Russian Meteor Calculated At Whopping Ten – Thousand Tons Never Impacted Earth 

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David Talbott of The Thunderbolts Project delivers a scholarly narration on the huge meteor that entered Earth’s atmosphere over Cherlyabinsk, Russia on 2/15/2013.

As a brief aside, certain segments of the video show the early morning Russian sky had been sprayed with long, persistent contrails that experienced observers might rather call “chemtrails”.

A flash of light more brilliant than the sun initiated a near total disintegration of the mammoth intruder from outer space.  Originally estimated to be 10 tons, infrasound data from numerous stations around the planet corrected the estimate up from 10 tons to a whopping  7,000 to 10,000 tons.  But despite the significant mass, the meteor was  disintegrated to pieces of gravel in under 30 seconds and while still airborne.   The original guess that the meteor crashed through the ice of a nearby lake was found to be false when divers investigated and found no evidence.

One haunting telescopic video clip of the meteor’s explosive destruction reveals what appears to be a piloted craft intersecting the meteor’s descent at blinding speed.  Navigating to the far side, the craft appears to be responsible for the explosive demise of the meteor into smaller fragments.  In the age of photoshop and image manipulation we might dismiss this clip as a hoax except for one thing;  the explosion sent meteor fragments in only one direction and away from the alleged craft as one would expect if the meteor had been zapped with an energy weapon.  The alleged craft materialized from what appeared to be a “cloaked” state in order to blast the asteroid.  Following the blast it appears the craft re-entered and remained in a cloaked state.  But before disappearing, the craft emerged from behind the explosion and appeared to “wobble” slightly as if affected by the shock wave.

NASA continues to claim the Cherlabinsk Asteroid was unrelated to the highly anticipated asteroid 2012 DA14, which made a safe pass by Earth on the same day.

If you are incredulous that a 10,000 ton asteroid could be rendered to dust before impact with the ground, you are not alone.

Background of HAARP and Covert Climate Modification – by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D ³

Chemtrail, Global Warming

Network of Weather Weapons Responsible for Current Climate Chaos Scam

Prepared by Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH http://chemtrailsplanet.net/2013/03/13/background-of-haarp-and-covert-climate-modification-by-rosalie-bertell-ph-d/

Military interest in space became intense during and after World War II because of the introduction of rocket science, the companion to nuclear technology. The early versions include the buzz bomb and guided missiles. They were thought of as potential carriers of both nuclear and conventional bombs.

Rocket technology and nuclear weapon technology developed simultaneously between 1945 and 1963. During this time of intensive atmospheric nuclear testing, explosions at various levels above and below the surface of the earth were attempted. Some of the now familiar descriptions of the earth’s protective atmosphere, such as the existence of the Van Allen belts, were based on information gained through stratospheric and ionospheric experimentation.

The earth’s atmosphere consists of the troposphere, from sea level to about 16 km above the earth’s surface; the stratosphere (which contains the ozone level) which extends from about the 16 to 48 km above the earth; and the ionosphere which extends from 48 km to over 50,000 km above the surface of the earth.

The earth’s protective atmosphere or “skin” extends beyond 3,200 km above sea level to the large magnetic fields, called the Van Allen Belts, which can capture the charged particles sprayed through the cosmos by the solar and galactic winds. These belts were discovered in 1958 during the first weeks of the operation of America’s first satellite, Explorer I. They appear to contain charged particles trapped in the earth’s gravity and magnetic fields. Primary galactic cosmic rays enter the solar system from interstellar space, and are made up of protons with energies above 100 MeV, extending up to astronomically high energies. They make up about 100 percent of the high energy rays. Solar rays are generally of lower energy, below 20 MeV (which is still high energy in earth terms). These high energy particles are affected by the earth’s magnetic field and by geomagnetic latitude (distance above or below the geomagnetic equator). The flux density of low energy protons at the top of the atmosphere is normally greater at the poles than at the equator. The density also varies with solar activity, being at a minimum when solar flares are at a minimum.

The Van Allen belts capture charged particles (protons, electrons and alpha particles) and these spiral along the magnetic force lines toward the polar regions where the force lines converge. They are reflected back and forth between the magnetic force lines near the poles. The lower Van Allen Belt is about 7700 km above the earth’s surface, and the outer Van Allen Belt is about 51,500 km above the surface. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Van Allen belts are most intense along the equator, and effectively absent over the poles. They dip to 400 km over the South Atlantic Ocean, and are about 1,000 km high over the Central Pacific Ocean. In the lower Van Allen Belt, the proton intensity is about 20,000 particles with energy above 30 MeV per second per square centimeter. Electrons reach a maximum energy of 1 MeV, and their intensity has a maximum of 100 million per second per square centimeter. In the outer Belt, proton energy averages only 1 MeV. For compar-ison, most charged particles discharged in a nuclear explosion range between 0.3 and 3 MeV, while diagnostic medical X-ray has peak voltage around 0.5 MeV.

Project Argus (1958)

Between August and September 1958, the US Navy exploded three fission type nuclear bombs 480 km above the South Atlantic Ocean, in the part of the lower Van Allen Belt closest to the earth’s surface. In addition, two hydrogen bombs were detonated 160 km over Johnston Island in the Pacific. The military called this “the biggest scientific experiment ever undertaken.” It was designed by the US Department of Defense and the US Atomic Energy Commission, under the code name Project Argus. The purpose appears to be to assess the impact of high altitude nuclear explosions on radio transmission and radar operations because of the electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and to increase understanding of the geomagnetic field and the behavior of the charged particles in it.

This gigantic experiment created new (inner) magnetic radiation belts encompassing almost the whole earth, and injected sufficient electrons and other energetic particles into the ionosphere to cause world wide effects. The electrons traveled back and forth along magnetic force lines, causing an artificial “aurora” when striking the atmosphere near the North Pole.

The US Military planned to create a “telecommunications shield” in the ionosphere, reported in 13-20 August 1961, Keesings Historisch Archief (K.H.A.). This shield would be created “in the ionosphere at 3,000 km height, by bringing into orbit 350,000 million copper needles, each 2-4 cm long [total weight 16 kg], forming a belt 10 km thick and 40 km wide, the needles spaced about 100 m apart.” This was designed to replace the ionosphere “because telecommunications are impaired by magnetic storms and solar flares.” The US planned to add to the number of copper needles if the experiment proved to be successful. This plan was strongly opposed by the Intentional Union of Astronomers.

Project Starfish (1962)

On July 9, 1962, the US began a further series of experiments with the ionosphere. From their description: “one kiloton device, at a height of 60 km and one megaton and one multi-megaton, at several hundred kilometers height” (K.H.A., 29 June 1962). These tests seriously disturbed the lower Van Allen Belt, substantially altering its shape and intensity. “In this experiment the inner Van Allen Belt will be practically destroyed for a period of time; particles from the Belt will be transported to the atmosphere. It is anticipated that the earth’s magnetic field will be disturbed over long distances for several hours, preventing radio communication. The explosion in the inner radiation belt will create an artificial dome of polar light that will be visible from Los Angeles” (K.H.A. 11 May 1962). A Fijian Sailor, present at this nuclear explosion, told me that the whole sky was on fire and he thought it would be the end of the world. This was the experiment which called forth the strong protest of the Queen’s Astronomer, Sir Martin Ryle in the UK.

