News of the Imbalance July – August 2010
Navigation satellites contend with stormy Sun
ESA News, 31st August 2010
Just as we grow used to satellite navigation in everyday life, media reports argue that a coming surge in solar activity could render satnav devices useless, perhaps even frying satellites themselves. Is it true? No. [...]
The Sun has various potential impacts that satnav system designers must take account of. The first can indeed affect satellites themselves: electromagnetic radiation and charged particles from solar flares can disrupt satellite electronics, induce potentially harmful electrostatic charging and damage onboard materials.
All satellites run these risks but for satellite navigation constellations, the danger is severe. Placed at relatively high altitudes – 22 000 km in the case of Europe's Galileo – they pass through belts of charged particles funnelled by Earth’s magnetic field.
Galileo satellite: The satellites are built with radiation-hardened components and shielding, and boast redundancy in key subsystems. Error detection and correction routines guard against charged particles randomly ‘flipping’ bits of computer memory.
Comment: Here, the ESA are boasting that their new GPS system can cope with the worst Space Weather, so we will have to see...
California doctor gets stuck in chimney, dies
AP News, 31st August 2010
Bakersfield - A doctor involved in an "on-again, off-again" relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday.
Her decomposing body was found there three days later. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder to the roof last Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue, Bakersfield police Sgt. Mary DeGeare said.
While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit "to avoid a confrontation," authorities said. DeGeare said the two were in an "on-again, off-again" relationship.
Comment: Absolutely, this was not a good idea, but she was probably in a state of extreme imbalance normally associated with unresolved emotional issues.
Peter Rowell listener spots 'meteor' over Bristol
BBC News, 31st August 2010
A Bristol man has the local weather-world talking after spotting what looks like a meteor in broad daylight.
Gordon Busche got in touch with BBC Radio Bristol's The Afternoon Show presenter, Peter Rowell, and sent in the image from his mobile phone.
Gordon said he was at Cabot Circus in Bristol at about 2.30pm on Tuesday when he spotted the shape in the sky. He said: "We've just seen what looks like a meteor going across the sky from easy to west. "Very bright and fast, not sure if anyone else saw it." BBC Bristol weatherman Richard Angwin said the image looks surprisingly good.
"There seems to be a really bright blob in the centre of the image and a really long trail to the right of the image," said Richard.
Comment: Folks, will have to get use to the cosmic neighbours passing by... Btw, this is not the original photo. If you look back in the archives, this is the same photo from Cheltenham, August 2009, when the experts tried to claim the strange meteor was a 'sun dog' or 'mock sun'.
Degraded oil in Mississippi Sound tests positive for dispersants, says lawyer
al.com, 31st August 2010
Lumpy, degraded oil collected in the Mississippi Sound has tested positive for several of the main ingredients in the Corexit dispersant used in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to scientists working for a New Orleans-based lawyer.
Officials with the federal government and BP PLC have maintained throughout the oil spill that no dispersant products have been used near shorelines in Alabama or Mississippi.
Comment: It's starting to look like the suggestion that BP had hit an asphalt volcano is true. Forida Oil is still the best summary of the latest news re: the ongoing repercussions of the Gulf oil disaster.
`Powerful' Hurricane Earl Puts East Coast on Evacuation Alert
Bloomberg News, 31st August 2010
Emergency agencies along the Eastern Seaboard are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Earl, which threatens to graze North Carolina and lash coastal Massachusetts with wind and rain before going ashore in Nova Scotia.
Evacuations may be needed if the storm doesn’t turn north, Craig Fugate, Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, said in a conference call today. While Earl isn’t expected to make landfall in the U.S., even a small jog to the west from its current track will have an impact on the mid-Atlantic states, said Bill Read, director of the National Hurricane Center.
Earl, a Category 4 storm, or the second-strongest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, is on a path that would take it just past North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras early Sept. 3 and then on toward Nantucket and Cape Cod in Massachusetts later that day, according to the center.
Comment: Some people think that there will be an evacuation...
NOAA Storm path; 15:00 UTC, 31st August 2010
Review Finds Flaws in U.N. Climate Panel Structure
New York Times, 31st August 2010
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations needs to revise the way it manages its assessments of climate change, with the scientists involved more open to alternative views, more transparent about possible conflicts of interest and more careful to avoid making policy prescriptions, an independent review panel said Monday.
The review panel also recommended that the senior officials involved in producing the periodic assessments serve in their voluntary positions for only one report — a statement interpreted to suggest that the current chairman of the climate panel, Rajendra K. Pachauri, step down.
Comment: The fallout from Climategate continues... Featured at WUWT with updates and the
Climate_Change_Assessments_Review_of_the_Processes_Procedures_IPCC pdf copy available to download, see IAC slams IPCC process, suggests removal of top officials . In plain language, at the UK Express CLIMATE CHANGE LIES ARE EXPOSED
China goes organic after scandal of cooking oil from sewers
The Telegraph, 30th August 2010
Organic food sales have taken off in China after a series of safety scares, including the disclosure that one in 10 meals is cooked using oil dredged from the sewer.
The market is worth an annual 10 billion yuan (£1billion) having quadrupled in the past five years. For comparison, the British organic market is worth roughly £2billion. Interest has been promoted by a series of scares including toxic beans, contaminated milk and pork, pesticide-laced dumplings, chemically-tainted chicken, and the growing presence of what is known as “sewage oil”.
Night soil collectors typically visit the drains behind restaurants late at night to scoop up dregs of oil, which they filter and resell. The government, which released the figures, has promised to take action against the practice. But since there are no laws against skimming oil from drains, police have had to release any suspects.
Comment: I do keep pointing out that the worst DNA mutations and abnormalities keep happening in China. The Chinese environment is polluted and the food chain is severely compromised, to the point where they are not even concerned about baby milk, but this instance of re-cycled oil from the sewers is gross. It really makes you wonder about the level of consciousness at a group level.
Italian minister apologises after delivery room fight
BBC News, 30th August 2010
Italy's health minister has apologised to a woman for a fight between two doctors in the delivery room as she was about to give birth. The authorities are investigating whether the woman suffered complications as a result of the row. Laura Salpietro, 30, had her uterus removed and her baby boy suffered heart problems and possible brain damage at birth on Thursday in Messina, Sicily. Her husband Matteo Molonia says the confrontation delayed a C-section.
After a heated exchange of words, one of the doctors seized his colleague by the neck and shoved him into a wall, according to Mr Molonia's account to police, reports said. The other doctor reacted by punching a window, which shattered, injuring his hand, they said.
Comment: I normally talk about the need for balance in the current extreme EM environment, see previous comments, but actually this story reminded me of when I was teaching and one of the students was on the table acting as the 'client' and another student decided to argue with me. I was absolutely appalled that in the middle of an energy balancing session, the student was still only focused on her issues and not the client. It was like this person had completely failed to comprehend the power of intent and the damage that could be done when the client was literally opened up to receive highly charged energy, but programmed 'negative'. Totally awful.
Society seeks guidance from space on Peak District climb
Yorkshire Post, 29th August 2010
THE Peak District's highest mountain, Kinder Scout, is best known for its dramatic gritstone landscape – rather than its links with aliens from Venus and Mars.
However, over the Bank Holiday weekend, almost 30 members of the Aetherius Society came from all over the country to pray and chant mantras on the peak, which they believe to be charged with "spiritual energy" by extraterrestrials.
Founded in 1955 by Dr George King, the Aetherius Society believes that there are 19 mountains worldwide, nine of which are in this country, which are "charged" with this energy.
Comment: Obviously, I have a different opinion, but I will point out that historically, certain mountain peaks in Tibet have been crowded out with literally tens of thousands of Tibetan Buddhists in hundreds of monasteries and temples, (some of which still exist and have been specially preserved), who were interested in obtaining this special energy.
ous states of degradation, so Wickramasinghe's team observation here, is highly intriguing.
Hawaii 'Fire Tornado' Lights Up Big Island (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 28th August 2010
On Wednesday, video surfaced of an eerie 'fire tornado' that sent flames spinning high into the sky in Brazil (WATCH HERE).
Now, CNN brings us a strikingly similar clip of a 'fire tornado' in Hawaii. According to KITV, the daunting spectacle was a product of a brush fire that firefighters were attempting to contain near the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island on Sunday. The blaze claimed at least 1,400 acres.
Comment: This was the second fire tornado in 2 days. The fire tornado in Brazil on the 25th was noted on this blog, but this is a much better and longer video clip. Now, I am starting to think: are these going to become more common? YouTube link
The Green Swindle - Video - FoxNews.com
Cosmolearning, 28th August 2010
Everyone's going green! Controlling your carbon footprint has become a global fad, but is it all just a con job? And, how much "green" is it costing you?
Sean investigates the truth behind this billion dollar industry and how concern about the environment turned into global warming hysteria. KSFO morning host Brian Sussman is one of the featured guest. Suss is author of the book, “Climategate” which tied together all the years of evidence of climate change fraud, and the very costly legislation being proposed world-wide due to this fake science.
A veteran meteorologist, Sussman expose the Global Warming scam on the special edition of Hannity. "This is the television program that will pound the final nail into global warming’s coffin," says Sussman. "Sean and his team at Fox News approached me earlier this summer, asking me to play a significant role in the show. Sean knows that my book reveals the Marxist foundation of fraud upon which the climate-change movement is built. He also knows that in Climategate I call out the perpetrators of this con by name—and that’s exactly what Sean will do tonight on national television."
The Green Swindle aired on August 28, 2010 at 9PM Eastern on a special edition of Hannity, on the Fox News Channel.
Comment: A Fox News Hour long special, can be seen in 6 parts here.
Scheme to 'pull electricity from the air' sparks debate
BBC News, 27th August 2010
Tiny charges gathered directly from humid air could be harnessed to generate electricity, researchers say. Dr Fernando Galembeck told the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston that the technique exploited a little-known atmospheric effect.
Tests had shown that metals could be used to gather the charges, he said, opening up a potential energy source in humid climates. However, experts disagree about the mechanism and the scale of the effect.
"The basic idea is that when you have any solid or liquid in a humid environment, you have absorption of water at the surface," Dr Galembeck, from the University of Campinas in Brazil, told BBC News.
"The work I'm presenting here shows that metals placed under a wet environment actually become charged."
Comment: This reminds me of the Tether incident when NASA and the Italian space agency tried to use a tether in space and the thing lit up like a neon light and then snapped when it's capacitance was reached. NASA et al. seemed to forget that as the tether was moving in space, it would attract charged particles – basic physics, but this fact seemed to have gone over the heads of the people who designed the experiment. See archives for more details. Btw, as Earth's environment is becoming more charged due to Space Weather, it would seem sensible to investigate ways of harnessing this energy that is all around us, but on a personal level, it is likely to become an issue.
UFO book based on questionable foundation: Eyewitness accounts require hard look, even if witness is a pilot (Video)
MSNBC News, 27th August 2010
If we trust pilots to carry us through the air safely, and to guard our nation’s skies, then why can't we trust what they tell us about their encounters with unidentified flying objects?
That's the question posed by investigative journalist Leslie Kean in her new book, "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record." It's a compelling question — but is it a good argument for the existence of something truly unexplainable?
The book's main themes are the extraordinary stories of strange aerial encounters in Europe, South America and even the United States. In these stories, investigators have failed to pinpoint phenomena to explain the sightings. And because the primary witnesses are pilots, the accounts are considered more credible than run-of-the-mill UFO reports. But are they really?
Kean asserts that pilots are the best describers of aerial phenomena. “They represent the world’s best-trained observers of everything that flies,” she writes. “What better source for data on UFOs is there?... [They] are among the least likely of any group of witnesses to fabricate or exaggerate reports of strange sightings.”
Comment: OK, I am surprised that this book is getting major MSM attention... good! Leslie Kean is a tough cookie and much kudos to her. Of course, the partyline is to pretend that nobody knows what these things are, but I can only suppose that some want scientists to spend the next 50 years investigating this phenomena at their leisure... Those who have a serious interest in metaphysics, in theory, should already know...
Circumzenithal arc spotted in North Tyneside
BBC News, 27th August 2010
It may look like an upside down rainbow, but a circumzenithal arc has been spotted in North Tyneside.
Rainbows occur by light refracting off raindrops falling in the sky, but the circumzenithal arc is created by refraction of light from ice crystals. These crystals are part of cirrus clouds which lie between nine and 10 miles high in the sky.
Unlike normal rainbows, only a quarter of the multi-coloured arc is formed as opposed to a full circle of a rainbow.
The circumzenithal arc, or Bravais' arc as it is also known, was spotted in Gosforth on Wednesday 25 August.
Comment: Two upside down rainbows reported in 6 days over the UK? See previous comments about cosmic dust entering Earth's atmosphere!
Scary gaffe adds to week of airline mishaps
Yahoo News, 27th August 2010
In the middle of an otherwise-peaceful British Airways flight from London to Hong Kong on Tuesday, a terrifying announcement blasted over the speakers. The automated message warned the 275 passengers to brace themselves, because the plane was about to crash into the sea. "We all thought we were going to die," one passenger said.
Flight attendants quickly reassured the traumatized passengers that the message was a mistake, and British Airways say they are investigating how the incident could have happened. (A similar incident happened in 1999, when a "mischievous passenger" pushed the automated crash message as a joke on a flight from San Francisco to London.) This is just the latest mishap to come to light in a wild week for airlines.
Comment: Sounds more like another electronic glitch... and blaming it on a passenger is dispicable, I mean how exactly could they activate an automated message? I would say it's been week where there have been a more than average no. of incidents related to Space Weather.
EcoAlert: Earth's Shrinking Atmosphere
Daily Galaxy, 27th August 2010
The shrinking of the Earth's high outer atmospheric layer has been linked to a sharp drop in the sun's ultraviolet radiation levels.
The research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and the University of Colorado at Boulder, indicates that the sun's magnetic cycle, which produces differing numbers of sunspots over an approximately 11-year cycle, may vary more than previously thought.
Comment: The problem that scientists have is that the Space Age is only decades long and the longest records (sunspot info) held by the Chinese, are only a few thousand years old. However, since the Sun is billions of years old and operates in cycles, some of those cycles could be tens or even hundreds of thousands of years long, so obviously, scientists don't have any means to obtain this information. That is why some solar scientists have admitted that they also use ancient calendars and astrology to make some predictions. Thus the multi-billion dollar satellite communications industry is also subject to unknown [variations in] solar cycles and customers will have to get use to increasing levels of disruption from space weather, if we can keep the satellite infrastructure in orbit, and the way things stand with the high levels of space junk, that is debateable too.
Did hunter's infrared camera capture images of UFO?
LA Times, 26th August 2010
Fort Worth area resident Lisa Brock-Piekarski is a little freaked out by images she discovered on an infrared camera mounted at her family's favorite hunting spot. That's not because of the deer in the foreground but because of the mysterious lights in the background to the left of the animal.
"What I see looks almost like a Frisbee," Brock-Piekarski told Dallas-Fort Worth NBC affiliate KXAS-TV. "You see a several lights going around, and they're all symmetrical and lit up, and it just looks like an object in the sky."
While she hesitated calling it a UFO, Brock-Piekarski could not identify what might have caused the string of lights to appear in the photos, taken over a timespan of almost two hours.
Comment: This reminds me of the mysterious 'milk bottle' lights that appeared in the same Fort Worth area of Texas, when a gamer had set up cameras to monitor deer. This light phenomena was investigated by Linda Moulton Howe and her articles and images are now archived on her website at www.earthfiles.com, so you need a subscription to read the original version, a saved screen shot of one image with a caption has been saved here. However, there are YouTube reports from December 2007 and later about the same event, see
Unexplainable images captured by outdoor expert, part 2 shows a very similar image, see Unexplainable Images captured Part 2. Quite frankly, anomalous images of obviously interdimensional entities, should not be referred to as UFOs. Besides that, it's really time that our scientists came up with some helpful theories, instead of only espousing hyperdimensional realities when it's convenient for them.
Can It Be True About HAARP?
Trading markets, 26th August 2010
[...] Dr. Michel Chossudovsky, Dr. Nick Begich and other scientists have presented evidence that purposeful ionospheric disturbances can cause tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes by creating geomagnetic storms.
Comment: What? More rumour mongering? HAARP is a spit in the ocean compared to the impact of Space Weather, so I am extremely skeptical when people who have no idea how this technology is being used, claim every disaster is being caused by HAARP, especially since it's now completely outdated technology. HAARP CANNOT GENERATE A GEOMAGNETIC STORM, THIS AUTHOR IS COMPLETELY WRONG!
BLUE SKY AURORAS:
Spaceweather.com, 26th August 2010
Normally, darkness is required to see the auroras borealis. This week, however, Arctic sky
watchers have witnessed Northern Lights dancing on a stage
of vivid twilight blue:
Kjetil Skogli sends the picture from Tromsø,
Norway, 300 miles inside the Arctic circle. "The auroras
were so bright," says Skogli. "It was great to see
them again after a long summer of midnight suns." With
autumn approaching, the night sky is darkening enough for
bright auroras to punch through the glare. "I'm looking
forward to more," he says.
More are in the offing. NOAA forecasters estimate
a 50% chance of geomagnetic activity during the next 24 hours
as a high-speed solar wind stream continues to buffet Earth's
magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should remain
alert for auroras.
Comment: So what's going on now? Auroras are supposed to be rare in the summer months, never mind being able to see them during the day!!!! Well, in 1871, a Nature article called Aurora by daylight stated:
"I SEE that more than one of your correspondents in December numbers dispute the possibility of an aurora being seen by daylight. It doubtless is a rare occurrence, but two cases of the kind have come under my notice." Source: link
Many sources still claim that you need darkness to see the auroras, but as I wrote in my essay, The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind, the cosmic conditions in our solar system are changing drastically and some point in the future, the science and metaphysics indicate that we could see the reoccurrence of a permanent auroral plasma column that will be visible all over the world.
More visible auroras: SPLASHES OF GREEN
Spaceweather.com, 28th August 2010
"For the third day in a row, a high-speed
solar wiind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field, energizing
bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. "There was quite
a heavy outburst last night (Aug. 27)," reports Bernt
Olsen from Kvaløya, Norway. "Even though the arctic nights
still are bright, we could still see splashes of green in
the sky."
A new source of energy: tapping electricity from the air
TG Daily, 26th August 2010
Brazilian scientists believe they have found a way of tapping electricity direct from the air - and preventing lightning strikes at the same time.
"Our research could pave the way for turning electricity from the atmosphere into an alternative energy source for the future," said study leader Dr Fernando Galembeck of the University of Campinas. "Just as solar energy could free some households from paying electric bills, this promising new energy source could have a similar effect." Scientists have been unsure about whether an electrical charge is created when water vapor collects on microscopic particles of dust and other material in the air.
Galembeck and his colleagues have simulated this using tiny particles of silica and aluminum phosphate, both common airborne substances, and shown that silica became more negatively charged in the presence of high humidity and aluminum phosphate became more positively charged. "This was clear evidence that water in the atmosphere can accumulate electrical charges and transfer them to other materials it comes into contact with," Galembeck explained.
"We are calling this 'hygroelectricity', meaning 'humidity electricity'." In the future, he says, it may be possible to develop collectors, similar to solar cells, to capture hygroelectricity and route it to homes and businesses.
Comment: Maybe, these scientists are looking for funding to continue their research. The problem with generating electricity is distribution. We are under threat by Space Weather that can literally knock out national power grids around the world in one major geomagnetic storm and our modern technological societies would be crippled as it would not be possible to replace damaged transformers etc quickly. See the documentary-drama Discovery Channel - Solar Storm - pt 1
Prosecutors: Mortgage worker got drunk, shot computer server
Utah News, 25th August 2010
A Salt Lake City mortgage company employee allegedly got drunk, opened fired on his firm’s computer server with a .45-caliber automatic, and then told police someone had stolen his gun and caused the damage.
Joshua Lee Campbell, 23, has been charged in 3rd District Court with criminal mischief, a second-degree felony; carrying a dangerous weapon while under the influence and providing false information to police, both Class B misdemeanors; and public intoxication, a Class C misdemeanor.
Salt Lake County prosecutors say Campbell called police late on Aug. 12, claiming a man had stolen his gun and fired into the $100,000 computer server owned by RANLife Home Loans, located at 268 W. 400 South.
However, investigators allege that Campbell had been drinking that night at the Twilight Concert in Pioneer Park with a co-worker and had returned to his office afterward and shot the server.
Comment: LOL!! I don't know why I think it's funny, people are constantly taking pot-shots at those whose only intent is to serve... Anyway, I could understand it, if he had shot the photocopier... LOL!!
Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100m bombs'
News.com.au, 25th August 2010
AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up - and it's got astronomers on full alert.
This week several US media outlets reported that NASA was warning the massive flare that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid. NASA has since rebutted those reports, saying it could come "100 years away or just 100 days", but an Australian astronomer says the space community is betting on the sooner scenario rather than the latter.
Comment: This is not a particularly good article but people are reacting to the hype. Those who think NASA are being alarmist so they can secure more funding just don't have a clue. Rarely do these kind of articles explain that the citizens of Earth risk losing their solar system shielding, never mind the fact that Earth's magnetic field periodically simply vanishes on the daylight side, whilst we are being bombarded by galactic energies. Those of us who are watching the Earth's magnetosphere and then comparing it's condition to solar forcecasts and realtime data of solar and geomagnetic activity, realise that Earth is at times under a severe bombardment. So far, solar forecasters have got solar cycle 24 completely wrong so talk of the peak of the solar cycle in 2012 with activity that is off the charts, now seems extremely unlikely. However, there may be other cosmic events coming our way that NASA have been careful to underplay. Yes, we could get a bolt of cosmic lightning, but I don't think it will come directly from the Sun, but of course the Sun will be effected and the impact on Earth would be severe as NASA are prepared to admit.
Fire Devil Twister Blazes A Trail In Brazil (Video!)
Sky News, 25th August 2010
A fire tornado caused by brush fires and strong winds has stopped motorway traffic as drivers in Brazil gawped at the rare phenomenon.
The whirlwind of flames burned through fields beside the road in the northwest city of Aracatuba in Sao Paulo state. But, as quickly as it appeared, the roaring twister fizzled down and just a smouldering line in the land remained.
The firestorm followed a drought which has led to brush fires across Brazil. [...] Fire tornados, also known as fire whirls or fire devils, are rare and depend on certain air temperatures and currents to create a vertical, rotating column of air.
Comment: Another rare phenomena. Again, I don't even want to think about these becoming more common... At the beginning of this video, you can clearly see the fire as a double helix... but geoscientists still ignore this sign of electromagnetism, that especially relates to the behaviour of plasma in an intense magnetic field...
The Magnetosphere has been under pressure (No link)
Joyfire News, 25th August 2010
More 'stings' from the Galactic Centre? Well the magnetosphere has been taking a hammering in the last few days, but we have not had any sunspots, sending solar flares or coronal mass ejections coming our way. The impact from the large coronal hole and an increase in the solar wind speed was expected to take effect on the 25th August (see spaceweather.com), some sources say 24th-26th, so I assume this means that on the 21st - 23rd, it was galactic energy slamming into the magnetosphere. On the 23rd, the density spike was off the charts, see Youtube Magnetosphere Movie 23rd August 2010.
The NICT movies (Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation) that can be downloaded are each about 20MB. Anyway, we may have an answer in the outburst of XTE J1701-407 that has been termed a thermonuclear X-ray burster from a neutron star. It has not yet been classified as a Magnetar, even though it was first discovered in June 2008, and has been having regular episodes of bursting. The current outburst was first stated as lasting 100 secs, and was initially picked up and classified as a GRB, see alert link. A later incident report at Astronomer's Telegram states: "On 2010-08-22 00:56:19 the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) triggered on an event ((GCN 11132, Gotz & Ferrigno, 2009) from the known burst source XTE J1701-407." Here, it stated it lasted 3 minutes which is long time for an outburst from this type of object, see link. So, I await more expert opinion on what the Universe is blasting us with now, but the most interesting thing is that this source is in the region of the Galactic Centre...
Possible solution to mystery of the orbs [US]
Door County Advocate, 25th August 2010
A local DJ may have solved a weeks-old mystery of the bright orange orbs that were spotted by vacationing siblings earlier this month.
Dan O'Hern (aka The Unknown DJ) e-mailed the Door County Advocate after the story ran, saying that the description of the Platt family's orange orbs matched that of sky lanterns he saw at a wedding in July. Sky lanterns are small, flame-retardant paper balloons that, when lit, take to the sky. If caught in a wind current, they can travel for as long as the fuel pack holds out. That can be up to 10 minutes. The lanterns are common overseas and, according to www.theskylantern.com, are also known as "khom fai" or "UFO balloons."
Comment: So the Americans are now blessing each other over and over again with this CHINESE tradition that signifies happiness and the hope for a bright future? The Chinese mainly celebrate with lanterns at the Chinese New Year, not all year round where crops can be set on fire and the wiring which remains of the structure can be a danger to cattle, hence the calls for a ban in the UK and Europe. Here is an article from the Fortean Times, September 2009, Fires in the Sky: Investigating that UFO fleet everyone seems to be seeing, which states; "I have been accused of ultra-scepticism by some online commentators, but I suspect the arguments over this virulent new form of ‘UFO sighting’ won’t be going away any time soon." Here, the opinion is that soon, people will just assume that if they see a bright orange globe[s] in the sky, it will be dismissed as a Chinese lantern[s], the only problem with this is that people are getting angry and frightened because some of these 'Chinese lanterns' are huge and appear similar to the brightness of flares, displaying the properties of an inertialess mass, by hovering and then shooting off at high speeds and then some are coming exremely close to people who then describe a variety of descriptions for what can be seen. These 'Chinese lanterns' bear no resemblence to a paper and wire construction, with a little candle for lighting, the fact that they are supposedly being set off in all weathers and often are seen travelling against the wind is also glossed over by skeptics. Then of course, matters are not helped by uninformed ufologists who are completely unaware of the existence of magnetospheric plasmoids or 'Unidentifed Aerial Phenomena' that scientists specialising in "light phenomena" have proven to exist. Here is a response to this article given in the comments. If I could track down the author, I would send a personal thank you for this amazing report, that gives me some confidence that there are people out there who see reality exactly as it is:
Fire lantern the size of a jumbo? Awesome report!
last November I was lucky enough to get a close look at what could only have been a U.F.O. A friend and I were in the car and had just passed Chiswick flyover and were Theheading towards Hammersmith. I happened to look up at the sky and saw three stationary orange globes, each the size of a jumbo jet. The globes appeared to be made up of a large mass of random filaments and were clearly an excited plasma which glowed with same hue as the low pressure sodium lights skirting the motor way. the filaments appeared to be spinning and moving at high velocities as we drove under one of the globes I could clearly see a hexagonal metal craft with port holes doors and large windows. The plasma seemed to shoot out of a hole in the center at the top of the hexagonal craft and then arc round and down to the bottom of the craft where it entered into the central hole to be accelerated again out of the top of the craft, thus creating the globe effect, which the craft remained immersed within. the shape of the globe reminded me of the shape of the earth's magnetic field. It was a closed system, its energy remained trapped in that repeated cycle
We pulled over by the Coca cola building in Hammersmith and got out of the car, and as we did so one of the object scame over to us to investigate us, it was weird they were as interested in us as we were them. It came to a stop about 40meters above this time the plasmoid globe was not bright orange, it was in fact not emmiting any light so we got a close look at the craft.
It was made of a sort of battleship grey coloured metal, it was big, double decked but moved with precision, and made no noise, and did not disturb the leaves of the tree it flew over.
Now after racking my brains there are four possible explications to how the craft maintained flight.
The first is density; the plasma bubble in which it sat would have been less dense than the surrounding air, so it would be able to fly rather like a hot air balloon.
Propulsion. the external field could have been guiding not just the plasma but also some of the surrounding air in such a manner as to provide lift and thrust
Electro static and magnetic. This was clearly an electric vehicle; Two plates with the same charge repel whereas opposite charges attract. The craft could have been using this principle, and the earths electrostatic and electromagnetic field to navigate
Anti gravity, objects seem to loose their weight when placed above super conducting spinning magnets,the craft was immersed within a bubble of high velocity spinning superconducting plasma?
Now I am not a scientist so I cannot tell you which of the four above enabled the craft to fly, my hunch is that it was either anti grav or electro stat/mag. I say this because it did not seem to interact in any way with its surroundings (the leaves on the tree below) and it seemed to move with a grace and control that I have never seen, Even birds cannot move like this thing moved..
It finally moved away in a shooting movement, regaining its orange hue the words it at once became a pearl in the sky rang through my ears..........
Please note, this is Hammersmith, London!!!! Not exactly what you expect to see in the centre of one of the largest capital cities in the world... Here are some recent reports that some would automatically dismiss as Chinese lanterns.
Red light with 'shimmering' edges stops Charleston motorists [US]
UFO Examiner, 23rd August, 2010
"There was a single reddish to orange light left, and it went straight up into the sky quickly until the light got smaller and smaller, then finally disappeared completely!"
Obviously, this Chinese lantern was fitted with a rocket engine too!
Witness describes UFO 'dogfight' over New Jersey [US]
UFO Examiner, 23rd August, 2010
"Three New Jersey witnesses near Newark watched multiple lights appear and move across the night sky, flashing red or orange light, and interacting with each other like a dogfight shortly after 8 p.m. on August 20, 2010..."
Obviously these Chinese lanterns are remote controlled too...
Bell-shaped UFO moves toward witness just 80 feet off ground [US]
UFO Examiner, 23rd August, 2010
"A Washington witness near the Skagit River described a bell-shaped object just 80 feet off the ground that quickly disappeared
on August 21, 2010... The witness described the object as about 6 to 7 feet wide, about 8 feet tall, with "amber color on top, blue in the middle and white on the bottom." "It kept coming right towards me then dipped down a bit and must of noticed me and that's when it disappeared," the witness stated. "From as bight as could be to nothing. It just disappeared."
Comment: Now, this must be a special Chinese lantern with LED lights, but apparently the witness believes it is sentient as when he was noticed, the light blinked off. This assessment agrees with the U.S. military who have been trying to catch these bright lights for many many decades and have completely failed. Yes, that's right, if you believe the skeptics, the military cannot 'catch' Chinese lanterns!!!!!
SETI may be looking in the wrong places: astronomer
PhysOrg.com News, 24th August 2010
A senior astronomer with the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, Dr Seth Shostak, has reported in an article published online that perhaps we should be seeking alien "life forms" that are thinking machines instead of concentrating the search on biological life forms.
Dr Shostak said current experiments aiming to locate extraterrestrial intelligence all assume it is most likely to be found on "habitable worlds" with liquid surface water and light gaseous atmospheres, in other words, worlds that could support life similar biochemically to that on Earth.
The problem with this assumption is that the development of artificial intelligence may come soon after the invention of communication technologies, as it has for us, which means SETI's targeted searches may be "chasing a very short-lived prey," Dr Shostak said. We have a chance of detecting extraterrestrial intelligences once they invent radio and go on the air, but within a few hundred years they are likely to invent their thinking machine successors. [...]
Dr Shostak suggested the search for artificial intelligence should focus for at least some of the time on places were matter and energy are plentiful, such as young, hot stars, or near the center of galaxies, since these places would be of more interest to intelligent machines, even though they would be inhospitable for biological life forms.
Comment: Oh...... how very interesting... it looks like the folks at SETI are now starting to get serious... Again the logic expressed here is flawed, but nontheless, it's giving the impression that scientists are starting to imagine the unimaginable...
The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements
Stanford University News, 24th August 2010
It's a mystery that presented itself unexpectedly: The radioactive decay of some elements sitting quietly in laboratories on Earth seemed to be influenced by activities inside the sun, 93 million miles away. Is this possible?
Researchers from Stanford and Purdue University believe it is. But their explanation of how it happens opens the door to yet another mystery. There is even an outside chance that this unexpected effect is brought about by a previously unknown particle emitted by the sun. "That would be truly remarkable," said Peter Sturrock, Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics and an expert on the inner workings of the sun.
Comment: Apparently, this discovery is a major spanner in the works related to physics theory... the universe defying our simplistic thinking and mathematical representations that we call equations... See also, the article amd comments at Discover Magazine, Scientist Smackdown: Are Solar Neutrinos Messing With Matter?.
We read:
Sullivan says the Purdue-Stanford team is proposing that neutrinos are
powerfully interacting with matter in a way that has never before been
observed. “They’re looking for something with a very much larger effect than
the force of neutrinos, but that doesn’t show up any other way,” he says.
At this time of evolutionary change scientists making claims that we are seeing new physics that is changing what was previously believed to be one of the fundamental constants of nature is quite something. The response on the internet chatter sites has been interesting, this is one comment I thought was most interesting. Paraphrased; 'who saw this coming, other than the 'DNA upgraders'.
Director James Cameron challenges climate skeptics to debate and then bails out at last minute
Climate Depot, 24th August 2010
Hollywood director James Cameron challenged three high profile global warming skeptics to a public debate at a global warming and energy conference. But Cameron backed out of the debate at the last minute after environmentalists "came out of the woodwork" to warn him not to engage in a debate with skeptics because it was not in his best interest.
Cameron challenged Andrew Breitbart, Climate Depot's Marc Morano and filmmaker Ann McElhinney of 'Not Evil Just Wrong.' The debate was already in the program for the Aspen American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) summit. The website program described the agreed to debate as “AREDAY Climate Change Debate: Reality or Fiction?"
After setting up the public global warming debate, Cameron and his negotiator then changed formats multiple times and initially said it would be open to the media and then said he would only participate if it was private with no recording devices. The skeptics agreed to all the changes. According to AREDAY organizers, activist Joseph Romm of Climate Progress urged Cameron not to go ahead with the debate as well.
Cameron's cancellation of the agreed to debate did not happen until one debate participant (Morano) was already in mid-air, flying from DC to Aspen on Saturday August 21 to attend the debate.
Comment: I wasn't going to comment until I read that Marc Morano was actually in the air, flying to get to this debate when Cameron cancelled. Maybe, he was checking the facts and then got cold feet....
The False Lights of Durham
Fortean Times, 23rd August 2010
The mysterious lights that lured dozens of ships to destruction
For much of the 19th century, a 16km stretch of the rocky Durham coastline between the rivers Wear and Tyne was notorious as a graveyard for shipping. From the 1860s, more than 160 vessels were wrecked after running aground on submerged rocks between Marsden and the village of Whitburn, just a mile from the shore.
