New Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery

New Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 28, 2011

Our investigation of the purported Obama birth certificate released by Hawaiian authorities today reveals the document is a shoddily contrived hoax. Infowars.com computer specialists dismissed the document as a fraud soon after examining it.

Check out the document released by WhiteHouse.gov for yourself.

Upon first inspection, the document appears to be a photocopy taken from state records and printed on official green paper. However, when the government released PDF is taken into the image editing program Adobe Illustrator, we discover a number of separate elements that reveal the document is not a single scan on paper, as one might surmise. Elements are placed in layers or editing boxes over the scan and green textured paper, which is to say the least unusual.

When sections of the document are enlarged significantly, we discover glaring inconsistencies. For instance, it appears the date stamped on the document has been altered. Moreover, the document contains text, numbers, and lines with suspicious white borders indicating these items were pasted from the original scan and dropped over a background image of green paper.

VIDEO: Alex Jones gives proof that Obama’s purported birth certificate is fraud.

Let’s assume the state of Hawaii scanned the original document and placed it on the green textured background. This does not explain the broken out or separate elements. There is no logical reason for this to be done unless the government planned to modify the document and make it appear to be something other than it is.

There are two elements of interest, as shown in the image to the above – both entries for the date accepted by the local registry. This appears to have been modified in an image editing program.

The media was quick to dispel the fact the document was modified. “Our analysis of the latest controversy: The original birth certificate was probably in a ‘negative’ form, and someone at the White House took it upon themselves to doctor it up so the form can be readable,” writesJoe Brooks for Wireupdate.

Nathan Goulding, writing for the National Review, tells us anybody can open the White House released PDF in Illustrator and it will break out into layers. “I’ve confirmed that scanning an image, converting it to a PDF, optimizing that PDF, and then opening it up in Illustrator, does in fact create layers similar to what is seen in the birth certificate PDF. You can try it yourself at home,” he writes.

Indeed, but this does not answer the question why in the Obama birth certificate PDF the layers or elements contain dates – which appear to be modified – and the signature of the state registrar. If the document was acquired from state records in whole, why was it necessary to add elements? Goulding and Brooks do not address this issue.

These layers are also revealed by the White House issued PDF’s hex file in freeware hex editor. Within its code are listed 8 image masks, which if changed from value “true” to “false” turn off and on to reveal the layers as demonstrated in the video and in Illustrator. Whether these represent compression artifacts or other digitizing processes, or whether these masks represent deliberate manipulation remains to be conclusively shown.

<< /Length 17 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 123 /Height 228 /ImageMask
true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >> << /Length 13 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 199 /Height 778 /ImageMask
true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >>

<< /Length 19 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 47 /Height 216 /ImageMask
true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >>

<< /Length 15 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 42 /Height 274 /ImageMask
true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >>

<< /Length 10 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 1454 /Height 1819
/ImageMask true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >>

<< /Length 25 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 132 /Height 142 /ImageMask
true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >>

<< /Length 23 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 243 /Height 217 /ImageMask
true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >>

<< /Length 21 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 34 /Height 70 /ImageMask
true /BitsPerComponent 1 /Filter /FlateDecode >>

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As Market-Ticker.org points out, it may prove to be significant that two of the boxes appear over both of the “date accepted” boxes, as well as the “Mother’s occupation box.” Was there a need to tamper with the dates on the document or other areas? The recent stamp date and issuing signature of the state registrar also contain an edited layer.

Questions have also been raised about the number at the top of the document issued by the Department of Health, number 61 10641, as one part of the number is in a separate layer when viewed in Illustrator, as demonstrated in the video above. This may prove to be significant. A long form birth certificate obtained by the Honolulu Star in 2009 from a female born one day after Obama and whose form was accepted three days after Obama’s document contains a Dept. of Health number that is lower, 61 10637. There are other subtle differences, such as the use of “Aug.” for the date rather than “August,” and the use of “Honolulu, Oahu” rather than “Honolulu, Hawaii” (seen also in the 1962 certificate below) which may or may not be significant.

More to the point, this certificate and others, like the one posted below it, have visible seals. No issuing seal can be seen on the document released today by Obama.
Negative of long form birth certificate for Aug. 5, 1961 birth in Honolulu, released in 1966 with seal and dated signatures.Published by Honolulu Star and World Net Daily in 2009.

