Newest discovery on Mars: Robotic finger or door handle to hidden chamber? You decide

The wild theories after Mars rover Curiosity discovers mysterious metal object sticking out of rock

UPDATE (2/13/13): NASA says `wait nothing to see here,' just a result of natural wind-erosion 

• Images show bizarre shiny object protruding from the surface
• Metallic object likely to measure just 0.5cm or less
• Pictures beamed back from Mars show small hole surrounded by dust
• Mission scientists to assess dust to see whether it can be analysed
• Analysis should show whether life has ever existed on the planet

By DAMIEN GAYLE
DAILYMAIL
February 8, 2013

Nasa's Curiosity rover has discovered a mysterious metal object emerging from rock on the surface of Mars.

These images were captured by a camera on Curiosity, and reveal the bizarre finger-like structure protruding from the Martian surface and casting a shadow on to the rock below.
Science buffs have suggested the small, shiny-looking object, which makes for an incongruous sight amid the rocks, could be composed of material less susceptible to erosion than its surroundings.


Robotic finger? An image captured by Nasa's Curiosity rover shows the strange metallic object protruding from the surface of the rock


Incongruous: The unidentified object is seen nestled on the rocky surface

A report on Universe Today said the structure was likely to measure just 0.5cm or less.
It was spotted in the picture beamed back from Mars, which was taken on January 30.

Pictures of the mysterious object emerged after Curiosity drilled its first hole in the surface of Mars, to generate dust it can analyse to detect any traces of life which may once have existed on the planet.

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CIA lied about torture to own agency officials - but are you really surprised?

CIA was lying about torture even to its own staff - CIA veteran Kiriakou
RT News
February, 9 2013


AFP Photo / Files / Paul J. Richards

President Obama adopted most of President Bush’s counter-terrorism policies, argues John Kiriakou - the former CIA official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices and is now set to go behind bars for it.

After 9/11 Kiriakou served as the chief of counter-terrorist operations in Pakistan. Now he is heading to prison, having been sentenced to two-and-a-half years.

Despite that, he says he is proud to have played a role in outlawing torture. Voting for Obama, Kiriakou believed that it would bring positive change – but it never came, he told RT. “I never believed I would be going to prison under a President Obama. Never.”

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'Most people don’t realize this but President Obama has surrounded himself with the same Intelligence advisors who advised President Bush.'

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'The first Al-Qaeda I’ve ever caught was a 19-year-old boy from Tunisia. And the only reason he went to Afghanistan was he had nothing else to do.'

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'We find ourselves murdering people and in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they are involved in any criminal or terrorist activity...'

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10 things the media don't want to discover about the Sandy Hook school massacre (John Rappoport)

by Jon Rappoport [JON RAPPOPORT'S BLOG]
February 9, 2013
www.nomorefakenews.com

Slashing through the bland authoritative front the media have presented, people want to know more about the Sandy Hook massacre. But the elite networks have no intention of answering the most obvious questions.

Why? Because the follow-up agenda of gun control is all important, and the official Sandy Hook scenario must stand, in order to forward that agenda.

Any return to the scene of the crime will:

     divert media coverage from its all-out push to make guns into taboo objects of scorn,  
     ridicule, fear, and hatred;

     focus attention on reasons for the massacre that have nothing to do with guns;

     engender deep distrust of the Sandy Hook police investigation and therefore, by 
     association, throw into doubt the notion that law-enforcement personnel should be the only
     people carrying guns in America.

Here are 10 things the media doesn’t want to know about and has no intention of investigating. These are only the basics, amid a wider sea of unanswered questions:

Where is the video footage from inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School, footage that surely exists and shows some part of the massacre? Who has that video record? What does the video reveal? Where is the video (or photo) evidence that Adam Lanza was the shooter?

How did the accused killer, Lanza, gain entrance to the school? Having just installed a new security system that required outside (and presumably heavy) doors to be locked, and with a procedure for entry that demanded two-way video communication with the principal’s office—what exactly happened?

From available information, it seems almost certain Lanza was seeing a doctor and was on medication. Who was the doctor and what drugs did he prescribe? Did they include SSRI antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil, or Ritalin and Adderall—drugs known to cause violent behavior, including suicide and homicide. If so, then all the focus would shift to excoriating the drugs and eliminating them from our society.

What was the exact story on the two or three other suspects captured and detained by the police? Who are they? Why were they pursued? What did their ...

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About the author:
The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon
was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an
investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics,
medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon
has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic,
and creative power to audiences around the world.
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