The hazardous reputation of Whitburn Steel, as the rocks are known, worsened during the Industrial Revolution. Bulk cargos such as coal and iron ore were more easily moved by sea than rail and the demands of heavy industry in Tyneside led to a dramatic increase in coastal shipping. Smoke pollution from industrial cities like Sunderland added to the problems faced by vessels that hugged the coastline as they approached Tyneside from the North Sea.
These facts are not disputed, but the bizarre circumstances surrounding the sharp spike in the number of shipwrecks have now faded from living memory.
Comment: There seems to be a run of articles related to historical accounts of light phenomena. Yet, the explanation for a wide spectrum of odd light phenomena that have perplexed folk over the centuries is already available, but apparently, very few are ready for the truth, as most are happy to be either mystified or retain a permanent state of ignorance. Other recent offerings:
Sentient Fireballs and Biting Lights
Fortean Times, August 2010
Mike Conley's Tales of the Weird: Strange lights often seen on the Devil's Promenade
The McDowell News, 18th August 2010
UFO sightings once common in rural Kansas
Naples News, 19th August 2010
UFOs in the 1950s: The Caribbean Crisis
Inexplicata, 22nd August 2010
UFOs Seen in Alabama
Despardes.com, 24th August, 2010
The first story about the weird 'car' is another fine example of 'shapeshifting' type UFOs as explained in the book Why UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse by John Keel (1970). I imagine that the 'entity' was somehow 'hurt' and therefore choose to disguise itself...
Air traffic control glitch delays European flights
BBC News, 23rd August 2010
An air traffic control problem has hit hundreds of flights using northern European airspace. Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg were among the countries affected. The problem was centred on the Eurocontrol radar system, based at Maastricht in the Netherlands.
Eurocontrol later confirmed the system had returned to normal capacity, but said the backlog of flights would mean delays continuing into the evening.
Eurocontrol said "equipment problems" affected its air navigation services for flights in airspace above 7,500m (24,600 ft). [...]
Flights over western Europe had to be cut by a quarter during the failure, which lasted from 1315 to 1330 GMT, a Swedish official told Associated Press news agency.
Comment: Hmmm... there was also a problem in Greece on Sunday morning too. The admission that the problem only effected high altitudes implies that maybe high frequency radio signals or even GPS signals may have been scrambled due to space weather, and therefore this was not just an issue with a stray cosmic ray, see
Greek airports restore air traffic after system failure
Focus Information Agency, 22nd August 2010
FIREBALL ON JUPITER:
Spaceweather.com, 23rd August 2010
On August 20th at 18:22 UT, two
amateur astronomers in Japan independently recorded an apparent
impact on Jupiter.
Masayuki Tachikawa of Kumamoto city was
first to report the event. His movie
of the fireball shows the fireball scintillating (twinkling)
along with other features on the planet -- persuasive evidence
that this is a genuine event on Jupiter. Soon after Tachikawa
made his report, Tokyo amateur astronomer Aoki Kazuo realized
that he had recorded the fireball, too:
The ~800 km separation of the two observers
rules out an event near Earth and reinforces the association
of the fireball with Jupiter. The most likely explanation:
A small comet or asteroid hit the giant planet.
This is the third time in only 13 months that
amateur astronomers have detected signs of impact on Jupiter.
Comment: OK, there is an alternative version that explains the apparent rush of fireballs or comets hitting Jupiter. Some have suggested that we are seeing eruptions and this video certainly strengthens this view. The issue now, is what is causing the eruptions? Is it a sign of the planetary change and Jupiter's core heating up?
Barclays' network glitch causes nationwide chaos
Yahoo News, 21st August 2010
Thousands of Barclays customers in Britain were unable to access their bank accounts or withdraw money from cash machines on Saturday after a system crash caused chaos nationwide. The problems, which began at around 1:30 p.m. British time, hit telephone and online banking services and caused frustration at retail outlets as embarrassed shoppers were forced to abandon purchases at the till.
Barclays' telephone banking centres were inundated with calls from customers, many of whom were angry at the lack of information. A Barclays spokeswoman was unable to elaborate on the cause of the problems.
"We became aware of a problem earlier in the day," she said. "We apologise to customers for any inconvenience."
Comment: Barclays's had the same problem in June 2009, so I wonder if there is a more fundamental issue with software or hardware not dealing adequately with cosmic rays. (Having worked in IT, I cannot even contemplate that Barclays have such incompetent technicians running their operations, so I have disregarded the more mundane explanations like a system upgrade failure...)
Mysterious 'bearded' antelope photographed [Kenya]
Our Amazing Planet, 20th August 2010
Torchio is intimately acquainted with the beasts that wander the nearly 600-square-mile (1500-square-kilometer) game reserve, so he was astonished to see a terrier's face poking out of the tall grass.
"I was wondering, what is this dog doing?" Torchio said. "And when it came out from the grass, that was a surprise."
The hirsute creature that emerged was clearly not a dog. The animal had all the markings of a Thomson's gazelle (a type of antelope) — but, like that old song from Sesame Street, one of these kids was not like the others. This animal was covered with a strange, thick coat of hair, in stark contrast to the sleek Thomson's gazelles in its company.
Comment: Maybe, another DNA oddity...
Do-Gooders Get Voted Off Island First: People Don't Really Like Unselfish Colleagues, Psychologists Find
Science Daily, 20th August 2010
You know those goody-two-shoes who volunteer for every task and thanklessly take on the annoying details nobody else wants to deal with?
That's right: Other people really can't stand them.
Four separate studies led by a Washington State University social psychologist have found that unselfish workers who are the first to throw their hat in the ring are also among those that coworkers most want to, in effect, vote off the island.
"It's not hard to find examples but we were the first to show this happens and have explanations for why," said Craig Parks, lead author of "The Desire to Expel Unselfish Members from the Group" in the current Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
The phenomenon has implications for business work groups, volunteer organizations, non-profit projects, military units, and environmental efforts, an interest of Parks' coauthor and former PhD student, Asako Stone.
Parks and Stone found that unselfish colleagues come to be resented because they "raise the bar" for what is expected of everyone. As a result, workers feel the new standard will make everyone else look bad.
It doesn't matter that the overall welfare of the group or the task at hand is better served by someone's unselfish behavior, Parks said.
Comment: The whole article about this research is very interesting, but I think the basic premise applies to people who work hard too, (I personally don't think it makes them a do-gooder) because it puts the lazy ones in a difficult position. When I first worked in large companies, I was shocked to realise that some people did the absolute minimum they could get away with... Then there were some managers looking to empire build who would prefer a large team of incompetents than a small team with high productivity. Guess what? I was in a team that had consistently had the highest productivity rate in a very large in-house computing facility, but we still had one person who was completely useless (to the team), as she was only there because a higher-up wanted to promote her into management, where I am sure she would have become equally ineffective. Personally, I believe in "raising the bar" with the integration of science and metaphysics, because for those who are new to the message of my websites, our world is changing very quickly and the world has not been fully informed of the consequences. Unfortunately, it means I have come across a few, who do not have the ability to appreciate the thousands of hours of research to produce my book, websites and articles. I even had one idiot person, who tried to claim that I had channelled my book and therefore the 500 references must have come out of thin air...
A ‘habitual offender’ unleashes nearly half a billion salmonella-tainted eggs
Grist, 19th August 2010
USA Today reports that as many as 1,300 people have already been sickened by the tainted eggs. According to a recent GAO report, companies recover only about 36 percent of targeted products in a typical recall. That means that literally millions of people stand just an undercooked egg or an unwashed hand away from a nasty case of salmonella.
But then William Neuman's New York Times piece hipped me to the name of the owner of Wright County Farms: one Austin "Jack" DeCoster. That's when my sigh became a gasp. [...]
The outrage here is not that Wright County Eggs has released nearly half a billion tainted eggs into the market, exposing untold numbers of people to sickness. DeCoster's record of abuse -- of people and the environment -- has taught anyone who's paying attention to expect such things from his operations.
The outrage is that regulatory authorities at both the state and national levels have allowed him to continue hiring workers and producing food as violations piled up.
Jack DeCoster(Lewiston, Maine Sun-Journal)Jack DeCoster is one of the most reviled names in industrial agriculture.
Comment: Capitalism and psychopaths, another dire example... so the authorities in Ohio know this person is running a really horrible operation, they don't shut it down, but wait for something really nasty to happen first...
Dundee researchers make magnetic fields breakthrough
Dundee University, 20th August 2010
Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields, which enhances our understanding of how stars, including the Sun, work.
The team from the Magnetohydrodynamics research group in the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics used state-of-the-art computer simulations of evolving plasmas in the Sun’s atmosphere.
By following how the magnetic field and the plasma interact, they have uncovered new rules that govern what evolutions are possible. Knowing the basic rules behind the apparently complex solar atmosphere gives the team hope of predicting how it will behave.
Comment: Due to the ferocity of Space Weather, scientists have been forced to study the Sun-Earth connection which is essentially electromagnetic. To try and mitigate the damage to our satellites, radio communications systems and power grids, solar scientists have been galvanised into studying plasma physics. This is because the Sun is a huge ball of plasma, that exhibits how plasma is influenced by electric currents and magnetic and electric fields, with evidence of the influence of sound and geometry also controlling it's behaviour.
The human magnet: Mother has amazing power to make metal stick to her body (and she also sets off car alarms)
Daily Mail, 20th August 2010
The accounts manager says coins, safety pins, magnets, spanners and even a metal lid from a Vaseline pot can stay on her body for up to 45 minutes without falling off. When the pulse is at its strongest, she says she can even dance in her living room without them coming off.
For as long as she can remember, she explains, her body has set off car alarms, interrupted the TV signal and blown out light bulbs.
Comment: My basic conclusion is that a strong personal magnetic field would act as a better shield as the EM chaos deepens and Earth is more exposed to the solar, cosmic and galactic elements, combined with Earth's natural, artificial, stray and unhelpful electromagnetic signals. The question is: will this be a new evolutionary trait? However, this woman would not do well in an international competition against some seriously strongly magnetic folk, see Supernatural Contest in Vietnam (17 pics)
UFO sightings on the rise (PICTURE) [UK]
Halifax Courier, 19th August 2010
ORE mysterious sightings of UFOs have been reported in Calderdale - and now there's photographic evidence.
As reported in the Courier, a strange orange ball was seen in the sky earlier this month and reader Ian McGibbon captured the orange orb.
He took the snap of the flaming night sky in Wheatley, Halifax, on Saturday, August 14.
More people have confirmed seeing the UFO stretching back to July 28 when Adrian Dawson saw the first glimpse while standing outside Arden Road Social Club, Savile Park.
There was another sighting on the same day of two orange globes this time in Siddal by Coral Bairstow. Neil Lewins was in his back garden in Sowerby when he saw slow-moving orange object at 11.15pm on Friday August 6 and Mr Raine saw the object on the same day over Exley. Bodi Model saw five orange spheres over Northowram at 10.25pm Saturday, August 7. Imran Akram saw the object in Elland and travelling towards Halifax on August 8 at 10pm. All describe the orange UFO as hovering in the sky for a few moments before disappearing all of a sudden.
Comment: Yes, the veil is lifting, but it seems that the metaphysical community made no predictions that UFO sightings would dramatically rise, even though some metaphysicians understood that UFOs were interdimensional entities and had a basic scientific understanding back in the late 1940s and 1950s. In the past, there have been waves of UFO sightings (UFO flaps). This was caused by local conditions with enhanced aetheric levels due to geomagnetic storms unevenly distributing aether and other factors like UFOs using magnetic grid lines to navigate, so certain places have always been more prone to sightings. Now, with the massive acceleration of Space Weather, the whole planet is being swamped with aetheric energies and UFO sightings are rising in many different places at once, this should have been expected, but there does not seem to be a great level of understanding about the true nature of our reality.
Another 'UFO sighting' [London, UK]
Tottenham Journal, 18th August 2010
"A MYSTERY orange fire-like globe floating in the night sky above Edmonton has triggered a UFO report."
UCLA fires professors for reporting real scientific data
Not Evil Just Wrong, 19th August 2010
James Enstrom, an epidemiologist at the UCLA School of Public Health, was recently fired, because his research "is not aligned with the academic mission of the Department [of Environmental Health Sciences]."
Enstrom's crime? Not finding evidence that supports increased regulation by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). He also pointed out that a prized supporter of CARB, Hien T. Tran, has a fake Ph. D. This is particularly embarrassing because in December 2008, CARB approved diesel emissions rules based on Tran’s findings.
Enstrom is not the only one on the chopping block, so is Katy Grimes, an environmental health sciences professor at UCLA, whose has also spoken out against diesel regulations.
Assemblyman Dan Logue is defending the two, for what appears to be a clearly politicized firing.
Comment: Huh-hum... I wonder if committing fraud was part of the professors' job description?
Leading US Physicist Labels Satellitegate Scandal a 'Catastrophe'
Co2insanity.com, 19th August 2010
Leading US Physicist Labels Satellitegate Scandal a 'Catastrophe'
Respected American physicist, Dr Charles R. Anderson has waded into the escalating Satellitegate controversy publishing a damning analysis on his blog. In a fresh week of revelations when NOAA calls in their lawyers to handle the fallout, Anderson adds further fuel to the fire and fumes against NOAA, one of the four agencies charged with responsibility for collating global climate temperatures.
NOAA is now fighting a rearguard legal defense to hold onto some semblance of credibility with growing evidence of systemic global warming data flaws by government climatologists. [...]
I had proven that the website operated by the Michigan State University had published ridiculously high surface water temperatures widely distributed over the lake many indicating super-boiling conditions. The fear is that these anomalies have been fed across the entire satellite dataset. The satellite that first ignited the fury is NOAA-16. But as we have since learned there are now five key satellites that have become either degraded or seriously comprised.
Comment: So, NOAA are fighting legal repercussions now.... This is a major addmission:
Dr. Anderson sums up saying; “It is now perfectly clear that there are no reliable worldwide temperature records and that we have little more than anecdotal information on the temperature history of the Earth.”
Corn stalk with 27 ears puzzles farmers
The Hawk Eye, 19th August 2010
MASON CITY- North Iowa farmers are puzzled by a curiously bountiful corn stalk growing in front of a restaurant in Mason City. The more than 5-foot-tall plant in front of the Wild Horse Western Cafe has 27 ears of corn on it. Usually a single corn stalk has two or three ears.
Osage area farmer Don Ahrens says he has never seen or heard of anything like it. He says a genetic mutation might have caused it, but he's not sure.
Cafe owner Ilene Mittag said she got three plants from a Minnesota farmer in June when they were about a foot tall. Two grew up normally, but she said one went "out of control."
Comment: We now know that seeds can be modified by intense electric fields and that the new versions of these seeds that have been produced have proven to be a vast improvement. I can only see this as evidence that the morphogenetic fields have been upgraded and it is possible for DNA to harness this new genetic in formation, so we are seeing examples of these spontaneous and positive DNA mutations taking place. See, The "Primeval Code" – the ecological alternative to controversial genetic engineering!
Who's blowing up Iran's gas pipelines?
Telegraph, 18th August 2010
In the past few weeks Iran’s gas infrastructure, which is central to the country’s energy requirements, has been hit by a series of unexplained explosions.
The series of mysterious explosions began at the end of July when the state-owned Tehran Times reported that a pipeline carrying gas from Iran to Turkey had exploded near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit. Iranian officials blamed the blast on Kurdish rebels.
This was followed earlier this month by reports in the Iranian press of an explosion in a gas pipeline on the outskirts of Tabriz. A few days later there was a more serious incident on August 4 when five people were killed when another gas pipeline exploded on the outskirts of the Pardis petrochemical plant. The explosion took place just a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had made an official visit to the complex. Finally, on August 10, a pipeline exploded in the city of Masjed Sleiman.
Comment: Maybe NOBODY is blowing up Iran's pipelines. Despite the political rumour making, pipelines are now blowing up in many different regions and the common factor is Space Weather that is generating telluric currents that corrode pipelines. This is a systemic problem and something that is a major inconvenience to those who want to maintain our current system of energy supply, despite the fact that 'clean energy' needs to be implemented to save the planet. I wrote briefly about this in my book, geomagnetic storms cause pipeline corrosion but with accelerating Space Weather the problem is getting ,more publicity. See Joyfire Space Weather
Magnetic mega-star discovery challenges black hole theory
A neutron star with a mighty magnetic field has thrown down the gauntlet to theories about stellar evolution and the birth of black holes, astronomers said today.
Telegraph, 18th August 2010
The "magnetar" lies in a cluster of stars known as Westerlund 1, located 16,000 light years away in the constellation of Ara, the Altar.
Westerlund 1, discovered in 1961 by a Swedish astronomer, is a favoured observation site in stellar physics. It is one of the biggest cluster of superstars in the Milky Way, comprising hundreds of very massive stars, some shining with a brilliance of almost a million Suns and some two thousand times the Sun's diameter. The cluster is also, by the standards of the Universe, very young. The stars were all born from a single event just three and a half to five million years ago.
Within Westerlund 1 is the remains of one of galaxy's few magnetars - a particular kind of neutron star, formed from the explosion of a supernova, that can exert a magnetic field a million, billion times strong than Earth's.
The Westerlund star which eventually became the magnetar must have been at least 40 times the mass of the Sun, according to the study, which appears in the research journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. If so, intriguing questions are raised.
Comment: Now, the mainstream media are featuring Magnetars, that's good news as the planet is being blasted by massive blast of magnetic energy on a regular basis. Note the challenge to the scientific assumptions and speculation about black holes, we may be starting to see a paradigm shift coming from many quarters in the physics and astronomical community, overturning prevailing beliefs. See the Joyfire Extreme Space Weather.
Astronauts "Become as Weak as 80-Year-Olds"
Telegraph, 18th August 2010
Astronauts who spend months in space become as physically weak as 80-year-olds, a study has found.
Researchers in the US made the discovery after testing muscle tissue taken from crew members on the International Space Station (ISS). The calf biopsy samples revealed that after six months in orbit the physical work capacity of astronauts fell by 40 per cent. This was equivalent to the muscles of an astronaut aged 30 to 50 wasting away to the level of an average 80-year-old.
Comment: Another reason why astronomer royal Martin Rees is talking about space exploration and the need to send robots instead of humans.... According to old esoteric sources, humans will never get off this planet until we understand some fundamental properties of the aether and how to manipulate spacetime, ie raise our vibration to 'teleport' within spacetime, as depicted in the sci-fi TV series Star Trek.
Rare sighting of inverted rainbow causes a stir [UK]
Burton Mail, 19th August 2010
IT APPEARED in the skies over East Staffordshire and left witnesses baffled. he sight was so rare that few people in the UK have ever encountered one before. What they saw was an anomaly of nature: the incredible spectacle of an upside down rainbow. [...]
The phenomenon, which rarely occurs in non-Arctic conditions, is caused by sunlight bending when it hits crystals of ice floating five miles above the Earth.
The upside down rainbow is in fact so rare that Paul Gilliver, who has run Newhall Weather Station for the Met Office for the last 10 years, was unaware of the sighting.
The meteorologist said: “Upside down rainbows are very rare indeed.
“They are not something I have ever heard of or seen before, but to see one would be quite a spectacle.
“I presume the cause is the sunlight refracting as it passes through either water or ice in the sky.” There have, however, been some sightings of upside down rainbows before in the UK.
One was spotted by an astronomer as it appeared over Cambridge in September 2008.
Another was photographed in August 2009 over Sussex.
Comment: More atmospheric oddities... Previous reports have suggested this is caused by "freak" atmospheric conditions but this is occuring more and more often. Please note my previous comments about dust and condensation nuclei for ice crystals as we know cosmic dust is flooding our solar system.... Here is a previous report from the UK Telgraph in September 2008,
Upside down rainbow sparkles in Cambridge.
BBC News - Many injured as bull jumps into crowd at Spain arena
BBC News, 19th August 2010
A bull jumped into the stands at a bullring in northern Spain injuring up to 40 people, according to officials.
It happened in Tafalla, when the animal leapt over the fence and climbed up the stairs of the stands, knocking people over. [...]
Spectators were watching a contest of "recortadores", where participants attempt to dodge the bull as it runs frantically around the arena. The incident comes as the country is split over whether bull fighting should be completely outlawed. Last month Catalonia became the first major Spanish region to ban the deadly sport.
Comment: Maybe, now a few more people will think about banning this tradition 'sport'. On a metaphysical level, I imagine that in the morphic field that belongs to the animal "bull" consciousness, there is quite a lot of resentment towards humans, so the odd bull going beserk should be no surprise. YouTube version here
Could your cell phone be dangerous?
OC Register, 18th August 2010
In Orange County woman walked into a breast cancer clinic with a tumor roughly the shape of her cell phone.
She routinely carried the phone in her bra to improve her Bluetooth connection. The tumor was unusual, but her surgeon didn't think much of it. Then another woman came in with the same story. "Wouldn't you know it, a month later we have another lady come in," said Dr. John West, surgeon at the Breast Care and Imaging Center in Orange. "She has the same history. The cancer was located just directly under where she put her cell phone."
More than half the world's population has a cell phone. As people spend more hours talking, texting and carrying cell phones against their skin, some scientists and public officials are beginning to worry about the long-term effects of cell phone microwave radiation.
Comment: This same problem was encountered by UK police officers on traffic patrol who were guinea pigs for the TETRA communication system. Early on in the TETRA pilot before the full role-out, officers who had devices on their bodies had problems and a few died. The reponse from Dr Mireille Levy, the UK Home Office health and safety officer for the system at the time, was reported to have stated: 'Nothing will stop Tetra and if officers don't like it, they can resign.' link. Yes, I supose people have to start dying in large numbers for some to realise that electromagnetic devices are not compatible with the human body.
Eerie UFO sightings reported over B.C. lake [Canada]
Vancouver Sun, 18th August 2010
VANCOUVER -- Reports have been flying in of an unidentified flying object hovering over Cultus Lake in Chilliwack, B.C. on Tuesday night. The story broke on The Fox's Jeff O'Neil Show Wednesday morning during their Open Phones segment.
'Dallas' called into the show to report that his girlfriend spotted some eerie lights flooding the pitch-black sky [insert Twilight Zone music here]. "At around 2 a.m., she saw some crazy-ass lights hovering over the lake," Captain Scotty of the Jeff O'Neil Show recalled to The Sun.
Then, the radio show received a text from 'Wally' in Chilliwack, saying he also saw the lights Tuesday night.
Comment: The "crazy ass lights" have been given a variety of names, one of which is "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena", which is name for a huge group of plasma entities that have ability to appear and disappear from our normal reality. They can often be detected by radar, even when not visible to the eye, such that radar operators and the military have been calling them the "radar angels" for about 70 years. Reports are increasing as we experience a dimensional shift as predicted by those who are aware of cosmic cycles and we experience The Greatest Transition In The History of mankind. These are international reports in the last few days being reported in the mainstream media.
Former Armed Forces head wanted probe into UFO sighting, newly released files show
A former head of the Armed Forces wrote to the defence secretary urging him to “demonstrate a more serious concern” over a now famous UFO sighting, files released by the Ministry of Defence disclose.
Telegraph, 17th August 2010
Former Armed Forces head wanted probe into UFO sighting, newly released files show
A former head of the Armed Forces wrote to the defence secretary urging him to “demonstrate a more serious concern” over a now famous UFO sighting, files released by the Ministry of Defence disclose.
Comment: To be honest, I am now starting to understand why the military have resisted telling the public the truth. Simply, it's not their job anyway, they are not metaphysicans. The UFO phenomena is complex and a mental challenge especially for scientists who do not want their mentality changing. The general public have a low level of education about science and this is more so for metaphysics, but many seem to want to believe the rather childish idea that UFOs represent spaceships or spaceprobes designed and built by humanoid aliens that come from advanced civilisations. Of course this is a very simplistic explanation and the real truth is far more disconcerting and complex for simple minded folk. Also, after my experience with a plastic shaman who was making claims that strongly implied they had no idea what the hell they were talking about, I am incredulous at the high levels of ignorance even within the metaphysical community. If you are going to be a fake, some education is still required! If you don't like this viewpoint, then ask yourself: what do you know about aether physics and aether biophysics?
Bacteria and Phytoplankton Affect the Weather
Washingtons Blog, 17th August 2010
It turns out that critters so small that they can't be seen with the naked eye might affect the weather, and perhaps even climate.
As I pointed out last year, spacefaring bacteria might affect rainfall: In 2002, several scientists claimed that bacteria high in Earth's atmosphere came from space.
Last year, scientists said that bacteria in the upper atmosphere may actually make rain. Specifically, they said that bacteria can freeze at fairly warm temperatures, so that the "biological ice nuclei" form condensation nuclei which triggers rain.
Indeed, some scientists have speculated that bacteria cause rain as a means of transportation, so that they will "rain out" from the upper atmosphere to the surface of a planet. Now, scientists have discovered a "hibernating" bacteria in a salt mine in Utah which they believe has been in suspended animation for 250 million years. There is evidence that this ability to hibernate for long periods of time is also useful for travel through space by the bacteria:
Comment: Interesting article and highly indicative of the complexity of our environment and why computer models however complex cannot really compete with universal intelligence. Note the fact that any suggestion that Earth is not a closed system and can be affected by objects from space is usually shunned unless it is completely undeniable, so here (here it was stated that some scientists still don't want to accept that bacteria comes from space). remember it was only about one hundred years ago that many scientists refused to believe that rocks came from space. The information about "hibernating" bacteria is not knew and the discovery was ignored as it did not fit in with prevailing theory.
Strange lights spotted over Qualicum Beach [Canada]
PQBNews.com, 19th August 2010
"...they were watching the meteor shower when they saw two strange lights in the eastern sky. “They caught my eye, due to their obvious colour, which differed from the stars around them,” the report said. “They were flickering and shifting from red to blue and then to white. They were about as far apart as a loonie coin held at arm’s length and were pinpoints of light.” The report went on to say the lights were moving in an odd manner."
Futurist on UFOs: Time to grow up
Herald Tribune DeVoid, 17th August 2010
Last week’s directive by the Brazilian government ordering its air traffic controllers, as well as military and civilian pilots, to file all UFO reports into a central database runs counterintuitive to U.S. policy. But the announcement didn’t surprise Dr. John Petersen.
The Arlington Institute founder/director John Petersen says the adult conversation could begin if NASA places its UFO photos in the public domain/CREDIT: cherie-beck.com
“I don’t think anything stays the same as it is, and there’s a growing kind of awareness on this subject around the world,” says Petersen, founder of a nonprofit futurist think tank called The Arlington Institute. “It’s inevitable that humans — and Americans — will get to a place where this issue can be discussed openly, in a non-threatening manner.
“It’s demeaning to presume that most people will freak out or somehow panic when this reality is confirmed. When I talk about it with my wife, she goes, ‘What’s the big deal, I don’t understand. Are we going to stop shopping, are we going to go to work in a different way? What?’”
Comment: LOL!! The comment from the bimbo wife made me laugh, "What’s the big deal, I don’t understand. Are we going to stop shopping...." So, not even the planet being infested with another lifeform will bother some!
Scientists question U.S. estimate on BP oil fallout Two university groups counter NOAA optimism that half is 'completely gone'
MSNBC News, 17th August 2010
MIAMI — Two new scientific reports Tuesday raised fresh fears about the environmental fallout from the world's worst offshore oil spill and questioned government assurances that most of the oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico was already gone.
In one of the reports, researchers at the University of Georgia said about three-quarters of the oil from BP's blown-out Macondo well was still lurking below the surface of the Gulf and may pose a threat to the ecosystem. Charles Hopkinson, who helped lead the investigation, said up to 79 percent of the 4.1 million barrels of oil that gushed from the broken well and was not captured directly at the wellhead remained in the Gulf. The report was based on an analysis of government estimates released on Aug. 2 that Hopkinson said had been widely misinterpreted as meaning that 75 percent of the oil spewed by the well had either evaporated, dissolved or been otherwise contained, leaving only about 25 percent.
"The idea that 75 percent of the oil is gone and is of no further concern to the environment is just absolutely incorrect," Hopkinson told reporters on a conference call.
Comment: Well, we know that the PTB think everyone is completely stupid, but many scientists refuse to be labelled as brain dead sheep. To their credit, even mainstream journalists won't swallow the BP lies. If you want to know the latest, over at Oil florida, the doomfest is in full swing.
Researchers say they saw 22-mile hydrocarbon plume in Gulf
CNN, 20 August 2010
Obviously these scientists refuse to "shut up"
Ramadan lanterns in Egypt: An endangered Industry
Demotix News, 16th August 2010
copy: The Egyptian traditional Ramadan colored lantern , one of Ramadan's biggest surviving symbols in Egypt is facing a strong fierce competition from the imported cloned Chinese lantern that made for itself a market due to its cheap prices and its attractive updated shapes every year.
Plastic Chinese singing lanterns made for itself a market in Egypt in the past 10 years where every year there is a new lantern shaped on a cartoon character or famous social personality like footballers attracting Children to what is now look like a toy then a lantern.
Due to the Chinese plastic lantern's success the traditional lanterns workshops in Egypt focus on the traditional tin lanterns for shops and houses still from next year the importers of Chinese lanterns will import replicas of the Egyptian traditional tin lantern Ramadan with a cost less than the cost of the handmade Egyptian tradition tin lantern whose materials' costs are increasing and its makers are disappearing.
Comment: I wonder if Ramadan lanterns will become popular too... Some of these examples look like 'craft' type UFOs too... LOL!!
New French aerospace report endorses reality of UFOs
Open Minds, 16th August 2010
A new French report released on May 31, 2010 concluded that UFOs are definitely real and possibly of extraterrestrial origin.
While not an official government study, the Progress Report of the Sigma/3AF Commission comes from a highly credible source, the Aeronautical & Astronomical Association of France, known as the 3AF, which established a Commission on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena back in May 2008.
The Commission’s President is Alain Boudier, a former French Defense attaché, and one of its key members is Jean-Gabriel Greslé, a former fighter pilot who studied at the U.S. Air Force Academy and later became an airliner pilot with Air France, where he experienced a couple of UFO sightings. Greslé has published three UFO books in France, including Unidentified Flying Objects: An Airline Pilot Talks (Guy Trédaniel, 1993).
The Sigma/3AF is not a final report but just a work in progress document; nevertheless, it provides good background material on the history of official UFO research in France, a balance of Sigma’s work during the last two years, a brief description of the most significant French cases, and some comments and conclusions. The report begins with a brief history of French official UFO research, which is quite extensive:
“France is the only country where the collection of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (PAN in French) and its scientific study have been assigned since 1977 to a civilian official organization, the CNES (National Center for Space Studies, the French space agency) through the GEPAN study group.” After a short description of this unit, now known as GEIPAN (Study and Information Group on Aerospace Unidentified Phenomena), the report outlines other official or quasi-official French studies, including the famous COMETA (Committee for In-Depth Studies) Report of 1999, issued by a group of high-ranking retired French military and intelligence officers, which concluded that UFOs were real and probably extraterrestrial. [...]
In the Comments section, the Sigma/3AF report uses unambiguous language, for instance: “No natural phenomenon can account for the majority of observation reports accompanied by electromagnetic detections made by one or several radars. Both the defense services and air traffic control have been confronted a number of times around the world with unknown aerial intrusions or artificially induced phenomena.” Later on, the report goes on to say, “The behavior of these devices during encounters with fighter jets or interceptors – some have participated in real swirling battles in the U.S. – suggests they are controlled, guided or led by particularly sophisticated automation.” And then again, “the air superiority of the craft concerned, if they are indeed crafts, is such that none of the many interceptions which have been made against them, in the United States for example, have been able to overcome one of these devices.”
Comment: The trickle of agencies around the world admitting the existence of UFOs is now becoming a flood and there is a good reason for that. Please note the caution here and the clear indication that military and civilian personnel think that the antics that have been displayed imply that these objects do not conform to the usual laws of physics. Lots of useful links and reports to download here.
High in the Andes, Keeping an Incan Mystery Alive
New York Times, 16th August 2010
[...] Rapaz’s isolation has allowed it to guard an enduring archaeological mystery: a collection of khipus, the cryptic woven knots that may explain how the Incas — in contrast to contemporaries in the Ottoman Empire and China’s Ming dynasty — ruled a vast, administratively complex empire without a written language.
Archaeologists say the Incas, brought down by the Spanish conquest, used khipus — strands of woolen cords made from the hair of animals like llamas or alpacas — as an alternative to writing. The practice may have allowed them to share information from what is now southern Colombia to northern Chile. ew of the world’s so-called lost writings have proved as daunting to decipher as khipus, scholars say, with chroniclers from the outset of colonial rule bewildered by their inability to crack the code. Researchers at Harvard have been using databases and mathematical models in recent efforts to understand the khipu (pronounced KEE-poo), which means knot in Quechua, the Inca language still spoken by millions in the Andes.
Comment: So it's hundreds of years after some of these Inca artefacts were stolen by the Conquidistors, but modern day anthropologists have still failed to crack the code that unlock Inca secrets. I suppose it's the same problem that faces researchers who want to enforce their beliefs about S. American calendars. It is very apparent, that there is not enough understanding of the indigenous beliefs associated with consciousness, so that now, Mayan and Inca descents the Q'ero have been proven to be correct in their beliefs that we are experiencing a massive transition of energy that is catapulting the world into a New Age, but the world is still largely ignorant of the fact. Hence today, many 'researchers' have generated a myth of a galactic alignment that lasts one day ignoring the rest of the information that has been carefully explained by indigenous Elders about cosmic cycles.
Top Climate Scientists Speak out on the Satellitegate Scandal
Canada Free Press, 16th August 2010
US Government admits global warming satellite sensors “degraded” - temperatures may be out by 10-15 degrees. Now five satellites in controversy. Top scientists speak out. In an escalating row dubbed ‘Satellitegate’ further evidence proves NOAA knew of these faults for years. World’s top climate scientists and even prior governmental reports cite underfunding and misallocation as the trigger for spiraling satellite data calamities. Key flaws with five satellites undermines global data.
