Two blogs ago I wrote how consuming the tropical fruit tamarind can remove fluoride from the body. Well, I had such a good response to my tamarind chutney recipe that I thought I’d post another one. This recipe comes from my favorite Indian cookbook The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Yamuna Devi:

2/3 cup of raisins
3/4 cups water (distilled)
1-2 hot green chilies
2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander (cilantro)
1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
1/3 cup gelled tamarind puree, concentrated
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1/4 teaspoon chat masala or black salt
1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1. Combine the raisins and water in a small pan and quickly bring to a boil. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside to cool for 5 minutes.

2. Combine all of the ingredients in a food processor fitted with a metal blade, or a blender, and process to a smooth puree. Transfer to a non-metallic storage container, cover, and refrigerate.

Originally aired July 30th, 2010:

Tonight my guest STEWART SWERDLOW returns to discuss “The Galactic History” and our ancient past. Mr.Swerdlow is a clairvoyant, a gifted medical intuitive, and the author of “Montauk: The Alien Connection”. Join us as we explore Atlantis, human origin, Lemuria, and our mysterious solar system. www.expansions.com

There’s something strange going on in our solar system.

In early May, the NASA asteroid-watching service, the Near-Earth Object Program headquartered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and also the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, tracked an unknown object from deep space heading in our direction. The object—dubbed 2010 KQ—is a few meters long and is considered too small to be an asteroid, and NASA feels it is “artificial”. Object 2010 KQ made a close pass by Earth, coming in almost to the distance of the Moon’s orbit, pulled away, and is now returning into the outer regions of the solar system. They don’t expect it to return until 2036.

In a The Register article, it stated: “The object has used no propulsion during the time NASA has had it under observation. However the spacewatch boffins believe that it must have moved under its own power at some point, given its position and velocity”. (Say what? It moved on its own?!)

But before you get too excited: No. NASA doesn’t think it’s an alien probe sent to spy on Earth. Their explanation is: it’s a discarded rocket booster from one of our old space programs that got caught up in a wide orbit.

How strange. Since when do old booster rockets turn themselves off-and-on?

The above story is similar to another near-earth object, 1991 VG. On November 6th 1991, astronomer Jim Scotti discovered this object with the Spacewatch Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona. 1991 VG seemed to be about 10 meters in size, but did not appear to be an asteroid. As it approached earth, it was observed to have a “…strong, rapid brightness variations which can be interpreted as transient specular reflections from the surfaces of a rotating spacecraft.” In other words, 1991 VG was pulsating a light. But this was explained away as sunlight bouncing off a reflective surface. What did Scotti think it was? In his notes, he writes: “My guess is that it is indeed a natural object, but if it is manmade, perhaps it is a Saturn IVB stage from one of the early Apollo missions.” Once again: space junk from our space program.

My favorite mysterious place is the Kuipers Belt. For those of you who don’t know where that is, the Kuipers Belt is a region of space along the ecliptic outside orbit of Neptune. It contains countless comets and “super comets” or planetesimals. It’s existance was predicted in 1951 by Gerald Kuiper, for whom the belt was named. Then in March 1992, and in rapid succession thereafter, a series of icy planetesimals, or “super comets” have been discovered orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. Pluto, once classified as a planet, and now down-graded to a “dwarf”, is located in the Kuipers Belt. Other “dwarf” planets discovered here are, Ceres, Chiron, and Makemake.

So what’s so strange about the Kuipers Belt? Well, first there is Makemake, discovered on March 31, 2005. I found it odd that Makemake can be seen with a backyard amateur telescope, but yet astronomers couldn’t find it until 2005. It was described as “shining”—explaining it must be covered in ice and reflecting the distant sun’s light. So how did astronomers miss a shiny object—its size just slightly smaller than Pluto—for so long? Could it be because Makemake wasn’t there before and suddenly, in 2005, it just appeared?

Then there are all the disappearing objects in the Kuipers Belt. One day they are there, and the next day they are gone. But I’m not the only person who thinks the Kuipers Belt is a strange place. In 2004, two British astronomers, Gregory Matloff and Anthony R. Martin, submitted a paper to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society to propose an infrared search of the Kuiper Belt for artificial objects (“A Proposed Infrared Search for Artificial Kuiper Belt Objects,” JBIS 57, pp. 283-287). I did a double-take when I read the title of that scientific paper. What are these British scientists suggesting? That there’s a colony of ETs at the end of our solar system?

Next, is Saturn’s giant rotating hexagon cloud. It is located at the planet’s north pole, and, according to NASA, it’s 65 miles deep and 15,000 miles wide. Scientists are baffled by the geometric-shaped cloud, and have no explanation as to why it’s there. One observer states he could see a pyramid and an eye in the center of the hexagon cloud (a la Illuminati? Personally, I don’t see the pyramid).

Look what’s happening to Jupiter. In July 1994, the “String of Pearl” comet crashed into the planet. In 2005, astronomers began to notice it’s famous “red spot”—discovered in the 17th century—is now shrinking and changing colors. On June 3rd, 2010, Anthony Wesley, an Australian amateur astronomer, documented a comet or asteroid hit Jupiter. Scientists were baffled that there was no debris cloud after the strike. Last year, Wesley noticed a huge black spot on the planet’s surface, indicating another possible asteroid impact (isn’t it strange that only Jupiter attracts them?). And, it was only last month, he produced pictures showing the stripe of dark red clouds in the planet’s southern atmosphere had vanished.