“The ionosphere [according to the under-standing at that time] that part of the atmosphere between 65 and 80 km and 280- 320 km height, will be disrupted by mechanical forces caused by the pressure wave following the explosion. At the same time, large quantities of ionizing radiation will be released, further ionizing the gaseous components of the atmosphere at this height. This ionization effect is strengthened by the radiation from the fission products… The lower Van Allen Belt, consisting of charged particles that move along the geomagnetic field lines… will similarly be disrupted. As a result of the explosion, this field will be locally destroyed, while countless new electrons will be introduced into the lower belt” (K.H.A. 11 May 1962). “On 19 July… NASA announced that as a consequence of the high altitude nuclear test of July 9, a new radiation belt had been formed, stretching from a height of about 400 km to 1600 km; it can be seen as a temporary extension of the lower Van Allen Belt” (K.H.A. 5 August 1962).

As explained in the Encyclopedia Britannica: “… Starfish made a much wider belt [than Project Argus] that extends from low altitude out past L=3 [i.e. three earth radiuses or about 13,000 km above the surface of the earth].” Later in 1962, the USSR undertook similar planetary experiments, creating three new radiation belts between 7,000 and 13,000 km above the earth. According to the Encyclopedia, the electron fluxes in the lower Van Allen Belt have changed markedly since the 1962 high- altitude nuclear explosions by the US and USSR, never returning to their former state. According to American scientists, it could take many hundreds of years for the Van Allen Belts to destabilize at their normal levels. (Research done by: Nigel Harle, Borderland Archives, Cortenbachstraat 32, 6136 CH Sittard, Netherlands.)

SPS: Solar Power Satellite Project (1968)

In 1968 the US military proposed Solar Powered Satellites in geostationary orbit some 40,000 km above the earth, which would intercept solar radiation using solar cells on satellites and transmit it via a microwave beam to receiving antennas, called rectennas, on earth. The US Congress mandated the Department of Energy and NASA to prepare an Environmental Impact Assessment on this project, to be completed by June 1980, and costing $25 Million. This project was designed to construct 60 Solar Powered Satellites over a thirty year period at a cost between $500 and $800 thousand million (in 1968 dollars), providing 100 percent of the US energy needs in the year 2025 at a cost of $3000 per kW. At that time, the project cost was two to three times larger than the whole Department of Energy budget, and the projected cost of the electricity was well above the cost of most conventional energy sources. The rectenna sites on earth were expected to take up to 145 square kilometers of land, and would preclude habitation by any humans, animals or even vegetation. Each Satellite was to be the size of Manhattan Island.

Saturn V Rocket (1975)

Due to a malfunction, the Saturn V Rocket burned unusually high in the atmosphere, above 300 km. This burn produced “a large ionospheric hole” (Mendillo, M. Et al., Science p. 187, 343, 1975). The disturbance reduced the total electron content more than 60% over an area 1,000 km in radius, and lasted for several hours. It prevented all telecommunications over a large area of the Atlantic Ocean. The phenomenon was apparently caused by a reaction between the exhaust gases and ionospheric oxygen ions. The reaction emitted a 6300 A airglow. Between 1975 and 1981 NASA and the US Military began to design ways to test this new phenomena through deliberate experimentation with the ionosphere.

SPS Military Implications (1978)

Early review of the Solar Powered Satellite Project began in around 1978, and I was on the review panel. Although this was proposed as an energy program, it had significant military implications. One of the most significant, first pointed out by Michael J. Ozeroff, was the possibility of developing a satellite-borne beam weapon for anti-ballistic missile (ABM) use. The satellites were to be in geosynchronous orbits, each providing an excellent vantage point from which an entire hemisphere can be surveyed continuously. It was speculated that a high-energy laser beam could function as a thermal weapon to disable or destroy enemy missiles. There was some discussion of electron weapon beams, through the use of a laser beam to preheat a path for the following electron beam.

The SPS was also described as a psychological and anti- personnel weapon, which could be directed toward an enemy. If the main microwave beam was redirected away from its rectenna, toward enemy personnel, it could use an infrared radiation wave- length (invisible) as an anti-personnel weapon. It might also be possible to transmit high enough energy to ignite combustible materials. Laser beam power relays could be made from the SPS satellite to other satellites or platforms, for example aircraft, for military purposes. One application might be a laser powered turbofan engine which would receive the laser beam directly in its combustion chamber, producing the required high temperature gas for its cruising operation. This would allow unlimited on-station cruise time. As a psychological weapon, the SPS was capable of causing general panic

The SPS would be able to transmit power to remote military operations anywhere needed on earth. The manned platform of the SPS would provide surveillance and early warning capability, and ELF linkage to submarines. It would also provide the capability of jamming enemy communications. The potential for jamming and creating communications is significant. The SPS was also capable of causing physical changes in the ionosphere

President Carter approved the SPS Project and gave it a go- ahead, in spite of the reservation which many reviewers, myself included, expressed. Fortunately, it was so expensive, exceeding the entire Department of Energy budget, that funding was denied by the Congress. I approached the United Nations Committee on Disarmament on this project, but was told that as long as the program was called Solar Energy by the United States, it could not be considered a weapons project. The same project resurfaced in the US under President Reagan. He moved it to the much larger budget of the Department of Defense and called it Star Wars. Since this is more recent history, I will not discuss the debate which raged over this phase of the plan.

By 1978, it was apparent to the US Military that communications in a nuclear hostile environment would not be possible using traditional methods of radio and television technology (Jane’s Military Communications 1978). By 1982, GTE Sylvania (Needham Heights, Massachusetts) had developed a command control electronic sub-system for the US Air Force’s Ground Launch Cruise Missiles (GLCM) that would enable military commanders to monitor and control the missile prior to launch both in hostile and non-hostile environments. The system contains six radio subsystems, created with visible light using a dark beam (not visible) and is resistant to the disruptions experienced by radio and television. Dark beams contribute to the formation of energetic plasma in the atmosphere. This plasma can become visible as smog or fog. Some has a different charge than the sun’s energy, and accumulates in places where the sun’s energy is absent, like the polar regions in the winter. When the polar spring occurs, the sun appears and repels this plasma, contributing to holes in the ozone layer. This military system is called: Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN). (See The SECOMII Communication System, by Wayne Olsen, SAND 78- 0391,Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1978.) This innovative emergency radio system was apparently never implemented in Europe, and exists only in North America.

