News of the Imbalance
September – October 2010
Something is going on...
UK UFO Sightings, 31st October 2010
Location of Sighting: Carron, Falkirk
Date of Sighting: 30/10/2010
Time: 9.15
Witness Name: Alan
Witness Statement: Last weekend my neighbour told me that she had seen a strange orange light in the sky, oblong shaped, and moving silently over the sky above our gardens. Last July my brother in law, the most sceptical person on the planet, had told me of a similar sighting whilst walking his dog near Larbert. The common theme was the orange light and the fact the object made no sound. [...]
...was standing in the garden when, hey presto, two orange lights appeared in a partially cloudy sky, travelling much faster than and below the clouds. I shouted to my wife, who was doing the dishes, and she came into the garden and watched as the mysterious lights passed overhead without a sound. Chinese Laterns was her response to which I retorted' moving faster than the clouds?' She still thinks I'm nuts but there is no way this was anything with an engine and if it was a chinese lantern it must have been propelled by more than the prevailing wind.
Seems like something is going on that the powers that be would rather we knew nothing about.
What we need is a mass public sky watching night where everyone in Britain switches off the lights, Eastenders and Corrie and gets into their gardens or the park and puts this all to rest once and for all. With mass sightings and evidence maybe then the government tell us all they know. Who's up for that then???
Comment: I was quite amused by this account. The idea of a mass public watching event is not really helpful, as a battery of scientific equipment is needed with experts who know how to interpret the data. What's more, the skies were cleared of aircraft during the April 2010 flight ban, associated with the Icelandic volcanic eruptions of ash and there were still plenty of UFO sightings. Of course, these were blamed on Chinese lanterns and it was combined with the usual conspicuously deathly silence from the authorities. I am wondering if and when the majority of ufologists are going to wise up, because even the most ardent ET advocates must be wondering why astronomers are starting to mutter about Earth having a shadow biosphere. More reports:
10.28.2010 U.F.O. Hovering Over BROOKLYN (@BOOK_LIGHTHOUSE)) [US]
YouTube, 28th October 2010
"While Doing My Duties as an A&R I noticed a blinking light. I cut off the music and grabbed my camera and taped about 15 minutes worth of a stationary OBJECT in the sky that seemed to HAVE NEEDED some assistance. As you can see a LIGHT APPEARS and then it moves closer to the Stationary OBJECT..."
Excellent video footage!
Court battle over PhD
Winnipeg Free Press, 30th October 2010
Math prof says U of M student wrongly given doctorate
Students and professors at the University of Manitoba are rallying around a math professor who has been suspended for three months without pay after he took legal action to overturn the university's decision to award a PhD to a student who hadn't met all the requirements.
Gábor Lukács said the U of M is demeaning the reputation of other PhD students and the professors who teach them. "The shadow of suspicion that the present case casts on all other, hard-working students who did fulfil their requirements bothers me a lot," Lukács said.
"The hard-working students who toil for years to earn their PhDs deserve better than this."
Lukács said the U of M awarded a PhD in mathematics in October to an individual who lacked the academic requirements, who failed a critical exam twice, and was then informed he didn't have to take the exam.
Lukács said he's gone to court because the dean violated the U of M's own regulations and the University of Manitoba Act when he overruled academic staff opposed to the decision
Comment: Huh, at least this graduate did three years to be awarded a Ph.D, regardless whether he was good enough and maybe the problem was being accepted for the position in the first place if he was not a good enough candidate. Quite frankly, I picked up on this story because I am quite sensitive to the issue of academic credentials, as I realise that many people don't appreciate what academic qualifications actually mean. Since I wrote my book, I have had a few ignoranti (Italian/Latin) who have tried to imply that I don't have a bachelor of science from a British red-brick
university. Worse still, just because I have a mission to integrate science and metaphysics, some think that it implies that I can't be that intelligent. Certainly, as I have been approached by an assortment of people who demonstrate extremely low reasoning abilities, these people certainly have no ability to judge! Quite frankly, I got my honours degree a long time ago and since I have been researching evolutionary change, I think I have worked hard enough for two Ph.Ds, but I don't know a university in the world that would supervise a thesis on evolutionary change that integrates a plethora of scientific disciplines, metaphysics and ancient mythology. Can you imagine that our whole world is changing right before our eyes and there is wall to wall ignorance on some of the most important spiritual details of what is happening and what the citizens of Earth should expect! Incredible!!
Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in Japan
etc group, 29th October 2010
Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in Japan Risky Climate Techno-fixes Blocked
NAGOYA, Japan – In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments. “Any private or public experimentation or adventurism intended to manipulate the planetary thermostat will be in violation of this carefully crafted UN consensus,” stated Silvia Ribeiro, Latin American Director of ETC Group. [...]
The unusually strong consensus decision builds on the 2008 moratorium on ocean fertilization. That agreement, negotiated at COP 9 in Bonn, put the brakes on a litany of failed “experiments” – both public and private – to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in the oceans’ depths by spreading nutrients on the sea surface. Since then, attention has turned to a range of futuristic proposals to block a percentage of solar radiation via large-scale interventions in the atmosphere, stratosphere and outer space that would alter global temperatures and precipitation patterns.
“This decision clearly places the governance of geoengineering in the United Nations where it belongs,” said ETC Group Executive Director Pat Mooney. “This decision is a victory for common sense, and for precaution. It will not inhibit legitimate scientific research. Decisions on geoengineering cannot be made by small groups of scientists from a small group of countries that establish self-serving ‘voluntary guidelines’ on climate hacking. What little credibility such efforts may have had in some policy circles in the global North has been shattered by this decision. The UK Royal Society and its partners should cancel their Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative and respect that the world’s governments have collectively decided that future deliberations on geoengineering should take place in the UN, where all countries have a seat at the table and where civil society can watch and influence what they are doing.”
Comment: The article is quite informative. Personally, I want to know when TPTB tell the truth about what is really happening, as it is becoming obvious that humans have no ability to fight the universal energies that are bombarding this planet. Maybe, common sense will prevail and world controllers will decide to adapt to massive evolutionary change, I can't see they have much choice. More:
Mixed messages on geoengineering: international community approves moratorium, US pushes research
Monga Bay, October 31, 2010
Superstitious Beliefs Getting More Common
Discovery News, 29th October 2010
Believers range from free-spirited types to high-powered businessmen. Some were drifters; others were brain surgeons.
THE GIST
- Believing in the paranormal is actually more normal than you might think and may be growing more common.
- Contrary to common stereotypes, there is no single profile of a person who accepts the paranormal.
- It might be in our nature to look for patterns and meaning in strange and random events.
It's that time of year again. Ghosts, goblins and other spooky characters come out from the shadows and into our everyday lives.
For most people, the thrill lasts for a few weeks each October. But for true believers, the paranormal is an everyday fact, not just a holiday joke.
To understand what drives some people to truly believe, two sociologists visited psychic fairs, spent nights in haunted houses, trekked with Bigfoot hunters, sat in on support groups for people who had been abducted by aliens, and conducted two nationwide surveys.
Contrary to common stereotypes, the research revealed no single profile of a person who accepts the paranormal. Believers ranged from free-spirited types with low incomes and little education to high-powered businessmen. Some were drifters; others were brain surgeons.
Comment: This might bore some people but apparently, being supersitious is indicative of the level of human development and it seems that some serious re-wiring of the brain needs to be done so that individuals can think in a different more complex way. I would also like to add that believing in paranormal phenomena is not the same as being supersitious, and so it seems the author of this piece chose to write a headline grabber... but, believe me, there is not much enlightenment here...
Boffins mount campaign against France's official kilogramme
The Register, 28th October 2010
'Eet cannot be changing. Eet weighs exactly 1 kg - sacré vache'
International boffins are mounting a determined diplomatic push to end the practice of measuring mass by reference to a 130-year-old metal cylinder kept in France, saying that the French ingot is no longer up to the job.
The Consultative Committee for Units, whose chairman is Blighty's Professor I M Mills FRS, and which counts among its members the UK National Physical Laboratory and the US National Institute for Standards and Technology, has recommended that the Système International d'Unités (SI Units system) move to define the unit of mass - the kilogramme - more accurately.
At the moment, the official SI definition of a kilogramme is a mass equal to that of the international prototype kilogramme, a cylinder of platinum and iridium kept inside several nested glass cases in an environmentally monitored vault in France at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures outside Paris. The kilogramme was made in 1879.
Officially, of course, it can't change - it will always mass exactly one kilogramme, by definition. But it is compared from time to time with other exact copies held by other nations, and it is known that in reality slight changes on the order of microgrammes - a billionth of a kilo - do occur.
Comment: If you have read and understood my book Tuning the Diamonds and my essay The Greatest Transition and other previous related stories about this subject matter, it will not be too difficult to comprend why a weight made of platinum and irridum is now changing, providing more evidence of the massive evolutionary changes taking place on this planet. It's interesting that scientists admit that this weight should not change but in reality it does, just like other science constants that our scientists are now realising are not really constant. This is indeed worrisome as it means that more of the hallowed laws of physics are not a true reflection of reality. Anyway, there have been articles about this for quite a few years. In 2005, scientists were saying that the problem was caused by "chemical reactions with the air," so why is this weight not kept in a vacuum tight container? In reality, everything in our physical dimension is reliant on energy from unseen dimensions as our scientists now admit, but we are currently experiencing a massive flux of interdimensional energies. The importance of platinum and irridium are explained in my book, so this ongoing argument about exact weight should be no surprise. See:
Scientists say it’s time to redefine the kilogram
MSNBC News, 25th April 2005
Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil [5:09]
Youtube, August 2010
Passing Into the Energy Cloud
Huffington Post, 28th October 2010
On Christmas Eve, 2009, the startling hypothesis that our Solar System, the Sun and all its planets, are moving into a potentially dangerous and destabilizing interstellar energy cloud, was resoundingly sustained. In their research paper, "A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the Solar System," published the December 24, 2009 issue of Nature, a highly respected scientific journal, M. Opher et al report on data transmitted from Voyager, the twin spacecraft that have been exploring the outer reaches of the Solar System since 1977.
Comment: The author Lawrence Jospheph is basically advertising his book, but at least he is aware that Earth is facing massive evolutionary change caused by dramatic changes in our solar system.
Sleuths study ancient UFOs
Cosmic Log MSNBC, 27th October 2010
Alan Boyle writes: One of the best-known scientific sleuths of UFO sightings is focusing his search not on today's flying saucers, but on the sky wonders of antiquity. [...]
Jacques Vallee: Forty years ago, I published a book called "Passport to Magonia," saying, "Look, this is very similar to ancient folklore, about elves and demons and angels and other types of creatures, leprechauns and so on, who in many cases were also coming from the sky and were doing very similar things." Of course this became folklore, and the question I raised was, are we being faced with the same kind of folklore with modern UFOs? Could there be a real phenomenon underneath all of this that has not been recognized? Whether or not it's extraterrestrial is a different question. Of course, it could be. It's a big universe out there. Many astronomers -- including myself -- strongly believe that there is life throughout the cosmos.
Today there are pilots and military people willing to talk openly about what they've seen. The records of many countries have been made available. You know, I'm a member of the expert committee for the aerial phenomena study group of the French equivalent of NASA, CNES. It has been working on this phenomenon officially since 1975 and has a database. I built one of the early databases of sightings. My background is in computer science, so I started looking for patterns. Of course we all know that 90 percent of the reports are explainable, as illusions or airplanes, or meteors or atmospheric phenomena. The second part of our book is all about the cases that we have excluded, and why we did. But you're left with a significant number -- dozens of thousands of cases -- all unexplained. Not only are they unexplained, but they're also very well documented, well enough that scientists can begin to look for patterns in the phenomenon.
Comment: This is an excellent article based on an edited transcript of an interview with Jacques Vallee, who is considered to be a repected ufologist. Well, the mainstream press are not giggling as much these days and as the dimensional shift continues, there are going to be less and less jokes, until it becomes not funny at all... The image icon comes from UFOs in Ancient Art.
Example of Why Climate Science is Becoming a Laughingstock
Climate Skeptic, 26th October 2010
From the Thin Green Line, a reliable source for any absurd science that supports environmental alarmism:
Sending and receiving email makes up a full percent of a relatively green person’s annual carbon emissions, the equivalent of driving 200 miles.
Dealing with spam, however, accounts for more than a fifth of the average account holder’s electricity use. Spam makes up a shocking 80 percent of all emails sent, but most people get rid of them as fast as you can say “delete.”
So how does email stack up to snail mail? The per-message carbon cost of email is just 1/60th of the old-fashioned letter’s. But think about it — you probably send at least 60 times as many emails a year than you ever did letters.
One way to go greener then is to avoid sending a bunch of short emails and instead build a longer message before you send it.
This is simply hilarious, and reminds me of the things the engineers would fool the pointy-haired boss with in Dilbert. Here was my response:
This is exactly the kind of garbage analysis that is making the environmental movement a laughing stock.
Comment: Environmentalism is getting very close to religion, where virtually everything you do is a sin.... Al Gore messed up badly again this week:
Gore leaves car idling for one hour during speech; Opts for Swedish government jet over public transportation
Climate Depot, 27th October 2010
Falling in love 'takes a fifth of a second and is like taking cocaine'
The Telegraph, 26th October 2010
Love at first sight really is possible because it takes just milliseconds for euphoria-inducing chemicals to flood the brain after setting eyes on the right person, researchers believe.
The first flush of love stimulates 12 different parts of the brain to start releasing “feel-good” chemicals such as dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline and vasopression, a study at Syracuse University in New York found.
Comment: I simply can't comment from lack of experience, but it does sound dangerous to me! LOL!!...
Watch out, it’s raining bacteria
Daily News & Analysis, 26th October 2010
[...] Explaining further, she added that during summer there is a lot of dust and particulate matter in the atmosphere, which settles in the stratosphere. Hence, when the first rain occurs, all microbes that were growing in the atmosphere are brought down to the soil. But once regular rainfall commences the atmosphere clears of microbes. Also when the initial rain hits the soil, the fungi in the ground are sent into the air, in the form of bio-aerosols. These bio-aerosols are very dangerous and when people breathe them in, they give rise to respiratory problems.
Dr Nandini pointed out that the levels of bio-pollution in Bangalore's air were very high, and needed to be addressed. The study will now be submitted to the government and patented. In the next step, the researchers are recording data of variants and temperatures.
“We want to make a complete record — seasonwise, timewise, and regionwise study of the organisms. After which it will be analysed to find out which organism has seen an increase, at what time of the day, and where and how it can be controlled.
Comment: To be honest, I have a more cosmic perspective here, because I just don't believe that most of the dust in the stratosphere is just being carried up by 'winds' and it is a fact that epidemics are largely associated with viruses from space and can be predicted. So, we have scientists telling us that bacteria acts as cloud condensation nuclei, bacteria can be carried in and out of Earth's atmosphere by magnetospheric plasmoids and that bacteria in space mutates due to radiation and becomes extremely aggressive. Astrophysicists Hoyle and Wickramasinghe proved decades ago that dust in space is mainly freeze dried bacteria in various states of degradation, so what exactly are we being told here? Are there big clouds of cosmic dust coming our way?
Power Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles
The Atlantic News, 26th October 2010
President Obama was briefed this morning on a power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday.
The base is a main locus of the United States' strategic nuclear forces. The 90th Missile Wing, headquartered there, controls 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. They're on full-time alert and are housed in a variety of bunkers across the base.
On Saturday morning, according to people briefed on what happened, a squadron of ICBMs suddenly dropped down into what's known as "LF Down" status, meaning that the missileers in their bunkers could no longer communicate with the missiles themselves. LF Down status also means that various security protocols built into the missile delivery system, like intrusion alarms and warhead separation alarms, were offline. [...]
We've never had something as big as this happen," a military officer who was briefed on the incident said. Occasionally, one or two might blink out, the officer said, and several warheads are routinely out of service for maintenance. At an extreme, "[w]e can deal with maybe 5, 6, or 7 at a time, but we've never lost complete command and control and functionality of 50 ICBMs." [...]
The cause of the failure remains unknown, although it is suspected to be a breach of underground cables deep beneath the base, according to a senior military official. It is next to impossible for these systems to be hacked, so the military does not believe the incident was caused by malicious actors. A half dozen individual silos were affected by Saturday's failure.
Comment: This evolutionary change is certainly very interesting... Was this caused by Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICS) doing what they like to do? Another weak link? As we have been already told by NASA, virtually EVERYTHING on this planet is affected by Space Weather. In reality, this represents a massive celestial spring clean of universal energies and that should be of great interest to citizens of planet Earth.
Update
Nuclear Missiles Go Offline after Computer Error
CBS News, 26th october 2010
"Engineers believe that the outage at F.E. Warren Air Force Base was caused by a hardware failure in a launch control computer rather than a power failure as had been previously reported, according to a defense official with knowledge of the situation. [...]
According to the official, a launch control center computer responsible for a package of five missiles began to "ping" out of sequence, resulting in a surge of "noise" through the system. The computers interrogate each missile in sequence, so if they begin to send signals out when they're not supposed to, receivers on the missiles themselves will notice this and send out error codes.
Because the computers ping out of sequence on occasion, missileers tried quick fixes. But as more and more missiles began to display error settings, they decided to take offline all five computers that the malfunctioning center was connected to. That left 50 missiles in the dark. The missileers then restarted one of the computers, which began to normally interrogate the missile transceiver. Three other computers were successfully restarted. The suspect computer remains offline."
Comment: Was this caused by a cosmic ray? So, contrary to initial reports, this now sounds like a cosmic ray generated a hardware failure. Nobody, will claim that 'state of the art' military defence systems are not rigorously tested, so there must have been some kind of interference. Yet, Earth's lack of cosmic shielding and cosmic rays at a Space Age high is indeed a fact and is the most likely source of interference. If this proves to be true, it will be considered as a major embarrassment and reveals that currently, nuclear weapons systems are not shielded enough against Space Weather. Since, even radiation hardened satellite electronic components can be corrupted by Space Weather, this is not unrealistic proposition. Oh dear!
Solar Shield--Protecting the North American Power Grid
NASA Science News, 26th October 2010
Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents coursing through the planet's topsoil. The most famous such storm, the Carrington Event of 1859, actually shocked telegraph operators and set some of their offices on fire. A 2008 report by the National Academy of Sciences warns that if such a storm occurred today, we could experience widespread power blackouts with permanent damage to many key transformers. [...]
The innovation of Solar Shield is its ability to deliver transformer-level predictions. Pulkkinen explains how it works:
"Solar Shield springs into action when we see a coronal mass ejection (CME) billowing away from the sun. Images from SOHO and NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft show us the cloud from as many as three points of view, allowing us to make a 3D model of the CME, and predict when it will arrive."
While the CME is crossing the sun-Earth divide, a trip that typically takes 24 to 48 hours, the Solar Shield team prepares to calculate ground currents. "We work at Goddard's Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)," says Pulkkinen. The CCMC is a place where leading researchers from around the world have gathered their best physics-based computer programs for modeling space weather events. The crucial moment comes about 30 minutes before impact when the cloud sweeps past ACE, a spacecraft stationed 1.5 million km upstream from Earth. Sensors onboard ACE make in situ measurements of the CME's speed, density, and magnetic field. These data are transmitted to Earth and the waiting Solar Shield team.
"We quickly feed the data into CCMC computers," says Pulkkinen. "Our models predict fields and currents in Earth's upper atmosphere and propagate these currents down to the ground." With less than 30 minutes to go, Solar Shield can issue an alert to utilities with detailed information about GICs.
Pulkkinen stresses that Solar Shield is experimental and has never been field-tested during a severe geomagnetic storm. A small number of utility companies have installed current monitors at key locations in the power grid to help the team check their predictions. So far, though, the sun has been mostly quiet with only a few relatively mild storms during the past year. The team needs more data.
Comment: While I appreciate NASA telling the world just how vulnerable we are, it is amazing to guage the response of people who think that NASA are just trying to frighten people. The conclusion that I have come to is that most people simply cannot comprehend the consequences for technological societies heavily reliant on the current electricity supply that can disapear within 90 seconds of a major geomagnetic storm. This is what happened in Quebec, Canada when we had a major geomagnetic storm in March, 1989 and 6 million people were left without electricity for 9 hours during a cold winter night. If we have a superstorm Carrington Event, electricity will literally flow through the air and ground, so with the current technology in place, transformers will be destoyed and world's national power grid will be destroyed with no chance of a quick recovery because we could not build transformers fast enough to rebuild the grid. It still seems that people who are trying to warn are having a hard time dealing with people who cannot comprehend Earth being flash-fried by the Sun or even a major event caused by radiation from deep space. As I mentioned recently, there are some ideas about 'surge suppressors', devices to protect the United States national power grid, because the US military now consider this a national security matter, but elsewhere, there seems to be a heavy reliance on Space Weather forecasting. See:
Major News: The Ultimate Surge Protection Has Been Approved!
Huffington Post, 15th July 2010
UFO Sighting in Rotherham, UK: Where Do Aliens Go Next? Is it raining UFOs ?
LA News Monitor, 25th October 2010
UFO Sighting in Rotherham, UK: Where Do Aliens Go Next? Is it raining UFOs ? It seems so . These days, UFO related news from different parts of the world are cropping up at a very rapid pace. Earlier it was China, then camethe U.S and now it seems the alien friends have taken a turn and have opted for a tour to the United Kingdom. Rotherham, South Yorkshire in England has been the latest witness point to a triangular shaped Unidentified Flying Object.
When a mysterious looking aircraft flew over the locales of Rotherham, everyone came out befuddled shouting at the tri-edged space craft. A very similar looking object made an appearance in 1990 in Belgium. The both share a striking resemblance.
The Sun, UK Quotes Nayab Ahmed 19, a resident of Rotherham as saying that the aircraft, “..moved really slowly but occasionally it'd shudder. It was completely silent." His friend Anny Cummings, 18 took an interesting photo of the event.
Amidst the mayhem which the jet from the unknown world created, there seemed to be many people who, though, never believed in the UFO stories, but due to the fact that they witnessed the event in front of their eyes this time, had to believe in.
Comment: It's raining UFOs... Hallelujah! (sorry my little joke....) Yes, it's called a dimensional shift, the veil is lifting and this is EXACTLY what the metaphysical community were predicting. Unfortunately, due to the misleading ideas about 2012, prominent metaphysical leaders now seem to be very very quiet, but that is because the truth of UFOs being interdimensional entities, is not a very popular talking point amongst people who don't have much interest in reality. Meanwhile, the world is agog watching out for major new UFO events, whilst we see ex-senior military all over the world tell the general public the truth. How refreshing! This is the Rotherham UK story from the tabloid Sun newspaper:
Rotherham: triangular UFO photographed over their homes [UK]
The Sun, 25th October 2010
Are There More UFOs Above New York City? [US]
Gawker News, 25th October 2010
Craziness in the sky," an intrepid tipster emails us. "There are some sort of flying hovering bright objects above the Queensboro bridge." Have the Manhattan UFOs returned from their sojourn to El Paso? Or is some kind of viral-marketing stunt? Our tipster says, "They've been there for like two hours at this point. They keep appearing/disappearing, getting brighter and dimmer, and hovering?"
Climate Fools Day
The Carbon Sense Coalition, 25th October 2010
The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on Australians and Americans to join the world in celebrating Climate Fools Day on October 27th.
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that Climate Fools Day was named by protestors outside the British House of Commons on 27th October 2008 when the house was debating the Climate Bill.
Forbes explained: “As the first October snow in 70 years blanketed the House (and a big swathe of Europe), MP’s droned on about the need to fight global warming. “For six hours MP’s reassured one another about the desperate need to be the first government in the world to saddle its unfortunate people with a burden estimated at £15 billion a year. As snow continued to blanket Westminster, only two MP’s questioned the huge cost and dubious benefits from the energy taxes and green energy rorts they were imposing.”
Read more: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/climate-fools-day.pdf [PDF, 136KB]
Comment: A reminder...
Bill Gates: 'If you don't like geeks, you're in trouble.'
The Telegraph, 24th October 2010
He's the most charitable man on the planet, but how does the billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates indulge himself? Mary Riddell finds out in this exclusive interview.
Bill Gates is an economical man. He does not waste money, although he is as rich as Croesus, and nor does he waste words. After a muttered hello, he sits in silence, waiting for the questioning to begin. If this is unnerving, then so is the ceremonial that surrounds the arrival of the world’s second richest citizen.
In a tour timed with the precision of a state visit, he is whisked from hotel suite to television studio to an audience with the Prime Minister. What will he say to David Cameron? “The fact that he’s made it a priority to deliver aid to the poorest is a fantastic thing.” [...]
He has never, he says, longed for endless new cars or any of the trappings of materialism. “Well, I buy a lot of books, which is nice. I just buy them.”
Comment: I have always admired Bill Gates. I am not sure where he is on the evolutionary path, but I like the fact he is giving his money away and he reads books. I wonder if he would like a copy of my book?
Retired Turkish general claims close encounter with UFOs
Hurriyet Daily News, 24th October 2010
Greek jets are not the only aerial adversaries Turkish planes have engaged in the skies, according to a retired general who has claimed he encountered unidentified flying objects over western Turkey while serving as a pilot.
Calling up a live television show Saturday during a heated debate about UFOs, Retired Gen. Erdogan Karakus said he and seven other pilots experienced a UFO encounter over the western province of Balikesir in May 1983.
The UFOs were levitating using an unknown technique, Karakus said, explaining that he was part of a group of eight pilots flying four Turkish jets to the southern city of Adana for a drill when one of the men spotted something in the air. [...]
Karakus said the control towers at airports in Ankara, Istanbul and Konya also detected the UFOs that night. “We reported [the incident] and it was probably sent to NASA.”
Comment: Well, all hell is breaking out now with lots of UFO reports, as expected. This report is highlighted because it's another ex-senior military official giving his story, yet we also learn that the debate has moved onto TV, as this ex-general called up a live TV program! Can you imagine that!! However, the most interesting aspect of the report is that he lets the cat out of the bag and tells us that this report was "probably" sent to NASA. How interesting...
Riki Ott: ‘People Now Dropping Dead’ In the Gulf
The Intel Hub, 24th October 2010
On the sixth month anniversary of the oil disaster in the gulf, we are still seeing a total media blackout.
The people particularly in Grand Isle have been poisoned by genocidal tyrants that care more about their pocketbooks than they care about human life or mother earth.
According to Riki Ott “The people that did evacuate (the gulf) are glad they did”
And for good reason.”
She went on to state that deaths from the disaster are now a reality:
Riki said during an interview ” I am dealing with about 3 -4 autopsies right now… I know of people who’s esophagus’ are de-solving, disintegrating… I know of people with 4.75% of their lung capacity, with enlarged hearts… All of these people have oil in their bodies.”
It has been well documented that millions of gallons of toxic dispersants have been sprayed into the Gulf of Mexico; including near beaches, population centers, people, and boats.
The gulf oil spill is admittedly a Dept. of Defense operation as reported on by the Army Times and the Intel Hub early on.
Comment: I have not forgotten about the Gulf crisis ... More awful news:
“May spark a whole new debate”: Scientist “astonished” that he found so much crude — Questions whether NOAA “dramatically understated” amount of oil in Gulf (VIDEO)
Florida Oil Spill, 26th October 2010
Louisiana University scientists believe the government may have dramatically understated how much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico…
Dolphins 'walk' on water
The Telegraph, 23rd October 2010
Dolphins in the wild are teaching themselves to "walk" with their tails along the surface of water, biologists have claimed.
Dolphin tail-walking has no known practical function and has been likened to dancing in humans. WDCS researcher Dr Mike Bossley, who has observed Adelaide's Port River dolphins for the past 24 years, said he had documented spectacular tail walking in two adult female dolphins, known as Billie and Wave.
Now four other individuals have been recorded perfecting their walking techniques – Wave's calf Tallula, Bianca and her calf Hope, and calf Bubbles. Tail walking is very rare in the wild and in thousands of hours of observation only one other dolphin has ever been observed tail walking in the Port River, and then only once.
The Port Adelaide dolphins are now said to be tail walking many times each day.
Comment: The story about the dolphins walking on water is very important and we just have to wait and see whether this trick is then picked up by dolphins everywhere. This will become undeniable proof of the the principle of the hundredth monkey, with serious implications that scientists have tried to deny in the past. Can this principle apply to humans? I think so, and that explains why there is such massive denial, because scientists would then have to seriously consider the theories of morphogenetic fields or fields of information specific to all forms of life on this planet. These informational fields are theoretical (scalar, torsion field theory), but scientists do not want to believe that they apply to all forms of biological life and can be updated with new information.
Strange Lights Over Cincinnati - Explained
WLWT News, 23rd October 2010
Copy: "CINCINNATI -- Several viewers called News 5 Friday to report strange lights over the sky of Cincinnati. Most people reported seeing one bright light, then four separate lights falling from that larger light.
News 5 did some checking. We've been told by Hamilton County dispatchers that the lights were skydivers performing before the University of Cincinnati football game. The skydivers were wearing lights on their feet."
Comment: Now watch the many videos posted by locals onto YouTube, again we have lights appearing and disappearing and providing us with an aerial display that is simply NOT man-made. This YouTube comment made me laugh:
If? those are sky lanterns, then the technology has gotten much better :)
UFO In Cincinnati 10/22/10
If these are skydivers, they need to rename themselves, Defying Gravity...
UFO in Cincinnati sky 22nd october 2010,
A family's reaction...
You Tell Me
After some serious bad language and swearing, these people decide to wish on a star, very funny... No doubt, many other videos will appear as this was another major sighting.
'World's most advanced' nuke sub towed free
MSNBC News, 22nd October 2010
British vessel, normally undetectable, ran aground off coast of Scotland
LONDON — A new British nuclear-powered submarine was towed free after running aground off the coast of northwest Scotland on Friday. HMS Astute, the first of a new class of nuclear-powered submarines that was undergoing sea trials, became snagged on rocks off the Isle of Skye in an embarrassing incident for the Royal Navy. The Navy had to wait for hours for high tide before tugs could tow the advanced submarine to deeper water.
"Two tugs attached lines to her and pulled her free at high tide," a Royal Navy spokesman said. The submarine will be closely examined for any damage, he said. [...] The Telegraph said the $1.88 billion HMS Astute was the "world's most advanced nuclear submarine." Its nuclear reactor will not need refueling during the sub's life time in service.
Comment: Nearly $2 billion.... how embarrassing... I wonder if there was a GPS fail when the submarine surfaced (GPS is not used at depth). What other reason would there be for a nuclear submarine to end up stranded on rocks? Due to Space Weather, it does seem like GPS is fast becoming the weakest link... From February 2009, we read: British, French nuclear subs collide in Atlantic
Unwinding the Spirals
Thunderbolts.info, 22nd October 2010
Rather than gas and dust flung out by two stars in pirouette, these structures reveal the characteristic hourglass formation of a z-pinch. Helical structures abound in the Universe. Galaxies, planetary nebulae, hurricanes: all exhibit characteristic shapes that have been identified in past Picture of the Day articles as electrically induced formations.
The term "planetary nebula" was first applied in the early days of telescopic observation, since they appeared to be round, with a faint greenish tinge, similar to the planet Uranus, so it was assumed that they might also be gas giant planets.
Planetary nebulae are observed to come in all shapes and sizes: round, elliptical, nested cylinders, and now helical spirals. Such features are said to be the result of shock waves, or stellar winds blowing off the parent star, crashing into the slower material ahead of them.
Consensus astronomy sees planetary nebulae as the final stage of senescent stars when they drive off their outer atmospheric layers because of increased internal radiation pressure. It has been suggested that stars like our Sun, middleweights in the galactic stable, do not undergo supernova eruptions as they end their lives—no explosive demise in a blaze of glory. Instead, their gaseous envelopes drift away into space.
Comment: The only way that you can explain the serious impact of Space Weather is to realise that the bombardment of Earth is highly electrical. The Electric Universe theorists have been shunned by cosmologists but quite frankly, the work of plasma physicists has to be seriously considered, as we can find answers to some of the most important questions that explain our true reality. As the bombardment of Earth is still accelerating, we need to realise that humans are being slowly electrified too.
Biodiversity': the new Big Lie
Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 21st October 2010
And so it begins. With all the shamelessness of a Goldman Sachser trading in his middle-aged wife for a hot, pouting twentysomething called Ivanka, the green movement is ditching “Climate Change”. The newer, younger, sexier model’s name? Biodiversity.
Consider this summary of the UN’s two-week Convention On Biodiversity, launched on Monday:
Delegates from nearly 200 countries are being asked to agree to new 2020 targets after governments largely failed to meet a 2010 target of achieving a significant reduction in biological diversity losses, a goal set at the last biodiversity in 2002. And one of the same issues that led to failure the first time around could jeopardize this meeting: money.
Developing nations say more funding is needed from developed countries to share the effort in saving nature. Much of the world’s remaining biological diversity is in developing nations such as Brazil, Indonesia and in central Africa.
Do you see what’s going on here?
