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The New Cosmic Age is now Official!

According to Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division:
"Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history."

"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
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January – February 2011

Will German Satellite Crash Into Earth?
De spiegel, 28th February 2011
Parts of Rosat, a massive, out-of-control German satellite, could smash into the earth sometime between October and December this year. Officials in Germany, however, say that humans likely are not in danger.

The German government is scrambling to determine how to deal with a rogue research satellite that a report states could crash into earth later this year. Up to half of the 2.4 ton, decommissioned Rosat research satellite could fail to burn up completely when it re-enters the planet's atmosphere sometime between October and December. SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that the federal government has obtained an analysis indicating that the satellite is at risk of crashing down to earth during an 80-day window of time.

Because its final path is impossible to predict, no one knows for sure whether the X-ray research satellite, decommissioned in 1999, might hit a populated area. The satellite includes a considerable amount of ceramic and glass in its design that experts fear will be too heavy to burn up completely upon reentry into the earth's atmosphere.

A best-case scenario would see Rosat, now 370 Kilometers (about 230 miles) in the sky, incinerate in the atmosphere or land in the ocean. A worst-case scenario has about half the satellite reaching the earth, smashing into a major city at a speed of up to 400 kilometers (248.5 miles) per hour, and causing an untold amount of damage. Danger to Humans Unlikely

Comment:
Regulars may start to notice the increasing frequency of these reports of out of control satellites, but they are even admitting that parts of the Rosat satellite could crash into a major city. Well, the conditions are rough out there and we are seeing some bizarre events on the daylight side of the magnetosphere (magnetopause) see Just look at these amazing pictures of the magnetosphere!, but shooting this baby down is not the answer either... see archives Best of the blog Space Junk & the escalating problem



Many carcasses of birds found on, along Route 222
Reading Eeagle, 28th February 2011
Janeen Grell peered out of her car window Sunday and noticed a bunch of little black things lying along Route 222 in Spring Township. "What's that?" she said to her husband. "Oh, my God," she said an instant later. "They're birds."

Grell, 37, of Reinholds estimated that 50 to 100 black birds were lying dead on or along the highway, just north of the ramp from Route 724. Just what killed so many birds in such a concentrated area remains a mystery.

Comment:
I just have not been able to focus on the ongoing bird deaths, but the reports keep coming. However, I will say I was amazed by the report that I found last week coming from India, linking the bird deaths with UFOs. At this time, I don't hold this view but I believe that the link only relates to the unstable electromagnetic conditions causing localised ionisation of oxygen related to the leakiness of Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere, generating the breakdown between dimensions that usually separates us from our cosmic neighbours. However, the Indian government has a far higher level of openness with it's educated citizens than most countries so this might not be a completely ridiculous report. I was quite impressed with the comments from ordinary people on the streets of New York, see the eclectic mix of reports below...



The 'wolf child' delighted to be named the world's hairiest girl - because it makes her more POPULAR at school
Daily Mail, 28th February 2011
But 11-year-old Thai girl Supatra Sasuphan today insisted that she was after being officially recognised as the world's hairiest girl.

Although the schoolgirl from Bangkok has faced merciless teasing at school, Supatra says being given a Guinness World Record for her hair has helped her become extremely popular. 'I'm very happy to be in the Guinness World Records! A lot of people have to do a lot to get in,' she said. 'All I did was answer a few questions and then they gave it to me.'

Supatra is one of just 50 known sufferers of Ambras Syndrome - caused by a faulty chromosome - to be documented since the Middle Ages. Before the disease was understood, sufferers were branded 'werewolves.' She has thick hair growing over her face, ears, arms, legs and back. Even laser treatment has failed to stop the hair growth.

Comment:
OK, if you have read my blog for long enough you will know what I have to say about more humans acquiring some horrible genetic disorders, see Best of the Blog DNA Mutations.

Dog gives birth to mutant creature that resembles human being
Pravda, September 2010
Another DNA morphogenetic field mix-up? Or just something equally humanly horrible?



WUWT – Voted Best Science Blog in the 2011 Bloggies
WUWT News, 27th February 2011
This was truly surprising. According to the Bloggies Facebook page, WUWT has been named the first ever winner of the Best Science Blog category (new this year for the Bloggies), beating Wired and Boing Boing, both of whom have way more reach and traffic than we do. I suppose it demonstrates the loyalty of our readers.

Comment:
Well deserved too...

New Geomagnetism Reference Page
WUWT, 24th February 2011
"Adding to the growing collection of reference pages available on the drop down menu is the latest offering that display aspects of geomagnetism. This is helpful for people interested in Auroras or who want to monitor earthly effects from solar disturbances."
"This looks useful..."



Letters to a heretic: An email conversation with climate change sceptic Professor Freeman Dyson
The Independent, 25th February 2011
From: Steve Connor

To: Freeman Dyson

You are one of the most famous living scientists, credited as a visionary who has reshaped scientific thinking. Some have called you the "heir to Einstein", yet you are also a "climate sceptic" who questions the consensus on global warming and its link with carbon dioxide emissions. Could we start by finding where we agree? I take it you accept for instance that carbon dioxide is a powerful greenhouse gas that warms the planet (1); that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen since direct measurements began several decades ago (2); and that CO2 is almost certainly higher now than for at least the past 800,000 years (3), if you take longer records into account, such as ice-core data. [...]

First of all, please cut out the mention of Einstein. To compare me to Einstein is silly and annoying.

Comment: More haranguing of a famous scientist, who refuses to obey and believe in the CO2 is causing global warming meme. Climate scientists can't even prove that there has been any significant warming and have been reduced to massaging the various different world temperature datasets. If you want a list of prime heretical websites the highly irreverent Climate Depot has a long list of heretical websites and keeps the finger on the pulse of the more entertaining climate stories.



Mouse heart 're-grows when cut', study shows
BBC News, 25th February 2011
Scientists in the United States have found newborn mice can re-grow their own hearts. The mice had a large chunk of their heart removed a day after birth, only for the heart to restore itself within three weeks.

Fish and amphibians are known to have the power to re-grow heart tissue, but the study in Science is the first time the process has been seen in mammals. British experts said understanding the process could help human heart care. [...]

Professor Olson believes future research will show humans have a similar capacity, although no experiments involving human heart tissue are currently planned. "There's no reason to believe that the same window would not exist in the human heart. "Everything we know about development and early function of the mouse heart is comparable to the human heart so we're quite confident that this process does exist in humans, although that of course still has to be shown."

Comment:
This looks like another version of the work that Robert Becker did in the 1980s with his research with frogs and the discovery of the "current of injury". Here is an introduction to the book The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life by Robert O. Becker, M.D. and Gary Selden by Robert Becker,
The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.
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Here is Chapter 9: from the online book Politics in Healing by Daniel Haley The Miracle Of Electromedicine



Did Climate Change Make Us Human?
The Resilient Earth, 24th February 2011

Given the ongoing controversy over global warming the question of whether humans can change Earth's climate is a familiar one. Lost in the fight over anthropogenic global warming is a more subtle and possibly more important question—how has climate changed people. In recent decades, the fossil record of hominin evolution and behavior, though still incomplete, has improved greatly. Triggered by a recent National Research Council (NRC) report, a perspective article in the journal Science poses the question, “did climate change shape human evolution?”

One fact is often overlooked when it comes to discussing humanity's place in nature, and that is that man is a part of nature. Indeed humans are a product of nature and the ever changing living system that controls the climate of planet Earth. In the brief for the NRC report “Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution,” the relationship that every species, including man, has with nature is spelled out:

All living things interact with the earth system—the combinations of land, atmosphere, and oceans—that make up the planet’s environment. As the earth system has changed over time, individual species have responded to these changes. In some cases, species have moved to new locations. In other cases, they have remained and adapted to the environmental changes, and sometimes this has led to the formation of new species. In some cases, species have become extinct.

Comment: I believe that Universal Intelligence sets the parameters for all life on Earth and at particular periods in the cycle of life on this planet, massive changes are made. We are facing one now but it seems that the ancient warnings of what can happen have not gone completely unheeded. I don't hold popular views, so I am still ruminating over the Mayan belief that monkeys use to be humans that degenerated due to a cosmic bombardment that happened in our distant past.
Finally the men of the Third Age underwent physical mutations, exactly as if they had been exposed to radiation by an atomic explosion, since their race disappeared and was replaced by the 'Race of the Fourth Age.'

'Nothing remains of the men of the Third Age but the monkeys of the forests. These [mutated] are descendents of men. That is why the monkey resembles men.' (From the Popul Vuh. Unlike conventional prehistorians, the ancient Mexicans, believed the monkey descended from man, by mutation and deterioration of the species.)

Robert Charroux, Legacy of the Gods (1974)
Even today, a few bold Mayan Elders state the some humans are going to devolve and be turned into trees. This may be an extreme view, (metaphysical sources just say that some folk will not be reincarnating back on this planet), but it is not inconsistent with views held by evolutionary biologists who tell us that at certain times, mutants arise who become the dominant species version. The metaphysical community have been talking about this for a long time, but most have not talked about those who are certain to devolve and how this will take place. So, the reality of evilutionary evolutionary change has still not sunk in, even as i) the cosmic ray counts are at a space age high and anticipated reach levels not seen in hundreds of years, ii) cosmic radiation is pouring onto the planet because iii) Earth's magnetic field has weakened and is now full of 'rifts', no doubt caused by the mega magnetar blasts from deep space.



Why many historians no longer see alchemy as an occult practice
PhysOrg.com, 24th February 2011
No, wizards have not learned how to transmute lead into gold and they haven't found any rejuvenating elixir of life. But the scholars who write the history of science and technology no longer lump alchemy in with witchcraft as a pseudo-science.

Instead they see alchemy as the proper precursor to modern chemistry. The modern word "alchemy" comes from the Arabic word "al kemia," which incorporated a spectrum of knowledge of chemical properties and practices from ancient times. [...]

"We're in an alchemical revolution," said Principe during a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February. Principe said that just in the past 30 years articles about alchemy were being accepted into Isis, one of the leading journals devoted to the history of science. Before that a prohibition on alchemical subjects had been in place.

The reason for this change is that historians are now recognizing the huge role alchemists had in producing valuable things, even if the alchemists never succeeded in turning lead into gold. By the way, making new gold was of great concern to kings since it would have interfered with the valuation of coins. This is why transmutation was considered a crime and why alchemists often had to do their research in secret.

Comment:
I imagine that people that are now claiming they are turning copper to gold and platinum (see article Real Alchemy - Dr Joe Champion is Turning Copper to Gold), will have the same problem with the Kings considering that this is a crime. However at least one metaphysical source claims that soon we will be able to make gold easily and it will become abundant and used for household articles. I think that will be in the future after a few major shocks forces us to do business on this planet in a different, more holistic way.



The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we stop it? The Guardian, 23rd February 2011
Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren't what they seem.

The anonymity of the web gives companies and governments golden opportunities to run astroturf operations: fake grassroots campaigns that create the impression that large numbers of people are demanding or opposing particular policies. This deception is most likely to occur where the interests of companies or governments come into conflict with the interests of the public. For example, there's a long history of tobacco companies creating astroturf groups to fight attempts to regulate them.

After I wrote about online astroturfing in December, I was contacted by a whistleblower. He was part of a commercial team employed to infest internet forums and comment threads on behalf of corporate clients, promoting their causes and arguing with anyone who opposed them.

Comment:
I suppose this gives new meaning to the internet term "troll". Well, I am not computer generated, you can tell from the consistent pattern of spelling mistakes and strange off-beat ideas that often turn out to be correct... Lets boast: who knew 4 years ago when I started this blog that NASA scientists would declare that we had entered a new era where Space Weather would come to dominate our lives, which suppports the claims of Mayan Elders and others who have been predicting increases of cosmic/aetheric energies on this planet? Now, we are waiting for the joint US/UK government announcement asking people to wake up to our new cosmic reality, but I have been doing that since my book was first published in September 2006.



Study Finds Cellphone Radiation Changes Brain Activity
The Daily Beast, 22nd February 2011
A groundbreaking study published today by one of the world’s leading neuroscientists challenges the longstanding conviction that radiation emitted from cellphones is too weak to have an effect on the brain.

You can think of cellphone saturation as one giant, uncontrolled human experiment. There are now 293 million wireless connections in use in the United States, according to the trade group CTIA-The Wireless Association. And Americans log a staggering 2.26 trillion minutes yakking on those mobile devices every year—all at a time when the biological effects of cellphones remain controversial and the research on those effects often of dubious quality.

A study published today by leading researchers in the premiere medical journal JAMA hasn't found a smoking gun, but it does challenge the longstanding conviction that radiation emitted from cellphones is too weak to have an effect on the brain. It is notable not only for that finding and for appearing in a top journal—it is also turning heads because the lead researcher is Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and one of the world's leading brain scientists.