Orbit Maneuvering System (1981)

Part of the plan to build the SPS space platforms was the demand for reusable space shuttles, since they could not afford to keep discarding rockets. The NASA Spacelab 3 Mission of the Space Shuttle made, in 1981, “a series of passes over a network of five ground based observatories” in order to study what happened to the ionosphere when the Shuttle injected gases into it from the Orbit Maneuvering System (OMS). They discovered that they could “induce ionospheric holes” and began to experiment with holes made in the daytime, or at night over Millstone, Connecticut, and Arecibo, Puerto Rico. They experimented with the effects of “artificially induced ionospheric depletions on very low frequency wave lengths, on equatorial plasma instabilities, and on low frequency radio astronomical observations over Roberval, Quebec, Kwajelein, in the Marshall Islands and Hobart, Tasmania” (Advanced Space Research, Vo1.8, No. 1, 1988).

Innovative Shuttle Experiments (1985)

An innovative use of the Space Shuttle to perform space physics experiments in earth orbit was launched, using the OMS injections of gases to “cause a sudden depletion in the local plasma concentration, the creation of a so called ionospheric hole.” This artificially induced plasma depletion can then be used to investigate other space phenomena, such as the growth of the plasma instabilities or the modification of radio propagation paths. The 47 second OMS burn of July 29, 1985, produced the largest and most long-lived ionospheric hole to date, dumping some 830 kg of exhaust into the ionosphere at sunset. A 6 second, 68 km OMS release above Connecticut in August 1985, produced an airglow which covered over 400,000 square km.

During the 1980′s, rocket launches globally numbered about 500 to 600 a year, peaking at 1500 in 1989. There were many more during the Gulf War. The Shuttle is the largest of the solid fuel rockets, with twin 45 meter boosters. All solid fuel rockets release large amounts of hydrochloric acid in their exhaust, each Shuttle flight injecting about 75 tons of ozone destroying chlorine into the stratosphere. Those launched since 1992 inject even more ozone-destroying chlorine, about 187 tons, into the stratosphere (which contains the ozone layer).

Mighty Oaks (1986)

In April 1986, just before the Chernobyl disaster, the US had a failed hydrogen test at the Nevada Test Site called Mighty Oaks. This test, conducted far underground, consisted of a hydrogen bomb explosion in one chamber, with a leaded steel door to the chamber, two meters thick, closing within milliseconds of the blast. The door was to allow only the first radioactive beam to escape into the “control room” in which expensive instrumentation was located. The radiation was to be captured as a weapon beam. The door failed to close as quickly as planned, causing the radioactive gases and debris to fill the control room, destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment. The experiment was part of a program to develop X-ray and particle beam weapons. The radioactive releases from Mighty Oaks were vented, under a “licensed venting” and were likely responsible for many of the North American nuclear fallout reports in May 1986, which were attributed to the Chernobyl disaster.

Desert Storm (1991)

According to Defense News, April 13 – 19, 1992, the US deployed an electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) in Desert Storm, designed to mimic the flash of electricity from a nuclear bomb. The Sandia National Laboratory had built a 23,000 square meter laboratory on the Kirkland Air Force Base, 1989, to house the Hermes II electron beam generator capable of producing 20 Trillion Watt pulses lasting 20 billionths to 25 billionths of a second. This X-ray simulator is called a Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator. A stream of electrons hitting a metal plate can produce a pulsed X-ray or gamma ray. Hermes II had produced electron beams since 1974. These devises were apparently tested during the Gulf War, although detailed information on them is sparse.

High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, HAARP (1993)

The HAARP Program is jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy, and is based in Gakona, Alaska. It is designed to “understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems.” The HAARP system intends to beam 3.6 Gigawatts of effective radiated power of high frequency radio energy into the ionosphere in order to:

• Generate extremely low frequency (ELF) waves for communicating with submerged submarines
• Conduct geophysical probes to identify and characterize natural ionospheric processes so that techniques can be developed to mitigate or control them
• Generate ionospheric lenses to focus large amounts of high frequency energy, thus providing a means of triggering ionospheric processes that potentially could be exploited for Department of Defense purposes,
• Electron acceleration for infrared (IR) and other optical emissions which could be used to control radio wave propagation properties
• Generate geomagnetic field aligned ionization to control the reflection/scattering properties of radio waves,
• Use oblique heating to produce effects on radio wave propagation, thus broadening the potential military applications of ionospheric enhancement technology.

Poker Flat Rocket Launch (1968 to Present)

The Poker Flat Research Range is located about 50 km North of Fairbanks, Alaska, and it was established in 1968. It is operated by the Geophysical Institute with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, under NASA contract. About 250 major rocket launches have taken place from this site, and in 1994, a 16 meter long rocket was launched to help NASA “understand chemical reactions in the atmosphere associated with global climate change.” Similar experiments, but using Chemical Release Modules (CRM), have been launched from Churchill, Manitoba. In 1980, Brian Whelan’s “Project Waterhole” disrupted an aurora borealis, bringing it to a temporary halt. In February 1983, the chemical released into the ionosphere caused an aurora borealis over Churchill. In March 1989, two Black Brant X’s and two Nike Orion rockets were launched over Canada, releasing barium at high altitudes and creating artificial clouds. These Churchill artificial clouds were observed from as far away as Los Alamos, New Mexico.

The US Navy has also been carrying on High Power Auroral Stimulation (HIPAS) research in Alaska. Through a series of wires and a 15 meter antenna, they have beamed high intensity signals into the upper atmosphere, generating a controlled disturbance in the ionosphere. As early as 1992, the Navy talked of creating 10 kilometer long antennas in the sky to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) waves needed for communicating with submarines. Another purpose of these experiments is to study the Aurora Borealis, called by some an outdoor plasma lab for studying the principles of fusion. Shuttle flights are now able to generate auroras with an electron beam. On November 10, 1991, and aurora borealis appeared in the Texas sky for the first time ever recorded, and it was seen by people as far away as Ohio and Utah, Nebraska and Missouri. The sky contained “Christmas colors” and various scientists were quick to blame it on solar activity. However, when pressed most would admit that the ionosphere must have been weakened at the time, so that the electrically charged particle hitting the earth’s atmosphere created the highly visible light called airglow. These charged particles are normally pulled northwards by the earth’s magnetic forces, to the magnetic north pole. The Northern Lights, as the aurora borealis is called, normally occurs in the vortex at the pole where the energetic particles, directed by the magnetic force lines, are directed.

Conclusions

It would be rash to assume that HAARP is an isolated experiment which would not be expanded. It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere.

It would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the United States. HAARP is an integral part of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate military nature.

The military implications of combining these projects is alarming.

Basic to this project is control of communications, both disruption and reliability in hostile environments. The power wielded by such control is obvious.

The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening.

The project is likely to be “sold” to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a devise for repairing the ozone layer.

Further References:

C.L. Herzenberg, Physics and Society, April 1994.

R. Williams, Physics and Society, April 1988.

B. Eastlund, Microwave News, May/June 1994.

W. Kofinan and C. Lathuillere, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 14, No. 11, pp 1158-1161, November 1987 (Includes French experiments at EISCAT).

G. Metz and F.W. Perkins. Ionospheric Modification Theory: Past Present and Future, Radio Science, Vo1.9, No. 11, pp 885 -888, November 1974.