Comment: This is very interesting, as this latest UN initiative, will only serve to wake up the general public to the reality of massive evolutionary change and obviously, I don't think that is such a bad idea. However, I have noted in the past and as I wrote about in my book, evolutionary biologists make sweeping statements about climate change and claims that extinction levels are the highest in 65 million years, but at the same time, they keep making announcements of many new discoveries that could be examples of rapid evolutionary change in biodiversity for all we know. Well, you have to dig a bit deeper to find scientists who realise that climate change is related to dramatic changes in Earth's cosmic environment, as I have pointed out on this blog many times. For more info on why people are so skeptical see:
Biodiversity: Manufacturing a Crisis
Resilient Earth, 3rd October 2010
With the UN trying to promote diminishing biodiversity as the NEXT BIG CRISIS it is interesting to note the chaos among diversity researchers. It is hard to make definitive statements regarding loss of diversity when science can not even tell us how many different creatures there are on the planet. Nevertheless, the UN has launched the International Year of Biodiversity, warning that the ongoing loss of species around the world is affecting human well-being. Yet another UN generated “science based” crisis to keep the world's citizens in a frenzy—shades of the failed global warming crisis, which the UN is rather hoping we all will forget.
Comment: Obviously, many many scientists are completely unaware of Space Weather and the associated science and therefore don't understand why there is some real panic by others, who do understand what is going on, but are being controlled by powers who are desperately trying to benefit from this knowledge...
Japanese 'Blest Machine' recycles plastic into oil at home
Wired News, 21st October 2010
Plastics are generally recycled back into oil in massive facilities, but a Japanese inventor has built a tabletop machine that can accomplish the same task safely and cleanly.
It's called the Blest Machine and was put together by Akinori Ito, after he began to see the places he played in as a child disappearing. He wanted to make the process of plastic recycling more accessible, so that less landfill would be required -- an increasing problem in densely-populated Japan.
To operate, you put your plastic trash in a large bucket, then screw on a lid. The temperature inside rises, slowly melting the plastic, which becomes a liquid and then a gas. The gas passes through a tube into a container filled with water, where it than cools and forms oil again. That oil can then be burnt as-is or further separated into gasoline, diesel and kerosene. A kilogram of plastic turns into about a litre of oil.
Comment: It just amazes me that nobody invented this machine before, but the machine is so small that anyone could have one at home... well, if you can afford it... well, the public needs to demand that supermarket chains and local councils purchase this machine as it will allow the public to recycle plastic in this way immediately... See also:
Aircraft crashes after crocodile on board escapes and sparks panic
The Telegraph, 21st October 2010
A small airliner crashed into a house, killing a British pilot and 19 others after a crocodile smuggled into the aircraft in a sports bag escaped and started a panic.
The plane came down despite no apparent mechanical problems during an internal flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It has now emerged that the crash was caused by the concealed reptile escaping and causing a stampede in the cabin, throwing the aircraft off-balance.
Comment: Well, I am not sure how to categorise this incident. I suppose it's amazing that someone survived to tell the weird tale... But, on a deeper level, one selfish and stupid person, took a gamble that cost them their own life and many others. It's like some just don't even appreciate why certain rules are imposed in the first place. They don't have the ability to think about ALL the possible consequences and therefore come up with all the worse case scenario, which is exactly what happened.
New documentary recounts bizarre climate changes seen by Inuit elders
The Globe and Mail, 21st October 2010
The documentary – screening at Toronto’s imagine NATIVE film and media arts festival this weekend and streaming live at isuma.tv – is the first to ask Inuit elders to describe the severe environmental changes in the Arctic they are seeing and to do so in their own language. The tone of the film is intimate. The elders aren’t trying to cross a language barrier, or even speak to the Southern scientific community. They’re simply imparting their expert knowledge and wisdom – and the result will undoubtedly cause controversy.
“Over the years, nobody has ever listened to these people. Every time [the discussion is] about global warming, about the Arctic warming, it’s scientists that go up there and do their work. And policy makers depend on these findings. Nobody ever really understands the people up there,” Kunuk says. [...]
Most startling for the filmmakers, though, was the Inuits’ belief that along with pollution and environmental changes, caused mainly by Southerners, the Earth has actually changed its tilt. The filmmakers kept hearing this theory in different communities. Perplexed, they contacted the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration for answers, but experts said this was impossible.
Comment: Brilliant! Since we know about Space Weather and that our planet is being blasted from deep space, it's not difficult to realise that there are many different knock on effects that we can measure and some that we have to infer. Therefore, I am thrilled to hear the Inuit Elders are telling the world about climate change, in their role as traditional Earth observers and clearly explain they believe Earth is tilting on her axis, something that even NASA scientists cannot deny anymore, see the archives. Believe it or not, NASA are now claiming that large earthquakes are changing the Earth's tilt, but German astronomers ruled this out as "ludicrous", see more analysis in my essay The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind - The Return of Paradise. . Here is a short trailer [4:08] New Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change Video Trailer
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PRINCETON: Local firm explores mind over matter
CentralJersey.com, 20th October 2010
Ever get that feeling that someone is staring at you? Ever wonder how you got that feeling? Psyleron provides products for the public and researchers to explore mind-matter effects, such as the sense of knowing someone is staring at you.
”That kind of sense, where does it come from?” said Herb Mertz, chairman of the board and co-founder of Psyleron. “It’s a mechanism we don’t understand and has to do with the mind’s influence on things.”
The Princeton-based company’s main product is the $189 mind lamp, an electric lamp with a random-event generator built in. When plugged in, the lamp throws off a white light before it cycles through eight colors. The theory behind the lamp is that users can influence what color the lamp turns by thinking about one of the eight colors.
”We produce devices that people use to explore the idea that the mind can influence the physical world,” said John Valentino, CEO and co-founder of Psyleron. “Our goal is to put this stuff out there and let people play with it themselves, rather than taking our word for it.”
Quantum-level probabilistic events drive the lamp to change color. “We are taking something that science says should be totally random, and we have evidence that suggests it’s not actually random, that people’s thoughts influence it,” Mr. Valentino said.
Comment: The science of mind over matter is now very well established. The Psyleron Mind Lamp, is a little bit pricey, but no doubt, it will be bought by pretentious New Agers.
President Vaclav Klaus: Climate Control or Freedom?
Watts Up With That, 20th October 2010
[...] We should keep saying very loudly that the current debate about global warming –and I agree with the Australian paleoclimatologist Prof. Carter that we should always speak about “dangerous human caused global warming” because it is not “warming per se that we are concerned with”[1] – is in its substance not part of the scientific discourse about the relative role of a myriad of factors influencing swings in global temperature but part of public policy debate about man and society. As R. M. Carter stresses in his recent book, “the global warming issue long ago ceased being a scientific problem.”[2]
The current debate is a public policy debate with enormous implications.[3] It is no longer about climate. It is about the government, the politicians, their scribes and the lobbyists who want to get more decision making and power for themselves. It seems to me that the widespread acceptance of the global warming dogma has become one of the main, most costly and most undemocratic public policy mistakes in generations. The previous one was communism.
Comment: The Czech President Vaclav Klaus is the only world leader to admit that the political machinations and ideals surrounding the climate debate are very similar to communism. If you don't have the time or inclination to read his speech, the cartoon sketches are quite funny, see .
Livetoon pencil sketches of the GWPF Klaus lecture by Josh
Neutron Stars Are Doomed if Vacuum Energy Goes Wild
Space.com, 20th October 2010
A mind-bogglingly huge buildup of "vacuum energy," which would occur in just milliseconds, could lead the stellar remnants known as neutron stars to instantly collapse or explode, scientists now suggest.
What is often thought of as the empty vacuum of space is actually filled with ghostly energy and virtual particles wavering in and out of existence, a bizarre prediction of quantum theory that numerous experiments have proven true.
This "vacuum energy," as scientists call it, is usually thought of as extremely weak at best. But theoretical physicists in Brazil suggest that the immensely powerful gravitational fields of neutron stars could "awaken the vacuum," causing its energy to build up exponentially very quickly.
Comment: It seems that Earth's bombardment from deep space by magnetars has jolted a few scientists enough to consider that space is not actually empty and that the so called vacuum (zero-point field, aether etc), could be the power source for these humongous intergalactic blasts. Since there are a smorgasbord of cosmological theories, it's interesting that they have highlighted scalar fields that are purely informational. Despite the conjecture, it's still very interesting that scientists are starting to rethink what is going on, suggesting theories that are little bit more sophisticated, than the current idea of a wound up magnetic field inside the remains of a burnt out star.
Phew! 2012 Doomsday Date May Be Wrong
ABC News, 20th October 2010
The much-hyped "prediction" that, according to the ancient Mayan calendar, the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012, may be based on a miscalculation. According to recent research, the mythological date of the "end of days" may be off by 50 to 100 years.
To convert the ancient Mayan calendar to the Gregorian (or modern) calendar, scholars use a numerical value (called the GMT). But Gerardo Aldana, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says the data supporting the widely-adopted conversion factor may be invalid.
In a chapter in the book "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World," Aldana casts doubt on the accuracy of the Mayan calendar correlation, saying that the 2012 prophecy as well as other historical dates may be off.
Comment: Modern Mayan Elders have NO interest in the calculations of anthropologists and have very little confidence in their efforts to decode ancient Mayan artefacts. What's more, most people have ignored what genuine Mayan Elders have had to say anyway. The modern Mayan Elder Carlos Barrios acted as an envoy and explained that Elders from Guatemala believed that we were entering a New Age dominated by ether (modern spelling aether) or space. This was going to take place over a 25 year period of transition, and this has been fulfilled by the arrival of Space Weather. Strangely enough, scientists from around the world are now pointing out the impact of Space Weather and NASA scientists have declared:
"Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history."
According to Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division:
"I believe we’re on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather."
"We take this very seriously indeed."
Source: As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather
NASA News, 4th June 2010
Mayan Elders have been debunking the doomsday scenario for a long time, but too many people are making money off the fearmongering and nobody is asking any relevant questions about what the SPIRITUAL significance of 2012 is all about.
A MYSTERIOUS egg-shaped UFO has been spotted in broad daylight above Brentwood.
This is Total Essex, 20th October 2010
Scaffolders were driving along Ongar Road near the bridge over the A12 when they were left stunned by the silver craft, which "zoomed" through the sky at around 1.30pm on Monday, October 11. Matt Williams, 29, of Running Waters, Brentwood, was driving to a job in Ongar when his friend suddenly spotted the strange unidentified flying object in the clear blue sky. Matt initially dismissed it as some kind of hot air balloon, but it was moving at such high speeds through the sky that he was not totally convinced.
"It was egg-shaped and silver. It was quite low in the sky – we didn't know what it was," Matt told the Gazette.
"It was moving really quickly and then it slowed down so we could get a good look at it, before it zoomed away into the distance. As it disappeared it appeared black at the back.
"We are not saying it is an alien. But there was something in the sky, we don't know what it was and we are scaffolders and in the sky quite a lot."
Comment: Yes, all the UFO reports are ridiculous and it's going to get worse, but if you are a regular on this website, you will know for a fact that this is because we are facing the Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind. Exciting stuff! This story caught my eye and I thought it was time to highlight the fact that even though so-called UFO reports are rising, it has been noted that most sightings are NOT of the archetypal flying saucer. Back in August 2009, the Canadian Calgary Herald announced :
Flying saucers -- once the standard mode of transport for alien life forms--have apparently fallen out of vogue, with more people characterizing their observations as a fireball or mysterious blob.
"It's not egg-shaped, spherical or triangular in shape, but something with protrusions and the lights seem to change shape as you're watching," said Rutkowski. "The Hollywoodstyle flying saucer is really passe, in some ways."
Original source : Record number of Albertans report UFOs, Calgary Herald, August 13, 2009 & copy
As I have stated many times, we are seeing the appearance of a previously hidden shadow biosphere, with some new arrivals that are attracted to the new high energy plasma environment of Earth, the intergalactic jetsom and flotsam. If you are familiar with metaphysical messages on this matter, there has been some kind of clear out of some energies that cannot tolerate this new environment amd it's even posssible that a lot of the activity we have seen is related to some shifting around, as Earth's energy levels rise and stability has been lost for a while. So amongst the confusion, the flying saucers are still here, but to the chagrin of most ufologists, the truth is the vast majority do not have occupants and are in fact an alternative lifeform that is shaped not too much differently from some sea creatures. See archives for more information and quotes from ufologists who had worked this out decades ago!
More: The following is a report from China where it seems someone caught two 'saucers' on a nightshoot.
UFOs photographed in Kunming at night [China]
People’s Daily Online, 21st October 2010
""I photographed saucer-shaped objects. Can you help me determine whether they are real UFOs?" Dong Rong, a resident of China's Kunming, asked Zhang Yifang, honorary chairman of the Kunming UFO Research Association. Dong said that he went out to take photos of the city's night view the other day and later found that there were two saucer-shaped objects in one of the photos."
Lots and lots of media comment about the continuous stream of UFO reports coming out of China, this is the latest!
Incoming Cosmic Rays Hit Record High
Wired News, 19th October 2010
The Earth was pummeled with record-setting levels of cosmic rays in 2009. Measurements from NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and other spacecraft found that more high-energy particles from galactic space penetrated the inner solar system in the last few years than at any other time since the beginning of the space age.
The spike is almost certainly due to several weird aspects of the most recent solar minimum, and could be the start of a new normal for cosmic ray levels.
“It’s sort of like everything’s working in the same direction right now, to allow cosmic rays greater access to the inner solar system,” said space scientist Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. Mewaldt and colleagues published their findings Oct. 7 in Astrophysical Journal Letters. [...]
The most recent solar minimum started in 2006 and was expected to end in 2008, but the sun stayed quiet through 2010. Using data from the ACE spacecraft, which has been in orbit around the sun since 1997, and historical data from a series of short-lived spacecraft going back to 1965, Mewaldt and colleagues showed that the cosmic ray levels in 2009 were 20 to 26 percent greater than at any previous solar minimum.
Comment: I believe that this is announcing a formal paper, but the news has been out for some time, see NASA News, 28th September 2009, Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High!. The other thing to note is that we have a NEW 2009 high at 20 to 26 percent greater than at any previous solar minimum. The previous graph depicted the new high as 19.4% +/- 1.4%.
Now, this astrophysicist has explained in plain English what metaphysical sources have been predicting for YEARS! My only other comment is that a decent plasma shield is required in a high energy plasma environment and the only option for humans is to strengthen our personal energy fields and that is achieved through the process of spiritual development.
What Happened to All the Hurricanes, Al?
Worldwide hurricane activity hasn't just slowed since Katrina, it's dropped off a cliff.
Pajamas Media, 19th October 2010
After Hurricane Katrina and the amazing season of 2005, we were supposed to see year after year of terrible hurricanes. Where are they?
Where is all the death and destruction? We were told global warming was here, and would ignite a fire under the storms, making them bigger and more frequent. Massive hurricanes like Katrina would become much more common. The world’s oceans were warming, and this would stoke the fires of these tropical monsters. But they are not here — the hurricanes are missing in action, and have been ever since 2005. The truth: there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of hurricanes in the last five years. The total energy of all hurricanes around the world has plunged since 1993 — the opposite of what was predicted. How could that be, if global warming is real and is impacting our climate today? [...]
The crazy 2004 and 2005 seasons were supposed to be the new normal. Pretend scientists like Al Gore said global warming was here, and we had better listen to him because he had all the answers. People pay Al Gore $200,000 to speak, but that doesn’t mean he knows anything.
Very active hurricane seasons like 2005 are rare, even in periods of increased activity which we are in now and have been in since about 1995. The increase in hurricanes since 1995 is due to a cyclic warming of the Atlantic Ocean — not any so-called global warming. The same thing happened from the 1930s to the late 1950s. Even in periods of increased activity, there can be several years of decreased hurricanes due to things such as El Nino, cooler water temperatures, and dust from the Sahara desert.
To date, no Category 3 or stronger hurricane has hit the United States since 2005. Ike in 2008 was close, but not quite. This is the longest stretch of time that we have not had a Category 3 or greater hurricane hit the U.S. since the period of 1911 to 1914!
The great hurricane flameout that has dominated the seasons since 2005 is just part of the natural variability of weather. Those that said global warming caused 2005, and Katrina, and that our future was doomed to get stormier and stormier were completely wrong, as usual.
Interestingly, the great hurricane flameout has been a worldwide phenomenon. The ACE index measures the energy of all tropical storms and hurricanes around the globe: currently the ACE index is at its lowest level in 30 years. Worldwide hurricane activity has been not only lower since 2005, it’s much lower.
Comment: This is very interesting because we know that NASA et al. are looking at the connection between the atmosphere, ionosphere and plasmasphere, presumably in order to explain how we can have "instant" hurricanes, as it is completely obviously that hurricanes are not powered by "warm" or even cold oceans. However, despite the onset of Space Weather and a proven link with terrestrial weather, see First Global Connection Between Earth [Weather] And Space Weather Found, it's still not known what factors determine the most powerful and destructive hurricanes. Therefore, all the warnings by global warming alarmists have failed to materialise and that is why poor old Al Gore had to photoshop 4 hurricanes onto the globe for the cover of his book, "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis"
New Yorkers Wave "Hi" to Jellyfish UFOs
Pravda, 18th October 2010
UFOs were spotted over New York City, or was it something else? Nobody is sure. But thousands of residents of the Chelsea area saw a dozen or so silvery objects hovering in the clear-blue sky over West 23rd Street in Manhattan. The sightings sparked rumors that there were visitors from outer space looking in. People were stopping in the streets for two blocks to view the UFOs.
The NYPD and Federal Aviation Administration started receiving calls reporting the sighting of strange, silver objects high in the sky at 1:30 p.m. "Some people saw something described as yellow with blue lights surrounding it," said an FAA spokesman.
He noted that some people believe the objects were weather balloons. However, it was stressed this cannot be confirmed as the agency had no prior notification about any launch of weather balloons or other types of craft in the area.
A witness by the name of Tim, 28, described the objects as "the most bizarre thing he'd ever seen. "It looked like a jellyfish made of lights that just hovered in the sky like it wanted to be seen. I was half expecting the aliens to beam down and introduce themselves."
The authorities are yet to confirm whether the objects that were sighted in the sky were balloons or something else. That after all this time, no balloons or other earthly craft were found to have been in the area makes you wonder...what were they then? Another interesting development has been how the story has suddenly been dropped and photos of the objects disappearing.
Comment: I think the headline is hilarious... LOL!! This is so funny, the Russians are having a good laugh at the expense of Americans as they KNOW the truth... I was very surprised by the following Pravda revelation back in May 2010. We read:
Lately, Russian media has been reporting on unidentified flying objects seen in Moscow skies.
[...]
Some hot heads stated that these are live beings unknown to science. Others think these are creatures that came from plasma world inhibited by souls and ghosts. [...]
Some scientists believe such phenomena to be signs of the future. But what do they indicate? Some extraordinary future events? Or, maybe, aliens are trying to tell us that they support us in tough times? We shall see.
UFOs Start to Appear in Moscow on Regular Basis
Pravda, 21st May 2010
Don't miss the facts about what really happened in New York. Apparently, there was a real show going on for many hours, see link below. Btw, the image icon is from January 2009, from a photograph taken in the Purley district of London [UK], where the entity was not seen by the naked eye, but picked up by the camera, see archives.
Comparing Eyewitness Reports Of The NYC UFO Event - Was Some Info Censored Off MSM?
UFO Disclosure countdown, 21st October 2010
This is an excellent summary of eye witness accounts and analysis of events over New York with information that I have not seen elsewhere
Update
CBS News (LONG video) of the UAP activity OCTOBER 13 2010 over New York City [08:16]
Comment: Excellent! Quite frankly, I find it amazing that the media are reporting this as balloons, it would have been more plausible to described them as remote controlled because these "balloons" were making some interesting manoeuvres in the sky as well as appearing and disappearing! Please also note: there were "balloons" in different parts of the sky east and west over New York city for many hours and an object that was stationary for at least one hour.
Awesome Original Video - UFO's Over El Paso Texas 15th October 2010
YouTube, 18th October 2010
Comment: You know it's got to be serious when people are distracted from watching the baseball game! LOL!!
It appears that we have a new excuse for the magnetospheric plasmoids that have been seen entering our atmosphere and splitting up into separate orbs. Apparently, the US Army Golden Knights are now doing unschedule night shows all over the United States! Please watch the Golden Knights who are clearly subject to gravity and don't have the ability to hover in the air, (maybe they will have to train with jet packs too). Anyway, you will be able to contrast this with video footage that I have explained as the arrival of magnetospheric plasmoids, whose existence is a scientific fact. YouTube Video : US Army Golden Knights Night Jump
For those who are interested in the debate, there has been a long discussion over at the Above Top Secret Conspiracy Forum, it started off with the following gem:
Topic started on 18-10-2010 @ 02:57 PM by Sf18443
I contacted the Golden Knights regarding the odd lights seen over El Paso on the 15th of October, 2010. I truly believe that the lights seen over El Paso were indeed sky divers, but I wanted to hear it from the horse's mouth. So, I asked them. This is their response to me, and a screenshot is attached showing the short dialogue.
I asked:
"Could you confirm that the "strange lights in the sky" over el paso on the night of the 15th of October were indeed caused by your characteristic night jumps? The story was broadcast on the local el paso television news."
They responed:
"We just saw the newscast this morning about it. And we can neither confirm nor deny what the lights were."
Source and thread Golden Knights respond (to me) regarding El Paso Lights, page 1
Generally, people are getting very tired of all the lies...
Update
I have been through the ATS thread, and found a few "expert" witnesses who do not believe that the El Paso lights were the Golden Knights and give their reasons, the ATS highlighted comments can be found here, Were the El Paso Lights the US Army Golden Knights? It is most certain that there is a great effort to hide the truth of UAP activity in the skies over the United States, but quite frankly, it's a complete and utter waste of time, the veil is lifting and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it.
UFO New York 2010: Were Flights Delayed Due To New York UFO Sightings?
USA News Week, 18th October 2010
UFO New York 2010: Were Flights Delayed Due To New York UFO Sightings? Following the reports of UFO over Manhattan, New York City sightings on October 13, 2010, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said that nothing had actually appeared on their radar. Later it was learned that a school in the nearby Mt Vernon had released several party balloons in the sky. [...]
According to the exopoliticsinstitute.org, an FAA spokesperson, Jim Peters, said, “We re-ran radar to see if there was anything there that we can’t account for but there is nothing in the area…. There was some helicopter traffic over the river at that time and we checked with LaGuardia Tower. And they said they had nothing going low at that time…. Nothing that we can account for would prompt this kind of response.” He also went on to claim that if it was a weather balloon or any kind of organized balloon release, authorities should have been notified in advance. Police officials said they had received no notification.
However, the party balloon explanation is very unlikely given the time involved between initial and later reports. Even though the New York UFO sightings were first officially reported at 1:30 pm, shortly after the accidental Mt Vernon party balloon release, witnesses described seeing the UFOs as early as 9:30 am on October 13, and that they numbered as many as 50.
Comment: Obviously, I have seen the reports about the pathetic excuse of party balloons released by children to explain the sightings in New York, but I thought it was not even worth bothering to counteract. So, it's good to get confirmation that authorities should have been notified, as it turns out these could not have been ordinary balloons, as they were obstructing airspace. At least it's good to see some critical thinking type news reporting for a change in the US mainstream media.
Update 1
New York 'UFOs' turn out to be Spanish balloons
Monsters and Critics, 19th October 2010
"Madrid - Yellow balloons that were released in New York to advertise the Spanish capital Madrid have been watched on YouTube by more than 3 million people, many of whom believe they could be unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the Spanish daily El Pais reported Tuesday."
Comment:
Well, since most of the sightings were in broad daylight, Chinese lanterns have been replaced by Spanish balloons! LOL!! However, please note: this is a different story from school children releasing ordinary balloons on a windy day. Maybe a new explanation has been cooked up, as there were too many reports of an object remaining stationary in the sky for over one hour, besides the other reports of up to 50 orbs. So, who is going to prosecute this company over the failure to obtain permission for flying these advertising 'balloons' over New York city?
Video: Mystery UFO Over Richmond [US]
What was that in the night sky this past weekend?
LA Times, 19th October 2010
"Dozens of people report seeing strange lights in the sky both Saturday and Sunday night. Jeff Brown tell us CBS 6 that the object he saw Saturday night had three lights in the shape of a triangle, while the object he saw 24 hours later had just one light. Witnesses say that light spotted Sunday night was just a small ball of light, there was no beam that could be associated with a strobe light. It was seen moving in the air for about four hours."
Comment: So, when exactly are people going to wise up? The best bit of the video was the witness that stated that the lights were moving around like "a bug." Yes, that's because it's another lifeform...
Enormous Ring is Developing on the Sun
Before its News, 16th October 2010
What is this strange ring that has been developing on the Sun during 16-Oct?
Sunspot 1112, located in the southeast quadrant, has been the source of a giant filament that is currently stretching 400,000 km across the surface of the Sun.
However, today, there appears to be development of a enormous circular ring which looks to be linking with the huge magnetic filament of sunspot 1112. Most of today's various wavelength images of the Sun all show this feature over at the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) - NASA website.
SpaceWeather.com today reports,
A vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the Sun's southern hemisphere today. A bright 'hot spot' just north of the filament's midpoint is UV radiation from sunspot 1112. The proximity is no coincidence; the filament appears to be rooted in the sunspot below. If sunspot flares, it could cause the entire structure to erupt. This active region merits watching...
What concerns me is that if indeed this is a huge magnetic filament nearly encircling the entire Sun, it is now currently directly facing the Earth. If sunspot 1112 does erupt, could the entire filament explode into a massive CME?
Comment: OK, this is a few days old now and nothing nefarious has happened, but I still think this event is instructive. The Sun is a huge ball of plasma that clearly demonstrates that the electromagnetic force rules, but at the same time, there are many features that can be explained by understanding that the Sun is also controlled by sound. A huge ring on the sun indicates that it was somehow being "tuned" and we can cite another recent event in the first week of March 2010, when radio heliographic ripples on the Sun produced interesting interference patterns that suggested that the Sun was reacting to gravitational waves from deep space.
Blotting Out Sun May Soon Be Banned
Discovery News, 16th October 2010
Blotting out the sun has been the dream of many arch-villains, including The Simpson's Mr. Burns. Their schemes may soon be foiled by the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity.
Super villains aren't the only ones who want to shade the Earth from the sun. Blocking some of the sun's rays could slow climate change by reducing the amount of sunlight warming the Earth, say some researchers, such as Roger Angel of the University of Arizona.
The Convention may consider banning or limiting research into space sunshades. Some question their wisdom. A space sunshade would have a rapid effect on global warming and provide time to develop more permanent measures, they say. The technique has already received serious attention from NASA and other organizations.
Comment: This article does not state very much, but for those new to the concept of geoengineering, it is necessary to explain there is real desperation by some to block out the Sun. Now, when you consider the heavy investment in satellite communications and their applications in our very modern technological world, Space Weather caused by the Sun is much more likely to be the real reason for these absurd and dangerous ideas. As some would say, who benefits? This is even more poignant as it is now becoming common knowledge that there is no clear evidence of global warming, but strong evidence that there has been a systematic tampering of global temperature datasets and great efforts to mislead the general public.
A warming world could leave cities flattened
New Scientist, 15th October 2010
EARTH is starting to crumble under the strain of climate change.
Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods (see "Early signs"). The collapses are triggered by melting glaciers and permafrost, which remove the glue that holds steep mountain slopes together.
Worse may be to come. Thinning glaciers on volcanoes could destabilise vast chunks of their summit cones, triggering mega-landslides capable of flattening cities such as Seattle and devastating local infrastructure.
For Earth this phenomenon is nothing new, but the last time it happened, few humans were around to witness it. Several studies have shown that around 10,000 years ago, as the planet came out of the last ice age, vast portions of volcanic summit cones collapsed, leading to enormous landslides. [...]
With global temperatures on a steady rise, Tormey is concerned that history will repeat itself on volcanoes all over the world. He thinks that many volcanoes in temperate zones could be at risk, including in the Ring of Fire - the horseshoe of volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific Ocean (see map). "There are far more human settlements and activities near the slopes of glaciated active volcanoes today than there were 10,000 years ago, so the effects could be catastrophic," he says.
Comment: With the increasing ferocity of blasts from deep space, and some good examples of massive "global warming" being recorded in the stratosphere as a result. Maybe, there is a need to warn people that the process of evolutionary change is chaotic and even a bit messy. Actually, I have been wondering when scientists would comment about the strange rash of sinkholes... Anyway, this article reminded me of the dramatic video footage from Atrani in southern Italy. It's certainly worth considering that this disaster could be repeated many times, as the whole planet is up for massive evolutionary change, see
Mudslide in Italian village caught on camera
BBC News, 10 September 2010
"An amateur cameraman has filmed the scene from Atrani in southern Italy when a mudslide crashed through the village."
Surprising Things That Inspire Trust
Refreshing News, 15th October 2010
Trust is an interesting concept. By the time you get to work in the morning, you may have chosen to trust or not trust a dozen people. When you turn on the weather channel, you are choosing to trust the meteorologist. When you leave your jewelry on your dressing table, you do so because you trust the cleaning person who will come in the afternoon. When you count your change at the deli, you are choosing to not trust the cashier. Even spending money requires trusting that the otherwise worthless rectangle of green material in your hand has value.
Trust is what keeps our society functioning. Evolutionarily speaking, we must trust to survive. But it can be a slippery thing. What makes us trust people? And more curiously, what makes us trust some people but not others?
Comment: Maybe, some will find this listing useful...
German "heatball" wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban
Yahoo News, 15th October 2010
(Reuters) - A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters. Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs -- by producing them in China, importing them as "small heating devices" and selling them as "heatballs."
To improve energy efficiency, the EU has banned the sale of bulbs of over 60 watts -- to the annoyance of the mechanical engineer from the western city of Essen.
Rotthaeuser studied EU legislation and realized that because the inefficient old bulbs produce more warmth than light -- he calculated heat makes up 95 percent of their output, and light just 5 percent -- they could be sold legally as heaters.
Comment: Good! I hope the idea spreads! Personally, I don't want to buy "green" light bulbs that are a bad alternative to incandescent light bulbs. There are major issues like the risk of mercury poisoning if you break one or the problem in the future, dealing with landfill sites with mercury contamination.
'Jellyfish' witness description of UFO significant?
American Chronicle, 15th October 2010
Citizens who witnessed something that appeared to be unusual in the sky over the Chelsea area of New York City on Oct. 13, 2010, do not seem to agree on what they saw. However, one witness was quoted as saying he thought the object or objects seemed to resemble "a jellyfish made of lights." This description may be significant.
Tim Powell, 28, was quoted in media reports as saying the objects were "the most bizarre thing I've ever seen." Powell reported, "It looked like a jellyfish made of lights that just hovered in the sky like it wanted to be seen."
There have been witnesses in other cases in the UK, Texas and Ohio in 2008 and 2009 where witnesses described an appearance of an object that looked like a "jellyfish," "octopus" or something with "tentacles."
In past cases, some witnesses thought this seemed to look like something organic or living.
Comment: It seems that Steve Hammons has consulted with someone whose feels the need to debunk the very notion that the numerous sightings of jellyfish in the skies, are associated with living creatures or life-like plasma phenomena. The most disappointing thing with this article is the failure to point out the existence of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) that scientists accept as an electrical plasma phenomena (a form of lightning) that only lasts for thousandths of a second, but very often looks life-like. Some of the first images taken back in 1989, looked like jellyfish in the sky (sprites) and more recent examples (see archives) that have looked like squid. See New Scientist article: Atmospheric 'sprites' captured in explosive detail.
Another failure, was to NOT point out the well accepted scientific understanding that plasma behaves in a life-like manner, it's almost like the experts have NO intention are giving any indication of the spiritual nature of plasma. Anyway, it's really hard to comprehend that scientists can accept short lived electrical plasma phenomen but are currently trying to ignore long lasting phenomena. Another example is how scientists readily admit the existence of ball lightning as a short lived phenomena but still want to argue about the merits of long lived Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or orbs, despite the fact that their existence has been known for hundreds, if not thousands of years, see archives for more information: Best of the Blog Orbs, UAP Traffic & UFO Disclosure. Regards of my critique of this article, thanks Steve Hammons for even pointing out this very important detail, the truth will prevail.
Charge: Woman stabbed classmate in anger management session
Seattle pi News, 14th October 2010
A 19-year-old Bellevue woman is behind bars on allegations that she stabbed another young women at Bellevue College during an anger management class. At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Bellevue police were called to the college's north campus following a report that a woman had been stabbed in the arm following an argument.
Arriving at the scene, officers found suspect Faribah Maradiaga leaving the Nothrup Way building's lobby. Maradiaga has since been charged with second-degree assault on allegations that she stabbed an anger management classmate in the arm with a folding knife.
Comment: Maybe readjusting the brain with a strong magnetic field rather than electroshock treatment might help, since there have been some surprising results with this approach, but I don't think a jail sentence is much help...
EdgeScience Magazine - issue 5
Society for Scientific Exploration, September 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 5 here
Comment: No. 5 is free with some very interesting articles!
