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Aerospace Worker: "I Installed Chemtrails Devices" @ Monday Demonstration 5/12/2014 – ENGLISH SUBS – Video

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot has shrunk to its smallest size yet

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Data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the past 20 years show Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking at an increasing rate to its current, and smallest, recorded size. The reduction is possibly due to the existence of eddies, that have been observed feeding into the planet-sized storm.

The Great Red Spot is, in essence, a vast, turbulent storm of astonishing size and ferocity. The storm system has persevered for roughly 300 years, so observations of its diminishing size have been met with great interest from the scientific community.

Since the early 1930s, astronomers have followed the apparent subsiding of Jupiters Great Red Spot. Data returned from Voyager 1 & 2 in 1979 estimated it to be roughly 14,500 miles (23,175 km) across. However subsequent readings have shown the massive anti-cyclonic storm receding, with todays measurements from the Hubble Telescope estimating the Red Spot to be only 10,250 miles (16,496 km) across. That's a 29 percent decrease in the storm's length.

Astronomers have concluded that the storm is shrinking at an ever increasing rate, estimated at 580 miles (933 km) per year. Despite the fact that the spot has shrunk significantly whilst under observation, it is worth noting that the storm could still comfortably swallow the Earth with room to spare.

"In our new observations it is apparent very small eddies are feeding into the storm," states Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Center, continuing, "We hypothesized these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot."

Looking to the future, the team of NASA scientists intend to further study the internal mechanics of the eddies in order to determine whether it is these atmospheric features that are expediting the shrinking of the Red Spot.

The storm will undoubtedly come under greater scrutiny in 2016, when NASA's Juno satellite will achieve polar orbit of the gas giant, heralding the start of its one year mission. The satellite's massive solar panels, necessary due to Juno's great distance from the Sun, will power a suite of equipment designed to probe within and through Jupiter's impressive atmospheric structure. The mission will hopefully return insightful information as to the composition of the Gas Giant, and of course, its trademark Great Red Spot.

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NATO Plants Flag In Uzbekistan

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Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov meets NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on a visit to Brussels in 2011. (photo: NATO)

NATO formally opened its liaison office in Uzbekistan on Friday, a year after it started working and amid heightened Russian rhetoric about the western alliance encroaching on its backyard.

The opening itself was not a big deal: it only formalized a move that happened last year, which was itself described by NATO officials as just a "rotation" of NATO's representation in Central Asia from Astana to Tashkent. (NATO calls the new structure in Tashkent a "liaison office," while the preferred phrase in the Russian-language press seems to be the much more impressive-sounding "staff headquarters.") Nevertheless, the opening ceremony was held in a very different geopolitical atmosphere than obtained last year, and so it was inevitable that people would seek to try to figure out what it really meant.

Uzbekistan is unmistakably taking a different path than that of its neighbors. While Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are all (to varying degrees) participating in Russia's economic and military integration schemes, Uzbekistan has resisted. And strategic concerns have overridden Western qualms about human rights, notes Tolganay Umbetaliyeva, the director of the Kazakhstan-based Central Asian Fund for the Development of Democracy. "In spite of the fact that after the Andijan events of 2005 relations between Uzbekistan and the West sharply deteriorated, their recent improvement can be seen as the West's response to the various integration processes of the post-Soviet Central Asian states and Russia in various spheres," she told RFE/RL.

Opposing Russia may be Tashkent's interest, and it may be a nice side benefit for NATO, but NATO would likely be very little interested in Uzbekistan if it weren't an important country for NATO and American military logistics for the war in Afghanistan. "The most important part of our cooperation remains the transit of cargo through Uzbekistan. And we are grateful to Uzbekistan for that," said James Appathurai, NATO's special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, at the opening ceremony.

And Appathurai, in an interview with RFE/RL, denied there was a geopolitical component to the office:

Appathurai said NATO's partnership with Central Asian nations is not in competition with their relationship with Russia.

He said, "We are not here to compete with anyone or to pressure anyone to make any sort of changes to their political orientation."

Moscow may not see it that way, said Kazakhstan analyst Daniyar Kosnazarov in a facebook post: "Moscow, of course, is likely to react strenuously to the news that a NATO headquarters will be in Uzbekistan. This will be explained, primarily, by the fact that Tashkent renounced its membership in the CSTO." There doesn't seem to have been any official reaction yet from Moscow; it also should be noted that just two years ago Russia itself allowed NATO to set up a transit hub in the city of Ulyanovsk, though it was never regularly used.

Uzbekistan's official news agency Jahon naturally downplayed any geopolitical meaning and described the function of the office as "facilitating practical cooperation of the North Atlantic alliance with partners in the region in various directions, including defense planning and analysis, providing support to alliance operations, military education and preparation, civil emergency planning, cooperation on scientific and environmental issues, and public diplomacy."

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Sex and the First Amendment: Jessica Mitford on How Society Deals with Sexual Matters (1991) – Video

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Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford (11 September 1917 -- 22 July 1996) was an English author, journalist, civil rights activist and political campaigner, who was o...

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