Hoax of Apollo Mission Provided Secret Funding of Satellite and Scalar Weapons to Create Today’s “Climate Change” ³

Chemtrail, Global Warming 

http://chemtrailsplanet.net/2013/03/22/nazi-agenda-to-control-climate-with-space-weapons-and-chemtrails-revealed/

Is it a coincidence that in 1958, Global Warming was suddenly promoted as a disaster while Congress was funding the military launch of orbiting space weapons intended to force “climate change”?

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Post WWII Nazi Influence Takes Hold in Congress and White House

The day before the 9/11 False Flag,  Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon could not account for a missing $2.3 Trillion dollars. ©

The history of the Bush family as Nazi supporters during WWII has been popularly revealed in the many citizen investigations following the 9/11 false flag operation.  And George Bush Sr. was illegally involved in CIA operations within the US. ©

Arlington, Virginia is the birth place of the American Nazi Party founded by Geoerge Lincoln Rockwell in 1960.  Originally called WUFENS (World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists) it supported the views of America’s Founding Fathers but also Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) during the Third Reich. So, there was little distinction between Nazism and Socialism until Hitler’s Nazi Party became associated with war, brutality and the racism of the holocaust.  It was Hitler’s departure from perceived socialist ideals to wage blatant war and the eugenics of ethnic cleansing that ultimately caused the term “Nazi” to be associated with evil intent.

The National Security Act of 1947 established the National Security Council, a central place of coordination for national security policy in the executive branch, and the Central Intelligence Agency, America’s first peacetime intelligence agency with a defacto mission for assassinations, provoking war and destabilizing sovereign governments.©

Before the end of WWII, the USA and Russia had already agreed to split the teams of Nazi scientists between them  under operations “overcast” and paperclip”.  It was urgent that the US and USSR share the spoils of war by harvesting the intellect of the German scientists who had developed the V-2 rocket and other advances in physics.

During the post-war years, geoengineering the planet with nuclear devices and toxic aerosols to raise Earth’s temperature by 1.7 deg C. was regarded as desirable and feasible.  In fact, respected meteorologist, Harry Wexler’s 1962 proposal to accomplish his version of deliberate “global warming” was widely received by his peers and by the general public. ©

Roger Revelle

But even as expectations of warming the arctic for access to oil and economic growth were being raised,  a scientific paper published by oceanographer, Roger Revelle, created an overnight, media driven taboo of engineered global warming proposals.

The alleged culprit was CO2, a trace gas that makes up a tiny one-half of one-tenth of one percent volume of earth’s atmosphere but, most importantly remains essential to the continued existence of most life on earth.

In rational terms, Revelle essentially discovered that Wexler’s plan for warming the climate could already be taking place for free and without the need for nuclear detonations or spraying chemicals like Ethylene Dibromide into the stratosphere to eliminate the ozone layer.

why would anyone enthusiastic about Wexler’s plan to warm the climate possibly consider Revelle’s conclusions as bad news?.

So, the expectations for climate change and opening sea lanes in the arctic were -  for reasons unknown at the time -  slammed into full reverse without explanation.  Almost overnight, the media began to promote scare tactics that Earth’s climate “might” be warming due to indirect evidence in a single scientific paper published by Roger Revelle at Scripps University.  But contrary to media propaganda, elitist plans to change Earth’s climate and melt arctic ice were not really abandoned at all.  The top decision-makers simply gave up Wexler’s proposal for the infinitely larger profits to be found in NASA’s Space adventures to control the climate with advanced weapons technologies while publicly pretending to put a man on the moon. People might gladly pay higher taxes to go to the moon but not if taxpayers knew $Billions were secretly diverted to launch weapons of ultimate population control and the racism of eugenics.

The awesome possibilities of developing modern rocketry to launch nuclear weapons and to place secret satellites into earth orbit had become the new military-industrial profit paradigm. For all anyone knew at the time, Wexler’s ideas might have worked but were rejected by top insiders because his method of warming the planet would not have required rockets, satellites, microwave beams, plasma mirrors, scalar radar, ionospheric heaters (HAARP) already under development in 1958 with new innovations from the imported Nazi scientists.

The documentary:  “What Happened On The Moon?” – makes a good case that NASA was promoting the hoax of the Apollo mission moon landings to the public while secretly launching satellites with advanced technologies to accomplish snooping, energy weapons and weather modification.  The Apollo missions are almost certainly a hoax considering the extreme radiation contained in the  two Van Allen belts and a third more deadly artificial radiation belt created in 1962 by scientists when they exploded nuclear bombs in near space under  Operation Starfish Prime.

Looking back we now see the so-called cold war was actually a period of cooperation in space dominance shared by the USSR/Russia and the US/West.  The adversarial relationship was mostly artificial and served to galvanize public support of both countries for decades in order to fund a covert space weapons system that would eventually become the ultimate domination of life and climate on earth by a single NWO government.  For the naive public it would be tantamount to paying your government to watch you slit your own throat.

 In 1958, then,  Senator Lyndon B. Johnson made a prophetic opening statement at a Hearings before the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services:

“From space, the masters of infinity would have the power to control the earth’s weather, to cause drought and flood, to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the gulf stream and change temperate climates to frigid. There is something more important than the ultimate weapon. And that is the ultimate position. The position of total control over the Earth that lies somewhere in outer space.

Johnson continued:

“In essence, the Soviet Union has appraised control of space as a goal of such consequence that achievement of such control has been made a first aim of national policy. [In contrast], our decisions, more often than not, have been made within the framework of the Government’s annual budget. Against this view, we now have on record the appraisal of leaders in the field of science, respected men of unquestioned competence, whose valuation of what control of outer space means renders irrelevant the bookkeeping concerns of fiscal officers.” (2)

Johnson knew the goal of dominating space would become very costly, but achieving ultimate and perpetual control of the planet’s population, climate and resources would effectively cancel the debt in the final New World Order solution of a One World Government owned by a One World Bank.

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Full Documentary – What Happened on the Moon

Shanghai: 16,000 Dead Pigs and Still No Origin

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A strange course of events that can’t be traced to the source for some reason in China leave people wondering where 16,000 dead pigs came from.
By Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub.com
March 25, 2013
SHANGHAI — As of now it looks like the government has finally almost finished up getting 16,000+ dead pigs out of a local river that feeds 22% of Shanghai’s water supply.
What seems odd about this situation and the dead pigs is that the Chinese government says it can’t find the source. This should be concerning to most.
Logically thinking, I don’t see why that would be a problem. Wouldn’t one take a helicopter, plane, or vehicle upstream until they found the source of 16,000 dead pigs? I mean at one point there would be no more dead pigs upstream and you would then be able to locate the source.
Well of course it would, and that’s why in my opinion I think there could be more to this story then meets the eye.
Today the Raw Story reported;

The total number Shanghai had removed from the river, which supplies 22 percent of the city’s drinking water, had reached 10,924 as of Sunday afternoon.

In addition, Jiaxing in neighbouring Zhejiang province, whose farmers are accused by Shanghai of dumping the dead pigs into the river upstream, had found 5,528 carcasses, state radio said last week.

Mystery remains over the exact origin of the dead hogs. Jiaxing has insisted it was not the sole source, while Shanghai said its farms have not reported an epidemic which would kill pigs in such large numbers.