Comment:
So, we are seeing more and more neuroscientists people standing up and stating that cell phones are dangerous to human health and well being. At last, it seems the levels of consciousness are high enough to allow more integrity to kick in with this issue... More:

Cell Phone Exposure Effects on Brain; New Study Shows Impact of Radiation
YouTube, 23rd February 2011
"Cell phone radiation is trending on the heels of a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers found a 7 percent energy increase in brain tissue closest to the cell phone's antenna when subjects used a phone for 50 minutes. While that's several times less activity than visual brain regions show during an engaging movie, the study's co-author Dardo Tomasi says, "[I]t's still unnatural. Nature didn't prepare our brains for this." Unlike previous studies that suggested a link between cell phone radiation and cancer, the new study doesn't conclude whether these effects are positive or negative. But it's the first to show that brain tissue is activated by exposure to cell phone radio frequencies."



Puno: Large crack opens in the earth in southern Peru
Living in Peru, 25th February 2011
The sudden appearance early in the morning of an enormous crack, measuring 100 meters wide and three kilometers long, caused confusion among residents of the Huacullani district in the Chucuito province, department of Puno.

The exact cause of the crack in the earth still unknown. Peru’s geophysical institute ruled out the occurrence of an earthquake in the region, but what is clear is that the ground opened up and large blocks of earth can be observed scattered throughout the area.

The event, recorded Wednesday morning, caused the collapse of one house located in the rural community of Llorohoco. Four people managed to escape, but the youngest in the family, five-year-old Jean Carlos Vilcanqui Acero, is missing.

Comment:
Wow... more serious Earth changes, I agree with the comment here:
# Pishtaco says : February 25, 2011 [ 17:36 ]

Sounds like a new rift valley is forming. This is where new continental mass is added from the magma, much like volcanos, but in linear form. Eventually this can lead to land splitting, much like Baja California giving way to the formation of the Sea of Cortez. Interesting...
The following is a google translated article from the Spanish but there is a video too:

Incredible: The earth opens and lets large crack in Puno (Video)
Peru.com, 25th February 2011

Cracks opening in South America [Bolivia]
The Watchers, 26th February 2011 Two major cracks in 2 days?
"A total of 21 homes that house more than 34 families were damaged in Urb Los Alamos and La Florida, La Paz area of Alpacoma, where there was a geodynamic movement of land, 20 hectares, due to recent rains soaked the field and revived the ancient fault that caused landslides since 2002. The affected area is in the macrodistrito Cotahuma of the city of La Paz, near where they join the avenues Buenos Aires and Mario Mercado, a sector that is characterized by brick factories they operate in the border between the municipalities La Paz and Achocalla. According to accounts from neighbors, the cracks began to occur from the early morning hours yesterday, forcing the inhabitants of the poor households to enable evacuation of their families and in some cases, their belongings and building materials who managed to rescue."

Earth crack a mystery
ehextra.com, 6th October 2010
"BIRCH CREEK - One day the land was flat and filled with trees shooting straight into the air. Twenty-four hours later there's a 600-foot-long crack, 4-feet deep twisting its way through the woods - and those vertical trees are now pointed 30 degrees left and right where the earth has mounded 15 feet high. No, it's not a disaster movie; it's what happened Monday at the home of Eileen Heider on Bay de Noc Road in Birch Creek."

Giant crack in Africa formed in just days
New Scientist, 4th November 2009
A crack in the Earth's crust – which could be the forerunner to a new ocean – ripped open in just days in 2005, a new study suggests. The opening, located in the Afar region of Ethiopia, presents a unique opportunity for geologists to study how mid-ocean ridges form. The crack is the surface component of a continental riftMovie Camera forming as the Arabian and African plates drift away from one another. It began to open up in September 2005, when a volcano at the northern end of the rift, called Dabbahu, erupted. The magma inside the volcano did not reach the surface and erupt as a fountain of lava – instead, it was diverted into the continental rift underground. The magma cooled into a wedge-shaped "dike" that was then uplifted, rupturing the surface and creating a 500-metre-long, 60-metre-deep crack.

Nazca plate pressures and lithospheric tearing in South America
Extinction Protocol, 264th February 2011
Nice fault map



NASA Launches Antarctic Balloons to Study Radiation
Daily Galaxy, 24th February 2011
A research balloon launched in December of 2010 from McMurdo Station in Antarctica (below), as a test run ay 112,000 feet for launches in 2013 and 2014 of 20 such balloons to float in the circular wind patterns above the South Pole. Each balloon will help track electrons from space that are an integral part of the turbulent magnetic space weather system that extends from the sun to Earth.

NASA's Radiation Belt Space Probes (RBSP) mission includes two spacecraft due to launch in 2012 to study a mysterious part of Earth's magnetic environs called the Van Allen radiation belts. The radiation belts are made up of two regions, each one a gigantic donut of protons and electrons that surrounds Earth.

"We're both looking at the loss of particles from the radiation belts," says Robyn Millan, a professor at Dartmouth College, is the principal investigator for a project called BARREL, or Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses. [...] This rain of electrons within the radiation belts can damage sensitive electronics on spacecraft like those used for global positioning systems and communications, and can injure humans in space. Experiments like BARREL and RBSP help us understand the processes and mitigate those risks.

"One of RBSP's main challenges will be to differentiate between the hordes of theories that try to explain why the belts wax and wane over time," says David Sibeck, the project scientist for RBSP at Goddard Space Flight Center. "The RBSP spacecraft will be equipped to distinguish between different options, but Millan's balloons have an advantage in one specific area: they can measure particles that break out of the belts and make it all the way to Earth's atmosphere."

Comment:
I really don't know why they continue to perpetuate the myth of only two radiation belts there are at at least three, the latest is confirmed as being made up from trapped anomalous cosmic rays (ACRs), see brief details here.... the latest one is another Space Weather surprise that they have been quietly trying to get rid of for some time... Anyway, this "rain" of electrons, is the very same phenomena explained by the European Space Agency as the 'Killer Electrons' coming into our atmosphere. See below:

High-speed beams of charged particles accelerate towards Earth
ESA News, 6 December 2007
"ESA’s Cluster constellation has found that multiple, high-speed beams of electrically charged particles, or ions, are formed on the night-side of near-Earth space and get accelerated towards Earth. These observations are key to understanding how solar material manages to reach the Earth’s night-side, to forecast the behaviour of the magnetic environment around our planet, and in turn, to better protect ground and space-based technologies. Different theories were proposed in the 80’s and 90’s to explain the presence of these ion beams."

Shocking recipe for making killer electrons
European Space Agency News, 11th March 2010
"Killer electrons are highly energetic particles trapped in Earth's outer radiation belt, which extends from 12 000 km to 64 000 km above the planet’s surface. During solar storms their number grows at least ten times and they can be dislodged, posing a threat to satellites. As the name suggests, killer electrons are energetic enough to penetrate satellite shielding and cause microscopic lightning strikes. If these electrical discharges take place in vital components, the satellite can be damaged or even rendered inoperable. [...] Thanks to this analysis of Cluster data, if the killer electrons happen to be ejected towards Earth, we now know that they can strike the atmosphere within just 15 minutes."

Science highlight - Rise of the Killer Electrons
ESA News, 16th July 2010
"Two belts of trapped high-energy particles, held in place by Earth’s magnetic field, surround Earth: the Van Allen radiation belts. Killer electrons in the outermost belt move close to the speed of light and carry a lot of energy. These can penetrate satellite shielding and cause microscopic lightning strikes that damage and sometimes destroy vital components. [...] Intense solar activity can disrupt the Van Allen belts, and Cluster made another vital discovery when it was on hand to observe directly the effects of a particularly strong solar shock wave hitting the magnetosphere in 2004. It saw the creation of killer electrons through what turns out to be a two-step process. The electrons are initially accelerated by the shock wave compressing Earth’s magnetic field. Then Earth’s magnetic lines wobble, creating something like a very large-scale, low frequency laser, which accelerates the electrons even more, up to ‘killer’ energies. And Cluster showed that this transition, from normal to killer intensities, can happen in just 15 minutes."

Lancaster involved in £400,000 project to understand “killer electrons”
Lancaster University News, January 2011
"Scientists aim to find out more about so-called “killer electrons” in the Van Allen radiation belt around Earth, which can damage orbiting satellites and spacecraft. The Van Allen radiation belt periodically discharges energetic particles such as electrons and ions into the high atmosphere above Earth, especially at the polar regions. This can change the chemistry of the atmosphere, with possible implications for climate change. "
The talk of Killer electrons causing climate change is news to me...



LSE’s technology problems mount
FT.com, 25th February 2011
The London Stock Exchange said it had fixed a glitch that knocked out trading systems for three hours this morning as it scrambled to limit the fallout from a string of problems that have dogged efforts to bed down a crucial new trading system.

The glitch spilt over into the wider market, triggering erroneous messages from the LSE and prompting rival Chi-X Europe’s systems to automatically stop trading for about five minutes, Chi-X said. Brokers said they were struggling to get orders done for customers and were forced to rely on the telephone, instead of electronic systems.

“We don’t have many options. We either didn’t trade or did it on the phone, based on the Chi-X prices,” one broker said. [...]

The trouble started this morning after the routine auction that kicks off each trading day. That functioned for a few minutes but halted after the exchange was hit by market data problems. The delay comes the same week that Borsa Italiana, the LSE’s Milan platform, was hit by a five-hour outage. The LSE was also last week at odds with market data vendors over who was to blame for technical problems that have prevented LSE prices being correctly displayed to some traders all week.

The LSE on February 14 transferred trading in UK stocks to the new Millennium system. Last week’s LSE data problem centred on the data feeds that the LSE provides to distributors such as Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Interactive Data and Telekurs, which then display prices to traders on screens, people at some of the data vendors said. It was unclear which side was to blame for the issue, which has caused “zero” to appear on screens momentarily instead of bid-ask prices used by traders to make trading decisions, they said.

Comment:
More trouble....



Magnetic Boy: Mystery or Simple Physics?
Discovery News, 24th February 2011

A seven-year-old Serbian boy named Bogdan is making international news for an apparently paranormal (though not terribly useful) ability.

According to several sources including MSNBC and The Daily Mail, Bogdan is magnetic. Household objects such as spoons, knives, and forks cling to his skin with almost supernatural ease. The idea that a person could generate a strong magnetic field is bizarre, but what’s even stranger is that other things stick to him too, such as small plates, small flat glass objects, and even a remote control.

Bogdan is only the latest in a long line of people who have claimed this ability. Yet there is no evidence that Bogdan, or anyone else, is “magnetic.”

Comment: This article is debunking the notion that people can be extremely magnetic, so according to this source, all the scientific research on this matter must be completely bogus... Anyway, back in August 2010, the Daily Mail had an article about a British magnetic woman: The human magnet: Mother has amazing power to make metal stick to her body (and she also sets off car alarms). My basic conclusion is that a strong personal magnetic field would act as a better shield as the environmental electromagnetic (EM) chaos deepens and Earth is more exposed to the solar, cosmic and galactic energies. So, as I have stated before: Is this a new evolutionary trait appearing? We must consider that we live on a planet that is also heavily polluted with artificial, stray and unhelpful electromagnetic signals, but there are also natural signals (ELF, VLF & ULF earthquake precursor emissions) that are not helpful to human evolution either. Basically, not everything that is hitting us from the cosmos is actually meant for humans and the concept of the human energy field acting as a shield is more about your energy field attracting the correct frequencies of light that enhance our evolution and repelling anything that is not helpful. As I wrote before, some countries are running competitions to see who is the most magnetic and in Vietnam, it was reported that the winner was a man who could hold a block that weighs 70 lbs (32 kg) on his chest. See below:

Supernatural Contest in Vietnam (17 pics)"
Stewpig.com, May 12th, 2010
I would like to see anyone hold a slab on their chest with or without some grease...



Turtles use the Earth’s magnetic field as a global GPS
Discover Magatine, 24th February 2011
In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way. Wallace J. Nichols tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag. But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal. How did she steer a route across two oceans to find her destination?

Nathan Putman has the answer. By testing hatchling turtles in a special tank, he has found that they can use the Earth’s magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System (GPS). By sensing the field, they can work out both their latitude and longitude and head in the right direction. [...]

Scientists often talk about a magnetic “map”, but the animals aren’t necessarily using any sort of mental chart. As with all research in magnetic senses, it’s very hard to work out what the animal is actually sensing or thinking. But that can be a bonus. “It might be good because I don’t have any preconceived notions about how animals like turtles use magnetic information,” says Putman.” I can let the turtles tell me what they can respond to without imposing any personal expectations on them!”

We do, however, know that they have their super-sense from birth. Putman’s turtles had never been in the ocean before and their magnetic sense doesn’t depend on experience. Indeed, Lohmann’s previous experiments showed that even newly hatched loggerheads can react correctly to different magnetic fields.

Comment:
It's quite awe inspiring to realise how much the Earth's magnetic field is an integral part of how various different creatures function. At this time, humans don't really appreciate that we arre also heavily influenced by Earth's magnetic field, as many scientific studies prove. Now, with the onset of Space Weather, we are seeing many more reports of creatures not being able to function properly as well many more people are starting to feel the impact of geomagnetic storms and those who are the most emotionally unstable are being tipped over the most into very unbalanced states.



