It may not be from outer space or the world of the weird but this barely mentioned story set in the international currency wars has as much potential to shake the world as any alien landing on the White House lawn or in Red Square.

Who are the alleged Japanese nationals who seemed dead set on getting caught smuggling over a hundred billion dollars worth of bearer bonds into Switzerland from Italy? What are the implications for global economic stability? And why is hardly anyone talking about it?

J.S. Kim points out the glaring strangeness of this case at Prison Planet.

Sometimes it pays to take a conspiracy theory with a grain of salt. However, the recent new US Military policy to classify as “Secret” any incoming asteroids and meteors that explode in the atmosphere screams of some kind of COVER-UP!

For 15 years the data coming from the nuclear bomb test detecting satellites has been available to scientists. This has helped them learn more about potentially deadly space rock impacts as well as offering the public an explanation for mysterious explosions in the sky.

Just last year this data helped track asteroid 2008TC3 to the ground so it could be recovered and add to our knowledge of what these objects are made of. Now our military says we are not allowed to know what is blowing up in the sky above us!

Leonard David explains this shocking development at Space.com

For those who have ever wondered what it takes to be a witch, please start by avoiding the commercialism of ready-made “spell kits” and other artifacts of the salesman’s art. The real practitioners of the Craft avoid these misguided attempts of the merchants to make a “quick-fix” dollar.

Take a few minutes instead to find out what the true Witch thinks of this invasion of their beliefs and the harm done by those who are really seeking only to improve their finances.

Educate yourself as Bunny Mazonas explains this problem at WitchVox.

Part of the mission of the LHC is to create micro black holes to study the physics of these anomalous objects in a laboratory environment. There are those who say the results will be the creation of a black hole that will suck the whole planet into itself. Most physicists say the holes will degenerate too quickly.

While they repair the LHC after the first failed attempt that broke it, scientists have been redoing the math to see if they missed anything. New research has shown that these black holes could last for longer than a second. Will that be too long for survival?

Once more arXiv.org/abs/0901.2948 has the brief and the PDF of the study.

There are also more easily understood explanations and hundreds of comments to further your knowledge of this “sucking” problem on The arXiv Blog.

The ancient Egyptian pyramids are easily the most famous and the similar structures in Mexico show that, as a building design, this pointed four-sided shape was popular around the planet. New discoveries are turning up what appear to be even more of them in such diverse places as China and Bosnia as well as a new potential right in Mexico City.

The new find at Visocica Hill, twenty miles NW of Sarajevo could well be taller than even the Great Pyramid. Despite over 7,000 years of human settlements in the area, debunkers have yet to explain why so much of the “hill” appears to be artificially constructed and large building blocks have been unearthed.

Paul Devereux has the report at the ForteanTimes

The old colonial attitude that the Australian Aborigine was an unlearned and uncultured wild man has been slowly eradicated. Now Ray P. Norris of the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility and Duane W. Hamacher of the Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University have begun putting together the pieces from archaeological findings and interviews with remaining Aboriginal Australians to show that the people of this oldest human culture on the planet were well aware of the movements of the heavens and maintained many very accurate astronomical observations.

Even without a written language these ancient astronomers kept up with such cyclical phenomena as solstices, equinoxes and the proper times for ceremonies as well as food gathering. They also noted such random events as eclipses, comets and meteor impacts.

You will have to download the PDF file to read their fascinating report but it is well worth it to investigate “The Australian Stonehedge” at arXiv:0906.0155v1 [physics.hist-ph]

America’s own lake monster may have been spotted again. “Champ” is the reputed resident of Vermont’s Lake Champlain and is a hard to catch figure. Burlington resident Eric Olsen caught nearly two minutes worth of footage on his cell phone on May the 31st of something as yet unidentified swimming across the surface.

The local newspaper gave a slightly abbreviated story which Mr. Olsen has amended and is now available at Cryptomundo here.

Video embedding has been disabled so you have to go to YouTube to see what you thing it is.

You’ve seem them yourself over the past ten years. Normal jet contrails are water and carbon and dissipate quickly. However, increasingly often you will see huge spreading trails that stay in the air and spread out to form a thin cloud cover across the sky. Ground tests in areas heavy with these unnatural clouds show increased levels of barium, cadmium, aluminum, polymer fibers and more while the area residents suffer more upper respiratory ailments and flu-like symptoms.

As one would expect, government officials claim it is all in our minds. Those studying the phenomena claim a deeper and possibly somewhat sinister reason for these “chemtrails”. If you worry about the air you breathe…

Begin your study with an early article in the Canadian newspaper “Tiny Ties” from 2003

Then continue through the multiple links accumulated at “Holmestead”