept secret until 2012 when newspaper reporter Ben Raines was approached to investigate the cypress. See the Weeks Bay Foundation. Image © 2012 by Ben Raines and AL.com.
The half-mile-long stretch of underwater cypress has been radiocarbon-dated to between 50,000 and 80,000 years old. Its preservation was by sand cover that kept the cypress free of oxygen until Hurricane Katrina on August 23, 2005, exposed the ancient trees at a depth of 60 feet beneath the Gulf waters 15 miles off Mobile, Alabama's shore. That discovery was kept secret until 2012 when newspaper reporter Ben Raines was approached to investigate the cypress. See the Weeks Bay Foundation. Image © 2012 by Ben Raines and AL.com.

July 25, 2013  Mobile, Alabama - Ancient bald cypress forests (Taxodium distichumonce) dominated swamps in the southeastern United States for at least 2,000 years.

 

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Crazy Ants Invade Four States – Can They Be Stopped?

“Until I saw crazy ants with my own eyes and saw the infestations and realized what folks are dealing with, I just could not have imagined it.”

- Robert Puckett, Ph.D., Entomologist, Texas A & M

This tawny (yellowish-brown color) Rasberry crazy ant (Nylanderia fulva) is an invasive species of ant from Brazil and Argentina that some how got to Houston, Texas, in 2002. They were first noticed by pest exterminator, Tom Rasberry. The word “crazy” refers to the ants' random scurrying all over in contrast to the straight lines made by fire ants, for example. In only a decade, crazy ants have spread in huge densities through 24 counties in Texas outward to Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, tending aphids for honeydew (above), eating insects including fire ant larvae and shutting down electrical transformers. Image © 2013 by Danny McDonald, Texas A&M.
This tawny (yellowish-brown color) Rasberry crazy ant (Nylanderia fulva) is an invasive species of ant from Brazil and Argentina that some how got to Houston, Texas, in 2002. They were first noticed by pest exterminator, Tom Rasberry. The word “crazy” refers to the ants' random scurrying all over in contrast to the straight lines made by fire ants, for example. In only a decade, crazy ants have spread in huge densities through 24 counties in Texas outward to Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, tending aphids for honeydew (above), eating insects including fire ant larvae and shutting down electrical transformers. Image © 2013 by Danny McDonald, Texas A&M.

June 27, 2013  College Station, Texas - In 2002, for the first time, a pest exterminator named Tom Rasberry in Houston, Texas, reported watching a mass of ants he had never seen before running around in chaotic patterns, “like they were crazy,” he thought. What Rasberry was watching were very different ants from Brazil and Argentina that probably got transported to Texas on a boat or in a shipment of fresh food or plants. The ants are a tawny yellowish-brown color and can also be brownish-red. You'll hear them called Tawny Rasberry Crazy Ants. They are small, about 1/8th-inch long, and forage together in millions. To scientists, one of the unique aspects of these South American invaders is that wherever they nest, their numbers can reach 100 TIMES as great as all other ants combined.

 

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ACLU Lawsuit: NSA Massive Spying Unconstitutional

“We think this is one of the biggest efforts to survey an entire population ever engaged in by a Democratic government against its own people and we find that massively disturbing.”

- Patrick Toomey, J. D., ACLU, New York

“I was in the shower and the FBI agents were pointing guns at her (Binney's wife). Then one of the FBI agents came into the shower and pointed a gun directly at me, at my head, and pulled me out of the shower. I had a towel at least to wrap around, but they took me out and interrogated me on the back porch.”

- NSA Whistleblower William Binney to Democracy Now, June 10, 2013

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed this lawsuit in the U. S. District Court Southern District of New York on June 11, 2013, against JAMES R. CLAPPER, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; KEITH B. ALEXANDER, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service; CHARLES T. HAGEL, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; ERIC H. HOLDER, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; and ROBERT S. MUELLER III, in his official capacity as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Defendants.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed this lawsuit in the U. S. District Court Southern District of New York on June 11, 2013, against JAMES R. CLAPPER, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; KEITH B. ALEXANDER, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service; CHARLES T. HAGEL, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; ERIC H. HOLDER, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; and ROBERT S. MUELLER III, in his official capacity as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Defendants.