Photo of physical copy of long form birth certificate for June 15, 1962 birth in Honolulu, also with visible seal.

Infowars will continue to analyze this issue as more information comes in. It is significant that the Obama Administration was pressured into responding to this controversy, whatever the final analysis of this document. However, the administration still needs to release his other records which have been sealed at great expense. Is there an issue with his being naturalized in Indonesia? Why are his college records at Columbia and Occidental sealed, and what do they contain? Did Obama travel to Pakistan on a foreign passport? These questions and many others have not been properly answered.

Aaron Dykes contributed to this report.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 27, 2011

In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America title in 2003, Susie Castillo, says a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina during an intrusive pat-down.

Ms. Castillo was subjected to the groping after she refused to enter a naked body scanner at the airport in Dallas, Texas.

In late 2010, the TSA put in place new procedure guidelines instructing agents to use their “palms and fingers” to “probe” airline customer bodies for hidden weapons, including breasts and other private parts.

On April 15, CNN reported that people who complain about naked body scanners and intrusive airport pat-downs will be investigated as terrorists and criminals.

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Lawmakers around the country have introduced legislation designed to rollback the pat-downs after the public and airline employees voiced complaints. In March, legislation was introduced into the Texas House of Representatives directly challenging the authority of the TSA in airports within the state and specifically aimed at criminalizing the use of naked body scanners and enhanced pat-downs.

In November of 2010, chief deputy DA and incoming DA of San Mateo County Steve Wagstaffe told the Alex Jones Show his office will prosecute TSA employees who engage in lewd and lascivious behavior while conducting pat-downs at the San Francisco International Airport. Wagstaffe told Alex Jones that county police will be sent into the San Francisco International Airport. If they witness TSA employees engaged in criminal conduct, they will make arrests and the DA’s office will prosecute.

In January, former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura launched a lawsuit against the TSA for subjecting him to humiliating pat-downs as he traveled for his work as the host of the popular TruTV show Conspiracy Theory. Ventura said that he would “no longer be forced by the TSA to prove he is not a criminal or terrorist.”

Earlier this week, Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security, said the TSA had the authority to conduct an intrusive pat-down on a six year old girl. “Parts of the pat down, in another setting, clearly constituted the kind of inappropriate touching that, if done by anyone else, would have resulted in charges of child abuse and sexual assault. The pat down even caused the little girl to cry, her parents later said in televised interviews,” writes J. D. Heyes.

In November, an Alex Jones employee related her experience with the TSA in Denver. Her children were subjected to the intrusive pat-down procedure.

Castillo is currently a spokeswoman for Neutrogena and has appeared on a number of television shows, including the ABC Family reality television series, America’s Prom Queen.

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She also held the title of Miss Massachusetts Teen USA in 1998.

Telegraph Blasts Alex Jones on Royal Wedding

Telegraph Blasts Alex Jones on Royal Wedding

 

Tim Stanley
The Telegraph
April 27, 2011

Americans are obsessed with the royal wedding – although not always in the way that you might expect. For some it’s a love story, for others an affirmation of how charmingly Old World the British are. But for a vocal minority, it’s nothing less than a propaganda stunt for the New World Order.

Watch this astonishing rant by Tea Party champion and radio show host Alex Jones. Jones is a magnet for conspiracy-minded Americans of Left and Right, and it was he who hosted Charlie Sheen when the actor demanded a meeting with President Obama to discuss the 9-11 “cover-up”. A couple of days ago, Jones gave this broadcast on the wedding and let rip a wave of Tea Party anger. With helpful graphics photoshopped from Wikipedia, Jones reminds listeners that America was founded in rebellion against the British monarchy (who, he insists, are in fact German). “The very essence of July 4 and 1776,” he says, “is resistance to the disgusting house of Windsor”.

Jones is right to expose the paradox of a republican culture that obsesses about a foreign monarchy. But he goes on to draw lines between totally unconnected dots. The House of Windsor is “a tyrannical group promoting eugenics, population reductions, all the carbon taxes”. Golly. Apparently, the Queen regularly shuts down Commonwealth parliaments and is the head CEO of all those banks that Obama bailed out. She is the captain of a conspiracy to create a “worldwide government”, which will “close down the competition and redistribute the people’s wealth into off-shore cartels. These people are parasites, they’re disgusting, they’re filthy and if we want to reclaim the spirit of 1776, we should realise how abhorrent monarchy is in all of its forms.”