Could all of these occurrences be artificial events? Is Jupiter slowly, but surely, turning into a second sun? So, what is going on in the Kuipers Belt? Are we being watched?

This podcast originally aired May 14th 2010:

My guest tonight is PROF. NOEL SHARKEY. Sharkey is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He is also Professor of Public Engagement and has written numerous papers, as well as, given talks, and television and radio appearances, in order to inform politicians, military, and national and international organizations about the ethical problems that may arise in robotics. He is currently involved in initiating public discussion about the ethical use of robots and the implications for public safety and human rights.
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~noel

On Saturday May 22nd, 2010 at 9 PM, est I will be on Journeys With Rebecca with Rebecca Jernigan. Be there, or be square.

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A few weeks ago, on my podcast After Dark Radio , my co-host for the night, Danichi, and I, got into a discussion about ancient civilizations. One of the topics was the recent excavation of a 100 naturally preserved mummies in the Tarim Basin in the Xinjang Province in China. Scientists studying the site said the mummies were 3000 to 4000 years old, and were not Asians, but instead, red-haired, lily-white skinned, large nose, deep-set round-eyed, tall in stature caucasians, and according to the New York Times “…archaeologists could hardly believe what they saw.” And they asked: What are white people doing here?

Personally, I don’t think it’s a big mystery.

The mummies were dressed in typical Celtic garb: colorful patterned clothes, tartan plaids, tunics & pantaloons, swirl tattoos painted on face & body, braided long hair. Even though some of the news articles I’ve read have speculated the mummies may be Celtic people, in the same breath, they turn around & rebuff that possibility. Other archeologists guess the mummies are a lost tribe of Europeans who migrated “west to east.” But I think it was the other way around…”east to west.”

If something looks Celtic, tastes & smells Celtic, it probably is Celtic. However, the Celts were not a race, but a group of peoples, or, more accurately, a group of societies. They spoke or still speak dialects of a certain family, called the Celtic languages. Wherever the Celts have lived they’ve left place-names, inscriptions with personal names, & in history the memory of other names, recognized as different from all others and, in general, are the same everywhere.

Twenty years ago, I found an old book called The Rise of the Celts written by Henri Hubert, and published in 1934. The book said the origin of the Celtic peoples came from an Aryan race located in Northern India, at the bottom of the Himalayan Mountains. Anyhow, this is what I’m thinking: Since the Celts were nomads, they must have traveled west, pass the Himalayas until they found the Tarim Basin in China. After all, the Tarim Basin is only a stone’s throw from the mountain range of Tibet. After China, they continued moving westward, through Austria, Spain, and other European countries, until they settled in the British Isles. But where did the Aryan race come from? Perhaps, Sumeria (Sumerian=Aryan). The Sumerians became the Mesopotamians, the Babylonians, and the Khazars, who migrated into the Caucasus Mountains and became the Caucasian/Aryan race. The Khazars then spread out to Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and blended with the races there and imposed their religious belief on those cultures. The Aryans, or the Khazars, drove the Dravidians from northern India and pushed them south, where they became the Tamils, who are in Sri Lanka. So, perhaps, the Aryan race that Hubert writes about is, in fact, the Khazars, who settled near the Himalayan Mountains.

(For a long time, the Khazar civilization was considered lost, but in 2008, Russian scientist uncovered evidence of a Khazar city near the Caspian Sea).

Here is an article from The New York Times, and another article here, with photos and a third article, here

This show originally aired November 20th 2009:

My guest tonight is DENNIS CRENSHAW of Unraveling Secrets. We will be discussing Dennis’s new book Secrets of Dellschau The Sonora Aero Club & The Airships of the 1800s: A True Story. It is the story of two men’s obsessions: C.A.A. Dellschau – who spent the last 20 years of his life using every waking moment creating thousands of drawings of strange looking flying machines he called Aeros. Hidden within those drawings were coded messages documenting the story of a secret life. A story he had pledged not to reveal under the threat of death. A story of knowledge, inventions and power sources beyond his time . . . beyond our time. A story that could rewrite history. And, P.G. “Pete” Navarro – An extremely talented artist in his own right, spent 27 years unravelling Dellschau’s secrets. What he discovered was an amazing story of events – – Events that, according to Dellschau, took place during the Gold Rush years of the mid- 1800s in Northern California. A story of flying machines, secret societies, anti-gravity fuel and possibly even .. . murder! Sound like fiction? Don’t be so hasty to decide. Have you ever heard of the Airship Mystery of the 1800s?

On May 1st 2010, Whitley Strieber and I had a lovely chat on Dreamland. Listen to the interview now:

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Upcoming guest on After Dark Radio will be Prof. Noel Sharkey, and we’ll be discussing Artificial Intelligence & Robotics. Also, Dr. Karen Ralls on the Templars, Mary Magdalene, and Freemasonry, and more cool guests to come.

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