 

June 16, 2013  New York City, N. Y. - The June 5th, 2013, edition of The Guardian newspaper in England shocked the world by reprinting a 4-page leaked and highly classified document signed on April 25, 2013, by a federal judge working in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in Washington, D. C. See:  060613 Earthfiles for leaked doc.

 

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Part 1:  More Earth-Shaking Booms in Morristown, Tennessee and “Shock Wave” Booms in San Manuel, Arizona

— “I can't point to any cause and that's concerning. You think it would show up on a seismograph somewhere.”

- Tony Cox, Morristown City Administrator

Near 4 PM on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, dozens of Morristown, Tennessee, residents called Hamblen County 911 to report the sound of “a large blast and the Earth shaking.” The wall above cracked and was photographed by Knoxville's NBC Channel 10 WBIR-TV. The USGS had no record of seismic activity then.
Near 4 PM on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, dozens of Morristown, Tennessee, residents called Hamblen County 911 to report the sound of “a large blast and the Earth shaking.” The wall above cracked and was photographed by Knoxville's NBC Channel 10 WBIR-TV. The USGS had no record of seismic activity then.

— “When the boom happened, it was just so fast - quicker than a normal explosion. It was more like a hollow bang. And then in the ground, it was like a wave underneath lifted me up.”

- Samuel Lopez, Geology Mining Tech, San Manuel, Arizona

Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, is 48 miles northeast of Knoxville.
Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, is 48 miles northeast of Knoxville.

February 16, 2013  Morristown, Tennessee and San Manuel, Arizona - Since my February 1, 2013, Earthfiles and Coast radio reports about the mystery of loud booms, flashes of light and shaking ground and buildings, I have received many more boom reports. This Part 1 focuses on the ongoing puzzle in Morristown, Tennessee, 48 miles northeast of Knoxville, where previously on Wednesday, January 23, 2013, between 1:00 and 3:30 AM, many West Morristown, Tennessee, residents called 911 to report “loud booms” that woke them up. In some cases, people said it sounded “like someone was breaking into my home.”

 

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More Unexplained Loud Booms

“Loud booms came 3 or 4 in a row and lasted around 1 minute - shook our garage doors - sounded like cannon blasts/something very heavy hitting the ground.”

- Resident of Placerville, California

 

June 7, 2013  Albuquerque, New Mexico -

1)  May 24, 2013, Sharon, Pennsylvania

At 7:29 PM Eastern on Friday, May 24, 2013, Memorial Day weekend in Sharon, Pennsylvania, a resident in the 3500 block of Hubbard-West Middlesex Road reported to Mercer County 911 that “a loud sonic boom ... shook the house; it was not like a transformer blew. All of the neighbors came outside to see what happened, so many people felt it.” Southwest Mercer County Regional police investigated, but did not find a cause of the loud, house-shaking boom.

 

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Top Secret FISA Order Requires Verizon to Deliver Daily Millions of American Phone Records to NSA

— “The (leaked) secret FISA document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk –  regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.”

- The Guardian, U. K., broke story June 5, 2013

— “The U. S. is that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.”

- William Binney, former NSA official and whistleblower

 

June 6, 2013  Washington, D. C. - Someone has leaked to The Guardian in the U. K., which published in its June 5, 2013, edition the following 4-page TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN order by Roger Vinson, Judge, U. S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) that was signed on April 25, 2013, authorizing Verizon to hand over to the National Security Agency (NSA) “all ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad or wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls” until July 19, 2013.

First page of 4-page Top Secret//SI//NOFORN order granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) on April 25, 2013, that requires Verizon until July 19, 2013, to turn over all requested American phone numbers for both parties in calls, location data, call duration, unique identifiers and time and duration of all calls within the United States and between the U. S. and other countries.
First page of 4-page Top Secret//SI//NOFORN order granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) on April 25, 2013, that requires Verizon until July 19, 2013, to turn over all requested American phone numbers for both parties in calls, location data, call duration, unique identifiers and time and duration of all calls within the United States and between the U. S. and other countries.