The images of dead pigs in China’s commercial hub have proved a huge embarrassment for the city, which is seeking to grow as an international financial centre.

The scandal has highlighted China’s troubles with food safety, adding the country’s most popular meat to a growing list of food items rocked by controversy.

Animals that die from disease can end up in China’s food supply chain if improperly disposed of, despite laws against the practice.

Samples of the dead pigs have tested positive for porcine circovirus, a common swine disease that does not affect humans.

Although the government says the pigs were infected with a virus it still boggles me that the source is unknown.

Sources:
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Shepard Ambellas is the founder & director of Intellihub.com (a popular alternative news website), researcher, investigative journalist, radio talk show host, and filmmaker.

Written By: Jason Dorrier
Posted: 03/19/13 9:05 AM

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China’s BGI to Sequence 2,200 Geniuses In Search For “Smart” Genes

In the world of genomics, Chinese biotech giant BGI is big and getting bigger. The firm agreed to purchase Bay Area juggernaut Complete Genomics for a bargain basement $117 million in 2012. BGI owns 156 DNA sequencers and produces 10% to 20% of the world’s genetic information. Now the firm is putting their DNA sequencing might behind an investigation into the genetics of genius.
Suitably, one of BGI’s homegrown savants, 20-year-old Zhao Bowen, will head up the study. According to his bio, Zhao dropped out of high school to join BGI “after a startlingly productive internship contributing to BGI’s cucumber sequencing project.” His smart gene study promises to be a bit more challenging.
According to the Wall Street Journal, 1,600 of the study’s 2,200 genomes were provided by Dr. Robert Plomin of King’s College, London. Plomin collected the DNA of individuals with IQs over 160 (average IQ is said to be around 100) who had previously participated in a program called the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. BGI signed up another 500 on their website. (The WSJ doesn’t account for the remaining 100.)

Zhao’s team is already busy sequencing the genomes and optimistically says they’ll be done in three months. The team will compare their genius genomes to a random selection of the population to see if they can isolate differences between the two.
Will they find anything useful? The WSJ compares the study to the genetics of height which depends on “1,000 genetic variations that partly explain why some people are taller than others.” It took 10,000 genomes for scientists to see results. If the genetic determinants of height are subtle and complicated, intelligence must be out of the ballpark, down at the pub, mumbling into a pint of ale.
Consider the challenge of choosing a meaningful population. Once your units are settled, everyone agrees how to measure height. But how does one objectively measure intelligence? How does one even define intelligence? BGI readily admits there isn’t a rock solid method. Nothing like a good old wooden yardstick, running straight and true.
Making the matter more challenging, BGI will accept applicants who’ve scored well on a number of different aptitude tests such as the SAT, ACT, and GRE; have “performed well in academic competitions such as the Math, Physics, or Informatics Olympiads”; or simply “have exceptional academic credentials or technical accomplishments.”
BGI says these tests are all closely correlated to “general intelligence” or “g.” And undoubtedly, the pool will be stocked with geniuses.
But If you want to nail down smart genes, it seems you’d want to minimize heterogeneity outside the studied trait. So, while these criteria may be good for selecting potential participants, it seems you’d then want to run the same intelligence test on all of them to make your final selection. This might weed out other psychological variables like ambition, competitive spirit, social skills, and sheer bloodymindedness that may play a role in exceptional academic credentials or accomplishments.
BGI very clearly gets all this stuff. They know it’s a difficult and controversial topic. Sections of their FAQ read like a financial services disclaimer. “We do not claim that our study design is capable of identifying all g-associated alleles given enough participants, let alone all loci linked with other components of intelligence; or that g is a perfect measurement of intelligence, brain health, etc. We simply wish to start the process of discovery, and believe that this is a good place to begin.”
And maybe that’s enough for now. It’ll be fascinating, and probably controversial, when the team announces their findings. After all, if someone thinks they’ve found the genes behind intelligence—what then will they do with that information?
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Prenda lawyer has a history of unusual class action clients

Judge has labeled Paul Hansmeier's class action tactics as "bold and improper."

by Timothy B. Lee - Mar 25 2013

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/prenda-copyright-troll-also-has-a-history-of-unusual-class-action-clients/

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Paul Hansmeier, widely regarded as a ringleader for the prolific copyright trolling firm Prenda Law, has been having a rough year. After a Minnesota man accused his firm of identity theft, Hansmeier gave remarkably evasive answers to questions posed by defense attorneys. Upon reading the transcript, a judge declared that "someone has a lot to hide." The judge has since ordered Hansmeier and his Prenda colleagues to his courtroom on April 2. Prenda has begun to backpedal, dismissing pending copyright cases around the country.
While his copyright trolling business is on the ropes, Hansmeier has plowed ahead in another area of his practice: class action law. The tactics he has employed in his class action cases will be familiar to those who are familiar with Hansmeier's copyright litigation. In both sets of cases, Hansmeier has acted on behalf of friends, family, and business associates, not strangers. And in both instances, opponents have accused him of using the threat of burdensome litigation to extract nuisance settlements from his adversaries.

"Wholly beyond the pale"

When the parties to a class action settlement reach an agreement, members of the class have the option to object to the settlement. And if those objections are overruled, the objecting member can appeal the settlement. The lengthy appeals process can tie up the settlement money for years. So a new cottage industry of "professional objectors" has emerged. They threaten to tie up settlement money in years of litigation, hoping that the plaintiff's attorney will buy them off.
The blog Fight Copyright Trolls discovered that Hansmeier appears to have gotten into the professional objecting game. In one case, the Hertz rental car company had been fighting a class action lawsuit since 2007. A settlement was reached, and in October 2012 Paul Hansmeier objected to the settlement on behalf of his father Gordon Hansmeier. Then he sent a letter to the plaintiff's lawyer, Dennis Stewart.
"This letter is to advise you that an objection will be filed to your proposed settlement," Hansmeier wrote, enclosing a copy of his objection. "I will extend to you an offer to settle this matter with my client for $30,000.00."
Stewart was not intimidated. "If you present this objection, it is clear that it will have been presented for an 'improper purpose'"—that is, as an effort to extort money from Stewart. And Stewart represented other injured plaintiff, not the defendant. "Please be advised that we consider this conduct to be improper and sanctionable," Stewart wrote.
"The idea that you would respond to a demand letter which you requested by threatening sanctions is unconscionable and wholly beyond the pale," Hansmeier responded. He accused Stewart of "hardball tactics designed to intimidate my client." In a court filing, he described Stewart's threats as a "bold and improper tactic."
But when Hansmeier actually filed his objections, the judge's ruling was scathing. "The only 'bold and improper' conduct the Court can identify is Objector’s counsel’s attempt to extract $30,000, from class counsel in exchange for Objector not filing objections," he wrote. "It should have been evident to any reasonable attorney that class counsel would not acquiesce given the tone and nature of Objector’s counsel’s demand."
He ruled that Hansmeier's objections were "without merit and would not succeed even it were allowed to proceed."