Mysterious Lights Over East El Paso [US]
News Channel 9, 15th October 2010
Above the skies of Northeast and East El Paso, Friday night a sight that was a little more than stunning. Video, captured by one of our photographers shows one solitary light that appears to be falling in the sky. That light suddenly breaks apart and into three separate lights.
Those lights then seem to freeze in the air and just hover. Eventually a fourth light can be seen and the lights appear to be hovering around each other. Then they all disappear.
Comment: We have some new arrivals! This video caught by a news cameraman, is an excellent example of a magnetospheric plasmoid that arrives in our atmosphere as a 'clump' of energy, which can be seen splitting up into 3 orbs and here, we see the orbs stopping dead stationary in the skies. We can add this example to many other arrivals that have been caught in the last few years. Well, maybe, we have some more "Magnetic Masters" for a few New Agers to pretend they are channelling, but of course, some still don't even realise they are bragging about channelling UFOs... Here is the YouTube version Mysterious Lights Over East El Paso, News Channel 9
The Milky Way Might Be Square
Universe Today, 14th October 2010
...a group of astronomers from Brazil. The Milky Way might be square. Not like a box, but, in places, the spiral arms are straight rather than curved, giving the Milky Way a distinctly square look. And our solar system sits right on one the straightest parts of an outer arm. It really IS hip to be square.
The map of the Milky Way has been redrawn several times since the first attempts in the 1950’s using radio telescopes to trace out the spiral arms of our home galaxy. However, the concept of our galaxy having square-ish arms is not so farfetched: we know of the Pinwheel Galaxy, above, that has areas of straight and squared off arms, and a 2008 study using the Very Long Baseline Array found that instead of arms neatly circling the galactic center, the stars mapped traced a more elliptical orbit. But most of the maps of the Milky Way have assumed that the material in our galaxy orbits the center in a circular fashion, so having arms stars that don’t follow this path come as somewhat of a surprise.
Comment: Maybe that should read octahedronal? If you read my book, you will see that scientists have already worked out that the galaxies in superclusters are lined up in an octahedron (diamond) lattice and this is a fractal pattern of an energetic signature, that replicates down and can even be found at the level of human DNA. When I wrote my book, there was only a theoretical understanding of energetic diamonds at the level of human DNA, but now there is more convincing observational proof.
Curious mathematical law is rife in nature
New Scientist, 14th October 2010
WHAT do earthquakes, spinning stellar remnants, bright space objects and a host of other natural phenomena have in common? Some of their properties conform to a curious and little known mathematical law, which could now find new uses.
A subject of fascination to mathematicians, Benford's law states that for many sets of numbers, the first or "leading" digit of each number is not random. Instead, there is a 30.1 per cent chance that a number's leading digit is a 1. Progressively higher leading digits get increasingly unlikely, and a number has just a 4.6 per cent chance of beginning with a 9 [...]
That Benford's law pops up in so many natural phenomena won't surprise mathematicians but may shock some scientists. When Sambridge's team presented Benford's law findings at a 2009 geoscience conference, one dubious attendee "thought we were having a laugh", he recalls.
Comment: Hmmmm... What is most curious, is a mathematical law that can be applied to some data which reveals some kind of hidden principle behind our reality, yet some scientists are completely unaware of it's existence. That's really bizarre. But what does this mathematical law really represent? Well, it must be a mathmatical law of energy distribution because it can be used to judge human behaviour, so I suspect there is a connection with I Ching too. If you are curious, read around the subject, it's absolutely fascinating... well, if you like numbers that is...
Robot goes berserk in Balkan lab: 6 boffins given dead arms
The Register, 14th October 2010
...reports are coming in from Slovenia of a horrifying and yet unambiguously newsworthy incident in which several scientists have reportedly been set upon and brutally beaten by a robot they were working on in their Ljubljana laboratory.
"A powerful robot has been hitting people over and over again," reports New Scientist, which broke the news of the mechanical rampage to an astonished world.
The pop-sci mag goes on to describe the robotic beatings in horrific detail. No fewer than six Slovenian boffins, all thought to be male, were struck "repeatedly on the arm" during the laboratory incident, in which a robot of a type normally employed in assembling vending machines went violently berserk and bludgeoned the men with an assortment of blunt instruments or sharp tools it had picked up using its powerful, motorised articulated arm.
There are sinister hints - indeed, outright assertions - in the article that in fact the droid assailant had been purposely programmed to attack the men by one of their colleagues, Borut Povše, a junior robot boffin at the University of Ljubljana. The six men were said to have suffered pain and injuries ranging from "mild" to "unbearable" as the rogue machine administered vicious and repeated dead arms. [...]
Povše brazenly defended his actions to the magazine, insisting that the robot attacks had not been a malicious prank or prompted by nefarious motives - for instance professional jealousy, or a desire to conquer the world at the head of an invincible army of robotic playground bullies.
Rather, Povše contended, he had instructed his metal henchman to attack the other scientists in order to discover better ways to program robots not to hurt people. Amazingly, this flimsy story was apparently accepted by some elements of the roboboffinry commun
Comment: So this programmer knew what he was doing ... this is the same mentality as scientists who give pregnant women radioactive food to eat, just to see what happens... There is a different perspective, maybe less inflammatory:
Researcher Allows Robot to Punch Colleagues During Lab Experiment
Daily Tech, 15th October 2010
When It Comes to UFOs, We Are Not Alone
New York Times, 14th October 2010
Here’s what’s happening on the U.F.O. front Thursday afternoon, a day after silver objects hovered briefly in the skies over western Manhattan. The National Weather Service insists it is not missing any weather balloons. [...] And the above painstakingly annotated video, shot Wednesday morning at 7:10 in a soybean field outside Lewis Center, Ohio, hours before the Chelsea visitation. Coincidence?
Comment: My goodness! This looks like vintage video footage [9:07] of the traditional Will-o'-the-wisp! You may get dizzy watching this, as the cameraman has a hard time keeping up with the wispy light. Wow!
Update
And it's another WOW! The New York Times published my comment!
Cancer 'is purely man-made' say scientists after finding almost no trace of disease in Egyptian mummies
Daily Mail, 14th October 2010
Cancer is a man-made disease, fuelled by the excesses of modern life, study of ancient remains from fossils to mummies has concluded.
A review of Egyptian mummies, fossil records dating back to dinosaurs and classical literature found tumours to be extremely rare until recent times, when factors from pollution to poor diet made life more toxic.
They discovered that the disease rate has risen dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer.
They believe that a better understanding of the origins of cancer could lead to new treatments for the disease which claims more than 150,000 lives a year in the UK alone.
Comment: I explained in my book, that the Egyptians had a deeply spiritual understanding of their connection with cosmic and earth energies and the need to maintain balance, especially in stormy geomagnetic conditions. According to Russian sources, this is how the pharoahs kept cancer at bay.
English patient: Serbian boy learns fluent English overnight
Austrian Times, 13th October 2010
Copy: Schoolboy Dimitrije Mitrovic baffled his family and teachers in Serbia when he woke up speaking only English - despite never being taught a word of the language. Mum Dragana says her son simply got out of bed one morning at the family home in Nis and began talking to her in perfect English.
Dimitrij - now 11 - is so word perfect that his family, friends and even his teachers can no longer understand him.
"One day, when he was only three years old, he just got out of bed and started to talk to me in English. I know some English so I could understand a bit but he was soon so good I had to get a translator to speak to him for me," explained his mum.
By the time he was five, Dimitrije was reciting entire Harry Potter novels to his pals in English and now he rarely speaks his mother tongue unless he has to. "I dream in English, speak it, and if stub my toe I'll curse in English too," he said.
Baffled medics believe Dimitrije may have acquired some sort of autistic talent for the language. "He is absolutely normal in every other way and a very nice young boy. He just seems to think he's English," said mum Dragana.
English language expert Professor Tatjana Paunovic from Nis University explained: "It's fascinating. We have talked to him for an hour in English and he speaks the language better than we do - like he was born speaking it."
Comment: Hmmm... see the archives for some other recent stories about people waking up and speaking another language or acquiring a foreign accent. It's even interesting that they now claim that he may have aquired savant abilities, but the theory of the holographic universe and the holographic brain is a much more reasonable theory to consider in these circumstances.
Strange white lights in the sky in Chelsea [nr Manhattan, New York, US]
ABC Local News, 13th October 2010
Comment: Don't the mainstream media have anything better to report than people standing on the street corners in New York, looking up at a UFO in the sky? LOL!
Yes, this is The Apocalypse. I don't think there is too much longer now to wait for the general public to wake up. I have no idea how the world will react when they discover an alternative lifeform is appearing everywhere and our reality has morphed into a cosmic aquarium. The best comment was: I think it's a balloon, but then again, balloons don't stand still!
Update
Mystery shiny objects floating over Manhattan spark UFO frenzy
New York Daily News, 13th October 2010
A mysterious shiny object floating high over Manhattan's West Side set off a flurry of reports and wild speculation Wednesday that a UFO was flying over the city. Police and the FAA said they began getting flooded with calls starting at 1:30 p.m. from people reporting a silvery object hovering high over Chelsea. [...]
"It's been hovering there for a while. I'm just kind of baffled," said Joseph Torres, 49, of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, who spotted the object after leaving a movie. "How can it be ordinary? There is something going on.
Comment: Actually, there were quite a few orbs flying in formation see pics, Orbs over New York - 13th October 2010, also see YouTube video [0:39] for the orbs, Daytime UFO Sighting Stops New Yorkers (CBS) & 9 orbs in one shot, YouTube video [0:38] UFOs Over NYC 10/13/10.
Apparently, according to CBS Local News, all three New York airports were closed due to smoke, see Flights Resume At Area Airports After Smoke Condition or copy . Many think this is a big coincidence, especially after the recent UFO related airport closures in China. What's more, there was a lot of activity at night that could be seen on the New York webcam, see pics below:
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For those with an opposing view, we have to conclude that huge swathes of the population, including radar operators and law inforcement, are now frequently being perplexed by large balloons. This is OK, because the U.S. military are happy to explain that they have lost many pilots and fighter jets chasing balloons too. The UK military have wised-up and advise their RAF pilots to not bother chasing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or else they are likely to endanger their own lives. Therefore, top brass at the UK Military have my respect, but unfortunately UK ufologist Dr David Clarke, has described the UK's most senior military officers as "weird", see following quotes:
Dr Clarke said: "Some of these officials, like the Wing Commander, obviously believed in some pretty weird stuff. He doesn't seem to have any evidence for his theories, but seems to have just been watching the X Files, like everyone else at the time.
"These are senior officials and yet they believe some pretty bizarre things."
An inquiry, Project Condign, was eventually launched in 1996, apparently without the knowledge of then defence secretary Michael Portillo. It was completed in 2000 under Geoff Hoon.
The report found: "That (UFOs) exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take-off, accelerate to exceptional velocities and vanish, they can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamic characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft of missile – either manned or unmanned."
It went on that, although they existed, UFOs presented no threat to defence.
It found that many sightings of UFOs were in fact "plasmas" of gas caused by charges of electricity in the atmosphere.
The author even suggested that exposure to plasmas could cause responses in parts of the brain that lead to elaborate hallucinations that might be interpreted as supernatural experiences of encounters with aliens.
The inquiry examined seven "near misses" involving RAF aircraft and "unexplained aerial phenomenon".
The unnamed author concluded that "the possibility exists that a fatal accident might have occurred in the past" as a result of aircrew avoiding a UFO.
The study recommended that pilots should make "no attempt to out manoeuvre a UAP during interception".
A new book reveals details about UFO sightings over British skies after author David Clarke studied declassified Ministry of Defence records.
Britain's X Files: RAF suspected aliens of "tourist" visits to Earth
The Telegraph, 20th September 2009
I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be able to count on the top officers of the UK Ministry of Defence to help explain to a baffled world what exactly is going on.
Anyway, check out on YouTube, the huge no.s of OVNI, regularly seen in the skies over parts South America. For many years now, 'fleets' have been videoed over cities, over and over again, so this little incidence is only of interest because it's American citizens whose media have paid very little attention to the existence of another lifeform on this planet and have to cope with ufologists whose only interested is in perpetuating mystery and selling merchandise.
Well, just because people refuse to believe what's happening, does not mean 'the head in the sand' or 'ignorance is bliss' approach will have an impact on reality. We are witnessing a predicted fundamental shift, The Return of the Ancestors, 'the veil lifting' or a dimensional shift and the science suggest that the continuous huge lasts of solar, cosmic, galactic and intergalactic energy is driving planet Earth into experiencing a more cosmic reality and a New Cosmic Age.
Update 2
'UFO' Sightings Over Manhattan
My Fox News, 14th October 2010
Eye witness says there was 50 of these orbs.... Well, at least the US mainstream media are giving this plenty of coverage.... youTube link here
Update 3
For the record: We often see massive UFO/UAP activity before major earthquakes, so I hope this is incident was not a warning... However, there were reports of strange radar signals over New York, (I did not take a copy, but the website was Weather Underground at the same time as the orbs were seen.
UFO UAP moved like an 'insect' over San Francisco
UFO Examiner, 12th October 2010
A San Francisco, CA, pilot watched three bright, red lights in a triangle formation and an independent blue light move "similar to an insect" at 2:20 a.m. on October 11, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. [...]
"I am a professional pilot and I know how conventional aircraft move through the sky. This was nothing like that and I knew it immediately. The three red lights were (from my perspective) in a triangle formation and were equidistant from each other and moving in unison. The third light was blue. It remained close to the red group (so close as to be considered all part of the same formation) only it seemed to move independently of the red lights."
The group of lights was described as moving in a way similar to insects.
[...] "The movement of the whole group was more similar to an insect than any aircraft I've ever seen. It moved at random around the southwest sky for about 30 seconds."
Comment: Here we have a pilot who can be considered to be a trained observer, telling us that he saw three lights in a triangular formation moving about like an insect. Now, the evidence suggests that the strange lights represent another lifeform that normally exists in the aethers and belongs to a shadow biosphere that exists on Earth. This observation matches many other descriptions of these lights or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) that clearly demonstrate "critter-like" behaviour. Starting in the 1950s, the military historian and ufologist, Trevor James Constable, spent the next 20 years photographing normally invisible entities that could be captured by camera in the infra-red part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Since this time, we know for a fact that various military and scientists around the world have managed to confirm the existence of this lifeform, but the convention is to ignore their presence. So, despite the hundreds of thousands if not millions of sightings by the general public and the easily available scientific research on the matter, it really makes you wonder at the level of intelligence of people who insist that any strange light in the sky must be a spacecraft from another planet. Things are just getting worse and worse in the UK and nobody seems to care.
Strange jelly-fish type UAPs - Dunvant, Swansea, Wales [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 13th October 2010
"At first, it appeared to be a plane on fire falling out of the sky but then it got closer and right over the houses. [...] and was the size of around 5 jumbo jets put together. It didn't make noise but was right over the house and the light was so bright it was like the sun. [...] with 2 other adults and they all looked at the lights through strong binoculars. She said it was the same ships as we had seen close up and the underbelly of them looked like lit up jellyfish ."
The people here admit they are very frightened by their experience, but UAPs that look like jelly-fish in the skies are completely ignored by ufologists who want little green/grey men in spacecraft.
Dozens Report UFO Over New York City
Fox News, 14th October 2010
"There was something weird about it. Light just doesn't reflect off balloons like that. "If Martians were to land anywhere, New York is a much better location than some backwoods town in the Midwest." Tim Powell, 28, described the objects as "the most bizarre thing I've ever seen."
" It looked like a jellyfish made of lights that just hovered in the sky like it wanted to be seen," he said. "I was half expecting the aliens to beam down and introduce themselves."
And Richard Molina, 42, compared what he saw to the "creatures from 'Predator.' "
Comment: Oh dear... people are so brainwashed. Most UAPs should be regarded as "critters" and have absolutely no interest in humans, but it seems that this is going to take a long long time to sink into average human consciousness. Btw, the 2012ers are very quiet....
Daytime UFO video filmed in Montreal, Canada 11-October-2010
Latest UFO Sightings, 14th October 2010
"Latest UFO sightings - New UFO video of bright daytime object or sphere hovering in the sky over Montreal in Canada. This footage was recorded on Monday, 11th October 2010."
Now, does this look like a spacecraft or a creature like a fly?
Have Scientists Finally Discovered Evidence for Psychic Phenomena?!
Psychology Today, 11th October 2010
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen tells Alice that in her land, "memory works both ways." Not only can the Queen remember things from the past, but she also remembers "things that happened the week after next." Alice attempts to argue with the Queen, stating "I'm sure mine only works one way...I can't remember things before they happen." The Queen replies, "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
How much better would our lives be if we could live in the White Queen's kingdom, where ours memory would work backwards and forewords? For instance, in such a world, you could take an exam and then study for it afterwards to make sure you performed well in the past. Well, the good news is that according to a recent series of scientific studies by Daryl Bem, you already live in that world!
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Dr. Bem, a social psychologist at Cornell University, conducted a series of studies that will soon be published in one of the most prestigious psychology journals (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). Across nine experiments, Bem examined the idea that our brain has the ability to not only reflect on past experiences, but also anticipate future experiences. This ability for the brain to "see into the future" is often referred to as psi phenomena.
Comment: We have had undisputed evidence since the 1970s, for anyone prepared to decode the hermetic jargon or scientific babble.
North Sea Tanker Crash leaks Fuel
The Sun, 12th October 2010
JET fuel was pouring from a tanker into the North Sea this morning after it was involved in a collision with another huge ship.
They smashed into each other around 19 miles (30km) off the Dutch coast leaving a gaping hole in the hull of the vessel carrying kerosene. The Greek tanker Mindoro and a Cypriot container ship collided leaving fuel leaking out of a large hole 16ft by 20ft close to the waterline.
Comment: There have been quite a few tanker collisions lately... It would be easy to explain if tankers have completely given up using the old fashion radio systems (LORAN C) and are now only using GPS, which is not reliable in unstable geomagnetic conditions. Well, it's been stormy over the last few days and we are currently in a geomagnetic storm with a magnetosphere that has "cracked open" to the cosmic elements. (Claims that Earth is not being effected by a massive filament eruption on the Sun yesterday, seem rather weak when other recent research tells us that large blasts are being directed by magnetic field lines and sometimes bounce back our way...). Anyway, the result is our magnetic shielding against cosmic and galactic forces is weak at the moment too. More news and background reports:
Video [0:25] Tanker Collision off Dutch Coast
Euro News, 12th October 2010
"A Greek tanker carrying kerosene has collided with a Cypriot container ship off the Netherlands coast.
A gash several metres long has been opened in the tanker’s hull at the waterline, which is leaking aviation fuel into the sea."
Forecast - Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center, October 2010
Latest summaries
Solar Cycle 24
Amateur radio space weather center
GEOMAGNETIC STORM: On Oct. 11th
spaceweather.com, 12th October 2010
"On Oct. 11th, the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near Earth tilted south, opening a crack in Earth's magnetosphere."
Royal Society “on extra-terrestrial life,” after the conference …
Dateline Zero, 11th October 2010
News of the Royal Society’s conference titled “Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life” has been at a very slow trickle. I thought that there would be more media interest in this conference, partly because it is the 2nd one with an extraterrestrial theme this year. More than that, I thought it would gain a bit more media interest because the UN’s Mazlan Othman was going to be there.
[...] There is, thankfully, one great article written by someone who was there. The article was posted at the website of the Exopolitics Institute, was written by Joanne Summerscales, and is titled “Report on Royal Society Conference on Extra-Terrestrial Life.”
Honestly, this lengthy, detailed, and well-written article is better than anything that would have appeared in The Telegraph, NY Times, or any other mainstream news outlet. Bravo, Joanne Summerscales, for a job well done!
Comment: Nice little article summing up the fact that SETI is an old boy's club that has zero interest in finding real ETs and ignores the huge amount of evidence that points to an alternative life form on Earth, but pleads for public cash to fund new bigger and more powerful telescopes. Quite frankly, with the dimensional shift getting more amd more acute, at some point in the future, these SETI scientists are going to have to deal with the wrath of the general public.
1965: A ball of light hovered above my sister's head - N. Moreton, Oxfordshire [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 11th October 2010
Location of Sighting: North Moreton Oxon
Date of Sighting: August 1965
Time: around 7pm
Witness Name: Steve Evans & Sharon Evans
Witness Statement: After 45 years I feel it time to document an extraordinary event that happened to my sister and I on a warm August evening in 1965. [...]
I was just eight years old and my sister was six, It was a warm evening and we decided to take our border collie Buster "up the fields" for a walk. [...]
With the house in sight Buster, suddenly started yelping and leaping in the air, dragging me forward so hard that I had to let him go. He raced off toward the house and I turned to Sharon, who's hand I was holding, and said "whats up with Buster?"...at that instant we were both immersed in light and sound. An object the size of a small car quickly descended over us with a light so bright that one of my clearest memories is looking at the grass at our feet and being unable to lift my head. The sound was a constant hum/purr and there was a strange feeling in our hair and on our skin. I panicked and ran a few paces, leaving Sharon who screamed and screamed. As I turned to her and shouted "run" I could see the object through the light...it was no more that a few feet above her head, as she ran toward me it followed her for a few yards... Then, in the blink of an eye it shot straight up into the clear sky with incredible speed, I recall seeing it as a tiny round speck, the ascent being followed by what I described at the time as "thunder in the sky".
Comment: Close encounters of the orb kind.... It's coming up to Halloween, so I have decided to list the experience of a few folk, who have been up close and personal to the mysterious UAPs/orbs from Earth's shadow biosphere. I thought the story above is a classic encounter with an orb or ball of light that was so extremely close, the witnesses could clearly see something inside the plasma cloak. Here are some more recent close encounters:
1978: Metallic bluish glass-like object hovered over us - Michoacan Mexico
The Vike Factor, 4th October 2010
"The object came over top of us as we were getting dressed, there was no noise coming out of it except the sound of wind [...] also the lights were bright, but not hurtful to the eye. As far as the object, it was a metallic bluish and smooth as glass. I could almost see through it. I ran after it easily staying up with it, until I realized, I was alone as my friends scattered the other way..."
1987: A stationary golden ball of light - Pelsall into Walsall, W. Midlands [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 6th October 2010
"...around April. 1987. Coming into town, i saw a globe. golden. about ten metres diameter, just off the ground. Hovering about two metre's up. Behind it was a gable end or wall of an old building, so i had a clear view of it. i got out my car and approached it. I observed it for a few minutes. (sorry, no camera phones in those days.) It was just a complete golden sphere, no lines, shapes or anything. just a big bloody ball."
Now, if I saw a stationary golden ball of light, I think I would take a closer look too...
1968: Chased by a cylinder of light - Bearsted nr Maidstone Kent [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 6th October 2010
"I glanced in the direction it came from and coming towards me at a height lower than house top level I saw a cylindrically shaped craft slightly pointed at each end and illuminated but not really giving off any light. [...] It moved slowly and as I stood still looking up at it it just cruised slowly over me at a height of I would guess maybe 15-20ft. [...] as I was watching it it just seemed to 'switch off' like a light- If it flew away it was too fast for my eyes to follow it."
Three orange
coloured orbs travelling in a triangular formation - Mansfield, Nottinghamshire [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 10th October 2010
"We saw three orange coloured orbs travelling in a triangular formation - we were agast and both noticed the sight at the same time as we had been looking up the stars, We were unbelieved when the triangular formation came together and one of the orbs made a side swipe to the near side of our veiw, crossing the path of the other two out of the formation and then out to the far side of our view."
This sighting is highlighted, because the witness saw the orbs moving in and out of formation, proving they were not watching a "craft".
Crab-like object inside orange light - Coleraine, Co Londonderry, N Ireland [UK]
UK UFO Sightings, 10th October 2010
"There was absolutely no sound in the sky and once this orange light was overhead I could clearly make out an oblong object / form (about size of jet plane) with four wings in the shape of bent arms (crablike) before it suddenly ascended at great speed straight up into the sky and disappeared out of sight."
Hungary arrests executive connected to red sludge spill
Christian Science Monitor, 11th October 2010
Hungary's Prime Minister said the managing director of the aluminum company whose plant spilled red sludge into a residential area, killing eight, has been arrested.
Hungarian police today arrested the managing director of the aluminum company behind the spill of toxic sludge that killed eight people, drove dozens from their homes and threatened to pollute the Danube River.
The arrest of Zoltan Bakonyi, managing director of MAL, was announced in parliament by conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban. He added that the company should be "placed under state control" to ensure it rather than taxpayers foot the bill for the cleanup.
"Hungary's biggest ecological disaster was caused by human negligence, the escape of a hazardous material from a plant built and run by people," Mr Orban said. The spill occurred after a holding pond for red mud -- a byproduct from the production of alumina, which in turn is used to produce aluminum -- collapsed.
Comment: Hard to believe that the reservoir was leaking and the company officials did not care enough to stop a major ecological diaster. Is this corporate malfeasance or just plain stupidity? I would suggest cost cutting and taking high risks seems to be the norm these days, with companies only being driven by the need for high share holder profits with scant regard for any adverse consequences. From Boston.com, The Big Picture: A flood of toxic sludge
The scientific world is fracturing
JoNova, 10th October 2010
The rift between real science (the pursuit of truth) and PR-science (the pursuit of of money and power) is growing. Associations like The Royal Society, the APS, and the American Chemical Society are beginning to fracture internally as eminent members reject the unscientific pronouncements made on their behalf by small “secret and stacked” committees.
Hal Lewis comes from the elite upper levels of science — a physics professor at University of California (Santa Barbara), and a member of the Defense Science Board (a group of the top 40 or so, advising the Pentagon).
He’s resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) today, after 67 years. The APS is the world’s second largest organization of physicists, with 48,000 members. He is scathing of the fall from grace of the once renowned institution.
Anthony Watts is calling it “…an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door.”
For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
Comment: Jo Nova has produced some excellent research and has an highly respected blog, see her credentials online. I am impressed with her clear appraisal of the situation and the indication that there is serious unrest amongst scientists. In my opinion, it seems that we are going to have a serious war to return the scientific community back into it's original mandate and that is the honest search for truth and enlightenment. As someone who is interested in the integration of science and metaphysics in my pursuit of truth and enlightenment, I have quickly come to realise that the scientific concensus is often out of date and that scientists admit that they know that their colleagues are routinely fiddling data to produce results that help them prove their hypothesis. We even have a Nobel Prize winner who is under suspicion but he has been dealt with very very quietly, so that very few are aware of the insult to the world of scientific academia. The war for the honest search for truth and enlightenment within the scientific community, has started...
"The public might not understand the science, but they do understand cheating."
Dr. David Evans
Lessons learned from Swedish temperature records
Canada Free Press, 10th October 2010
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The ten coldest winter-spring temperatures out of the last 500 in Stockholm, Sweden, were almost all during the Little Ice Age. No surprise there. The coldest was 1569, followed by 1573.
The warmest years: 1863, 1990, 1743, 1525, 1989, 1605, 1822, 1790, 1762, and 2008, in that order. The years since 1976, supposedly with “unprecedented warming,” claim only three slots among the top ten. Apparently, the Modern Warming isn’t all that hot. Nor do we have any temperature readings from the earlier Medieval and Roman Warmings, which the ice cores and seabed sediments tell us were even warmer than today.
Comment: In stark contrast to the opinion in the mainstream media, some scientists have been making claims for years now that there are signs of global cooling and we could even enter an Ice Age. So, as I have reported, once we realised that scientists have been cooking the global temperature datasets to show global warming and that unbias observations suggest that global temperatures are rapidly falling, it's no surprise that the "higher-ups" have noted their faux pas and are trying to stop the global warming bandwagon in it's tracks. For the record, we read at IceAgeNow.com, the following snippet:
Severe cold in the northern hemisphere has revived arguments about climate change. Some experts say the warming process has stopped, and the climate is actually becoming cooler.
Scientists draw their conclusions from water temperature data in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and take issue with beliefs that there may be no ice within the Arctic Circle by the summer of 2013.
Data from US ice and snow studies show that since 2007, the amount of ice in the Arctic during summer increases by over 1 million square kilometers, about 26 percent of the original amount.
Famous climate researcher Mojib Latif from Germany says, the oceans have their own warming and cooling cycles every 20 to 30 years. He concludes the earth is in a miniature Ice Age, and the cool trend could last 2 to 3 decades.
We're now in a miniature Ice Age Says German scientist
`Black Swan' Author Says Investors Should Sue Nobel for Crisis
Bloomberg News, 8th October 2010
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black Swan,” said investors who lost money in the financial crisis should sue the Swedish Central Bank for awarding the Nobel Prize to economists whose theories he said brought down the global economy.
“I want to make the Nobel accountable,” Taleb said today in an interview in London. “Citizens should sue if they lost their job or business owing to the breakdown in the financial system.”
Taleb said that the Nobel Prize for Economics has conferred legitimacy on risk models that caused investors’ losses and taxpayer-funded bailouts. Sweden’s central bank will announce the winner of this year’s award on Oct. 11.
[...] “If no one else sues them, I will,” said Taleb, who declined to say where or on what basis a lawsuit could be brought.
Comment: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, has to be one of the most interesting intellectuals on the planet and I think he's great! If Taleb sues, it will make for some very interesting press coverage...
What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths
CNN Money, 8th October 2010
FORTUNE -- Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world's honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately seeking the cause. After all, the honeybee, nature's ultimate utility player, pollinates a third of all the food we eat and contributes an estimated $15 billion in annual agriculture revenue to the U.S. economy.
The long list of possible suspects has included pests, viruses, fungi, and also pesticides, particularly so-called neonicotinoids, a class of neurotoxins that kills insects by attacking their nervous systems. For years, their leading manufacturer, Bayer Crop Science, a subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG (BAYRY), has tangled with regulators and fended off lawsuits from angry beekeepers who allege that the pesticides have disoriented and ultimately killed their bees.
Comment: Good article. It seems that we have another scientist that has compromised his research to absolve a major corporation.
US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life'
Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 9th October 2010
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.
Anthony Watts describes it thus:
This is an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science.
It’s so utterly damning that I’m going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley).
Comment: This is a very succinct headline as it's gets the message across with no ambiguity. So far, the mainstream media has not caught onto the concept of Space Weather which is the real reason for the desperation to make up lots of lies about the massive global and evolutionary change that is currently underway.
PHOTO GALLERY: Hungary Toxic Sludge Catastrophe Reminiscent of BP Gulf Oil Spill Disaster
World Awash In Environmental Armageddon, 8th October 2010
Here’s the top headline on Yahoo! News on Thursday, October 7, 2010 regarding the Toxic Sludge Disaster in Hungary:
Scientists say heavy metal in sludge not dangerous (AP)
And here’s the proof for those who are as incredulous as we were about such an irresponsible and utterly uninformed scientific proclamation: (image)
Many of us have come to view the Associated Press as a reincarnation of PRAVDA during the heyday of the Soviet Union. If you followed many of the AP headlines during the BP Oil Spill, like this one below, you will see a similar pattern of serious disinformation and cover-up for their corporate sponsors. They really do need to be called out from now on for this well-established pattern of disseminating patently false information.
Comment: There is a series of excellent photos as part of this article, but I was most impressed with the following comment by Lee, October 9, 2010 at 12:06 am:
I am so totally ashamed to belong to my species. As we are – we should never, ever leave this planet. We should have to live in our own filth, the filth we have created. We should drown in it …annihilate ourselves. Sooner the better. Good job done. Makers of our own destiny. Please do not say ‘but I’m not like that – I care!’. Over the history of our species and this planet (and it is not ours!!!) it is those that ‘care’ who have sat idle while the money-power addicts have over-ruled, deceived and destroyed everything that is precious. It is the ‘god-fearing’ and the ‘peacekeepers’ that have promoted their wishywashiness as ‘the only way’. Wake up. You can’t ‘compromise’ – you can’t just ‘talk’ to some entities. It is time to undo your hands – hands and minds rendered useless – locked in the prayers and meditations – the dog tricks taught to you by the very same entities, centuries ago. They put you on your knees and into lotus position for a reason! Undo your hands now, stand up and fight! [bold and underline added for emphasis]
The man has made an extremely valid point...
Update
Photographic evidence: Hungary toxic mud disaster could have been avoided
"Kolontàr, Hungary: An aerial photograph taken in June showing a damaged and clearly leaking sludge pond wall shows that the toxic mud disaster in Hungary and subsequent pollution of rivers including the Danube could have been avoided, WWF-Hungary said today."
WWF, 8th October 2010
Video: Hungary builds dam to contain second toxic flood risk
BBC News, 10th October 2010
English Channel collision tanker being towed by tug
BBC News, 8th October 2010
A chemical tanker which collided with a cargo ship off France's Brittany coast overnight is being towed to the French port of Brest. A French salvage team boarded the YM Uranus and a tug boat was attached at 1100 French time (0900 GMT), the ship's operator told BBC News. None of the 6,000 tonne cargo of heavy pygas gasoline escaped, V Ships said. The tanker took on water after the collision close to the mouth of the English Channel. Its crew were winched to safety by a French helicopter and no-one was injured.