Most disturbing of all is that it took publication of my article last week to persuade the authorities to withdraw the errant NOAA-16 satellite from service. But as Dr. John Christy indicates, the real Satellitegate is not about one satellite. The scandal is endemic with comparable flaws across the entire network; the scandal is also that it took a tip off from a member of the public and the widespread broadcast of my article before one of the offending junk boxes, NOAA-16, got taken down. [...]
Over such a long time period it has been suggested that cosmic rays or particle impacts may be deteriorating the highly sensitive instrumentation on board the crafts. [...]
...all the while researchers have been struggling in vain to keep pace with the ever-increasing numbers gap due to ongoing sensor degradation. For example, each month Dr. Christy works with Dr. Spencer trying to piece together the faltering patchwork of global temperature datasets given by a total of eleven instruments flying on eleven different satellites since 1979. Over such a long time period it has been suggested that cosmic rays or particle impacts may be deteriorating the highly sensitive instrumentation on board the crafts.
Comment: Yes, there are lots of small climate scandals, a veritable hornet's nest of deceit associated with climate science, but Satellitegate is on a completely different level of scandal. I note that Anthony Watts, at Watts Up With That website has not run with this story and I can only assume he has good relations with some of the scientists who have always maintained that the satellite record was above reproach. Or maybe he feels that he has taken enough heat already and will allow someone else to take up the cudgeon, but really, this latest news is mindblowing. It seems that the cause of the SENSOR DEGRADATION is SPACE WEATHER. Yes, space weather experts know that satellites are under severe threat, but it looks like there has been an attempt here to cover up the magnitude of the problem.
Physicists say cosmic rays affect the length of day
Physics Central, 16th August 2010
If your Monday is dragging on too long, you might try blaming it on cosmic rays. In a paper published Friday by the journal Geophysical Research Letters, physicists from Paris and Moscow propose that the high energy protons and nuclei might have a surprising influence on Earth's length of day. The team claims that a previously noticed relationship between fluctuations in the length of day and the 11-year solar-cycle are actually caused by cosmic rays.
One of the team members, Vincent Courtillot of the Institute of Geophysics of Paris, says they examined the length of day -- as defined by the speed of the earth's rotation in a reference frame fixed with respect to the stars -- using a series of daily values over a 40 year period. They claim that up to 30-percent of changes could be directly related to the 11-year sunspot cycle.
Comment: I'm not convinced, but it's still very interesting speculation.
One-man weather centre making right predictions
Sify News, 16th August 2010
An accountant in Britain got so fed up with the 'wrong' weather forecasts of the national meteorological bureau, he has started predicting weather using his own equipment.
Simon Cansick, 47, decided to see if he could do better himself and bought his own weather station, positioned it on the roof and linked it to the internet, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
Cansick prepares his forecasts on his home computer and provides live information -- automatically updated every three seconds -- 24 hours a day.
Comment: He is only able to predict within a 16km radius... but his neighbours will be grateful...
Colombia plane breaks into pieces after crash
BBC News, 16th August 2010
A Colombian passenger plane crashed and broke up as it came into land on an island in the Caribbean, injuring 114 people, officials have said. One person died, apparently from a heart attack. The Boeing 737 was carrying 131 passengers and crew when it tried to land on the Colombian island of San Andres. The passenger jet, operated by local airline Aires, was reportedly hit by lightning before it crashed. It had flown from the Colombian capital, Bogota.
Col David Barrero from the Colombian Air Force said reports suggested the plane had crashed at 0149 (0649 GMT) and that "the skill of the pilot kept the plane from colliding with the airport".
Comment: Some are starting to comment about the no. of crashes. At the moment, even though it is clear that geomagnetic conditions are getting worse, some real work has to be done to determine this conclusively. On the 14th August 2010, Holly Deyo wrote "With 10 plane crashes in the first 11 days of August, I wondered is this unusually high?" What is worth noting is the table of statistics derived from the Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) based in Geneva. It shows the statistics for the last decade, but it only covers aircraft carrying at least 6 passengers and they don't include choppers or military fighters. See, Shocking Number of Plane Crashes
Russia lashed by storm after heatwave
BBC News, 16th August 2010
Russia's record-breaking heatwave looks set to come to a dramatic end, with a severe storm now heading for Moscow after battering St Petersburg. Nearly 100,000 people around St Petersburg were left without power, rail services were halted and trees felled amid high winds and heavy rains. Moscow is expected to be hit later. Temperatures there dropped to 25C on Monday after nearing 40C for weeks.
Comment: Lots of wild weather at the moment:
Summer storms bring chaos to parts of Spain
Typically Spanish, 14th August 2010
Flooding in Malmö as heavens open
The Local, 15th August 2010
Six people injured in hailstorm in Prague
Prague Monitor, 16th August 2010
Prague Picture Gallery
aktualne.centrum.cz, August 2010
Some serious damage to cars windscreens...
Relief Wells Delayed ... New Tests Show "Gap" in Oil "Well Column" Causing Loss of Pressure ... Does the Government Have ANY IDEA What It's Doing?
Washington's Blog, 16th August 2010
An oil and gas industry veteran with 30 years experience who goes by the alias Fishgrease gave a pretty good recap of BP and the government's record of failure in capping the oil well: - BP does a superhuman job of creating conditions favorable to loss of control of what is very possibly the largest well in the history ot the Gulf of Mexico. Result: Blowout. FAIL
- For more than a day, BP insists there is no leakage. Result: Wrong. FAIL
- BP admits that well is leaking. Says leak is 1000 BOPD. Result: Wrong. FAIL
- NOAA, USCG and independent groups say the leak sure looks more like 5000 BOPD. BP says... DEAL! It's 5000 BOPD! How silly of us! Result: Wrong. FAIL
[...] Things keep getting curiouser and curiouser with the Well that Won't Die.
Comment: Hmmm... the surrealness of Alice in Wonderland... Well, (excuse the pun), despite the smoke and mirrors, there is still a problem. This is a nice synopsis of the trail of BP's failures so far. Other related news:
Gulf Fishermen: Oil Tainted Our Waters, Our Trust
The Post Chronicle, 12th August 2010
""Fishermen here are calling it 'Voodoo seafood' because we are all cursed," [...] "We do not think it is safe but the state officials say it is. Who do you trust? The people that know these waters or the government?" [...] Some local fishermen say they are seeing strange behavior by marine life -- mullets, crabs and other creatures which normally stay well under water have been sighted congregating on the surface -- and they relate this to the spill."
Parents complain Wi-Fi is making students sick [Canada]
CP24.com Canadian Press, 15th August 2010
TORONTO — A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children's schools turn off wireless Internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick.
Some parents in the Barrie, Ont., area say their children are showing a host of symptoms ranging from headaches and dizziness to nausea and even racing heart rates. They believe the Wi-Fi setup in their kids' elementary schools may be the problem. The parents complain they can't get the Simcoe County school board or anyone else to take their concerns seriously, even though the children's symptoms all disappear on weekends when they aren't in school.
"Parents are getting together and realizing this is the pattern," said Rodney Palmer of the Simcoe County Safe School Committee.
Comment: The Germans decided quite some time ago that too much wi-fi was not safe. We are electromagnetic beings and electromagnetic signals act as messagers to activate biological cells. For further past info and articles see
Best of the Blog Electromagnetism & Health
2012 Postponed !
vishwaamara.com, 14th August 2010
No other year in recent history has caught the attention of people across the world as 2012 has. And no other date is the convergence point for so many important events as 21st of December 2012 is. While most of the population seems blissfully unaware of the importance of this date, those in the spiritual circles have been eagerly anticipating this day, where an old world gives way to a new one.
Comment: This article is filled with New Age 2012 beliefs and misunderstandings, with some strange new ideas that I have not come across before.
Extended solar minimum linked to changes in Sun’s conveyor belt
UCAR, 12th August 2010
BOULDER—A new analysis of the unusually long solar cycle that ended in 2008 suggests that one reason for the long cycle could be a stretching of the Sun’s conveyor belt, a current of plasma that circulates between the Sun’s equator and its poles. The results should help scientists better understand the factors controlling the timing of solar cycles and could lead to better predictions.
The study was conducted by Mausumi Dikpati, Peter Gilman, and Giuliana de Toma, all scientists in the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and by Roger Ulrich at the University of California, Los Angeles. It appeared on July 30 in Geophysical Research Letters. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation, NCAR’s sponsor, and by NASA's Living with a Star Program.
The Sun goes through cycles lasting approximately 11 years that include phases with increased magnetic activity, more sunspots, and more solar flares, than phases with less activity. The level of activity on the Sun can affect navigation and communications systems on Earth. Puzzlingly, solar cycle 23, the one that ended in 2008, lasted longer than previous cycles, with a prolonged phase of low activity that scientists had difficulty explaining.
Comment: The Sun's magnetic field which is related to solar activity, usually provides a major defence against cosmic, galactic and intergalactic energy penetrating through to Earth. Earth has three main levels of defence, the heliosphere -- the bubble of magnetism surrounding the Sun, the Earth's magnetic field and Earth's atmosphere, but the first two of this list have been the most important, but they now both declining quickly, see previous comments. Here we see scientists grabbing at straws trying to understand what is happening with our Sun, and trying to explain why forecasts of solar activity have been hopelessly wrong. Regardless, of the scientific theories, Earth is receiving more cosmic, galactic and intergalactic energy that is driving evolutionary change, as can be clearly proven by the current Space Age high in cosmic ray counts. If you look through the News of the Imbalance blog archives, various scientists are seeing cosmic rays having an impact in many different and surprising ways.
Spirals - spoken by Keisha Crowther "Little Grandmother"
YouTube, August 2010
So if we think to ourselves, what is the most prehistoric, most ancient symbol in the entire world and that is in every indigenous culture across the globe, what would that be? [...]
Absolutely, it is truely the most prehistoric symbol anywhere ever and in the prehistoric time, how did the whole world have this same symbol? They had no telephone, no mail, no email but every single indigenous culture upon this planet has the spiral and it is the most sacred of symbols to every indigenous culture. We have the Celts and the Nords from the north, the meaning of their spiral is 'All Universe' it means eternity and it means goddess. We have the Romans and the Greeks, they believe the spiral is of the gods, the one, the oneness of the soul. The Aborigines use the spiral, they believe it means all things that are glorious.
The Islamic people use the spiral for holy things that cannot be written, they do not write the words of gods and godesses, they use the spiral because it is holy. The African culturess use the spiral as the womb of the Great Mother and goddess. The Orient [use] the spiral, and it means the beginning of all life, where the gods come from. In India, they actually believe it means the one, female sexuality and in their spiral, you can actually find the fibonacci sequence. The Native Americans use the spiral, meaning it is all energy, all consciousness, Great spirt. The Hopi use the spiral meaning the Sacred Ones, all living things, the journey of everything living. [...]
So why did they have the spiral? They saw it! They saw the spiral. Nobody taught them about the spiral, every culture on this planet of all ancient beings saw something exactly the same. They did not teach each other, the knew it themselves. How did they know it? They saw it? How many of you has seen the spiral? The whole world has seen the spiral it is everywhere, you cannot miss it, it is everywhere. [...] The ancestors have been telling the Wisdom Keepers and we had a meeting about this several days before it happened. Grandfather told us it was on it's way and with it comes New Energy, new life to this planet that has not been here for a very long time.
Comment: More confirmation!
I simply can't believe that this has been made up. This person knows who 'The Ancestors' represent and she says that the very last thing on the prophecy list BEFORE the Great Change and that is the Light Beings and great energies returning to our planet. Hence, we have further confirmation that Space Weather in delivering massive amounts of energy on this planet and therefore creating a high energy plasma environment that is conducive to the appearance of these spirals and the return of 'Light Beings' or 'The Ancestors'. The appearance of spirals in a high energy plasma environment has been confirmed by the research of plasma physicist Anthony Peratt, so I have to correct Little Grandmother and say MOST scientists don't understand the spirals, because they know nothing of high energy plasma physics. Well, I am stunned and again grateful for the confirmation of these spiritual truths and it looks like the Native Americans are also waiting for the trigger for Great Change, but how many are ready?
Beware of the fake shaman (Video!)
RT News, 14th August 2010
From favorable weather and a good harvest, to healing and marriages – in ancient times, shamans were in charge of almost all aspects of life. In Siberia they are still part of everyday life. But beware of fakes.
[...] It is believed that shamans act as intermediaries between the human, natural and spiritual worlds. A shaman’s healing abilities are said to come from his use of these forces to mend an individual’s soul. So in this modern age, what is involved in this ancient role? But as interest grows, a word to the wise: select your shaman carefully.
“There are huge numbers of shamans now, and the majority of them – I can say this because I see it – are just fakes,” said Aleksandr Beketov. “I know personally one shaman who used to be a high-ranked official and got to be some sort of glamorous shaman after he retired. He likes to wear expensive accessories, hang out with fashionable people. There are a few shamans like this, but people only go to them simply because they don't know the difference.” But Valentin claims his bloodline is rich with true shaman heritage, a tradition he plans to continue:
“We respect our history and culture, traditions and customs, worship the holy fire, our great ancestors, gods of the sky, the earth, sun and moon. Worship the Creator of the universe, Mother Nature. We preach living in harmony with self and with the nature.”
Comment: So, is this a plug for the New Age tourists/seekers? Yes, there are many "plastic" shamans and many who are genuine who have lost some of their ancient knowledge, but I am especially concerned about those who claim to be genuine who don't seem to have a clue about whats going on, considering the fact they are supposed to be in contact with the "great ancestors, gods of the sky, the earth, sun and moon".
Haiti earthquake caused by new fault line
The Telegraph, 14th August 2010
The devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti in January was unleashed by a previously undetected fault line – not the well-known one initially blamed, according to an analysis of new data.
Its unclear how dangerous the new, unmapped fault might be or how it's discovery changes the overall earthquake hazard risk for Haiti, said Eric Calais, a professor of geophysics at Purdue University in Indiana.
He said the analysis shows that most, if not all, of the geologic movement that caused January's magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred along the newly uncovered fault, not the well-documented Enriquillo fault.
He said that suggests Haiti's seismic zone is far more complex than scientists had anticipated.
But the new fault's profile, including the possibility that it merges with the Enriquillo fault at some depth, won't be known until scientists intensively study the region.
"If there are other faults capable of producing earthquakes besides the Enriquillo and this new one we need to know about them. We need to go after them," he said.
Comment: I am pleased to see this new analysis, as I have had some serious doubts about the conspiracy talk swirling about the internet, that implies the Haiti earthquake was induced by HAARP. Simple observation alone should be enough to dismiss these theories, as huge orbs of light were being filmed coming out of the ground before the quake and this is a reliable indicator (noted over hundreds of years) that electrical energies have built up in the rocks to such an extent that interdimensional entities (usually referred to as light phenomena or even quakelights) decide that enough is enough and they get out! If you have not seen this YouTube video filmed by Haitian missionaries, it's a must see, link
Trusting people make better lie detectors
PhysOrg.com, 13th August 2010
Trusting others may not make you a fool or a Pollyanna, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science. Instead it can be a sign that you're smart. [...]
People high in trust were more accurate at detecting the liars—the more people showed trust in others, the more able they were to distinguish a lie from the truth. The more faith in their fellow humans they had, the more they wanted to hire the honest interviewees and to avoid the lying ones. Contrary to the stereotype, people who were low in trust were more willing to hire liars and they were also less likely to be aware that they were liars.
Comment: The results are no surprise to me! However, I think the concept of trust here is misplaced. If you are a liar and distrustful about everything and everyone then there is NO ability to be able to detect goodness and this explains why warped people can't tell the difference between liars and non liars. Simply, if you are honest and decent and are looking for honest decent people, then often, warning bells go off loud and clear when those that don't match this requirement appear. This understanding also helps with those who immediately start mudslinging for no apparent reason, it's a clear indication that these people are problematic, these are the manipulators who should be avoided.
The Paulding Light Mystery [US]
Capital Talk, 13th August 2010
The Paulding Light also known as "The Dog Meadow Lights" have been a mystery in Upper Michigan for over 40 years. To this day you can see them on almost any night! Personally I first witnessed this strange light in february of 1999, and to my surprise the ghost light moved towards us floating in mid air and it looks exactly as if someone was carrying a lantern.
As it started to get closer to us it would vanish and start all over again each time moving towards us faster and FASTER! There are some haunting legends for this phenomenon for example, some say one night around forty years ago, a railroad switchman while holding his lantern was crushed to death between two cars while trying to signal the engineer. Others say that an engineer was murdered along the old railroad grade that runs parallel to the road the light appears. Another story tells about a man out late one night carrying a lantern looking for his lost little boy in the woods. Supposedly, the man was hit by a train and his ghost continues to search for his son! Some people even have claimed to have seen the "GRIM REEPER" floating across the road near the light!!
Skeptics say it is nothing more then car lights in the distance or glacier gas. But no matter what it is, you are still fascinated and spooked while viewing this bizzare light as it starts walking towards you!! I ended up using these clips in my movie by the same name.
Comment: Mysterious lights are nothing new, the difference is that in decades and centuries past, they were only seen by a few and very much localised to backwater locations, but since the energy levels of the whole planet has increased over the last twenty something years, they are now becoming visible to the many and are now being seen in metropolitan areas.
Cyprus is the Hot New Destination for UFO Spotters
PR Web, 12th August 2010
A surge in UFO sightings over Cyprus in the past two years have UFO spotters packing up their tinfoil hats and booking flights to the Mediterranean isle.
A UFO sighted over Cyprus last week is just one in a recent spate of unidentified flying objects to have appeared over the island in the past two years. The UFO was seen to move from Turkish-controlled Famagusta to Protaras, surprising families on their holidays in Ayia Napa, Dherinya and Oroklini. With several dozen sightings in the past two years alone, they’re fast becoming a staple of Cypriote holidays.
“It was beautiful and mesmerising,” holidaymaker Shirley Daniels told the Cyprus Mail. “It was fairly high in the sky and moved with no sound, it also had a beautiful white aura. My niece and I watched it for about 20 minutes, it really was the most awesome sight I have ever seen.”
In the past year, residents and holidaymakers alike have reported clusters of mysterious craft, bright white lights, slow-moving orange orbs, and strange, triangular shaped objects over the skies of Cyprus
Comment: Yes, it's Cyprus again and it's a press release, but apparently UFOs are good for tourism! Anyway, now things are getting absolutely ridiculous. I simply can't keep up with the reports, see UK UFO Sightings, but at least I realised what was happening and made the effort to inform others. Now, imagine what is going to happen when the general public realise that their reality has changed for ever... Talk about apocalyptic! We must be getting fairly close to a tipping point where most people have seen a strange [orange] light or fiery orb or at least know someone who has seen one. The Veil is Lifting just as predicted, but it appears the metaphysical leaders at large are at fault for not understanding our reality enough to provide any warning about what this meant in real terms... Gobsmacking! More international & local UK media reports:
Ticino tops Switzerland in UFO sightings (audio)
World Radio Switzerland, 12th August 2010
It sound like Ticino is UFO alley...
Mystery objects seen in skies over the isle [UK]
Yourthanet, 14th August 2010
"Strange balloon-shaped objects have been spotted in the skies over Broadstairs and Margate. The are the latest in a long line of UFO sightings in the isle this year."
UFO sighting [UK]
Great Yarmouth Mercury, 12th August 2010
A green light & an orange orb...
Mystery lights over Muswell Hill spark new UFO claims [UK]
Muswell Hill Journal 24, 12th August 2010
"A MYSTERY red and orange object spotted floating in the night sky above Muswell Hill has triggered the latest in a string of UFO reports. So frequently have they been experi-enced in the area that it has won the spooky nickname of Roswell Hill - a reference to Roswell, New Mexico, where it is claimed a UFO crashed in 1947."
LOL!!!
Playful UFOs and an all-seeing eye - the truth is out near Southam [UK]
Warwick Courrier, 13th August 2010
Yes, many of these lights are "critters," hence all the stories of lights "playing" or pacing planes, boats, cars and trains, just like the known behaviour of many animals and birds.
Official: Satellite Failure Means Decade of Global Warming Data Doubtful
Climate Change Fraud, 11th August 2010
US Government admits satellite temperature readings “degraded.” All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high.
The fault was first detected after a tip off from an anonymous member of the public to climate skeptic blog, Climate Change Fraud (view original article) (August 9, 2010).
Caught in the center of the controversy is the beleaguered taxpayer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis has now confirmed that the fast spreading story on the respected climate skeptic blog is true.
However, NOAA spokesman, Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis declined to state how long the fault might have gone undetected. Nor would the shaken spokesman engage in speculation as to the damage done to the credibility of a decade’s worth of temperature readings taken from the problematic ‘NOAA-16’ satellite. [...]
World-renowned Canadian climatologist, Dr. Timothy Ball, after casting his expert eye over the shocking findings concluded, “At best the entire incident indicates gross incompetence, at worst it indicates a deliberate attempt to create a temperature record that suits the political message of the day.”
Comment: Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high!!!! If this story is true, there is going to be a lot of extremely shocked climate scientists, nevermind the global warming alarmists that have always considered satellite data as the gold standard. I have never come across this website before, but it looks like there is a lot of support with anonymous "tip-offs", there is an interesting trail of previous articles and links too... Even the SPPI blog is reporting this and claims this is a "respected climate skeptic blog" owned by John O’Sullivan who is a legal analyst, author and journalist.
Cloud Cellular Communication
Watt's Up With That, 12th August 2010
No, I’m not talking about the Internet or the latest mobile phone. Apparently clouds are “teleconnected”. Two press releases were made the yesterday on the same subject, both are presented here. Note to climate scientists, try adding this to GCM’s.
“Clouds organize in distinct patterns that are fingerprints of myriad physical processes,” Feingold explained. “Precipitation can generate fascinating honeycomb-like patterns that are clearly visible from satellites. Cloud fields organize in such a way that their components ‘communicate’ with one another and produce regular, periodic rainfall events.”
While the discovery of synchronized behavior in clouds is one of many recent findings on self-organization in nature, the study also examines how suspended particles, or aerosols, in the atmosphere can influence these patterns and be a factor in climate change. [...]
While the discovery of synchronized behavior in clouds is one of many recent findings on self-organization in nature, the study also examines how suspended particles, or aerosols, in the atmosphere can influence these patterns and be a factor in climate change. [...]
The scientists say that their findings point to a significant influence of particulate matter, or aerosols, on the large-scale structure of clouds and therefore on climate change. Scientists have long known that aerosols can influence local rain formation and block solar energy from reaching the Earth’s surface—for an overall surface cooling effect.
Comment: Honeycombulus! You may not want to read the whole article but the images of the clouds are quite interesting! These images remind me of Cymatics -- the study of visible sound and vibration and experiments that consist of vibrating sand or cornsand etc and the patterns that emerge when different frequencies are applied. If you watch the video here, as the frequency gets higher, the cells generated get smaller, see Cymatics - The Science of the Future?. Scientists still talking about updrafts and downdrafts is very backward, as we know that there is a potential difference of 100 volts per metre between the Earth and the bottom of ionopshere and this cavity is constantly transmitting a host of different electromagnetic signals. Now, let's just think: what information do you think the clouds are transmitting?
Gore concedes, National Wildlife Federation calls skeptics “bastards”
Watt's Up With That, 10th August 2010
Speaking about the likelihood of climate bill being passed by Congress in 2010, Al Gore told a conference call of supporters tonight that, “this battle has not been successful and is pretty much over for this year.” Gore bitterly denounced the Senate and federal government stating several times, “The U.S. Senate has failed us” and “The federal government has failed us.” Gore even seemed to blame President Obama by emphasizing that “the government as a whole has failed us… although the House did its job. [emphasis added]”
Gore urged his listeners to take the “realistic view that they had failed badly.” Gore said that “Comprehensive legislation is not likely to be debated” and that a “lame duck debate” is a “very slim possibility indeed.” (N.B. We thought, because Gore told us, that “the debate” was over.)
Comment: LOL!!!! I think the End is Near for Al Gore... James Delingpole also enjoys the moment too, 'Der Krieg ist verloren!' declares confused, angry, trembly-handed Al Gore in bunker conference call It's worth pointing out here that the failure is in convincing the world that humans are responsible for global warming and/or even climate change. Fortunately, the planet can provide ample evidence that over the last few billion years, it is quite capable of being transformed without any input from humans. The image icon here is taken from the following article Doomsday-cult of global warming exposed as biggest false religion since Scientology. My apologies to scientologists, but there is also some good graphics explaining the Climategate phrase 'hide the decline' that is worth noting.
Shot in the head ... but he drove himself to hospital
Sydney Morning Herald, 12th August 2010
A man drove himself to hospital after being shot in the head in the Hunter Valley yesterday evening.
The 37-year-old was wounded during a confrontation on Wollombi Road, Muswellbrook about 7.30pm, police said. He hid in an Allyn Way house, before heading to Muswellbrook Hospital for treatment. He was flown to John Hunter Hospital and is in a stable condition. Police said they searched the area but no one was arrested and no weapons were found.
Comment: Wow! This is on par with the women who made a cup of tea for the police when they arrived after she had been shot in the head, but the bullet had passed through and miraculously she survived to make lots more cups of tea!
Brazil govt to record UFO sightings
AAP, 12th August 2010
Brazil is now to officially record any UFO sightings in its vast airspace and make the information available to researchers, according to a government decree published this week.
The text calls on military and civilian pilots and air traffic controllers to lodge any experiences with unidentified flying objects with the Aerospace Defence Command in Brasilia along with any material proof by way of photos or video.
That evidence will be catalogued at the air force's Historic Documentation Centre in Rio de Janeiro state, where it will be made available to searchers of extraterrestrial life and other people interested.
The decree, dated Monday and published on Tuesday, was signed by air force chief Juniti Saito.
"Air force command does not have the specialised structure needed to carry out scientific investigations on these aerial phenomena and will only register the events," the air force said in a statement sent to the newspaper O Dia.
A military air controller in Rio told the daily that respectable witnesses have previously recounted experiences with UFOs.
"There are reports by ministers and even a president who saw a UFO," he said.
Comment: It seems that senior Brazilian military officials and UFO researchers have won the battle with the government over the importance of making the existence of Aerial Phenomena "official". Please note: the Brazilians have dropped the tag "Unidentified," because of course, they known what they are...
Mystery oil spill hits south fishermen [Trinidad & Tobago]
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday, 11th August 2010
AN OIL spill at Kings Wharf, San Fernando, yesterday left scores of fishermen counting their losses as thousands of fishes, nets and their clothing were covered in what is suspected to be crude oil.
Frustrated fishermen said the oil began to surface at sea on Monday morning and continued to worsen late yesterday evening.
“We came out as normal Monday morning to fish. Some of us went out into the waters and were forced to turn back. We could not continue to fish, because our entire boat was covered with black oil and the fishes we caught were also covered in oil..” fisherman Aziz Mohammed, 39, of Vesingny explained.
He further explained that he and all other fishermen were forced to pack up and return home. “We had to return home, and now to come back today (Tuesday) and the situation is worse. It is like more oil has surfaced. Look at my clothes, it is covered in black oil.” Mohammed, said. [...]
Fishermen however, are claiming that the oil was emanating from the LABDICO Industrial near La Brea as the direction of the wind had recently changed its course to the western direction. “There is a leak somewhere underground at LABDICO, and due to the west winds the oil has surfaced in South instead of Point Fortin,” the fisherman said.
Meanwhile, along the Guapo/Cap-de-Ville main road in Point Fortin, residents awoke to the sight of black oil surrounding a fire hydrant. The residents in the area said yesterday was not the first time oil has surfaced above. “For years this has been happening at that particular location. The oil always comes up and forms a pool, then it is covered with sand and the oil slowly disappears.”the resident said. The area was yesterday cordoned off with caution tape.
Comment:
OK, something major is going on... pipeline explosions, oil well blowouts, natural seeps and tanker collisions are accelerating and very quickly... I wrote in my book that space weather accelerates pipeline corrosion, but that this is a known problem and measures are taken to try and mitigate the environmental problem associated with geomagnetic storms. Since I wrote my book, as predicted by metaphysical sources space weather has greatly increased and hence it seems that the oil pipeline infrastructure is under systemic failure. Again, this is something that at least one respected metaphysical source was extremely specific about, well before I had completed enough research and written my book. Also:
Oil washes ashore on Brazil beach
BBC News, 10th August 2010
"Oil has washed up on the shore of five beaches in Brazil, east of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is not yet known where the oil has come from but it is already damaging wildlife and tourism in the area."
Oil well blowout in Louisiana [US]
CNN Ireport, 11th August 2010
Oil blowout causes evacuations [Louisiana, US]
Houma Today, 12th august 2010
When University Scientists Found Underwater Oil Plumes, the Government Said Shut Up, Don't Tell Anyone ... and Then Tried to Discredit Them
Washingtons Blog, 10th August 2010
As I've previously reported, a senior EPA policy analyst says that NOAA and the EPA have been "sock puppets" for BP.
NOAA has repeatedly denied the existence of underwater oil plumes (see this and this), calculated the spill to be only 5,000 barrels a day, and buried core data on the oil spill. Now, university scientists have revealed the NOAA used strong-arm tactics to try to silence any information on underwater plumes. As the St. Petersburg Times reports:
The reaction that [the University of South Florida] announcement [of the discovery of huge underwater plumes] received from the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agencies that sponsored their research:
Shut up.
Comment: As I have said many times before, any government needs to be very careful if they think they can strong-arm the scientific community.
Wildfires rage on shrouding Moscow in blanket of smog (Video)
RT.com, 10th August 2010
The thick blanket of acrid smog caused by relentless wildfires which has settled across the Russian capital has shown no sign of dispersing.
Forest and peat blazes continue to devastate large swathes of Central Russia, with a record-breaking heat wave forecast to go on until at least next week.
Russia's deadly wildfires, smog-filled cities and poor harvest are being seen by some environmentalists as signs of man-made climate change.
But astrophysicist and founder of the Weather Action Foundation Piers Corbyn puts the heat wave down to climate cycles.
“The climate has always been changing, but it has nothing to do with man,” Corbyn told RT. “In fact we predicted that there will be extreme heat in Russia and eastern Europe. It's caused by circulation patterns, caused by a combination of solar activity and the phases of the moon.”
Comment: So the Russians rate the maverick Piers Corbyn who always pops up and says I told you so when we get extreme weather! Well, since this guy has been so successful, bookmakers now refuse to take his money because he has been so consistent in his predictions and now it seems his success has reached far and wide. Congrats Piers!
Magnetic apocalypse 2012 (Video, 7:51)
RIA Novosti, 11th August 2010
Interview with doctor Anatoly Levitin, head of the geomagnetic variations laboratory at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences. When will the Earth’s magnetic poles change?
What are the possible consequences? And is there any scientific ground to expect the Doomsday in 2012?
Comment: I have absolutely no argument with any of the responses given by this Russian scientist in this interview! Note the response to whether climate change being not necessarily manmade and the talk about the Energy Budget, the statement, "We are children of the Sun" is especially interesting! The interviewer who brings up 2012 and predictions of poles shifts is not given any solace from the scientist, but it looks like the 2012 disaster hype is in full swing in Russia too! Interestingly, there is talk of those who won't make the fourth dimension, but quite frankly I think the fourth dimension is already here in some parts of the world. However, to be fair, we can't rule out a huge bolt of electromagnetic energy hitting Earth and reversing the magnetic poles. This is because some Mayan Elders are now making it very clear that a "magnetic vortex" is on it's way, but they will not give an arrival date. One of the major consequences seems like the permanent ignition of the auroral plasma column that surrounds Earth that scientists believe was the ancient and mythological World Sacred Tree. This is explained in my latest essay, The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind.
Genetic Scientist: 'We Have Learned Nothing From the Genome'
Atlantic wire, 9th August 2010
Adam Keiper at National Review's The Corner stumbles upon human-genome-sequencer J. Craig Venter "pooh-pooh[ing] the scientific achievement that helped catapult him to international celebrity." In a rather lively interview with Der Spiegel, the biologist-businessman takes a few swings at his former rivals and estimates the "medical benefits" of the Human Genome Project at "close to zero to put it precisely."
Just as concerns regarding the sequencing were ill-founded, Venter argues, so were the hopes. "I can tell you from my own experience. I put my own genome on the Internet. People had the notion this was the scariest thing out there. But what happened? Nothing." Why was that? Because, he explains, we're just no good at reading the genome yet. "We couldn't even be certain what my eye color was. Isn't that sad?" He asks. Der Spiegel pushes back at Venter, with interesting results:
Comment: Well, here we have a little bit of honesty. The publicly funded Human Genome Project cost 4.5 billion dollars over the years 1988-2003, but according to this account, it was a waste of money and effort. Quite frankly, it's nice to know that the Universe has the upper hand and that geneticists have NO ability to tamper with DNA, as DNA requires an environmental component that modifies DNA according to Universal directives. What's interesting is that humans don't have more DNA than a worm with no brain, (about 19,000 genes) which emphasises that there could be other regulatory processes are at work. It's also known that there is more than one set of DNA in the human body, a fact that was overlooked by most experts for many years.
Orange ball of fire with an orange plasma like ‘field’ around it
UK UFO Sightings, 9th August 2010
Location of Sighting: Nr Chudleigh knighton
Date of Sighting: 8.810
Time: 2.15 am
Witness Name: Jamie Malloy
Witness Statement: August 8th, 2010 at 1:36 am
i saw an orange ball of fire come towards the house its was moving relatively slowly as i watched it got so close i could see windows or lights and an orange plasma like ‘field’ around it its stopped for a millisecond and zoomed off toward newton abbot and total right angle towards me towards kingsteinton and sandygate area then in total amazement another did the same thing stopped even closer for a few milliseconds enough time for me to see two ridges around the orange dome and a row of portholes reflecting light out of them again the plasma like orange glow.
it then zoomed off in exactly the same direction so fast
i am extremely shaken and even frightened by what i saw its totally mindboggeling.
Comment: This was my response here:
Hello Jamie Malloy,
very few people actually understand what they are seeing, but it seems that you have correctly identified a plasma entity by seeing it up close. Scientists have various names for this phenomena and research has been taking place for over sixty years. I have a webpage with lots of links that give some explanation of what scientists already know.
http://www.susanrennison.com/Joyfire_UAP_Index.php
Susan Joy Rennison
I think the worse thing about this transition is the total lack of interest and concern for others who don't understand what is going on and are being frightened by the fear of the unknown. Yet, there are a few who want to know what the hell is going on? So, it seems like there are not that many people interested in understanding our true reality and explaining it to others. More mainstream UK reports:
WALTHAMSTOW: Puzzlement over orange orb 'UFO' footage (Video) [UK]
East London and West Essex Guardian Serie, 10th August 2010
"A RESIDENT has appealed for help in identifying a strange orange light captured on camera flying over Walthamstow."