Le Nez Dans Son Caca Mondialiste, Attali Perd son Sang Froid

Bien regarder cette vidéo jusqu'à la fin (la discussion reprend après l'intermède musical), pour voir la réaction d'Attali aux remarques de Michel Onfray.

 

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Secrets of the Royal Wedding Revealed

Secrets of the Royal Wedding Revealed

 

TheAlexJonesChannel
April 25, 2011

Alex Jones breaks the spell surrounding British royalty and Prince William’s supposed fairytale wedding. The House of Windsor name did not surface until the WWI-era, when they opted to drop Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to keep the British from focusing on their German overlords.

The U.S. fought a war of independence against the British control of its government and economy, yet modern day Americans fawn over the royal family, whom they identify with. This is the result of deliberate social engineering campaigns to build celebrity and importance around a parasitic and tyrannical gang that has led and funded Eugenics, carbon taxes, population reduction and much more.

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Jacques Attali: "le nouvel ordre mondial ou la barbarie"

Voilà la populace prévenue : Dans un nouvel entretien « complice », Jacques Attali, le médiateur et vulgarisateur francophone du Nouvel Ordre Mondial, met en garde les auditeurs et se fait presque menaçant : Si des décisions ne sont pas prises dans les prochains mois, nous assisterions au retour de la barbarie et à la prise en main du Pouvoir par les mafias.

Pour illustrer son avertissement, Jacques Attali a comparé notre situation à celle prévalant alors au début des années 1900, qui avait vu par la suite de nombreuses crises et 2 guerres mondiales, rien de moins.

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Jacques Attali a rappelé que le projet de Gouvernement Mondial existait déjà il y a un Siècle, ce que les observateurs indépendants du Nouvel Ordre Mondial savent parfaitement, ce projet étant une vieille lune bien antérieure à ces temps-là.

Informé des opportunités que vont constituer les tous prochains temps, et notamment l’année 2012, pour faire accepter le Nouvel Ordre Mondial aux populations, le PDG de Planète Finance (tout un programme) et membre de la Commission Trilatérale de David Rockefeller va mettre en place dans les tous prochains jours un site internet à la gloire du NWO :

Pour des raisons bien compréhensibles, ce nouveau site internet dont une pré-version est déjà en ligne ne s’appelle pas ouvertement SoutienAuNouvelOrdreMondial.com mais EtatsGenerauxDuMonde.org

Son objectif évident est de faire accroire aux naïfs et autres idiots utiles, avec la complicité des relais et zélateurs pro-NWO, que les quidams auront leur mot à dire dans la mise en place de ce projet, alors que tous les observateurs indépendants du Nouvel Ordre Mondial savent pertinemment que ce projet est un projet 100% élitistes, mis en place par le très haut sommet de la pyramide (la finance mondiale), et que le peuple ne sert qu’à donner l’illusion de la démocratie à un projet de néo-féodalisme et de Dictature mondiale qui ne dit pas son NOM.

Observez bien la pré-version de ce site web, les rares textes publiés et l’image de fond, car vous y trouverez de nombreux indices intéressants…

Mesothelioma: Asbestos Related Lung Cancer

Generally, simply because lung cancer signs and symptoms don't manifest within the early stage with the illness, treating it'll be a large issue particularly when detection occurs when cancer metastases or secondary cancer cells currently created within the other organs with the physique. A lot study function continues to be devoted to seek out the very first signs and symptoms of lung cancer. Extensive study functions performed at Mesothelioma study clinics have uncovered some signs and symptoms of lung cancer closely linked with all the illness.

The cause lots of people refer to this situation as mesothelioma lung cancer is the fact that about 70 % of those cancers begin within the pleura, the lining surrounding the lungs or within the lining with the chest cavity. Lung carcinoma continues to be straight linked to environmental dangers like smoking.