No heavy pygas had escaped, he said, adding that while the gasoline was flammable, it would quickly evaporate in the event of a spill.
Comment: Another tanker collision... Space Weather interfering with navigation/GPS systems, rendering them not precise enough? If a navigation system has failed, then by the time a look-out has realised that their vessel is on a collision course, it's often too late to do anything about it.
British racing pigeon ends up 5200 miles away in Panama 'after getting lost'
A British racing pigeon called Houdini got lost on her first race and ended up thousands of miles away in Panama City.
The Telegraph, 8th October 2010
A British racing pigeon called Houdini got lost on her first race and ended up thousands of miles away in Panama City. The 10 month-old bird had been undertaking a six hour race from Guernsey to Dudley, West Midlands more than five weeks ago. But it failed to arrive and its owner Darren Cubberly, 45, had give up hope the bird would return from the 224 mile trip. He was surprised to get a phone call this week from Panama City, where the bird had ended up. He was told the bird was alive and healthy despite making the more than 5200 mile trip. It is thought she landed on a ship travelling to the area.
Comment: Pigeon racers call birds getting lost in poor geomagnetic conditions a pigeon 'Smash' and they now pay close attention to Space Weather forecasts. However, some have gone further and complain about weather manipulation, see, Weather Warfare: Could It Be Affecting Our Racing Pigeons? Of course, there is no comparison between the efforts of HAARP and the bombardment of our planet by Space Weather that generates geomagnetic storms and substorms.
Astronomers Worldwide Forge New Rules for ET Engagement
AOL News, 8th October 2010
I can't say for sure, but lately there's been a lot of news that, if looked at collectively, could be interpreted as pointing in that direction. It seems as if everyone from the Vatican to the military to scientists conducting the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, are getting on the ET bandwagon. [...]
For decades, SETI scientists, using radio and optical telescopes, have searched the heavens for proof that we're not alone in the universe. In the new SETI guidelines, the protocol for confirmation of an alien intelligence is clearly laid out:
"If the verification process confirms -- by the consensus of the other investigators involved and to a degree of certainty judged by the discoverers to be credible -- that a signal or other evidence is due to extraterrestrial intelligence, the discoverer shall report this conclusion in a full and complete, open manner to the public, the scientific community and the secretary-general of the United Nations." [...]
And this week, British researchers hope to find alien life forms closer to home, in Earth's upper atmosphere, a prospect Tarter finds intriguing.
"There could be, in fact, another shadow biosphere on Earth where there's a different form of metabolism that might not use DNA, or might use different bio-solvents -- it's actually not completely out of the question."
Tarter suggests that life might even be found in non-Earthlike habitable zones, in places where "extremophile" organisms may thrive -- life forms that may actually require hazardous conditions.
Comment:
To say I am thrilled that astronomers are talking about a shadow biosphere on Earth is to put it mildly. Of course these SETI scientists know the truth, but the general public does not, so we are seeing an increasingly frantic effort to warn the public with a continuous drip drip of useful information. This is mainstream news folks and it's getting very interesting...
Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube
Yahoo News, 7th October 2010
KOLONTAR, Hungary – The toxic red sludge that burst out of a Hungarian factory's reservoir reached the mighty Danube on Thursday after wreaking havoc on smaller rivers and creeks, and downstream nations rushed to test their waters.
The European Union and environmental officials fear an environmental catastrophe affecting half a dozen nations if the red sludge, a waste product of making aluminum, contaminates the Danube, Europe's second-longest river.
Officials from Croatia, Serbia and Romania were taking river samples every few hours Thursday but hoping that the Danube's huge water volume would blunt the impact of the spill.
[...]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, stopping at dawn in Kolontar, described the reservoir break as an unprecedented disaster in Hungary. "If this had happened at night then everyone here would have died," he was quoted by MTI as telling villagers. "This is so irresponsible that it is impossible to find words!"
Local officials said 34 homes in Kolontar were unlivable but furious residents said the disaster had destroyed the whole village of 800 by making their land worthless. The prime minister called the worst-hit area a total write-off, saying he saw "no sense" in rebuilding in the same location.
"The whole settlement should be bulldozed into the ground," bellowed resident Janos Potza. "There's no point for anyone to go back home."
Comment: The issue is what caused the reservoir to break... We are seeing so many sink holes and cracks appearing, yet, there is a total silence from the scientific community... this was also reported this week.
Video:
Large crevice confuses residents
Upper Michigan.source, 6th October 2010
"A large crevice, stretching almost two football fields, suddenly appeared in the woods near Birch Creek."
Update
Video MSM News:
Hungary sludge flood called 'ecological disaster'
YouTube/ITN News, 5th October 2010
The British ITN News says the toxic sludge is radioactive and the disaster was caused by human error. How is that possible?
Brain cancer tied to heavy cellphone use, says author
The Star, 5th October 2010
Sickly sperm another side effect, says professor in new book that rounds up deadly data
Davis, a researcher at Georgetown University and founder of the Environmental Health Trust, sees the effects from cellphone radiation as a looming public health crisis. “Frankly I think we have about three years to get on top of this or we face a global epidemic,” said Davis, who recently testified before a U.S. Senate committee panel about the dangers of cellphone use.
Davis spoke to the Star about sickly sperm, the tobacco industry playbook and the “completely uncontrolled experiment” we’re conducting on our children.[...]
You say kids are particularly vulnerable. Why? Up to what age?
Children are vulnerable for three reasons. Their skulls are thinner so signals can penetrate deeper. Their brains contain more fluid; the more fluid, the more affected by microwave radiation. Finally, the brains of children continue to develop and grow. We know from modern neuroscience that their brains are not fully mature until their mid-20s, and later for boys than girls.
The big concern, for all ages, has been brain tumours, which are slow-growing. Is cellphone radiation a risk factor?
Yes. I’ve looked at the totality of the evidence, extensive exposure literature on whole animals and cell cultures. There’s clear evidence cellphone radiation causes a variety of damage to the brains of animals which is documented in my book.
Comment: Unbiased expert opinion...
Satellitegate Update by John O’Sullivan
CO2 Insanity, 6th October 2010
The controversy over ‘Satellitegate’ hots up as NOAA faces a court appearance for refusing to release evidence that would show whether one or more US satellites exagerrated global warming temperatures.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a federal agency focused on reporting the condition of the oceans and the atmosphere. When the story first broke NOAA bizarrely announced it would withdraw satellite ‘images’ from its archives but failed to state whether reams of cooked data had also been withdrawn.
An official US Government statement last July confirmed that the NOAA-16 earth orbiting satellite used to measure surface temperatures suffered failure due to a “degraded” sensor system. But skeptics now fear that because government climate scientists won’t answer any more questions or reveal the discredited data archives they may be guilty of fraudulently cooking the books to show super boiling temperatures. [...]
Dubbed Satellitegate the shocking revelations proved that all such bogus data had been fed automatically into data banks that the US Government then sold all over the world.
As proprietary temperature data products the junk numbers were used by domestic and international weather and climate researchers. Fears are growing that the junk data may have contaminated scores of climate models worldwide and artificially increased average global warming records by several degrees.
Comment: Hmmm... NOAA now faces a court appearance...
NASA’s Hathaway issues new solar cycle prediction
WUWT, 6th October 2010
NASA releases their new estimate for SC24. The new number is 64 but not allowing for any 13 month smoothing is noted.
The text is quite comical, they have no idea. By Xmas I predict they will be inline with my prediction made in 2008. Perhaps. This blink comparator that I made (see below), tells the story pretty well. Back in October of 2007, the SC24 smoothed SSN prediction was for 150. Now it is 64. But, let us not be too critical of Dr. Hathaway, unlike some scientists we know, he has the integrity and courage to admit when his forecasts and models don’t work, and to revise them in the face of reality. Speaking from experience, Nature can be a bitch to forecast.
Comment: It is now very clear that NASA solar scientists don't understand what is happening with our Sun, due to the constant changing of the goalposts with the sunspot prediction no.s for Solar Cycle 24. I have no idea what will happen, but we have other major considerations like the stability of the Earth's magnetic field and solar system shielding to consider, especially as we are getting regular blasts from deep space. G Cloud is now on our solar system doorstep with a strange cosmic feature that looks suspiciously like a huge electric current that is pressing in on the heliosphere. Therefore, making predictions on the future seems rather foolhardy when there are so many factors that our scientists don't understand. Here is the direct link to NASA's press release: Solar Cycle Prediction (Updated 2010/10/05)
Update
Since, we know that the Sun has many cycles, it seems that claims that the Sun is now operating under different rules dictated by longer term cycles seems highly likely. The issue is: do we know all the different cycle periods and what can we expect? Here is some respected expert opinion at WUWT.
In hindsight on Solar Cycle 24 prediction, what is apparent now could have been predicted a couple of decades ago in that it is a de Vries cycle event. The de Vries cycle is a 210 year cycle. The last one was the Dalton Minimum which started in 1798. The current minimum started right on schedule exactly 210 years after that. In the last 2,000 years, the only time we missed out on a de Vries cycle event was the Medieval Warm Period. So it is about 90% reliable.
Archibald On Dr. Hathaway’s Most Recent Solar Cycle 24 Prediction
U.F.O’s From Another Dimension?
The Bunt Blogger, 6th October 2010
It is possible that U.F.O’s do come from another dimension.
Mathematics can help us to understand the the concept of dimensions, and prove their possibility.
We live in a three-dimensional world, and with normal vision we see in three-dimensions, for example we have two forward-facing eyes separated by a short distance, if we look at something nearby and alternate by closing one eye and look through the other and do so continuously, we will see two different pictures.Our visual cortex operates at a very high speed to process the images, which in turn creates a three-dimensional image which moves in time in our mind. This ability is called stereoscopy.
Most humans experience life in three-dimension, but what if there were a fourth dimension.
Comment: It appears that most intelligent people who have studied this subject for a long time, come to realise that UFOs are interdimensional. The explanation here apparently comes from Carl Sagan but it's not very good. The only way to understand how UFOs/UAPs can be invisible to the human eye but physical enough to return a radar signal, is to understand that extremely high energy, high frequency, dense and small particles exist that are in the realm of the quantum. If you imagine air molecules as being like giant hot air balloons, we are talking about grains of sand and smaller in comparison. Humans can only see these objects when they literally 'switch on' and radiate energy that we can detect, but this is not necessary for radar that pulses a powerful beam of electronic energy (pulsed electromagnetic energy) that literally disturbs the energy of UFOs/UAPs. Anyway, as far as I am concerned, this is all getting rather embarrassing. Interdimensional entities are appearing left right and centre, some in the mainstream are getting extremely agitated and the metaphysical community have hit the snooze button. The reason is that talking about Quantum Theory is rather fashionable in the New Age world, but it's not fashionable to comprehend how Quantum Theory applies to the existence of interdimensional entities. Go figure!
Green lights 'size of tennis balls' appear inside Nevada couple's vehicle
UFO Examiner, 5th October 2010
A Lake Las Vegas, Nevada, couple report green lights "the size of tennis balls" lit up inside their vehicle as they drove along Lake Mead Drive about one mile from the entrance of Lake Las Vegas at 8:03 p.m. on October 2, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
"I was looking at my girlfriend in the passenger seat so I could see the rear of the car with my peripheral and it looked like the lights were dancing around in the back too," the reporting witness stated. "I specifically remember the lights passing over the tops of my thighs and the center console of the expedition. It almost felt like it was scanning the car. The green lights moved quickly, so fast they left those lit up optical traces you see when a light moves fast in the dark. The color of the lights was a deep green type of light. Almost like the green light of a stop light but much a much richer and deep green."
The incident last about 2 seconds.
"The lights were bright, like I was staring into a neon sign but it didn't seem to bathe the car in that green light. I mean the car was lit up but it didn't seem to paint the inside of the car a specific color but it was hard to tell. "
Comment: Imagine, all this is going on all the time now, but there is a deathly silence from the metaphysical community. My only thought is that in the past, when members of the metaphysical community waxed lyrical about the veil lifting, maybe they thought it would be a private affair that would only matter to the super spiritual folk... Oh well... Anyway, I've seen soft green ping pong sized orbs whirling around me, but it was quite a nice experience. I have much more difficulty detecting 'bad' energy fields from humans who are oblivious to the fact that their energy fields can be detected by people whose neurological networks are properly wired to pick up this bio-electromagnetic information. If I had to choose, I would prefer the orbs whirling about me...
Russian scientists expect increased solar radiation, not doomsday in 2012
RIA Novosti, 4th October 2010
Copy: "The scientific community does not expect the end of the world in 2012 as predicted by the Mayan Prophecy, although increased solar activity may harm satellites and endanger astronauts, a Russian doctor of physical and mathematical sciences said on Monday.
"The solar exposure on near-Earth space will increase, causing perturbations in the atmosphere, which will break space apparatus," Vladimir Kuznetsov who works for the Institute of Earth magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio waves of the Russian Academy of Sciences said. "Enhanced radiation could also endanger cosmonauts."
December 12, 2012 is the end of a calendar created by the ancient Mayan civilization of South America. Over the years, scientists and speculators have proposed numerous astronomical alignments and formulas, which allegedly prove that the end is nigh.
Comment: This article is way too short! As usual, the Russian translation leaves us tantalised with the notion of "breaking space apparatus..." Unfortunately, there is simply not enough information here to speculatate on whether these Russian scientists are refering to heightened solar activity or whether they think that cosmic cycles are contributing to the decline of the Earth's magnetic field. Anyway, this is a must see, Did you know there were this many satellites in orbit?
Man dies after satnav sends him into a reservoir
A man has died in Spain after his car's satellite navigation system sent him down an abandoned road and into a reservoir.
The Telegraph, 4th October 2010
The 37-year old drowned after following directions on the GPS device which had not been updated to show the creation of La Serena reservoir at Capilla, near Badajoz in southwestern Spain. A 38-year old passenger escaped from the Peugeot 306 as it became submerged and managed to swim to shore. The survivor told rescuers that the incident happened shortly after 11pm on Saturday when the pair were trying to find their way home from a fair.
"It appears that the vehicle's GPS device directed them down an old road which ended in the reservoir," a spokesman for the Red Cross said. "But because it was dark they didn't see the water in time to brake and the vehicle sank within a few minutes."
Comment: As I have stated before, in stormy geomagnetic conditions GPS and SAT NAV are unreliable, but in this case, we have another case of people being lost and caught out by a poorly updated road mapping system.
Brazilian clown elected to congress
ABC News, 5th October 2010
A professional clown has picked up 1.3 million votes in the Brazilian election to represent Sao Paulo in congress.
Tiririca, a 45-year-old television humorist whose real name is Francisco Oliveira, received the highest number of votes for any federal deputy across the country. His TV campaign ads, featuring him dancing around in a tiny hat and multi-coloured outfit with a cheesy smile, were easily the most irreverent spots in the lead-up to the general elections.
"It couldn't get any worse. Vote for me," was his campaign slogan, which were followed by a number of riffs tapping into public cynicism about politics.
"What does a federal deputy do? I have no idea, but vote for me and I'll let you know," went one of his ads.
Comment: LOL!! Vote for me, it can't get any worse.... LOL!! Cheesy, but obviously popular, with this one video alone generating 5.1 million YouTube hits since 17th August 2010, Tiririca - The Brazilian clown adverts
An over the top view of satellite sensor failure
WUWT, 4th October 2010
Satellite Data Fraud
Dr Charles R. Anderson; “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.”
http://co2insanity.com/2010/08/19/leading-us-physicist-labels-satellitegate-scandal-a-%E2%80%98catastrophe%E2%80%99/
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.
Comment: I am finding it very curious that Anthony Watts is trying to play down the Satellitegate fiasco by saying that it is a quality control issue. I have to agree, but the whole issue of satellite sensor degradation is part of the much bigger issue of the degradation of the world's satellite communication infrastructure due to Space Weather. There must be a huge problem because when they were caught out, NOAA brought in lawyers to defend itself against it's angry customers. Therefore, I simply can't agree with Watts that's it's a matter of incompetence. I don't think it's a conspiracy either, rather NASA, NOAA et al. are desperately trying to find solutions to combat Space Weather. In the meanwhile, they did not want to draw any attention to the issue, whilst hoping that major problems with data would go unnoticed.
The 10:10 Splattergate goes “sploot” – a roundup
WUWT, 4th October 2010
From the New York Times:
Enviro Groups Retreat From Violent Advocacy Video
The four-minute video -- produced by the London-based group 10:10 -- features a host of celebrities encouraging the public to work to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent.
It also features a scene in which a schoolteacher explodes two students who refuse to take part in the campaign, turning the children into a red soup and covering their classmates with gore.
Comment: It's hard to comprehend that some think that blowing up school children because of their skepticism about global warming could be considered as satire or entertainment... Also, Morano on Fox News on the 10:10 exploding children film & Cartoon: Josh on 10:10's Splattergate Goregate
Villagers stunned after pieces of Chinese rocket from lunar probe rain down from the sky
Daily Mail, 4th October 2010
At first these Chinese villagers thought the two large explosions in the middle of the night were an earthquake. But they awoke the next morning to see their village in Suichuan County in Jiangxi dotted with huge pieces of metal.
These images show the scene in their rural village after the rocket from China's second lunar mission crashed to Earth, narrowly missing crushing their homes. Huge chunks of metal rained out of the sky after the lunar probe Chang'e II jettisoned its Long March 3C rocket on Friday night. No one is believed to have been hurt in the incident. China launched an unmanned lunar probe on Friday, the latest milestone for an ambitious space programme that aims to put a man on the moon later this decade.
Comment: Wow! Look at the size of the pieces and there's not even a dint in the ground! Actually, isn't space debris supposed to burn up, as it makes it's entry back into our atmosphere...
Length of day correlated to cosmic rays and sunspots
WUWT, 3rd October 2010
[...] Some authors, notably Bourget et al (1992), had begun to reveal correlations between solar activity and the length of day, and more recently, Abarca del Rio et al (2003) and Winkelnkemper (2008) in his thesis noted that the amplitude of the component semi-annual (6 months period) of the length of day and atmospheric angular momentum were anti-correlated with changes in the same period of the ” solar constant (the solar constant expresses the amount of solar energy (actually a lighting power) which would be one …) “. What could be the link between certain changes in day length, the zonal winds and solar activity?
Comment: Now, I am only a little less skeptical... I can accept billions of tons of plasma slowing down the rotation of Earth, but not cosmic rays on their own.
Black Triangle surrounded by plasma - Heathrow, UK
UK UFO Sightings, 3rd October 2010
Location of Sighting: heathrow area,
Date of Sighting: 26 8 2009
Time: 22.30,
Witness Name: dozzy
Witness Statement: in garden talking to my neighbour and happened to glance up and to my left and saw a black triangle coming toward me ,silent and slow, it had a plasma type material all around it.
as it passed over us i could see landing gear at each corner .i stood there in awe of this thing.it was about 150 ft long by 50 ft wideat about 200 ft above ground level i watched it for about 15 seconds and it then disappeared.i have reported this to the mod.they seem disinterested.my real concern is that we live on the flight path to heathrow and these craft are buzzing about in our airspace.because the craft landng gear was down i assume it was coming into land locally.the craft was heading for staines moore,and the next day my father in law saw helicopter gunships andsoldiers on the moore, and to add to this was the shutting off of the m25 junctions twelve to 14. this all seems such a coincidense. have not believed in spacecraft before but i sure do now.
Comment: There are lots of reports here of people seeing "craft" or something that they approximate to a craft. Yet the UK Ministry of Defence has absolutely no interest in these sightings and you just have to wonder about the depth of programming for people not to consider that maybe there is an alternative explanation. The UK MOD report, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000] suggests that the black triangles that are presumed to be spacecraft, are actually instead areas of null magnetic field generated by plasma entities when they are in a triangular formation. See example provided from this report here. This can be supported by the research of Rawls and Davis who both spent about 50 years studying magnetism. If you read this report, it makes it clear that eye witness accounts of most untrained observers are not particularly useful because most people attempt to describe what they think they should be seeing and not what they are actually seeing. More MSM reports:
Vale residents report two separate UFO sightings
Evesham Journal, 5th October 2010
“I watched this very strange event for around three to four minutes. I saw two saucer like craft hovering less then half a mile away, which were about 30ft above the ground. “They had two bright white lights either side of a red light which was located in the centre of the craft. They hovered around to begin with but then began to dip down close to the ground.
“Suddenly they turned completely red, angled 45 degrees and disappeared at such speed that I was unable to track their path through the sky.”
UAPs have the ability to turn red and fly off, see the information provided by Trevor james Constable in the Best of the Blog - Orbs, UAP Traffic & UFO Disclosure.
Worldwide audience for Cumbrian ‘UFO’ footage [UK]
News and Star, 5th October 2010
This is only getting major coverage because the object appeared to be solid and fairly close to the archetypal flying saucer shape.
UFO sightings down in northwest [Canada]
Houston Today, 6th October 2010
"UFO activity has been fairly slow in the Bulkley Valley recently, ufo-ologist Brian Vike said, however UFO reports elsewhere have picked up, especially in the United Kingdom. [...] “There’s a lot of stuff coming in, it’s incredible,” Vike said."
Of course there is no analysis here as to what is going on, because that would require thinking...
Great balls of fire – more UFOs [Fort William, Scotland]
Lochaber News, 6th October 2010
"Rhoda West of Mossfield Drive, Lochyside, saw three orange lights hovering above Old Inverlochy Castle at around 9.30pm
on Saturday, September 18. She saw the strange lights, which looked like glowing orange balls, the same night as a man in Nairn saw similar objects in the sky one hour later. [...] "The three balls had been in the air in the shape of a triangle. Each looked to me to be about the size of a football."
The balls of light and fire have not gone away and nor are they likely to for the foreseeable future...
Social sensitivity trumps IQ in group intelligence
New Scientist, 2nd October 2010
If you're a headhunter looking for someone to work in a group, you might want to stop chasing down the most intelligent candidates. Group intelligence depends less on how smart individuals are and more on their social sensitivity, ability to take turns speaking, and the number of women in the group.
So says Anita Woolley from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues, having measured group intelligence and the influences that individuals have on it. [...]
Individual intelligence as measured by IQ tests relies on the premise that people who are good at one task are generally good at several, which suggests that an underlying "general intelligence" exists. Although somewhat controversial, such tests can be used to predict how well a person will do in more complex tests. Woolley's team found a similar general intelligence in groups, and it was also a successful predictor of how well that group would perform at subsequent, more complex tasks. [...]
Woolley says she was surprised to find that neither the average intelligence of the group members nor the intelligence of the smartest member played much of a role in the overall group intelligence. Social sensitivity – measured using a test in which participants had to identify another person's feelings by looking at photographs of their eyes – was by far the most important factor. [...]
Woolley says that selection processes used to form groups in the workplace may need to be re-evaluated, shifting the focus from individual intelligence to collaboration skills.
Comment: Very interesting...
Fear is a Magnetic Force and often Appears as Anger.
Smoking Mirrors, 2nd October 2010
[...] Stop worrying about what you think the bad guys can and will do. Be more concerned with your own operations within the schematic of existence. The system protects those who are harmonized with its greater intentions. The system is conscious. Ordinary physics has already proven that the universe is thought born. Ponder that. There is only one force, period. This force is applied for both good and evil and is on temporary loan to both. It can be withdrawn at any time. It doesn’t matter if you see this system as an inflexible operation of mathematical principles or as a conscious and omniscient entity. It could well be both. A study of Greek and Roman mythology will repay big dividends to those who are honest with themselves in their manner of inquiry.
At certain points in human history, this mathematical or conscious force makes necessary adjustments, because of great imbalances that always appear like clockwork at predictable places. We are in one of those places. A new age is coming about and the previous age is being recycled. This one force is turning itself to new instruments, while also summing up the integrity, or lack of integrity, in the instruments that preceded them. You can call this ‘judgment’ or you can call it the outworking of natural law. It doesn’t matter what you call it.
Comment: A metaphysical viewpoint that I can't agree with completely, but I do agree with the overall sentiment.
Mission to search for alien life in outer atmosphere
The Telegraph, 2nd October 2010
Life from outer space could be surviving on the outer fringes of the Earth's atmosphere, according to scientists who are to launch a mission to search for bacteria that could be living there.
In science fiction films the search for aliens involves travelling across the galaxy to planets millions of miles away. But scientists believe they could be close to discovering alien life forms much closer to home – on the outer fringes of Earth's atmosphere. [...]
"If we find microorganisms up there, there are a number of ways it could have arrived. It could have come from space itself, or it could be from our own volcanoes that have projected material up there."
[...]
Some astrobiologists believe that the seeds for life on Earth actually began elsewhere in the galaxy and microbes were carried here on an icy asteroid or comet that collided with our planet.
Comment: This is an old idea and typical of the duplication of results that typifies modern science. However, this report is helpful and very relevant as the media continue to make an effort in providing the general public with plenty of information concerning the possible existence of extraterrestrial life in our atmosphere.
Photos: Bizarre light believed 'not from this planet' baffles viewers [Canada]
Vancouver Sun, 1st October 2010
Doctor among numerous viewers who spotted the unidentified flying object
A sighting this week of a strange, lighted object hovering in the skies above Montreal is baffling viewers. While the bizarre light above Cavendish Mall is "probably explainable," astronomer and UFO-studies buff Chris Rutkowski said Thursday, from his perspective, the jury is still out on the question of whether Earth is receiving visits from extraterrestrials.
Comment: There has been a few reports related to this sighting but this is the first with photos. For those that are new to this blog, I have been blogging reports mainly related to the huge fiery and bright orbs, since it came to my attention in February 2008 that the mainstream media in the UK were complaining about the HUGE increase in UFO reports, see archives Best of the Blog - Orbs, UAP Traffic & UFO Disclosure. If you want the latest eye witness reports, I can recommend the UK UFO Website and The Vike Factor Paranormal Blogspot , & The UFO Examiner are receiving or
highlighting the latest reports about orbs and other apparent UAP/UFO sightings. Since there are now so many reports, I
simply do not have time to sift through, but here are a few that have made it into the mainstream media.
UFOs in Montreal? Strange sights reported [Canada]
CBC News, 30th September 2010
"Doctor among witnesses to 'not of this world' light show"
New UFO mystery [Scotland, UK]
Highland News, 30th September 2010
"The latest sighting of two glowing balls took place in Nairn. It is the most recent strange phenomenon to be reported to the
Highland News since June following months of reports of unidentified flying objects in the skies at locations around Inverness,
Easter Ross and Fort William."
UFOs Buzz the Private Sector: Voluntary research organizations are becoming more significant forces in the study of 'lights in the sky' [Beijing, China]
Beijing Review, 29th September 2010
"This year, occasional reports of UFO sightings have been occurring in China, making UFO research more and more active in the country, and the topic is also attracting a great deal of attention from the public."
Twenty Year (Civilian) Veteran of Minuteman Program Confirms UFO Activity & Nuclear Missile Shut Downs!
UFO Chronicles, 1st October 2010
I worked for Sylvania Electric Systems (Then changed to GTE Government Systems) for 25 years. I worked on the Minuteman program for Twenty years. Sylvania was responsible for building, testing and shipping the Minuteman Ground Electric Systems equipment to Malmstrom and Grand Forks AFBs.
In 1966 and 1967, I was responsible for tracking the testing, deliveries, movements, etc. for this equipment. I was involved on a near daily communicating by phone and at Sylvania with all major contractors in-house and on-site. During this time, I began to hear about UFO sightings taking place on these SAC bases and of course inquired about them with these on-site contractors. I heard that a flight of missiles had shut down at Malmstrom during one of the incidents.
Comment: I truly believe that many of these ex-senior military are reacting to the 'New Energy on the planet and it's now too difficult to withhold the truth that will help humanity evolve to a new higher level of consciousness. Many of these military men had access to nuclear weapons, so we are not talking about ungrounded New Agers with scant interest in reality.
Annual Ig Nobel awards presented for the most 'improbable' research
The Telegraph, 1st October 2010
The Ig Nobels, designed to honour achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think, are presented in the run up to the real awards next week. [...]
Italian physicists investigating organisations won the Management Prize after mathematically proving that randomly promoting employees actually made a company run more efficiently.
They found that contrary to popular opinion members of a "hierarchical organisation climb the hierarchy until they reach level of maximum incompetence".
The best way to avoid this was to either just randomly promote employees or randomly promote the best and the worst employees, the model showed.
British research was also awarded. The Peace Prize went to Keele University who discovered that swearing actually reduces pain.
They are given out at a Harvard University ceremony by the science humour magazine, Annals of Improbable Research.
Comment: Every year, the Ig Nobels never disappoint and act as a reminder that there is a lot of effort being spent in the pursuit of some useless information. However, this year, finding out that randomly promoting employees seems to be effective, has only confirmed my suspicions...
Major News: The Ultimate Surge Protection Has Been Approved!
Huffington Post, September 2010 ( 15th July 2010, very late entry, will re-file later)
John Kappenman, 55, an obscure electrical engineer from Duluth, Minnesota, is determined to save civilization from the mother of all blackouts. If he succeeds, the daily life of billions around the world will continue undisrupted. But if he fails, we may well suffer on a scale that makes even World Wars seem trivial in comparison. [...]
Kappenman was a major contributor to the landmark report, Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, published by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in December, 2008. [...]
The world's power grids, of which the United States has the most extensive, have in essence become giant antennas for space weather blasts. Just as a lightning rod attracts any lightning bolts that might otherwise strike a roof, the power grid, which is designed specifically to be extremely efficient at conducting electricity, attracts space weather bolts. Problem is that, unlike lightning rods, the power grid is gravely vulnerable to such shocks. [...]
Each surge suppressor would be about the size of a washing machine, and would cost $40,000-$50,000 apiece; with some 5,000 transformers in the North American grid, that works out to $250 million or so, according to Kappenman's reckoning. Let's say this estimate is overly optimistic and that the inevitable cost overruns occur. Even if the final price tag for protecting the power grid from space weather attacks ends up being more in the $500 million range, that's less than 0.3% of what it cost to bail out AIG for gambling on toxic mortgages, or 1.0% of what Bernie Madoff is said to have bilked from his investors. [...]
Whatever legislation passes must do so before the fall elections and a new Congress takes over in the January, 2011. Otherwise the process has to start all over again. But what's the rush? It turns out that the next red zone, the next time solar EMP storms peak in frequency and ferocity will, by scientific consensus, commence in late 2012. Mayan prophets and New Age doomsayers harkening to that perhaps fateful year would not be surprised to further learn that the current solar cycle climaxing in 2012 bears an uncanny resemblance to the one that produced the 1859 mega-blast, a repeat of which would almost certainly destroy our way of life for years, perhaps decades, to come. On the marked similarity between the 1859 and 2012 solar cycles, even Kappenman, who generally puts no stock in 2012-related oojie-boojie, agrees. [...]
Mayhem aside for a moment, wouldn't we kick ourselves all the way to hell if the power grid did go down, and along with it, our society, for lack of surge suppressors, a simple, affordable, un-grandiose, quick-fix?
Comment: 25th September 2010
Long article.
It seems we have an unsung hero that has been working away waking people up to the issue of Space Weather, where one major blast would literally take our technological societies back into the Dark Ages. John Kappenman has been shouting loud and hard enough, such that the issue of unprotected power grids has now become a National Security issue in the United States and it looks like folks are taking action. Anyway, I accidentally came across the idea of these 'ultimate surge protectors' for transformers this week, but I suppose this news was missed because the title of most of the many articles about a solar EMP threat focused on the possibility, without making any hint there was a solution. Typical... Well, I will admit, maybe I missed some chatter, but this is the first time I have read that solar scientists are comparing solar cycle 24 (estimated to peak 2012/2013) to 1859 when we had the historic Carrington Event. If it is true that the solar cycles are matching, and I am now wondering why there is not been more information from solar scientists who incidentally, have failed miserably in their predictions for Solar Cycle 24, but it explains why NASA et al. have been getting panicky... Quite frankly, I am gobsmacked and still wondering whether it is true...
Anyway, so there is a possible solution to protect national power grids and their transformers, but still there is a real apathy and disinterest in the evolutionary implications of humans being flash fried by a massive solar blast where electricity will flow through the air. This has to be considered alongside the impact of daily Space Weather and the general increase of cosmic radiation levels on Earth.
Why certain northern lights dance
New study finds connection between pulsating aurora displays around and the intensity of chorus waves
MSNBC News, 30th September 2010
Scientists have long known the colorful northern lights that amaze skywatchers are more than just pretty light shows in the sky. But until now, the engine behind their diversity has been a mystery.
A new study has found a connection between pulsating aurora displays around Earth's North Pole and the intensity of so-called chorus waves, which are electromagnetic fluctuations that occur in space within our planet's magnetosphere. The findings could help paint a clearer view of the drivers behind different kinds of aurora.
Comment: So, these scientists are linking auroral activity in Earth's atmosphere to the activity of plasma in the near Earth region of space... are we supposed to be surprised?
No evidence for Clovis comet catastrophe, archaeologists say
WUWT, 30th September 2010
New research challenges the controversial theory that an ancient comet impact devastated the Clovis people, one of the earliest known cultures to inhabit North America.