CHINGFORD: Orange orb was 'variation of Chinese lantern', resident says
East London and West Essex Guardian Serie, 10th August 2010
"A STRANGE orange light captured on camera flying over Walthamstow is a “variation of a Chinese lantern”, one resident
says."
Well, if it was only a chinese lantern, then why is it being reported? The real question is: Why are the British becoming Chinese!?!
More sightings of 'the orange UFO' [Halifax, UK]
Evening Courier, 10th August 2010
"I can confirm that it was bright orange and did appear to be burning."
Another week, another UFO in Bracknell... [London, UK]
Get Bracknell, 24th August 2010
"She said she saw two orange lights in the sky..."
UFO in Lynn’s Wootton Road [UK]
Lynn News, 11th August 2010
"Both me and my wife saw an orange/red light last night moving along Wootton Road from the town centre towards Castle Rising."
JetBlue Flight Attendant Curses Out Passenger, Uses Emergency Slide To Exit Plane And Run Away
The Consumerist, 9th August 2010
Imagine this sight: Your JetBlue flight has just touched down at your destination when a flight attendant takes to the public address system, drops the F-bomb, pops the emergency door and exits the plane via the emergency slide.
We're really hoping someone out there has video footage of this incident that went down at JFK Airport today.
The flight from Pittsburgh to NYC had just arrived when the attendant found himself involved in a verbal altercation with a passenger. Here's how the NY Times describes the scene:
“ One passenger got out of his seat to fetch his belongings from the overhead compartment before the crew had given permission. [The attendant] instructed the man to remain seated. The passenger defied him. [The attendant] approached and reached the passenger just as he pulled down his luggage, which struck [the attendant] in the head.
”After his request for an apology was answered with profanity by the passenger, the attendant took to the intercom and announced, "To the passenger who called me a m--f--r, f* you... I've been in the business 28 years. I've had it. That's it."
Comment: Wow! We have not had an example of some serious 'air rage' for a while, but this makes up for the hiatus.
Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time
New Scientist, 9th August 2010
[...] Since Horava published his work in January 2009, it has received an astonishing amount of attention. Already, more than 250 papers have been written about it. Some researchers have started using it to explain away the twin cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Others are finding that black holes might not behave as we thought. If Horava's idea is right, it could forever change our conception of space and time and lead us to a "theory of everything", applicable to all matter and the forces tha act on it.
Comment: Hurrah! Even I am excited about this latest development, so maybe cosmology and physics will be able to move out of the spacetime quagmire that has existed for many decades. Scientific American did an article in November 2009 where I commented: "This article is interesting because we are being told that the 'time' component of spacetime can be considered as a variable, so we can compare this to water that can exist in different states like ice and steam. Hence, this new Horava gravity theory uses the mathematics of exotic phase transitions and the outcome so far has been quite successful. From the excitement surrounding this new theory, scientists can now re-think how the universe works, by getting rid of theories that are in consistent, like Big Bang and Dark Matter. This sounds like a promising step forward." My latest thought is: how come nobody thought of this before? The example of pencil lead is good, but water, steam ice as phase transitions of H20 are part of everyday life. I am willing to wager that someone proposed phase transitions for spacetime at least fifty years ago and was ignored.
Putin puts out two wildfires in central Russia (update 1)
RIA Novosti, 8th August 2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took part in extinguishing forest fires in Ryazan Province on board an amphibious firefighting airplane.
The Russian head of government was the co-pilot for half an hour aboard a Be-200 plane scooping up water from the nearby Oka River and dumping it on raging forest fires some 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
He dumped approximately 12 tons of water on each of two fires, extinguishing both completely.
Putin initially sat in the cabin in front of a thermal imaging monitor together with Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Ryazan Governor Oleg Kovalev.
However, shortly after takeoff Putin suddenly entered the cockpit and sat in the co-pilot's seat.
Comment: Well, I'm impressed... A man who knows something about PR...
Russian Wildfires, Pakistan Floods, Chinese Landslides All Linked To Bizarre Jet Stream Change (Video)
Channel 4 News, 9th August 2010
[...] Turbo-charged monsoon confounds forecasters
Normally the jet stream is a giant loop of high speed winds that whip round the upper atmosphere, writes science correspondent Tom Clarke.
The jet stream isn't involved in day to day weather - it's too high up - but because it pushes the atmosphere around it's very important in steering large scale weather patterns below.
The stream has split in two. One arm has gone north, another south. The patch in the middle is Russia's drought. A circulating pattern of air has been sitting over Russia for far longer than normal, causing the extreme temperatures and wildfires they've had there.
But what's happening over Pakistan is even stranger. The southern arm of the Jet stream has looped down so far it has crossed over the Himalayas into north western Pakistan. Experts at the Met Office tell me this is very unusual.
And the result is that the fast moving jets stream winds high up has helped suck the warm, wet, monsoon air even faster and higher into the atmosphere - and that has caused rains like no-one can remember. It has turbo charged the monsoon if you like. They're not sure that's ever happened before.
Comment:
At the moment, scientists have been suggesting that the changing Jet Streams are a result of global warming, but since there has been no real evidence of warming, the constant extreme weather could be indicative of sudden climate change. In April 2008, the Carnegie Institution for Science released a report that stated:
Stanford, CA—The Earth’s jet streams, the high-altitude bands of fast winds that strongly influence the paths of storms and other weather systems, are shifting—possibly in response to global warming. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution determined that over a 23-year span from 1979 to 2001 the jet streams in both hemispheres have risen in altitude and shifted toward the poles. The jet stream in the northern hemisphere has also weakened. These changes fit the predictions of global warming models and have implications for the frequency and intensity of future storms, including hurricanes. [...]
"The poleward shift in their average location discovered by the researchers is small, about 19 kilometers (12 miles) per decade in the northern hemisphere, but if the trend continues the impact could be significant. “The jet streams are the driving factor for weather in half of the globe,” says Archer. “So, as you can imagine, changes in the jets have the potential to affect large populations and major climate systems.”
Changing Jet Streams May Alter Paths of Storms and Hurricanes
Since scientists believe that the Jet Streams are narrow currents of air that snake the globe, but never explain how this effect is created, we have to assume that in reality we are seeing electric currents that react on a daily basis to incoming electrical energy from the cosmic environment. This is generally referred to as Space Weather and since there are now regular blasts of extreme Space Weather creating massive electromagnetic disturbances to Earth, maybe one of these disturbances was so great that the northern jet stream has been temporarily split. Useful information Kinky Jet Stream More:
Pakistan floods: aerial pictures from army helicopters show the extent of the flooding
UK Telegraph picture gallery
Floods in central Europe: Germany, Poland and Czech Republic clear up after flooding
UK Telegraph picture gallery
Eastern Europe cleans up after deadly floods (Video)
UK Telegraph Video report
After US Oil Spill Disaster Now In Mumbai ,India
Hot Discovery News, 9th August 2010
MUMBAI: A foreign cargo ship, which collided with another vessel about 10 km off Mumbai harbour, tilted further spilling oil for the third day today as Navy and Coast Guard made hectic efforts to contain the leak.
" MSC Chitra has tilted 80 degrees and the total oil spill is nearly 50 tonnes, Arun Singh, Commandant (Operations), Coast Guard said. He said so far, 300 containers carrying oil have tumbled into the water. A worried Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said, "This is a serious issue. We have already filed cases against the captains of the two ships which are from abroad. Today, I am going to have an aerial look at the accident site"
Comment: Another oil related disaster?
Matt Simmons Has Died
Business Insider, 9th August 2010
Prominent oil investor Matt Simmons died of a heart attack last night at his home in North Haven, Maine, according to police reports.
The famed energy banker was a prominent proponent of peak oil theory, and most recently got attention for his dire calls about the fate of the Gulf of Mexico. The debate about the effect of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill -- he thought it would be cataclysmic -- lead him to split with his old firm, Simmons & Co., of which he was the chairman emeritus.
His legacy will no doubt be his work on peak oil and resource scarcity.
Comment: Since Matt Simmons was providing some extremely enlightening information about what was going on with the BP Oil spill, so I think it's appropriate to note his passing and I will state, thanks Matt for telling us the truth.
Simmons, energy investment banker, dies in Maine
AP, 10th August 2010
"An autopsy by the state medical examiner's office concluded Monday that he died from accidental drowning with heart disease as a contributing factor." OK, now this death is looking suspicious... As you can imagine, many bloggers have already assumed that Matt Simmons was killed, see YouTube, Matt Simmon's death: An Explanation
Human race 'must colonise space or face extinction', warns Stephen Hawking
Daily Mail, 9th August 2010
Stephen Hawking has warned that unless the human race colonises space within the next two centuries it will disappear forever.
The famous astrophysicist says that our only chance for long-term survival is to move away from Earth and begin to inhabit new planets. In an interview with website Big Think, Hawking said he was an ‘optimist’ but the next few hundred years had to be negotiated carefully if the human race is to survive.
He said: 'I see great danger for the human race. There have been a number of times in the past when survival has been a question of touch and go. The Cuban missile crisis in 1963 is one of these.
‘The frequency of such occasions is likely to increase in the future. We shall need great care and judgment to negotiate them all successfully.’
‘But I am an optimist. If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries our species should be safe as we spread into space.’
Earlier this year, Hawking warned that humans should be wary about trying to make contact with other alien lifeforms in space as we could not be sure that they would be friendly.
‘If we are the only intelligent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue.’
Comment: Well, well, well, it looks like Hawking is channelling James McCanney. Who is James McCanney? Well, he can be described as one of NASA's greatest enemies because of his indepth understanding of how the Universe works. In my opinion, McCanney's greatest quote is: "NASA couldn't put a mouse into space". I laugh every time I think of that phrase. Anyway, this article is a load of wishful thinking. Space is highly radioactive and getting worse due to Space Weather, hence the following announcement by Lord Rees, the Queen's astronomer,
"Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at Cambridge University, believes that planets resembling Earth may be discovered in the next two to three years - although it may take a further 20 years before we are able to capture an image of them. Rees also believes that the need for manned space exploration is rapidly diminishing in the face of new technologies and advances in robotics, an that explorers walking on the surface of planets like Mars in the future are likely to be adventurers of the sort who conquered Everest, rather than astronauts on state-backed missions of the type NASA undertake." "The Era of Robotic Space Exploration is Here": World-leading Astrophysicist
Quite frankly, we are not the most intelligent beings in the Universe and the thought of stupid, warlike, greedy and selfish people being the best that the Universe can come up with, is completely shocking to me.
The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don’t Want You to Know
Alexander Higgins Blog, 7th August 2010
Environmental activist Jerry Cope has spent the last few weeks traveling along the Gulf Coast and experiencing firsthand the contamination in the air and water. In an article published on Huffington Post, Cope argues that instead of celebrating the allegedly vanishing oil, we should be concerned about the disappearance of marine life in the Gulf. He describes the Gulf as a “kill zone” and looks into where the marine animals have gone, given that BP has reported a relatively low number of dead animals from the spill.
Comment: This is an amalgamation of various reports circulating the internet and source links are provided. A good roundup of current news on the BP oil disaster is at Florida Oil Spill Law link. Here is the latest YouTube video by James C. Fox, who is a documentary filmmaker, Reports reveal that BP is sinking all the oil with Corexit!! . Again the quality of the sound at the beginning (0:58 - 1:40) disappears, but I suspect there was nothing wrong with the sound before the video hit YouTube... We find BP are still spraying dispersant at night to keep the oil on the bottom of the ocean, so it really makes you wonder how long that's going to be kept up. Anyway, at the end of this video the comment is interesting, "BP are not scared of the President, they are not scared of nobody." I could elaborate on what is going on but I won't bother as others do that adequately.
Another similar article about the mysterious disappearance of sea life,
'Death Gyre' in the Gulf: Firsthand accounts and leaked photos of a secret BP processing facility -- possibly for dead animals -- point to a massive cover-up in the Gulf. An exclusive report.
British bookmakers slash 'alien' odds
UPI News, 6th August 2010
LONDON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- British bookmakers say they've lowered odds that "aliens exist" following news reports that Winston Churchill ordered a coverup of a World War II UFO sighting.
U.K. betting shops slashed the odds that either Prime Minister David Cameron or U.S. President Barack Obama would admit the existence of aliens within a year from 100-1 down to 80-1, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
One British company reported a surge of people willing to wager on whether there was extraterrestrial life after claims were published that Churchill ordered the coverup out of fear of public panic and loss of faith in religion.
"We have had loads of calls. There are thousands of believers out there many of whom are putting their money on an imminent announcement," a spokesman for the William Hill odds-making outfit said.
Comment: Yes, I stated that bookmakers needed to stop taking bets in January 2010, see archives!
UFO reports flood in for West Lothian [Scotland, UK]
W. Lothian Courier, 5th August 2010
THE people of West Lothian are being urged to watch the sky after a string of reports of unidentified flying objects in the area. UFO website forums across the country have been flooded with reports of strange sights seen in the night skies above Whitburn, Bathgate and Livingston in the past month.
One reader phoned the Courier to describe “strange orange lights” he had seen in the sky over Whitburn last week.
The man said he was walking back from the Hillcroft Hotel up to Gleneagles Court with his wife when he saw two triangular orange lights above them. He said: “They looked like they were moving from the Falkirk area to Edinburgh, almost like they were following the route of the M8. They were moving quite quickly but they didn’t make any sound. They would reach a particular point then they would turn black.
Comment: Lots more sightings of these strange fiery lights and other strange objects, but even if the authorities ban Chinese lanterns, sightings will NOT disappear because these lights and objects are plasma entities and their appearance is associated with the dimensional shift that is now taking place planet wide. There are hundreds of recent reports at the UK UFO sightings website but here are some sightings that have made it into the UK local media in the last few days.
Were strange lights over Stamford a UFO? [UK]
Rutland and Stmaford Mercury, 6th August 2010
"The lights came along from the north and headed south. They were going at about 20mph even though there was no wind and they weren't that high. "I am completely stumped about what they could be and I just wanted to know if anyone else saw them or had any explanation as to what they could be."
More UFO sightings - Tendring Colchester [UK]
Clacton Gazette, 6th August 2010
“It looks like it was a huge balloon which had broken free and was caught in streams of air across the sky.”
Second UFO sighting spotted near Stansted Airport [UK]
Saffron Walden Reporter, 6th August 2010
"It was 10.30pm and we saw an orange, oval light in the sky above the field; an orange glow emanated from the underneath and it was moving in an easterly direction."
UFO chaser saw objects over Abercynon [Wales, UK]
Wales Online, 6th August 2010
"...the object as “looking like a tanker”, “huge”, “with tubes coming out of it”.
Mystery of orange UFO in Calderdale's skies [UK]
Evening Courier, 7th August 2010
"An unprecedented number of UFO sightings have been made over the last couple of months in and around Halifax. People have seen a bright orange ball hovering in the sky which then suddenly disappears into the distance."
Spate of UFO sightings in town [Colchester, UK]
Chelmsford Weekly News, 8th August 2010
“We saw this round disk in the sky. It had so many lights on it I was shocked. It wasn’t a plane. “It stood still in the air, then looked like it was landing in the field. [...] “I will never forget what I saw. This was no Chinese lantern. It was some kind of ship, but I’m not sure what.”
1,850-mile smoke cloud blankets Russia (Video)
MSNBC News, 6th August 2010
MOSCOW — Planes were diverted from Moscow airports on Friday after huge peat and forest fires blanketed the capital in acrid smoke, forcing some businesses to close and office workers to wear surgical masks at their desks.
Pollution surged to five times normal levels in the city of 10.5 million, the highest sustained contamination since Russia's worst heat wave in more than a century began a month ago. Officials urged Muscovites to not venture outdoors.
"Looking at the overall duration (of the pollution), today's smoke level is the worst yet," said Alexei Popikov, an expert on air quality at Moscow's state-run pollution monitoring agency.
Comment: More Boston.com:
Picture Gallery: Russian wildfires
"Last month, Russia endured the hottest July ever recorded since records began 130 years ago. The intense heat and drought affecting central Russia has been drying out trees and peat marshes, which have been catching fire recently, burning forests, fields and houses across a massive region. Some 500 new fires have been reported in the last 24 hours alone, and a mobilization of hundreds of thousands of emergency workers is underway to combat them. President Dmitry Medvedev has now declared a state of emergency in seven regions. To date, over 1,500 homes have been destroyed and 40 lives have been lost. as wildfires continue across over 300,000 acres. (38 photos total)"
Why have the Northern Lights moved south?
BBC News, 5th August 2010
The Northern lights, it seems, have moved further south and have been visible from countries including Germany and Denmark. So what exactly is causing this spectacle? And how long will it last?
Comment: Well, someone is asking a very pertinent question! The same question could be asked about why noctilucent clouds are being seen further south too. Anyway, the article does not answer the question posed, as this is a great source of anxiety to space weather scientists who realise that Earth's protection against Space Weather is quickly getting weaker and weaker. The CMEs that were generated by the complex solar eruption on the Sun that took place on the 1st August, were not even categorised to generate a major geomagnetic storm, and apparently we only had a 'decent' geomagnetic storm, but the impact was the same as major geomagnetic storms that we have experienced in the past when auroras are pushed down farther south. The only conclusion we can come to is that the Earth's magnetic field is not offering the same resistance to external magnetic fields as it did in the past. More:
First picture of the Sun erupting in 'solar tsunami' which sparked incredible Northern Lights displays
Daily Mail, 6th August 2010
Slideshow: Mutant Animals
Pravda News, August 2010
Comment: Most of these mutations or types of mutations have been documented on this website but the cow with a pig snout is worthy of some serious thought. Yes, two heads or two faces, extra legs etc can be easily explained away, but a cow acquiring pig DNA to generate a snout (comparable to the piglet with a monkey head) is starting to look like some serious mixing up of DNA and is exactly what we should expect at times of evolutionary change. DNA is starting to jump species and generate 'mutants' and this will increase until at some level, a kind of equilibirum is reached where new species are able to survive in new environmental conditions. See Best of the Blog DNA Mutations
Freedom for Minn. Man Convicted in Toyota Crash
ABC News, 5th August 2010
Minn. man freed after 2½ years in prison in fatal Toyota crash reopened after carmaker's woes
A Minnesota man who spent nearly 2½ years in prison for a fatal Toyota crash walked free Thursday, after a judge ordered a new trial and a prosecutor said she wouldn't prolong the case reopened in the wake of the carmaker's widely publicized sudden acceleration problems. Koua Fong Lee, 32, of St. Paul, jumped up and hugged his attorney after Ramsey County District Judge Joanne Smith said she had seen enough new evidence to warrant a retrial. Soon after, county attorney Susan Gaertner said there wouldn't be one.
"I think it's time to bring this very sad situation to a close," Gaertner said.
Lee's wife, Panghoua Moua, sobbed when the judge announced her decision. The couple has four children, ages 8, 5, 3 and 2, and Moua said her husband barely knows the youngest two because of his time in prison.
Comment: This is especially interesting after Toyota is claiming that drivers don't know the difference between the brake and the accelerator. Well, I have to agree that the judge has made the right decision. Unfortunately, it's sad that innocent people have been killed and others placed in prison for a bad design fault within electronics, which is being exacerbated by the changing environment of increased cosmic rays. See previous articles and comments on this subject at Best of the Blog Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos
NASA To Research Lightning This Summer
Red Orbit, 4th August 2010
Lightning's connection to hurricane intensification has eluded researchers for decades, and for a riveting 40 days this summer, NASA lightning researchers will peer inside storms in a way they never have before.
Earth scientists and engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will soon fly the Lightning Instrument Package, or LIP, a flight instrument designed to track and document lightning as hurricanes develop and intensify. In August and September, LIP will fly on a remotely piloted Global Hawk airplane over the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean at an altitude of 60,000 feet. LIP will be part of a NASA hurricane study called Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes, or GRIP for short. The study involves three storm chaser planes mounted with 15 instruments. LIP and the other instruments will work together to create the most complete view of hurricanes to date.
Comment: This was missed, but I have decided it needs to be added for the record. Also: More info: The Mysteries of Lightning
'Suns' hover over Sichuan, claimed as UFOs
China.org, 4th August 2010
At dusk about 8 pm, three "suns" suddenly appeared and illuminated the sky above Leshan City, Sichuan Province, lasting for about 10 minutes on July 26, Sichuan News reported.
"This remains a mystery and needs a comprehensive analysis," said Professor Wang Sichao, a researcher of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The "suns" attracted plenty of attention. According to photographer Lu Shan, the objects first appeared in the west. After about ten minutes, the objects moved northward and their diameter gradually narrowed.
"As they faded, they were moving like the sunset, and the light was quite gentle," Lu said.
Some people talked of a UFO invasion, but Lu, after conducting some informal research, believes it's a type of reflection from the sun or another strange phenomenon.
According to Wang, a sundog, or known scientifically as a perihelion, is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo. It's an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds.
However, the professor added that on that night the region shouldn't have had any sundogs.
"It's quite strange," Wang said.
He suggested that more photos taken from different areas and more witness reports are needed to solve the mystery.
Comment: Well, they do look like 'Suns'.... When I first saw this report with pictures, I thought it was an unbelievable 'bad' photoshopped image, but now Chinese astronomers are investigating, so the initial reports were real. Since we have had many reports of sundogs that I do think are genuine, strange 'apparitions' that may or may not be plasma entities add to the confusion associated with a growing list of strange atmospheric effects. In short, orbs are routinely dismissed as swamp gas, balloons, Chinese lanterns and 'sun dogs' but it's not a new phenomenon as there is an historical precedent and the noted historian Pliny The Elder (23 AD – August 25, 79),wrote about 'three suns.' So we read:
CHAP. 31. (31.)—MANY SUNS.
And again, many suns have been seen at the same time1; not
above or below the real sun, but in an oblique direction, never
near nor opposite to the earth, nor in the night, but either
in the east or in the west. They are said to have been seen
once at noon in the Bosphorus, and to have continued from
morning until sunset. Our ancestors have frequently seen
three suns at the same time2, as was the case in the consulship of
Sp. Postumius and L. Mucius, of L. Marcius and
M. Portius, that of M. Antony and Dolabella, and that of
M. Lepidus and L. Plancus. And we have ourselves seen
one during the reign of the late Emperor Claudius, when he was consul along with Corn. Orfitus. We have no account
transmitted to us of more than three having been seen at
the same time.
The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. source
Another reports from China... The aliens are coming
Global Times, 5th August 2010
Churchill and Eisenhower 'agreed to cover up RAF plane's UFO encounter during WWII', secret files reveal
Daily Mail, 5th August 2010
Sir Winston Churchill was accused of covering up a close encounter between an RAF aircraft and a UFO during the Second World War, newly-released files reveal today.
The former prime minister allegedly ordered that the unexplained incident over the east coast of England should be kept secret for at least 50 years because it would provoke 'mass panic'.
The claim, made by a scientist who said his grandfather was one of Churchill's bodyguards, is recounted in declassified Ministry of Defence UFO files made available online by the National Archives.
Allegations of the cover-up emerged when the man, from Leicester, wrote to the government in 1999 seeking to find out more about the incident.
He described how his grandfather, who served with the RAF in the war, was present when Churchill and US General Dwight Eisenhower discussed how to deal with the UFO encounter.
The man, who is not named in the files, said Churchill was reported to have exclaimed: 'This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic amongst the general population and destroy one's belief in the church.'
Comment: This is a cover story for latest release of UK UFO files and it seems the media loves to remind the public about Winston Churchill and his interest in UFOs. Well, maybe the phenomena was not properly understood in Churchill's time, but we now know that the military have realised that most real ufos are not craft in the conventional sense, but most represent a completely different life form and some are interdimensional 'ether ships' made from intelligent aetheric (plasma) energy. Please note the careful wording here:
"Asked to intervene, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) agreed there was no evidence of visits by lifeforms
from other planets and backed Ladbrokes."
[...]
"An MoD official replied on July 23 1999: 'The MoD does not have any expertise in respect of UFO
matters or to the question of the existence of extraterrestrial lifeforms, about which it remains totally open-minded.
'However, to date the MoD is not aware of any evidence that might substantiate the existence of alien lifeforms and therefore supports the view that your bet should not be upheld.' [emphasis added]
It's interesting that the UK MOD is wisely directing people to the existence of extraterrestrial life forms rather than hyping up the existence of aliens in craft because after over 60 years of research by scientists, this is the main conclusion that has been reached. Well, the debate is all rather ridiculous now, as the planet is being swamped, the game is up!
Northern Lights seen as far south as Michigan after Sun's 'solar tsunami'. Now it's the UK's chance tonight
Daily Mail, 4th August 2010
Skywatchers in the UK will get a second chance to witness the Northern Lights tonight after missing out on the spectacular sight last night. Parts of northern America, in particular the state of Michigan, were lucky enough to be given clear skies last night and managed to catch the incredible display.
And David Gavine, the director of the British Astronomical Association's Aurora division, said that there is every chance the UK might be able to see similar views tonight after Denmark enjoyed some wonderful views last night. The sighting in Denmark is significant because it is on much the same geomagnetic latitude as the UK, which determines how far south the aurora is visible. 'So there's every chance, if the skies are clear that we might see something tonight, ' Mr Gavine said. Even though northern states like Michigan are far further south than the UK they are still more likely to see the Northern Lights.
Comment: Stunning! But I think all the attempts at weather control have weakened the atmosphere over the US as another reason why auroras are more likely.
Northern Lights Move South
Flickr/Yahoo Editorial , August 2010
"Usually, the Northern Lights can only be seen by folks who live far to the north. But this week, the Aurora Borealis is making an appearance in lower Canada, some of the United States, Norway and other countries around the globe."
Solar Storm Update: Best Times for Viewing Aurorae
Universe Today, 3rd August 2010
"The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics released the latest information on the July 31/August 1 activity on the Sun that is just now reaching Earth. They predict we'll have multiple opportunities for a display of the Northern Lights over the next two days. The latest word from the solar scientists is that the Sun erupted not just once, but four times. All four coronal mass ejections are headed toward Earth."
4 CMEs?
Spaceweather.com, 4th august 2010
GEOMAGNETIC
STORM--MORE TO COME? The solar storm of August
1st sent two CMEs toward Earth. The first one arrived yesterday,
August 3rd, sparking mild but beautiful Northern Lights over
Europe and North America (see below). The second CME is still
en route. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of major
geomagnetic storms when the cloud arrives on August 4th or
5th. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert
for auroras.
NORTHERN
LIGHTS: A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit
Earth's magnetic field on August 3rd at 1740 UT. The impact
sparked a G2-class
geomagnetic storm that lasted nearly 12 hours--time enough
for auroras to spread all the way from Europe to North America.
Travis Novitsky sends this picture from Grand Portage, Minnesota:
COMPLEX
ERUPTION ON THE SUN: On August 1st, the entire
Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity.
There was a C3-class solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple
filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale
shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass
ejection and more. This extreme ultraviolet snapshot from
the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun's northern hemisphere
in mid-eruption:
OK, solar scientists have been anticipating that things would get lively, but NOBODY predicted that huge strips of the sun would start peeling off and be flung towards Earth...
Are you ready for life in world 3?
New Scientist, 2nd August 2010
In the 1970s, Karl Popper came up with a philosophical theory of reality that involved three interacting worlds: the physical world, the mental world, and "world 3", which comprises all products of the human mind - from ideas, pictures and music to every word ever written.
Something very similar to world 3 is now real and increasingly influencing how we live, says George Djorgovski, co-director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech. It's called the internet.
It's the first morning of Science Foo camp, and I've chosen a session called "virtualisation of science and virtualisation of the world". In fact - fittingly for a meeting being held at Google headquarters - how we deal with life increasingly lived online turns out to be one of the main themes of the day.
Djorgovski reckons that before long, being online will soon mean (among other things) not staring at a computer screen but being immersed in 3D virtual reality.
He thinks this will be key to how we'll make scientific discoveries in the future. Forget graphs - two dimensions are totally inadequate for dealing with the vast amounts of data pouring out of everything from high-throughput genome sequencing to atom smashers like the Large Hadron Collider. We'll need machine intelligence capable of analysing these huge data sets, he says, as well as ways to visualise and interact with the results in three dimensions.
Comment:
I wonder if Karl Popper hijacked the ideas of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, with their concept of the Noosphere that has now been appropriated to explain the existence of the internet. Since Chardin wrote 'The Phenomenon of Man' (Le Phénomène Humain) in 1955 that became an instant hit in intellectual circles, I would be amazed if Popper had not been influenced. Well, when I was at University, the internet was still something foreign! The difference I see for education is the ability to find information tailored to how people want to learn and geared at many different levels. All the talk of brains atrophying is ridiculous when we consider current education systems that forces people to learn parrot fashion information decided by the elite that basically consists of brain washing the masses (e.g. history with serious blind spots) and hence not even neccessarily relevant or helpful in producing sane and mature individuals.
40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth
MSNBC News, 4th August 2010
More than three dozen of America's wealthiest individuals and families have joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in agreeing to give away at least half their fortunes to charity.
The announcement was made Wednesday by The Giving Pledge, an effort officially launched by Gates and Buffett earlier this year to persuade the richest people in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to the philanthropic causes and charitable organizations of their choice, either during their lifetime or after their death.
In addition to Buffett and Gates — America's two wealthiest individuals, with a combined net worth of $90 million, according to Forbes — 38 other billionaires are taking the give-it-away pledge. They include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, film director George Lucas and investor Ronald Perelman.
"We’ve really just started, but already we’ve had a terrific response,” Buffett, co-founder and chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said in a statement. “At its core, the Giving Pledge is about asking wealthy families to have important conversations about their wealth and how it will be used.
"We’re delighted that so many people are doing just that – and that so many have decided to not only take this pledge but also to commit to sums far greater than the 50 percent minimum level.”
Comment: Difficult to know what to say. Maybe this is some recognition that the United States has been destroyed by greed and capitalism has failed.
An AUTOPSY of the BP Gulf Oil Well at the Macondo Prospect
Phoenix Rising from the Gulf, 3rd August 2010
Many have been asking about the current state of the previously gushing BP Oil Well at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. The following questions have been coming fast and furiously since the well was capped. Is it still leaking at the wellhead? Has the wellhead been pierced? Are there other wells leaking in the region? Are there methane seeps in the area around the well? Are there other leaks in the area coming from this well? Has the well been breached? Is it beyond repair? How deep are the leaks and breaches?
Comment: This report is added because there is an excellent diagrammatic Illustration of BP’s Deepwater Horizon Blowout and explains why geologist Chris Landau claims that BP completely ruined the geological formation. It's taking a long time to get a clear picture of what has been taking place and the nuclear option might have been already utilised for all we know, but it's now become clear that a "dog and pony show" has been taking place. BP drilled two wells in Macondo Prospect 252, Well A that had been abandoned previously and the blow out took place at Well B. This has been fairly well established now with documents available in the public domain and GPS measurements of where these wells are located. For an indepth explanation see BP OIL - NO BS !! - 2 WELLS DRILLED ABANDONED - 1 of 4
BP Disaster: Russia’s Take
Pravda, 27th July 2010
"Dr. Sagalevich’s report was drawn up and presented to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In this report, the investigator from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology and the Russian Academy of Science has stated that the ocean floor has been irreparably damaged and that the planet must prepare for an ecological disaster “beyond all understanding”.
The reason why Dr. Sagalevich was called by BP is because he is the leading world expert in deepwater exploration, having been awarded the order of Lenin for the creation of the submersibles MIR-1 and MIR-2, which are capable of diving to a depth of 6 km, the deepest-reaching submarines in the world.
For Dr. Sagalevich, the oil pouring into the Gulf is not just coming from one source, as the media have been claiming, but fro 18 different places. According to the report, the Russian scientists called by the USA are forbidden to divulge their findings to the media – yet another source backing up the claim that there is a media blackout.
According to a report in Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russian experts are pressing the Americans to use a nuclear explosion to extinguish the well, before it destroys the Atlantic Ocean."
Well, BP think that hiding oil under the surface is clever but destroying an ocean is insane. This disaster is not over yet.
Whitefield Hill, nr Woodsend, Wiltshire. Reported 3rd August.
Crop Circle Connector, 3rd August 2010
This sensational design is directly next to an ancient barrow and a radio mast.
The circle is located on top of the ridge. It was discovered by Madelien Scholten
Comment: Yes, there were plenty of crop circles in late July, but I am particularly fascinated with this formation reported today. There are no comments or field reports here yet, so I will offer my opinion. I believe that this is how Einstein's theory of general relativity is usually depicted; a mass generating a deformation in spacetime that generates the force of gravity. The imagery often used is a ball deforming a rubber sheet, see example here. Since the crop circle makers have been emphasising over many years now the changes in the fabric of spacetime due to space weather, it's particularly interesting that this formation should appear at the expected arrival time of a massive blast of plasma energy in the form of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun, especially as the international community of solar physicists have been amazed by the nature of this solar eruption.
Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics
Huffington Post, 3rd August 2010
Four to five percent of the population is born without a capacity for empathy. It is a neurological lack. A psychopath may be a genius and become a multimillionaire, but he will never be able to understand empathetic values.
In fact, because of the grandiosity of these personalities and consequent intense denial they have toward their shortcomings, they are arguably less capable of understanding empathy than a congenitally deaf person is of understanding music. Their minds are closed. Psychopaths treat the empathetic majority as the defective ones and seek relentlessly to remake the world in their own image, to proselytize their viewpoint and values and to "teach" their "defective" empathetic fellows to think like them. [...]
By contrast, today's large corporations are run like banana republics by tin-pot dictators. The checks and balances are gone. The replacement of the Greatest Generation's empathetic values with psychopathic values is evident in the manner in which executive salaries have skyrocketed past all possible justification while rank and file wages and benefits have been eviscerated and jobs ruthlessly outsourced. The devastation they have wrought on lives and communities is further exacerbated by their relentless corruption of government at all levels into a kleptocratic source of revenue. They have become intolerable parasites.