Friends and family

The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Hansmeier's hometown paper, has been covering Hansmeier's legal antics. Confronted by the paper for a Saturday story, Hansmeier acknowledged that most of the clients in his class action cases were friends and family. This is not unlike Prenda's copyright lawsuits, which were almost always filed on behalf of shell companies represented by a handful of individuals with close links to Prenda.
In addition to his father, Hansmeier has also objected to two class actions settlements on behalf of his wife, one involving a lawsuit against Groupon, the other a lawsuit against Netflix. The Star Tribune reported that in October, Hansmeier filed a class action lawsuit against "several online travel companies and major hotel chains on behalf of his friend Allan Mooney, a 34-year-old personal trainer." That lawsuit was short-lived; Hansmeier dismissed it the following week.
“You generally start with people that are in your, shall we say, inner circle or whatever,” Hansmeier told the Star Tribune. “Now, I would hope that as time goes on that I expand the circle, that I gain some credibility and some experience and a reputation for successfully prosecuting these style of cases.”
Hansmeier also filed a class action lawsuit against Living Social on behalf of his law clerk, Nathan Wersal. Evidently, Wersal is upset that his LivingSocial vouchers expired before he had a chance to use them. But LivingSocial's lawyers have argued the case should be dismissed, arguing that the original purchase price on the coupons never expired. That case is ongoing.
In February, Hansmeier filed another case on behalf of Mooney. This one alleged that food sold by Frito-Lay and marketed as "all natural" actually contain genetically modified organisms. The defendants said that Hansmeier's lawsuit is a "copycat" lawsuit similar to 11 other cases that have been filed in the last 18 months.
There's nothing illegal about filing lawsuits on behalf of friends, family, and business associates. But repeatedly filing lawsuits on behalf of a few plaintiffs with personal ties to him suggests that Hansmeier may be struggling to sell his legal services to the general public. Perhaps his pattern of regularly changing the name of his law firm—since 2010 he has been associated with Steele Hansmeier, Prenda Law, Alpha Law Firm, and now the Class Action Justice Institute—has made it difficult to attract more clients.

The 10 Highest Earning Dead Celebrities

Random Celebrity Article By Geoffrey Golden on August 6, 2012

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/the-10-highest-earning-dead-celebrities/

The Highest Earning Dead Celebrities: Every year it's interesting and slightly morbid to find out which dead celebrities are still earning big bucks from the grave. As the saying goes, "whoever dies with the most stuff wins." Actually, we've found that whoever dies with the most profitable, licensable intellectual property is the real winner. Most of these dearly departed celebrities left us with catalogs of music and writing that are keeping their grandkids in college, or allowing their grandkids to purchase colleges! So who are the richest/highest paid dead celebrities of 2012? Click the gallery below to find out:
Gallery of Highest Earning Dead Celebrities:

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• #1 Michael Jackson – $200 Million
• #2 Elvis Presley – $60 Million
• #3 Marilyn Monroe – $30 Million
• #4 Charles Schulz – $26 Million
• #5 John Lennon – $15 Million
• #6 Elizabeth Taylor – $13 Milion
• #7 Albert Einstein – $12 Million
• #8 Dr Suess (Theodor Geisel) – $11 Million
• #9 Jimi Hendrix – $10 Million
• #10 Stieg Larsson – $9 Million

The Highest Earning Dead Celebrities for 2011:
On July 23, 2011 singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment at the age of 27. Another talented celebrity who died too soon. During her lifetime, Amy accumulated a net worth of $10 million. Like many other celebrities she may end up earning more money in death than in life. But who are the highest earning dead celebrities for the year 2011? Keep reading to find out:
10. Michael Crichton Net Worth - $9 million
Like many authors, Crichton had novels in the works at the time of his death. His book Pirate Latitudes is being published next month and his unfinished book is scheduled for publication next fall. Director Steven Spielberg has acquired the rights to film Crichton's posthumous novel.
9. Albert Einstein - $10 million
Albert Einstein's estate earned money by licensing the likeness of Einstein in unlikely places, such as in the movie Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as a bobble-head, and in a McDonald's happy meal. Einstein's name continues to be used in Baby Einstein products. The Einstein estate has upcoming brain games in the works as well.
8. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) - $15 million
Dr. Seuss continues to be the all-time best-selling children's author, selling books year after year. An animated version of The Lorax is being filmed for 2012 and PBS will debut a children's science learning series based on The Cat In The Hat.
7. John Lennon Net Worth - $15 million
John Lennon and the rest of The Beatles have done well this past year. The Beatles' music was remastered in a 16-disc box set on sale in September 2009. The Beatles: Rock Band was released, allowing fans to play along to the Fab Four's music. The Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show continues to bring in earnings for the boys from Liverpool.
6. Charles Schulz - $35 million
The Peanuts comic creator continues to earn money through licensing deals and publication of the original comics. The TV catalog was purchased by Warner Brothers, which has resulted in new releases, including a DVD of all six of the original Peanuts television specials.
5. J.R.R. Tolkien - $50 million
The author of The Lord of the Rings franchise continues to gain new fans, especially after the Peter Jackson trilogy was filmed. Profits from the films help J.R.R. Tolkien estate bring in money. The next Tolkien film scheduled is The Hobbit, directed by Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson.
4. Elvis Presley Net Worth - $55 million
The King of Rock 'n' Roll has long earned money after his death, largely due to an immense portfolio of licensing and merchandise deals and Graceland admissions. The 75th anniversary of Graceland next year will generate more income, as well as an upcoming Elvis Presley Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas.
3. Michael Jackson Net Worth - $90 million
Michael Jackson posthumously earned millions from music video marathons, radio airplay, and album sales immediately following his death. The estate also gained earnings from a merchandising deal and the rights to his name & likeness in the Sony film This Is It. The future earnings of the music icon are high due to publishing rights to Jackson's catalog of music and a valuable stake in the Sony/ATV catalog.
2. Rodgers & Hammerstein - $235 million
Although musical composers Rodgers & Hammerstein died many years ago, their combined estates bring in a symphony of catalog licensing fees. This year their income went up through the reported $200 million acquisition of The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization by Imagem Music Group, gaining ownership of musicals like South Pacific, Oklahoma! and The King and I.
1. Yves Saint Laurent - $350 million
Yves Saint Laurent is at the top of the list for the first time this year. The sale of Mondrians and Matisses art pieces from Saint Laurent's estate brought in a whopping $443 million, with the proceeds to be divided between two charitable foundations. So far, Saint Laurent's estate auction has reached nearly half a billion dollars since his death.