Report: Army targeted senators with psyops
General sought to manipulate VIPs in order to elicit more funding, troops, according to Rolling Stone article
MSNBC News, 24th February 2011
The U.S. army reportedly deployed a specialized "psychological operations" team to help convince American legislators to boost funding and troop numbers for the war in Afghanistan.

The operation was ordered by three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, Rolling Stone Magazine reported in a story published late on Wednesday. An officer in charge of the unit objected when he was ordered to pressure the visiting senators and was harshly reprimanded by superiors, according to the magazine.

"My job in psyops is to play with people's heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave," the officer, Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, told Rolling Stone. "I'm prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you're crossing a line," he added.

Comment:
There is a history of using these techniques on the general public, so I suppose the psychopaths in charge, could find no reason for not using the same techniques on senators. The wonder now is that someone is prepared to stand up and reveal the extent of this type of abuse. Another version:

General ordering probe into report of mind tricks
Yahoo News, 24th February 2011



Ret. Col. Says UFOs Are Real, but Denies Government Cover-Up
AOL News, 23rd February 2011
Whether you believe or disbelieve the notion that UFOs are visitors from another planet, a former highly decorated military officer now comes forward with information that may infuriate those on both sides in the ongoing ET debate.

Retired Col. John Alexander, using his military savvy and high security clearance, spent a quarter of a century going through the top levels of the U.S. government and military searching for the group of people who were allegedly responsible for UFO information and the supposedly decades-old UFO cover-up. His conclusions: Not only is there no such group and no cover-up, but disclosure about UFOs has already occurred on different official levels.

With so many people crying out these days for the U.S. government or the United Nations or even the Vatican to issue some sort of "we are not alone in the universe" disclosure statement, Alexander says the information has been dripping out all around us, over decades, with top officials casually making statements about UFOs. [...]

"Disclosure has happened," Alexander added. "It starts with former presidents Truman, Carter, Reagan and [the Soviet Union's] Gorbachev. I've got stacks of generals, including Soviet generals, who've come out and said UFOs are real. My point is, how many times do senior officials need to come forward and say this is real?" Alexander told AOL News. [...]

"The problem is, when you discuss UFOs, we are talking everything from little balls of light to hard craft a mile or more across, and everything in between. So what is it?" Alexander asked. "I argue that, not only are we not solving the problems yet, we're not even asking the right questions, because we approach this wrong.

"I suspect that consciousness is a piece of the puzzle. We talk about UFOs, saying it's a technology that's 1,000 years in advance, but it really isn't. If you follow the history of these things, usually it is somewhat in advance, but not beyond our comprehension by any stretch of the imagination. "The conundrum you get into is, yes, they are seen by sensors; however, at other times, they are not seen by sensors that should've seen them, and that's one I can't answer."

Comment:
Please note the caption with the photo as below:
Retired Army Col. John Alexander says UFO disclosure has already occurred, and the ultimate solution to UFOs is more complex than most people think.
Amazing.... This really does sound like someone standing up and saying the general public should have been paying attention to government officials whispering in corners about the reality of UFOs... This article is quite incredible... debunkers are going to be in a serious dilemma, because this retired colonel is talking about the need to understand the true nature of reality, a subject that most refuse to even consider.... This reminds me of the often cited quote:
"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident"
Arthur Schopenhauer quotes (German Philosopher, 1788-1860)
The various different press releases on this subject from around the world suggests that we have reached the third stage...

UFOs: Government disclosure vs government confirmation
Coast to Coast Radio Examiner, 21st February 2011
"According to Alexander, the vast majority of the information is already out there. The problem with the UFO community is that they're not looking for disclosure. They're looking for confirmation and if it doesn't fit their preconceived notion of reality then they assume there must be a conspiracy."
There you have it in a nutshell, most ufologists are largely only interested in hearing what they want to hear. No interest in reality...

Former Canadian Defense Official Blasts US on UFO Cover-Up
AOL News, 25th February 2011
"If a previous minister of national defense of a big country started talking publicly about his belief that some UFOs are interplanetary vehicles carrying visitors to Earth, would you believe him or not? Well, stepping up to the plate is the Honorable Paul Hellyer, a former deputy prime minister of Canada and the longest serving current member -- ahead of Prince Philip -- of the Queen's Privy Council, which is made up of "prominent Canadians appointed to advise the queen on issues of importance to the country."

As Canadian minister of national defense in 1963, Hellyer was responsible for integrating and unifying the Royal Canadian army, navy and air force into a single organization, the Canadian Armed Forces. Former Canadian Minister of National Defense Paul Hellyer is very outspoken on the reality of UFOs and has criticized the U.S. government for reportedly covering up UFO information. And yes, he is extremely outspoken about UFOs and alien visitors to Earth."



A milestone for NARCAP
Herald, De Void, 22nd February 2011
[...] NARCAP’s roughly 50 members — research associates, mostly, with disciplines as disparate as aviation engineering and perceptual psychology — are studying UFOs, one of the most heavily trafficked subjects in cyberspace. (They refer to the mystery by another acronym, UAP, or unidentified aerial phenomena, in an effort to avoid the UFO baggage.) Never mind that their perhaps forbiddingly technical analyses — such as last year’s sobering Project Sphere — are routinely ignored by the mainstream media and never referenced by so-called skeptics alleging a lack of data to review. [...]

Unlike the U.S., the Chilean government has a formal and transparent UAP reporting system called the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), which was established in 1997 following a major sighting wave too widespread to ignore. Last December, NARCAP scored a huge and possibly unprecedented coup when it signed onto a partnership with CEFAA under the auspices of Chile’s General Direction of Civil Aviation and National Aviation.

Signatories included the somewhat fearless CEFAA director Gen. Ricardo Bermudez Sanhueza. In 2000, Bermudez dispatched a memo to the Pentagon via the American embassy asking if U.S. anti-missile exercises might account for yet another rash of sightings along Chile’s central coast in 1999. He also expressed an interest in working with an American counterpart to investigate the unremitting weirdness in the skies.

“Both requests went unanswered,” Bermudez wrote last year in Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record.

Comment:
I wonder if Wikileaks have got the US Embassy memo... Anyway, I am pleased to here about this positive step.



US and UK team up to meet threat of solar storms
Collaboration against threat of space weather could avert a $2 trillion disaster
The First Post, 22nd February 2011
The United States and British governments are finally moving to tackle the very real threat that a solar storm might knock out communications and electricity grids across the earth, causing trillions of dollars of economic damage.

Next month, the US and UK will issue a join statement on the threat from so-called space weather. The news comes after scientists from around the world gave their strongest warning yet of the dangers space weather poses during a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Helena Lindberg of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency said at the weekend: "I'm not talking about days or weeks, but several months without electric power, blackouts, across large regions of Europe and the US."

"To my mind, there are few emergencies today that require such a close cooperation across the Atlantic as that of the geomagnetic storm."

Comment:
The New Cosmic Age has arrived as predicted but few have been interested in this new reality and even fewer have been working on new solutions to help mankind through this transition. Whatever, our modern technological society is under threat and Space Weather is already forcing change, so society needs to understand that change is imperative, and innovation is the key to a brand new future for Earth.

UK scientist warns over solar storm danger
Herald Sun, 22nd February 2011
BRITAIN must improve emergency planning for a solar storm, or face space weather bringing the country to a standstill, the UK government's chief scientist has warned. An increased use of technology has left the UK vulnerable to space weather activity, said Professor John Beddington at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington DC today.

Electrical transformers, power cables and pipelines, as well as cell phones, GPS and other satellite technologies are all at risk in the event of a solar storm, which appears more likely as the sun prepares to enter a more active phase of its 11-year cycle in 2013. "I raised the issue with the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat, arguing that it needs to be higher up the agenda," he told The Times.



Earthquake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps scores
CBS News, 22nd February 2011
CBS/AP) CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - At least 65 people died when an earthquake toppled churches and tall buildings in one of New Zealand's biggest cities. The killer quake - one of the nation's worst natural disasters in decades - even shook a massive chunk of ice from New Zealand's biggest glacier, about 120 miles east of Christchurch, where most of the damage was reported.

More than 100 people were thought to be trapped in the rubble as darkness fell Tuesday night. Rescue crews with sniffer dogs searched for survivors, some of whom sent text messages or made phone calls from under the wreckage. It was the second major quake to hit Christchurch, a city of 350,000, in five months, though Tuesday's 6.3-magnitude temblor caused more destruction than a stronger September quake.

"It is just a scene of utter devastation," Prime Minister John Key said after rushing to the city. "We may well be witnessing New Zealand's darkest day."

Comment:
I am wondering when authorities will start to get serious about earthquake predictions. We know that there are often precursor VLF & ELF electromagnetic emissions associated with earthquakes. Over 30 years ago, one researcher found that the results of biological experiments were so disturbed that they built their own detector to pick up these signals and since this time, many others have done the same. Now we have satellites picking up those same signals, but apparently that information is still not good enough and so people are left helpless. It will be interesting to find any reports of cats and dogs running away as well as all the other signals that are usually ignored. More below:

Whale deaths linked to New Zealand earthquake?
TNT Magazine, 22nd February 2011
The mysterious deaths of over 100 stranded pilot whales on the coast of New Zealand may have been an ignored warning that an earthquake was about to strike. Two days before the earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand, a pod of whales beached themselves on Stewart Island, the second mass death of whales in three weeks. This sort of ominous occurrence has predated earthquakes in the past, and some scientists are beginning to believe the two events are inextricably linked. “It is my observation, confirmed over the years, that mass suicides of whales and dolphins that occur sporadically all over the world, are in some way related to change and disturbances in the electromagnetic field co-ordinates and possible realignments of geotectonic plates thereof,” said Dr. Arunachalam Kumar, a professor from India."

Comment:
This is what I wrote back in September 2010, the last time there was a major stranding of whales in New Zealand but it was about three weeks after the major earthquake in Christchurch.
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.



The Italian Market Is Still Not Trading, And Everyone's Desperate To Sell Libya-Related Stocks
Business Insider, 22nd February 2011
An update to a story we hit this morning: The Italian market still isn't trading, and according to FT there's growing anger in Italy and London because everyone wants to dump their Libyan-related stocks.

The ties between the two countries are deep, and Libya's central bank and its sovereign wealth fund own 7.2% of UniCredit, the big Italian bank.

Responding to these concerns, UniCredit fell 5% in Monday trading. Bear in mind that during the worst periods of the euro crisis, UniCredit was slammed hard like other peripheral banks.

Comment:
Just for the record, I think this is political and not environmental in origin.... For those who have not seen this, maybe we can understand a little of the attitude that some of the most arrogant Italians have, see Middle finger sculpture pops up in front of Milan Stock Exchange.

Italy stock market reopens, index declines
Market Watch, 22nd February 2011
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Trading in Italian equities opened Tuesday afternoon after having been closed due to a technical glitch, said Milan-based Borsa Italiana, part of the London Stock Exchange Group [uk: lse]. Italy's FTSE-MIB stock index was down 0.7% in recent action at 22,075.5, a day after falling 3.6% amid worries over the exposure of Italian businesses to Libya. Trading began at 3:30 p.m. Milan time, or 9:30 a.m. Eastern. Borsa Italiana said trading had been suspended due to a "technical issue on the price information systems."
That's late...



Space Weather In A Gadget-Driven World
spaceweather.com, 21st February 2011

SPACE WEATHER IN A GADGET-DRIVEN WORLD: Authorities in Washington DC caused a stir over the weekend when they announced at the annual AAAS meeting that high-tech modern society is increasingly vulnerable to solar storms.

"The last time we had a maximum in the solar cycle, the world was a very different place," noted NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco. "Cell phones are now ubiquitous [and we] rely on them for so many different things." Others noted a myriad of GPS-dependent technologies that could be brought down by a strong solar flare. This is old news to many readers of spaceweather.com. Nevertheless, the web is abuzz with reports from the meeting.

Comment: This is old news for people who regularly visit this blog too, but at least we are seeing more efforts to wake people up... Here is the short comment at the Financial Times.

Scientists warn of $2,000bn solar ‘Katrina’ (Subscribers only)
FT.com, 20th February 2011
The sun is waking up from a long quiet spell. Last week it sent out the strongest flare for four years – and scientists are warning that earth should prepare for an intense electromagnetic storm that, in the worst case, could be a “global Katrina” costing the world economy $2,000bn. Senior officials responsible for policy on solar storms – also known as space weather – in the US, UK and Sweden urged more preparedness at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington.

Solar storms could create $2tn 'global Katrina', warns chief scientist
GPS systems and electricity networks are increasingly vulnerable to damage by turbulent solar weather, scientists say
The Guardian, 21st February 2011



Man shot dead for eating popcorn too loudly during Black Swan
A man was shot dead at a Latvian cinema after eating his popcorn too loudly during a screen of Black Swan, according to reports. The Telegraph, 21st February 2011
Police said they had arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of shooting a 42-year-old fellow audience member who later died of his wounds. The conflict took place as the credits rolled during a screen of the Oscar-nominated film "Black Swan", according to police in the Baltic state.

Witnesses told the Latvian news agency Leta that it arose over how loudly the deceased man was eating his popcorn. Gun-crime is relatively rare in Latvia, a European Union nation of 2.2 million.