Comment: Good article. I am much more interested in psychopaths after coming across various New Agers who fit the description of narcissists, malignant narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths. The real jokers are the ones talking about spiritual evolution who have clearly never read a text book on the subject, but demonstrate in their business practices that they are ruthless liars. Of couse, these people use extreme methods to try and get what they think is rightfully theirs, so if you are involved in the scene, it's well worth studying this subject to avoid being the subject of these manipulators.
Happy people more likely to see others as happy
People who see the best in others are more likely to be happy and well adjusted themselves, a study found
The Telegraph, 3rd August 2010
Researchers discovered that the way people judge others says as much about their own mental wellbeing as it does about the person they are describing. The more likely people are to see others as happy, kind-hearted and emotionally stable is often a reflection on how happy, kind hearted and emotionally stable they feel. [...]
They discovered particularly strong associations between positively judging others and how enthusiastic, happy, kind-hearted, courteous, emotionally stable and capable the person describes oneself and is described by others. "Seeing others positively reveals our own positive traits," Prof Wood says. The study also found that how positively you see other people shows how satisfied you are with your own life, and how much you are liked by others.
In contrast, negative perceptions of others are linked to higher levels of narcissism and anti-social behaviour. "A huge suite of negative personality traits are associated with viewing others negatively," Prof Wood said. "The simple tendency to see people negatively indicates a greater likelihood of depression and various personality disorders."
Comment: Sorry, I have long ago given up naively seeing the best in others, because I have been disappointed too many times. These days I take a neutral stance, ie. I give people enough rope and see what they do with it. That way, I feel much more comfortable watching to see what happens and it severely reduces the disappointment. These days, nobody gets an automatic pass.
1 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster (Video)
Bolivia Bella, 3rd August 2010
Over 1 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in numerous Bolivian rivers in the three eastern/southern departments of Santa Cruz, Beni and Tarija.
The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures.
Unprecedented: Nothing like this has ever been seen in this magnitude in Bolivia. Inhabitants of riverside communities report the smell is nauseating and can be detected as far as a kilometer away from river banks.
Comment: There seems to be more and more major disasters natural and manmade.
Northern lights could illuminate the sky late Tuesday night
CNN News, 3rd August 2010
Attention, Earthlings: The sun is spewing plasma toward you, and the results could be beautiful.
Stargazers looking to the sky late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning could see northern lights, or aurorae. According to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the potential light show started Sunday, when the sun's surface erupted and hurled tons of ionized atoms -- or plasma -- into space.
"This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4th," said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."
Comment: Great opening line... This is a great NASA animation of a CME blast, but it's a large file so it might take time to load link. Spaceweather.com has been very busy today.
Update
CME
IMPACT! "The first of possibly two incoming
CMEs hit Earth's magnetic field today at approximately 1730
UT (1:30 pm EDT). As a result of the impact, a polar geomagnetic
storm is brewing." Spaceweather.com, 3rd August 2010 link
Germany gets red auroras! see link .
The magnetosphere is getting hit hard! See, Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation
With a Glimmer of a Chance, Stardust Is Identified
New York Times, 2nd August 2010
Three specks of matter captured by the NASA spacecraft Stardust may be stardust that has just entered our solar system. "They have all the hallmarks of interstellar dust," said Andrew Westphal of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Westphal reported the first speck in March, and he described the second and third on Friday at a meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Manhattan. Each speck is about one-25,000th of an inch across.
The third is particularly intriguing. It is rich in carbon, raising the possibility that it is full of the molecules that could serve as the building blocks for life.
Comment: According to the European Space Agency, stardust has been entering our solar system since the 1990s and our solar system was supposed to be flooded with this interstellar star dust by 2012, so this story of an army of dusters looking for these rare specks from a small sample just seems odd to me. Anyway, is this the predicted adamantine particles that the metaphysical community have been told to expect and why are scientists so anxious to identify these particles?
Quite frankly, if metaphysical sources and scientists are both correct, then we can believe that we have entered a new period of renewal and evolutionary change because this stardust has to be highly charged to cross the plasma sheath called the heliosphere around our solar system and therefore we can expect this highly charged plasma to be life giving.
Family rescued after GPS blunder
ABC News, 2nd August 2010
A family of four and their dog spent four days bogged in mud in far west New South Wales after being led astray by a GPS unit.
Police say the driver drove off the road while following instructions from the GPS on Thursday. They say the GPS instructed the driver to travel along a closed road near Wilcannia, and the driver ignored the road closure signs. Weather conditions prevented police from getting to the family sooner but they were finally rescued last night. Sergeant Fisher from Broken Hill Police Station says a rescue team from Wilcannia was finally able to get them out yesterday.
"[The crew] braved extremely difficult and treacherous road conditions and travelled out there," he said. "They actually slid off the road quite a few times and almost got bogged themselves." Police say the local council may fine the family for damage done to the road.
Comment: Well, some people are going to be severely disappointed when they find out that our modern technological world cannot cope with severe Space Weather which is essentially deliveries of aetheric energy. It is a FACT that when we are experiencing the most severe blasts of space weather, GPS is unreliable and those who are hypnotised by GPS and refuse to pay attention to the real world, like signs that say ROAD CLOSED, will find themselves in trouble.
Has Life Spread Virally Through the Universe? (A 'Galaxy' Most Popular)
Daily Galaxy, 1st August 2010
Life originated in a nebular cloud, over 10 billion years ago, but may have had multiple origins in multiple locations, including in galaxies older than the Milky Way according to Rudolf Schild of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Rhawn Joseph of the Brain Research Laboratory. Multiple origins, they believe, could account for the different domains of life: archae, bacteria, eukaryotes.
The first steps toward life may have been achieved when self-replicating nano-particles initially comprised of a mixture of carbon, calcium, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, sugars, and other elements and gasses were combined and radiated, forming a nucleus around which a lipid-like permeable membrane was established, and within which DNA-bases were laddered together with phosphates and sugars; a process which may have taken billions of years.
Comment: Articles like this imply that a paradigm shift is taking place in astrobiology, a victory for those who have been advocating Panspermia for many decades. The believers include Nobel Prize winners who were scorned for their beliefs that life on Earth came from outer space but the latest discoveries have made this hypothesis extremely hard to debunk, but at the same it means that life will be ubiquitous in space and would be DNA based but not necessarily carbon based. Please note the emphasis on the first steps towards life requiring "a lipid-like permeable membrane, this is a plasma interface see Wikipedia Semipermeable membrane . Despite the emphasis on chemistry, all chemistry is a dance of charges and a plasma interface will only allow charge that has a higher potential associated with molecules or ions to pass through it. We are being told here clearly that the first kind of life is plasma based, and we can immediately cite indigenous sources who claim that there are other forms of life in the universe that they have called The Ancestors.
COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN:
Spaceweather.com, 1st August 2010
This morning around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action:
The timing of these events suggest they are connected, and a review of SDO movies strengthens that conclusion. Despite the ~400,000 km distance between them, the sunspot and filament seem to erupt together; they are probably connected by long-range magnetic fields. In this movie (171 Å), a shadowy shock wave (a "solar tsunami") can be seen emerging from the flare site and rippling across the northern hemisphere into the filament's eruption zone. That may have helped propel the filament into space.
In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun.
A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth: SOHO movie. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd.
Comment: Well, there are now constant reports of these filament eruptions and maybe they signify that the Sun is processing a different type of energy associated with the cosmic environment. The question is: are we witnessing the expected change of Sun? The C3 flare would have arrived at the speed of light in just over 8 minutes and consist of X-rays, gamma rays and radio waves which would wash over the Earth and cause some radio communication problems. The temperature in the region of a solar flare can reach 10 million degrees centigrade and sometimes this is accompanied by a CME, which occurs when the surface of the Sun just lifts off and blasts into space, this mass of particles (billions of tons) travels at a much slower speed usually taking 3/4 days to arrive and hit Earth's magnetosphere. Now, scientists have these giant filaments to study and instead of a localised region, we have a vast swathe of the Sun lifting off in one go carrying a complex magnetic field that will have a greater impact on Earth's technological infrastructure, such as satellites, radio communications, power grids and pipelines. For more details and geomagnetic field forecasts, visit www.solarcycle24.com/.
There has been a problem at the International Space Agency, but no mention that it was related to the solar flare, but apparently there was a power Surge (0000 Sunday GMT) see the 3-day solar flux chart 3-day Solar-Geophysical Forecast issued Aug 02 22:00 UTC . see Cooling system shut down aboard space station & space.com Space Station Suffers Cooling System Malfunction .
MoD blocks release of UFO files
AP, 1st August 2010
The release of files about a Ministry of Defence civil servant-turned-UFO expert has been blocked.
Nick Pope has drawn on his experiences working for Britain's official UFO investigation unit for a number of books about aliens and strange sights in the skies.
Fellow UFO researcher David Clarke made a Freedom of Information request in 2007 for internal MoD documents about Mr Pope's decision to speak publicly about his conversion from sceptic to believer in the possibility that extra-terrestrials are visiting Earth.
But more than three years later, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has upheld the department's refusal to publish the files because they contain personal information.
Mr Pope worked on the MoD's UFO desk from 1991 to 1994, dealing with possible sightings sent in by the public. He published his first book about the phenomena - Open Skies, Closed Minds - in 1996, although he continued working for the MoD until November 2006.
Comment: So what exactly are they hiding? Well, it's obvious to me that the MOD have been aware for decades that most UFOs/UAPs represent another life form and fear the consequences of the general public finding out. However, since the planet is now being swamped as we experience The Return of The Ancestors, I suppose the UK MOD are now collectively holding their breath, whilst some senior military officers in other countries are breaking ranks and speaking of what they know of the situation. Meanwhile metaphysical leaders get an epic FAIL for not realising what exactly was going to happen when the veil lifts.
Scholar wins Malaysian TV's Young Imam contest
BBC News, 30th July 2010
A 26-year-old religious scholar has been chosen as the winner of a Malaysian TV talent show searching for a top young imam, or Muslim leader. In Friday's live TV final, Muhammad Asyraf saw off the last of nine other contestants vying to win Young Imam. He had survived 10 weeks of written and practical tests, which included reciting Koran verses, washing a dead body for burial and slaughtering sheep. His prize includes a scholarship to a Saudi university and a trip to Mecca.
Comment: Personally, I think this would be interesting to watch, but it does reinforce the notion that culturally, religious figures can be compared to 'pop idols.' So of course, TV will attract and encourage many who have no real deep spirituality, but have a strong personality and the ability to act and parrot popular religious catchphrases.
Source of Gulf Oil Plumes: 7 Miles from Deepwater Horizon
World Vision Portal, 28th July 2010
After reading the following, I'm sure everyone will also reach the same logical conclusion as I have based on the evidence, facts and truth I'm presenting here. All illustrations are taken directly from the referenced reports cited below.
THE BILOXI DOME
At Latitude 28/40/00 N and Longitude 88/26/00 W [decimal Latitude 28.6666 Longitude -88.4333] in the Gulf of Mexico is an ancient volcanic crater. It's geographically classified as an undersea hill and the common name given to it is the Biloxi Dome. It's located approximately 7 miles or about 12 kilometers southwest from the BP Deepwater Horizon well [Latitude 28/44/17 N Longitude 88/21/57 W].
In this satellite picture, the Biloxi Dome is at the center of the picture and looks like a shoe or an oblong shaped rim of a volcano:
NOAA Underwater Joint Analysis Group Study
NOAA (National Oceanographic and Aeronautical Administration) has now released their underwater study, the Joint Analysis Group (JAG) Review, which examined subsurface oil in and around the BP Deepwater Horizon well #1 - located in Mississippi Canyon block 252 - from May 19 to June 19, 2010.
Their report presented data collected by five research vessels; the R/V Brooks McCall, R/V Ocean Veritas, R/V Walton Smith, R/V Thomas Jefferson, and R/V Gordon Gunter.
They used a scientific method called Fluorometry to measure for underwater oil. Fluorescence Spectroscopy - a/k/a Fluorometry or Spectrofluorometry - is a type of electromagnetic spectroscopy which analyzes fluorescence. It usually utilizes a beam of ultraviolet light that excites the electrons in molecules of certain compounds and causes them to emit light of a lower energy, such as visible light. For more information on how this works, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence_spectroscopy.
Conclusions made from their report stated that their Fluorometry measurements showed the presence of oil at a depth between 1000 and 1300 meters. They also concluded that active oil seeps were mapped at about 12 kilometers southwest of the BP Deepwater Horizon wellhead.
Comment: A basic summary with technical data and NOAA's Review of Preliminary Data to Examine Subsurface Oil In the Vicinity of MC252#1
May 19 to June 19, 2010
New Robot Capable Of Unhealthily Repressing Emotion
The Onion, 30th July 2010
Copy: PITTSBURGH—Announcing a crucial breakthrough in the effort to create machines that accurately simulate human behavior, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said Monday they had built the first robot with the capacity to suppress its emotions.
"This is the holy grail of artificial intelligence," said project director Kate Tillman, explaining that the robot instantly performs millions of computations to ensure feelings of unresolved anger and simmering resentment remain deeply buried within its complex circuitry.
"We felt we were on the right track when we brought up a personal shortcoming and it paced around the lab muttering, but when it started breaking eye contact and changing the subject, we knew we had accomplished something revolutionary." Tillman added that with its superior processing power, the robot could apply for clerical work and settle for the nearest available partner 10,000 times faster than a human being.
Comment: Satire!
American Soldiers Brainwashed with “Positive Thinking”
Veterans Today, 28th July 2010
- The U.S. military has become increasingly excited about positive psychology techniques. Maybe a better route would be to offer soldiers respect for their critical thinking -
While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America’s psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else they are next ordered to kill the bad guys and win the hearts and minds of everyone else.
The U.S. Army is planning to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take intensive training in positive psychology and emotional resiliency. Army Research Psychologist Capt. Paul Lester, who leads the assessment of the program, told the National Psychologist (“Army to Train its Own in Positive Psychology,” July/August 2010), “As far as I can tell this is the largest, deliberate, psychological intervention in human history. . . . We don’t know when the global war on terrorism is going to end so we’re preparing to have to be engaged for a long period of time.”
Lester said the program would develop “communication skills, cognitive reforming skills and help soldiers not to catastrophize — don’t think of the worse case scenario about every potential problem.” The program also teaches soldiers to focus on “expressing appreciation” and “correcting negative views of ambiguous events.”
It’s easy to see positive thinking as a uniquely American form of naïveté, but it is neither uniquely American nor endearingly naïve. In vastly different settings, positive thinking has been a tool of political repression worldwide. . . . In the Soviet Union, as in the Eastern European states and North Korea, the censors required upbeat art, books, and films, meaning upbeat heroes, plots about fulfilling production quotas, and endings promising a glorious revolutionary future. . . .The penalties for negative thinking were real. Not to be positive and optimistic was to be ‘defeatist’. . . . Accusing someone of spreading defeatism condemned him to several years in Stalinist camps.
Comment: I suppose the fact that there is now an epidemic of US soldiers on active duty committing suicide has nothing to do with the decision to encourage soldiers to ignore the facts that they are occupying a foreign country and are killing hundreds of innocents... Yes, the human potential movement has gone overboard on positive thinking and has discouraged critical thinking, the use of a selection of "positive psychology techniques" seems like a way to create dumbed down but "happy" people. Hence, I wonder if the New Age "Law of Attraction" will be on the curriculum...
Model describes universe with no big bang, no beginning, and no end
PhysOrg.com, 29th July 2010
By suggesting that mass, time, and length can be converted into one another as the universe evolves, Wun-Yi Shu has proposed a new class of cosmological models that may fit observations of the universe better than the current big bang model. What this means specifically is that the new models might explain the increasing acceleration of the universe without relying on a cosmological constant such as dark energy, as well as solve or eliminate other cosmological dilemmas such as the flatness problem and the horizon problem.
Shu, an associate professor at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, explains in a study posted at arXiv.org that the new models emerge from a new perspective of some of the most basic entities: time, space, mass, and length. In his proposal, time and space can be converted into one another, with a varying speed of light as the conversion factor. Mass and length are also interchangeable, with the conversion factor depending on both a varying gravitational “constant” and a varying speed of light (G/c2). Basically, as the universe expands, time is converted into space, and mass is converted into length. As the universe contracts, the opposite occurs.
“We view the speed of light as simply a conversion factor between time and space in spacetime,” Shu writes. “It is simply one of the properties of the spacetime geometry. Since the universe is expanding, we speculate that the conversion factor somehow varies in accordance with the evolution of the universe, hence the speed of light varies with cosmic time.”
As Shu writes in his paper, the newly proposed models have four distinguishing features:
• The speed of light and the gravitational “constant” are not constant, but vary with the evolution of the universe.
• Time has no beginning and no end; i.e., there is neither a big bang nor a big crunch singularity.
• The spatial section of the universe is a 3-sphere [a higher-dimensional analogue of a sphere], ruling out the possibility of a flat or hyperboloid geometry.
• The universe experiences phases of both acceleration and deceleration.
Comment: It's good to see the reporting of more and more theories that do away with the Big Bang and all the inherent problems that idea has generated. The variation of spacetime being related to evolution of the universe seems to fit in with the recent understanding of the universe being a complex dynamic system that has a tendency towards critical change, this is especially useful to appreciate, as we are facing a dynamic change in our corner of the universe right now.
Giant South Dakota hailstone breaks US records
Yahoo News, 30th July 2010
VIVIAN, S.D. – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a giant hailstone that fell in central South Dakota has broken U.S. records, even though the man who found it says it melted somewhat while waiting to be evaluated.
The NOAA's National Climate Extremes Committee says the hailstone found in the town of Vivian on July 23 measures 8 inches in diameter and weighs 1 pound, 15 ounces. The committee says the South Dakota ice chunk breaks records set by hailstones discovered in Nebraska and Kansas.
Ranch hand Leslie Scott says the hailstone was about 3 inches larger when he found it. Scott says he put it in the freezer but that he couldn't prevent some melting because of an hours-long power outage that followed the storm.
Comment: Maybe these should be renamed brickhail...
Toyota announces fresh car recall
Press TV, 30th July 2010
Toyota Motor Corp. says it is preparing for a global recall of about 430,000 vehicles in the US and Japan amid concerns over steering mechanisms. The carmaker says most of the cars involved are Avalon sedans made between 2000 and 2004, AP reported. The company said a problem with a component of its steering system could potentially cause the steering wheel to lock up.
"toyota is continuing to work diligently to address safety issues wherever they arise and to strengthen our global quality assurance operations so that toyota owners can be confident in the safety of their vehicles," said Steve St Angelo, toyota chief quality officer for North America.
Comment: It seems that there is an effort to blame drivers rather than contemplate technological failure and despite NASA'a involvment, the thought of cosmic rays interfering with electronics is still unpalatable. The facts are we are experiencing worsening cosmic conditions, as cosmic rays are at a space age high and expected to increase to levels not seen in hundreds of years. Electronics can be designed to reduce electromagnetic inteference from cosmic rays, but it's not a cheap option. More recent headlines:
Drivers to blame for out-of-control Toyotas?
News, 14th July 2010
It's hard to believe there is an attempt to blame drivers by claiming some don't know the difference between the accelerator and the brakes. I suppose this is kind of blame game is sign of escalating Corporate Arrogance and Might is Right!
Toyota appears to do an about-face on reliability of black boxes in its vehicles
Los Angeles Times, 28th July 2010
"The automaker previously said the devices' data could not be relied upon to determine the cause of accidents, but is now citing the readings to suggest that driver error is causing sudden acceleration."
Modern-day Robin Hood hands out £600,000 to poor families after 'robbing' Las Vegas casinos
Daily Mail, 29th July 2010
He calls himself Robin Hood and has vowed to take from the rich to give to the poor. But this modern-day version of the legendary outlaw doesn't roam Sherwood Forest - he strikes at the casinos of glittering Las Vegas. The mysterious cardsharp uses his skills as a professional gambler to 'rob' the casinos and give his winnings to hard-up families.
Comment: OK, some might not agree, but this person is shifting his focus from himself to others and the confession of his crying and an emotional release is interesting. From what I understand, this strongly implies the reconfiguration of his energy field associated with the process of evolving consciousness.
Beggar's Knoll, Nr Westbury, Wiltshire. Reported 27th July.
Crop Circle Connector, 29th July 2010
From CC Comments: "I was just in the Beggar’s Knoll formation today July 27, the first day of its reported appearance. A few of us dashed over to search for it as soon as your notification came in.
There was little sign of previous visitors. Perhaps only one or two people had been there before us (there were 4 of us) and most of the formation had not been touched or walked upon. The lay was quite flat to the ground yet also ‘fluffy’ to step upon. Untouched wheat lay spread before my eyes - a welcomed sight after so many visitors in the formations this year have made such a sight a rare event! I hardly wanted to step on it!!
The perimeters were sharp and clean. Graceful curves in the wheat lay were a lovely feature with only one, possibly two swirled centres among them all. There were numerous segments of the design surrounded by undisturbed standing wheat with no tram line access. Hopefully round shots to come will show this still to be true.
The formation is on a sloping hill and incurs wind – possibly had been rained upon – yet it was all very smooth, if a bit weathered. I found some bent stalks though the crop was very mature and ready for harvest. Numerous crop samples were taken for an LNEAT test to be done later.
This formation is a beautiful example of skilled clean wheat lay that makes the experience of being among the first into it an extra special event on so many levels!
Comment: This particular crop circle has been linked to the 18th July 2010 formation at Woolaston and is being described as the explosive second stage of a proton proton nuclear fusion reaction. I immediately saw a diamond in the centre of this formation which obviously caught my attention, but maybe there will be another as it seems the message is not complete.
Science Turns Authoritarian
The American, 27th July 2010
Science is losing its credibility because it has adopted an authoritarian tone, and has let itself be co-opted by politics. [...]
To see if our suspicions were correct, we decided to do a bit of informal research, checking Lexis Nexis for growth in the use of what we would categorize as “authoritarian” phrasing when it comes to scientific findings. We searched Nexis for the following phrases to see how their use has changed over the last 30 years: "science says we must," "science says we should," "science tells us we must," "science tells us we should," "science commands," "science requires," "science dictates," and "science compels."
What we found surprised us. One phrase, in particular, has become dramatically more frequent in recent years: “Science tells us we should.” Increased usage of this phrase leads to a chart resembling a steep mountain climb (or, for those with a mischievous bent, a “hockey stick”).
The use of the phrase “science requires” also increases sharply over time. The chart (below) vividly shows the increasing use of those particular phrases. Some of this may simply reflect the general growth of media output and the growth of new media, but if that were the case, we would expect all of the terms to have shown similar growth, which they do not.
In other words, around the end of the 1980s, science (at least science reporting) took on a distinctly authoritarian tone. Whether because of funding availability or a desire by some senior academics for greater relevance, or just the spread of activism through the university, scientists stopped speaking objectively and started telling people what to do. And people don’t take well to that, particularly when they’re unable to evaluate the information that supposedly requires them to give up their SUV, their celebratory cigar, or their chicken nuggets. [...]
If science wants to redeem itself and regain its place with the public’s affection, scientists need to come out every time some politician says, “The science says we must…” and reply, “Science only tells us what is. It does not, and can never tell us what we should or must do.” If they say that often enough, and loudly enough, they might be able to reclaim the mantle of objectivity that they’ve given up over the last 40 years by letting themselves become the regulatory state’s ultimate appeal to authority.
Comment: Very interesting... but the increasingly authoritarian tone maybe because the public have become increasingly sceptical of science due to major breaches of trust in recent decades.
Nepal's 'Buddha
boy' investigated for attacking group
BBC News, 27th July 2010
A Nepalese man popularly known as "Buddha boy" is being investigated by police amid reports he beat a group of locals for disturbing his meditation. Ram Bahadur Bomjan has admitted to assaulting some of the local villagers in Bara district on Thursday, according to local media.
Mr Bomjan is famed for spending months in the forest without eating. His devotees believe he is the reincarnation of the Buddha, and he says he has not eaten since 2005.
Comment: If you have been following the story here, it really does make you wonder about his mental state....
Majority of spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico unaccounted for in government data
Washington Post, 29th July 2010
Back in May, BP's chief executive told a British newspaper that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean," and the vast amounts of oil and chemical dispersants dumped into it were small by comparison. After he said that, BP's well leaked for two more months. Hayward's upbeat assessment was cast as one of many gaffes committed on his way to resignation.
Now, 14 days after the well was closed and 100 days after the blowout, U.S. government scientists are working on calculations that could shed some light on Hayward's analysis (even if they can't shed light on why he said it). They are trying to figure out where all the oil went.
Comment:
Obviously, this article was written for simpletons, with the mentality of out of sight and therefore out of mind. At Oil Florida, scientists and EPA representatives realise the extent of the awful crime perpetrated by BP.
Reporter locates significant amount of oil on and below surface heading towards land; BP, Feds no where to be found (VIDEO
Oil Florida, 29th July 2010
“Mass eradication” of sea turtle food source; “There were thousands of these guys dead on the surface” says oceanographer
Oil Florida, 29th July 2010
Oxygen levels in Florida bay less than two parts per million; “Some of the lowest readings we’ve ever had” says expert
Oil Florida, 29th July 2010
Legal Expert: Florida Keys fishing industry may be “devastated for eight to 15 years”
Oil Florida, 29th July 2010
*ALERT* Senior EPA Analyst: Feds think public can’t HANDLE THE TRUTH about toxic dispersants (VIDEO)
Oil Florida, 28th July 2010
Global Temperature And Data Distortions Continue
Canada Free Press, 29th July 2010
Recent reports claim June was the warmest on record, but it seems to fly in the face of reports of record cold from around the world.
Reports from Australia say, “Sydney recorded its coldest June morning today since 1949, with temperatures diving to 4.3 degrees just before 6:00 a.m. (AEST).” “Experts say it is unusual to see such widespread cold weather in June.” In the southern hemisphere reports of cold have appeared frequently but rarely make the mainstream media. “The Peruvian government has declared a state of emergency in more than half the country due to cold weather.”
“This week Peru’s capital, Lima, recorded its lowest temperatures in 46 years at 8C, and the emergency measures apply to several of its outlying districts.”
Comment: Strange weather, strange clouds and strange sunsets June 7 clouds photo gallery; they could be new form of clouds & Strange Sunset
Gov't should investigate all UFO sightings
Malaysia Kini News, 28th July2010
Recently, the local media and the local and foreign internet community were abuzz with the news of an UFO (unidentified flying object) sighting at a serene beach resort near the city of Kota Kinabalu in Sabah.
According to the press reports, the sightings of the round blue silent flying object in the sky were witnessed by many locals and tourists. Apparently some of the people who witnessed this UFO even claimed that their handphone 'went dead' mysteriously when they tried to record the moments of the UFO with their device. [...]
It's time we review our perceptions of UFO sightings in the country. Evidence is emerging in bit and pieces that we are been watched by some terrestrial beings. We need to scrutinize all UFOs sightings in view of the security implications. Perhaps we should encourage our scientists, police and national aviation security personals to familiarise on the subject of UFOs.
We should train them to conduct a systematic critical analysis of all UFO sightings in the country instead of brushing it off. If need be, we should consider setting up a special investigation unit perhaps under the national security council to investigate all UFO sightings.
Comment: Interesting! What evidence is this! Anyway, please compare and contrast this intelligently written report with the following hack job from the Daily Mail ARE UFOs JUST A CIA CON-TRICK?
Weird Star but definitely NOT a Chinese lantern!
UK UFO Sightings, 27th July 2010
Location of Sighting: Skopje, Macedonia
Date of Sighting: 17.07.2010
Time: 22.30CET
Witness Name: Vesna Fielding
Witness Statement: Myself and my husband were sitting on the balcony when I first spotted an orange faint glowing star. Nothing out of the ordinary up until it started to glow more intensively and getting bigger but still static at this point. I asked my husband does he see what I see and I commented that it is a weird star.
Just as I mentioned, “the star” start moving very slowly at first, I wouldn’t have noticed but it was just bellow the moon so you could judge the movement against the moon. My husband shouted hey it is moving and at this point started to move really fast. Suddenly stopped abruptly and changed direction of 180 degrees moving in the opposite direction coming towards us but still high in the sky.
At this point I could distinct more lights on the object like green, red and white, it was silent and it was fast. (we are living in the countryside so there is no traffic, no neighbors, no noise).Just to mention, there are no CHINESE LANTERNS in Macedonia, actually nobody ever heard of them and you can’t buy them anywhere in Macedonia.
There are only 3 helicopters in the all state because our government can’t afford them, there are no jets, again expensive to buy, the only things that are flying on the Macedonian skies are commercial planes and not that often! So I am 100% sure that this was something else!?
Comment: I found this sighting and eye witness analysis interesting. It seems that the Macedonian government will have to encourage the marketing of Chinese lanterns, so that they can be used as the excuse to debunk the bright lights swarming about in the skies!
Oil Spill Epidemic
Meta Oceanic Research, 27th July 2010
Why are oil spills suddenly occurring constantly, all over the world? Just this year, the environment has taken an unprecedented beating, from the oil industry alone.
There's now a leak of an oil pipeline in the Kalamazoo River, Michigan. So far, an estimated 840,000 gallons of oil has gushed into a creek that directly flows into the river.
Meanwhile, the Chinese oil spill has been contained before it reached international waters, the Chinese government assures us.
Comment: Yes, the stories are mounting up and maybe there is evidence that something fundamental is happening.
Latest:
Michigan Oil Spill Among Largest In Midwest History: Kalamazoo Spill SOAKS Wildlife (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 27th July 2010
Another pipeline failure... my view: pipeline erosion caused by Space Weather (extreme geomagnetic conditions)
Barge crashes into oil well in Gulf of Mexico, new oil leak reported
The Raw Story, 27th July 2010
This story is very dubious and the conclusion that some have come up with is that more abandoned wells are starting to blow... Thus, we await 'expert' opinion to confirm the truth.
Tug vessel hits abandoned gas well in Barataria Waterway
WWLTV News, 27th July 2010 Update!
Explosion on energy pipeline in southeast Texas
Dallas News, 28th July 2010
Freak wave hits
Japanese oil tanker near Oman
BBC News, 28th July 2010
Greenpeace activists close down BP stations in London
BBC News, 27th July 2010
BP filling stations across London have been shut down by activists. Environmental group Greenpeace said it had cut fuel supplies to all 50 BP stations in the city. The oil firm said 35 to 40 had been shut but many of them have now reopened.
The protesters stopped the fuel by removing safety switches on forecourts. The action comes as BP reported an £11bn loss after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and confirmed chief executive Tony Hayward is to step down.
Greenpeace said it wanted the company to adopt greener energy policies. A BP spokeswoman said a majority of the targeted fuel stations have reopened and the rest will resume normal service by the evening. Greenpeace said the safety switches will be returned.
Comment: Is this a token gesture by Greenpeace? To be quite frank, BP needs to stop cutting corners, that would be the first practical step! Yet, in reality, it 's hard to accept that Greenpeace are NOT taking the opportunity to highlight the continuous news of oil and gas explosions and pipeline failures, with the ensuing environmental damage that threaten our very existence on this planet.
Left-wing Env. Scientist Bails Out Of Global Warming Movement: Declares it a 'corrupt social phenomenon...strictly an imaginary problem of the 1st World middleclass'
Climate Depot, 26th July 2010
Exclusive New Video: Calls cap-and-trade an 'horrendous scam' -- Joins other left of center scientific and activist dissenters
Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement.
In a hard-hitting and exclusive new exclusive video just released by Climate Depot, Dr. Rancourt declares that the entire man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a “corrupt social phenomenon.” “It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else,” Rancourt, who has published peer-reviewed research, explained in a June 8, 2010 essay. (Rancourt's email: claude.cde@gmail.com)
“I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth.
In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized,” Rancourt said.
“Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass,” he stated.
Comment: Another scientist who has finally seen the light and there is some fighting talk here, but I can't completely agree as I think Space Weather is the reason for trying to control the climate...
Hackers shut down EU carbon-trading website:
The Guardian, 26th July 2010
Hackers hijacked Europe's carbon-trading website and replaced it with spoof page detailing flaws in cap and trade scheme
Anti-carbon trading activists shut down the website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), over the weekend, replacing the site with a spoof page lampooning the industry.
The website of the London-based carbon credit trading platform was hacked at close to midnight on Friday and showed the spoof homepage for around 22 hours. It then took technical staff another day to restore the official homepage.
Instead of its normal rolling ticker data listing bids for carbon credit futures, the ECX website blared: "Super promo – climate on sale: Guaranteed profit!"
Explaining the "carbon trade scam", the spoof site decried how the EU's flagship environmental policy is "susceptible to corporate lobbying," offers industry "licences to pollute so they can continue business-as-usual," and "generates outrageous profits for big industry polluters, investors in fraudulent offset projects [and] opportunist traders."
Comment: Yes, it's common knowledge now that carbon trading is a massive scam...
Couple offers $20 for explanation of UFOs over Madison, Alabama [US]
UFO Examiner, 25th July 2010
An Alabama man was so curious July 4, 2010, watching what appeared to be two controlled red lights moving between 100 and 150 feet in the air over Madison, that he was offering $20 to anyone who could explain them, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
During a fireworks display at 9:15 p.m., they observed two red lights moving in from the east, making no sound, and circling the area to their north. The two lights maintained a distance of between 50 and 75 feet from each other.
The witnesses report that the lights returned toward the east and merged into one object.
"As the two red lights turned back toward the east, the two lights turned into only one and proceed(ed) East and maintained the same altitude," the reporting witness stated.
Comment: If the amount was $20, or $200, $2,000, $20,000 or more would it matter? Physical spacecraft cannot 'merge' but plasma entities can and this ability is being frequently reported by eye witnesses and can be seen on radar. Obviously, ufologists are mostly silent, as they are desperate for people to believe in ETs in spacecraft rather than a completely different lifeform that has evolved over billions of years with completely out of this world characteristics. We are experiencing evolutionary change being driven by a massive increase in energy and consequently this is causing a dimensional shift. In metaphyasical language the veil is lifting and the sudden appearance of a previously invisible shadow biosphere that our military refer to as the "radar angels." The sudden widespread appearance of this life form was predicted by indigenous groups as The Return of the Ancestors. When people are educated about the properties of plasma and the fact that our visible universe is 99.999% plasma, more reasonable and intelligent people will accept the truth that humanity faces a completely new reality. More folk asking questions.