 

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Air China 757 Collision with “Unknown Foreign Object” At 26,000 Feet Now Said to Be Birds

“An unknown foreign object hit the nose of the Air China 757 leaving a large dent in the radome.”

- JACDEC, Accidents and Incidents Worldwide

 

June 6, 2013  Chengdu, China -  Two days ago on June 4, 2013, ten minutes after an Air China flight took off from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport and was flying southeasterly bound for Guangzhou, an “unknown foreign object hit the nose of the Air China 757 leaving a large dent in the radome,” according to JACDEC, Accidents and Incidents Worldwide.

Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is a major airport serving Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, China. Chengdu's population of 14 million permanent residents is fourth largest city in China. The airport is located about 16 kilometers (10 miles) southwest of downtown Chengdu and is the hub for Air China, Chengdu Airlines and Sichuan Airlines.

 

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First 2013 Crop Pattern:  Gray, Tennessee

“I looked all around the pattern in my hay field and there were no tracks anywhere. But some tall grass was going clockwise and some was going counterclockwise. How is that possible?”

- Connie Osborne, Land Owner, Gray, Tennessee

 

Gray, Tennessee (upper right red circle), is 21 miles northwest of Johnson City. Madisonville, Tennessee (lower left red map marker) - where wheat formations occurred in 2007 and 2011- is 3.5 hours southwest of Gray, or about 200 miles.
Gray, Tennessee (upper right red circle), is 21 miles northwest of Johnson City. Madisonville, Tennessee (lower left red map marker) - where wheat formations occurred in 2007 and 2011- is 3.5 hours southwest of Gray, or about 200 miles.
The Gray, Tennessee, crop pattern was reported May 13, 2013, in 4-foot-tall grasses growing in Connie Osborne's hay field along Old Gray Station Road about 21 miles northwest of Johnson City and about 200 miles northeast of Madisonville, TN (lower left red marker), where previous large wheat formations below were reported in the same wheat field on May 15, 2007, and May 16, 2011, southwest of Knoxville. Aerial May 14, 2013 © by Siri Karta.
The Gray, Tennessee, crop pattern was reported May 13, 2013, in 4-foot-tall grasses growing in Connie Osborne's hay field along Old Gray Station Road about 21 miles northwest of Johnson City and about 200 miles northeast of Madisonville, TN (lower left red marker), where previous large wheat formations below were reported in the same wheat field on May 15, 2007, and May 16, 2011, southwest of Knoxville. Aerial May 14, 2013 © by Siri Karta.
Top:  May 15, 2007, Madisonville, Tennessee, wheat pattern about 170 feet in diameter with crop laid down in counterclockwise circles and a triangle in the center circle of standing wheat. Aerial image © 2007 by Mark Boring, Monroe County Buzz. For more information, see 2007 Earthfiles.   Bottom: May 16, 2011, Madisonville, TN, pattern in same wheat field as the May 15, 2007, formation. Aerial image © 2011 by Mark Boring, Monroe County Buzz.
Top:  May 15, 2007, Madisonville, Tennessee, wheat pattern about 170 feet in diameter with crop laid down in counterclockwise circles and a triangle in the center circle of standing wheat. Aerial image © 2007 by Mark Boring, Monroe County Buzz. For more information, see 2007 Earthfiles.   Bottom: May 16, 2011, Madisonville, TN, pattern in same wheat field as the May 15, 2007, formation. Aerial image © 2011 by Mark Boring, Monroe County Buzz.

 

May 31, 2013  Gray, Tennessee - At 8 AM Monday, May 13, 2013, in Gray, Tennessee, 18-year-old Tim Blumberg went to the mailbox to place a letter his mom wanted mailed. He was surprised to see a pattern in the nearby hay field that was not there the day before. The Blumbergs are neighbors of Connie Osborne, 62, who was born in Carter City, Tennessee, only twenty-one miles from Gray, where she moved in 1979. Connie works for Host Engineering where she is a solder tech. She solders printed circuit boards for hard drives. The lowest part of her 8 1/2 acre farm is a field of eight different grasses that she grows for another neighbor to harvest as hay for his animals in exchange for his taking care of her property. That hay field is about twenty feet lower than her house and is dotted with large slabs of limestone that are part of the limestone beneath her hayfield and land.

 

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