Comment:
So, we have a movie about a ballerina, that most would imagine would attract an audience that were a little bit more cultured than the average. However, here, we find out that one audience member was so completely unbalanced that he thought someone deserved to be shot and killed for the crime of eating popcorn too loudly... Yes, the geomagnetic conditions are getting worse and the madness is accelerating...



Slideshow: Shoppers rocked by explosion in Cambridge [UK]
Cambridge News, 21st February 2011
Shops in Cambridge were evacuated after an underground blast in a busy shopping street. The explosion, sparked by an electrical fault under the pavement of Fitzroy Street, happened at around 1pm on Saturday outside Modelzone, scattering shoppers.

Firefighters cleared staff and customers from the store, along with those in Argos, Specsavers, Caffé Nero, Clement Joscelyne and Solo fashion stores. The road was closed at the Christ’s Pieces end of the street, which leads to The Grafton shopping centre, with police fearing a second explosion.

Work was carried out on underground services in the area recently. Karl Harris, who was close to the blast, said: “It was very scary at first. I started running when it happened.” [...]

Simon Arnold, of the Hot Sausage Company, was just yards from the blast as he served customers from the fast-food stall. He said: “It was like a big whoosh – like if a tube is full of gas and it comes out fast. There was a big plume of smoke about 20ft in the air.

Comment:
According to the local police, this was not a gas explosion and one description provided here clearly gives us a clue that this was coming from deep within the earth as we read, "...like if a tube is full of gas and it comes out fast." Oh well, it would be nice to see an official report and verdict, but we can speculate that we are starting to see another manifestation of Earth trying to deal with excess energy as it is obvious we are reaching some sort of saturation point. From my point of view, the geophysics of the energetic transition on this planet is getting very interesting.



Laying this one must have been eggscruciating! The hen's egg eight times heavier than normal
Daily Mail, 21st February 2011
For a free-range hen who just laid an egg more than eight times heavier than normal, Hattie the hen seems remarkably unruffled. The egg weighs a hefty 5.7oz, is three and a half inches long and eight inches in circumference. [...]

In Newquay last autumn a hotel chef preparing breakfast was left shell-shocked today after discovering a perfectly round egg, a billion-to-one discovery.

Comment:
I really don't know why these poor hens are laying these enormous eggs, but its still does not beat the story of the cockerel that turned into a hen in a matter of days when the hens were all killed by a fox. Maybe we should wonder about the nature of consciousness and the power of intent associated with even the most humble feathered creature. See more below:

Now I'm a chick! Gianni the gender-bending cockerel starts to lay eggs, baffling scientists
Daily Mail, 22nd April 2010

What a cracking find! Pensioner discovers an egg within an egg
Daily Mail, 22nd February 2011
"Retired farmer John Fellows, 68, had been making scrambled eggs when he cracked open the large outer shell of the ordinary chicken egg. But when he put it aside to clean up, he spotted a smaller egg the size of a marble inside. [...] Experts say the rare phenomenon is just a quirk of nature and can occur if the chicken receives a shock during egg production."

Comment:

This is getting ridiculous... I wonder if experts mean an 'electric shock' during egg production...



Pilots, boaters adjust to shift in magnetic north
Sun Sentinel News, 20th February 2011
Magnetic north, the point at the top of the Earth that determines compass headings, is shifting its position at a rate of about 40 miles per year. In geologic terms, it's racing from the Arctic Ocean near Canada toward Russia.

As a result, everyone who uses a compass, even as a backup to modern GPS navigation systems, needs to be aware of the shift, make adjustments or obtain updated charts to ensure they get where they intend to go, authorities say. That includes pilots, boaters and even hikers.

"You could end up a few miles off or a couple hundred miles off, depending how far you're going," said Matthew Brock, a technician with Lauderdale Speedometer and Compass, a Fort Lauderdale company that repairs compasses. [...]

Because GPS navigation draws on satellites, it has no reliance on magnetic north. On the other hand, satellites and GPS systems can malfunction. For that reason, Tom Cartier recommends all pilots and boaters keep a compass handy as backup.

"The magnetic compass is what gets you home in your boat or plane when everything else quits," said Cartier, a senior deck instructor at Maritime Professional Training in Fort Lauderdale. "It's a very, very valuable piece of equipment."

Comment:
There is even an admission here that GPS and satellites are becoming unreliable too. So, the reason for this article is Earth's magnetic field is becoming very unstable and too many people don't know how to read a chart or use a compass anymore.



UFO Sightings in 2011 on the rise
Latest UFO sightings, 20th February 2011
UFO Sightings in 2011 on the rise 2011 has started off as a banner year for UFO sightings. Performing an internet search for UFO sightings will yield an amazing assortment of choices. Moscow, Chicago, Cairo, Jerusalem and Utah – the internet is alive with excitement over these documented cases.

As usual there are attempts to create false UFO stories. The most suspicious is the Jerusalem video. The well respected Discovery News channel has analyzed this video. Refering to the abnormal background shudder and lack of reflective light, their position is that it is most likely a fake.

The Cairo, Chicago, Utah and Moscow sightings are harder to explain away as fakes. For example, in Cairo, the light appears suddenly from mid air and quickly accelerates and disappears. This is exactly how many previous UFO reports have been described. Chicago had a UFO encounter in 2006 which was witnessed by many airport employees; once again it is in the spotlight for the same reason. The recent videos filmed by Chicago residents are impressive and will be difficult to dismiss as fakes or weather incidents.

Comment:
OK, this is quite a good website for UFO videos but normally there is not much in the way of a comment but this blog entry simple states what many ufologists have realised that sightings are dramatically rising but that many of the sightings are actually lights and orbs. As I have pointed out many times, some ufologists are being forced to reconsider their beliefs about this phenomena and some are being quite bold and talking about orbs being the dead and "sky creatures". Incredible, but true... see below:

ORBs, Extreme Possibility One And Two - Making The Case
UDCC, 20th February 2011



How many planets in Milky Way? At least 50 billion scientists say
The Star, 19th February 2011
WASHINGTON—Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. At least 500 million of those planets are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold zone where life could exist. The numbers were extrapolated from the early results of NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope.

Kepler science chief William Borucki says scientists took the number of planets they found in the first year of searching a small part of the night sky and then made an estimate on how likely stars are to have planets. Kepler spots planets as they pass between Earth and the star it orbits. So far Kepler has found 1,235 candidate planets, with 54 in the zone where life could possibly exist. Kepler’s main mission is not to examine individual worlds, but give astronomers a sense of how many planets, especially potentially habitable ones, there are likely to be in our galaxy. They would use the one-four-hundredth of the night sky that Kepler is looking at and extrapolate from there. [...]

For many years scientists figured there were 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, but last year a Yale scientist figured the number was closer to 300 billion stars. Either way it shows that Carl Sagan was right when he talked of billions and billions of worlds, said retired NASA astronomer Steve Maran, who praised the research but wasn’t part of it. And that’s just our galaxy. Scientists figure there are 100 billion galaxies.

Comment:
It really makes you wonder how people can believe that humans are alone in the cosmos, especially now that scientists have provided us with observational data, the probabilities are such that this belief is just totally unrealistic.



Temperature swings 100 degrees in one week in Okla. town
Yahoo News, 18th February 2011
Residents in the Northern Oklahoma town of Nowata experienced a nearly 110-degree shift in the weather this week after a cold front brought temperatures down to a record-setting -31 degrees. Today, it's a balmy 72 degrees in Nowata. Yesterday, it reached 79 degrees. "Isn't it crazy? I love it," Nowata resident Julie Koupe told local channel News on 6.

On Feb. 10, it was slightly colder in the region than it was on the South Pole, notes Tulsa World writer Cary Aspinall. More than 3,000 Nowata homes lost power and residents spent the next few days digging their cars and homes out of the snow. There was so much snow in Tulsa last week that city officials began debating provisional plans to truck it out of town.

Comment:
I have not focused on the extreme amounts of snow in parts of the United States but this report of wild swings in temperature just could not be ignored (accept I forgot to add this to the blog). Here is an important quote:
"A point to remember is that the ionosphere is an active electrical shield protecting the planet from the constant bombardment of high-energy particles from space. This conducting plasma, along with Earth's magnetic field, traps the electrical plasma of space and holds it back from going directly to the earth's surface, says Charles Yost of Dynamic Systems, Leicester, North Carolina. HAARP zaps the ionosphere where it is relatively unstable.

"If the ionosphere is greatly disturbed, the atmosphere below is subsequently disturbed."97

It is reasonable to expect Earth's relatively thin atmosphere of insulating gas (water vapor) to be mechanically pushed and pulled by the surrounding electrical forces, Yost says. Electrical currents in the ionosphere are said to be 100 times larger than those produced lower down at any moment by all the world's thunderstorms. Yost concludes that electrical forces should be included along with thermodynamics, gravity waves and effects of Earth's rotation, as causes of weather variations."

97 Charles A. Yost, "Electrical Forces Applied to Basic Weather Phenomena", paper presented at 1992 International Aerospace and Ground Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity. Atlantic City, 1992. Referenced from the book Angels Don't Play This Haarp: Advances in Tesla Technology, Nick Begich & Jeane Manning (Authors) (1995, 2004), which can purchased at Amazon.com or found online at Scribd.com, link
Well, it's a fact that Earth's ionosphere is now being greatly disturbed by Space Weather, to the point where GPS is becoming unusable due to being too inaccurate. Here is some pictures with the following report.

Nowata Experiences 100 Degree Temperature Swing In One Week
NewsOn6.com, 17th February 2011



Can WISE Find the Hypothetical 'Tyche'?
JPL NASA, 18th February 2011
In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter, in the long-hypothesized "Oort cloud" -- a faraway repository of small icy bodies at the edge of our solar system. The researchers use the name "Tyche" for the hypothetical planet. Their paper argues that evidence for the planet would have been recorded by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

WISE is a NASA mission, launched in December 2009, which scanned the entire celestial sky at four infrared wavelengths about 1.5 times. It captured more than 2.7 million images of objects in space, ranging from faraway galaxies to asteroids and comets relatively close to Earth. Recently, WISE completed an extended mission, allowing it to finish a complete scan of the asteroid belt, and two complete scans of the more distant universe, in two infrared bands. So far, the mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include an ultra-cold star or brown dwarf, 20 comets, 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs), and more than 33,000 asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Following its successful survey, WISE was put into hibernation in February 2011. [...]

Q: If Tyche does exist, why would it have taken so long to find another planet in our solar system?

A: Tyche would be too cold and faint for a visible light telescope to identify. Sensitive infrared telescopes could pick up the glow from such an object, if they looked in the right direction. WISE is a sensitive infrared telescope that looks in all directions.

Q: Why is the hypothesized object dubbed "Tyche," and why choose a Greek name when the names of other planets derive from Roman mythology?

A: In the 1980s, a different companion to the sun was hypothesized. That object, named for the Greek goddess "Nemesis," was proposed to explain periodic mass extinctions on the Earth. Nemesis would have followed a highly elliptical orbit, perturbing comets in the Oort Cloud roughly every 26 million years and sending a shower of comets toward the inner solar system. Some of these comets would have slammed into Earth, causing catastrophic results to life. Recent scientific analysis no longer supports the idea that extinctions on Earth happen at regular, repeating intervals. Thus, the Nemesis hypothesis is no longer needed. However, it is still possible that the sun could have a distant, unseen companion in a more circular orbit with a period of a few million years -- one that would not cause devastating effects to terrestrial life. To distinguish this object from the malevolent "Nemesis," astronomers chose the name of Nemesis's benevolent sister in Greek mythology, "Tyche."

Comment:
OK, if you have read articles on mass extinctions that seem to appear fairly regularly in the online media, the comment here, "Recent scientific analysis no longer supports the idea that extinctions on Earth happen at regular, repeating intervals." is just completely false. For more background info on this subject, see Best of the Blog - Space & Cosmology & Evolution & Evolutionary Change. At least this article explains the origins for the ideas of Nemesis and Tyche, but we have a discrepancy since recent articles have highlighted a 27 million-year orbit for Tyche but NASA claim here it would only be a "a few million years". Whatever, this article is dated the 18th but space.com revealed that the WISE telescope was shut down by NASA on the 17th and this seems to have spooked some people, but this reaction is quite strange when we are being told that some images will be released soon and that the reason the telescope is being shut down is because, "In late September 2010, WISE ran out of the coolant needed to chill its infrared detectors." See below:

NASA Shuts Down Prolific Sky-Mapping Space Telescope
Space.com, 17th February 2011
"A prolific sky-mapping telescope that has spent more than a year scanning the heavens for asteroids, comets and other cosmic objects received its last command today (Feb. 17).

NASA shut down its WISE spacecraft – short for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – at 3:00 p.m. EST (2000 UTC) today. The mission's principal investigator, Ned Wright of the University of California in Los Angeles, sent the final command to the now-hibernating spacecraft, according to an update from the WISE mission's official Twitter account.