Writing in the October issue of Current Anthropology, archaeologists Vance Holliday (University of Arizona) and David Meltzer (Southern Methodist University) argue that there is nothing in the archaeological record to suggest an abrupt collapse of Clovis populations. “Whether or not the proposed extraterrestrial impact occurred is a matter for empirical testing in the geological record,” the researchers write. “Insofar as concerns the archaeological record, an extraterrestrial impact is an unnecessary solution for an archaeological problem that does not exist.”
Comment: I have regularly featured this debate because most scientists refuse to recognise that the possible extinction of the Clovis culture was brought about by a major Space Weather event, and I am wondering how long it will take for this to be proven.
Alien life certain to exist on Earth-like planet, scientists say
The chances of alien life existing on a newly-discovered Earth-like planet are 100 per cent, an astronomer has claimed.
The Telegraph, 30th September 2010
Gliese 581g was discovered orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the "habitable zone" where liquid could exist on its surface. Of around 500 planets that astronomers have found outside Earth's solar system, this is the first to be considered habitable.
The planet is a similar size to Earth and its mass indicates that it is probably rocky with a definite surface and has enough gravity to hold an atmosphere, according to Prof Steven Vogt, who led the team that discovered it. [...]
It is as yet unknown whether water does exist on the planet or what kind of atmosphere it has. But because conditions are ideal for liquid, which is always a precursor for life on Earth, Prof Vogt believes that life will undoubtedly have begun there.
Comment: The saying is: extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... He might be right, but there is no conclusive evidence presented here. However, we can say there does seem to be a big effort in the media to wake up the sheeple to the possibility of life beyond our planet.
'Go green or we'll kill your kids' says Richard Curtis eco-propaganda shocker
The Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 30th September 2010
Gillian Anderson, Peter Crouch [a tall footballer], Radiohead, David Ginola [a French footballer] and – above all – Richard Curtis, I salute you! You have just released a video which has entered history as the most emetic, ugly, counterproductive eco-propaganda movie ever made. Believe me this thing is going to go viral beyond your wildest dreams. But unfortunately that virus is ebola. (Hat tips: Barry Woods/Tom Dalton/Pete Hayes/Old Goat/half the civilised world….)
Here’s what the Guardian had to say, excitedly, when it previewed the video yesterday:
Had a look? Well, I’m certain you’ll agree that detonating school kids, footballers and movie stars into gory pulp for ignoring their carbon footprints is attention-grabbing.
Comment: To be honest, we are now starting to see the darkside of the Greens with this absolutely vile, disgusting and offensive video. I watched the video that is linked here, totally unbelievable... More rage at WUWT, see O…M…G – Video explodes skeptical kids in bloodbath
Mysterious Ribbon at Edge of Solar System is Changing
Universe Today, 30th September 2010
A year ago, researchers from the IBEX mission – NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer – announced the discovery of an unexpected bright band or ribbon of surprisingly high energy emissions at the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space. Now, after a year of observations, scientists have seen vast changes, including an unusual knot in the ribbon which appears to have ‘untied.’ Changes in the ribbon — a ‘disturbance in the force,’ so to speak, along with a shrunken heliosphere, may be allowing galactic cosmic rays to leak into our solar system.
“We didn’t understand where the ribbon came from in the first place,” said David McComas, IBEX principal investigator, during a press briefing. “It’s even more confounding now, to know the structure can change on incredibly short timescales.”
Researchers believe the ribbon forms from the interactions between interstellar space and the heliosphere, the protective bubble in which the Earth and other planets reside. The heliosphere is inflated by the solar wind, and acts as a protective shield from galactic cosmic rays that would otherwise bombard planets and perhaps prohibit life.
Comment: This feature must be completely freaking out these scientists, but at least it was predicted and I say Fulcanelli got this right... Even if this is just an 'artefact' of the boundary between our solar system and the Galactic Cloud that is pressing on the heliosphere, we know for a fact that this ribbon or "snake" (Birkeland Current in grown up Electric Universe language) is shrinking our solar system and reducing our protection against galactic and cosmic radiation from the rest of the universe. There can be no doubt, this 'ribbon' may cause serious evolutionary changes for all life on this planet.
Also:
Sun's Heliopause: A Moving Target
Update
Video: IBEX Finds Surprising Changes at Solar Boundary
NASA Science News, 30th September 2010
"One of the clear features visible in the IBEX maps is an apparent knot in the ribbon. Scientists were anxious to see how this structure would change with time. The second map showed that the knot in the ribbon somehow spread out. It is as if the knot in the ribbon was literally untangled over only 6 months!"
It's almost like NASA scientists really hate to reveal that we live in an Electromagnetic Universe, as the "knot" is clearly revealed here as a helical spiral, a common signature of the flow of charged particles in a strong magnetic field, which then puts into doubt the fact that this feature is supposed to be made up of "neutral" atoms of hydrogen. So we read:
"If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it takes on a wild helical shape, which spoils its performance. This phenomenon concerns scientists exploring fusion power, who use powerful magnetic fields to confine plasma during their experiments. [...] Moreover, the helical state appears to be the preferred one at high current and is spontaneously chosen, or self-organized, by the plasma."
Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma,
Physorg.com, 2nd November 2009
"For plasmas immersed in strong magnetic fields, electric currents tend to flow along the magnetic field lines, which act like wires guiding the current. The field-aligned current creates its own magnetic field, and, when added to the original magnetic field, results in a twisted or helical magnetic field."
Twisting With Plasma On A Magnetic Field
SpaceDaily.com, 13th December 1999
This is basic plasma physics, nothing extraordinary at all...
Pig learns to walk on two legs
A pig which can walk on two legs has become a local celebrity in China.
The Telegraph, 30th September 2010
The 10-month-old porker is known by villagers as "Zhu Jianqiang" (Strong-willed Pig) after it was born with only two front legs and learned to balance on them well enough to walk. According to its owner, Wang Xihai, it was one of nine piglets born in a litter this January. He said: "My wife asked me to dump it but I refused as it's a life. I thought I should give it a chance to survive and unexpectedly it survived healthy."
Comment: The pig owner has shown a deep and profound respect for life, quite thought provoking...
Russian firm to build space hotel
Sify Finance, 30th September 2010
Moscow-based company Orbital Technologies has said it will build an orbiting hotel in space by 2015-2016.
The project will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, Orbital Tehcnologies' CEO Sergei Kostenko said Wednesday without disclosing a figure. 'Russian and US investors have already been found,' he added.
Comment: Totally amazing... have these entrepreneurs not heard about Space Weather?
The Royal Academy to discuss “extra-terrestrial life and the UN agenda”
Dateline Zero, 29th September 2010
The UN’s Mazlan Othman says she’ll be attending the conference at The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge (aka “The Royal Society“) next week. She has said that she’ll be talking about how the world deals with “near-Earth objects.”
Mazlan Othman, is the Malaysian astrophysicist who heads the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). She has also denied rumors that she’ll be appointed the UN’s Earth Ambassador to extraterrestrials.
Discussing “near-Earth objects” sounds like an important issue. After all, an asteroid was recently detected that will pass “dangerously close” to the Earth in mid-October.
But one look at The Royal Society’s website reveals that the topic of the conference isn’t “near-Earth objects.” Rather, the title of the conference is: “Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life.”
More interesting: Othman is going to join other panelists at The Royal Society to discuss first (official) contact, and what role the UN should play, among other related issues.
Comment: Hmmm... Come on people! There is a MASSIVE problem in the UK with bright and fiery orbs flying around!!!!!!!! I am glad that TPTB are being forced to do something... Meanwhile, virtually complete silence from the metaphysical community... The 'Evolutionary Leaders' don't seem to have much to say...
How to spot a liar: Their story is far too detailed to be true
Daily Mail, 29th September 2010
If someone starts explaining why they were late by giving you an intricate, blow-by-blow rundown of what exactly held them up, be warned: that person is probably lying. A researcher into insurance fraud said today that liars give themselves away by thinking too hard about their story. Sharon Leal, a research fellow at the University of Portsmouth, examine how people behave when they make fraudulent insurance claims.[...]
She explained that because liars need to think about their plan when being questioned, this puts a large load on their brain which in turn affects their behaviour. She said it is these changes which are most likely to form the basis of new investigative methods designed to spot the cheats. Dr Leal said: ‘There is a real need to use evidence-based methods that are scientifically proven to work to stop wasting insurance companies' time and money and to stop innocent people being treated as suspects while the guilty get away.’
Comment: Useful information. Also:
Liars' brains 'are not the same'
BBC News, 29 September 2005
"A University of Southern California team studied 49 people and found those known to be pathological liars had up to 26% more white matter than others. White matter transmits information and grey matter processes it. Having more white matter in the prefrontal cortex may aid lying, the researchers said..."
Select few 'can identify liars'
BBC News, 15 October, 2004
"A University of San Francisco study found only 31 people out of 13,000 could identify in nearly all cases when someone was lying."
No U.N. 'Alien Ambassador' as the Bets Roll In
Discovery News, 28th September 2010
It's been a strange few days for alien news. Not only do we have ex-military airmen coming forward about UFOs hovering over their missile silos, the United Nations apparently appointed an "alien ambassador" to become mankind's point of contact for extraterrestrials.
Even betting companies are putting odds on an imminent close encounter of the third kind.
Obviously, some media outlets decided to go all-out, claiming said U.N. ambassador is needed to ask why the aliens (riding in said UFOs) are fiddling with our nukes. It's the responsible thing to do, right?
There's just one catch. The Malaysian astrophysicist, Mazlan Othman, who -- according to the UK's press -- was about to become the U.N.'s spokesperson for Earth, has no clue about her unprecedented promotion. [...]
So is this "alien ambassador" thing just a storm in a UFO-shaped teacup? It looks like it. Why would the U.N. be an automatic choice to be first to open dialogue with ET anyway?
I'm glad Othman is an astrophysicist and not a politician, but surely the guys at the SETI Institute -- who, incidentally, try to communicate with extraterrestrials on a daily basis -- should be an obvious choice? If we ever received a signal from deep space, they'd be the ones to decode it.
Comment: M. Othman is being played but I can't be bothered to speculate why, unless this is a not so subtle way of waking up a few more folks. Anyway, there is an interesting amount of UFO chatter on CNN and Fox News as no doubt the massive increase in reports is probably starting to worry even the most obtuse. Here is a nice CNN report on YouTube [5:09] CNN - American Morning - UFOs & Nukes - Sep. 29th, 2010
U.S. Air Force officials report more than 100 UFO sightings over 30 years
680 News, 29th September 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. - At a news conference held Wednesday, seven retired members of the U.S. Air Force spoke in great detail about over 100 UFO sightings spanning three decades, to the surprise of many in the audience.
"UFO phenomenon is real. Not imaginary," said former launch officer Robert Hastings, as the group of retired Air Force members finally broke their silence after being told to keep silent for years about what they saw.
"One hundred witnesses indicate that craft of vastly superior capabilities have been monitoring the U.S. nuclear arms program since the 1940's." [...] According to the Air Force, UFO's would interfere with missiles in the United States and Russia.
However, Hastings said "I don't think humankind is in jeopardy from whoever they are and what their intentions are, except, we will have our minds expanded. There will be a paradigm shift."
Comment: YES, THIS IS A MASSIVE PARADIGM SHIFT! There will be enlightenment, whether people want it or not!
Rare pink hippo spotted
Rare pictures of a pink hippopotamus have been captured by British photographers.
The Telegraph, 29th September 2010
Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas, were visiting the Masai Mara in Kenya, hunting the wildebeest migration, only to find a pink hippo. "Our guide had mentioned that he had heard rumours of this rare hippo from a fellow guide, however, he was not told where it lived and he had never come across it before," said Will, 26.
"After a rather uneventful morning, we stopped on the banks of the Mara River for a picnic breakfast. "After a while, to our great surprise, we spotted the pink hippo emerge onto the far bank of the river." According to the brothers, the hippo is leucitic and not albino as it had some pigmented spots and dark eyes. Leucistic animals often do not survive in the wild as they are visible to predators and get sunburnt.
Comment: Well, I imagine that a pink hippo is hard to miss... So, the pink skin DNA mutation is now appearing more often... see the archives for details about a pink dolphin.
Northern Lights hit 100-year low point: Finnish researchers
PhysOrg.com, 28th September 2010
The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, generally follow an 11-year "solar cycle", in which the frequency of the phenomena rises to a maximum and then tapers off into a minimum and then repeats the cycle.
"The solar minimum was officially in 2008, but this minimum has been going on and on and on," researcher Noora Partamies told AFP.
"Only in the past half a year have we seen more activity, but we don't really know whether we're coming out of this minimum," she added. The Northern Lights, a blaze of coloured patterns in the northern skies, are triggered by solar winds crashing into the earth and being drawn to the magnetic poles, wreaking havoc on electrons in the parts of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere and magnetosphere.
So a dimming of the Northern Lights is a signal that activity on the sun which causes solar winds, such as solar flares and sun sports, is also quieting down.
Comment: I find this report curious because the aurora borealis is mainly due to the solar wind's interaction with our atmosphere, but NASA claim that the solar wind has only been flagging since the mid 1990s. Yet, in the last 70 years or so, the Sun's activity has been historic until it went into an historically low and deep solar minimum that the Sun is still only sluggishly moving out of as we commence solar cycle 24. Therefore, the claim that a drop in auroral activity is a sign that ALL solar activity is quietening down, seems premature and not based on all the facts. Especially as the article then goes on to speculate that the peak of the next solar maximum could be huge.
References:
- Sami K. Solanki, et al. Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years, Nature, 28 October 2004
- McKee M, Sunspots more active than for 8000 years, NewScientist.com news service 27, October 2004, link
- Hogan J. Sun More Active than for a Millennium. New Scientist, November 2, 2003. link
11 Year old Birke Baehr: ‘What’s Wrong with Our Food System’ [5:21]
Food Freedom/YouTube, 26th September 2010
Hello, I am Birke's mom. I just want everyone to know that his father and I did not write his TEDx Talk. We advised him a little here and there. Mostly he worked with? Joel Salatin over the phone and the organizers of the TEDxNGAVL crew. Birke at the age of 8 saw a post online about mercury in HFCS which led him to research and change the way our entire family thinks about food. The only credit we deserve is for encouraging him to follow his heart.
Comment: Very nice speech, full of commonsense and some brilliant quotes, this is my favourite (paraphrased):
Birke says, we should not eat sparkly cereals!
Could magnet on head turn you from right to left-handed?
Daily Mail, 28th September 2010
Placing a magnet on your head can temporarily turn you from a right-hander to a left-handed person, a new study suggests.
In an extraordinary experiment researchers used a powerful magnetic field to temporarily confuse the brains of volunteers and change their hand preferences. The effects lasted only while the magnet was switched on and appears to have caused no lasting changes.
But the experiment sheds light on the origins of hand choice in the brain and highlights once again how easy it is to alter people's behaviour with magnets.
Earlier this year, a similar study showed that magnetic therapy can alter people's moral judgements - and make them behave more thoughtlessly.
Comment: This is just more proof that electromagnetism plays a very important role in how humans function and a reminder that we can be easily reset with strong magnetic fields.
50 People Who Matter 2010 | 32. Stephen McIntyre
Newstatesman, 27th September 2010
When the mining expert Stephen McIntyre challenged the basis of climate science on his blog, he became a figurehead for many climate-change sceptics.
His subsequent involvement in the 2009 "Climategate" controversy at the University of East Anglia (he was referred to in the hacked emails over 100 times) emboldened the sceptics further and changed global opinion: the number of people who believe man is responsible for global warming has fallen.
The influence might not be positive, but there's no doubt he has shaped the debate.
Comment: Inspirational! I agree, this man is a total hero for refusing to be a sheep and being determined in his quest of finding out the truth about whether the world was really experiencing "global warming." His intial target was Michael Mann's 'Hockey Stick' graph and after a lot of trouble and aggravation, McIntyre received enough data that proved that the iconic 'Hockey Stick' graph that supposedly revealed a steep warming trend in the 20th century was a fraud. For more background see, The Hockey Stick scam that heightened global warming hysteria. For more comment, go to WUWT Steve McIntyre – one of the top 50 people who matter & James Delingpole's blog at the Telegraph, Steve McIntyre: total bloody hero
Shocking revelation: Former Air Force personnel disclose UFO, alien-related threats
NECN News, 27th September 2010
(NECN: Washington) - A press conference was held this afternoon at the National Press Club in Washington, where at least a dozen former U.S. Air Force personnel, mostly officers who worked on secret projects connected to sensitive nuclear weapons sites, are admitting that they were privy to UFO and alien-related incidents -- that occurred during their time of service.
In this clip, you will hear from: Retired Air Force Captain Robert Salas, Former Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Dwayne Arneson and Former Air Force Official Bill Jameson.
Comment: This is NOT shocking. These ex-military men are telling the world about the existence of another lifeform on this planet and have been doing these same press conferences since 2001. What is shocking is the fact that it was broadcast live by CNN! There is a short 18 minute video clip here. The Daily Mail report reads:
* Retired officers call on Government to tell public the truth
* Deactivation of nuclear weapons 'is a message' to human race
An ex-US air force chief has given an astonishing account of an encounter with a UFO at an air force base in Suffolk.
Charles Halt is one of a number of senior former airmen who went public today over claims that UFOs had tampered with nuclear missiles in the US and the UK.
'We saw a bright glowing object like an eye': U.S. airman's startling testimony about UFO encounter near UK nuclear base
The article also has the full video [1:55:51] 2001 UFO Disclosure Project Press club Briefing from May 2001.
Former Air Force officers discuss UFO sightings
Military Times, 27th September 2010
NPC Press Conference UFOs and Nukes Sept.27. 2010
Blip.TV, 27th September 2010
Beginning missing, 71 minutes. [11:15] Big surprise... In 1980, the most famous UFO incident in the UK occured at Rendlesham Forest near 2 U.S. military bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, England. In giving his testimony about his involvement, Colonel Halt actually stated that in his personal opinion, what was seen was either from another dimension or it was extraterrestrial.... wow... At about 58:00, a reporter asks about other spiritual beings in the universe! The response is very interesting...
Global Cooling and the New World Order
Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 26th September 2010
Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think it’s just an innocent high-level talking shop, there’s one thing that can’t be denied: it knows which way the wind is blowing. [...]
Which is what makes one particular item on the group’s discussion agenda so tremendously significant. See if you can spot the one I mean:
The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.
Yep, that’s right. Global Cooling.
Which means one of two things.
Either it was a printing error.
Or the global elite is perfectly well aware that global cooling represents a far more serious and imminent threat to the world than global warming, but is so far unwilling to admit it except behind closed doors.
Let me explain briefly why this is a bombshell waiting to explode.
[...] All this, of course, spells big trouble for the global power elite. As well as leading to food shortages (as, for example, it becomes harder to grow wheat in northerly latitudes; adding, of course, to such already-present disasters as biofuels and the rejection of GM), global cooling is going to find electorates increasingly angry that they have been sold a pup.
Comment: Incredible! So while the plebs run around trying to justify their beliefs in "global warming," the elite have already realised that they have made a wrong call about the effect of the changing conditions in our solar system (and this is probably in combination with the change in Earth's tilt,) so now, they are having to discuss "global cooling". Firstly, well done James Delingpole for paying attention, since some scientists have been talking about global cooling and even an ice age for a long time now, but now, it makes sense why the Obama Administration's Climate Czar, John Holdren has been trying to change public perceptions about what is going on. Maybe, Holdren will soon forget about 'Global Climate Disruption', and start calling the climate variation 'Global Cooling'. See also WUWT: Bilderberg Group discusses “Global Cooling” at 2010 meeting
UFO photographed over ancient Chinese city
People's Daily Online, 25th September 2010
Two students saw a bright object fly into their camera lens that they thought might be an unidentified flying object (UFO) while taking photos of the city's night views at the 10th Pingyao International Photography Festival held in the ancient city of Pingyao in central China's Shanxi Province on the night of Sept. 22.
The whole incident lasted about 40 minutes. The two sent the photos they took to a reporter on the afternoon of Sept. 23 hoping the mystery could be revealed.
The object in the photo was a sphere with two flickering columns on its two sides. However, it actually could not be seen with the naked eye.
Comment: LOL!!! The Chinese are really starting to rock the boat with their dead straight and serious reporting of UFOs, see Chinese Media To U.S. Regarding UFO Coverage: Grow A Pair
. Oh what fun! I have been thinking for a while now, that we are going to see a coalition of the willing, where a group of say 5 countries, make a joint statement of the existence of another lifeform on this planet. However, if you have being paying close attention to the media, it is most certain that various countries have already been briefing the media, because there are now too many examples of reports that refer to the existence of lifeforms and NOT UFOs. The image icon is from an Inexplicata report June 2009, that I believe should be compared to the scientifically observed short lived sprite from the category of plasma phenomena in our atmosphere that are referred to as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs). It really does not take too much imagination to realise that maybe interdimensional plasma entities could also appear to us on a longer timescale than a fraction of second. So, within half an hour of adding this blog entry I find:
UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens
Herald Sun, 26th September 2010
This is not quite what I had in mind, but no doubt it will get some people thinking...
The sun joins the climate club
New Scientist, 23rd September 2010
THE idea that changes in the sun's activity can influence the climate is making a comeback, after years of scientific vilification, thanks to major advances in our understanding of the atmosphere.
The findings do not suggest - as climate sceptics frequently do - that we can blame the rise of global temperatures since the early 20th century on the sun. "There are extravagant claims for the effects of the sun on global climate," says Giles Harrison, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Reading, UK. "They are not supported."
Where solar effects may play a role is in influencing regional weather patterns over the coming decades. Predictions on these scales of time and space are crucial for nations seeking to prepare for the future.
Comment: Does this mean that more of the science community are being forced by the evidence to consider the role of the Sun in determining Earth's climate? For further comment see: Climate science solar shock and awe
Air Force rebuts gov't auditor concerns about GPS
PhysOrg.com, 24th September 2010
A government report raising questions about the future reliability of the Global Positioning System satellite network is "overly pessimistic," Air Force commanders said Friday.
A report from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the latest GPS satellite was launched almost 3 1/2 years behind schedule, and further delays could leave the system with fewer than the 24 orbiting satellites it needs as older models wear out and quit working.
Col. David Buckman of the Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., said the report's facts were correct, but "we think it draws overly pessimistic conclusions based on those facts."
Buckman said satellites currently in the design or construction phase are on schedule and the Air Force has 31 healthy, operational satellites in orbit.
Even if the count did drop below 24 - which Buckman said was unlikely - most users, including some military applications, wouldn't be affected, he said.
GPS has become nearly indispensable, with untold numbers of receivers in everything from cars and cell phones to military weapons. The receivers can determine their position, their path and the time of day using signals from the satellites, which are launched and operated by the Air Force.
Comment: I did not see the original reponse by the United States Air Force to government auditors that they would be able to maintain GPS at the current level, even though they did admit a problem. So we read:
"No, GPS will not go down," Buckman said in a Twitter message. "GPS isn't falling out of the sky."
Buckman did echo the GAO's concerns of a "potential risk associated with a degradation in GPS performance" but said "we have plans to mitigate risk and prevent a gap in coverage."
GPS satellites not 'falling out of the sky': Air Force
PhysOrg.com, 21st May 2009
Please do not be fooled, the whole point of GPS is it is supposed to be accurate, any serious degradation would render it useless.
Is the age of scientific discovery ending?
The Telegraph, 23rd September 2010
The age of scientific discovery may be nearing its end as the limits of the human mind make further breakthroughs impossible, leading scientists have said.
Experts say the “low hanging fruit” of scientific knowledge, such as the laws of motion and gravity, was attained using simple methods in previous centuries, leaving only increasingly impenetrable problems for modern scientists to solve.
Uncharted areas of science are now so complex that even the greatest minds will struggle to advance human understanding of the world, they claim. [...]
Not all experts agree that the sun is setting on the age of scientific discovery. Lord Rees, president of the Royal Society, believes that there are still big questions to be asked about the content of the universe, human genetics and how life began on earth.
“All these things depend on more data and they are also helped a lot by computers,” he told the programme. “But I think there may be some aspects of reality we can’t understand or some questions we can’t pose.
“Just as a monkey doesn’t worry about how it evolved whereas we understand Darwinism, there may be a problem which we haven’t been able to conceive.
“So I agree with Russell to the extent that there may be some aspects of reality that are beyond human brains, but maybe computers can help”.
Comment: It is common knowledge that the scientific community works to maintain the status quo by shutting out people with alternative theories that would be progressive and paradigm shifting. History reveals that in the scientific community, there are always people who are 20, 30, 40, 50 or more years ahead of their peers and it takes a huge effort to break down resistance to change. This means that right now, there is information that is being suppressed that will provide a deeper insight into the true nature of reality and so the inference of this headline and article is completely ridiculous. For example, we do not even understand the basics of electromagnetism and certain physicists cannot get their papers published because the implications would shatter many cherished, but false beliefs about the role of magnetism in ordering our reality. Well, I love hearing what Lord Rees has to say because I am now convinced he is completely aware that we are not alone on this planet. Knowing what I know, it would be ridiculous to believe that someone in his position would be uninformed about the existence of another lifeform on this planet, commonly referred to as 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'. There is simply too much interesting information available in the public domain combined with other research (that has no doubt been privately funded), for him to be unware and hence why Lord Rees clearly states:
"I think there may be some aspects of reality we can’t understand..."
Maybe soon, someone will ask the the question: what aspects of reality are you talking about?
James Brienzo, Moron of the Day: Walmart Thief Hides in Dumpster, Get Compacted in Garbage Truck
True Crime Report, 24th September 2010
Early Wednesday morning, James Brienzo decided to do a little thieving at Walmart. Police were called to the store in Alliance, Ohio at 6 a.m. for a theft in progress. When they pulled up to a rear fire exit, they found a car running but no one inside...
Then Brienzo emerged from the store with a shopping cart full of stuff. Upon seeing police he took off running. His wheels proved superior to the cops chasing him. He was able to lose his pursuers. Figuring it unwise to walk home while police were still looking for him, our hero decided to hide in a dumpster. This proved very unfortunate, since that particular dumpster was scheduled for pickup that morning, and Brienzo ended up in the back of a garbage truck.
Comment: Well, it has become very apparent to me in the last few years, that many people lack the ability to think long enough to come up with a variety of consequences associated with their actions. This is because we live in societies that encourages knee jerk reactions and discourages thinking about anything that is not related to our basic survival. It is most apparent that original thinking and deep introspection is discouraged as the media and society are constantly programming people to respond in a certain way, to the extent that I suppose, some of the neural circuits in people's brains become atrophied so that original thinking becomes impossible. See, Why exercise your brain? Simply, mental flexibility is something to be prized and not considered oddball or else one might end up in the 'evolutionary' dumpster like this character.
Paper-thin supercapacitor has higher capacitance when twisted than any non-twisted supercapacitor
PhysOrg.com, 23rd September 2010
In an effort to develop wearable electronics, researchers have designed a new ultra-thin supercapacitor that has a capacitance that is six times higher than that of any current commercial supercapacitor. What's more, the new supercapacitor was tested in a twisted state to demonstrate its good electrochemical properties with high flexibility. [...]
In tests, the researchers demonstrated that the new supercapacitor has a capacitance of 31.4 F/g when twisted, compared to 5.2 F/g for current commercial supercapacitors. The new supercapacitor also showed superior characteristics in other areas, such as a high power density, low leakage current, and long cycle life. The researchers predict that these properties could be further improved by optimizing the device's materials and structure, such as by shortening the distance between electrodes.
Comment: Maybe, this is a universal rule of nature that twisted superconductors (like DNA) have a far higher capacitance, but these scientists have not stated why. What is known is that even the most respected scientists know that this is a property associated with magnetism but cannot explain why this should be so.
Cumbria UFO activity on the rise, says north west research group
News & Star, 23rd September 2010
[...] North West UFO Research (NWUR) claims it was inundated with an unusually high volume of UFO reports in Cumbria during early 2009. Last April, a 3.7 magnitude tremor struck the county with its centre in Ulverston. Pat Regan, who is the Lancashire-based founder of the NWUR, said:
“Not wishing to create any alarm, but the last time Cumbria had many UFO sightings we later had an earthquake in the region. “One theory posed by experts is that such phenomena occur when rock structures under great stress release gas. “At such times electromagnetic waves with radioactive gasses escape and ionise the air, which in turn create odd lights. “The truth of the matter is that we currently do not know precisely what is happening.”
Comment: Well despite the fact UFO reports are escalating worldwide, it is a scientific fact that 'earthlights' are associated with earthquakes, whatever you regard these lights to represent.
Does York woman's holiday picture reveal ghost like image of UFO? [UK]
The Press, 23rd September 2010
And what the hell is that?
Balloony UFO Alert [Germany]
German Herald, 24th September 2010
"Bungling air traffic control officials sparked a full scale UFO alert after picking up 80 hot air balloons released by a wedding party on their radar. Police in Altotting, Germany, scrambled a helicopter and all their spare squad cars after air officials confirmed a UFO sighting. But instead of ET, baffled cops found dozens of good luck balloons filled with helium that had been released by wedding guests 200 miles away in Weinfelden."
Why are air traffic controllers so nervous these days, this is a serious question?
Strange lights over Tucson [US]
KOLD News, 24th September 2010
Tucson UFO sighting: UFO enthusiast captures object on video [US]
Tucson Citizen, 24th September 2010
Dozens of whales die on New Zealand beach
'More whales are still coming in,' says rescuer; some are tossed onto rocks
MSNBC News, 22nd September 2010
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — At least 40 out of some 80 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote northern New Zealand beach have died, and more whales are joining them on land, officials said Wednesday. It was the second mass beaching in the region in a month. "More whales are still coming in. Pilot whales have very strong social bonds and they try to help each other so more keep getting stuck," said Mark Simpson of Project Jonah, a charity that protects marine mammals.
"Rescuers are concentrating on trying to move the mammals out of the surf and onto the beach to prevent them from drowning," New Zealand's Department of Conservation said in a statement. "Sadly, many have been washed up against the rocks probably resulting in injuries."
Comment: In short, the whales use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation and we know for a fact that geomagnetic conditions on the planet are now chaotic. There are suggestions of the military use of sonar but New Zealand also has the highest levels of whales being stranded in the world and maybe this means that in this region, the Earth's magnetic field is particularly prone to disturbances. A world map of magnetic anomalies does seem to indicate this, see Map: The magnetic Earth There are a few scientists who think that whale beachings indicate there is some kind of disturbance in the Earth's EM environment and that this heralds a massive Earthquake, see Did whale beaching foretell disaster? Also, there is a more mundane theory that proposed by Cambridge professor in the 1980s, a biologist named Margaret Klinowskam who first discovered a correlation between whales beaching themselves and magnetic lineation/anomalies, see Biomagnetics: Species Association with Earth's Magnetic Field.
HUGE media blackout regarding Earth and Moon orbital changes?
Before it's News, 21st October 2010
[...] An increasing number of people around the world have witnessed amazing changes in the location of Sun rise and set in summer and winter. Apparently this is being caused by the earth moving below the old ecliptic plane in summer and above it in winter! The moon is also playing rodeo all over the sky....and the media says nothing.
I have read of reports (as yet unsubstantiated) that a "gag order" is in place and professionals dealing with the subject have had to sign non-disclosure agreements regarding these facts. The Inuit peoples of the high arctic have published several stories regarding the changes in sun position at their locations and were told by a meteorologist that it is an "optical phenomenon unique to the extremely high horizon".
Yet these changes are visible all over the world. Ordinary citizens from all over the world are reporting their observations regarding the sun and moon changing their positions in the sky. And we're not just talking inches here. The changes are amazing to say the least! The furthest north the sun traditionally appeared for thousands of years, was the tropic of cancer which passes through central mexico, yet now, at the beginning of summer, it can be witnessed to rise in the direction of maine and set in the direction of seattle.
Please Google - "Late Harvest Moon BHM" and wade through 5 pages of prolific evidence of these events now taking place.
Comment: I believe that this website it simply reporting the buzz in the blogosphere, but I would be amazed if any mainstream media would dare to report this just yet... However, Earth and Moon orbital changes are expected by metaphysical sources who have retained ancient knowledge that relates to the arrival of celestial energies that bring about massive evolutionary change. Our scientists talk about Space Weather but nobody points out that according to scientists, the vast majority of Space Weather is completely invisible and undetected by our current instrumentation, as "dark matter and dark energy". What's more, we don't fully understand what this energy will do, hence the reliance on information that has been passed down through mythology and esoteric groups, as I explain in my essay The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind - The Return of Paradise.
Solar Storms can Change Directions, Surprising Forecasters
NASA Science News, 21st September 2010
One of the first things they noticed was how CMEs trying to go "up"—out of the plane of the solar system and away from the planets—are turned back down again. Gallagher confesses that they had to "crack the books" and spend some time at the white board to fully understand the phenomenon. In the end, the explanation was simple:
Zig Zag (bar magnet, 200px)
The magnetic field of a bar magnet.