Illinois couple wants explanation on six 'sphere-like' objects over Northlake [US]
"My wife and son looked up and we saw a group of six sphere like objects in the sky, they were in a loose formation, but were also kind of spinning around each other," the father stated.
Their first thought was that they were looking at balloons, but the wind direction seems to discount that theory.
"We thought it might be a cluster of balloons, but they were traveling against the wind and were illuminated by both the sun and the objects themselves. We watched them as they traveled over the tree's and eventually disappeared behind some tree's and houses."
Comment: I am sure there are many perople seeing these strange "balloons" in the sky who have not reported their sightings but are silently asking the same question. The major issue now is how many "new cosmic reality" truthers are there who can actually explain this phenomenon to those who want real answers and not pure speculation and hyperbole?
Falling object over Ohio splits into pieces and moves in formation [US]
Yes, spacecraft can't split up into pieces, hover around and then fly off, but this is typical behaviour of plasma entities who travel together as magnetospheric plasmoids, as some space scientists viewing in the infra-red part of the EM spectrum have known for years.
Are ufo's alive
Chris Holly Paranormal World, 24th July 2010
We have all heard the idea that UFO crafts may be both machine and living creations. I have heard theories that talk about the crafts we see in our skies being not only alien made but of living material. The theory is that UFO's may be a combination of machine or part machine and part organic. Others think some forms of alien crafts are 100% living creatures. [...]
I received a extremely interesting report from one of my readers concerning an event she experienced that may have been part of this theory in real action.
Suddenly from the right side of the car over the river from the corner of my eye I noticed a shape in the air.
A smooth grey winged shape swooped in a large figure 8's over the road in front of the windshield of the car. It happened as fast as you could blink your eyes 3 times.
It looked like it was going to smash into the windshield. It was grey, smooth and translucent. The only light directly on it was from the oncoming headlights of the traffic coming towards us.
As the lights hit it the creature seemed almost translucent like a jellyfish. I could not tell if it was the oncoming head lights reflecting off of it or if it had an actual shine to it.
Its wings were very long- stretched out and pointed on the ends. I was not aware of a head, tail or feet . I could not see what the surface texture was like. It happened so fast we were left more with that first impression rather than deep detail.
There were no apparent lights on it. I would guess that its length was at least 15 feet from wing tip to wing tip. We were on a two-lane road and it was wider than the road.
It was not a bird, not a kite, and did not look like a machine because it seemed flexible and more alive than a machine somehow.
The shape had very little thickness like a bat it had a flattened shape. I did not notice any type of ribs or spokes or bone structure on the wings.
Comment: There are now more people mentally crossing over and contemplating that much of the evidence points to the existence of UFOs being a spectrum of living creatures, rather than machines. Certainly the account given here is an excellent example... More:
Missouri witness wants UFOs to stop flying over home 'without cause'
"If these creatures are trying to figure a way to communicate with us then I would suggest a better of going about it would be to acknowledge that they are here. State their purpose. and then move on. This is getting tiresome. It is making the few friends that I have think that I need psycological help and perhaps I do, but the facts stil remain the same. I have seen these things all of my life from age 5 until the present.
Mufon I don't want to tell your people how to do their job, but all they have to do is to look up. Thank God that the creatures don't appear to be violent or hostile. At this point they only seem to be observing."
This witness refers to 'creatures' and obviously realises they are another life form. Even more revealing is how they don't seem to be impressed with MUFON, who are widely condemned for their lack of interest in the truth...
The White Horse, nr Alton Barnes. Wiltshire. Reported 25th July.
Crop Circle Connector, 24th July 2010
Comment: After a similar crop circle in June 2009, most expect this formation to be updated with a message. Meanwhile it looks like people have gone to visit in droves.
Don't miss the CC comments page. The associated CC article page gives one interpretation that the crop circle represents a bow with the White Horse as the target. There is a sudden burst of new crop circles, see
Late July 2010
Baboons learn to listen for cars central locking tweet before breaking in
The Telegraph, 23rd July 2010
Baboons in Cape Town have learned to listen out for the tweet of a car's remote central locking before deciding whether to break in to search for food, according to the local authorities.
The highly intelligent animals lie in wait as tourists get out of their car to gaze at the view from Cape Peninsula – the thin finger of land in the south westernmost corner of South Africa that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Then, if they haven't heard the telltale "tweet" of the locking system, they sneak over and open the car door to plunder its contents.
So many picnics have now been lost to the simian raiders that the local authorities are pushing the government to commission an official baboon warning road sign as they have done for hippos, elephants, warthogs and kudus.
Theuns Vivian, Cape Town's Destination Development Manager, said humans and baboons would get along fine provided they were equally aware of each other.
Comment: Another example of intelligence, and strategic planning which blurs the distinction between humans and animals as defined in consciousness studies. There is also an earlier story (July 2009) about baboons breaking into luggage containers on top of cars.
Green -vs- Green: Eu Climate Exchange website hacked
Watts Up With That, 24th July 2010
NOTE: See updates below, it appears a green group, Climate Justice Action claims responsibility and apparently attacked ECX.eu in a tiff over carbon credit policy.
The Independent Media Centre of Australia is reporting that the sister website of the flatlining Chicago Climate Exchange, the European Climate Exchange (ECX), had it’s main page hacked and replaced with the image above. I’ve confirmed this with Google cache of the ECX website available here, Screencap of the cached page here. [...]
According to the hack message:
“The Cap and Trade system (as implemented in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme) has a whole range of issues:
* It’s main purpose is not to reduce emissions, but to help polluters meet “reduction” targets in the cheapest way possible, in a business-as-usual scenario.
* Leaves room for unverifiable manipulation.
* Generates outrageous profits for big industry polluters, investors in fraudulent offset projects, opportunist traders and new ‘marketplaces’ such as the European Climate Exchange.
* It distracts attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken to tackle climate change and it’s fundamental root causes.”
Comment: I suppose some Greens think this is the only way to deal with the enemy within their own movement.
Sussex man hit by meteorite
The Argus, 24th July 2010
Sussex cricket fan Jan Marszel looked up in amazement as he saw a small, dark round object hurtle towards him on the boundary edge.
But it was not one of Luke Wright’s mammoth pulls coming his way – it was a meteorite that had fallen from outer space – and nearly struck him on the head.
It’s thought to be the first extra-terrestrial crash landing in the UK for nearly 20 years.
The 51-year-old had spent Wednesday afternoon in Uxbridge with friend Richard Haynes watching Sussex battle with Middlesex in a county championship division two clash.
Comment: Well, we know that there is a new hazard in space with satellites are being pelted by small space rocks but it seems that some of these rocks are finding their way through Earth's atmosphere and so occasionally, humans are being hit too!
15 dead in Love Parade stampede
The Telegraph, 24th July 2010
Fifteen people have been killed in Germany during the country’s annual “Love Parade”, held this year in the former industrial Ruhr city of Duisburg.
Officials and eyewitnesses spoke of a mass stampede in which people were trampled under foot. At least 40 others were injured, some seriously, and many police and ambulance personnel were seen giving the kiss of life to victims.
What should have been a celebration of techno-music and dance turned into horror near the field where hundreds of thousands gathered during the afternoon. Many continued to party even as the air was filled the noise of police sirens, unaware of the tragedy taking place behind them.
Comment: Hmmm... As they say, when the push comes to shove... Pictures from De Spiegel (Google English translation)
Mass panic, disaster at the Love Parade
Scientists Confirm Underwater Plumes Are From Spill
New York Times, 23rd July 2010
Florida researchers said Friday that they had for the first time conclusively linked vast plumes of microscopic oil droplets drifting in the Gulf of Mexico to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The scientists, from the University of South Florida, matched samples taken from the plumes with oil from the leaking well provided by BP. The findings were the first direct confirmation that the plumes were linked to the spill, although federal scientists had said there was overwhelming circumstantial evidence tying them to BP’s well.
Comment: Obviously, this is what Matt Simmons has been explaining for at least 6 weeks and confirmed by oceanographers on the Thomas Jefferson research vessel. More:
Video: Breathing Toxic Oil Vapors? Rain burning the skin?
Before It's News, 23rd July 2010
BP Fish Oil Plus (puppet satire)
Natural News, 23rd July 2010
An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering
New Scientist, 21st July 2010
IN 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Shaken by it, he wrote in his diary that he felt "a great, unending scream piercing through nature". The incident inspired him to create his most famous painting, The Scream.
The striking sunset was probably caused by the eruption of Krakatoa, which sent a massive plume of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere, turning sunsets red around the globe and cooling the Earth by more than a degree.
Now a powerful group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of reproducing this cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed - nothing less than seizing control of the climate - the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning
Comment: Geoengineering the planet only makes sense when we realise that scientists are trying to mitigate the impact of Space Weather, but justifying their position and the need for taxes by giving the reason as carbon emissions causing global warming or climate change. The article is quite fair and balanced and seems a departure from the usual climate scaremongering at New Scientist.
Tropical Storm Bonnie makes landfall in Florida
LA Times, 23rd July 2010
(CNN) - Strong winds hit southern Florida late Friday morning as Tropical Storm Bonnie made landfall near Biscayne Bay in southeastern Florida. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.
The tropical storm watch for the northern Gulf of Mexico coast has been upgraded to a tropical storm warning.
The warning area now includes the northwestern Bahamas, the southeast coast of Florida, including the Keys, the west coast of Florida as far north as Englewood and from Destin, Fla., to Morgan City, La. [...]
"No important change in strength is forecast while Bonnie is crossing the Florida peninsula," the hurricane center said in its 11 a.m. advisory. "However ? some slight strengthening is possible when the cyclone moves over the Gulf of Mexico late tonight and Saturday."
Comment: Here is further comments from some experts:
CNN at 8:15 a.m.: “Monster” storm gathering strength and headed for Gulf; 70% chance of development (VIDEO)
Oil Florida, 22nd July 2010
Matt Simmons says hurricane churning up underwater methane may be “greatest nightmare we’ve EVER SEEN” (VIDEO)
Oil Florida, 22nd July 2010
Weather Channel warns residents “as the hurricane moves INLAND it will pick up particles of oil”; “Oil on electrical wires and trees”
Oil Florida, 22nd July 2010
Tropical storm warnings discontinued
The Weather channel, 24th July 2010
Red Orb Caught By Photographer - Southgate, London [UK]
UK UFO sightings, 22nd July 2010
Location of Sighting: Southgate, London
Date of Sighting: 17th July
Time: 18:08 [photo timestamp]
Witness Name: Dave
Witness Statement: Was preparing my camera and telescope for eyepiece projection photography. Was the making sure I could get good focus of the moon before dark so everything could be set and accidently took a photo of what to me is a UFO.
Now ive never seen anything like that. i Took a series of 3 photos 2-3 each seconds apart. Took the camera, checked the photos as i went into my house and noticed the object in one of them. No idea what it is. Never seen a red orb in the air before especially during the day and with the amount of zoom im using to get the moon in that size the object has to be quite big. Looking at the photograph you can see that it reflects the suns light in the same direction as the moon so it is a solid object and you can rule out camera artifacts.
Comment: This sighting of a red orb close to the moon is by a professional photographer with solid technical details provided. Here are a few other anomalous photos added in the last few days.
Orange glowing object - Pontywaun, Gwent, Wales [UK]
Holiday pic: Odd looking object in sky - Palermo Italy
Cone of Light or Lens Flare? - Bakewell [UK] Derbyshire
Dramatic increase in UFO sightings
Cyprus Mail, 22nd July 2010
[...]Clusters of mysterious craft, bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects are just some of a huge surge in UFO sightings reported in Cyprus over the past year.
UFO enthusiasts have been increasing interested in documenting local sightings since as Cyprus Mail report two-years documented an account by a former British soldier who claimed he witnessed an ‘alien craft’ crash in the Troodos Mountains.
Former soldier Tom Clarke, who was part of a six man British Army unit on a late night patrol in 1973 recalled what happened when they spotted strange lights in the sky.
“We were all awoken at about 2am by a brilliant bluish dazzling bright light in the sky, what happened next is hard to explain. There was not an explosion, but we were all hit by a shockwave and fell flat to the ground. The light just disappeared or went out,” Clarke said.
The soldiers were ordered to collect debris and place it into black plastic bags; Corporal Clarke managed to conceal some small pieces of golden tinted foil from amongst the wreckage – which is now in the hands of UFO Magazine.
The Troodos range, which is home to several military communication stations, has been location of dozens of reported “UFO incidents” over the past half century.
Comment: I am not sure about the end of this story, because if it was true, I am sure the UFO community would have gone into overdrive... Whatever, the reports of UFO sightings dramatically increasing have also been increasing as planet Earth experiences a dimensional lift (the veil lifting in metaphysical language) and more people become aware that there is another form of life that exists alongside us that are mostly misunderstood. Also:
U.S. taking in heavy number of Orange Sphere UFO reports
Illinois Town Wants To Outlaw Eye-Rolling
The Consumerist, 21st July 2010
Next time you're in line at the grocery store and you roll your eyes at the person with two carts full of items refusing to leave the 10-items-or-fewer line, you might be in trouble with the law -- at least if you live in Elmhurst, Illinois.
Officials of the Chicago suburb are looking into finding a way of putting an end to the practice by legal means.
The idiocy stems from a recent city council meeting where an Elmhurst resident was ejected from the room after rolling her eyes in reaction to something that was said by a council member.
Members of the Elmhurst city council have asked the City Attorney to look into the creation of a "disturbance and disorderly conduct" violation and to see if eye-rolling could somehow be shoehorned into its definition.
Illinois state law defines disorderly conduct is "an act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another, or to provoke a breach of the peace."
Comment: An act of desperation? No dissent however small, can be tolerated? So what is next, The Eye Roller Police?
Uruguay’s Air Force Examines Photo of Possible UFO
Latin American Herald Tribune, 21st July 2010
MONTEVIDEO – The Uruguayan air force is analyzing a photograph in which can be seen a black spot of unknown origin in the sky above Montevideo taken on the day of the festivities celebrating the return of the national soccer team from the World Cup tournament in South Africa, the daily El Pais reported Wednesday.
The air force’s UFO panel, known as Cridovni, received the image on Tuesday from a private citizen, the newspaper said.
In the photo, which was reproduced by El Pais, a black spot is visible in the sky above the huge crowd that accompanied the bus carrying the soccer team’s players as they toured the capital and were warmly and gratefully greeted by their countrymen after having secured the fourth place spot in the World Cup competition.
Comment: There really has to be more to this story, I can't imagine that one little speck on a photo would be any interest unless there was also a large speck on radar... But, maybe this is a sign of a high level of openess as the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) high command declassified its files in June 2009 and then allowed EL PAIS (The National Newspaper) to access its UFO records and eyewitness accounts. For more info see Uruguayan Air Force X-Files disclosure June,2009
Update Photo!
Uruguay: Strange Object Photographed During Parade
Vatican Prepares for ET: Can Religions Survive UFO Reality?
Alternet Blog, 24th July 2010
Father Funes, the Director of the Vatican Observatory, believes that the existence of Aliens would not be a contradiction with the Vatican faith.
This has created a bit of uproar among the faithful. But Funes says that if ET exists they are God’s creatures.
Michael Salla, Ph.D. reports:
…The Vatican’s new openness on extraterrestrial life is consistent with reports of secret discussions held at the United Nations that began in February 2008. The Vatican’s permanent representative to the UN, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, was reported to have attended along with a number of other prominent government officials to discuss increased UFO sightings and the implications of extraterrestrial visitation. Significantly, Migliore’s position requires that he maintains close relations with the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences. At the time of the secret UN discussions, Migliore made a presentation on moral issues associated with scientific problems such as climate change. Most importantly, the UN discussions reportedly led to a new policy of openness being adopted by approximately 30 nations that would begin in 2009.
Comment: The widespread disclosure that we are NOT alone and that other life forms and humanoid ETs exist and some even live amongst us will act like an evolutionary bomb as it will provoke a crisis for many people. Some will quickly evolve their consciousness and others will regress. It does not matter whether people are believers or not, evolutionary change is accelerating and the dimensions are merging. Folks are seeing orbs and all sorts of other entities now, so at some point reality will sink in, even for the most obtuse. The Catholic Church are way ahead of the curve on this, as they perceive that the religion business may be under threat.
EdgeScience Magazine - issue 4
EdgeScience, July 2010
EdgeScience is a new magazine from the SSE.
Why EdgeScience? Because scientific knowledge is still full of unknowns. What remains to be discovered—what we don't know—very likely dwarfs what we do know. And what we think we know may not be entirely correct or fully understood. Anomalies, which researchers tend to sweep under the rug, should be actively pursued as clues to potential breakthroughs and new directions in science. pdf link issue 4 here
Comment: No. 4 is free with some very interesting articles!
The Latest Challenge
EdgeScience, July 2010
Ten years ago, Richard Haines, former chief of the Space
Human Factors Office for NASA/Ames Research Center,
produced a groundbreaking and largely ignored report called
“Aviation Safety in America: A Previously Neglected Factor.”
Built upon detailed case studies of 56 near misses involving
UFOs going back half a century, Haines argued that pilots
attempting to avoid collisions might well overcorrect, with
catastrophic results.
Haines’ research evolved into the National Aviation Reporting
Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), and
in a semantic effort to veer away from the loaded UFO term,
his team of volunteer analysts — which include pilots, air traffic
controllers, aviation administrators — agreed on a new acronym:
UAP, or unidentified aerial phenomena.
In April, NARCAP released a 154-page monster followup
entitled “Spherical UAO Activity: A Critical Review,”
which should be mandatory reading for Seth Shostak, Paul
Davies, Stephen Hawking, and all the other media favorites
who keep trying to convince the public there’s no scientific
UFO data to evaluate.
Comment: Nice article and I agree about the comments that certain people like Stephen Hawkins should educate themselves on UAPs, before making themselves look stupid whilst rambling about the possible existence of extraterrestrials.
Eye in the sky: 'Sun dog' halo blazes over Bournemouth beach
Daily Mail, 21st July 2010
It looks like a giant eye gazing down from the heavens.
But the spectacular sight of the sun surrounded by a mysterious halo is known as a 'sun dog'.
The phenomenon, which had beachgoers in Bournemouth gazing at the sky yesterday, occurs when sunlight is refracted by hexagonal-shaped ice crystals in high and cirrus clouds - and is quite common.
Comment: OK, I strongly suspect that this atmospheric phenomena is caused by extremely fine cosmic dust acting as condensation nuclei for ice particles in the
High Atmosphere, as we have been informed by the European space Agency that our solar system is being flooded by 'stardust'. This is what NASA says
"Ice crystals in clouds need two things to grow: water molecules and something for those molecules to stick to--dust, for example. Water gathering on dust to form droplets or ice crystals is a process called nucleation. It happens all the time in ordinary clouds."
Source: Strange Clouds - The crew of the ISS have been observing electric-blue "noctilucent" clouds hovering on the edge of space. February 19, 2003, NASA Science News
These ice crystals will be in the stratosphere, but this explanation also applies to noctilucent clouds right out on the edge of space that were previously rare, but they are now appearing at mid latitudes whereas before, they had only been confined to the poles. See previous comments at Best of the Blog Earth Changes and
'Night-shining' clouds visible in UK skies for rest of the week. Spaceweather.com has been reporting noctilucent clouds for a few weeks now too see Noctilucent clouds 18th July 2010 & Noctilucent clouds 15th July 2010.
Life in the Universe: "It May Not Even Have a Genetic Code"
Daily Galaxy, 20th July 2010
There are in fact a number of genetic-studies which purport to demonstrate that the common ancestors for Earthly life forms may have first began to form billions of year before the Earth was created.
It has been speculated the first steps toward actual life may have begun with self-replicating riboorganisms whose descendants fell to Earth and other planets through mechanisms of panspermia, triggering the RNA world and then life as we know it. Life on some planets may be like life on Earth. Life on other worlds may have a completely different chemistry, and may not even possess a genetic code.
Life that may have been originated elsewhere, even within our own solar system, could be unrecognizable compared with life here and thus could not be detectable by telescopes and spacecraft landers designed to detect terrestrial biomolecules or their products. Life might be based on molecular structures substantially different from those on Earth.
What we normally think of as 'life' is based on chains of carbon atoms, with a few other atoms, such as nitrogen or phosphorous, Hawking observed in his lecture, Life in the Universe. We can imagine that one might have life with some other chemical basis, such as silicon, "but carbon seems the most favorable case, because it has the richest chemistry."
Organic molecules are now known to be common throughout the universe.
Life, then, is assumed to be carbon-based.The Earth was formed largely out of the heavier elements, including carbon and oxygen. Somehow, Hawking observes, "some of these atoms came to be arranged in the form of molecules of DNA. One possibility is that the formation of something like DNA, which could reproduce itself, is extremely unlikely. However, in a universe with a very large, or infinite, number of stars, one would expect it to occur in a few stellar systems, but they would be very widely separated."
Comment: This article is beating the drum that extraterrestrial life does not have to be carbon based and could be completely different from what we consider to be 'life'. Unfortunately, this article, quotes Hawkins, thus devaluing the message. Hawkins has become a fearmonger and some of his opinions have nothing to do with science.
Dead penguins wash ashore on Brazil's beaches
Most of the more than 400 birds found in past two months were babes
MSNBC News, 19th July 2010
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Hundreds of penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches.
More than 400 penguins, most of them young, have been found dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state over the past two months, according to Eduardo Pimenta, superintendent for the state coastal protection and environment agency in the resort city of Cabo Frio.
While it is common here to find some penguins — both dead and alive — swept by strong ocean currents from the Strait of Magellan, Pimenta said there have been more this year than at any time in recent memory.
Rescuers and those who treat penguins are divided over the possible causes.
Comment: Here is a recent report about deep ocean sea creatures appearing on beaches, Task force to clean up seashells from Sea View according to an I-Witness YouTube report, this phenomena has been ignored by the Pakastani government and officials for quite a while now, see 2010 Millions of SeaShells appearing on Pakistani Beaches . It is most likely that these incident are unrelated and just signs of ecological stress.
3ft wide very bright yellow light hovering over a house in Platt Bridge [Wigan, UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 18th July 2010
Location of Sighting: Platt Bridge, Wigan,
Date of Sighting: 17th july
Time: 11.20 pm,
Witness Name: Adam Fletcher
Witness Statement: Driving back from Wigan i noticed a very bright yellow light over some house in Platt Bridge. I pulled over and got out od the car to look.. it was about 3ft in size and seemed to move left and then right in an odd manor. It seemed to move where i moved. before i could knock on a strangers house to either get a witness of get a camera the light seemed to fade away then it shot upwards at great speed and disappeared. i am still in shock and cannot believe what i have seen. hopefully someone else will have seen this and report it. if so i would be interested to hear.
Comment:
There are thousands of reports of the ubiquitous OBOLs, orange balls of light on this website and elsewhere being reported now, but not so many reports of the people seeing these plasma entities up close. At 3 ft across this is a similar size to the orb I saw in late January 2010 near where I live just outside Olten, Switzerland. Yes, if you were driving slowly and saw a strange light above a house, I imagine that some drivers would stop and investigate. Anyway, I equate these little orbs to being like 'fairy' lights and I really wonder how the general public will react if they appear to be hanging about near buildings and houses.
We are now getting an increase in the balls of light and the balls of fire over in the United States. For some of the latest reports see:
The Vike Factor
Glowing orange sphere hovers over Iowa marina - then speeds away [US]
"A glowing orange sphere approximately 3 feet in diameter at the treeline level startled an Iowa man as he packed his children in the car from a day at the Okoboji Boats Marina just after sunset on July 17, 2010... looked back up at the sky and it seemed to be slowly moving up & away from the tree tops moving in a very slow pulsating sort of way, like the way a jelly fish moves through the water. ."
Another close up of small pulsating orb.
Black parents... White Baby
The Sun, 20th July 2010
A BLACK couple coo over their new baby yesterday - a white, blue-eyed BLONDE. British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is NOT an albino. Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: "We both just sat there after the birth staring at her." [...]
The expert said some unknown mutation was the most likely explanation. He admitted: "The rules of genetics are complex and we still don't understand what happens in many cases."
Comment: Spot the odd one out! The baby is NOT albino and look at those curly blond locks! What a shocker! Even the expert thinks this might be a DNA mutation, but even so... Technically, is this a completely wrong FETCH instruction returning back a completely WRONG baby DNA template that generates a baby of a completely different race? ... wow! More!
Seeing Is Believing: White Baby Born to Black Parents [VIDEO]
China has become fertile ground for UFO conspiracy theories
Telegraph Blog, 19th July 2010
Last week a Chinese airport was temporarily closed, and flights suspended and diverted, because of a UFO. A number of people had apparently seen a white glowing object proceeding rapidly across the evening skies over Xiaoshan, near Hangzhou in Eastern China. Panic broke out – and the authorities decided to close the airport just in case.
I’m not sure that’s ever happened before, and – if not – it’s interesting that China should be the first country to experience it. This is the culmination of a fast-growing accretion of UFO stories in the People’s Republic, with four reported sightings in the last month (funny how the flag-wavers of scientific materialism often find they’re not so confident when push comes to shove).
Comment: How ironic! Tim Collard is so busy debunking from sheer ignorance that he uses the same image as the UK Ministry of Defence's report Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000] which explains that this is a UAP formation of the triangular type!
UFOs over China? Not quite, analyst says
CNN News, 20th July 2010
We have analyst here that thinks that the images that were NOT photoshopped were genuine and was a Chinese missile. However, a Chinese astronomer has already stated it was NOT a missile but some kind of atmospheric phenomena. So it seems that out of control missiles are now becoming a very popular for explaining away UAPs, similar to Chinese lanterns are the excuse for dismissing the balls of light and fiery orbs.
Woolaston Grange, Nr Clap-Y-Ares. Gloucestershire. Reported 18th July.
Crop Circle Connector, 19th July 2010
We see here the interaction between two wave patterns in which energy is transmitted outwards from both sources and pass through each other and in this case there is a reaction between both sources as they approach each others nucleus.
This formation is practically opposite the aging Olbury Nuclear Power Station which lies on the opposite bank of the River Severn.
Hopefully this is not some kind of warning?
The formation itself has interesting features such as the two small circles on the outside of one of the waves plus two mysterious wave patterns between the two major waves with a third small circle next to one of them. Very intriguing
We would also like to thank Olivier Morel for undertaking the long and tiring journey to take these aerial photos. This is the kind of adventurous spirit that is much appreciated by the rest of the global crop circle community.
Comment: If this was not a warning then what would be the point of making the crop circle? Come on! This formation has been made right next door to a nuclear power station!
China seals oil port after spill; PetroChina cuts runs
Times Live, 19th July 2010
One of China's biggest ports, Dalian, shut on Monday after an pipeline explosion triggered a major offshore oil spill, forcing a refinery to cut processing and importers to divert cargoes elsewhere.
The aftermath of the weekend fire could disrupt shipments of oil, iron ore and soy and add to pressure for stricter environmental standards in China, already reeling from a toxic copper mine leak in the south of the country which burst into headlines last week amid accusations of a cover up.
The fire began on Friday while a crude oil tanker was being off-loaded.
Comment: I dedicated less than 2 pages in my book about Space Weather corroding pipelines caused by geomagnetically induced currents that also can damage national grid transformers, but a google search for "pipeline explosion" gives 139,000 results. Obviously this does mean there is plenty of relevant information available but a careful search is required to do a proper analysis. Whatever, for a while now, there have been weekly reports of oil and gas related accidents and explosions, but it would be more interesting to plot the data up and see if there is a trend.
Here is an update with some terrible pictures from Yahoo News:
Large China oil spill threatens sea life, water
Government says leak detected 'a distance from' oil well
CNN News, 19th July 2010
The federal government's oil spill response director says testing has revealed that there is a "detected seep a distance from the well" and has ordered BP to quickly notify the government if other leaks are found.
"When seeps are detected, you are directed to marshal resources, quickly investigate, and report findings to the government in no more than four hours," retired Adm. Thad Allen said in a letter to BP Chief Managing Director Bob Dudley. "I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well should hydrocarbon seepage near the well head be confirmed."
BP spokesman Mark Salt said Sunday night that he had no information about the leak mentioned in Allen's letter. The letter does not provide further details about where the leak was spotted or how big it is.
Comment: The news has now become a roller coaster of truth and falsehood, but Matt Simmons has been proven right AGAIN! Now, I am also starting to think that BP may not be completely to blame, and apparently BP are also starting to make this claim too. There is a possibility that drilling MAY have helped to fracture the rocks that act as natural reservoir caps and as a consequence, oil is seeping up to the ocean floor. Yet, these same reservoir rocks MIGHT have already been in a delicate state from the 5,000+ wells previously drilled, with many abandoned and unchecked in the gulf region. This scenario has to be considered as Space Weather, is steadily warming the globe from the inside and natural crustal displacements are to be expected. So when, BP did not bother with many safety precautions to save money, due to corporate greed and mismanagement, (like a car rolling down a steep hill with no brakes, as apparently, brakes are too expensive!) then inevitably, things went wrong and the whole world has been plunged into a major crisis. What is interesting to note, is how stupid and short sighted BP's cost cutting now looks.
BP oil spill: US orders new emergency plan as seepage detected near capped well
The Telegraph, 19th July 2010
Matt Simmons on King World News - 17th July 2010 MP3 Download
Is this the only honest voice from the oil industry? This man has been proven right time and time again!
Matt Simmons roundup of recent interviews - be warned, he is shorting BP stock!
here
Oil Florida, 21st July 2010
Fosbury nr Vernham Dean, Wiltshire. Reported 17th July. Updated Monday 19th July 2010
Crop Circle Connector, 24th July 2010
From the comments page, Fosbury nr Vernham Dean, Wiltshire. Updated 19th July. we read:
"It's interesting to note, with the image I've included, that the Circle-Makers appear to have had a habit, at least recently, of using dihedral six-fold symmetry. This may not necessarily be part of a broader message they're trying to send us about pentagons, six-point stars, planetary positions, or carbon atoms. Instead, it may be something much simpler.
Comment:
I wrote about Necker cubes in my book and the ability of the mind to produce four-dimensional phenomena, that is the mind can spontaneously turn certain geometry into its mirror image and back again and this creates a twinkling effect. With the black and white images, I have found the 9th July cube better, but the effect still occurs with this latest cube. So, are the crop circle makers making the point that we are moving into the 6th dimension? Well, the vast majority have not noticed the move into the fifth, so it should be interesting as to what happens next.
Space Weather Turns into an International Problem
NASA News, 16th July 2010
Sometimes a problem is so big, one country cannot handle it alone.
That's the message scientists are delivering at today's International Living with a Star (ILWS) meeting in Bremen, Germany, and representatives from more than 25 of the world's most technologically-advanced nations have gathered to hear what they have to say.
"The problem is solar storms—figuring out how to predict them and stay safe from their effects," says ILWS Chairperson Lika Guhathakurta of NASA headquarters. "We need to make progress on this before the next solar maximum arrives around 2013."
The sun and Earth are separated by 93 million miles of space—a seemingly safe distance. But since the Space Age began, and especially in recent years, there has been a growing realization that 93 million miles really isn't so far apart. Spacecraft and ground-based observatories have shown that Earth is located in the sun's outer atmosphere, buffeted by solar winds and pelted by hail storms of energetic particles. Moreover, the two bodies are actually connected by invisible threads of magnetism. During "reconnection events," which typically happen several times a day, you can trace invisible lines of force all the way from Earth's poles to the surface of the sun.
"The Earth and sun are interconnected. We cannot study them separately anymore," says Guhathakurta. [...]
If forecasters are correct, the solar cycle will peak during the years around 2013. And while it probably won't be the biggest peak on record, human society has never been more vulnerable. The basics of daily life—from communications to weather forecasting to financial services—depend on satellites and high-tech electronics. A 2008 report by the National Academy of Sciences warned that a century-class solar storm could cause billions in economic damage.
Comment: So are NASA saying that after over 20 years of increasing Space Weather and a whole armada of spacecraft dedicated to watching the Sun, solar scientists still have not worked out how to mitigate the impact of Space Weather from the Sun? Oh well, it looks like humans we are going to be forced to adapt to the new conditions, as the New Cosmic Age has arrived! Also, this headline is misleading because Space Weather became an international effort after the 1989 Great Magnetic Storm, as I documented in my book Tuning the Diamonds.
BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community
Al.com, 16th July 2010
For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public universities around the Gulf Coast to aid its defense against spill litigation.
BP PLC attempted to hire the entire marine sciences department at one Alabama university, according to scientists involved in discussions with the company's lawyers. The university declined because of confidentiality restrictions that the company sought on any research.
The Press-Register obtained a copy of a contract offered to scientists by BP. It prohibits the scientists from publishing their research, sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data that they collect for at least the next three years.
"We told them there was no way we would agree to any kind of restrictions on the data we collect. It was pretty clear we wouldn't be hearing from them again after that," said Bob Shipp, head of marine sciences at the University of South Alabama. "We didn't like the perception of the university representing BP in any fashion." [...]
Wiygul, who examined the BP contract for the Press-Register, described it as "exceptionally one-sided."
"This is not an agreement to do research for BP," Wiygul said. "This is an agreement to join BP's legal team. You agree to communicate with BP through their attorneys and to take orders from their attorneys.
"The purpose is to maintain any information or data that goes back and forth as privileged."
Comment: Unbelievable! As I have said before, upsetting the academic community is a very bad idea, scientists already have credibility issues due to Climategate and an assortment of other scandals. Here is someone who is being very outspoken
Dr Ricki Ott (Toxicologist) A message to BP workers and residents in the Gulf
YouTube, 16th July 2010
News 5 Investigates: Testing The Water
WKRG.com, 16th July 2010
Video spoiler: sample explodes in the laboratory before it could be tested! Methane?
Well we know that the MSM are now trawling the blogosphere for leads and it looks like someone paid attention and did their own testing to come up with an explosive story...