"The WISE spacecraft will remain in hibernation without ground contacts awaiting possible future use," NASA officials said via Twitter. [...] In late September 2010, WISE ran out of the coolant needed to chill its infrared detectors. The observatory then began an extended mission, dubbed the NEOWISE Post-Cryogenic Mission. Without coolant to prevent its instruments from warming up, WISE operated on two of its four detectors, training its eyes on objects within our solar system.

Comment:
Believers in Nibiru or "Planet X", see this shutdown as "evidence" that for whatever reason NASA do not want folk to be able to see what is going on but since the images being produced are not available online anyway, I can't see there is anything of any merit in this accusation. See below for more background info:

New Space Telescope to Map Infrared Sky Better Than Ever
space.com, 28 January 2010

"New" Planet 'Tyche'? Or DISCLOSURE on Nibiru?
CNN I-report, 16th February 2011

NASA Shuts Down Space Telescope!
YouTube, 18th February 2011



Ask an ASTROBIOLOGIST: Comet Elenin
NASA News, 17th February 2011
Question

I've recently heard about the discovery of comet Elenin, which is scheduled to come close to earth around October-November 2011 – Is it possible it will be an extinction level event? AND Comet Elenin: How close to earth will it get? And can we expect it to cause any damage? AND I have read that Russian scientists are now predicting that asteroid Apophis will impact the Earth April 13 2036 causing terrible damage. I understand that the Russians are planning a mission to stop the asteroid.

Both Comet Elenin and Asteroid Apophis are real, but these concerns about collisions are without foundation. Unfortunately there are a few popular websites that are known for suggesting multiple catastrophes, including popularizing the 2012 hoax.

Two that show up in any search for “Comet Elenin” are godlikeproductions and abovetopsecret, both of which predict either a very close pass by Earth or a collision. If instead you consult dependable websites like wikipedia and skyandtelescope you will find that Comet Elenin will come nowhere near the Earth. At its closest (in mid-October) it will be about 30 million km from our planet.

Comment:
Wikipedia? Don't you think a NASA spokesperson should be telling people to visit the government funded NASA websites for info? Anyway, I think it's absolutely hilarious that NASA are directly pointing out the top two conspiracy websites who seem to be both riding high at the moment. Above Top Secret (ATS) even has the notoriety of being a place where Jared Loughner was a member and signed on occasionally to have a rant. At the moment, there is a lot of disinformation out there and as much as there is some great information on these particular websites, discernment is key and that means doing your own checks. I just had to laugh at the response at godlikeproductions, please be warned of the high levels of profanity. Some of the people have a very conspiratorial way of viewing the world and quite frankly, it means they don't think like the average who mostly don't think, if you know what I mean.... thus, some of these pleople are clearly running the detective archetype and that makes them much more interesting to A Seeker of the Truth....



Mutation Lets Fish Thrive in Toxins
The high levels of PCBs in the Hudson River should be deadly -- but not to these fish.
Discovery, 17th February 2011
THE GIST

* Mutations in a Hudson River fish species allow it to resist pollution.
* The mutations may allow the fish to survive, but they also ensure that PCBs are passed into the food chain.

In the mucky bottom of the Hudson River dwell abundant Atlantic tomcod -- brownish, mottled fish a bit longer than a hand. There, too, can be found some of the highest concentrations of pollutants in the United States, the remnants of nearly 30 years of dumping from General Electric plants upriver. These tomcod have evolved to survive their inescapable lot of swimming in the nation's biggest Superfund site, finds new research, published online today in Science. [...]

"These are the guys that are most exposed," Wirgin said of the Hudson fish. "They are the ones that had to develop resistance." Wirgin suspects that there are more animals out there like the tomcod.

"I don't know what percent of species in a highly contaminated spot are going to be resistant," he said. "It's probably not that rare of an occurrence."

Comment:
So, some fish stays alive by evolving but it also stays in the food chain to poison humans who are the cause of the problem in the first place... Is this evolutionary karma? But seriously, this debunks the notion of evolution taking thiusands of years and strengthens the latest discoveries of the ability of species to create 'sloppy' copies of DNA that can then be used when required to create cope with new environmental conditions, see recent article below:



The drugs won't work if you don't believe in them
"Pain really is all in the mind, according to scientists who have discovered that positive thoughts can double a painkiller's effect while negative thoughts can cancel them out." The Telegraph, 16th February 2011
Researchers from Oxford, Cambridge and two German universities made their conclusions after a novel experiment examining the role of conscious thought in pain perception. First, 22 volunteers had a pain device put on their skin that was too hot for comfort.

Each then had an intravenous line attached to deliver a powerful opiate-based painkiller. The volunteers were asked to rate the pain before any painkiller was introduced. The average score, from 0 to 100, was 66. Then the researchers started providing the painkiller, without telling the volunteers they had done so. The average score dropped to 55. But when the scientists told them they had started administering the painkiller the score dropped again to 39. When they said they had stopped providing the painkiller, the score rose to 64 - even though the opiate was still flowing. [...]

Professor Irene Tracey of the Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain at Oxford University, who led the research, said: "Doctors shouldn’t underestimate the significant influence that patients’ negative expectations can have on outcome.

Comment:
Drug companies are facing a huge problem as new drugs are failing to beat placebo and the rules of consciousness associated with the power of intent that generates self-healing are actually changing. Based on the rules of consciousness, you can't tell people NOT to believe in either a real drug or a placebo because then nothing will work and that is exactly what scientists are finding.

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
Wired News, September 2009

Pharma Crisis: The Placebo Effect [Video]
CNBC News, 31st August 2010
"Many new drugs [half] are failing in late-stage trials because they can't beat out sugar pills. Dr. Erika Schwartz, medical director at Cinergy Health, and Steve Silberman, of Wired magazine, discuss the issue."

Placebos work, even when patients are in the know, study finds
In what researchers call a novel 'mind-body' therapy, most patients in a study suffering from irritable bowel syndrome reported relief after receiving pills they were told contained no real medicine.
Los Angeles Times, 22nd December 2010

Health advice by Dr. Weiss: The Placebo Effect
Naples Daily News, 4th January 2011
"Today, double-blind controlled studies show that some of the treatments and medications we use are only minimally better than placebos. When six leading antidepressants were compared to a placebo, the findings were disquieting. The placebo was 75% as effective as the 'real' medication. The learning: Just having a medication prescribed by a caring physician is helpful."



U.S. Must Take Space Storm Threat Seriously, Experts Warn
space.com, 19th February 2011
WASHINGTON — Space weather could pose serious problems here on Earth in the coming years, the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Saturday (Feb. 19).

A severe solar storm has the potential to take down telecommunications and power grids, and the country needs to work on being better prepared, said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lubchenco is also the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere.

"This is not a matter of if, it's simply a matter of when and how big," Lubchenco said of the potential for a dangerous solar flare. "We have every reason to expect we're going to be seeing more space weather in the coming years, and it behooves us to be smart and be prepared."

Comment:
Yes, there are many who think that NASA et al. are being alarmist in order to get funding but most have no idea that our modern technological world is facing meltdown as Mother Earth continues to drop her shields (magnetic fields) and thus allow in vast amounts of cosmic radiation in the form of Space Weather. Folks, even the US military are talking about giving up their total reliance on GPS and the implications are such that you simply can't get a better sign that there is some serious turmoil in the heavens. Up until recently, the attitude was that we could fight change by understanding the science associated with space weather in order to mitigate the damage, but that strategy is clearly not working. On the whole, humans have not been awake enough to realise there was a need to re-organise our technology to cope. Now that the signs are that things are getting a lot more serious, it's time for more people to wake up to our new cosmic reality with the innovation required to benefit the whole of humanity.



Catching Space Weather in the Act
Science Daily, 18th February 2011
Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As you move to the high altitudes where satellites fly, nothing about that field is so simple. Instead, the large region enclosed by Earth's magnetic field, known as the magnetosphere, looks like a long, sideways jellyfish with its round bulb facing the sun and a long tail extending away from the sun.

In the center of that magnetic tail lies the plasma sheet. Here, strange things can happen. Magnetic field lines pull apart and come back together, creating explosions when they release energy. Disconnected bits of the tail called "plasmoids" get ejected into space at two million miles per hour. And legions of charged particles flow back toward Earth.

Comment:
OK, the article describes the discovery of the IBEX spacecraft catching a chunk of the plasma sheet being bitten off and ejected down the magnetotail. Well, to be honest I have been more interested in chunks being taken out from the daylight side of the Earth's magnetosphere, which is Earth's primary shielding against space weather, see NICT magnetospheric simulation image 04/10/2010 04:54:49 UT. Yet, I suppose whereabouts this happens around Earth does not matter so much, as scientists struggle to understand the magnetic processes involved in Space Weather as attempts are made to understand the impact on our technological systems.



Night-shining Clouds Burning Bright: Big Pic
Discovery News, 16th February 2011
The wispy, weaving trails of nigh-shining clouds – those high enough in the atmosphere that they can still reflect the sun’s rays even after sunset – are shining brighter in recent decades. Usually a polar event, these clouds are also appearing closer to the equator – dumbfounding atmospheric scientists.

The clouds first caused a scene back in 1885, when both Thomas William Blackhouse and Robert Leslie independently identified the noctilucent (night-shining) clouds as a special atmospheric phenomenon. Appearing 50 miles above the ground in the mesosphere – the clouds are high enough for the sun’s rays to illuminate them from beyond the visible horizon.

Where historically the glowing dusk vapors were only seen from the ground between 50 and 65 degrees latitude, giving them the name Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs), in the last 10 to 15 years ground observations have spotted the clouds from as far as 40 degrees latitude.

Atmosphere scientist Matthew DeLand, of Science Systems and Applications, Inc., and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, says that “seeing the clouds at lower latitudes leads to the question of whether the atmosphere is getting colder at those latitudes.”

The noctilucent clouds start forming around minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit when water vapor condenses onto particles of cosmic dust floating in the upper atmosphere. Covered in ice crystals, the dust, remnants of burned up meteorites, catch the sun and glow bright again.

Comment:
Maybe the atmosphere is not getting colder, but that the dust covered in extremely dry ice is just more highly charged, see previous comments related to this subject. Again, we have no explanation for why these clouds are appearing in mid latitudes. The video is interesting because the researcher interviewed mentioned "Global Change," which is a notably politically correct phrase to use.



Argentina: Air Force Makes Contact with the UFO Phenomenon
Inexplicata, 18th February 2011
The radar picked up an object of considerable size, flying from Rio Gallegos toward the north. The device is unable to determine its point of origin. But it flies without stopping. There is astonishment and disquiet. However, the decision in quick and unequivocal: two Mirage interceptors are scrambled from the Tandil Base to intercept the object...and they find that it is a weather balloon launched in Australia, winding up in Argentina's airspace.

More or less, this is the story told by Commodore Jorge Tealdi, press officer for the Argentinean Air Force (FAA) which decided in late 2010 to create a commission to investigate celestial phenomena that penetrate the nation's skies.

The incident he recalled took place several years ago, but it helps to explain the goals of this new commission. There was something strange in the air, an unknown object, and it was possible -- by specific actions -- to establish what it was. "The Argentinean Air Force's main mission is to safeguard Argentinean airspace, and we admit that our skies have cases involving objects or phenomena that cannot be explained. This does not necessarily mean that they are alien spacecraft, but they are indeed unidentified flying objects," explained Tealdi, a resident of Córdoba, born in Morteros, in a statement to Día a Día.

Comment:
So, the Argentineans are not just happy to tell us that UFOs are real, they are taking the next step and telling us that they are not necessarily alien spacecraft either. Yes, French ufologists have realised this too and that is why the French government sponsored UFO organisation has taken on the full time services of an astrobiologist, see archives. So, we are waiting for more official confessions from various government, military and respected aviation sources, so that the rest of the world can get up to speed about the numerous lifeforms that are appearing in our skies.



Northern Norway thrown into darkness by power outage
SOTT News, 17th February 2011
[This is a Google translation of the original article on Aftenposten.no]

Narvik, Harstad, Andøy, Lofoten and VesterÅlen is dark between 8 am and 10 Thursday because of strain on the network, said Statnett. Power is now back in Northern Norway, but new areas may be switched off later in the day. Statnett says on its website that the power situation in northern Norway is very vulnerable for a break from the power line to begin again Kvandal Nordland Wednesday morning. [...]

Unacceptable "This is completely unacceptable, "said the mayor of Narvik Helge Eriksen (H) to Aftenposten.no. At 08.20 was the stream still present in the center of Harstad, although the city should have been blacked out at 08.00. The mayor was in the process of collecting municipal staff to take action.

"We should get more information, and of course we should have had longer notice of such extensive power cuts," said Eriksson. He thinks it is puzzling that the power producer Norway, which is among the world's largest energy exporters, to black out entire parts of the country at short notice.

"This is an issue I will discuss with the authorities as soon as the opportunity arises. Right now we have to deal with the situation that has arisen," said Harstad's mayor. Today it is ten degrees below freezing in Harstad and sour elements.

Comment:
Hmmm... I wonder if the Norwegians have been taking as much interest in Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICS) as the Finnish have? Please remember, spaceweather.com reported in late December 2010, that a Norwegian researcher at Lofoten was sending out info on anomalously high ground currents... Link here.