Mesothelioma is various in that the main environmental threat seems to become asbestos exposure, usually within the function location. Smoking doesn't clearly link to mesothelioma. Asbestos is mineral utilized to create heat-resistant fabrics along with other supplies. The very first mining and commercial use of asbestos was recorded within the late 1800s. Because then it continues to be utilized in everything from creating supplies to brake pads. The threat of mesothelioma goes up significantly for anybody in mining or manufacturing that entails asbestos.

It's stated that mesothelioma is linked to lung cancer and it's a great concept to obtain the assist that's deserved when somebody feels like they've been diagnosed due to the function that they did for a living. The term mesothelioma is utilized to describe a cancer tumor, which entails the mesothelial cells of an organ; this really is generally the lungs, heart, or the abdominal organs. Mesothelioma cancer is triggered by exposure to carcinogens like asbestos. Most cancers are triggered by external stimuli and mesothelioma is no various.The time in between exposure and advancement of cancer ranges from 15 to 30 years. Your threat increases by 30 % from every day exposure to second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke: Exposure to second-hand smoke continues to be shown to become a definite threat element.

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy is most likely then the answer towards the malignant pleural mesothelioma, but this could help the discomfort management only; there is no escaping death with Pleural Mesothelioma. The unwanted side effects and penalty of mesothelioma lung cancer therapy are much more than its therapy, that is damaged wholesome tissues, a state of absolute fatigue ness; excessive radiation causes the skin to turn out to be red, dry and itchy. Other unwanted side effects of radiotherapy are nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, urinary discomfort along with a sudden reduction within the variety of white blood corpuscles.

Mesothelioma is really a uncommon but deadly kind of cancer generally triggered by exposure to asbestos or asbestos-containing items. Individuals who get lung cancer from asbestos exposure generally get it from function or from living in an older house. Elements that might safeguard individuals from lung cancer aren't smoking, avoiding second hand smoke, a diet plan wealthy in fresh vegetables and fruit, and limiting exposure to possible carcinogens within the atmosphere like radon. Envision a creating with asbestos insulation torn apart and exposing all that insulation, properly now you are able to see the issue. Lung Cancer is affiliated with Asbestos Exposure.

You will find also numerous clinical trials ongoing to expand the therapy choices for mesothelioma, lung cancer, and numerous other thoracic cancers. Want to know more about symptoms of mesothelioma? Go to http://MesotheliomaSymptoms.us.

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Chemtrail & Morgellons Disease Photos

Excellent collection of pictures and information on Chemtrails and Morgellons Disease:

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Analysis Of New Photos Of Fukushima Reactors

Analysis Of New Photos Of Fukushima Reactors

 

More Hi-res photos here

Submitted by Chris Martenson
Zero Hedge
April 2, 2011

Exclusive: new photos of Fukushima reactors

Noting that the press has largely turned its resources off of the Fukushima complex, and needing up-to-date information on the status of the damage control efforts there, we secured the most up-to-date satellite photo from DigitalGlobe (dated March 31st), which we analyze below. This is the first photo of the damaged reactor site at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility made available to the public in over a week. That means you, our readers, are the first public eyes anywhere to see this photo.

Drawing upon the expertise of our resident nuclear engineer and Ann Stringer, imaging expert, we conclude that the situation at Fukushima is not stabilized: things are not yet at a place of steady progress in the containment and clean-up efforts. It’s still a dance, forwards and backwards, with the workers making gains here and there and the situation forcing them to react defensively.

In this report, we will tell you what we know for sure, what we are nearly certain of, and what we remain forced to speculate about.

Here is a portion of a much larger image (covering 25 square kilometers in total) showing the reactor complex as of March 31, at roughly mid-day:

Photo Credit, 2011, DigitalGlobe

What We Can See

Here’s what we can directly observe in the larger satellite image:

• Steam is still rising from reactors #2, #3 (circled in green) and #4.
• Of the four reactor buildings, three are nearly or totally destroyed, while the outside (at least) of the fourth is in relatively better shape.
• We can count 7 fire trucks ‘on site’ with another 7 just to the north, all with water lines strung out across the ground.
• There is only one ship/vessel to be seen, located inside of the breakwater and nearly as far to the north as it can go inside that boundary.
• A significant number of the vehicles that can be seen at the core of the site have not moved since the first released photos on March 12.
• There is a parking lot slightly to the north and west with approximately 250 passenger vehicles in it and a side lot with 30 large green tanks neatly arranged in rows.
• The rest of the area is one, two, and four lane roads (no traffic at all), worked farmland, residential and commercial areas, mostly empty parking lots, and two baseball diamonds.