The sun's global magnetic field, which is shaped like a bar magnet, guides the wayward CMEs back toward the sun's equator. When the clouds reach low latitudes, they get caught up in the solar wind and head out toward the planets—"like a cork bobbing along a river," says Gallagher.
Once a CME is embedded in the solar wind, it can experience significant acceleration. "This is a result of aerodynamic drag," says Byrne. "If the wind is blowing fast enough, it drags the CME along with it—something we actually observed in the STEREO data."
Past studies from other missions had revealed tantalizing hints of this CME-redirection and acceleration process, but STEREO is the first to see it unfold from nearly beginning to end.
Comment: This almost sounds like a boomerang effect, with the Sun's magnetic field steering CMEs... The animation here demonstrates why space weather scientists describe the impact of CMEs on Earth as being like a blanket thrown over a golf ball, a description that was provided in my book Tuning The Diamonds.
Degraded Oil From BP Spill Coats Gulf Seafloor
Live Science, 21st September 2010
NEW YORK - Now that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well has been sealed, the long, hard work of assessing the damage begins even as the oil is dispersing throughout the Gulf.
A research team from Columbia University in New York returned this past weekend (Sept. 17 to 19) from a tour of duty in the Gulf of Mexico with new data to attempt to measure the location and magnitude of subsurface oil plumes, and their effects on the marine ecosystem, which have recently been the focus of much debate.
They found oil on the seafloor, evidence that it may be in the food chain, and signs that it may be hidden in large marine mammals. In spots, the "oily snow" — degraded oil and other organic material that clings to it — was up to 6 inches (15 centimeters) deep on the seafloor, said Columbia oceanographer Ajit Subramaniam.
Comment: I am still watching what is taking place in the Gulf of Mexico and the situation is just unbelievable. The mentality of just killing everything in sight with dispersants so that BP does not have to pay massive fines, is madness and scientists believe that the food chain will be completely destroyed. For the latest GOM news, this is still one of the best websites on the web, but personally, I am finding the news very very distressing. Florida Oil Spill Law
"Sea Snot" Explosion Caused by Gulf Oil Spill?
National Geographic News, 23rd September 2010
"The Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparked an explosion of sticky clumps of organic matter that scientists call sea snot, according to ongoing research."
Man toted girlfriend's decapitated head to bar for drinks
Raw Story, 21st September 2010
CORDOBA, SPAIN -- A Spanish man calmly drank beer with his mates in a bar with his murdered girlfriend's head in a bag, according to newspaper reports. After leaving the bar on Sunday, the 34-year-old climbed an electrical tower, was hit by a shock and plunged 30 metres to the ground, dying that evening in hospital.
According to a report in the ABC daily newspaper, citing witnesses, the man told friends in the bar in Cordoba, southern Spain, that he had decapitated his 30-year-old partner. But he was so calm they did not believe him, despite bloodstains on his shirt
Comment: The latest "head in a plastic bag" story... It's terrible to think of this level of madness increasing, but the EM conditions are worsening and the most vulnerable are reacting, hence these gruesome stories of killings and cannabilism are increasing too.
Another Day, Another Enbridge Oil Spill
One Earth, 24th September 2010
The sense of déjà vu was as strong as the smell of oil fumes in the Chicago suburb of Romeoville. [...]
Nearby residents voiced fear and incredulity that a large oil pipeline ran below their homes or businesses and was now leaking heavy crude. They speculated about when the oil flow would be stemmed, how widespread the damage would be, and how much the cleanup would cost. [...]
But both spills bolstered a growing public awareness that the pipeline network underlying America’s heartland is quite vulnerable to leaks and spills for any number of reasons. There were 89 spills on Enbridge Inc. pipelines last year, and four days after the Romeoville spill, another leak required an Enbridge pipeline to be closed near Buffalo. [...]
Investigations into both Enbridge spills are still ongoing, but preliminary reports indicate that the Michigan spill was possibly a result of corrosion causing a six-foot-long break, while the Romeoville pipeline suffered a 2.5-inch-long puncture on its bottom side, likely from a rock. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Matt Nicholson said investigators were surprised to find that pipeline 6A, a half century old, lays on a bed of large, sharp rocks. Nowadays pipelines are nestled in soft sand or gravel. [...]
“This web of pipelines have a remarkable tendency to not deliver their product where it’s supposed to go,” says NRDC Midwest program director Henry Henderson. “They dump it in rivers, in cities. It’s an insecure infrastructure on many points -- there are issues of how pipelines have been sited, how they are monitored, how they are tested, how they are regulated. We’ve got a system that is not delivering what it promises to deliver, and putting people at risk.” [...]
The general public is remarkably uninformed about the infrastructure that makes its way through their communities, and what’s inside it. That’s not accidental.”
Comment: A good article that has to be carefully read, but it really makes you wonder why pipeline problems have been so underreported. Anyway, I am very happy to see environmentalists noticing how bad the pipeline problem has become, but the news may be too distressing for many people. Pipelines cited under people's homes? Who knew? Photo gallery: Michigan Oil Spill
Japanese Air Force Also Has Encounters with UFOs: A New Book by a Retired Lieutenant General
UFO Digest, 20th September 2010
Mr. Mamoru Sato (born in 1939), a retired Lieutenant General of the Air Self-Defense Force (air force), has done an epoch-making work: his new book introduces UFO sightings of his colleagues and subordinates. The hardcover book, Jitsuroku: Jieitai Pairotto-tati ga Sekkin-Sogu shita UFO (A True Record: UFOs the Self-Defense Force Pilots Encountered Closely), published by Kodan-sha, the biggest publisher in Japan, appeared July (\1700 + tax; 294 pages).
According to his blog, Mr. Sato wrote this book at the publisher’s request. He asked 37 persons (page 120), and, contrary to his expectation (page 40), he got many UFO stories (#1). The witnesses are not against the duty of confidentiality, because any UFO does not exist for our Ministry of Defense. “The subject of UFO is virtually taboo in the Self-Defense Force,” says Mr. Sato at Preface of this book. But it does not mean “cover up.”
“There is no such deep meaning.” It means no more than that the high officials of Japanese air force look down on the UFO problem. Thus almost all of these stories were hidden not only from the nation but also from Ministry of Defense! (#2)
Comment: I was absolutely fascinated reading this article... Even Japanese ex-military men are supporting the UFO/UAP disclosure effort, that's fantastic! I was so amazed, I decided this should have it's own separate blog entry. However, I don't think ufologists will be overjoyed, as the stories provided in this article are mostly about the bright lights...
Zombie satellite Galaxy 15 still won't die
After months of drifting in orbit, craft continues to pose potential hazard
MSNBC News, 20th September 2010
A wayward satellite that has spent months drifting in orbit has not shut itself down as originally predicted, and continues to pose a signal interference risk for other craft.
The so-called " zombie satellite," Intelsat's Galaxy 15 communications satellite, lost contact with ground controllers in April, but continues to follow a stable path as its operators on Earth work to avoid potential interference with other nearby spacecraft.
In an unprecedented satellite malfunction, the telecommunications broadcast package on Galaxy 15 is stuck on and still transmits signals, but ground controllers are unable to control the solar-powered craft.
[...]
Galaxy 15 launched on Oct. 13, 2005 on a European Ariane rocket. The spacecraft's manufacturer, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia, has said that an intense solar storm in early April may have caused the breakdown in communication.
Meanwhile, Intelsat continues its own technical investigation, but has yet to reach any definitive conclusions on the cause of the glitch. "This continues to be an unprecedented event for the entire industry," Mitsis said. "The good news is, we haven't had channel losses, we haven't had programming losses, and we're very thankful for the cooperation we're getting from our satellite neighbors."
Comment: Well, I have been wondering what happened... Obviously, Galaxy 15 was built to last...
White Hot Magnetosphere but no Predictions of Solar Activity
NICT, 20th September 2010
Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force.
Updated 2010 Sep 19 2201 UTC
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 262 Issued at 2200Z on 19 Sep 2010
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 18/2100Z
to 19/2100Z: Solar activity was very low with only B-class activity
observed. Region 1106 (S20W34) and Region 1108 (S30E36) exhibited
little change during the period.
IB. Solar Activity Forecast: Solar activity is expected to be
predominately very low. A chance of C-class activity, with a slight
chance of M-class activity, is possible for the next three days (20
- 22 September).
IIA. Geophysical Activity Summary 18/2100Z to 19/2100Z:
The geomagnetic field was quiet.
IIB. Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is
expected to be quiet for day one (20 September). Quiet to unsettled
levels, with isolated active periods, are expected on day two (21
September). Mostly unsettled, with isolated active to minor storm
levels, are expected on day three (22 September). The increase in
activity is due to a large, recurrent coronal hole high speed
stream. (Source: NOAA Solar Report)
Comment: We have a white hot magnetosphere which means that it has been hit by a blast from space but solar activity is quiet and no storms had been predicted. I have seen this many times before, but I don't usually screenshot the images of 'before' and 'after' a blast. Here is the NICT Real Time Magnetosphere details, Magnetosphere 20th September 2010 19:48:13: UT and the associated NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Space Weather Now 20th September 2010 20:09 UTC synopsis. Also, GOES SATELLITE X-RAY FLUX 20th September 2010 21:40 UT
Update
So, what we have here is some retrospective musing from NOAA! We read:
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 263 Issued at 2200Z on 20 Sep 2010
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 19/2100Z
to 20/2100Z: Solar activity was low. A C2 X-ray event was observed
at 20/1945Z. The event appeared to originate from an emerging flux
region on the east limb near N20. Region 1106 (S21W53) decayed in
the trailer portion of the spot group, but maintained a bi-polar
magnetic configuration. Region 1108 (S30E24) exhibited little change
during the period.
Source:
3-day Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
NOAA are saying the magnetosphere was hit by a solar "event" but I have downloaded the C2 & C3 LASCO video for the relevant time period and I can't see anything that remotely would classfiy as an X-ray event. I am wandering what exactly happened and I am wondering whether we will get any more information about this solar 'event', as this was not apparently, a solar flare, or a CME.
Retired Military Personnel To Confirm UFO Incursions at American Nuclear Weapons Sites
American Chronicle, 20th September 2010
Consider it the second barrel of the double-barreled shotgun, or the "two" of the proverbial "one-two punch"; the first being Leslie Kean's new book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record and now the upcoming press conference being co-hosted by researcher Robert Hastings and former missleer (Minuteman I launch officer - Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander) Bob Salas.
Hastings writes: "Declassified U.S. government documents and the testimony of more than 120 former or retired military personnel have established, beyond doubt, the reality of ongoing UFO incursions at American nuclear weapons sites. While most of the incidents apparently involved mere surveillance, in a few cases a significant number of nuclear missiles suddenly and simultaneously malfunctioned, just as USAF Security Policemen reported seeing disc-shaped craft hovering nearby.
Comment: Well, this is following a pattern of retired military men around the world, revealing what they know about UFOs. Presumably, at a very deep level, these men know they are in a position to help the world through the shock of the massive revelations to come. What's more, from what I have read, most military men are very aware that the bright lights are NOT "craft" in the conventional sense of the word, see my many previous UAP comments Best of the Blog Orbs, UAPs & UFO Disclosure. I don't think discussion of incursions at American Nuclear sites is a big deal because the higher levels of radiation tend to make UAPs much more easily visible, that's all. It's these reports of the UAPs firing beams and rendering nuclear weapons useless during tests that is much more interesting... We have to share this planet with this lifeform and it seems that at times in the past, they have taken action... The MSM taking an interest too, UFOs Visited Nuclear Weapons Sites, Former Air Force Officers Say.
Passengers sue Qantas and Airbus over flight scare
ABC News, 19th September 2010
Qantas and Airbus are facing multi-million dollar lawsuits from passengers and crew aboard the 2008 Qantas flight that was forced to land in Western Australia's mid-north.
An American law firm has launched a claim against Airbus and the American manufacturer of a key computer component in fly-by-wire technology. And in a separate action, an Australian law firm says it will seek compensation from Qantas on behalf of more than 20 people who were onboard the flight. Aviation lawyer Peter Carter says his clients have both physical and psychological injuries. [...]
On October 7, 2008, QF72 from Singapore to Perth was travelling at 11,000 metres when the autopilot disengaged and the plane plunged 200 metres in 20 seconds.
Three minutes later it plunged a further 120 metres, this time over 16 seconds. Nine crew and 106 passengers were injured. [...]
And he says the plane's pilots have joined his firm's compensation claim. "The captain, who was flying the plane at the time, is a former top gun pilot from the US Navy," he said. "He is an American and also Australian citizen. He has told me that when the plane went out of control, the computer would not give him back control of the plane and he said it was in a dive.
"All he could see was the ocean. He has never been as frightened as he was at that point despite all his prior military aircraft training." Mr Wisner says the captain would like to fly again, but has been traumatised by the experience.
[...]
"The claims [are] against the aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, and the manufacturer of a component called the air data inertial reference unit, which is Northrop Grumman, a US corporation. "The Australian Transportation Safety Board (ATSB) has concluded there was a mechanical defect in this aircraft. "It certainly was not the result of pilot error, so I think we will be successful."
Comment: We have the latest update. Well, we already know that after 13 months of investigations, air accident investigators decided that this incident was caused by cosmic rays, see Cosmic rays may have hit Qantas jet .
The problem here is that people want compensation and authorities want someone to blame, so now it looks like this accident is being put down to a mechanical fault. All I can say is that the environment of Earth is quickly changing. Manufacturers never had to consider RAD-HARD (radiation hardened) components and shielding for flight electronics, in the same way that this is standard for satellite electronics in space. However, it seems this problem of electronics being effected by space radiation is becoming much more noticeable at sea level and a few car manufacturers, are also under investigation for their 'faulty' electronics. For more background info see, Best of the Blog Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos . Meanwhile, very few people are aware that bits and bytes are also being reset in their own personal hardware...
Sun’s magnetics remain in a funk: sunspots may be on their way out
WUWT, 18th September 2010
We covered this story about solar magnetic field strength and sunspot contrast months ago on WUWT, and for a couple of years now I have been pointing out that the Ap Interplantary magnetic index took a dive, and has stayed at low levels. [...]
But the rest of the world is now just getting around to realizing the significance of the work Livingston and Penn are doing related to sunspots. Science just ran with a significant story that is getting lots of press: Say goodbye to sunspots
Here’s a prominent excerpt:
The last solar minimum should have ended last year, but something peculiar has been happening. Although solar minimums normally last about 16 months, the current one has stretched over 26 months—the longest in a century. One reason, according to a paper submitted to the International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 273, an online colloquium, is that the magnetic field strength of sunspots appears to be waning. [...]
Scientists studying sunspots for the past 2 decades have concluded that the magnetic field that triggers their formation has been steadily declining. If the current trend continues, by 2016 the sun’s face may become spotless and remain that way for decades—a phenomenon that in the 17th century coincided with a prolonged period of cooling on Earth.
Comment: There seems to be a lot of chatter about the behaviour of the Sun but in researching for what is really happening, Anthony Watts & friends are still providing some good solid analysis. So far, Solar Cycle 24 is sluggish and those getting excited by the occasional rash of solar flares and CMEs don't seem to realise that we don't all have to cheer when the Sun occasionally burps. We have seen absolutely nothing compared to what the Sun can do and all the hype about major blasts in 2012/2013 is looking less NOT more likely. In fact, we seem to be sliding into an Ice Age as the Sun's magnetic field is declining rapidly as a few undaunted scientsts have been pointing out with some hard facts for quite some time.
Kath Lockett seeks cure for Foreign Accent Syndrome
BBC News, 17th September 2010
Kath Lockett from Stafford is looking for a cure for her very rare condition. She is one of only around 60 people in the whole world to suffer from Foreign Accent Syndrome. The mother of two has been fighting for the last four years to find her own voice after a brain disease transformed her Staffordshire accent into something distinctly eastern European.
Comment: If you follow the links here, there is article that reveals at least two more recent cases in the UK. What is foreign accent syndrome? Linda Walker in 2006, who started speaking with a Jamaican accent in 2006 and Chris Gregory who in 2009, woke up from brain surgery with an Irish accent. So, that makes at least five in the UK all happening in the last four years? If 60 is the correct number world-wide, then these recent cases are statistically significant at (12%) of the world total, which does not seem correct. However, back in 2006, we find it was reported "Linda [Walker] is one of only 50 recorded cases in the past 65 years." See, Geordie to an East European
Incredible giant 'roll cloud' looms over photographer's house
Daily Mail, 17th September 2010
Sometimes, the pictures come to you. A wedding photographer managed to be lucky enough to step outside his front door and witnesses this incredible scene. Rob Sharrock snapped up his Nikon D300 and dashed out to capture this monstrous roll cloud which seems to go on forever. Mr Sharrock , from Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, lives in the house with the awning to the left of the frame.
Comment: With all the chaos on the planet maybe these 'roll clouds' are becoming not so rare, but scientists don't understand them. There was another example in Uruguay in January 2010 where I wrote: "It's spectacular but the explanation given here is very tenuous. Note the 'normal' clouds above.... As far as I am concerned, this is a magnetic field line made up of spinning charged particles that has ionised the air and created the "roll". This is not a rare event, as a few parts of the world experience roll clouds regularly like clock work [for example, the springtime occurrence in Burketown, Queensland Australia] but it's more evidence that we are experiencing strange atmospheric conditions. See An Unusual Cloud Over Uruguay
Astronomy Picture of the Day & August 2009, Mysterious Tubular Clouds Defy Explanation
I also provided a link to a short clip on YouTube of TV footage of these strange clouds [0:27], see The Strange Clouds over north Hokkaido, Japan - June 2007
Drug recalls surge
CNN Money, 16th September 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Recalls of prescription and over the counter drugs are surging, raising questions about the quality of drug manufacturing in the United States.
The Food and Drug Administration reported more than 1,742 recalls last year, skyrocketing from 426 in 2008, according to the Gold Sheet, a trade publication on drug quality that analyzes FDA data.
One company, drug repackager Advantage Dose, accounted for more than 1,000 of those recalls. Even excluding Advantage Dose, which has shut down, recalls jumped 50% last year.
"We've seen a trend where the last four years are among the top five for the most number of drug recalls since we began tallying recalls in 1988," said Bowman Cox, managing editor of the Gold Sheet. "That's a meaningful development."
The fast pace of drug recalls seems to be continuing in 2010. Drug recalls totaled 296 from January through June of this year, said Cox. "If we continue at this same rate, we could get 600 or more recalls by the end of the year," he said. "That's still a very high rate of recalls."
Comment: Hmmm... Well, this article really makes you wonder what is happening with pharmaceutical medicine. There is a major problem with placebos working too well, (the metaphysics of what is going on here is simply incredible) and now we are being told that they can't make drugs to the correct specifications anymore. Personally, I think something else is going on here, which no doubt higher-ups don't want to talk about, but I can tell you what I think. Simply, humans are evolving so quickly that drugs are not hitting the mark anymore, I am only speculating, but it's hard to see this any other way after all the accusations against the FDA, who in the past, have never really been that interested in quality...
Local UFO Sightings on the Rise [Tennessee, US]
UFO Search, 11th September 2010
Bright white lights and strange, triangular shaped objects, Tennesseans are reporting some unusual things overhead. Don’t expect that to stop anytime soon, a local group that investigates UFO close encounters says sightings are on the rise.
[...]
State MUFON Director, Eddie Middleton said the skies have never been so active in Tennessee.
“It’s like building to some sort of crescendo getting more intense all the time,” said Middleton. “I don’t know where it’s leading; it’s getting more intense, something’s got to give here before long landing on the White House lawn or whatever.”
While many report seeing large black triangles, others see flying saucers or cigar shaped crafts. Middleton said, “The evidence is overwhelming we are being visited. If anyone takes time to look they will find it extremely compelling.”
Comment: I am now much more interested in reports that talk about the rise in UFO sightings because it is important to document the fact that we are experiencing a dimensional shift and that the veil is lifting. Obviously, I have a completely different opinion to some of the dismissive and uninformed comments made here. Most UFOs/UAPs represent a plasmatic interdimensional lifeform and their appearance and disappearance in our dimension/reality requires some theoretical understanding of multi-dimensional realities.
Global warming is 'bulls**t' says Ryanair boss O'Leary
Irish Independent, 10th September 2010
Charging for toilets, weighing passengers and flying with a lone pilot: Ryanair's combative boss Michael O'Leary is renowned for backing unusual ideas, but some passengers may feel that even he has overstepped the mark with his latest comments – denying the existence of global warming.
In an interview with The Independent littered with expletives, the chief executive of Europe's largest airline branded the scientific consensus that man-made pollution is heating up the planet with potentially grave consequences for the future of humanity as "horseshit". He agreed the climate was changing but denied it was caused by man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, such as those from his planes. "Nobody can argue that there isn't climate change. The climate's been changing since time immemorial," he said. "Do I believe there is global warming? No, I believe it's all a load of bullshit.
Comment: Please note: they are not joking when they say this interview is littered with expletives, but I quite admire Michael O'Leary, as he tells it how it is. Well, we live in a society that is literally drowning in bulls**t, it's absolutely everywhere, to the extent that you can buy an intellectual treatise On Bullsh**t that has become a cult classic. One of the world's most influential moral philosophers, Princeton University, Professor Emeritus Harry G. Frankfurt, writes:
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bulls**t. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bulls**t and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bulls**t is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory."
Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bulls**t and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bulls**tters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bulls**t need not be untrue at all.
Source: Princeton University title On Bulls**t
Maybe, I should send a copy to Michael O'Leary, I think he would appreciate it... Associated with this article is a
page of short video clips (dial-up and broadband version) but here, is the full broadband version [10:23] of an interview with Frankfurt thatr discusses the lack of truth in society, lying, falsehood, ethical and unethical behaviour. If you are truthseeker, then this is a must watch video! Video interview with Harry G. Frankfurt
As far as I am concerned, the bulls**t has extended deep into the metaphysical community, as our world is changing right before our eyes and there are a host of people trying to bulls**t through the transition with no really understanding of what is driving the change. I am particularly upset, because we have young people writing to NASA saying they are going to kill themselves rather than seeing the end of the world in 2012, so I have taken a very very dim view of the crap being perpetuated by 2012 Bandwagonistas.
So, Space Weather has been accelerating for over twenty years and there is real fear by world controllers that our current technological world is not going to be able to cope, and our world is likely to be transformed. The increasing ferocity of energy from deep space, is EXACTLY what the metaphysical community have been told to expect, but somehow the connection with Space Weather was MISSED by the people who do not have a great deal of understanding of reality. I:E: YOU CANNOT HAVE EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY WITHOUT ENERGY INPUT! BASIC PHYSICS! What this means is that there has been no pressure on world controllers to make changes that would help ease the transition, thus the general public have largely remained completely ignorant of the consequences of Space Weather. Well, it's really nice to find people who can clearly see some of what is happening in society and Professor Emeritus Harry G. Frankfurt and Michael O' Leary are two people who are not afraid to stand up and shout when they see Emperors With NO clothes!
Solar flares could paralyse Britain's power and communications, Liam Fox says
Britain’s electrical system, financial networks and transport infrastructure could all be paralysed by a solar flare or a nuclear attack, Liam Fox will warn next week.
The Telegraph, 17th September 2010
The Defence Secretary will next week attend a summit of scientists and security advisers who believe the infrastructure that underpins modern life in Western economies is potentially vulnerable to electromagnetic disruption.
Such disruptions, which can shut down electrical equipment and cripple orbiting satellites, can be triggered by man-made nuclear blasts or natural events on the surface of the sun.
Dr Fox will tell the conference he believes there is a growing threat, and he wants to address the “vulnerabilities” in Britain’s high-tech infrastructure.
“As the nature of our technology becomes more complex, so the threat becomes more widespread,” he will say.
“While we all benefit from the products of scientific advances so we also create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by our enemies. However advanced we become the chain of our security is only as strong as its weakest link.”
Comment: Hmmm.... Well, on this blog, this warning is old news. I realise that those now warning about Space Weather are considered to be alarmist, but quite frankly, the intensity of Space Weather has been accelerating for over twenty years and TPTB are desperately trying to fight the cosmic elements by predicting the behaviour of the Sun. The problem with this approach is that Earth is now being blasted from deep space and there is no way to predict the arrival of these cosmic 'stingers' in the form of Magnetar blasts.
These warnings really mean that TPTB have created a situation of forcing people into only being able to use the current energy supply and now cosmic conditions are changing and geomagnetic conditions on Earth are drastically changing to the extent that our current modus operandi is under threat. In short, the gamble has failed and unless there is a radical shift in energy policy, then our technological world is in trouble and our power supply infrastructure could crumble. This is not alarmism, it's reality. For more information visit the Joyfire Tour, here is the link to Extreme Space Weather
Update
It seems that things have moved on with the 'threat' to national grid transformers, as a little thought can go a long way. Here is an excerpt from a recent article with a posssible new solution.
Infrastructure could be protected by 'huge surge protectors'
However, Schnurr also said that protecting infrastructure both on the ground and in space is a matter of politics and money.
"We do need to get it together for the governments involved to start protecting the electric grids," he said. "But it turns out there are fairly simple measures which are well understood now which can be taken. There are the equivalents of huge surge protectors which need to be put on these different transformers."
This "equivalent" is known as a residual current device, or RCD, which is used for domestic wiring systems. These are trip switches installed on electricity transmission lines that break the connection when there's a sudden voltage increase.
There would be a temporary disruption in power, but the transformers themselves would be protected. RCDs, Schnurr explained, are roughly analogous to surge protectors used in ordinary homes to protect electronic devices from overloading.
He also said that the cost of installing such preventive measures is relatively inexpensive to governments – in the United Kingdom, it would cost a few hundred million dollars.
Source: Scientists warn of possible peril from 2013 solar flare activity , Deutsche-Welle, 24th September 2010
Pope Benedict XVI's astronomer: the Catholic Church welcomes aliens
The Telegraph, 17th September 2010
Highly evolved extra terrestrial lifeforms may be living in space and would be welcomed into the church - "no matter how many tentacles", one of the Pope's astronomers has said.
The senior Vatican scientist, Brother Guy Consolmagno, said that he would be delighted if we encountered intelligent aliens and would be happy to baptise them. His pronouncement opens up the possibility of space missionaries heading out to the stars to convert aliens to Christianity.
[...] He said he was "comfortable" with the idea of alien life and asked if he would baptise an alien, he replied "Only if they asked".
Comment: Dr Consolmango Consolmagno is having a good laugh... but personally, I think the joke has gone too far... Yes, it's obvious that the Vatican knows the truth about the existence of other lifeforms, but there is too many folk who don't have a clue and I think this kind of joking is in poor taste. Please note: the emphasis here is on lifeforms, and I am seriously wondering if we are seeing the media getting on board with some kind of soft disclosure, as it is apparent that there is no choice but to announce the existence of another form of life existing on this planet. From May 2008, the BBC reported, Vatican says aliens could exist
Site Back Up and Running
UK UFO Sightings, 16th September 2010
As many of you have noticed the site had been offline for the last couple of days-normal service has now been resumed.
The problem was that the hosting provider had to take the site offline because it was overloading their server due to the amount of traffic etc.Since this had happened on several occassions previously they insisted that the site be transferred to an upgraded server package before they would let the site go public again. The site upgrade has now been completed.
Unfortunately this has come at a personal cost-the new package is approx ten times more expensive per month. The upgraded package was the minimum that that they would permit-as the site grows in popularity further upgrade requests are likely. The site is funded from my own pocket so any suggestions on increasing site revenue would be most welcome.
Best Wishes
Andy Mannion
Sightings Editor
Comment: Welcome back into cyberspace! I suppose the volume of traffic went into orbit when it was announced that probably the most historically respected UK prime minster Winston Church, had covered up a RAF plane's UFO encounter during WWII. This means that many more people are starting to realise that the authorities known much more than they have been willing to share with the general public. At the same time, far more people are seeing UFOs/UAPs and this website has become very popular, but at a cost.
Nearly 300 U.S. pilots have attempted suicide
Big News Network, 16th September 2010
At least 292 American pilots have attempted suicide in the past three years. Another fifteen U.S. pilots have been diagnosed with, or been treated for, schizophrenia.
The shock figures have been revealed by the Boston Herald, quoting figures from the Federal Aviation Administration. The news follows a serious incident at Boston's Logan International Airport in May when a distraught JetBlue pilot threatened to “harm himself in spectacular fashion” an hour before takeoff.
Comment: Well, I have been saying for a long time that pilots and flight attendent are being subjected to more mental stress due to the chaotic EM environment that now exists on this planet. However this report provides some proof that will be quite shocking to most people, unaware of the cause. For those who are interested in the scientific justification for this belief, I wrote a book called Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution, where I explained the impact of geomagnetic storms and environmental electromagnetic signals on the human brain and body based on available scientific research findings.
The morphology of “global warming”
WUWT, 16th September 2010
[...] (CNSNews.com) - John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, says that the term “global warming” is “a dangerous misnomer” that should be replaced with “global climate disruption.”
John Holdren, our official fraudulent “Science Czar” for our equally mendacious President, has dumped “global warming” as a “dangerous misnomer.” Ah, yes, that would be it then. It’s not the facts but the words that are wrong, says America’s official Doctor Science.
In scientific terms this means John Holdren has run up the white flag and is begging for mercy. “Warming” is something we can measure scientifically. “Global Warming” is a lot more speculative, but with satellites, weather balloons, and plenty of ocean buoys, we now know that it’s just wrong. Global Warming has been shot down in flames by scientific skeptics who resorted to an unfair tactic called facts and observations.
Comment: Heh! Even I could agree to this new title!!!!! I think this is progress!!! WUWT are 'putting the boot in', but I feel really positive about this, as I know that the planet is being blasted from afar and the impact is climate disruption. Hence it's a perfect description of what is going on. Heh, let's give the Obama Administration a break!
Update
After “Global Climate Disruption”: next name?
WUWT, 19th September 2010
"My friend Kate in Saskatchewan is running a poll on what the next name might be. Here’s a screencap of the poll choices. [...] My own personal favorite in “Irritable Climate Syndrome”." LOL!!
English woman develops French-sounding accent
The Star, 15th September 2010
A woman from a village in southwestern England says that a severe migraine attack left her speaking with what sounds like a French accent — a striking example of a rare syndrome that neuroscientists say can leave lifelong locals sounding like they come from thousands of kilometres away.
Kay Russell appeared on the BBC earlier this week, speaking in a hesitant, husky voice, drawing out her vowels with an accent which sounded roughly French, or occasionally Eastern European. The broadcaster also showed a video of Russell before the change, in which she speaks to the camera in chirpy southern English accent.
Russell shook her head and smiled sadly as the video played.
“When I see that, I see the person I used to be,” the 49-year-old said. “It’s not my voice I miss. I would love to have my own voice back, but it goes way, way, way beyond my voice.”
Comment: Back in April 2010, I blogged about Sarah Colwill who is another British woman suffering from the same plight, but her new accent is Chinese, see Migraine Gives Woman Foreign Accent, this was about a week after the story, Croatian teenager wakes up from a coma speaking fluent GERMAN.
Quite frankly, after watching the video version of this report, it's really hard to not have some real compassion for these women. What's more, since there seems to be huge shifts going on in the development of human consciousness, as the study of synaesthesia suggests, maybe this type of syndrome will become more common as an example of where an evolutionary upgrade has gone wrong.
NASA calls Igor 'monstrous hurricane'
MSNBC News, 15th September 2010
Hurricane Igor, currently churning across the Atlantic as a major Category 4 storm, has been followed by NASA satellites, and dubbed a "monstrous hurricane," in a NASA statement.
Igor is so large that it is the same distance from one end of the storm to the other as it is from Boston, Mass., to Richmond, Va., some 550 miles (885 kilometers). That's a 10-hour drive.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were so impressed by Igor's immensity that they nicknamed it, "Igor the Terrible."
Comment: Igor is really not that big and is being compared to Hurricane Tip that was seriously huge. The point that I would like to make is that we are not seeing many new phenomena but compared to historical records we are seeing an increased intensity and frequency of major events. See
NASA Raw Video: a Look at Igor From Outer Space
YouTube/AP, 14th September 2010
"NASA has released new photos showing the size of Hurricane Igor after the International Space Station flew over the storm this morning. Igor is currently a Category 4 storm, heading towards Bermuda."
Hurricane GOES Water Vapour Loop
NOAA, 16th September 2010
Current satellite image of size and location.
Hurricane Igor competes for largest Hurricane in history
theweatherspace.com, 15th September 2010
Some are claiming that Igor is about the size of Texas and hurricane Tip was half the size of the USA but NASA are measuring the cirrus clouds that are being associated with this hurricane.
Hurricane Julia explodes — Atlantic has two coincident Category 4 hurricanes, very rare
WUWT, 14th September 2010
UPDATE 5 AM AST: Second time in 100-years two coincident Category 4's in the Atlantic…together, Igor and Julia have the highest coincident intensities on record.