Matt Simons -- BOP is a red herring, a different hole in floor still producing 120,000 barrels a day
KPFK Radio, 15th July 2010
MP3 Download: Matt Simmons on the Daily Briefing, starts at 2:15
Sorry Ain't Enough No More (bp oil spill song)
YouTube, 12th July 2010 Going viral
NOAA: behind the curve
Watts Up with That, 16th July 2010
Comment: Obviously, this is a problem for NASA solar scientists who predicted solar max in 2012. From my point of view, it does not matter, as it is clear that the arrival rates of solar, cosmic, galactic and intergalactic energies are still rising, at the same time that Earth's defences in the form of the heliosphere -- the solar system shielding created by the sun -- is flagging. Earth's magnetic field is sometimes non existent on the daylight side but now has permanent rifts anyway and the atmosphere is not much of a barrier against the onslaught of high energy cosmic rays which are at record highs for the space age. This is a NOAA webpage with their old sunspot predictions Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Updated May 2009 & shifting goalpost sunspot prediction animation here This made me laugh, ShrNfr says: July 16, 2010 at 8:27 am
"We could save a lot of money if we hired an octopus."
LOL!!
A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
NASA News, 15th July 2010
NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
Layers of Earth's upper atmosphere. Credit: John Emmert/NRL. [larger image]
"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."
The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.
"Something is going on that we do not understand," says Emmert. [...]
One possible explanation is carbon dioxide (CO2).
When carbon dioxide gets into the thermosphere, it acts as a coolant, shedding heat via infrared radiation. It is widely-known that CO2 levels have been increasing in Earth's atmosphere. Extra CO2 in the thermosphere could have magnified the cooling action of solar minimum.
"But the numbers don't quite add up," says Emmert. "Even when we take CO2 into account using our best understanding of how it operates as a coolant, we cannot fully explain the thermosphere's collapse."
Comment: Hmmm... This is a problem that is facing many different Earth sciences. Even if scientists think they understand what's going on, another set of parameters appear which makes it seem like the rules have changed. Btw the thermosphere has been generally referred to as the ionosphere and in the December 2008, NASA press release Boundary Between Earth's Upper Atmosphere And Space Has Moved To Extraordinarily Low Altitudes, NASA Instruments Document, the term thermosphere was NEVER used!
Happiness and Sadness Spread Just Like Disease
Wired News, 14th July 2010
A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease.
Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against actual disease models.
“This is the first time this contagion has been measured in the way we think about traditional infectious disease,” said biophysicist Alison Hill of Harvard University.
Data in the research, in the July 7 Proceedings of the Royal Society, comes from the Framingham Heart Study, a one-of-a-kind project which since 1948 has regularly collected social and medical information from thousands of people in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Earlier analyses found that a variety of habits and feelings, including obesity, loneliness, smoking and happiness appear to be contagious.
In the current study, Hill’s team compared patterns of relationships and emotions measured in the study to those generated by a model designed to track SARS, foot-and-mouth disease and other traditional contagions. They discounted spontaneous or immediately shared emotion — friends or relatives undergoing a common experience — and focused on emotional changes that followed changes in others.
Comment: These kind of studies really makes me wonder whether TPTB are worried that people are not miserable enough and they are wondering what they can do to make people more unhappy!
Frequent Sightings of UFO's in China
Epoch Times, 15th July 2010
Multiple Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings have recently been reported across different regions in China. They were spotted from June 30 to July 10 in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the northeastern city of Changchun, the southeastern city of Hangzhou, and the southern city of Xiamen.
People have been perplexed by UFO sightings for many years. Governments tend to be non committal about their existence, one possibility might be that they fear a mass hysteria if announced that they are real. However, independent UFO researchers known as ufologists, are quick to say that “Yes, UFOs do exist.”
According to Song Huagang, secretary-general of the Xinjiang Astronomical Society, the object was an intercontinental missile launched by the U.S. on June 30.
The "missile theory" was dismissed on July 9 by Wang Sichao, an astronomy researcher from the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory (also known as Purple Mountain Observatory, under the aegis of the Chinese academy of Sciences.)
Wang told China News Service that it was not a U.S. missile, because Xinjiang and California are more than 7000 km (3450 miles) apart. On viewing the video foorage Wang said that the UFO seems to be "somewhat strange," given its exceptionally bright midsection and its fascinating shape.
[...]
Xiamen’s Beams of Light
Fujian Online (onfj.com) reported that in the early morning hours of July 10, a “sheet of music notes,” composed of vertical light beams, filled up the Xiamen sky in Fujian province.
At first, five beams of light appeared at around 11:30 p.m. on July 9. They quickly grew to around 50 beams. A resident said, “It was very beautiful, like a sheet of music notes.”
When the media arrived at the scene about an hour later, clouds had also moved in, making only a few beams of light visible to the naked eye. However, a picture taken at the time later revealed many more beams of light.
Debate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings and their craft are not new. Wang Sichao, an astronomy researcher from the Zhijinshan Astronomical Observatory told Guangzhou Daily: “I’ve researched about 20 UFOs spotted since 1971. Some of them are swirl-shaped, some fan-shaped, and some are balls of light. They appear at a height of 130 km (426509 ft) to 1,500 km (4921260 ft) above ground. Their speed is much lower than the escape velocity (7 miles/sec on the surface of the Earth.) Some were as slow as 0.18 miles/sec. Yet they can fly parallel to the earth’s surface, at a height of 1,460km (4790026 ft), for as long as 25 minutes. They must have some sort of anti-gravity mechanism. Otherwise, they would have crashed to the earth in no time.”
Comment: Strange article here from the Chinese, are they trying to say that UFOs are no big deal? An astronomer from a different observatory has denied the stupid U.S. missile theory but they seem to be quite candid about their knowledge of UFOs. We are given further details of the light beams, which is described as "a sheet of music notes." Rather wonderful!
'Rain of luminous beams' appears in the sky of Xiamen Huandao Road [China]
What's on Xiamen, 12th July 2010
Dozens of vertical luminous beams appeared in the night sky of Xiamen about 11:30pm last Friday, reports Southeast Express. The singular sight, which lasted for nearly one hour, was first discovered by Mr. Wang's friend, a resident in Huangcuo, near Xiamen’s famous Huandao Road.
According to Mr. Wang, his friend first saw several luminous beams in the sky and then told them to go outside and take a look. They were stunned by the sight before their eyes.
“At first, there were only five of them, hanging very low in the sky, but after a short while, the number increased to about 50, and they were higher and higher, just like a stave hanging in the sky,” Mr. Wang said.
The Xiamen meteorological observatory said no such astronomical phenomenon was monitored by the observatory. “But it was not a meteor shower,” a staff member said.
Comment: Ice? Even I am becoming more cautious, it's all just getting too much! OK, do we have a re-occurence of the mystery pillars? See Spaceweather.com, Mystery Pillars The only problem with this theory is the headlines on the same webpage that Xiamen has been suffering from a heat wave! At this stage, unless we have more information, we have another example of strange "astronomical/atmospheric phenomenon".
Why BP is readying a 'super weapon' to avert escalating Gulf nightmar
Helium News, 14th July 2010
In a desperate attempt to stop a huge area of the Gulf ocean floor from possibly rupturing due to subterranean methane gas (leading to a calamity no human has ever seen) BP has ripped a page from science fiction books.
The giant oil company is now quietly preparing to test a small nuclear device in a frenzied rush against time to quell a cascading catastrophe. If successful they will have the capability to detonate a controlled fusion generated pulse.
While the world watches BP's attempt to contain the oil gusher at the former Deepwater Horizon site, company officials have given the green light on an astounding plan to use what is known as a nuclear EPFCG charge if all else fails.
Sea floor compromised
Reports still indicate that methane is flooding the Gulf waters at a rate one million times more than normal, and the NOAA research vessel, Thomas Jefferson has reported spotting new fissures. [1]
BP’s secret Omega Plan kicked off in earnest on July 7th, 2010. According to sources on the base the British Geological Survey (BGS), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), BP and Halliburton have set up a test site at one of the drill rigs.
While the plan would admittedly only be executed if a worst case scenario seemed imminent, some geo-chemists have expressed concerns that detonating an EPFCG in the Gulf might ignite the methane.
Comment: At the moment, I am treating this story like science fiction, but the technology talk of nuclear device to create an EMP that will fuse rock is inline with mutterings from all sorts of people from the last 6 weeks or so. We can only conclude there MAY be some truth in this story, because it is now obvious that there is desperation to stop oil leaking from the cracked ocean floor not just leaking wells. Yet, what should stick out a mile here is: who says that BP officials can give the go ahead for using a nuclear device? Meanwhile,
Work on both relief wells halted; BP worried tests “could cause the back side of the relief well to be blown out” (VIDEO) Bad News?
Oil Florida, 14th July 2010
MSNBC Video
Chris Landau: BP Cap will not stop leak from ocean floor
OpEd News, 14th July 2010
MSNBC July 15: Matt Simmons still says BP covering up MASSIVE HOLE miles away, cap test is "absurd"
MSNBC Video direct link
Oil Expert Cavnar: “They know this well can’t be shut in for a long period of time” (VIDEO)
Oil Florida, July 16th, 2010
Both *Relief Well* Blowout Preventers FAIL; Shear ram would not close, other testing problems
Oil Florida, July 16th, 2010
Record-breaking X-ray blast briefly blinds space observatory
PhysOrg.com, 14th July 2010
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen in X-rays temporarily blinded Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June 2010. This image merges the X-rays (red to yellow) with the same view from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, which showed nothing extraordinary. (The image is 5 arcminutes across.) Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler
A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighborhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, astronomers now report. The X-rays traveled through space for 5-billion years before slamming into and overwhelming Swift's X-ray Telescope on 21 June. The blindingly bright blast came from a gamma-ray burst, a violent eruption of energy from the explosion of a massive star morphing into a new black hole.
Comment: Hmmm... Yet, another record breaking blast from deep space that swamps the equipment designed to pick up this energy! What's more, astronomers are claiming it was 1.5 times as bright as GRB 080319B that hit the planet in March 2008 from half way across the Universe, and could have been seen for 30 seconds with the naked eye! As, I am recording this growing list of intergalactic record breakers, this will be investigated, but it's more proof that the planet is being hammered by intergalactic energies. Please note: scientists are mute when it comes to explaining the impact on Earth.
Life on Earth gets wiped out every 27 million years, say boffins 'Nemesis' dark star theory poohpooh'd, though
The Register, 12th July 2010
The revelations are made in a new paper from paleontologist Richard K Bambach of the Smithsonian Institution and astronomer Adrian Melott, flagged up by the Physics arXiv blog and viewable online here.
According to Bambach, there's no doubt at all that every 27 million years-odd, huge numbers of species suddenly become extinct. He says this is confirmed by "two modern, greatly improved paleontological datasets of fossil biodiversity" and that "an excess of extinction events are associated with this periodicity at 99% confidence". This regular mass slaughter has apparently taken place around 18 times, back into the remote past of half a billion years ago.
Comment: If this scientist had not been from the Smithsonian Institution I would have completely ignored this news item. However these astronomers seem to be able to avoid following consensus and have a habit of actually paying more attention to observations. However, I am still dubious that they mention Nemesis, the idea that a huge, dark companion body orbits the Sun so far out that it comes near only on a 27-million-year cycle. Since NASA scientists are also talking about Nemesis and other scientists are claiming that something is disturbing the Oort cloud, I wonder whether this is a piece of disinformation, as this 'research' has been placed on an open archive but apparently NOT undergone peer review. Never forget, a little bit of truth is often used as bait for some BIG LIES. Hence, the 27 million-year cycle is very close to the often cited 30 million year cycle associated with our solar system moving through the galactic plane.
Indian police look to pyramid power to cut accidents
AP News, 13th July 2010
MUMBAI — They have been credited with supernatural or paranormal properties since the days of ancient Egypt. Now the putative power of pyramids is to be harnessed by Indian police to cut road accidents.
Traffic officers in Nagpur, 540 miles (870 kilometres) west of Mumbai, have agreed to allow small pyramids to be placed at 10 accident-prone sites in the city to see if their claimed positive energy can reduce crashes.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Sahebrao Patil said the road safety initiative came about after a meeting with an expert in Vastu, an ancient Hindu system of construction which is similar to Chinese Feng Shui.
"He told me that he had placed a number of pyramids on roads outside the city and the results were excellent. The number of accidents reduced. He wanted to do it in the city, so I said, 'OK, no problem'," Patil told AFP.
"He's going to be installing them in 10 spots. They won't be on the road directly but at the corner of chowks (squares) or near traffic signals so they won't obstruct traffic."
Vastu expert Sushil Fatehpuria, who offered his services free of charge, said that each 30 centimetre (one foot) tall pyramid will have a copper bottom and five smaller pyramids inside.
"I think the accidents are caused by negative energies. So we need to minimise or convert the negative energy into positive ones," he said.
"I think the accidents are caused by negative energies. So we need to minimise or convert the negative energy into positive ones," he said.
"I will energise the pyramids. I will transfer my positive thoughts into the pyramids."
Patil said his officers' own, more human, efforts to cut the number of road accidents would continue during the experiment.
"We will see in six months. If it gets positive results then that's excellent," he added.
A combination of an increase in drivers, many of them untrained, poor road planning and lax law enforcement have made India's roads the most dangerous in the world.
More than 114,000 people die each year, according to the World Bank.
Comment: OK, yes I have studied the science of the energies associated pyramids, and I can accept the concept of transmuting the 'negative' energies associated with an accident 'blackspot' but I don't think bad drivers can be re-balanced to make them better drivers! Here is another solution that some might find interesing: dream car 123: electric car gets pyramid power Don't miss the videos!
Revised theory of gravity doesn't predict a Big Bang
PhysOrg.com, 12th July 2010
The Big Bang theory has formed the basis of our understanding of the universe's origins since it was first proposed in 1927 by Georges Lemaitre. And for good reason: the theory is supported by scientists' latest observations and experiments, and is based on Einstein's widely accepted theory of general relativity.
But scientists are always on the lookout for any evidence that might suggest an alternative to the Big Bang. The latest in this area of research comes from astrophysicists Maximo Banados and Pedro Ferreira, who have resurrected a theory of gravity from the early 20th century and discovered that a modified version of the theory may hold some surprises.
Comment: There is enough evidence now to suggest that there is a shift in scientific opinion taking place and that Big Bang theory is being abandoned probably for what hs been termed 'The Big Bounce'. Next, scientists will have to completely back away from the current ridiculous understanding of black holes, so even though we now have massive blasts in space emitting x-rays and gamma rays, this is being explained as black holes that formerly were supposed to swallowed everything up, as the evidence for black holes is still paltry, even for our own galactic centre. There have been rebels and heretics fighting hard within the establishment for decades now, and so it seems that common sense is now prevailing.
Gang culture makes maximum security jails less stable, warns Anne Owers
The Guardian, 13th July 2010
Ken Clarke's rehabilitation revolution unlikely to cut record 85,000 jail population, says outgoing chief inspector of prisons
Maximum security prisons in England and Wales are less stable, more difficult to run and potentially less safe than nine years ago, the outgoing chief inspector of prisons has warned.
Dame Anne Owers says maximum security prisons have been remarkably safe places but this was threatened by growing numbers of young men, often from an inner-city gang culture, serving increasingly long sentences who might feel they have little to lose.
Comment: Solution: Get them dancing! I recently made the amazing discovery on YouTube of the dancing prisoners of Cebu, Philippines, who are now very popular. At first, I could not believe that a prison full of hardened criminals took to dancing like ducks to water, but they are world recognized sensation! There is a documentary clip of the warden Byron Garcia explaining the story but sorry I can't find the link. Here is a recent article: Cebu’s dancing inmates hit it big again -- New release on YouTube & this is a recent video:
Ambassadors of Goodwill-Cebu Dancing Inmates .
I have watched many of the dance routines, but the Ambassadors are former Dancing Inmates who have bonded together to spread the message of peace, love, compassion and repentance to all jails in the Philippines in line with Mr. Byron Garcia's crusade on spreading his "Music and Dance Therapy" to all jails nationwide. This video made my cry with joy. As far as I am concerned, this is a little more evidence of the rising consciousness on this planet. People have scoffed, but the prisoners are proud of their achievements. This is the famous "Thriller" 2007 version (42,769,848+ views!!!!) that caused Michael Jackson's choreography to go to the Phillipines in 2010 and work with the prisoners to create an exclusive video for Sony Entertainment, bigtime success! See "Thriller" (original upload) & Do not miss this!
Michael Jackson's This Is It - They Don't Care About Us - Dancing Inmates HD
Monckton vs Abraham
Watts Up With That, 12th July 2010
I don’t have a dog in this fight, as this is between two people with opposing viewpoints, but I’m happy to pass on this rebuttal from Christopher Monckton, who writes:
Professor Abraham, who had widely circulated a serially mendacious 83-minute personal attack on me on the internet, has had a month to reply to my questions.
I now attach a) a press statement; b) a copy of the long letter in which I ask the Professor almost 500 questions about his unprovoked attack on me; and c) the full subsequent correspondence. I’d be most grateful if you would circulate all this material as widely as you can. The other side has had much fun at my expense: without you, I can’t get my side heard, so I’d be most grateful if you would publicize this material.
Links to both Abraham’s and Monckton’s presentations follow.
Comment: Lord Christopher Monkton is a champion fighter and studying a fight with him is esssential for anyone who wants to hone their own skills. That said, the best way to describe this fight is as one of the commentators at WUWT remarked; Sean Peake says: July 12, 2010 at 12:00 pm
"Did Professor Abraham just bring a knife to a gun fight?"
More research papers and articles from Lord Monckton at Science and Public Policy
Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron 'has found Higgs boson'
Rumours are emerging from the rival to the Large Hadron Collider that the Higgs boson, or so-called "God particle", has been found.
The Telegraph, 12th July 2010
Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua, has said in his blog that there has been talk coming out of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, that the Higgs has been discovered.
The Tevatron, the huge particle accelerator at Fermi - the most powerful in the world after the LHC - is expected to be retired when the CERN accelerator becomes fully operational, but may have struck a final blow before it becomes obsolete.
Comment: This might be a false alarm induced by the huge rivalry between particle physicists and I would not even be surprised if there was an attempt to defraud the scientific community, if that was possible.
Psychopaths in the Gulf
Dr. Sircus Blog, 12th July 2010
The concept of “corporate psychopaths” is an emerging realization and has been described by Dr. Robert Hare who is a world-renowned psychiatrist and professor at the University of British Columbia.
The 2008 Australian documentary, I, Psychopath, points out that the vast majority of psychopaths are not crazed axe murderers: “Most of them function incognito in high-powered professions, all the way to the very top.” These are people who have no conscience. They are described as being manipulative, charming, glib, deceptive, parasitic, irresponsible, selfish, callous, promiscuous, impulsive, antisocial, and aggressive. Their main defect—what psychologists call “severe emotional detachment” or a total lack of empathy and remorse—is concealed and harder to describe than the symptoms of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.”
Comment: I think the BP CEO clearly showed this cold blooded lack of empathy with his glib response that fisherman were getting sick due to food poisoning. However, it has soon become very clear that BP's dispersant Corexit, is extremely toxic -- enough to corrode the hulls of boats -- and now hundreds of people are suffering.
Tales of the Codroy lights
The Telegram, 12th July 2010
[...] Starting in the 1840s, a large number of Scots from Cape Breton settled in the valley, and brought with them the customs and traditions of Cape Breton and their Scottish homeland. In her book, Bennett talks about the strong storytelling traditions of the valley.
She also includes a note about a rather intriguing ghost light.
On the north bank of the Grand Codroy River is a spot known as Gale's Island. Local tradition holds that the first settler of the valley was a man named Gale who arrived in the 1770s with an English crew of shipbuilders. When the crew left for England in the fall, Gale opted to remain in Newfoundland.
A gravestone located near the Grand Codroy River is dated 1815 and bears the name of a John Gale. Whether named for Mr. Gale or not, Gale's Island was the focal point for strange pyrotechnics for a number of years. In fact, it was said that the lights were seen, on and off, for around 25 years.
The ghost lights always followed the same routine. A ball of light would appear which would hover close to the ground for some time. After it had remained there for a while, it would start to rise into the air. The light would rise up about 20 feet, would then burst, shimmer, and change colour to red.
After this display was complete, the light would return to ground level and start over once more. The light would start to rise up again, getting brighter as it rose, but never changing size.
Margaret Bennett's informant told her that people in the area were so used to the strange happening that they paid no mind to it at all. The display was seen in the same place for many years, and then vanished. It was not seen again.
Comment: It's interesting that humans have lived alongside mysterious lights for hundreds of years but in the past, authorities have refused to admit the existence of this life form. Hopefully, that cannot last for much longer...
Viral Video: Okinawa Dolphin Leaps From Tank
AOL News, 12th July 2010
Visitors of Japan's Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium got their money's worth last week when they witnessed a female dolphin named Kuru take a valiant leap over the edge of a viewing tank during a performance.
The spectacle was captured on camera by an American tourist who forwarded the footage to Ric O'Barry, a former trainer for the "Flipper" television series who now makes his living by setting captive animals free. O'Barry then sent the video to the Associated Press. [...]
Since the footage surfaced, the dolphin's intent has become a subject of debate. O'Barry claims that by leaping out of the tank Kuru expressed nothing short of a plea for help.
"The habitat of that false killer whale is so unnatural it leaped out in desperation," he told the Associated Press. "It wanted to end it. Why does a person jump out of a building?...It proves that captivity doesn't work. They are free-ranging creatures with a very large brain. They're self aware and putting them in a small tank in a stadium setting is abusive."
Comment: I agree with the writer, the dolphin was desperate...
The Creativity Crisis
Newsweek, 10th July 2010
[...] The accepted definition of creativity is production of something original and useful, and that’s what’s reflected in the tests. There is never one right answer. To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result). [...]
Like intelligence tests, Torrance’s test—a 90-minute series of discrete tasks, administered by a psychologist—has been taken by millions worldwide in 50 languages. Yet there is one crucial difference between IQ and CQ scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.
Comment: Interesting article. However, from my perspective, I don't see a lot of receptivity for original thinking especially if it threatens the status quo or does not offer a proven formula for those who are not risk takers.
3D cube appears at Cley Hill Cley Hill, nr Warminster, Wiltshire. Reported 9th July.
Crop Circle Connector, 9th July 2010
This crop formation has appeared in a field below Cley Hill, near Warminster. Cley Hill is well known to UFO enthusiasts who have visited this hill in Wiltshire over the years for Night watches. Night watches from this hill stretch back to at least the 1960’s to my knowledge. It reminds me of Hinton’s cubes that I read about in a really significant book, Hyperspace, by the leading theoretical physicist, and author Michio Kaku. I can recommend this book to anyone interested in other dimensions. This formation is a remarkable event that inspires one’s thoughts to journey to the edge of known
knowledge.
Comment: Very impressive, see comments Cley Hill, nr Warminster, Wiltshire. Reported 9th July.
. The Daily Mail have a hatchet job trying to convince the British even a pair of old codgers could have generated this crop circle. Strangely enough, there has NEVER been a team of people filmed in a few hours of darkness, making a crop circle, because it would be interesting to compare the quality and the lack of scientific evidence that indicates the involvement of plasma phenomena. Close encounter of the 3-D kind? Crop circle followers spotted dancing around mysterious 200ft 'cube'
Spiral Crop Circle, Hochfelden, Switzerland, Reported 9th July 2010
kornkreise.ch, 9th July 2010
Google translation: Assessment following an initial inspection on July 9 and a second on Jul 11, 2010:
From the air Formation appears very accurate. At various points both at home and in the ends of the crop circle tracks were clear to see, to indicate the mechanical aids. As in the past year surprised us with the above-average dimension of the down areas. These facts give the impression that it was a work of art, the hand of man was not feasible. Unfortunately we have but counterfeiting groups note the large and impressive formations in other fields trample similar.
Comment: This is a very nice crop circle but kornkreise.ch think it's man made. Personally, I seriously doubt a team of law abiding Swiss would have taken the risk in trying to make this large crop circle and I also wonder whether this was supposed to have been done under the cover of darkness. Well, the Swiss have had other strange phenomena to debunk too, as there was a light show over Zurich a few days ago that was explained away as Chinese lanterns. However, from the video footage, these were special and magic Chinese lanterns, as they were stationary whilst in formation and blinking on and off. See, Video: Unbekannte Lichter uber Zurich
"You can have my ignorance when you pry it from my cold dead mind"
Kenny's Sideshow, 9th July 2010
The above words are from Les Visible. It's a great line. Wherever the American dream is buried, I bet it is the epitaph on the tombstone ... or should be.
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Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more, where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
-- Thomas Gray
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Have you ever been involved in a conversion where you try to interject a bit of information, maybe even what could be considered truth that's relevant to our lives and get the response; "I don't want to know?"
It's frustrating. Being passionate about the truth, about exposing the crimes and lies of our time often means one expects everyone else to feel that same passion. It just doesn't work that way. You preach to the choir, they shout and sing, but getting new converts to your position is a slow and difficult process. Folks hold their beliefs close to the heart and think they must in order to survive.
Comment: A great quote and a great headline.
Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq's 'Garden of Eden'
The Guardian, 9th July 2010
One of Saddam Hussein's greatest acts of ecological destruction – the draining of the Mesopotamian marshes – has been reversed as birds and rivers return to the region
Saddam Hussein's draining of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq – recorded as the Garden of Eden in the Bible - was one of the most infamous outrages of his regime, leaving a vast area of once-teeming river delta a dry, salt-encrusted desert, emptied of insects, birds and the people who lived on them.
But nearly two decades later the area is buzzing and twittering with life again after local people and a new breed of Iraqi conservationists have restored much of what was once the world's third largest wetland to some of its former glory.
The story of this once almost impossible restoration is told in an exhibition of photographs that has opened in the UK.
Comment: A little bit of hope amongst the chaos and destruction and a reminder that nature cooperates and takes advantage of the forces of destruction and creation.
Another Brazilian Military Reveals UFO Investigation and Observation
UFO Digest, 8th July 2010
Commander of an Army installation in the Brazilian Pantanal area determined the official investigation of spherical nocturnal objects reported to have burned vegetation. Military personnel sighted the UFO and obtained photos [...]
The former military commander reported that in mid 1977 (he was unable to remember the date precisely) he was informed by his men that a small settlement located somewhere in the middle of the Cuiabá-Cáceres Road was highly excited about sightings of a strange and recurring luminous object that appeared predominantly at night. Having always been opened to UFO issues, and seeing the reports were significant, he sent a first man to do the preliminary investigations. [...]
When asked about his personal view of the alien presence on Earth, Lieutenant-Colonel Leo Tércio Sperb demonstrated that he belongs to a lineage of Brazilian military that is quite open and prepared to face the reality of the UFO Phenomenon. He asserted that he thinks “there’s no question about the existence of other intelligences in contact with Earth’s humankind”, and that “contact between them and us is inevitable and will definitely happen in the future”.
Comment: Isn't it strange that retired senior military from various different countries are speaking out because their governments are not releasing the relevant information into the public domain. Please note the use of language: "spherical nocturnal objects", "strange and recurring luminous object that appeared predominantly at night" & "spherical UFOs, brightly lit". All around the world, the military knows the truth that UFOs are another life form, a complete spectrum of plasma entities with out-of-this-world characteristics. Why do you think that when some of the bigger objects enter our atmosphere, the military do not react, maybe they have learnt that antagonising these objects is a bad idea. From the following accounts, the U.S. military worked out the truth in the mid 1960s. see The Real truth about UFO's and ET's (Ex U.S. Military speak out)
Crude Awakening ~ Summer 2010
Jane Fulton Alt, Fine Art Photography, July 2010
Living on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am acutely aware of the disastrous toll the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taken on all forms of life, especially as our beaches opened to the 2010 swimming season. This environmental, social and economic catastrophe highlights a much larger problem that has inflicted untold suffering as we exploit the earth’s resources worldwide.
We are all responsible for leading lives that create demand for unsustainable energy.
We are also all responsible for the solution and we must work together to protect the balance of life.
Comment: Art and Video.
Chinese airport closed after fiery UFO is spotted flying over city
Daily Mail, 9th July 2010
A Chinese airport was closed after this mysterious object was spotted in the sky. Arcing over Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou, the UFO appeared to glow with an eerie white light and left a bright trail in its wake. Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm and dozens of flights had to be diverted.
Stunned witnesses reported seeing a comet-like fireball in the sky and a number of local residents took photos of the strange ball of light.
A local bus driver, giving his name only as Yu, said he had seen a strange glowing object in the sky late on Wednesday afternoon.
Comment: How ironic that they closed the airport! LOL! An U.S. intercontinental missile? Sorry, that's just completely wrong! These are plasma entities and they just keep coming and some of the arrivals are spectacular. How else can you explain the deathly silence from the military and government agencies? Here are some YouTube videos of arrivals, 3/4 I have already logged on this website.
UFO Wormhole Filmed by Surveillance Camera in Russia 2009
This is virtually an identical example.
Spiral UFO coming out Wormhole or Hyperspace ? Tomsk Russia
"Very strange clip of beams of light seemingly coming out of nowhere in the night sky in Tomsk Russia. As the beams dissappear a galaxy shaped spiral of light appears and forms from above. "
Vandenburg Missile Test ... or UFO Wormhole ?
An orb ariving via cosmic string or a wormhole, what a way to make an entrance! it's incredible to be on the planet and to see these manifestations of our high energy cosmic neighbours arriving!
UFO Wormhole Mexico December 2009
A strange variation on a theme. New!
Update
Here is a video of the Chinese news which clearly identifies the object, UFO disrupts air traffic in east China and confirmation of the Daily Mail pic from the People's Daily Online/Guangzhou Daily, see
'UFO' in skies over Urumqi suspected to be American guided missile For the thinkers, can you imagine that the Chinese would allow the US to test a missile over a metropolitan area? The military DO NOT test missiles over metropolitan areas!!!!! We have another similar and incredible sighting to examine! See below!
UFO Fireball Over Kazakhstan 30th June 2010
Awesome New Video! Unrelated UFO sighting over the city of Sensey, Kazakhstan ,which is still interesting in itself!
Update 2
Well, it is clear that there were two incidents, one during the day and the other at night. In this Chinese News in English, the reporter actually gives the following introduction. He says:
"Some unexpected guests, apparently, have paid a visit to Hangzhou, the city know as the Paradise on Earth, may have attracted the attention of some celestial visitors."
Actually, when I heard the opening of this report, I was amazed and I actually thought, maybe someone has read my essay, The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind - The Return of Paradise, this is just getting incredible, see
UFO disrupts air traffic in east China - CCTV 100710 Watch the report, the Chinese authorities made no attempt to debunk this incident and are still investigating, but it seems that the media jumped the gun and made up a ridiculous story about a US intercontinental missile.
Update 3
Finally, the first picture offered by the Daily Mail and being seen all over the internet as proof of a UFO craft type object is being argued as being a fake created by a long exposure photograph of a helicopter. See Astronut (a well known debunker on GLP) for details link. Please note, there has been deliberate confusion created but the facts are some kind of object appeared that so baffled radar operators that the airport was closed and planes diverted. In conclusion, something plasmatic and highly charged entering our atmosphere, as shown in the above image MAY have come from another incident too because there are claims that the UFO was only visible on radar. Whatever, this event has been another highly instructive in helping us understand that radar operators are struggling to cope with strange presumed plasmatic objects in the skies.
Airport closed after UFO appears on radar screens
The Australian, 9th July 2010
A CHINESE airport was dramatically shut down after baffled air traffic controllers spotted an incoming UFO on their radar systems.
Planes were grounded and flights were diverted away from Xiaoshan airport in Hangzhou City, in the country's east, after the mysterious glowing object appeared on monitoring instruments late Wednesday night, the Shanghai Daily reported.
In a further twist, the closure followed several supposed sightings of a strange airborne object across the city, with locals reportedly seeing a comet-like fireball in the sky.
Airport authorities immediately notified passengers to stop boarding and grounded all planes about to take off as flights were rerouted to neighboring airports in the cities of Ningbo and Wuxi, Xinhua news agency said.
The unexplained object soon vanished from radar screens but flights were delayed from taking off for a further four hours.
Comment: This is interesting, the same thing happened in India and was reported last week, see below... I wonder if we will get to the stage where engineers are stumped as to how they will irradicate the UAPs of the screens, interesting times... Original Xinhuanet report in English, UFO disrupts air traffic in east China &
Update
UFO in China Has "Military Connection," Says Official
"Another official Daily, Global Times reported that "a UFO trailed by a fan-shaped white light appeared last Wednesday in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region". It was later identified as debris from an intercontinental missile launched by the US, Song Huagang, secretary general of the Xinjiang Astronomy Society said."
Well, that's funny, it's usually a Russian missile! LOL Anyway, we are being told that US are firing intercontinental missiles across China, that's news! However, don't you think it's strange that radar operators can't tell missile debris from a plane? It would have made more sense if they said it was space junk or a space debris, especially as NASA is now telling us that Earth is getting showered with space rocks? Of course, if it was US real space junk and not a missile, that would be interesting too...
Aliens Cause Global Warming: A Caltech Lecture by Michael Crichton
Watts Up with That, 9th July 2010
The “exoneration” by Climategate investigations (like Muir Russell) that never bother to talk to skeptics, create an impossible conundrum of having essentially a trial with judge, jury, reporters, spectators, and defendant, but no plaintiff. The plaintiff is locked outside the courtroom sitting in the hall hollering and hoping the jury hears some of what he has to say.
Given this, I thought it valuable to revisit this Cal-Tech lecture on the state of science and consensus by the late Michael Crichton.
– Anthony Watts
Comment: Satire!?! My interest here is the vitriol spewed out about SETI! Wow! Here is a quote:
"In 1960, Drake organizes the first SETI conference, and came up with the now-famous Drake equation: N=N*fp ne fl fi fc fL
[where N is the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy; fp is the fraction with planets; ne is the number of planets per star capable of supporting life; fl is the fraction of planets where life evolves; fi is the fraction where intelligent life evolves; and fc is the fraction that communicates; and fL is the fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations live.]
This serious-looking equation gave SETI a serious footing as a legitimate intellectual inquiry. The problem, of course, is that none of the terms can be known, and most cannot even be estimated. The only way to work the equation is to fill in with guesses. And guesses-just so we’re clear-are merely expressions of prejudice.
Nor can there be “informed guesses.” If you need to state how many planets with life choose to communicate, there is simply no way to make an informed guess. It’s simply prejudice.