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Here’s what we don’t see

• Nowhere in the 25 km area in the main photo can we find anything that looks like a staging area with a large collection of assets such as tanker trucks, pumpers, cement trucks, piles of pre-staged materials, ambulances, and fire trucks.
• The cement pumper truck seen a week ago has been apparently replaced by the boom at reactor #4.
• There’s no obvious barge delivering fresh water for the rector cooling efforts as recently reported (it may have come and gone?).
• Any obvious changes to the roofs of any of the reactors.
• Any people outside the plants working.

Things we can logically conclude

The steam that is venting is a mixed blessing. It implies that cooling water is getting to some hot material, which is a good thing, but it also means that something is hot enough to vaporize water and the continued release of radioactivity into the surrounding environment.

This means that the lack of steam coming from reactor #1 is either a very good sign, or a very bad sign. Good because it could mean that the containment vessels are intact and cooling water is circulating. Bad because it could imply that no water is getting to it and it is a very hot mass right now. According to TEPCO, reactor #1 has had seawater, and now freshwater, circulating through the reactor vessel – and since both containment vessels are intact, we’ll conclude the lack of steam is a good sign.

The situation at Fukushima is going to drag on for years. First there’s the matter of stabilizing the situation which has not yet been fully achieved. Recent surprises in terms of the amounts and locations of radioactivity are one sign that the situation is not fully stabilized. Still, nothing has blown up in quite a while, the steam venting appears consistent, and the major surprises seem to be over for now. While the TEPCO workers are still reacting to things as they arise, these are smaller things than last week, which is another hopeful sign.

The detected presence of neutron beams, I-134, and radioactive chlorine are all strongly supportive of the idea that criticality has resumed. Our best guess is that these are localized pockets, probably of short duration, and do not involve the entire core mass of any particular reactor conflagrating in some gigantic, greenish blob of uncontrolled fission. The geometries of the fuel in relation to neutron moderators requires precise conditions to support sustained fission and so it is rather unlikely to be occurring in anything other than localized pockets. If the entire reactor in its fully operational state was capable of supporting what we might scale to 100% fission, the amount of fission happening after a partial (or complete) meltdown will be a far lesser percentage. Still, any amount of fission is unwelcome at this point because it is adding to the heat and radiation removal difficulties.

The constantly rising levels of radioactivity found in the seawater are a further unwelcome development, but without a proper isotope analysis we cannot conclude anything about the potential resumption of fission from their gross amounts alone. It’s always possible that the leftover fission products are now being washed in larger amounts into the sea for some reason.

Additional Drone Photos

These are the most detailed photos yet to emerge into the public space (released yesterday, March 31, as far as I know), and they are purported to come from a drone flyover on March 20 and 24th.  They are really quite good, and worth viewing in their entirety here.

Beginning with reactor 3, one thing we can say is, this thing is a right proper mess:

(Source for all that follow)

There’s a significant hole to the left of center that goes deep into the sub-structure (with a strange greenish cast that we’ve not been able to resolve after much conjecture) and it’s clear that this building alone will take a long time to resolve.

Interestingly, we get our clearest image yet of the hole in turbine building #3 that was created by something ejected into the air during the reactor #3 explosion.

Looking like one of those cartoon cutouts that happens when the coyote hits the ground, we get the impression that whatever it was happened to be quite heavy and possibly shaped like an Apollo capsule. It has been my suspicion, which contradicts the official story, that the concrete containment vessel was what actually blew up in reactor #3 and I have been looking for evidence of in the form of large, heavy chunks of concrete (especially the refueling plug) lying about. I don’t know what made this hole in the roof of the turbine building, but it was heavy.

Reactor #4 provides us with proof that serious damage can result from the effects of an overheated spent fuel storage pool:

Here the watering boom can be clearly seen. A camera was recently attached to the boom and it took some interior shots which were suggestive of the idea that the spent fuel pool is damaged and largely drained of water. Spraying water into this pool, then, is probably a balancing act with the desire to spray enough water on the rods to keep them cool being offset by the risk of having radioactive water drain away for parts unknown.