Two major hurricanes exist simultaneously in the North Atlantic, a rare occurrence. With the current intensities (110 knots +) of Julia and Igor, this has only happened 3-times in the past 60-years: 1950 [Dog & Easy], 1958 [Helene & Ilsa], and 1999 [Floyd & Gert]. But Igor and Julia just are not major hurricanes, they are Category 4's.
- Unprecedented: in our North Atlantic historical records, the forecast intensities of Igor and Julia during the next 12-24 hours will be unprecedented for coincident storms. The only other time (we know of) coincident Category 4+ hurricanes occurred was in 1926 with Hurricane #4 and the Great Miami Hurricane (September 26 at 06:00 UTC).
- More: At 115 knots +, Hurricane Julia is the most intense storm that far in the Eastern Atlantic [-31.8W] joining other major hurricane east of -35W including Frances 1980 and Fred 2009.
- Early morning September 15: 12-hour forecasts indicate a maximum intensity of 120 knots for Julia and 130 knots for Igor. Two coincident Category 4 hurricanes have not occurred since 1950. The only occurrence since 1900 happened on September 15, 1926 at 06Z with Hurricane 4 [115 knots] and the Great Miami Hurricane [120 knots].
- Thus, Igor and Julia will attain have attained coincident intensities that are unprecedented: Igor: 130 knots & Julia: 115 knots.
Comment: Where is the power coming from? Well, we know that the Earth's magnetic field cracked open last night (14th) allowing the solar wind and galactic energies to pour in, so you decide whether the rare event of two cat. 4 hurricanes in the Atlantic at the same time is just related to a "warm" ocean. Predictions of a massive earthquake in September now look much more likely to come to pass too.
AP News Video: Igor, Julia, Karl All Making Waves
YouTube, 15th September 2010
A strengthening Tropical Storm Karl neared the Mexico on Wednesday, bearing down on the resort beaches of the Mayan Riviera. Meanwhile far from land, Hurricane Julia rapidly intensified, becoming a powerful Category 4 storm early Wednesday.
Update
Comment: The Earth's magnetic field wrapped up into a tight ball for about 8 hours between 03:00 & 12:00 UT on the 16th September 2010. This is not normal, but not unusual either these days. I have yet to find a space weather scientist who is prepared to explain the implications. Here is a link which will soon disappear here, this is a permanent link here and this is considered the normal state of Earth's magnetic field here. Tornado watches are now in effect in parts of the US.
Quite frankly, this is not major activity, but the it's hard to deny the 'crack' in the magnetosphere has not had some significant effects.
Nict Magnetosphere Simulation Sept 16th 2010
YouTube, 16th September 2010
Wild auroras
Spaceweather.com, 17th September 2010
Well, we know the magnetosphere had cracked wide open, hence it's no surprise that the auroras have been 'wild'.
Aging Gas Pipe at Risk of Explosion Nationwide
ABC News, 15th September 2010
The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.
Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas pipes — many of them laid years before sprawling communities were erected around them — that now are at risk of leaking or erupting.
But the effort has fallen short. Critics say the regulatory system is ripe for problems because the government largely leaves it up to the companies to do inspections, and utilities are reluctant to spend the money necessary to properly fix and replace decrepit pipelines. [...]
The challenge of ensuring pipeline safety is compounded by the sheer enormity of the nation's natural gas network. The federal pipeline agency says the U.S. has more than 2 million miles of pipelines — enough to circle the earth about 100 times.
The agency has only about 100 federal inspectors nationwide to ensure compliance, meaning there is no guarantee violators will be caught. "When you look at two-and-a-half million miles of pipeline with 100 inspectors, it's not reassuring," Weimer said. "To a grand degree the industry inspects and polices themselves."
Comment:...two-and-a-half million miles of pipeline with only 100 inspectors.... that's a major problem...
Reference 1:
"Abstract. Geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) flowing
in technological systems on the ground are a direct manifestation
of space weather. Due to the proximity of very dynamic
ionospheric current systems, GIC are of special interest
at high latitudes, where they have been known to cause
problems, for example, for normal operation of power transmission
systems and buried pipelines."
April 2000 geomagnetic storm: ionospheric drivers of large
geomagnetically induced currents
A. Pulkkinen1, A. Thomson2, E. Clarke2, and A. McKay3
Annales Geophysicae (2003) 21: 709–717
c European Geosciences Union 2003
link
Reference 2:
"Abstract. Geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) in technological systems,
such as electric power transmission systems, oil and gas
pipelines, telecommunication cables and railway equipment,
are a manifestation of space weather at the earth's surface. In
power systems, GIC cause saturation of transformers, which
may lead to problems in the operation of the system, and even
to a collapse of the whole system and to permanent damages of
transformers. The best-known GIC effect occurred in March
1989 when the Québec province in Canada suffered from an
electric black-out for about nine hours. The corrosion rate may
be increased in pipelines when GIC flows from the pipe into
the soil, and the associated voltages can disturb pipeline surveys
and the cathodic protection. This paper summarizes GIC
effects on power systems and pipelines."
POWER AND PIPELINES (GROUND SYSTEMS)
Risto Pirjola, Ari Viljanen, Olaf Amm and Antti Pulkkinen
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Geophysical Research Division [1999]
link
EQUINOX AURORAS
spaceweather.com, 15th September 2010
Last night, the sun's
magnetic field near Earth tipped south. This opened
a
crack in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured
in and fueled a magnificent display of arctic Northern
Lights:
Thilo Bubek took the picture not far from Tromsø,
Norway. "We had some nice auroras," he
says, with what can only be described as Norwegian
understatement. "The clouds and calm sea contributed
to a photogenic scene."
This is the time of year when south-pointing
magnetic fields from the sun frequently puncture
our bubble of protection against the solar wind.
High latitude sky watchers should be alert for equinox
auroras.
Comment: Magnificent! To be honest, the concept of a crack in the magnetosphere may be a misnomer because when this occurs it seems like the shield protecting our planet has in a effect become so weak as to be virtually non-existent. I saved this image from 9/14/2010 21:49:05 UT because I can't remember seeing anything like it. This might explain why scientists are stepping up the research into "Magnetic Reconnection," but does that mean they are trying to find a way to stop these cracks appearing? The latest NICT data Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation.
Pope adviser calls the UK a 'Third World country'
BBC News, 15th September 2010
One of the Pope's senior advisers has pulled out of the papal visit to Britain, after reportedly saying the UK is a "Third World country" marked by "a new and aggressive atheism".
Cardinal Walter Kasper, 77, made the remarks in a German magazine interview. The Vatican said the cardinal had not intended "any kind of slight", and was referring to the UK's multicultural society. It added that he had simply pulled out of the Pope's visit due to illness. The German-born cardinal was quoted as saying to the country's Focus magazine that "when you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country".
He also was reported to have criticised British Airways, saying that when you wear a cross on the airline "you are discriminated against".
Vatican sources said Cardinal Kasper was suffering from gout and had been advised by his doctors not to travel to the UK.
Comment: Wow! On the eve of the Pope's visit too.... His gout must have been really bothering him!
UFOs or military flares? [US]
Parker Live, 14th September 2010
A few weeks ago, I was sitting on my deck one weeknight and happened to observe in the eastern sky a bright light, appearing suddenly as if switched on. As it ‘switched off’ again, another one, further south, lit up, and then a third, fourth and fifth.
We watched them for a few minutes before they went out, and then several minutes later the whole sequence happened again in another part of the sky. Last night, Parker residents saw this same phenomenon, some remarking that it happens “all the time”, or at least isn’t entirely uncommon. [...]
The military explanation is that they’re flares on chutes, released by plane. Because of their light weight, they fall so slowly that they can appear to be motionless to bystanders miles away.
Comment: This is interesting, the US Military and their variation on a theme of explaining away the funny lights as flares on a chute... Personally, I am fascinated with the concept of the military doing night training over a residential areas for no particular reason.... but it's still not a very good explanation for lights that have the ability to switch on and then switch off, instantaneously move about in the skies and then stay stationary... More funny lights in the United States and many more reports appearing on forums making enquiries or sightings related to strange lights.
Reader photos: The Residents' Beach UFO [Marco Island, Florida US]
MarcoIslandFlorida.com News, 15th September 2010
St. Paul / His kite has lights, and he's in trouble again
Ernest Sawka Jr. was cited for disorderly conduct. The man whose LED-lighted kite made some people think there was a UFO over St.
TwinCities.com, 24th September 2010
Maybe many patriotic Americans really don't like the idea of the excuse of Chinese lanterns, so kites with LED lights might catch on instead... This story is quite hilarious... Come on, a story about lights in the sky that are being blamed on someone with prior convictions who just so happens to like flying kites with LED lights on at night!!!! Quite pathetic really .... if you regularly read this blog, I occasionally feature some real BS stories and it's a good reminder that TPTB really think everybody is completely stupid and unfortunately, in too many instances, they are right.
UFO Kite Flying - Phase 1
For educational purposes only, this is a real kite with LED lights, quite cool really...
Another UFO Shuts Down Another Airport in China
AOL News, 13th September 2010
Here we go again. Just months after an unidentified object temporarily shut down an airport in China, another UFO briefly halted operations at a different Chinese airport.
According to initial sketchy reports in ShanghaiDaily.com and the People's Daily Online, the UFO forced the Baotou airport in China's Inner Mongolia province to prevent three planes from landing for almost an hour Saturday night.
Whatever the unknown object was -- and mind you, nobody is claiming aliens or interdimensional beings here -- it was reported hovering near the airport. As strictly a safety response, officials wouldn't allow aircraft to land and directed two of them to land at neighboring airports (where, presumably, the UFO had no interest).
Comment: Not again! Obviously, the Chinese are way behind with their radar equipment and they need to consult with everybody else in the world that keep up to date removing all radar returns that signify that something is in the skies that humans cannot see and does not behave like a conventional aircraft. Removing the "radar angels" is something that commercial radar operators do as an ongoing practice and we know that this has been done for at least 50 years. Apparently in the UK, even radar signals from windmills can be detected and are now being removed. Really, the Chinese are waking too many people up with their backward equipment! LOL!! By the way, why are AOL talking about interdimensional beings, is the word getting out? See previous comments about the last major Chinese airport shutdown in July 2010.
Update!
Seriously, are the Chinese government stepping up their UFO disclosure efforts?
Academician: Aliens exist, but also have weaknesses [China]
People's Daily Online, 23rd August 2010
MSM News Video: UFO sighting in the Pacific - Australia
YouTube, 13th September 2010
Obviously, something is happening... We have another mainstream reporter talking about lifeforms NOT UFOs. In the introduction, the presenter stated: "Have you ever felt that we are not alone... that there is some other form of life out there." Hmmm... After quite a decent length report where the witness Mr Nick Brent, is made out to be credible because he's an old man retired with cash, the news reporter states: "It's fascinating to contemplate the prospect of other lifeforms." Huh!!! Then the "wise" old man says: "We're not the only grain of sand on the beach!" LOL!!! A classic comment!!!
Nanodiamonds discovered in Greenland ice sheet
Nanotechnology Now, 12th September 2010
"There is a layer in the ice with a great abundance of diamonds," said co-author James Kennett, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth Science at UC Santa Barbara. "Most exciting to us is that this is the first such discrete layer of diamonds ever found in glacial ice anywhere on Earth, including the huge polar ice sheets and the alpine glaciers. The diamonds are so tiny that they can only be observed with special, highly magnifying microscopes. They number in the trillions."
This discovery supports earlier published evidence for a cosmic impact event about 12,900 years ago, Kennett explained. He said that the available evidence in the Greenland ice is consistent with this layer being at or close to this age, although further study is needed.
Researchers from the University of Maine led the expedition to Greenland in 2008. Co-authors on the study, besides Kennett and the team from Maine, include scientists from many universities and research entities. James Kennett's son, Douglas J. Kennett, of the University of Oregon, is one of the 21 scientists who contributed to the report.
Last year, the Kennetts reported the discovery of nanosize diamonds in a layer of sediment exposed on Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of Santa Barbara. They published this information with numerous co-authors in two papers last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Science magazine.
According to James Kennett, the Greenland results also contradict a recent study questioning the presence of nanodiamonds in a layer of this age. [...] A high proportion of the nanosize diamonds in the Greenland ice sheet exhibit hexagonal mineral structure, and these are only known to occur on Earth in association with known cosmic impact events, said Kennett. This layer of diamonds corresponds with the sedimentary layer known as the Younger Dryas Boundary, dating to 12,900 years ago.
Comment: This is the latest in a series of reports over the last few years (see archives), but it seems that scientists still don't want to let go of the comet impact theory even though there no evidence of a comet crater and prefer to ignore those who state that the Earth experienced a major Space Weather event where these nanodiamonds appeared to have lingered in the air for months. There is also a direct link with climate change and a major extinction level event so it is understandable why there is such a high level of resistance by some scientists who do not wish to contemplate that Earth is not an isolated island from the rest of the universe. From an earlier report we read:
In the study, published in Science [subscription required], researchers used transmission electron microscopy to identify nanodiamonds at a number of North American sites, from Arizona to South Carolina to Manitoba, Canada. “We’ve discovered nano-diamonds that are not normally produced through average processes on the surface of the Earth,” said [study coauthor] James Kennett…. “They indicate there was an extra-terrestrial event on Earth 12,900 years ago” [BBC News]. The tiny diamonds are encased in carbon spheres that form through instantaneous melting, and the diamond crystals have a hexagonal pattern rather than the usual cubic structure, indicating that they were formed by intense heat and pressure. Such diamond crystals have been found only within meteorites at at impact craters, the researchers say. Source: Nano-Diamond Discovery Suggests a Comet Impact Killed the Mammoths
Obviously, this would be explainable if Earth was engulfed in crystalline cloud which is mostly likely starting to occur again now. Btw, these hexagonal crystals could the very same adamantine particles that the metaphysical community are expecting and the same particles (Stardust) that scientists are anxiously trying to capture as they are leaking into our solar system, see archives. (Click image icon for a close-up image (taken with transmission electron microscopy) shows a single lonsdaleite crystal (hexagonal nanodiamond, left), and associated diffraction pattern (right). Credit: University of Oregon.)
Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide
Yahoo News, 14th September 2010
SAN BRUNO, Calif. – The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.
Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas pipes — many of them laid years before sprawling communities were erected around them — that now are at risk of leaking or erupting.
But the effort has fallen short. Critics say the regulatory system is ripe for problems because the government largely leaves it up to the companies to do inspections, and utilities are reluctant to spend the money necessary to properly fix and replace decrepit pipelines. [...] Pipelines in heavily populated locations like San Bruno fall into a category the industry refers to as "high consequence areas."
Comment: OK, I realised when I was researching my book 'Tuning the Diamonds' that the world's pipeline infrastructure is at risk due to Space Weather, but until this disaster, most people were just not interested. However, I would like to say that it may be unfair to criticise Pacific Gas & Electric Co., because despite the effort to hide the truth, the evidence points to the fact that the pipeline in San Bruno was hit or ruptured by a meteor. As we know that the US military have classified fireball data, it is important to note that the authorities are particularly anxious to keep people unaware of the massive changes taking place in our solar system and thus affecting Earth. In effect, it means that unless energy suppliers become ultra viligant, many people are living above [potential] timebombs. Anyway, my efforts have not been in vain as I know a few people with the detective archetype have picked up information off my websites and are now busy digging for more and this is being aired on at least one major discussion forum. So, it seems that the word is now out. Good!
San Bruno: Dramatic New Video of San Bruno Fireball
KTVU News, 13th September 2010
Comment: It looks like we have an outdoor surveillance camera footage that has provided the proof that something exploded in the air and showered San Bruno with debris before the pipeline was ruptured and the gas ignited. What's more, it looks like rocks rather than a plane... This explains why people thought they heard or saw a plane and validates the reports of a meteor or fireball. Relief...
Surveillance Video Captures San Bruno Explosion, Fireball
Liveleak, September 2010
Another Video with wider angle, and better picture
Oil jumps above $77 on US crude pipeline leak
Yahoo News, 13th September 2010
SINGAPORE – Oil prices jumped above $77 a barrel Monday in Asia, extending gains for a second trading day after a leak forced the closure of a Chicago-area oil pipeline and disrupted supplies to U.S. Midwest refineries.
Benchmark crude for October delivery was up 70 cents to $77.15 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.20 to settle at $76.45 on Friday.
Repair crews are closing in on the source of a leak but haven't found it yet, Sam Borries, on-scene coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Sunday.
Comment: I don't even know what to say anymore, this is distressing... If I can find a link that lists the oil and gas related disasters for this year alone, I will post it, but I understand it now stands at 31.
Update
Norfolk MP Richard Bacon raises concerns over Chinese lanterns
EDP 24 News, 11th September 2010
Farmers have welcomed a government pledge to tackle the problem of Chinese lanterns following a Norfolk MP's concerns over public and livestock safety.
The candlelit paper lanterns have become increasingly popular at wedding ceremonies and parties, but fears have been raised that they are a fire hazard and can prove fatal to animals.
The issue was raised in the Commons by South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon, who has been contacted by local farmers, about what steps the coalition government was taking to overcome concerns.
“Chinese lanterns pose a threat to farmers both because of the fire risk to standing crops when lanterns fall into fields and because the wire frames are cut into small pieces by harvesting equipment so that wire is incorporated into animal feed such as hay and silage, which kills farm animals,” he said.
Comment: As I have already stated, Chinese lanterns are a fire hazard and need to be banned, but I think the same about fireworks, especially after seeing dry grass being set ablaze by a firework near my home when I lived in Norway. Since this was a suburban area, there were people who put the fire out immediately, but it's easy to see why farmers would consider Chinese lanterns as a serious issue. Frankly, due to the dimensional shift, Chinese lanterns are extremely useful in helping the media and authorities dismiss strange UFO sightings, but increasingly, many people are wondering what is going on and are becoming experts in recognising little flimsy Chinese lanterns as being distinct from the sometimes huge, powerful and purpose-driven lights being seen in the skies across Europe and the rest of the world. This is an interesting addition:
Farming Today - NFU respond to Government moves on Chinese lanterns
"The Government has ruled out a ban on Chinese lanterns but has demanded that they should be totally biodegradable. Farmers have been campaigning against the lanterns which they say kill animals and are a fire risk. Nick von Westenholz, Government Af... Content LockedThis content is available to DeHavilland subscribers only"
Coastguards urge contact from Chinese lantern launchers
Western Telegraph, 19th August 2010
"Coastguards are asking people launching Chinese lanterns near the coast to contact them following a spate of false alarms. [...] Coastguards established that the characteristics of the “flare” matched those of a Chinese lantern another lantern was then spotted going up looking out from Lydstep Bay towards the Giltar Point Area."
It's not just farmers that have a problem with Chinese lanterns. Education is required here because some of the UAPs/orbs are as bright as flares.
Russian pilot makes fuel-free landing
Geo TV, 11th September 2010
Copy: LONDON: Russian pilots have safely landed a passenger plane in Siberia after the aircraft lost power at 10,600m (34,800ft). None of the 81 passengers and crew was injured in the emergency landing on a disused military airstrip on Tuesday, Russian officials said. There was only minimal damage to the plane, they added. Russian blogs and social networking sites celebrated the incident as a "miracle" and the pilots as "heroes". The plane, a Tupolev-154, was en route from the Siberian city of Polyarny to Moscow when it lost power.
With the aircraft's fuel pump, navigation equipment and radio paralysed, the pilots glided the plane to a lower altitude and landed it on an airfield near the village of Izhma in the Komi region, about 1,500 km (930 miles) from Moscow. The Tupolev overshot the end of the tarmac by about 200m (656ft) before coming to a stop in a bog, Russia's general prosecutor said in a statement. The 72 passengers and nine crew left the plane shocked but unhurt, the statement added. Russian media reported that all passengers had been flown to Moscow on another plane, with the exception of a couple who preferred to go by train.
Comment: Hmmm... Another electronic glitch? I wonder what really happened, but yes the pilots are heroes...
Residents tell of start of San Bruno inferno
San Francisco Chronicle, 10th September 2010
They all thought it was an airplane. It wasn't. Freddy Tobar was upstairs in his kitchen getting ready to feed his Chihuahua Chiquita, when he heard popping sounds from under the ground and felt the house shaking. He looked outside and saw his backyard crumble into the earth. Trees disintegrated into flames. [...]
Henry Sanchez was driving home from his three kids' back-to-school night at a nearby school when he approached the intersection of Claremont and Glenview.
He looked through the windshield where just a few blocks ahead of him a flash of flame crossed the sky, followed by a deafening explosion.
Comment: Was this terrible incident caused by a meteor strike? I am struggling to believe that a large 24 inch gas pipe exploded in a residential area, especially when those who are more knowledgeable state that this is absurd, as the stated size is simply too big, but the fire experts say the flames were commensurate with natural gas. That locals say that the houses were shaking and not the ground, and since San Bruno is directly on top of the San Andreas fault, these people should be able to tell the difference. The reports of a plane indicate something came down but at the moment there is no evidence to suggest it was a plane but the meteor option is possible, especially as we have witnesses who thought they saw a plane and others on twitter claim to have seen a meteor. This article is the only report of an eyewitness in print that I can find, stating "a flash of flame crossed the sky".
I watched the abc local 7 news as the scene was being streamed live and it was truly an apocalyptic scene. After three hours or so, it was just a huge number of fires. Yes, if you are following this blog you will know that I keep on insisting that pipelines keep on exploding now because of severe Space Weather, but in this case, the strange reports by locals have to be taken into account. The twitter/internet chatter is that many heard a loud whooshing sound, then rattling of the walls and windows. Yes, the roaring noise that was heard could have been the gas escaping before it ignited, but this still cannot explain why people stated the walls and windows were shaking but not the floor and this could mean there was actually a meteor airburst that caused a gas pipeline to explode or even there was natural methane in the ground because locals had been complaining of the smell of gas for days.
At the moment, I am still looking for answers because it's part of my analysis of what is taking place on this planet due to the evolutionary changes caused by Space Weather and the media accepted scenario of a huge gas pipe explosion just don't add up. Please note: if this was simply a case of pipeline corrosion, then there is a frightening prospect that more residential areas being supplied with natural gas will be going up in flames in a similar manner, because the no. of pipeline incidents is rising steeply and that is a fact. For reference:
Update:
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Another fireball was reported (today) the 10th September by the San Diego TV news, here is the YouTube link San Diego Meteor September 10, 2010. Well, despite the official stance to ignore or downplay the fireball/meteror/asteroid activity (we must also remember that fireball data is now classified in the United States), it certainly has been humming this week...
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Early reports of a plane crash...
Early on in this incident, the local news coverage and eye witnesses talked about a plane crash or something coming down and immediately dismissed the idea of a gas explosion... San Bruno Explosion, September 9, 2010, 6:38PM
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This is video of the aftermath, but it does not show the full extent of the scene, Dan Bruno: Helicopter flyover of the fire damage.
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The crater image 1 & image 2 & image 3
Update 2:
Blast raises questions on gas line safety
Boston.com, 11th September 2010
[...] In 2008, there were 44 significant accidents involving gas transmission or distribution pipelines, killing 365 people and injuring 1,553. Transmission lines like the one that burst in San Bruno deliver natural gas from its source to distribution lines, which then carry it into neighborhoods before branching off into homes. During the past two decades, there have been more than 5,600 significant pipeline accidents nationwide — including more than 1,000 in which someone was killed or required hospitalization, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Experts say the nation’s 296,000 miles of onshore natural-gas lines routinely suffer breakdowns and failures. More than 60 percent of the lines are 40 years old or older and almost half were installed in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a recent analysis by the Pipeline Safety Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Bellingham, Wash. Most of the older pipelines lack anticorrosion coatings that are prevalent in the industry today, said Carl Reimer, executive director of the trust, which was set up after a 1999 explosion that killed three people in Bellingham. “The industry always says that if you take care of pipelines, they’ll last forever,’’ Reimer said. “But what we see over and over again is companies are not doing that, and corrosion and other factors are causing failures.’’ And once a high-pressure pipeline fails, he added, anything can trigger a deadly blast. A cigarette or rocks smashing as high-pressure gas shoots by. Even someone answering a cellphone can cause a spark, because it is battery-powered, Reimer said.
Comment: Actually, reading the details about pipeline safety, I am amazed at how many people have been killed...
Update 3:
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I am starting to realise why a few metaphysical sources are exasperated by completely out of touch humans living on a planet that is changing right before their eyes. Here is a list of fireballs maintained by The American Meteor Society. At this time, I still prefer to think this devastation was caused by a meteor, or a plane going down and this is being covered up, than contemplate that the pipeline infrastructure is so poor in America that many people are in effect living on [potential] timebombs. Fireball Sightings Log: 2010
- Aerial photo of the aftermath: San Bruno Neighbourhood Fire
Quasars Hint That the Laws of Nature Change Over Time
Daily Galaxy, 8th September 2010
Precise measurements on the light from distant quasars suggest that the value of the fine-structure constant may have changed over the history of the universe. If the quasar results are eventually confirmed, our concepts of space and time are sure to change our fundamental understanding of the universe.
The fine-structure constant, or alpha, is the coupling constant for the electromagnetic force. If alpha were just 4% bigger or smaller than it is, stars wouldn't be able to make carbon and oxygen, which would have made it impossible for life as we know it in our universe to exist.
A new study show that alpha seems to have varied a tiny bit in different directions of the universe billions of years ago, being slightly smaller in the northern hemisphere and slightly larger in the southern hemisphere. One intriguing implication is that the fine-structure constant is continuously varying in space, and seems fine-tuned for life in our neighborhood of the universe
Comment: Interesting... This could be considered as supportive of the metaphysical belief that spacetime can be considered as a fractal of 64 energy states and in our world, that means there is an ebb and flow of energy states at every point in space.
Grist commenter incites violence against CEOs, corporations
Green Hell blog, 7th September 2010
The leaders of Greenpeace, 350.org and the Rainforest Action Network published an article
today on Grist.org entitled, “ A call for direct action
in the climate movement: we need your ideas” — and boy did they get one.
Less than one week after Discovery Channel gunman James J. Lee went down in a blaze of violent ignominy, one commenter wrote,
… When someone is proud of taking advantage of another human being shoot the bastard. John Brown would have killed everybody who thought slavery was boss, or
groovy, well we feel the same way, pollute and die, its that easy especially for Corporations and their laziest of all people CEOs. We declare war on CEOs and
corporations that kill our brothers and sisters. Don’t need courts or judges, we got ropes. Scare the crap out of those who pollute, hang a few and our air will
improve. Bill is that what you had in mind, the Crystalline Matrix has formed like a giant spider’s web, who will understand the “burning bright.” This
is the year of the Tigeress.
the Director [Emphasis added]
The radical green management can call for non-violence all it wants — the zombies it has created seem poised to achieve their ends by other means.
BTW Grist, incitement to violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment. (Green Hell Blog)
Comment: Well, we have a problem of Climate Rage caused by fear based on the lies that humans are changing the climate. Humans can be blamed for lots of things and polluting the environment is one of them but since scientists are not explaining that Earth is an energetic system that is not closed to outside influences, Earth is currently being heavily bombarded with solar cosmic galactic and intergalactic energy in the form of Space Weather. Therefore, the less knowledgeable have accepted the inaccurate, so called 'scientific' explanations for the associated climatic upheaval. So, now climate alarmists are having to mitigate the damage by the actions of the most militant and deranged and this example cited above is not an isolated case. See the responses to the Grist article: Discovery hostage taker is a population-obsessed eco-wacko. Greenpeace are also showing signs of becoming even more militant, see Greenpeace Violence Is Escalating: “The Lines Are Drawn”
Confronting fraud in science
SPPI Blog, 3rd September 2010
Book Review: On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science,
David Goodstein
[...] David Goodstein’s book On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science offers a short and engaging education for those who want to know more about understanding and detecting true fraud.
The author is well known in the field of condensed-matter physics, being recognized both for his research and for his outstanding, indeed seminal, 1975 textbook States of Matter. In 1988 he became the vice-provost of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he pursued issues of science and society, with a focus on scientific misconduct. Not only does he have vast experience, but he also co-developed and taught a course on scientific ethics for more than 10 years. Perhaps most importantly, while at Caltech he drafted one of the first formal policies on scientific misconduct. His thoughtful and groundbreaking procedures have since guided many of our great universities in dealing with such difficult matters.
After discussing how to detect pathological science, Goodstein presents a set of 15 precepts on how science works, including the charge that scientists must “bend over backwards” to report any way in which they might be wrong. He then succinctly describes our scientific “reward system” – a mechanism for promoting star performers that is closely linked to the scientific “authority structure”. Goodstein defines this structure as an 11-step ladder that starts with being admitted to a prestigious college and culminates in prizes such as named professorships, membership in the National Academy and a Nobel prize.
Comment: Quite frankly, I am still wondering why certain well known and exposed climate scientists are still not facing criminal fraud charges... Here, we are directed to the short article “How to judge flawed science” (2005 MRS Bulletin 30 75) by Ivan Schuller and Yvan Bruynseraede. I could not find a free copy but I did find a 60 page presentation which is part of a Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series called Pathological Science, which can be downloaded here. Btw, if you want a laugh, read the press cutting on pg 11 of this presentation which details a NASA scientist's misuse of anti-gravity technology, you will never think scientists are boring ever again!
Streaks of light in night sky pose mystery
Did photographer snap a UFO?
Winnipeg Free Press, 7th September 2010
A group of Winnipeg photographers got a long-weekend thrill, when an unexpected -- and unidentified -- visitor invaded an otherwise perfect photograph. Just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday night, Brad Korponay and a couple of friends were setting up to take some nighttime snaps in Steep Rock, about 240 kilometres north of Winnipeg, when they saw a stunning object sailing through the sky.
The bright orange glow flew across the sky from the east, streaking over Lake Manitoba and descending as it moved westward on a wobbly path. Then it disappeared behind the clouds. "We thought perhaps it was a hot-air balloon, as its flickering colour looked like fire," Korponay said.
"It was also moving rather quickly, and the 'flame' burned and flickered constantly as it moved." Beyond that guess, Korponay and friends were at a loss to explain the light that flashed across the sky for under a minute on a calm and silent night. Even the clouds barely moved during the 273-second photo exposure. Then, to make things even wilder, a short time later a second, similar object flew across the sky, this time coming from the north.[...]
Comment: There are lots of folks enquiring about the strange lights in the sky, and it looks like sky watching is going to become a new worldwide phenomenon. Well, as I have been stating for the last two years, it's only going to get worse... We are experiencing The Apocalypse.
UFO: THE GREATEST STORY EVER DENIED (Documentary to watch online)
Niburu.nl, September 2010
Blurb: "Jose Escamilla's controversial film that reveals how the Air Force, the Military and the Pentagon created the cover up surrounding UFOs but using scientists and astronomers in the 1940's and 1950's to lie to the public about the reality of the UFOs by denying they exist.
This carefully crafted film contains the information about the real facts behind the UFO Phenomena and statements by some of the most important people that have worked within the White House. CIA, NASA, NSA, NRO and many fields of the armed forces and the Air Force. These people have come forth to deliver the truth about UFOs for the public to know. This film is the definitive answer on whether or not we are alone in the Universe. Running Time 1:42:00." courtesy: www.theufostore.com
Comment: Excellent! Jose Escamilla reveals that most UFOs are another lifeform that is visible in the infra-red, but the film documents the history of UFO research that was first started by the US Military and then goes on to explain that most technology that has been obtained from backengineering 'craft' type UFOs has been suppressed. After watching this video, the intelligentsia will now understand why space weather is such a big problem... the veil is lifting and there is absolutely nothing that the controllers can do about it and worse, GPS accuracy needed for military operations is quickly deteriorating due to spaceweather and increasing ionospheric 'electron' flux whatever you believe these zero volume point particles to really be...
"UFO" crash landing - or piece of rock - damages car [UK]
Northern Echo, 7th September 2010
A mysterious unidentified flying object has crash landed in North Yorkshire - damaging a car. The shocked motorist escaped serious injury when the white stone-like object smashed onto the roof of his car causing a large dent. Derek Morrow, 71, of Great Fencote, near to Northallerton, was startled by a loud bang as he parked his car outside his North Yorkshire home.
The retired chief technician with the RAF, of Chapel Crescent, found an inch deep dent in the roof of his Ford C-Max. The roof of the car was coated with a white dust and about ten feet away was a strange white rock which was two inches wide by an inch deep.
Comment: More debris from space? Quite frankly, it looks like pumice and could have a volcanic origin, so we need some expert opinion. Btw, I don't report every rock from space, even those that hit people, but we are having an interesting week...
NEO Watch: Two Asteroids Zipping Past Earth Today
Daily Galaxy, 8th September 2010
Experts at a NASA lab have announced that two asteroids discovered on Sunday will pass close to Earth today, September 8. The two space rocks are in unrelated orbits, the team says, and pose no danger to Earth. What's unusual is that they will both zip past the planet the same day, even if they come from very different orbits.
Astronomers estimate that the undiscovered population of near earth objects (NEOs) orbiting the solar system in our vicinity could number as much as 50 million members.
