Pre-Announcement Media Coverage

[John Smith]

We are seeing so many remarkable pre-announcement pieces showing up, this is a place to post and discuss them. This one for example, is making discoveries sound 'ho hum' which a few months/years ago were heralded as amazing breakthroughs. Today for example: 

"Nearly Every Star Hosts at Least One Alien Planet"

http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-every-star-hosts-least-one-alien-plane...

When a month or so ago they were making a BIG deal about finding one planet in the sweet zone which could possibly support life, son they they say 25% of them could support life! Including mention of red dwarfs, etc. The Zeta predicted evidence continues to build up!

Here is another blog that relates, describing a wobble:

NASA Scientists "Discover" a Wobbly Planet!?

https://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/nasa-scientists-discover-a-...

[Scott]

White House promises 'non-traditional' State of the Union (12/17/15)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/500955da10a84d898c5e59086aaf10f1/whi...

The White House is promising President Barack Obama will deliver a "non-traditional" State of the Union address next month, eschewing the standard litany of policy proposals for a broader discussion on the challenges facing the country.

The format reflects the legislative reality for Obama's final year in office. Much of what the White House and the Republican-led Congress could realistically achieve in an election year is already underway, including discussions on criminal justice reform, and the ticking clock on Obama's presidency leaves little time to jumpstart major new initiatives.

The president is scheduled to deliver his last State of the Union on Jan. 12, less than three weeks before Americans begin voting in the presidential primaries.

In a briefing for reporters Thursday, White House officials said Obama's agenda for his last year in office includes securing congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, additional steps to address climate change, and bolstering gun control measures. The latter steps will be taken through executive action, though officials wouldn't say whether the measures would be ready in time for Obama's address to Congress.

Officials also did not commit to a timeline for sending lawmakers a long-delayed plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Rather than fade into the lame duck phase of his presidency, the White House said Obama is eager to use 2016 to take steps that drive the debate in the 2016 race. He also expects to be active on the campaign trail, stumping for the Democratic presidential nominee and other party candidates, the White House said.

An active campaign role for Obama would be a marked shift from the 2014 midterm elections, when he was marginalized by his party.

The White House said it's still possible the president could endorse in the Democratic primary, which is a two-way contest between front-runner Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her closest challenger.

The reference above to "little time to jumpstart major new initiatives" is reminiscent of the ZT from the Q&A for November 21, 2015
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/21no2015.htm

Given the state of the planet, with the wobble and Earth changes such as earthquakes and EMP affecting both man and his machinery increasing regularly, at what point are matters at rest enough for the announcement to have a safe place? There will be no such quiet time, no point when migrant distress or sociological restlessness has gone to sleep. No point when the crops are in and panic in the public will not increase the food shortages. Rioting will be on the increase. Demands from all quarters, the “have-nots” making demands on the “haves”, the threat of having a corrupt or short sighted nominee about to become President in the US. All will only increase. In short, the announcement team should just do it, without further delay.

[casey a]

Monster asteroid which 'could cause earthquakes and volcanoes' will skim past Earth on Xmas Eve

Scientists now believe this asteroid, and some others, could be even bigger than calculated as it is thought part of their mass may have been shrouded in darkness

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/monster-asteroid-could-caus...$sitewide%20p$7

A colossal asteroid so big some claim its gravitational pull could cause earthquakes and volcanoes on Earth is set to skim past the planet on Christmas Eve...

The news may fuel rumours by conspiracy theorists that a mysterious Planet X four times the size of Jupiter will pass the Earth this month.

[Stanislav]

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Longer days ahead: Melting ice caps causing Earth's rotation to slow down, says study

Much has been reported about how global climate change is causing polar ice caps to melt, which results in rising sea levels predicted to inundate entire countries.

A new study conducted by researchers from the Harvard University, however, revealed a quite unexpected result of melting glaciers: the slowing down of the Earth's rotation, which means longer days.

The study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, concluded that shrinking glaciers are affecting the speed of the Earth's rotation and how our planet is tilted on its own axis by redistributing all the once-frozen water around the world.

When the ice caps melt, the water shifts from the poles toward the equator, causing the Earth to have extra girth or a wider midsection. This ultimately leads to a slower rotating planet.

Physics Professor Mathieu Dumberry of the University of Alberta, a co-author of the study, compared the Earth to a spinning figure skater.

He explained to CBC News that a spinning figure skater will slow down his or her circular movement if he or she extends the arms on both sides—much like how the Earth is slightly expanding due to the melting polar ice caps.

In total, the researchers calculated that a day on Earth has already been a millisecond longer over the past century due to this phenomenon.

Dumberry explained that they were able to reach this figure by using the traditional way of identifying changes in the speed of the Earth's rotation: by looking at records of ancient eclipses recorded by civilisations such as the Babylonians.

To make a more conclusive observation, the research team also observed changes in the Earth's magnetic field.

"It's like a hamster in a wheel. The hamster runs in one direction and the wheel [turns] in the other. Earth's core has accelerated," Dumberry explained to CBC News. "It has been moving slightly faster in the past 3,000 years."

Source: christiantoday.com

Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble

As pollution from burning fossil fuels continues to heat the atmosphere, the world’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. Scientists widely agree that this meltwater has been a major factor in raising global sea levels about seven inches over the 20th century.