Solar flare radiation expected to hit starting today
The largest solar flare in four years erupted Monday. Its radiation is expected to reach Earth today and Friday and perhaps interfere with communication systems, power grids and navigation satellites. It might also enhance the northern lights.
LA Times, 17th February 2011
Radiation from the largest solar flare in four years is expected to reach the Earth Thursday and Friday, potentially interfering with communication and navigation satellites and disrupting ground-based communication networks and power grids.

The rain of charged particles from the so-called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, should also enhance the northern lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, making them both more prominent and visible farther south, perhaps even into the northern tier of the United States, experts said.

Comment:
Yes, there have been lots of mixed messages and the reports that Earth missed a bullet, but the solar 'gun' is still firing and Earth's cosmic shielding did fail again. See below:

Giant solar flare may light aurora
Damage to satellites possible, but power outages unlikely: scientist
CBC News, 17th February 2011

Solar storm delivers auroral show
CBC News, 18th February 2011
"The lights were the result of a geomagnetic storm caused by three solar flares that blasted toward Earth from the sun between Feb. 13 and Feb. 15, including what NASA called the largest solar flare in four years. The three apparently merged before their arrival, reported the Space Weather Prediction Center run by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration."

Comment:
From solarcycle24.com, we read:

Another M6.6 Flare - Another strong M6.6 Solar Flare took place at 09:55 UTC Friday. SolarSoft data centers it around the new Sunspot 1161/1162 area, however C-Class and M-Class flares are bubbling up at a quick rate around both that area and Sunspot 1158. The M6.6 also triggered an R2 Radio Blackout.

Possible Secondary CME Impact - A secondary CME shock appears to have swept past the ACE spacecraft just after 10:30 UTC Friday. The solar wind spiked to near 700 km/s. Minor Geomagnetic Storm conditions are possible at high latitudes. Be on the lookout for Aurora if you are in northern regions and dark outside.

Possible Secondary CME Impact - A secondary CME shock appears to have swept past the ACE spacecraft just after 10:30 UTC Friday. The solar wind spiked to near 700 km/s. Minor Geomagnetic Storm conditions are possible at high latitudes. Be on the lookout for Aurora if you are in northern regions and dark outside.





From my conservative estimates, the daylight side of the inner magnetosphere filled up with particles for at least 13 hours between 02/18/2011 01:15:46 UT
& 02/18/2011 12:26:44 UT.



Class X flare - CME Impact - February 18th 2011 Magnetosphere Activity
YouTube, 18th February 2011
"Class X flare - CME Impact - February 18th 2011 from National Institute of Information and Communications Technology."

CME SPARKS AURORAS: One and possibly two CMEs hit Earth during the early hours of Feb. 18th, creating a gusty solar wind environment around our planet and fueling a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm. During the storm-peak, auroras were visible over Canada despite interference from the full moon:

"The auroras were very colorful," reports photographer Sylvain Serre from Salluit, an Inuit village in Nunavik, Canada. "It was worth going out in the cold weather (-30 C) to see the show."

Although the storm has subsided, it could flare up again as the solar wind continues to swirl around Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras. Source: spaceweather.com




Mysterious Sun Haloes - Lahti, South Finland
spaceweather.com, 17th February 2011

MYSTERIOUS SUN HALOES: Most sun haloes are circles. They surround the sun when sunbeams hit ice crystals in the air. The haloes this week in Finland, however, were not circular. Olli Leivo sends this picture from Lahti in southern Finland: More images: #1, #2, #3, #4

"Finland has had a spate of elliptical halos over the last few days produced by ice crystals precipitating out of low clouds. The ones Leivo photographed are superb," says atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "Elliptical halos are rare and we do not understand how they are formed. A popular theory is that hexagonal plate-shaped crystals with very blunt pyramidal ends make them. But ray tracing simulations using these crystals do not reproduce the halo’s fine detail properly. Moreover, these crystals are physically unrealistic because crystal faces follow lines of atoms in the crystal lattice – blunt pyramidal ends do not! The mystery remains."

Comment: More mystery in the atmosphere... the result is an optical illusion that makes the sun look like a diamond... Atmospheric scientists state that to recreate this optical effect, "rather unusual crystals" are required. So, we can only assume that "rather unusal" cosmic dust is arriving and forming ice crystals that are making it all the way down into our atmosphere due to geomagnetic storm activity and creating a selection of often beautiful atmospheric effects that we cannot fail to notice.



James Ray Heads To Trial
Sweat Lodge Leader Faces Three Manslaughter Charges In October 2009 Tragedy
KPHO News, 16th February 2011
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Jury selection started Wednesday in the trial for James Arthur Ray, the self-proclaimed self help guru accused of manslaughter in the deaths of three people at a sweat lodge retreat in October of 2009. The event resulted in the deaths of Kirby Brown, James Shore and Liz Neuman.

"I started to look around and I saw that there were many people lying around who were not conscious. I saw eyeballs rolled back into their heads," recounted sweat lodge survivor Dr. Beverly Bunn. Her words painted a painful picture of dozens of people pouring out of a Sedona sweat lodge. Some unconscious, some already dead.

"It was like an absolute MASH unit, helicopters coming down. You know, well, when he came out the helicopters weren't there. But at that time it was still bodies everywhere, passed out. And then they, he walked out of there looking like a million bucks," said former Ray employee Melinda Martin.

Comment:
This is another court document from the prosecution, presenting a motion for the inclusion of prior acts on the basis of a charge of negligent homicide (which is lesser offence included in the manslaughter charge) which allows for some evidence of the mental state of the defendant to be presented, the .pdf file is available here. Again, it's worth a read, as it provides James Ray quotes from the audio tape of the sweat lodge pre-briefing. Well, I did not know that heat stroke WILL put you into an altered mental state, which was one of the goals of the sweat lodge... So.... according to James Ray, risking heat stroke, is necessary to "move forward in your own evolution". Apparently, James Ray's lawyers have been pleading with the judge to move the trial, see Sweat-lodge guru ramps up effort to move trial to Valley, because they believe too many people are angry and want to see James Ray in jail, see James Arthur Ray trial: Decision on venue change must wait. Well, if you have just read the documentation that is easily available on the internet about what happened, it's easy to see why defence lawyers are trying everything to destroy the case against JR. Due to my own experienceas and after spending hundreds of hours studying this case and other New Age 'gurus', I have learnt an awful lot and I have determined that steering clear of this kind of predator is a priority, but one where knowledge of their behaviour and tactics is mandatory.



Bownessie - Mystery photo of English Loch-Ness Monster taken in Bowness
The Sun, 17th February 2011
A MYSTERIOUS 'monster' - dubbed Bow-nessie - appears to have been caught on camera for the first time. A shape claimed to be a giant beast — said to be up to 50ft long — was spotted emerging from the depths of Lake Windermere near Bowness in Cumbria, last week.

In the grainy picture, which is eerily reminiscent of classic snaps of the famous Loch Ness Monster, an animal's humped back seems to be visible.

Comment:
Well, as I have stated before, maybe the Loch Ness Monster and Bow-nessie are interdimensional entities. This could explain why the sightings have been so hard to verify, but the same type of report is now becoming more frequent as the energy on the planet dramatically shifts.



3 CME’s headed our way – geomagnetic storminess set for earth
WUWT, 16th February 2011

From the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, word that our recent X-class (and lesser magnitude) solar flares have released three Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s) toward Earth:

The calm before the storm. Three CMEs are enroute, all a part of the Radio Blackout events on February 13, 14, and 15 (UTC). The last of the three seems to be the fastest and may catch both of the forerunners about mid to late day tomorrow, February 17. Watch this space for updates on the impending — G2, possibly periods of G3 — geomagnetic storming.

From Today’s Space Weather :

Comment: It seems that the magnetosphere took a while to return back to normal as some of the images seem to indicate a large belt of radiation had formed inside the daylight side of the inner magnetosphere. See, NICT Magnetosphere 02/16/2011 00:08:23 UT, NICT Magnetosphere 02/16/2011 04:10:55 UT & NICT Magnetosphere 02/16/2011 05:08:38 UT. Here is the NICT Magnetosphere compilation movie for 13th - 15th January 2011 , where we can clearly see some blasts and the daylight side inner magnetosphere fill up with radiation.



A Galactic Fairy Ring
Thunderbolts Info, 16th February 2011
Today’s image is billed as a ring of black holes. As such, it presents a fairy ring of gravitational fantasies.

The first fairy dances a fantasy of Redshift-is-Proportional-to-Distance, overlooking half a century of contrary evidence. That puts the ring far away. For the ring to appear as bright as it does, a second fairy must dance a pas de deux of Super Luminosity. To get that much energy from the feeble force of gravity, a third fairy must support the others with the Dance of Great Mass.

Since the ring is constrained by the Assumption of Equivalence of Mass and Matter, a fourth fairy must squeeze in—and be squeezed to a supernatural density. She (or he, we can’t tell at these densities) can’t dance but can only quiver and quake. When the other fairies bump into her, she does emit X-rays. The ring is the result of the crowded stage and the bumping.

Fairy rings and fantasy dances are entertaining, but when a theory requires this much supernaturalism, it would be wise to question assumptions.

Comment:
Yes, I saw the report calling this a ring of black holes and I was not particularly impressed. In a universe that is 99.99% plasma, where the same effects can be reproduced in the laboratory and can be proven to scale up to many orders of magntitude, the black hole myth-making needs to stop.



Astronomers Question Existence of Solar System's Mystery Planet Tyche
Fox News, 16th February 2011
A duo of planetary astronomers grabbed media attention by claiming a planet four times the size of Jupiter may be lurking in the outer solar system. They call the planet Tyche. Many astronomers, however, say it probably isn't there.

The claim by John Matese and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Lousiana-Lafayette is not new: They have been making a case for Tyche since 1999, suggesting that the giant planet's presence in a far-flung region of solar system called the Oort cloud would explain the unusual orbital paths of some comets that originate there.

"There's evidence that some Oort cloud comets display orbital peculiarities," Matese said. "We're saying that perhaps the pattern is indicative that there's a planet there." Although their argument is similar to the one they originally made, "what's new is that this pattern has persisted," Matese told Life's Little Mysteries. "It's possible that it's a statistical fluke, but that likelihood has lessened as more data has accumulated in the past 10 years."

Comment:
Interesting, it seems that these astronomers have decided to ignore the massive increase of fireballs, meteors and sonic boom data being recorded by scientists, the military and amateurs. Maybe, even the 25 comets hitting the Sun in 10 days in December 2010, officially reported by NASA scientists on the NASA website is not proof enough of a massive increase in fireballs and comets? Maybe these astronomers are not even aware that things are so bad that the US military have now banned US scientists from receiving fireball data, but can't stop them recording other related phenomena in our skies? The conclusion that we have to come to is that these astronomers are either not aware of what is going on, or this is an attempt to put the public back to sleep. Anyway, the question is: what exactly is causing a firestorm of asteroids, meteors, comets, small space rocks, meteoroids, and dust that we already know is coming from the direction of the Galactic centre? I have suggested (see the Delft University evening presentation), that our solar system, that is surrounded by the hypothesised Oort cloud of cometary debris, is being disturbed as it moves into the completely different region of space region, that scientists generally refer to as 'G Cloud'. This molecular cloud has very different properties and seems to host extremely carbon rich dust that has already been leaking into our solar system, for some time and was "officially" discovered in 1993. Whether a mystery planet exists or not does not matter, but our planet is now in a cosmic firestorm, and this is an issue for those who think humans have the ability to fight evolutionary change.



Daytime fireball roughly a 5-ton meteor, NASA estimates
Philly.com, 15th February 2011
Early Monday afternoon, a bright object flashed across the sky before vanishing with a flash, according to scores of eyewitnesses from Virginia to Massachusetts. The likeliest explanation is that a large meteor - a space rock hurtling through the atmosphere - passed eastward over the North Jersey-New York City area.

It might have been 5 feet in diameter with a weight of more 5 metric tons, judging from reports that it blazed as bright as a full moon, said NASA scientist Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center. He based his estimate on "a reasonable speed" of 33,500 m.p.h. Good thing it didn't hit anything.

Comment:
As usual, there have been many reports and sightings of what seem to be fireballs entering our atmosphere and skies, but they have been ignored because we it's quite clear that we are facing a storm of cosmic debris and nobody is really interested unless something appears that is spectacular or there is a major incident. For example I provided the outdoor surveillance video of what seems to be a rocks breaking up in the air and then the blast and fireball that caused the San Bruno, California disaster. However, this report is different because we have a comment from a NASA scientist, which is interesting, as we know that the US military have BANNED US scientists from receiving fireball data from their satellites. Anyway, we are told there is an alternative source of information and that data is collected from "infrasound stations to try to determine the meteor's energy from the sound waves emitted as it flew through the atmosphere." There has only been one decent video of this event so far, but it looks like NBC New York have decided to remove the video, see Silver Streaks in the Sky Likely a Meteor, so we await another version to be found.