Highest Paid Dead Celebrities

How Damon Dash Launched Jay-Z And Roc-A-Fella Records Then Blew Through A $50 Million Fortune

Random Celebrity Article By Brian Warner on March 14, 2013

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/celebrity/how-damon-dash-blew-through-a-50-million-fortune/

In the late 90s and early 2000s, hip hop entrepreneur Damon Dash was on top of the world. At the time, Dash was the CEO of the hottest rap label in music, Roc-A-Fella Records, with powerhouse roster artists like Jay-Z, Kanye West, Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, DJ Clue and Juelz Santana. Dash was also the CEO of the wildly successful Rocawear clothing line which was reportedly generating annual revenues of $350 – $450 million. As if this wasn't enough, Dash was testing the waters in Hollywood by executive producing the critically acclaimed 2004 Kevin Bacon film "The Woodsman". Perhaps most importantly, without Dash, the world would likely never have heard the name Jay-Z at all. With the above resume, you'd have to assume that today Damon Dash must be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and is presiding over a dynasty that rivals Russell Simmons, Diddy or Dr. Dre, right? Unfortunately that is not the case. Today Damon Dash is not only broke, but he owes millions of dollars to the IRS and has had several properties seized through foreclosure. How did this happen? The story of how Damon Dash launched Jay-Z's career and Roc-A-Fella Records then blew through a $50 million fortune is a sad and shocking cautionary tale.

Rise and Fall of Damon Dash

Dash Meets Jay-Z
After getting expelled from three different high schools, Damon Dash fell into a bad crowd and began selling drugs. Dealing earned him plenty of cash but it came with a price. Damon quit the drug game after seeing too many friends end up dead. Thankfully, Damon quickly discovered that he was a born promoter. He and a group of friends launched a mini business throwing parties and promoting clubs. One night, he announced that the first 100 girls in line at a club opening would get free bottles of Moet Chandon champagne. A line around the block formed hours before the doors even opened, and while Damon actually lost money on the promotion, he solidified his reputation as the hottest promoter in New York. Soon Damon decided he could be just as successful promoting musical acts as he was clubs. Through his cousin's step father, Damon landed his first management client, a rap group called Future Sound. Not long after, Dash had arranged for Future Sound to sign a deal with Atlantic Records under an executive named Rodolfo Franklin. In addition to being a record executive, Franklin moonlighted as a DJ under the name "DJ Clark Kent". It was Rodolfo who, in 1994, first alerted Dash to an ambitious former drug dealer from Brooklyn who was looking to launch a rap career. That rapper's name was Sean Carter, soon to be known as Jay-Z. Jay-Z was unlike anyone else in rap at the time. He was the fastest rapper Damon had ever heard and he didn't write anything down, instead reciting every rhyme straight from memory. Furthermore, like most popular artists of the day like DMX, Snoop Dogg, Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, Jay-Z didn't rap about murder and crime. Jay-Z's lyrics tended to focus mainly on living a lavish Playboy lifestyle filled with girls, money, boats, cars and champagne. Bling Bling!
Roc-A-Fella Records Is Born
At the time, Jay-Z was a bit of an underdog in the music industry. He had tried and failed for years to secure his own record deal but was rejected for being too old or not appearing hard enough. Jay didn't fit the mold of fellow typical Brooklyn rappers who wore gold teeth and sang exclusively about dealing drugs and killing people. With Jay-Z as his partner, Damon Dash founded Roc-A-Fella records. The name was a play on oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest American of all time who died with an inflation adjusted net worth of $340 billion. The name was also a nod to a famous Brooklyn drug dealer named Rocafella who Jay-Z idolized as a young hustler. That Rocafella is the one who died of AIDS and is immortalized in the NAS song "Ether" ("Rocafella died of AIDS, that was the end of his chapter And that's the guy y'all chose to name your company after?").
Damon wanted Jay to film a music video as fast as possible but there was just one problem. Roc-A-Fella Records had no money. To raise cash, Damon sought an investment from a well connected street hustler named Kareem "Biggs" Burke. Damon took 100% of Burke's $16,000 investment and poured it into producing a music video for Jay's song "In My Lifetime" on the Caribean island of St. Thomas. Burke also arranged for Jay and Damon to have access to a wealthy local kingpin's mansion and speed boat for the video:
Jay-Z "In My Lifetime":          

The gamble paid off and soon Roc-A-Fella record's only artist was getting courted by all the major record companies. Unfortunately, none of the major labels would agree to one of Damon's outrageous demands. Damon Dash demanded that Roc-A-Fella would maintain ownership of Jay-Z's master recordings. Owning the master would turn out to be a brilliant financial decision as Jay-Z's back catalogue still sells millions of units, even almost 20 years later. Only one record company was willing to acquiesce to such insane demands, a little known label called Freeze Records. As fate would have it, shortly after signing Jay-Z, Freeze Records was sold for scraps to Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen's Def Jam Records after experiencing sever financial setbacks.
Roc-A-Fella Records Rises To The Top
Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen's leadership combined with Roc-A-Fella's sheer talent and hustle helped Jay-Z's debut album "Reasonable Doubt" to sell over 1.5 million copies in it's first year. A year later Jay's album "In My Lifetime, Vol. 1″ would sell another 1.5 million copies. By 1998, Jay's album "Hard Knock Life" would sell a whopping 12 million copies world wide making Roc-A-Fella the most important label at Def Jam. The ensuing 54-city "Hard Knock Life" music tour generated $20 million in profits. Simultaneously, Damon and Jay had launched a clothing line called "Rocawear" and a brand of vodka called "Armadale Vodka". Rocawear and Armadale's sales exploded every time the products appeared in one of Jay's videos. In the year 2000 Rocawear's sales generated revenue of $50 million per year.

"Reasonable Doubt" Album Cover

The Downfall Of Damon Dash
Between 2002 and 2004 Damon Dash went on a tear starting companies, signing new artists and generally living the life of a super successful hip hop mogul. He had amassed an army of mega-talented future stars like Kanye West, Cam'ron and Beanie Sigel. Roc-A-Fella had survived the 9/11 attacks (which happened the same day Jay's album "The Blueprint" debuted), Jay-Z's arrest on assault charges and the tragic death of Dash's girlfriend Aaliyah. Rocawear had expanded to five different clothing and shoe lines and was bringing in $350 – $450 million per year in annual sales. Damon was even producing movies like the critically acclaimed Kevin Bacon film "The Woodsman".
Fittingly, Dash lived a very opulent life that included butlers, private chefs, bodyguards, a mansion in Beverly Hills, a Tribeca loft, a $35,000 per month London apartment and a $400,000 Maybach. Dash was also famous for only wearing his shoes, socks, jeans and shirts once, before tossing them away. Unfortunately, all was not well with the one person who mattered most, Damon's most talented artist and business partner Jay-Z. Jay had increasingly grown tired of Damon's ever growing ego and paranoia. The employees at Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam and Rocawear were terrified of Damon's never ending temper tantrums over the smallest of issues. He fired dozens of talented executives and burned bridges left and right. For his part, Damon began to resent Jay's increasing distance from their company and new alliance with Def Jam honcho Lyor Cohen. Rumors flew throughout 2002 and 2004, that Damon and Jay were breaking up and no longer speaking. Tensions came to a head after Jay-Z and Kareem Burke refused to allow Damon to spend $3 million on a single print ad campaign for Armadale Vodka featuring Kevin Bacon and Naomi Campbell. From that point on Jay and Damon really were not speaking anymore. Damon was also being excluded from many high profile meetings at Def Jam regarding his own artists. The writing was on the wall.