The movement of all that water is affecting the Earth’s rotation, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.

“If you are melting glaciers from high latitudes—in Alaska, Greenland, or Iceland—you move mass away from the pole, toward the equator, which slows the Earth down,” said Jerry Mitrovica, the study’s lead author and a Harvard geophysicist who specializes in studying sea level change. “The change in the distribution of the mass from the poles to lower latitudes also causes the rotation to wobble slightly, because it’s being redistributed unequally.”

That change in rotation added a microsecond to the course of a day over the 20th century.

The study showed that “glacier melt over the 20th century would have increased the duration of a day by maybe a millisecond,” said Mitrovica. While small, the change “can tell you something about how things are melting,” he said, and is a striking example of how human activities are altering Earth’s systems.

For the first time, researchers have mathematically detected glacier meltwater’s movement from higher altitudes to the ocean basins in the speed of the Earth’s rotation.

The finding is yet more proof that greenhouse gas emissions are having an enormous impact on the Earth’s climate. “This very subtle effect, Earth’s rotation, is a way to monitor how much ice sheets are melting and adds to how we are monitoring sea level rise,” Mitrovica said.

“And more important, it shows that even these very subtle effects support the scientific consensus that we’re affecting the climate, and that effect is accelerating,” he added.

In the study, Mitrovica and his colleagues updated and corrected how scientists calculate the known impacts on the Earth’s spin and axis resulting from the end of the last ice age. In the process, they may have solved a 13-year-old conundrum in earth science called “Munk’s enigma,” which asked why the influx of water from melting glaciers wasn’t apparent in measurements of the Earth’s rotation.

“It is an important additional tool in understanding the mass balance of ice sheets, and we need as many of those as we can get,” Mitrovica said. Source: news.yahoo.com

[Ryan X]

Astronomers question claim of super planet found at solar system’s ...

New papers say "Super Earth" may orbit the Sun at six times the distance of Pluto.

Scientists and amateur astronomers have long been fascinated by the possibility of a "Planet X" at the edge of the solar system that may explain some apparent anomalies in the orbits of planets such as Neptune and Uranus. However, in recent years, astronomers have largely ruled out the possibility of a large, unseen planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Research groups from Sweden and Mexico have now submitted pre-prints of two research papers to arXiv (here and here) that claim to have discovered a massive object at the edge of the solar system. Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile during 2014 and 2015, the astronomers spied "a new blackbody point source" that appears to be moving in conjunction with the Alpha Centauri star system, about 4.3 light years from Earth.

Did The Solar System Just Gain Two New Worlds?

A pair of scientific papers suggest that the ALMA observatory may have detected 2 new 'planet-scale' objects associated with the outer realms of the solar system. But should we be awed or skeptical?

[Kris H]

Failed stars more common than thought, after exoplanet study: https://www.rt.com/usa/324815-half-kepler-exoplanets-not-planets/

[Mark]

Not all pre-announcement signs are for an increased disclosure, some are the opposite:

Young people who question the Government or media may be extremists, officials tell parents

A leaflet distributed as part of an anti-extremism drive says these signs are 'specific' to radicalisation

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/young-people-who-ques...

Child protection officials been criticised after warning parents that young people who take issue with government policy or question what they are told in the media may have been radicalised by extremists.

A leaflet drawn up by an inner-city child safeguarding board warns that “appearing angry about government policies, especially foreign policies” is a sign “specific to radicalisation”.

Parents and carers have also been advised by the safeguarding children board in the London Borough of Camden that “showing a mistrust of mainstream media reports and a belief in conspiracy theories” could be a sign that children are being groomed by extremists.

Bella Sankey, policy director at the campaign group Liberty, criticised the leaflet.

“Children should be encouraged to take an interest in politics and think critically about what they see in the media, not deemed suspect for so doing,” she said.

[Ovidiu Pricopi]

Yahoo NEWS ! UFOlogist claims he’s spotted a gigantic Martian rodent in Curisotiy rover footage . https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/ufologist-claims-spotted-gigantic-mart...

[casey a]

King Tutankhamun's tomb: Evidence grows for hidden chamber

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34952947

Previous ZT on why many mysterious deaths occured for those who stumbled across King Tut's tomb: http://zetatalk.com/ning/25ma2013.htm

[casey a]

3,500-Year-Old Sunken Town Discovered In Croatia

Archeologists in Croatia announced their discovery of a 3,500-year-old sunken town in Adriatic Sea near Zadar, a southern coastal city. The ancient settlement and port was found in the sea between the islands of Ricula and Galesnjak in the Pasman Channel in 2014.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/110019/20151125/3-500-year-old-su...

[Scott]

President Obama brought up "Roswell and the aliens and UFOs" in 

President Obama and Bill Simmons: The GQ Interview (11/17/15)

http://www.gq.com/story/president-obama-bill-simmons-interview-gq-m...

Have you ever said, “Give me the JFK-assassination files, I want to read them. Give me all the secret stuff”?

I gotta tell you, it’s a little disappointing. People always ask me about Roswell and the aliens and UFOs, and it turns out the stuff going on that’s top secret isn’t nearly as exciting as you expect. In this day and age, it’s not as top secret as you’d think.