Over the skies of Salem County and other parts of Northeast, a bright meteor seen in mid-day sky
NJ.com, 15th February 2011
“So far we have 30 reports of a fireball moving in a general west to east direction as seen from the northeastern United States,” said American Meteor Society official Robert Lunsford Monday afternoon. “Daylight fireballs are rare and must be exceedingly bright to be noticed with the sun in the sky.”

Bizarre fireball filmed over Germany
SOTT, 11th February 2011
Up until now I have taken the stance that these are UAPs and I nearly thought about wavering on this until the video quite clearly showed that this relatively slow moving object steered into another direction.



LSE Tuesday Close Delayed 42 Seconds; Traders Blame Glitch -Reuters
Automated Trader, 15th February 2011
London Stock Exchange Group PLC's (LSE.LN) namesake bourse failed to stop trading immediately as scheduled Tuesday, confusing clients, who blamed a technical glitch for the brief delay, Reuters reported.

The London exchange, which ends normal trading at 4.30 p.m. (1630 GMT), before beginning its closing auction, conceded on its website that normal trading didn't cease until 42 seconds after the official close. The exchange had undergone a systemwide upgrade Monday, switching to a faster trading platform.

LSE clients were worried the slight delay might have meant that orders destined for the auction were mixed with normal trades, triggering concerns over which had been executed, Reuters said. The LSE, which said all trades would remain valid, added it was investigating the problem.

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Wow... was this a GPS fail? More:

Traders left frustrated by fresh LSE glitch
FT, 16th February 2011
"In the latest glitch, the closing auction on Tuesday began 42 seconds later than its normal start of 4.30pm. The auction normally lasts five minutes and is designed to help set a definitive closing price for stocks at the end of the day, which helps asset managers with portfolio reconciliation and valuation. The effect was to confuse computer algorithms, triggering trades at the wrong time, sparking volatility, some market participants said. “People were trading at prices they weren’t expecting to be trading at,” one trading expert at a foreign bank in London said."

Comment:
To be honest, if they have been doing this 5 minute auction for years at 4.30pm, why is there a problem now? This is the London Stock Exchange, they can afford the best programmers in the world and people whose job it is to ensure quality system upgrades, so this is just completely embarrassing. Yes, I have worked on the operations side of a very large computing department and have seen some project managers who did not know how to do their jobs, but really, if this is not a GPS problem then this is looking like people need to be fired for being incompetent. OK, the real question is: where did the 42 seconds of "glitch" come from?

Sat-nav devices face big errors as solar activity rises
BBC News, 10 February 2010
"It is not just car sat-nav devices that make use of the satellite signals; accurate and dependable sat-nav signals have, since the last solar maximum, quietly become a necessity for modern infrastructure. Military operations worldwide depend on them, although they use far more sophisticated equipment."
Well, it's public knowledge that the US Military are seriously considering giving up their total reliance on GPS and the recent GPS "experiments" that took place over Florida and surrounding states indicate that there must be some severe problems related to the weakening of Earth's magnetic field and increased instability in the ionosphere.

Virgin system failure causes delays
CourierMail.au, 16th February 2011
"VIRGIN Blue has denied reports that a computer system outage caused lengthy delays and widespread passenger anger yesterday.



Real time Magnetosphere Simulation
NICT, 15th February 2011


Comment:
I have never seen this before, it looks like the magnetosphere (Earth's magnetic shield on the daylight side) completely failed and filled the near Earth space environment with radioactive particles for at least 7 hours between 02/15/2011 00:08:11 UT - 02/15/2011 07:07:58 UT but this is just my opinion and the event could have been much longer. This will explain the R3 radio blackout. The magnetic field lines have reversed, but that is now a common occurence and usually reverts back to normal when the solar storm passes. Please note: it looks like a NICT image is missing before this time and so either the ACE satellite recording equipment failed or the image was too terrible to leave up for people to see. Btw, these images only last for 24 hours and then they are removed from public viewing and then only the NICT movies as a compliation of all the images can then be downloaded. Click image for full size.



Sun Erupts With Most Powerful Solar Flare in 4 Years
Space.com, 15th February 2011
The sun unleashed its strongest solar flare in four years last night (Feb. 14), hurling a massive wave of charged particles from electrified gas into space and toward Earth.

The solar storm sent a flash of radiation that hit Earth in a matter of minutes. Now a huge cloud of charged particles is headed our way. These coronal mass ejections, as they are called, typically take around 24 hours or more to arrive. They can spark spectacular displays of the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, at high latitudes and sometimes even into the northern United States.

The mega flare, which registered as a Class X2.2 flare on the scale of solar flares, was the first class X flare to occur in the new solar cycle of activity, which began last year. The sun is now ramping up toward a solar maximum around 2013.

"It has been the largest flare since Dec 6, 2006, so a long time coming," said Phil Chamberlin, deputy project scientistfor NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which observed the flare. "There were some clues that led us to believe the likelihood of moderate to large flares (M class or above) could occur, but we were all surprised when it actually happened to be a large X-class."

Comment:
This article appears to contradict itself by stating CMEs take only 24 hours to arrive, but this only applies to rare super fast arrivals and then at the end quotes spaceweather.com and states they usually take 36 to 48 hours which is the average time. People are excited but an X2.2 is nowhere near the X20+ or even the real extreme X40 that hit us in November 2003. Actually, this Halloween 'Hell' solar flare was initially calculated to be an X28 but later some scientists stated because the GOES satellite was blinded for 11 minutes and X40 would be a more conservative estimate, see Latest Sun Flare Put at X28, Strongest on Record. Anyway, we await the arrival of the related full halo CME but the magnetopshere has already been looking quite stressed from the previous solar flares and CMEs that have already hit in the last few days.


Air Force, Lockheed Negotiating Satellite Failure Cost
Bloomberg News, 15th February 2011
Lockheed Martin Corp. may pay for a failure on its first Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite that led to the $1.7 billion spacecraft not reaching its orbit, U.S. Air Force officials said today.

A blocked fuel line caused the failure and the Air Force is in negotiations with Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed on the penalty, Air Force officials, including Erin Conaton, the undersecretary of the service, said. “We are in the midst of active negotiations,” Conaton told reporters today in the Pentagon. “We are looking at the operational and the financial implications.”

Comment:
This has only got a mention because I did not realise that satellites could be so expensive... especially when you realise that even getting a satellite into the correct orbit is a very risky venture, which is exactly what the problem was here, but there does seem to be some relief that the satellite was not destroyed.



Confession: Boy bludgeoned sleeping mom over PlayStation
Philly News, 15th February 2011
When her 16-year-old son got into trouble last November, Rashida Anderson responded with punishment - she took away Kendall's PlayStation. That proved fatal.

Following a 90-minute argument the day after Thanksgiving, police allege, Kendall went into his sleeping mother's bedroom, hit her 20 times with a claw hammer and ultimately killed her. [...] Lucke said that Anderson expressed remorse for the crime and told him: "If I could, I would not do it again. I really miss my mom . . . she was the only person who cared for me."

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Even now, all the little **** can think of who is going to look after HIM! See archives for similar stories and previous comment.



British Cabinet Office Collaborates With French Brainwashing Guru To Change The Way We Think
UK Column, 14th February 2011
On 3 January 2011, following the UK Column's lead article exposing insider dealing between the Cabinet office and political behavioural training charity Common Purpose, the Independent newspaper revealed that David Cameron had also set up a Cabinet Office Behavioural Insight Team. Formed in July last year, the secretive cell is tasked to "dream up psychological tricks to alter our behaviour" - and on a massive scale.

The Independent article warned how the public is to be reframed or “nudged” into politically acceptable "Social Norms"; starting with healthy eating, voluntary work and tax gathering. While this may seem innocent to some people, these early ‘soft’ targets are already being greatly expanded to include wider central government ideological and political agendas, including Cameron's socialist straitjacket of the Big Society.

Elite multi-millionaire Socialist and Tory Chancellor George Osborne has already signed up to Behavioural Economics - another form of mental reframing of individuals and groups, specifically to achieve political economic objectives. Their theory and intent is, that once mentally retrained, we “willingly rush to pay excessive taxes”. [...]

There is, no doubt, an inclination to laugh at the idea that we can be mentally ‘reframed’ or ‘reprogrammed’ into new belief systems and patterns of behaviour. But clearly these people have not been assembled behind closed doors to play games. A simple click on Google will reveal thousands of NLP training organisations, leadership trainers and consultancies. They all state that they can and do change people’s minds. They earn money from doing so. Moreover, whilst NLP and other mental reframing techniques can be used for theraputic purposes, any technique interfering with the human mind has risks. These may manifest as adverse personality changes, stress or depression.

Stating that: “behavioural economics can be a powerful tool for improving lives when used with care”, the No10 meeting was clearly aware of risks to individuals and the wider public, but according to the notes of the meeting released, seemingly failed to discuss or document those risks.

The truth of the meeting at No 10 is deeply sinister. Modern behavioural manipulation techniques, which includes NLP, can and do, achieve changes in people's behaviour, particularly where the victim, individual or group, adult or child, is unaware that they are being targeted. It is perfectly feasible, as the attendees of No10 are fully aware, to implement political agendas and doctrine by reprogramming people. Consider Hitler Youth, or the Communist Chinese onslaught on the minds of children and young people. These latest insidious techniques, do not have that raw brutality, but unchecked, their stealth, effectiveness, and viral spread presents a far greater danger. Behavioural reframing for health, voluntary work and taxes today - and eugenics tomorrow. We have been warned.

Comment:
It's interesting that government controller types are unhappy that not enough ordinary people are not allowing themselves to become useful idiots and comply with the strict wishes of the higher ups, so I wonder what gives.... LOL! Anyway, the use of NLP seems to have worked quite well in the New Age community and we have lots of people who routinely switch off their brains, follow orders and think themselves to be enlightened, despite all the evidence that this is not conducive to spiritual evolution.



Largest planet in the solar system could be about to be discovered - and it's up to four times the size of Jupiter
Daily Mail, 14th February 2011
Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter. Its orbit would be thousands of times further from the Sun than the Earth's - which could explain why it has so far remained undiscovered.

Data which could prove the existence of Tyche, a gas giant in the outer Oort Cloud, is set to be released later this year - although some believe proof has already been garnered by Nasa with its pace telescope, Wise, and is waiting to be pored over. Prof Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette believes the data may prove Tyche's existence within two years.

He told the Independent: 'If it does, [fellow astrophysicist Prof John Matese] and I will be doing cartwheels. And that's not easy at our age.'

Comment:
Well it looks like a lot of conspiracy theorists may have been right all along and there is something lurking at the edge of our solar system that we can't see but is being blamed for disturbing the debris in the Oort Cloud, see archive for previous reports. Again, there is confusion here because this object has been given so many different names from various scientific groups and those names dervied from ancient text. Whatever, I still think there is a disturbance in the Oort Cloud because our solar system is transitioning into G Cloud, but the mainstream media are not being informed about that just yet. Simply, this is a massive cosmic puzzle and revealing a few pieces of the puzzle is not going to provide a decent overall perspective of what is taking place, but many are still trying. Click image icon for larger image.

Up telescope! Search begins for giant new planet
Tyche may be bigger than Jupiter and orbit at the outer edge of the solar system
The Independent, 13th February 2011
"If you grew up thinking there were nine planets and were shocked when Pluto was demoted five years ago, get ready for another surprise. There may be nine after all, and Jupiter may not be the largest. The hunt is on for a gas giant up to four times the mass of Jupiter thought to be lurking in the outer Oort Cloud, the most remote region of the solar system. The orbit of Tyche (pronounced ty-kee), would be 15,000 times farther from the Sun than the Earth's, and 375 times farther than Pluto's, which is why it hasn't been seen so far." It's a long way away, but many think it has a gravitational effect and is the cause of Earth's precession.

Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System
Wired Science News, 29th November 2010
"A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized object is lurking at the solar system’s outer edge and hurling chunks of ice and dust toward Earth. “We’ve accumulated 10 years’ more data, double the comets we viewed to test this hypothesis,” said planetary scientist John Matese of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “Only now should we be able to falsify or verify that you could have a Jupiter-mass object out there.” In 1999, Matese and colleague Daniel Whitmire suggested the sun has a hidden companion that boots icy bodies from the Oort Cloud, a spherical haze of comets at the solar system’s fringes, into the inner solar system where we can see them."

Binary Companion Theory
Binary Research Institute
"Researchers at BRI have noticed a number of problems related to the current theory of precession. While VLBI, laser ranging and other related technologies do a good job at determining the earth’s orientation, the sun’s movement through space has not been coordinated with these findings resulting in unintentional bias of precession inputs. In examining the phenomenon of the precession of the equinox (which was the original impetus for the development of lunisolar precession theory) we have found that a moving solar system model is a simpler way to reproduce the same observable without any of the problems associated with current precession theory. Indeed, elliptical orbit equations have been found to be a better predictor of precession rates than Newcomb's formula, showing far greater accuracy over the last hundred years. Moreover, a moving solar system model appears to solve a number of solar system formation theory problems including the sun's lack of angular momentum. For these reasons, BRI has concluded our sun is most likely part of a long cycle binary system."
Many others have been querying the current accepted ideas for Earth's precession as being outdated too...



Halo at Bangka Belitung
Pole Shift News, 13th February 2011
Can someone explain what's going on here?