Damon Dash's Downfall

The Breakup
On December 24, 2004, Jay-Z asked his old friend Damon Dash to meet him at an Italian restaurant in Manhattan called Da Silvano. Prior to this meeting, the three Roc-A-Fella founders had already agreed to sell their label to Def Jam for $10 million, but Dash was shocked by another piece of the deal that he did not see coming. Each partner would take home $3 million, but only Jay would be promoted to be the President of Def Jam. Even worse, Jay refused to allow Dash to keep the "Roc-A-Fella" name. The final blow occurred when all of Roc-A-Fella's artists were offered the option to stay with Jay at Def Jam or go with Damon to a new label of his own forming. Most artists, including future superstar Kanye West chose to stay with Jay.
The few artists who went with Dash to his new label saw their albums bomb on the charts and the new record label venture quickly imploded. On the other hand, Damon and Jay were still connected via Rocawear. They each still owned 25% of the company. After the Kevin Bacon/Naomi Campbell fiasco, Dash was invited to a meeting at an upscale hotel room in New York. When he asked why they were meeting at a hotel room instead of the Rocawear offices, the partners replied "so no one will hear you scream". By the end of the meeting, Dash was expelled from the company with a $22 million buyout that ultimately only resulted in $7 million of cash.
Foreclosure
Betwen 2004 and 2009 Damon launched and shuttered a string of failed ventures. His new record company, Roc La Familia, folded, as did clothing line The Damon Dash Collection. Dash's wife divorced him and he was sued for $15 million over an alleged rape. Shockingly, by April 2009, Damon Dash, who at his peak had a personal net worth of $50 million, was flat broke. In his divorce proceedings, Dash revealed to a judge that he actually owed $2 million in back taxes and was in the midst of foreclosure on two New York city apartments. He was also being sued by several NYC law firms and various other creditors for lack of payment. His Chevy Tahoe had been repossessed after he could not keep up with the $700 monthly payments. Dash was forced to vacate his $9 million Tribeca New York home which was later sold in foreclosure for $5.5 million. Meanwhile, Jay-Z would go on to sell Rocawear to Iconix Brand Group for $219 million. Jay also sold millions more albums for Def Jam and in 2008 signed a new $150 million record deal with Live Nation. Today Jay-Z is married to Beyonce and has a personal net worth of $475 million. Damon Dash is still trying to hustle his way back to the top, but only time will tell if he can reach the same heights.
So what's the lesson here? How could Damon Dash avoided this downfall and do you think he can make a comeback?

Sammy Hagar: Unlikely Tequila Mogul And Centimillionaire

Random Celebrity Article By Brian Warner on March 15, 2013

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/celebrity/how-much-money-did-sammy-hagar-make-selling-cabo-wabo-tequila/

Most hardcore rock fans will probably agree that the original David Lee Roth version of Van Halen is better than the Sammy Hagar era. "Diamond" Dave fronted Van Halen from the band's inception in 1978 up to his departure in April 1985. Three months later, after getting a tip from his mechanic, Eddie Van Halen hired "Red Rocker" Sammy Hagar to replace Roth. Van Hagar lasted from 1985-1996 when Sammy and Eddie had a nasty falling out. Tensions have been high ever since. In terms of record sales, Roth outsold Sammy nearly 2:1, 56 million compared to 27 million. On the other hand, all four of Sammy's albums debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart, much higher than any of the previous Roth releases. And, for better or worse, the Van Hagar era was much more commercially profitable for the band members thanks to a series of extremely successful international tours and licensing deals. If you're one of these Van Halen die hards who still doesn't respect Sammy Hagar, you should at least give him some credit as an unlikely business titan. The story of how Sammy Hagar built an empire and made a fortune off his Cabo Wabo clubs and tequila brand is impressive and astounding!

Sammy Hagar Sells Cabo Wabo

Sammy Hagar began visiting Cabo San Lucas, Mexico well before he joined Van Halen. Since the early 70s, when Sammy was a solo singer and the front man for the band Montrose, he found refuge basking on Cabo's sunny beaches. In 1990, at the peak of his Van Halen career, Sammy convinced his band mates to partner with him in opening a bar/restaurant in Cabo that also had large performance stage for visiting bands. Unfortunately that first year was a mismanaged financial disaster. It was so bad that Sammy bought his band mates out in embarrassment. After a few early speed bumps, the newly named "Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina" eventually became a huge hit for tourists and locals. The name "Cabo Wabo" is a play on the saying "Cabo wobble" which describes the awkward walk that heavy tequila drinkers make after a hard night partying.

Cabo Wabo Cantina

As you may know, Mexico is famous for its tequila. So much so, that the Mexican government even goes so far as to protect and sanction the cultivation of the agave plant. In 1996 Sammy began to seek out a partner who could make a house tequila for his patrons. He eventually connected with the Riviera family of Guadalajara who have been making Tequila for over 80 years. This is how Cabo Wabo Tequila was born. By 1999 the Tequila came in four different flavors and was being distributed in the US by a Napa Valley based wine importer. Cabo Wabo Tequila was an instant hit on American liquor shelves, selling nearly 40,000 cases in its first year alone. By 2006, the company was selling 150,000 cases per year and generated $60 million in revenue. Cabo Wabo is the second best selling premium tequila in The US, behind Jose Cuervo.

Cabo Wabo Tequila Flavors

While Cabo Wabo Tequila was a huge hit in The US, it was still unavailable internationally, so in 2007 Sammy began seeking a new distribution partner. In his own words at the time: "If you have a hit you need distribution. You can approach distributors in each country or you can go to Warner Bros or Universal or the other big boys so the world can hear your hit." In May of 2007, Hagar struck a deal with the Italian beverage company Gruppo Campari to sell 80% of his Cabo Wabo Tequila company for a whopping $80 million! Three years later, Campari paid Hagar a $4 million earn-out bonus and bought the remaining 20% of the company for $11 million, bringing his total take from the deal to $94 million.
As if this wasn't enough, while Cabo Wabo Tequila was exploding on the market and making Sammy a centimillionaire, he simultaneously began expanding his empire. In addition to the original Cabo San Lucas location, today there is a Cabo Wabo in Lake Tahoe and another on the Las Vegas Strip. In 2009, Hagar launched "Sammy's Beach Bar & Grill", with locations at Harrah's Casino St. Louis and inside the Southwest terminal of the Las Vegas Airport. 100% of the profits from these two businesses are donated to charity. Furthermore, he opened "Sammy's Rockin Island Bar & Grill" in Roseville, California in September 2012. Finally, in 2011, Hagar announced the launch of a new liquor brand called "Sammy's Beach Bar Rum". Do you think the Red Rocker can capture lightning in a bottle twice?
In conclusion, Sammy Hagar may not be everyone's favorite Van Halen lead singer but he's definitely the richest. In fact, as of March 2013, Sammy's $120 million net worth far outweighs every other current and former Van Halen member. Eddie comes in at #2 with $85 million, Alex is #3 with $75 million, Michael Anthony is #4 with $60 million and David Lee Roth is last with a net worth of $40 million.