The image shows the paths that the two asteroids will take as they swing past Earth. When they are nearest, they should become visible to amateur astronomers with moderate-sized telescopes. [...] "Objects of this class, 10-meter-sized near-Earth asteroids, have asmall chance of hitting the planet, but a high chance of passing within lunar distance. This occurs once per day on average. "
Comment: At the moment, some are claiming that the asteroid debris is associated with a superwave coming from the galactic centre but it's more likely that the asteroids that fill and surround our solar system, are being disturbed by a variety of cosmic & galactic blasts.
Close-Shave Asteroid Caught on Camera
Wired News, 8th September 2010
NASA JPL Video: Asteroids Orbit Close to Earth
Mahalo News, 24th September 2010
"Scientists say the two asteroids passed by Earth nearly 12 hours apart. The first asteroid, which measured between 32 and 65 feet in diameter, passed within 154,000 miles of Earth at 5:51 a.m. EST. The second small asteroid, measuring between 20 and 46 feet in diameter, came within about 49,000 miles of Earth at 5:12 p.m. EST. These asteroids were said to be traveling in entirely different orbits." Also:
NASA JPL Video: Asteroids Orbit Close to Earth
YouTube version
Monitoring network to scan skies for meteors, UFOs
Global Times, 7th September 2010
A meteor-monitoring network to be completed this year may provide more solid evidence to confirm or debunk UFO sighting claims.
The city will establish six monitoring stations to observe flying objects that cross the sky, the first of their kind in the country.
With 3 million yuan ($441,897.78) in government funding, the network will mainly be used to track falling stars, comets and meteors of a certain brightness, said Kou Wen, the Beijing Planetarium expert in charge of the project.
The station can observe and record almost anything that flies overhead, including meteor showers and UFOs, Kou said, providing a chance to supply more accurate documentation that can be used to verify or dismiss UFO witness reports.
Comment: This is particularly interesting as the Chinese seem to have taken a global lead in their interest in UFOs. Update! What the hell... SERPENT LOOKING UFO SQUIRMING OVER CHINA *2 DIFFERENT VIDS* This is relevant:
Academician: Aliens exist, but also have weaknesses
People's Daily Online, 23rd August 2010
Wang Sichao, a researcher and planetary astronomer at the Purple Hills Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that he believes extraterrestrial beings do exist and their UFOs have the ability to visit our earth. However, he disagrees with British scientist Stephen Hawking, who believes an encounter with aliens would spell disaster to human beings.
Wang has done the astronomical observation work for 39 years and he publicized his opinion on a science forum held in Guangzhou today.
Wang also found that in the terrestrial space between the height of 130 kilometers and 1,500 kilometers, UFOs have appeared many times. Their flying speed is much slower than the first cosmic velocity. Some are even as slow as 0.29 kilometers per second and they can fly in the 1,460 kilometers' height for more than 25 minutes.
This means UFOs have the anti-gravity ability. Otherwise, they would fall soon. Wang came to these conclusions based on the spherical astronomy and physics method and his years of observation at Purple Hills Observatory as well as the quantitative analysis of some significant UFO events.
Many people are worried that the aliens would invade the earth and if they do exit, is could be a calamity for human beings. Hawking is one person who holds such a theory.
However, Wang said it's too early to come to this conclusion.
"If they are friendly to us, we can promote the human beings' civilization through exchange and cooperation with them. If they are not, as long as we prepared for their invasion, we can beat them back based on their weaknesses. After all, they are life entities, they would show their slips," Wang said. By Wang Qianyuanxue, People's Daily Online
Comment: One commentator has stated that this statement amounts to disclosure because nothing is printed in the media without the permission of the Chinese government. Quite frankly, if governments realise that the game is up and that the veil is lifting and all the stuff that can be detected on radar is now appearing more often, then what choice do they have but to disclose?
Old Farmer's Almanac: Global cooling to continue
AP, 8th September 2010
Most of the country will see a colder-than-usual winter while summer and spring will be relatively cool and dry, according to the time-honored, complex calculations of the "Old Farmer's Almanac."
The 2011 issue of the almanac, which claims to be the nation's oldest continuously published periodical, was released Tuesday. It predicts that in the coming months, the Earth will continue to see a "gradual cooling of the atmosphere ... offset by any warming caused by increased greenhouse gases."
The "Old Farmer's Almanac" also is forecasting a weak La Nina — a climate phenomenon marked by an unusual cooling of the sea surface in the tropical Pacific Ocean. [...]
"Basically we're saying it's going to be an ice cold sandwich," Managing Editor Sandi Duncan said. "We feel the middle part of the country's really going to be cold — very, very cold, very, very frigid, with a lot of snow. On the East and West coasts, it's going to be a little milder."
Comment: Yes, all the usual climate realist websites are stating we are experiencing global cooling, but the Old Farmer's Almanac with it's high success rate is still a winner with it's yearly predictions.
Major 'earthquake' hits a small British town! Emergency services recreate massive disaster scene for training exercise
Daily Mail, 8th September 2010
Fire and rescue crews from across Europe and the Middle East are taking part in a major exercise simulating an earthquake hitting a fictional British town. The event, one of the largest to have been undertaken, is aimed at testing the response of the emergency services from the UK and seven other countries to an 'unthinkable' disaster. Funded through a one million euro grant from the European Union, Exercise Orion is being held simultaneously in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and Merseyside.
Comment: I thought this article was worth noting as the UK is not prone to major earthquakes, but maybe authorities are taking into account the fact that seismic activity is steeply rising around the world. Obviously, there is a correlation with cosmic and galactic influences (collectively called Space Weather), where decades old research and scientific analysis has already made a clear connection.
Gamma-ray Burst Real-time Sky Map
grb.sonoma-edu, 7th September 2010
Technical details at the GR Blog: link
Comment: Internet chatter! Five Gamma Ray Bursts in 6 days! GRB 100901A seems to be causing the most excitement so I am waiting to see if there is a media release from astronomers.
Hubble Spies an Amazing Cosmic Spiral
Universe Today, 7th September 2010
The Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has captured a remarkable image of a spiral in space. No, not a spiral galaxy, (and not another Norway Spiral!) but the formation of an unusual pre-planetary nebula in one of the most perfect geometrical spirals ever seen. The nebula, called IRAS 23166+1655, is forming around the star LL Pegasi (also known as AFGL 3068) in the constellation of Pegasus.
The image shows what appears to be a thin spiral pattern of amazing precision winding around the star, which is itself hidden behind thick dust. Mark Morris from UCLA and an international team of astronomers say that material forming the spiral is moving outwards at a speed of about 50,000 km/hour and by combining this speed with the distance between layers, they calculate that the shells are each separated by about 800 years.
Comment: This is an interesting example of a galactic sized spiral plasma formation. It's not a logrithmic spiral and it's not concentric shells that form in a crystalline plasma but something inbetween and dependent on the electric and magnetic properties of the plasma, but it's described here as a thin spiral pattern. Plasma physicists have proven that plasma will scale up a trillion fold by comparing the behaviour plasma in the laboratory and we can do our own comparisons, as we are now regularly seeing plasma formations in our atmosphere and skies that can be compared to galactic sized formations. For more information see, the Joyfire Tour
The Electric Universe. More: Celestial spiral goes viral Yes, this article maybe going viral, but how many are explaining the significance in terms of a plasma, which fills 99.999% of the visible universe and the fact that our atmosphere is becoming an increasing charged plasma? People are still looking for answers and meaning, not more illogical explanations.
Skeptic misses point behind UFO book
MSNBC News, 7th September 2010
Solid sightings cited in ‘UFOs’; serious investigation needed
When I wrote my book about officially documented UFO reports, I fully expected the skeptics to react. That’s why I was careful to focus only on the very best evidence from the most credible sources in "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record."
Since 95 percent of all sightings are eventually identified, the book is concerned only with the remaining 5 percent — those UFO events that have been thoroughly investigated, involve multiple witnesses and ample data, but still cannot be explained.
That didn’t stop James Oberg, a space analyst for NBC News, from complaining that the book was based on a “questionable foundation.”
Comment: Meanwhile, the energetic bombardment of Earth continues and the veil continues to lift. so we are seeing a dramatic increase in UFO or UAP reports. The skeptics just close their eyes tighter and the confused stay confused... At the end of the day, reality is reality and as part of understanding the evolutionary changes on this planet, I am most interested in what people are going to be seeing on a regular basis. Hence, I have been watching Terence McKenna videos, because his Timewave Zero theory is being evaluated as the end is near as they say. In his guise as an urban shaman, he was in no doubt that The Apocalypse was about our world being transported into a higher dimensional state. However, I will disagree with his reasoning and state that The Apocalypse is about the ability of higher dimensional entities to appear in our reality. Simply, there is a need to explain how this could occur across the whole planet.
Currently Space Weather is the only logical explanation for increasingly higher energy levels on our planet. So The Apocalypse is easy to understand if we take the example of orb entities and imagine them as being like light bulbs that have an ability to switch themselves on. If the current is weak there is hardly any difference (especially during the day) and the bulb remains dim and remains invisible to us, however if the current is strong, the brightness makes them much more noticeable (especially at night). Sigh... the whole UFO/UAP issue is just passé. For those who have opened their ideas and are prepared to accept reality as it is, evolutionary change means many people are seeing huge balls of light and the rest of the weird interdimensional spectrum on a regular basis.
Btw, I wonder if any of the skeptics have read the article UFOs, Sovereignty and Politics, which reads: ""UFO ignorance is political rather than scientific"- that's the conclusion of two prominent university professors who had the results of their research on UFOs published in the August 2008 edition of Political Theory. The paper by Wendt’s and Duvall’s is available online, here is the abstract, Sovereignty and the UFO but the full paper can be downloaded here .
DOUBLE ASTEROID FLYBY
Spaceweather.com, 7th September 2010
It's a cosmic coincidence. Two asteroids, each about 10 to 15 meters wide, will
fly past Earth within hours of one another on Sept.
8th. Although both are coming inside the orbit of
the Moon, there is no danger of impact. At closest
approach, 2010
RF12 will be 77,000 km (0.2 LD) away; 2010
RX30 will be even farther at 231,000 km (0.6 LD).
Advanced amateur astronomers may be able to track
the asteroids using these
ephemerides.
The fast-moving space rocks will shine like stars
of 15th or 16th magnitude. Good luck, observers!
Comment:
Apparently, there is now a lot of debris flowing into the solar system, so now we have 5 small asteroids passing us by in 6 days, and two are very close to Earth, see the Near Earth Asteroids chart at spaceweather.com. According to one metaphysical source, as this stuff passes by, Earth is also being donated with more cosmic & galactic energy. Here is the official stance, from NASA,
NEO Earth Close Approaches
"Custom tables (updated daily) showing future and past NEO close-approach data, including uncertainties..."
NASA To Provide Web Updates On Objects Approaching Earth
Science Daily, 6th September 2010
Colorful Mix of Asteroids Discovered, May Aid Future Space Travel
Science Daily, 7th September 2010
This is a nice quote from Henrik Svensmark & Jan Veizer from the documentary, The Cloud Mystery.
"At the end of this journey, I can now say with great confidence; Yes, we have found a very beautiful solution to the cloud mystery and what remains a mystery, is when the rest of the climate community will understand that far great powers are controlling the climate from the outside." [HS]
"The Sun effects climate here on Earth and the Milky Way effects climate here on Earth and if we want to understand what is going on, we have to take these factors into account. It's beautiful because instead of us living in this isolated planet, we are part of the galactic ecosystem. We are witnessing what is going on around us." [JV]
"These ideas are showing that the Earth is no longer just an isolated little island floating around the universe, we are part of the Big universe and the processes that are going on there, like star formation on the long time scales, or changes in the solar activity, will all affect the Earth's climate and it can make very large changes in the Earth's climate because of this." [HS]
source: The Cloud Mystery 6/6
Well, I now understand that it's not just the climate community that does not appreciate the impact of a changing galactic ecosystem, but vast swathes of the spiritual/metaphysical community has problems understanding the detail of the energetic impact on humans too!
Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand
Activist Post, 6th September 2010
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the region in coming days. The weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed buildings and homes, wrecked roads and disrupted the central city, though nobody was killed and only two people were seriously injured – which authorities attributed to good building codes and the quake's early-morning timing.
Comment: Also, nice article with graphics at the UK Daily Mail,
Earth's surface 'lurches 11ft to the right' as New Zealand earthquake rips new fault line
Canterbury Earthquake - first flyover of [22km] fault trace [NZ]
YouTube, 5th September 2010
"GNS Scientists make an initial aerial assessment of the fault trace southwest of Christchurch [NZ]"
NASA's Magnetospheric Mission Passes Major Milestone
PhysOrg.com, 6th September 2010
The universe is still an arcane place that scientists know very little about, but a new NASA Solar Terrestrial Probe mission is going to shed light on one especially mysterious event called magnetic reconnection. It occurs when magnetic lines of force cross, cancel, and reconnect releasing magnetic energy in the form of heat and charged-particle kinetic energy. [...]
In 2014, NASA is scheduled to launch a satellite that will greatly increase our understanding of this phenomenon when it launches the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a suite of four identical spacecraft that will study magnetic reconnection in the best possible laboratory - the Earth’s magnetosphere. The spacecraft will obtain measurements necessary to test prevailing theories as to how reconnection is enabled and how it progresses.
[...]
MMS will carry identical suites of plasma analyzers, energetic particle detectors, magnetometers, and electric field instruments as well as a device to prevent spacecraft charging from interfering with the highly sensitive measurements required in and around the diffusion regions.
Scientists and engineers at Goddard have designed and will build one of the instruments - the Fast Plasma Instrument, which will measure the ion and electron distributions and the electric and magnetic fields with unprecedentedly high millisecond time resolution and accuracy.
Comment: This is a nice confession that the cosmology of yesteryear where we are supposed to inhabit a gravity dominated Universe, is completely irrelevant to our technological societies that are under threat from the electromagnetic properties of matter in the form of charged sub-atomic particles, as we experience a deluge of Space Weather.
Colombia confirms 'giant fire ball' a meteorite
Colombia Reports, 6th September 2010
Colombian authorities confirmed that a "giant fire ball" that fell from the sky in the central Santander department was a meteorite. The Colombian media has been buzzing with eye witness accounts of the fireball, which fell out of the sky and caused a massive explosion at 3:15PM local time Sunday.
Bucaramanga Mayor Fernando Vargas confirmed the phenomenon was a meteorite that left a crater 100 meters in diameter where it crashed into the earth in the San Joaquin municipality in Santander. Colombian air force helicopters were commissioned to fly over the vicinity to try to locate the source of the explosion. The director of the University of Nariño's Astronomic Observatory, Alberto Quijano, told RCN Radio Sunday that he believed the object was a meteorite. In rural
Comment: Meteorite or satellite? Sorry, but there have been too many similar reports of massive objects falling down in this region of the South Atlantic Anomaly, where the Earth's magnetic field is now ultra weak, and the military turn up to clean up the mess. As usual, the process of investigation by independents is slow, so we await more news in due course. Here is a YouTube video with a translation of Columbain mainstreasm media reporting: Asteroid/meteorite Impact in Colombia - Impacto de Asteroide/Meteorito en Santander Colombia
Update
MSM Video: English speaking short report at the beginning of this Colombian news,
Colombian News 9am Sep 6 Since this event was first reported, there is now a selection of pictures and videos to choose from and we have to deduce that the slow MSM reporting and genuine images, is following the same pattern of other events in the last few years. This is a news AFP report translated from the Spanish, with a small image of a crater but apparently, it's a fake from some incident in Russia last year. Investigation of the alleged crash of a meteorite in northwestern Colombia
Prophecies Fulfilled: From Fatima to Kibeho and Medjugorje
Ministry News, 5th September 2010
There are two sets of Marian apparitions of the 20th century (one extending into the 21st) that have had much in common, and whose similarity is quite noteworthy for the immeasurable consequences. They are the apparitions of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the apparitions of Kibeho, Rwanda.
Both apparitions began in 1981. Both contained a group of young visionaries, mostly teenagers, experiencing the phenomena – six visionaries at Medjugorje, seven at Kibeho. Both featured extraordinary supernatural signs witnessed by thousands of people. Both contained visions of the afterlife given to the young visionaries. Perhaps most importantly, both apparitions correctly predicted significant world catastrophes, from war to genocide.
More specifically, Our Lady of Medjugorje correctly predicted the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the end of Communism in the region, while Our Lady of Kibeho correctly predicted the Rwandan genocides. What is most remarkable is that these correct prophecies came years before any serious political or military conflict was noticeable in the regions of these apparitions.
Comment: Well, I have never heard before that the people of Rwanda were warned and given time to stop the genocide. Regardless of what you belive to be the source of these messages, due to my experiences, I will say now, truth is used as bait, that can lead to some big lies, but if you want to read about the science associated with heaven and hell, I can recommend Jay Alfred's Between The Moon and Earth.
"The Universe Exists Because of Spontaneous Creation" -Stephen Hawking
Daily Galaxy, 3rd September 2010
In "The Grand Design," Stephen Hawking and Caltech physicist Leonard Modinow suggest that physics and metaphysics (and religion) are merging.
The grand design which we have taken for granted since Newton is more complex than anything we ever dreamed of. Models of the universe are changing radically. Many physicists doubt the reality of a Big Bang. We live in a world in which many physicists have come to believe there are not merely three dimensions plus time, but 10, or possibly 11 -a new world view world that encompasses that includes black holes, supermassive black holes, galaxy-mass black holes, dark matter, dark energy , string theory, M-theory, alternate pasts and alternate futures.
Comment: After reading this short article, I might actually think about reading the book, after being repulsed by the stupid headline grabbing articles about whether Hawking had settled the issue of the existence of God.
Stormy Space Weather - 9/10th November 2004
YouTube, 28th August 2010
Comment: For those who are new to Space Weather and have never seen a real-time simulation of Earth's magnetosphere that acts as our protection against the cosmic elements, the stormy conditions seen here are probably not the worse that we have already encountered and metaphysical sources are adamant we are still only approaching the level that will become the standard new cosmic environmental of Earth. Please note: Earth is the dot inside the black disc on the graphics. Since we have had some stormy weather last week, the magnetosphere is still looking a bit worn out... To check out the current situation, see Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation. For more background info, vist the Joyfire Tour
Extreme Space Weather .
Failure to forecast morphs to criminal investigation
Scientists May Face Manslaughter Charges After Earthquake
WUWT, 4th September 2010
[...] Seven Italian scientists and government officials are under investigation on charges of manslaughter for failure to warn the city of L’Aquila, Italy, before an earthquake hit last year, killing hundreds. The scientists and officials under investigation, who are employees of the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and the Civil Protection Department, took part in a meeting of the Major Risks Committee on 31 March 2009.
At the meeting, the committee told L’Aquila city officials that “just because a small series of quakes has been observed [in L'Aquila] there is no reason to suggest that the sequence of low-magnitude tremors are a precursor to a major event,” which was deemed “improbable, although not impossible.” However, on 6 April 2009, the city was struck by a Mw 6.3 earthquake that killed 308 people.
The criminal charges against these scientists and officials are unfounded. Despite decades of scientific research in Italy and in the rest of the world, it is not yet possible to accurately and consistently predict the timing, location, and magnitude of earthquakes before they occur. It is thus incorrect to assume that the L’Aquila earthquake should have been predicted.
Comment: We all know that many scientists like to give the impression they are all knowing, (at least about their subject matter), but at the end of the day, they are not omnipotent. Most humans do not have the ability to use additional senses that can be harnessed through evolutionary development, but we do know that some animals can naturally sense low frequency emissions. (Last time I read anything on the subject matter, scientists state there are 17 senses, which does not include the result of combined senses associated with synaesthesia.) Interestingly, there are a few people who regularly make earthquake predictions because they have tinnitus and a few days prior to major earthquakes they can detect when the normally high pitched ringing in their ears actually changes. Scientifically, we do know that very low frequency EM emissions can be detected prior to earthquakes, (normally in days and hours) and these discharges have many effects, including the generation of rainbow clouds. Whatever, due to the massive planetary upheaval that I have called, 'The Planetary Refresh,' and the obvious increase in major earthquakes, our geoscientists are simply not at the stage where they can make good accurate earthquake predictions.
University of Colardo students crash land a NASA satellite
Geek.com, 2nd September 2010
Talk about a dream project: a group of Colorado University students were hand-picked by NASA to help them on a space mission. What was that mission? To crash the hurtling, flaming debris of an out-of-control space aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean.
The satellite was one of NASA’s own and known as ICESat, or Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite. For the past seven years, it had been blooping happily above the skin of the Earth, gathering data on ice sheets that could be fed into climate change models. But then, as often happens, it just stopped working and became another bit of space junk, twinkling in the sky above.
Failing to restart the satellite, NASA scientists decided to outsource the task of crashing it into the ocean to some plucky Colorado University students, who competed on their off hours over the course of many long nights and holidays to earn the job.
Comment: Well, NASA and the other space agencies have plenty of knowledge and experience about de-orbiting satellites (including space stations for that matter) that have been killed off by space weather. Hence, they probably thought it would make a nice exercise for students, who of course, would be supervised.
New Zealand: 7.0 earthquake reduces buildings to rubble in Christchurch
The Telegraph, 3rd September 2010
Buildings were reduced to rubble, essential services cut, and there were outbreaks of looting after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck New Zealand’s second largest city.
The quake, which hit Christchurch, population 386,000, on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, was just 7.5 miles deep, which meant it caused widespread damage. Christchurch Hospital said it was inundated with people suffering injuries but there were no reports of any deaths after the quake, which occurred early Saturday morning The quake, which hit Christchurch, population 386,000, on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, was just 7.5 miles deep, which meant it caused widespread damage.
Comment: The news is still sketchy, but a few images are appearing on forums and there has been extensive damage, see YouTube video and images.
Christchurch earthquake damage 4/09/10 Colombo St
YouTube, 3rd September 2010
Gallery: State of emergency declared after quake
TVNZ News, 4th September 2010
Image 1 - Christchurch NZ
Image 2 - Christchurch NZ
Image 3 - Christchurch NZ
Image 4 - Christchurch NZ
Road Damage - Christchurch NZ
Mud Volcanoes - Christchurch NZ
Strange yellow orange light - The British 'X' files revisited (Video)
UK UFO Sightings, 2nd September 2010
Location of Sighting: Fairlight, Hastings, East Sussex
Date of Sighting: Saturday 28th August
Time: around 9.30 p.m.
Witness Name: Jenny Healey
Witness Statement: I (and a friend Andrew) saw one of these yellow orange lights last Saturday (August 28th) evening when I was visiting in Fairlight (near to Hastings). Similar to the others reported – we were sitting outside on the patio and the light (bright yellow)came over the house in a straight line (heading roughly south east I think)- moving at a steady speed in a straight line at what appeared to be a steady height – below the few clouds but quite high(but difficult to judge) and no sound at all (which was strange, slightly eerie)It continued until it just disappeared from sight.
Andrew took a photo on his mobile, unfortunately it's just a pinprick of light in the distance.
I'm not the first in the family to report a sighting - my father saw something over fifty years ago when he was a pilot in the RAF - which was hushed up quickly and became one of the British 'X' Files. Copy and paste the link below to see film of his interview (and his co-pilot) all that time ago.
Comment: I was absolutely enchanted by this eyewitness report that provides an historical slant! We are told at the end of this 1953 news report: "RAF intelligence officers are investigating EVERY report of so called flying saucers over Britain." So, now that the UK is overrun with UFOs, officialdom are no longer interested in the opinion of the general public but astronomers and pilots are still able to log their sightings via private agencies, see Best of the Blog archives for details, Best of the Blog - Orbs, UAP Traffic & UFO Disclosure. Well, there are plenty of reports at the usual websites, here are just a few with additional video footage.
Video: Silent ball of light - Newbury, Berkhsire [UK ]
UK UFO Sightings, 29th August 2010
Video: Another UFO reported over Shropshire [UK]
Shropshire Star, 2nd September 2010
I can't say this looks like a Chinese lantern... actually, a close up shows a rosy pink hexagonal orb, but I agree, it does look really quite strange, almost like a spot light in the sky. The report came from a real reporter returning from a football match, so we have to trust that, this is a genuine sighting.
Video of reported UFO in Zhejiang province in China (Video)
Tucson Citizen, 5th September 2010
It's just an orb hanging out, but it does morph into a completely different shape at one point when it jumped position in the sky....
Man stopped by beam of light - Maidstone services [UK] extra
UK UFO Sightings, 1st September 2010
(No video but the report made me laugh...)
Explosion on Mariner Energy oil rig in Gulf of Mexico (Video)
BBC News, 3rd September 2010
An explosion has torn through an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of a blast in April which caused a huge oil spill. All 13 crew on the rig, operated by Marine Energy, escaped into the water and were later rescued. The US Coast Guard said a blaze burned for hours after the explosion but had now been extinguished. Officials said there was no evidence of an oil leak, despite earlier reports of a mile-long sheen on the ocean.
Comment: Why did the oil workers just jump into the water, why was there not even an inflatable raft? What's more there was not enough immersion suits, so one guy had to just jump in the water with no protection! So far, we know that this was a production platform not a drilling platform and a junction of 7 pipelines that were carrying oil and gas. Of course, the news is vague and it seems we have the familiar pattern of varying news reports contradicting each other e.g. the report of a 100 mile long oil sheen around the rig. Well, there has been 9 oil/gas related accidents in the US in the last month alone, how long can this go on? Worldwide there appears to be an increase in pipeline explosions and tanker incidents, that I would associate with Space Weather (geomagnetic storms), as previously explained many times on my websites. So how much longer will it be before it becomes completely obvious that we have to do business differently on this planet?
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Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?
Yahoo News, 2nd September 2010
Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.
Some scientists have speculated that effects of humans - from hunting to climate change - are fueling another great mass extinction. A few go so far as to say we are entering a new geologic epoch, leaving the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch behind and entering the Anthropocene Epoch, marked by major changes to global temperatures and ocean chemistry, increased sediment erosion, and changes in biology that range from altered flowering times to shifts in migration patterns of birds and mammals and potential die-offs of tiny organisms that support the entire marine food chain.
Comment: Well, evolutionary biologists are very short sighted these days as the historical record clearly shows that that we have had continuous change for billions of years on this planet. There are certain epochs were some species are eliminated en masse and at the same time others just appear and flourish that are more suited to the environmental conditions. Scientists cannot explain how this can occur simultaneously, and they certainly don't acknowledge that the evidence is clear that evolutionary change on this planet is being managed by universal intelligence.
Earth’s Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast
Wired News, 2nd September 2010
[...] The Nevada rocks suggest that this particular switch happened at a remarkably fast clip.
Anyone carrying a compass would have seen its measurements skew by about a degree a week — a flash in geologic time. A paper describing the discovery is slated to appear in Geophysical Research Letters.
It is only the second report of such a speedy change in geomagnetic direction. The first, described in 1995 based on rocks at Steens Mountain, Oregon, has never gained widespread acceptance in the paleomagnetism community. A second example could bolster the theory that reversals really can happen quickly, over the course of years or centuries instead of millennia.
“We’re trying to make the case that [the new work] is another record of a superfast magnetic change,” says lead author Scott Bogue, a geologist at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Researchers aren’t sure why the geomagnetic field reverses itself. Many think it must have something to do with what creates the field in the first place — convective motions of liquid iron in the planet’s spinning outer core.
Bogue and his colleague, Jonathan Glen of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, went to Nevada to study a series of well-preserved lava flows. As each flow cooled, it preserved the orientation of the magnetic field at the time, frozen like a tiny compass needle in the rock’s magnetic crystals.
One particular flow caught the scientists’ attention because it seemed to carry a complex magnetic history. This lava, Bogue says, initially started to cool and then was heated again within a year as a fresh lava flow buried it. The fresh lava re-magnetized the crystals within the rock below, causing them to reorient themselves a whopping 53 degrees. At the rate the lava would have cooled, says Bogue, that would mean the magnetic field was changing direction at approximately 1 degree per week.
Comment: This is interesting. These scientists are trying to make the case that they have supportive evidence for a fast geomagnetic flip similar to that recorded at Steen's Mountain, Oregon. This was very highly controversial as it supported the idea that the Earth's magnetic field flipped in a matter of days [Coe, Prévot, 1995]. Since this conclusion was made by some of the top experimental geoscientists in the world, doubters were forced to ignore the findings rather than try to disprove them. I wrote about this research in my book because of the belief that a superfast flip of Earth's magnetic poles could be caused by a massive solar flare, if our Sun had temporarily become a T-Tauri type star. This latest finding still goes against the prevailing belief that everything in geology happens really slowly, despite the fact that there is ample evidence which supports the theory of Punctuated Equilibrium. What's more, this theory is becoming associated with the later theory of Self-Organized Criticality that theorist suggest is common to all complex dynamical systems.
Meltdown of the climate 'consensus'
New York Post, 2nd September 2010
If this keeps up, no one's going to trust any scientists.
The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation.
For two decades, the IPCC has spearheaded efforts to convince the world's governments that man-made carbon emissions pose a threat to the global temperature equilibrium -- and to civilization itself. IPCC reports, collated from the work of hundreds of climate scientists and bureaucrats, are widely cited as evidence for the urgent need for drastic action to "save the planet."
Comment: Hmmm... Only people who don't know what's going on in the scientific community have total blind faith in the integrity of scientists and the so-called 'scientific method'. Here is an alternative view of The Modern Science Method:
- Form clique of friends
- Announce new “ground-breaking paper” to the press. Announce “result” in soundbite form.
- Get papers published peer reviewed by friends
- Go to United Nations and declare “the science is settled”
- Denigrate other scientists who disagree with you as “Deniers” and in league with [insert scary corporation here]
- Praise other “independent” scientific papers written by your friends which miraculously support your hypothesis.
- Repeat the above two processes so that you and your friends get lions share of grant money while your opponents are starved of funding and attention.
- Hide data/methodology so as to prevent replication. Make sure only copy of data is on a floppy disk and never, ever backed up like normal people.
- Start weblog.
- When cornered, declare that “science has moved on”
It could go on for years." (Original source unknown)
Police kill Discovery building gunman
Three hostages safe, police say; man told NBC he had several bombs
MSNBC News, 1st September 2010
Police shot and killed a man armed with several bombs who held three hostages Wednesday at the Discovery Communications building. Authorities said the hostages were safe.
At least one device on the man’s body went off when he was shot inside the building in suburban Washington, D.C., Montgomery County police Chief Thomas Manger said. Police were searching the building for other explosive devices.
Manger said no one was believed to have been injured other than the gunman, whom SWAT officers shot about 4:50 p.m. ET because officials “believed the hostages were in danger.” The building in the close-in suburb of Washington was safely evacuated, including the Discovery Kids Place day care center, police said.
An NBC News producer who called the building to find out what was going on had a brief telephone conversation with the man when he came on the line unexpectedly. He identified himself as James J. Lee and said, “I have a gun and I have a bomb. ... I have several bombs strapped to my body ready to go off.” [...]
Lee said at the time that he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.”
Comment: This man is doing exactly what Al Gore has been advocating... civil disobedience... See video clip, Gore: 'It Is Time For Civil Disobedience' . More details at WUWT When warmistas attack. There are many frightened and angry people who still believe that we are experiencing anthropogenic (manmade) global warming [this is being called 'Climate Rage']. There is no understanding that this is a lie and that Earth is being transformed by a massive bombardment of cosmic energy which is changing the cosmic conditions in our solar system. This is evident as scientists tell us that all the planets in our solar system are changing and even some of them and their moons are clearly experiencing "global warming", see Interplanetary “Day After Tomorrow?” - Part 1.
Mystery of India's "Red Rain" of 2001 Points to Extraterrestrial Origin
Daily Galaxy, 1st September 2010
New evidence has been discovered that reinforces the panspermia thoery that the red rain which fell in India in 2001, contained cells unlike any found on Earth.
Panspermia is the idea championed by physicist Fred Hoyle that life exists throughout the universe in comets, asteroids and interstellar dust clouds and that life of Earth was seeded from one or more of these sources.
In 1903, in the German journal Umschau, Svante Arrhenius removed the meteors from the equation. Instead, he wrote, individual spores wafted throughout space, colonizing any hospitable planet they lit on. Arrhenius named the theory panspermia.
A growing body of evidence suggests that it might be Hoyle and Arrhenius might have been correct. [...]
Wickramasinghe's team say they've examined the way these fluoresce when bombarded with light and say it is remarkably similar to various unexplained emission spectra seen in various parts of the galaxy. One such place is the Red Rectangle (image above), a cloud of dust and gas around a young star in the Monocerous constellation.
Comment: It's 9 years after these cells were found to be colouring the rain red in Kerala, India and over 100 years since the theory of Panspermia was first suggested. Then it's over 40 years after the theory was endorsed and expanded upon by the Nobel Winner Francis Crick, who in 1953, got the credit for being the co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. The article is incorrect because the cells eventually tested positive for DNA, see ANALYSIS OF RED RAIN OF KERALA. I note the article makes a link to the emission spectra of the Red Rectangle, which is producing a highly charged fountain of dust. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe proved decades ago that dust in space is mainly freeze dried bacteria in various states of degradation, so Wickramasinghe's team observation here, is highly intriguing.
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