Almost certainly this same balancing act defines the efforts for reactors #2 and #3 as well.

Conclusions

The efforts at Fukushima are probably weeks away from even basic stabilization and we are years away from any sort of a final resolution. This crisis is going to be with all of us for a very long time. Radiation will continue to escape from the complex into the environment for weeks at best, months or years at worst.

The chief concern here is that things might still take a turn for the worse whereby radiation spikes to levels that prevent humans from getting close enough to perform meaningful operations and work on the site. If the radiation spikes high enough it will force an evacuation from the vicinity complicating every part of what has to happen next from monitoring to remediation.

The general lack of staged materials anywhere in the vicinity indicates that authorities have not yet decided on a plan of action, feeding our assessment that they are still in ‘react mode’ and that we are weeks away from nominal stabilization.

On Thursday we learned from the Wall Street Journal that TEPCO only had one stretcher, a satellite phone, 50 protective suits, and only enough dosimeters to give a single one to each worker group. Given this woeful level of preparation it is not surprising to see that regular fire trucks, cement trucks, and a lack of staged materials comprise much of the current damage control mix.

We don’t yet know enough to conclude how much fission has spontaneously re-occurred, but we have strong suspicions that the number is higher than zero. Here we make our call for the release of more complete and timely radiation readouts and sampling results by TEPCO and Japan so that we can assess what the true risks are. The situation remains fluid and quite a lot depends now on chance and which way the wind blows.

And as I detailed in the Alert report I issued soonafter the tragic events of the Japan earthquake and tsunami on March 10th, the impact of Japan’s tribulations on the global economy will be large and vast. World markets are simply unpreapared for the third-largest economy to suddenly and violently downshift. The persisting crisis at Fukushima simply worsens the picture.

As always, we’ll continue montioring developments closely and reporting our findings and conclusions on this site.

best,

Chris

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Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project
A mega-project of science research on space weather monitoring, namely the Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project (Meridian Project for short), proposed by several research institutes and universities in China has been approved recently by the Chinese government.

With the objectives of investigating the space weather cause-consequence chain in the solar-terrestrial space, understanding the processes of the catastrophic space weather events, and the regional characteristics of the environment above China's territory so as to help ensuring the safety of space activities such as satellite operation etc., the project will set up a large-scale ground-based monitoring system composed of 15 stations along the longitude of 120°E and the latitude of 30°N, says Prof. WANG Chi, vice commander-general and chief engineer of the project.

The initiative of the Meridian Project is to conduct a comprehensive multi-layered and inter-disciplinary survey and exploration of space environment by advanced ground based techniques. With a variety of equipment, such as magnetometers, ionosondes and digisondes Incoherent Scattering Radar, HF back-scattering radar, LIDARs, Fabry-Perotinter ferometer, IPS, and sounding rockets, in a bid to probe space environment in geo-space with an altitude higher than20-30km up to the interplanetary space.

As the first step for its enforcement, Prof. Wang says, by using the 14 multi-and special-purpose observational satiations located in, such as, Mohe, the northernmost county in China, Beijing, Wuhan, Hainan Island, Shanghai and Lhasa , the project will carryout a continuous monitoring operation for obtaining relevant space environment parameters on the geomagnetic field, electrical field, wind field, air density, temperature and its composition in the middle and high layers of the atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere and interplanetary space. Meanwhile, the Zhongshan Station in the Antarctica will beset up to make a comprehensive study of the polar region by scanning the vicinity centered at the south end of the longitude which passes through the Station. The Meridian project will be completed within three years.

In addition, the International Space Weather Meridian Circle Program is proposed to connect 120°E and 60°W. meridian chains of ground based monitors, which will greatly enhance the ability of monitoring space environment worldwide. Chinese scientists have started discussing this proposal with the scientists from Russia and Australia and other countries or regions running through the East Longitude 120°E as well as in related countries whose territories are traversed by the West Longitude60°W, and got very positive feedback.

The 200-million-yuan($25 million) project will be coordinated by the Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of sciences, with participation of several other institutes and universities from CAS, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Information Industry, China Earthquake Administration, the State Oceanic Administration, and China Meteorological Administration.