As a result, the Drake equation can have any value from “billions and billions” to zero. An expression that can mean anything means nothing. Speaking precisely, the Drake equation is literally meaningless, and has nothing to do with science. I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses. The Drake equation cannot be tested and therefore SETI is not science. SETI is unquestionably a religion.
Faith is defined as the firm belief in something for which there is no proof. The belief that the Koran is the word of God is a matter of faith. The belief that God created the universe in seven days is a matter of faith. The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered.There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. SETI is a religion.
One way to chart the cooling of enthusiasm is to review popular works on the subject. In 1964, at the height of SETI enthusiasm, Walter Sullivan of the NY Times wrote an exciting book about life in the universe entitled WE ARE NOT ALONE. By 1995, when Paul Davis wrote a book on the same subject, he titled it ARE WE ALONE? ( Since 1981, there have in fact been four books titled ARE WE ALONE.) More recently we have seen the rise of the so-called “Rare Earth” theory which suggests that we may, in fact, be all alone.
Again, there is no evidence either way."
Back in the sixties, SETI had its critics, although not among astrophysicists and astronomers. The biologists and paleontologists were harshest. George Gaylord Simpson of Harvard sneered that SETI was a “study without a subject,” and it remains so to the present day. But scientists in general have been indulgent toward SETI, viewing it either with bemused tolerance, or with indifference. After all, what’s the big deal? It’s kind of fun. If people want to look, let them. Only a curmudgeon would speak harshly of SETI. It wasn’t worth the bother.
And of course, it is true that untestable theories may have heuristic value. Of course, extraterrestrials are a good way to teach science to kids. But that does not relieve us of the obligation to see the Drake equation clearly for what it is-pure speculation in quasi-scientific trappings.
The fact that the Drake equation was not greeted with screams of outrage-similar to the screams of outrage that greet each Creationist new claim, for example-meant that now there was a crack in the door, a loosening of the definition of what constituted legitimate scientific procedure. And soon enough, pernicious garbage began to squeeze through the cracks. [End of extract]
I have not read anything by Paul Davies but his books are on my reading to-do list. However, in his January 2010 public lecture that was heavily promoted, he talked about Quintessence, which stuck in my head. At the time, I missed the obvious connection, but no doubt it's an in-joke for initiates. In my lectures notes I wrote: "Hence, there was a short discussion of Quintessence and he gave a few outrageous ideas about suitcase sized intelligences that would not bother investigating the galaxy but they would sit quietly in space contemplating their navels and not bothering with contacting other life in the universe, (not quite, but he might as well as said meditating into nirvana)." However, now I've got it. Quintessence was the name given by the mediaeval Aristotle to the crystalline spheres in outer space, this was the crystalline form of ether or the "fifth element". Now, the problem that Paul Davies and SETI folks now have, is that the Quintessence is appearing all over the planet, so to address this issue, we have SETV. Michael Crichton is dead now but I would love to know what he would be thinking now if he was still alive and informed about what's really going on.
Climategate: reinstating Phil Jones is good news – the CRU brand remains toxic
The Telegraph, 8th July 2010
“Move along now, please… Nothing to see here…” was the predictable burden of Sir Muir Russell’s investigation into Climategate. Are we surprised? Any other conclusion would have made world headlines as a first for the climate change establishment. This is the third Climategate whitewash job and it would be tempting to see it as just as futile as its predecessors. That, however, would be to underrate its value to the sceptic cause, which is considerable.
This is because Russell’s “Not Guilty” verdict has been seized upon as an excuse to reinstate Phil Jones at the University of East Anglia CRU, this time as Director of Research. That is very good news. It spells out to the world that the climate clique looks after its own; that there is no more a culture of accountability and job forfeiture for controversial conduct in AGW circles than there is in parliamentary ones; that it is business as usual for Phil and his merry men. Or, to put it more bluntly, the brand remains toxic.
Comment: I quite like the way that Gerald Warner says what he means! I have not watched this Michael Mann video, see WUWT Mann’s Grinning Cheshire Cat Commentary, but apparently Mann is very happy that his friends have exonerated him, despite the fact his Hockey Stick climate graph is still a proven fraud and that fraud in climate science has become institutionalised, as other parts of the science community have noted. Also, Parliament misled over Climategate report, says MP
The Register, 9th July 2010
""It's not a whitewash, but it is inadequate," is Labour MP Graham Stringer's summary of the Russell inquiry report. Stringer is the only member of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology with scientific qualifications - he holds a PhD in Chemistry."
Malaysian politician faked pictures of knighthood from the Queen
The Telegraph, 8th July 2010
A Malaysian politician is facing the sack for superimposing his head on to a picture of the Queen giving out honours in an attempt to claim he had been knighted.
"Sir" Wong issued a press release detailing his award and became an overnight celebrity in Malaysia, where society has become obsessed by people with titles. In the doctored picture issued by Mr Wong, he stands proud as Her Majesty pins the Knight Grand Cross to his breast.
However, his name does not appear in the Queen's birthday honours list.
"We can confirm that we have no record of any honour having been conferred at any time by the British Government on Jeffery Wong Su En," said a spokesperson from the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
An analysis of Mr Wong's photograph of him holding a certificate shows a crest at the top of the certificate claiming to be from Buckingham Palace, with a red seal.
In fact, warrants for such honours are administered by the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, which is based at St James's Palace. Mr Wong's certificate bears no resemblance to the Royal warrants used for such honours.
Comment: Hmmm... What is so amazing is thinking that he could get away with it! However, that must be part of the mental disorder. Well, there is a prominent metaphysician who claims a knighthood too, but that has been proved to be a clever hoax alongside his other 'Walter Mitty' type claims, see
Profile: Who was Walter Mitty?. Yes, I believed that Sir Hawk-it-about was genuine, but that was back in the days before I realised that the New Age/Metaphysical community has some very high profile people who have made false claims about their credentials. My erroneous assumption was that the fakes are weeded out by the system before they get famous, but it does not work like that, because once these people get famous, the community will not admit that they have been duped.
Red lights 'fuse' and split into four UFOs as North Carolina couple watch
UFO Examiner, 7th July 2010
A North Carolina couple report watching two red lights on July 6, 2010, that lit up the ground area below to the point where they had to look away, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
"The lights lit the entire area below and around the vehicles but did not illuminate the crafts at all," the reporting witness stated.
The lights then remained stationary, and then seemed to "fuse" together as a single light. Then the single light moved away, and split into two lights again.
Comment: One of the things that the author of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000] noted was that people describe things that they think they should be seeing and not actually what the are seeing. Let's think: how could two solid objects or 'craft' merge? The answer is that they can't, this is a plasma phenomena -- matterless charged mass that emits light. Again, there are many many reports to choose from, so here I have decided to link a few MSM reports video reports. Obviously, it's still joke time in the MSM, but I am wondering how much longer that will last. This is a fundamental shift in the fabric of space-time and our reality has changed forever.
Video: More witnesses come forward in Clovis, CA, UFO sighting from July 2
KMPH Fox News 26, Fresno
Danebury Hill, nr Nether Wallop. Hampshire. Reported 6th July.
Crop Circle Connector, 8th July 2010
Danebury Hill of July 6 shows the classical mathematical problem of a cube inscribed within a sphere".
Comment: I was thrilled to see this crop circle demonstrating Metatron's cube. A really nice explanation is given here, YouTube video [10:08] Sacred Geometry, Metatron's Cube.
TEDxOilSpill Expedition
TEDxOilSpill Expedition News, July 2010
This is a week-long project to document the current situation in the Gulf of Mexico and bring a first hand report back to the TEDxOilSpill event in Washington DC on June 28th. We'll be working on land, air, and maybe even on boat. Our team is composed of several talented photographers and videographers. In addition to documentation of oil on the water and on the beach, we're particularly interested in the human side of the equation and will be talking to some of the people most affected by the catastrophe in the Gulf. We'll also be documenting any and all evidence of media interference by BP, the Coast Guard, or other officials.
Comment: Some rare pictures that would be convict the photographer as a felon if they were taken now.
Particle physics: 'Honey, I shrunk the proton'
PhysOrg.com, 7th July 2010
Scientists lobbed a bombshell into the world of sub-atomic theory on Wednesday by reporting that a primary building block of the visible Universe, the proton, is smaller than previously thought.
More precisely, revised measurements shave four percent off the particle's radius, according to a study in Nature that is highlighted on the journal's cover.
That may not seem like much, especially given the proton's infinitesimally tiny size.
But if borne out in further experiments, the findings could challenge fundamental precepts of quantum electrodynamics, the theory of how quantum light and matter interact, say its authors.
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If confirmed, it would do even more than the multi-billion-dollar giant particle smasher at CERN in Switzerland to test the so-called Standard Model, which sets down the notional list of sub-atomic particles, he said in a commentary.
Either the previously accepted measures upon which hundreds of calculations have been based are wrong, or there is a problem with the theory of quantum electrodynamics itself.
Either way, physicists still have some serious explaining to do.
Comment: Say what? This is a perfect example of how standard theories in physics are being reworked over and over again when the theory does not match experimental observation.
Oil/Water samples from Gulf...VERY TOXIC
YouTube News, 6th July 2010
Oil and water samples were taken from both the Shores of Grand Isle and from 20 miles out. The preliminary analysis was done at an academic analytical chemistry laboratory. Looking for the likely pollutants from the deep water Horizon Oil spill. It was focused on the detection of benzene and propylene glycol. Benzene and other highly toxic contaminants were very low however the concentration of propylene glycol was between 360 and 440 parts per million.
Just 25 parts per million is know to kill most fish and propylene glycol is just one of many ingredients found in Corexit. In short, the Gulf is being poisoned by BP's usage of the dispersants even after the EPA asked them to stop back in May. We are willing to provide ANY respected/known laboratory these samples or provide them with more. This is very serious to all people and marine life in and around the Gulf.
Comment: This video was done by James C. Fox, who is a documentary filmmaker, so I don't know why the quality of this video is not brilliant. The sound disappears after the introduction until 3:20, but we now know from laboratory tests that Corexit is poisoning everything in the Gulf. Just in case this disappears off YouTube, here is a GLP link Oil/Water samples from Gulf VERY TOXIC
ET, meet the EU: Call for states to open UFO data
AP News, 6th July 2010
BRUSSELS — E.T., call Brussels.
A European Union lawmaker called Tuesday for member governments to open their secret files on UFOs, saying people need to know about close encounters of the third kind.
Mario Borghezio, an Italian member of the European Parliament, told the Associated Press in an e-mail Tuesday that the EU needs its own "X Files" archive where anyone can see information on UFOs — including data gathered by the military. Borghezio said all European governments should go public and stop what he called a "systematic cover-up."
Opening the files is not unprecedented: Last year, Britain published 4,000 pages online on 800 alleged encounters with aliens during the 1980s and 1990s. And over the past three years the British defense ministry has been gradually releasing previously secret UFO papers after facing Freedom of Information demands.
Borghezio also said it is essential to have a scientific center to research unidentified flying objects. Its investigations could have "major scientific and technological spinoffs," he said.
Comment: Well, this story as gone from the blogosphere to the mainstream MSM in about one month. MEP Mario Borghezio is fully aware that most UFOs are really plasma entities or UAPs, but the planet is now attracting much more of these entities, so the denial can't go on for much longer.
Slideshow: Galveston tar balls came from Deepwater Horizon
Kens5.com News, 5th July 2010
GALVESTON — The Texas General Land Office confirmed Monday the tar balls found along the shores of Crystal Beach on Bolivar Peninsula are from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Over the weekend, officials heard rumored reports of tar balls washing ashore. Officials performed rushed tests on samples collected and have since confirmed the oil is from the massive spill in the Gulf.
Comment: Wow! So, why are people allowing their kids to swim in the oceans, there are reports of kids coming out of the water with oil in their mounths, absolutely unbelievable! Maybe this is some evidence that this 'oil spill' is not exactly what we have been told to believe.
Photos of the Week ~~ BP's latest product... turtle soup in oil
Desertpeace, 4th July 2010
Terrible....
MSNBC: Hundreds of Gulf swimmers complain of illnes
The Last Outpost, 4th July
Kindra Arnesen Exposes BP! Claims Loophole
This woman is a real fighter...
“Horrifying”: Florida children “with tarballs on their face… tar in their eyes” (VIDEO)
No actual pics of the kids
Defying warnings, swimmers still take to oiled Gulf waters
Miami Herald, 4th July 2010
“You know what?” she asked. “If I still see these little fish alive, I’m OK. When the bait fish are all dead, I’m not letting my kids in.”
This women is very likely to get a Darwin Award in the very near future...
'Doomsday Ark' to be Housed on the Moon
Daily Galaxy, 4th July 2010
“Eventually, it will be necessary to have a kind of Noah’s ark there, a diversity of species from the biosphere."
--Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist/Research, European Space Agency
If the human species should be destroyed on Earth, our future may reside on the Moon if plans being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon by the European Space Agency are carried through. The Ark will contain the essentials of life and human civilization, to be activated in the event of earth being devastated by a giant asteroid or nuclear war.
The construction of a lunar information bank, discussed at a conference in Strasbourg last month, would provide survivors on Earth with a remote-access toolkit to rebuild the human race.
A basic version of the ark would contain hard discs holding information such as DNA sequences and instructions for metal smelting or planting crops. It would be buried in a vault just under the lunar surface and transmitters would send the data to heavily protected receivers on earth. if no receivers survived, the ark would continue transmitting the information until new ones could be built.
The vault could later be extended to include natural material including microbes, animal embryos and plant seeds and even cultural relics such as surplus items from museum stores.
Comment: This idea has been around for years, and I think it's just talk. I imagine with the fierce space weather that we have been getting, the Van Allen radiation belts will cook astronauts fairly quickly, but we don't know how far advanced space agencies are with spacecraft that utilise a plasma shield against radiation. They would need to create these plasma shields on the moon too. Also: please note WHY these people think Earth is due for destruction, this is explained in my latest essay The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind
ISS docking: success on second attempt
RT News, 4th July 2010
During its second attempt, the “Progress” supply ship has successfully docked at the ISS. The vehicle brought 2,6 tons of cargo to the ISS, including food, fuel, equipment, as well as presents for the crew. The first attempt at docking was aborted because of an electronic malfunction on Friday at 4:50 pm. The failure, however, posed no threat to the crew, since the ISS is well stocked.
There is always a certain reserve of supplies on the ISS, shared Rene Pischel, head of the Moscow office of the European Space Agency.
Comment: Was this another random electronic failure due to Space Weather? Here is the first RT report about this on YouTube. No Progress: Ship misses Space Station for first time ever
'Climategate' was 'a game-changer' in science reporting, say climatologists After the hacked emails scandal scientists became 'more upfront, open and explicit about their uncertainties'
The Guardian, 4th July 2010
Science has been changed forever by the so-called "climategate" saga, leading researchers have said ahead of publication of an inquiry into the affair – and mostly it has been changed for the better.
This Wednesday sees the publication of the Muir Russell report into the conduct of scientists from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), whose emails caused a furore in November after they were hacked into and published online.
Critics say the emails reveal evasion of freedom of information law, secret deals done during the writing of reports for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a cover-up of uncertainties in key research findings and the misuse of scientific peer review to silence critics.
In addition, Bob Ward, policy director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, said: "Researchers have to accept that it won't just be their science that is judged but also their motives, professionalism, integrity and all those other qualities that are considered important in public life."
Researchers outside Britain say a row that began in Norwich now has important implications for the wider scientific community round the world.
"Trust has been damaged," said Hans von Storch of the KGSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany. "People now find it conceivable that scientists cheat and manipulate, and understand that scientists need societal supervision as any other societal institution."
Comment: Yes, scientists were caught cooking the data, but characters like Michael Mann had been caught out with his fake 'hockey stick' climate data a long time ago. The difference with Climategate was that there was enough of a bad smell for the information to go viral on the internet. Nobody with any intelligence could ignore the implications. There are now websites dedicated to exposing fraud in science and that's because scientists admit that it's become an issue.
6 Airline Pilots Observe Orange Ball Of Light Over Lake County Illinois [US]
The Vike Factor, 3rd July 2010
I'm an airline pilot and was having a party on July 3rd. There were 5 other airline pilots and 1 corporate pilot at the party. Most, if not all of us witnessed an orange ball flying over from South to North.
One of the guys is not only an airline pilot, but also really into astronomy. None of us could identify the object as anything recognizable. I'll post a report for you soon. I'm going to see if anyone remembers the exact time.
Comment: I wonder if anyone will have the nerve to tell these 6 airline pilots that they were only watching a Chinese lantern. From the reports here, it looks like that on the 4th July, the orbs were out in full force, exactly the same as New Years Eve in the UK with all the fireworks. Again, it's difficult to work out whether more orbs appear to clean up or it's simply a matter that more people are looking into the skies and seeing more anomalous entities due to the dimensional shift. There are lots of reports around the 4th July on this website.
Large Orange Red Fire Like Ball East Of Fredericktown Missouri
"Tonight we were watching fireworks in our area and I pointed to what I thought was a fire ball from fireworks. It was south of us in the sky well above the trees. It was a big orange red fire like ball and we were waiting for it to explode. Instead, we saw it was moving up and toward us heading north."
UFO Sighting Video July 4, 2010,Washington, USA
Bright orange orbs in formation near fireworks, the camera work is poor. If you don't want to hear serious profanity, turned the volume off...
UFOs on Independence Day: Orange spheres reported to MUFON
"MUFON’s live event report feed displays the last 25 reported suspected UFO sightings on a map on their website. Interestingly, persons in the eastern portion of the country have reported similar phenomena over the last couple of days: red/orange objects in the sky. Timely for the Independence Day holiday when many eyes are turned to the sky."
Several See 5 to 6 Orange Objects in Night Sky
New study finds cell phones kill honey bees
Connect Mid Michigan News, 3rd July 2010
A recent study has found that radiation from cell phones may be killing the honey bee population.
In a recent report in the journal Current Science, scientists are claiming that mobile phones are behind the disappearance of honey bees in Europe and North America.
They say radiation from cell phones is getting in the way of honey bees' navigation senses, making them so confused they lose their way home.
This new research may explain why the bee population has declined for years in what's being called Colony Collapse Disorder.
NBC 25 talked with Gary Briggs, a local beekeeper who says something needs to be done about this, because it's becoming harder and harder to keep his bees alive. "If we keep losing bees, pretty soon we are going to lose our food supply.So it's a serious deal, and the sooner they can find out what's causing it or what culmination of affects, is what I think we need to get to," said Beekeeper Gary Briggs.
Comment: I don't know whether this is the real answer, but cell phone radiation is another electropollution hazard that is not just an issue for bees. For more science, an article in Current Science can be downloaded as a .pdf, Changes in honeybee behaviour and biology under the influence of cellphone radiations
How Rules of Physics in Quantum World Change When Applied to Classical World
Science Daily, 3rd July 2010
Dartmouth researchers have discovered a potentially important piece of the quantum/classical puzzle -- learning how the rules of physics in the quantum world (think smaller than microscopic) change when applied to the classical world (think every day items, like cars and trees).
[...]
"We found that the motion of the crystals is not dominated by something classical like thermal motion, but instead by random quantum fluctuations in the number of electrons tunneling through the barrier; the fluctuations were the size of about 10,000 electrons," says Rimberg. "But the macroscopic world in this study also influences the quantum world, in that the vibrations of the crystal caused the electrons to tunnel in big bunches, more or less in sync with the vibrations of the crystal."
One major question in quantum physics deals with the connection between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds. Rimberg explains that scientists know that microscopic objects such as electrons obey the laws of quantum mechanics, while macroscopic objects obey Newton's laws. Researchers are still learning exactly how classical behavior emerges from quantum behavior as systems become larger and larger.
Rimberg says that the difference in size between the classical and quantum parts of thesystem described in this paper is really extreme. "To give a sense of perspective, we could imagine that the 10,000 electrons correspond to something small like a flea. To complete the analogy, the crystal would have to be the size of Mt. Everest. If we imagine the flea jumping on Mt. Everest to make it move, then the resulting vibrations would be on the order of meters."
Comment: It is a fact that quantum particles demonstrate far more intelligence than atoms and molecules in the gross physical world. One question that a crystallographer cannot answer is: how does a crystal know how to grow? The answer is that it doesn't, this is managed by intelligent quantum particles.
The earthquake lights (EQL) of the 6 April 2009 Aquila earthquake, in Central Italy
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, July 2010
"A physicist from the University of Perugia surveyed local residents after the strong Aquila earthquake and found about 1,000 phenomena were reported, 241 of which were luminous in nature, and 99 of those occurred before the quake. It turns out that "Globular lights, luminous clouds and diffused light were more frequent before the quakes." Courtesy: anomalist.com
Comment: The research paper can be downloaded here, but quite delighted to find this research, as earthlights or quakelights associated with earthquakes are now becoming quite common as the planetary refresh enters the final stages. If you have not seen the video taken by missionaries of the massive orange orb that lifted off before the Haiti earthquake, then it's a must see, link
St Martin's Chapel, Nr Chisbury, Wiltshire. Reported 3rd July.
Crop Circle Connector, 3rd July 2010
A new Star appears next to the mysterious St Martin's Chapel (built in the 13th century) is situated on the edge of the earthwork defences of an earlier Iron Age hill fort known Chisbury Camp.
Comment: From the comments page, there is a connection with three other crop circles, see link. The interpretation of the humble monk St Martin is very interesting. Here is a quote from John Scott:
Hate to mention it but the number 40 has come up again in the outside count, confirming this number as a very clear message from the CC makers, they seem to know the systems of biblical numerology that have been in place for thousands of years? Funny that. [...]
In the United Kingdom, St
Martin's Day is known as Martinmas (or sometimes Martlemass).
St. Martin's Day (or
Martinstag or Martinmas) is November 11, the feast day of Martin of
Tours, who started out as a Roman soldier. He was baptised as an
adult and became a monk
In the United Kingdom
however, November 11 is better known for being Remembrance
Day
From the late 4th century CE
to the late middle Ages, much of Western Europe, including Great
Britain, engaged in a period of fasting beginning on
the day after St. Martin's Day, November 11. This fast period lasted
40 days, and was, therefore, called "Quadragesima
Sancti Martini", which means in Latin...
"The
forty days of St. Martin."
At St. Martin's eve,
people ate and drank very heartily for a last time
before they started to fast. This period of fasting
was later shortened and called "Advent" by the Church.
So I would say the CC makers
are delivering a harsh message of purification or fasting which is
upon us...
The 11th hour...?
Also November seems strong with this CC
message. [Bold and underline added above for emphasis]
This is in line with the beliefs of genuine Mayan Elders that have been ignored.... Is something major coming up? If so, we should expect more warnings.
Egyptian farmer calls two-headed calf 'a miracle'
Boston.com, 3rd July 2010
CAIRO—A farmer in northern Egypt says his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf that he calls a "divine miracle." obhy el-Ganzoury said Saturday it took two hours and much pulling to deliver the rare calf. He said the difficult birth has weakened the calf's legs.
El-Ganzoury said the veterinarian informed him that the calf, which was born this week, is now in stable condition and is expected to survive. He said he intends to keep the animal as a reminder that "God is able to do anything."
The calf still can't stand up because of its heavy heads and weak legs, and is being fed her mother's milk with a baby bottle.
Comment: The question is why are we seeing so many two headed or two faced animals and even a few human examples caused by DNA mutation?
Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again
Time, 2nd July 2010
Studies have found that upon entering an office, people behave more competitively when they see a sharp leather briefcase on the desk, they talk more softly when there is a picture of a library on the wall, and they keep their desk tidier when there is a vague scent of cleaning agent in the air. But none of them are consciously aware of the influence of their environment.
There may be few things more fundamental to human identity than the belief that people are rational individuals whose behavior is determined by conscious choices. But recently psychologists have compiled an impressive body of research that shows how deeply our decisions and behavior are influenced by unconscious thought, and how greatly those thoughts are swayed by stimuli beyond our immediate comprehension.
Comment: The programming is deep and extensive for most people, what's more even if you deal with some of the most negative aspects of your own programming it's seems like quite a challenge navigating throught life, when so many people are on remote control.
Mexico Declares Emergency In Northern Areas After Hurricane Alex
Wall Street Journal, 2nd July 2010
Mexico's Interior Ministry on Friday declared an emergency in 21 northern municipalities in the wake of Hurricane Alex, including in the industrial city of Monterrey, capital of Nuevo Leon state.
Meanwhile, state electricity firm Comision Federal de Electricidad, or CFE, said it had restored power to most of its customers in the Gulf-coast state of Tamaulipas, where Alex made landfall near the Mexico-U.S. border early Thursday.
The Interior Ministry said disaster relief includes emergency funds for food, clothing, shelter and the health-care needs of those forced from their homes.
Local media published pictures of flooded streets and broken-up pavement in the Monterrey metropolitan area after rivers broke their banks amid heavy rainfall. The newspaper El Norte reported several deaths and said six northern states had been affected by rainfall.
Comment: Apparently Monterrey was the wealthiest city in Mexico, but it's been flooded by run off from surrounding mountains. The pictures and videos of the damage from Alex are unbelievable, but apparently this was only a cat 2 hurricane. See Video: Monterrey Flood &
Images Monterrey Flood Aftermath
Oh No, It Just Can’t Be – Gulf Disaster
Into the Ashes, 2nd July 2010
I received this note: “Thanks for the Gulf update! But you forgot one important recommendation – MOVE OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY! Pack up your wife and kids and get the heck out of there NOW!!!
Many already in those Gulf States are being slowly poisoned, but now with the new storm or anyone storm yet to come they will get well oiled and gassed with many, many VOCs from the heavy rain and wind. People need to get out of there! Curious don’t you think that with all they know, all the articles and news about people getting ill, crops and landscapes dying inland from the toxic rain falling there in the last few weeks, that there has been NO mass exodus of people leaving those affected areas?”
Kind of extreme don’t you think? Don’t you think it’s better to wait for an evacuation order from the government? I don’t think so because if you wait for the government to warn about dangerous toxic exposures you are waiting on an organization famous for allowing industry, doctors and dentists to expose the public to massive amounts of chemicals and heavy metals. Sorry to be a spoiler on a holiday weekend but it is really not time to party and relax; it’s time to make plans to deal with an emergency the likes of which has never been seen.
Comment: Folks are leaving. To be honest, I never thought things would turn so bad, but we have to look at the facts; the bandits in charge of the United States have created a massive disaster, economic and environmental, but US citizens by allowing the winner takes all mentality to take precedence, have allowed this to manifest. So, every day looks more and more like the fall of Atlantis, (but, apparently, the demise of Atlantis was mercifully quick). So, if we look in terms of payback for all the wars around the world over resources that were instigated by greed, this payback is looking ominous. Please remember, the average American had 20X the resources of the average of the rest of the world. Today, there are women and children being killed by the US military dropping bombs in countries that have done them no wrong. This LOOKS like payback and it LOOKS like it is going to be terrible.
Kindra Arnesen is getting the heck outta dodge!
This woman has seen the writing on the wall.
American Sheeple - Special Publication
This is an excellent summary of information.
My Vision of the Destruction of America
Apocalyptic vision, circa, 1954
Dolphin 'superpod' seen by wildlife spotters off Skye
BBC News, 2nd July 2010
A pod of about 1,000 dolphins was spotted off the north east coast of Skye
A group of wildlife spotters have encountered a massive pod of dolphins on a boat trip off the north coast of Skye.
The boat's owner Nick Davies, who operates out of Gairloch on the mainland, estimated there were about 1,000 short-beaked common dolphin.
He said he had only seen such a sight once before in 15 years of operating.
Last June, a "superpod" of more than 400 short-beaked common dolphin was recorded in the Moray Firth.
Mr Davies said the Skye pod included adults, juveniles and calves.
He said: "They were everywhere you looked for as far as you could see.
"There was five square miles where they just filled the sea."
It is thought the massive pod was created when smaller ones grouped together to chase a huge shoal of fish.
The pod spotted last June was thought to be a "massive migration" into the North Sea.
Comment: Interestingly, PSI Guy at GLP was predicting that the whales and dolphins are going to start protesting about the spill in the Gulf, if this is what is happening with this mass rally, I am impressed! See this video for why the dolphins could be extremely displeased with humans...
Biologists find 'dead zones' around BP oil spill in Gulf
The Guardian, 30th June 2010,
"Methane at 100,000 times normal levels have been creating oxygen-depleted areas devoid of life near BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, according to two independent scientists"
"Scientists are confronting growing evidence that BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is creating oxygen-depleted "dead zones" where fish and other marine life cannot survive.
In two separate research voyages, independent scientists have detected what were described as "astonishingly high" levels of methane, or natural gas, bubbling from the well site, setting off a chain of reactions that suck the oxygen out of the water. In some cases, methane concentrations are 100,000 times normal levels.*
Apocalypse Now for Whales and Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico
Corexit is Eating Through Boats in the Gulf
Excellent video
Former Ministry of Defence UFO expert Nick Pope says footage taken in Pasture Close, Bushey is 'very interesting' [UK]
Watford Observer, 2nd July 2010
A former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator described unusual footage of a Bushey sighting as “very interesting”. Nick Pope, who worked for the MoD between 1991 and 1994, is recognised as a leading authority on UFOs and continues to investigate and comment on unusual sightings.
After viewing the video taken in Pasture Close, Bushey, on Wednesday, Mr Pope said he could not be sure what the object was, but that it probably had a logical explanation. [...]
Mr Pope said the object in the video, taken by Jackie Noise, was probably a Chinese lantern but could not rule out the possibility of extra-terrestrial life visiting Earth.
“There is a lot of strange stuff being seen. Is there life out there? Definitely. Is there life visiting us? I'm not so sure. It is possible and throughout my career I have seen evidence, but no proof.”
Comment: Yes there is a very logical explanation, but most people are completely ignorant of what is taking place on this planet and have NO idea of the true nature of reality. Nick, if you want to know the truth, my advice is to make friends with the SETV guys, they will give you the proof!
Multiple orbs circling sun reported from several Indiana locations [US]
"Indiana witnesses at several locations are curious what the multiple orb-like balls of light were near the sun on June 30, 2010."
UFOs over New Jersey's Manasquan Inlet seem to play game of 'hide-and-seek' [US]
"Three New Jersey witnesses fishing at Manasquan Inlet report two "intermittent white lights" performing maneuvers for 15 minutes in the night sky on June 26, 2010, as though it were a game of "hide-and-seek," [...] Numerous reports to MUFON over the past year detail the same type of behavior between two or more anomalous lights in the sky - often reported as if the lights are performing a show, or some kind of gaming technique between the lights. The witnesses are convinced they were not observing typical man made aircraft."
So are we really expected to believe that UFOs that look like they are playing 'hide and seek' are here to invade?
Oregon witnesses report multiple UFOs over Summer Lake Hot Springs [US]
"They then witnessed balls of light moving across the sky that changed shape and color - red, blue, green, and white - fading in and out, and sometimes appearing to be transparent. Later that same evening, they report that "multiple balls of light appeared above the horizon."
Notice how the witnesses only describes "balls of light". This must be killing the die-hard ufologists who insist that everyone should believe that any bright light in the sky is a spaceship on patrol.
Idaho aircraft mechanic reports Bright Light UFOs on multiple nights [US]
"An Idaho aircraft mechanic and student pilot is trying to explain what appeared to be intelligently controlled lights moving across the sky with no signs of FAA required navigation lights, rotating beacons, or strobes, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database."
A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space
NPR News, 1st July 2010
Since we're coming up on the Fourth of July, and towns everywhere are preparing their better-than-ever fireworks spectaculars, we would like to offer this humbling bit of history. Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will. Here it is: [...]
The scientific basis for these proposals is not clear. Fleming is trying to figure out if Van Allen had any theoretical reason to suppose the military could use the Van Allen belts to attack a hostile nation. He supposes that at the height of the Cold War, the most pressing argument for a military experiment was, "if we don’t do it, the Russians will." And, indeed, the Russians did test atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs in space.
In any case, says the science history professor, "this is the first occasion I've ever discovered where someone discovered something and immediately decided to blow it up."
Comment: We have some very rare video footage here. I have highlighted the research of eco-warrior Dr. Rosalie Bertell, who documented the history of US military experiments in our atmosphere. It's very difficult to understand the mentality, but obviously the scientists involved did not think this would destroy the Earth, but it's more likely that the the H-bomb created more negative effects and tightened the noose of radiation around planet Earth. If the real plan was to blast a hole in the Van Allen radiation belts to get into outer space, it failed.
Staring into the abyss: Traffic halted as five metre crack tears through Malaysian road
Daily Mail, 1st July 2010
A five metre wide chasm has mysteriously opened in a busy road. The enormous crevice tore through the ground late last night, causing traffic chaos in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Miraculously no one was killed, although one truck was overturned by the force of the collapse. Officials have no explanation for why the giant hole has appeared but confirmed they were looking into it.
Comment: Well, maybe it's not just sink holes, but massive cracks appearing now too...
Aging airport radar sees 'ghost planes'
Times of India, 1st July 2010
CHENNAI: Late on Tuesday evening, the air traffic control (ATC) at Chennai airport received a flurry of calls asking about a 'mystery plane' that had 'intruded into Chennai's airspace'. Controllers checked the radar details, but found no such incursion. But there have been several incidents when ATCs across the country have gone into a tizzy as radars catch 'ghost planes'.
The culprit often is the ageing radar itself. A 'ghost plane' comes as a small speck of light among the blips denoting aircraft on the screen and forces the ATC to divert planes they are handling because every blip on the screen should be considered as an aircraft. In most cases, the ATC is able to identify a false alarm, but there have been instances when these blips have made controllers reach for the hotlines connecting them with the IAF or the coast guard.
"Air traffic controllers will be able to say whether a blip denotes an aircraft or something else, by reading the speed and movement pattern," said an airport official.
"But we don't allow any aircraft anywhere near an unidentified blip even if it is confirmed to be a false one," he added. Air traffic controllers hope that the problem will be solved with the airport getting a new radar soon.
Comment: What they actually mean is that somehow when 'new' types of strange radar signals are detected, engineers can get rid of them. This is something that has been going on since radar operators realised that there were other entities in the skies which became known as the 'radar angels'. Radar confirms the presence of something that is definately not a conventional airplane, but these days, irradicating these 'blips' off the screens does not stop people actually seeing them and calling them UFOs.
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