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As recorded in the News of the Imbalance archives, Best of the Blog Earth Changes, we find that this strange cloud was reported on 8th August 2007 by spaceweather.com. An Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley explained a sighting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as follows:
"This is an iridescent pileus cloud. On sunny afternoons, cumulus clouds boil upwards, pushing layers of moist air above them even higher where they cool and condense to form cloud caps or 'pileus' (Latin for cap). Pileus clouds formed very quickly have their water droplets all the same size--the perfect condition for iridescent colors." Source: spaceweather.com.
Don't miss the example from Dr. Michael T. Goodling of Kenya, East Africa link. There are YouTube videos too, see Fenomena Alam Di Atas Langit - Sungailiat - Bangka Belitung | 12/02/2011 (Part 1) & Fenomena Alam Di Atas Langit - Sungailiat - Bangka Belitung | 12/02/2011 (Part 2)



Two-timing [Stardust-NExT] spacecraft has date with another comet (w/ Video)
PhysOrg.com, 13th February 2011
- NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter with comet Tempel 1.

Stardust will approach to within 124 miles of Tempel 1 at 10:56 p.m. CST Monday, Feb. 14. The spacecraft flew within 150 miles of comet Wild 2 in 2004, when it collected thousands of tiny dust particles streaming from the comet's nucleus for laboratory analysis.

The spacecraft dropped off the samples in a canister that parachuted onto the desert salt flats of Utah in January 2006 following a journey of nearly approximately 3.5 billion miles. But Stardust, still healthy and with fuel to spare, soon went back onto the interplanetary market, looking for a second mission.

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Well, this is going to be exciting for some...

Comet Tempel 1: Stardust photos reveal crater that 'partly healed itself'
Photos from the Stardust-NExT rendezvous with comet Tempel 1 are streaming in. Some show a crater that was created by a different NASA mission but never sucessfully photographed. C S Monitor, 15th February 2011



Yoga: Not as Old as You Think
…nor very Hindu either. There is telling evidence to debunk this nationalistic myth
Open The Magazine, 12th February 2011
No one denies that Hinduism’s most sacred and ancient texts, including the Bhagvad Gita, describe different kinds of yogic practices. But what does this ancient and sacred tradition of yoga have to do with what people all around the world do in yoga classes in gyms and fitness centres today?

To most Indians, such questions are nothing less than sacrilegious. Yoga is for them what apple pie and motherhood are for Americans: a living symbol of their way of life. [...]

Lately, Hindus in America have started flying the saffron flag over American-style yoga, which consists largely of yogic asanas and stretches. The leading Indo-American lobby, Hindu American Foundation (HAF), has recently started a vocal campaign to remind Americans that yoga was made in India by Hindus. Not just any ordinary Hindus, but Sanskrit-speaking, forest-dwelling Brahmin sages who learned to discipline their bodies in order to purify their atman. The purist Hindu position, articulated by the HAF, is that all yoga, including its physical or hatha yoga component, is rooted in the Hindu religion/way of life that goes all the way back to the Vedic sages and yogis.

There is only one problem with this purist history of yoga: it is false.

Comment:
The author Meera Nanda who is a visiting professor of history of science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, will no doubt upset quite a few people with a rose-tinted view of what many would assume was the ancient origins of modern yoga. It's also interesting to learn that there seems to be some kind of war of words about who owns yoga that has embroiled Deepak Chopra who has been accused of being a “philosophical profiteer”. Really, my only real concern about yoga are people who 'accidentally' have a kundalini awakening and then find out the awful truth that this was the original intention of real spiritual aspirants. From my own experience of kundalini and people who have suffered with kundalini brought about my yoga and/or meditation practices, arguing about the origins really does not help when the spiritual fire breaks out.



Boy Without a Cerebellum Baffles Doctors (video)
AOL News, 12th February 2011
[...] Chase was also born prematurely, and he was legally blind. When he was 1 year old, doctors did an MRI, expecting to find he had a mild case of cerebral palsy. Instead, they discovered he was completely missing his cerebellum -- the part of the brain that controls motor skills, balance and emotions.

"That's when the doctor called and didn't know what to say to us," Britton said in a telephone interview. "No one had ever seen it before. And then we'd go to the neurologists and they'd say, 'That's impossible.' 'He has the MRI of a vegetable,' one of the doctors said to us." Chase is not a vegetable, leaving doctors bewildered and experts rethinking what they thought they knew about the human brain.

"There are some very bright, specialized people across the country and in Europe that have put their minds to this dilemma and are continuing to do so, and we haven't come up with an answer," Dr. Adre du Plessis, chief of Fetal and Transitional Medicine at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., told Fox News affiliate WGRZ. "So it is a mystery."

Comment:
The video at atound 2:00 gives the science related to what the medical specialists believe about the role of certain parts of the brain but as experts state here, what they think they know might of course be completely wrong. I even wonder whether Chase's cerebellum has gone interdimensional, it was once physical but quickly dissappeared but connections still exist at a higher dimensional level with the other parts of the brain. Whatever, this little boy is proof like so many others, that humans can be much more flexible in how we can develop and evolve. By the way, the cerrebellum and brain stem are also know as the reptilian part of the brain and so should cause some serious pause for thought, but the ideas of brain evolution that this has been associated with, have largely been discredited.



Flotilla of spacecraft planned to provide space weather forecasts
A swarm of spacecraft could be sent into orbit around the sun to provide an early warning system for the huge solar explosions that can interfere with electronic equipment on Earth and even influence our planet's weather.
The Telegraph, 12th February 2011
Space scientists from the UK are hoping to send up a flotilla of spacecraft to provide round-the-clock three dimensional images of the material thrown out by the sun towards the Earth. They are hoping to build on the success of a recent Nasa mission, called Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), which was launched to provide three dimensional images of coronal mass ejections from the sun.

These huge explosions throw millions of tonnes of superheated particles and radiation out into the solar system, which can disrupt radio communications, interfere with electrical equipment, cause power outages and knock out satellites. They are also thought to bring about changes in the Earth's upper atmosphere that can influence the weather.

UK scientists, who developed the cameras for the Nasa mission, are now in discussions with the European Space Agency, the UK Government and Nasa to develop a new system that will monitor these eruptions.

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It seems the newly formed UK Space Agency are refusing to rely on NASA or the ESA for warnings of massive solar events.



Alex Putney - Messages of Resonance Change in 2012, Betelgeuse & Modern Alchemy
Red Ice Radio, 10th February 2011
Alex Putney is behind the website Human Resonance. Human Resonance has been organized to share the rediscovery of a superfluid resonance technology of our ancient Sanskrit mother culture, crystallizing the body and synchronizing human consciousness. He returns to the program to discuss extra terrestrial and prophetic messages about 2012 and the high resonance changes and transformations that humankind and our planet might be facing in the next few years. We discuss the next magnetic reversal, Betelgeuse supernova being visible from earth in 2012 and giant skeletons found in Ecuador, where Alex currently is. Then, Alex talks about purification of water and physical alchemy, a scientific experiment that now is taking place in the United States by Joe Champion. Dr Champion has allegedly managed to transmute copper, lead and other metals into precious metals such as silver, gold and platinum.

Comment:
I can't agree with everything, especially the emphasis on the 21st December 2012 because there is no mention of Space Weather and the continuous build up of energies on our planet, but I really liked the talk about how humans are going to change. Towards the end of Part I, Alex Putney talks about enlightenment and raised consciousness and greater discernment but he does not mention that our neuroscientists have been monitoring a massive increase of people with Synesthesia. We have gone from 1 in 25,000 in the mid 1980s to 1 in 100 in 2006. Since I have synesthesia too, I am constantly getting signals about people that I pick up as smell. Alex talks about the change that is going to come about when people can see auras and can pick up whether people are lying but I believe this is already going on, as people start to work out what the new signals they are receiving actually mean. So, with Synesthesia, bioelectromagnetic information is being picked up by the senses, reinterpreted by the brain and presented in a different way. Our scientists tell us straight they do not know why some information becomes conscious and other information does not. So, there are experiments when people can have images beamed directly into their eyes, but neuroscientists say that these images can still be ignored and do not appear into a person's conscious awareness and they don't know why. So, brains are evolving now and spiritual evolution appears to be already taking place on a massive scale. Hence, I think many are going to be disappointed if they are waiting for a magic bullet on the 21st December 2012. At the end of Part I, Henrik asks Alex about how his work could be supported by others. I totally love his response as he talks about his preference for receiving positive energies and love from people, wow!

If you have read my book, my essay The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind, blog comments and studied the material on both my websites, then you will see there is a clear overlap with the work of Alex Putney, and that is the reason why Red Ice Radio listed my interview as background to Alex Putney's interview. However, I have not taken any stance on ET sourced material and with the Billy Meier story, I have not taken a great deal of interest. So, I am not a believer, but saying that, I am quite struck by the following quote taken from Putney's latest free online e-book Lightwater.
Ptaah: When the epochs change, so also do the minds of the forms of life. This has also happened to humans now. The Age of Fishes was characterized by religious fanaticism… Then the birth pains of the Age of Aquarius began, and suddenly the Earth human started to listen inside of himself. And he started to think and to explore, and suddenly recognized logic only in truth. He developed in a short time his thinking abilities, and searched and explored… which is a characteristic of the Age of Aquarius. And this is one of the main reasons why certain human beings are now being contacted by extraterrestrial forms of life again. The present Age of Aquarius demands thinking and spiritual evolution of the humans of Earth. This cannot be achieved by seeing and listening with the physical organs only, but only by reasoned thought. If we appear officially in our beamships and spacecraft, the effect of deliberation and of thought would suffer, because the Earth human, in his present state of evolution, does no longer deliberate and search that which he can see with his own eyes and hear with his ears. Beyond the seeing and hearing, the interest is short-lived, because that soon becomes a natural event to him, and he no longer cares. What he knows no more interests him. His interest is only aroused by secrets for which he can hunt. [Emphasis added]
Lightwater, Chapter 3 - The Plejaren, pg76, Reference: Stevens WC Ed. (1988) ‘Message from the Pleiades: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier, Volume 1’ Genesis III Publishing, pp. 150-154
So, "The present Age of Aquarius demands thinking and spiritual evolution of the humans of Earth.", so why are there so many so-called spirtual teachers (Pied Pipers) doing extremely well telling their followers to switch off their own reasoning ability? Of course, the switching off and allowing brain circuits to atrophy does not effect followers from buying books, cds, dvds, and attending seminar after seminar etc.



First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun
NASA Science News, 6th February 2011
February 6, 2011: It's official: The sun is a sphere.

On Feb. 6th, NASA's twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star—front and back. "For the first time ever, we can watch solar activity in its full 3-dimensional glory," says Angelos Vourlidas, a member of the STEREO science team at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC.

NASA released a 'first light' 3D movie on, naturally, Super Bowl Sunday:

Comment:
A historic moment in solar physics and NASA are celebrating...

NASA | STEREO reveals the Entire Sun
YouTube, 6th February 2011
"Launched in October 2006, STEREO traces the flow of energy and matter from the sun to Earth. It also provides unique and revolutionary views of the sun-Earth system. STEREO, when paired with SDO, can now give us the first complete view of the sun's entire surface and atmosphere."



Real Alchemy - Dr Joe Champion is Turning Copper to Gold
Red Ice Creations, 12th February 2011
Resonant Atomic Transmutation of Metals

The following communication was sent to the US Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington DC on December 21, 2010:

In 1987, I witnessed a phenomenon and devoted my life to refining the process. Low Energy Nuclear Change (LENC) is the term used for the occurrence of this phenomenon. In LENC, copper is subjected to a phonon resonance technology developed by me in 2001. The importance of any technology or discovery is repeatability and scalability.

I have achieved both in this process, and have successfully converted copper to gold and platinum. The original theory was the single conversion of copper to gold. The formation of platinum was not predicted but was an unexpected occurrence.

Comment:
So, it's possible to transmute metals by frequency resonance. Quite frankly, as I wrote in my book, there are some very strange things happening in our skies and metallurgists have already wondered about what is precipitating out of the skies, as I wrote about in my book with the strange substances found on rocks and the simple production of gold from ormus and magnetite. Since we are seeing an acceleration of extreme 'black hole' energies in the skies and presumably high frequencies, the inevitable conclusion must be there is a universal directive for the transmutation of elements. What the implications will be long term, must be found in the domain of those who have spent their lives dedicated to this subject.



New Zealand Government Connects Chemtrails to Illnesses
Conscious Life News, 11th February 2011
According to an article in infonews.co.nz, the formation of chemtrails allegedly originate from aerosols which do not disappear like the usual vapour contrails which dissapate after a short time. Chemtrails form into clouds that remain in the sky for hours and are often in patterns like ‘X’ and ‘V’ formations as well as checkerboard grid patterns.

The evidence which has been collected for the last ten years may suggest that chemtrails have many purposes some of which include geoengineering, weather modification, and perhaps military uses. To accomplish this they use elements such as aluminum and barium which are detrimental to the environment, water, and life. According to Clare Swinney at infonews.co.nz the chemtrails contain spontaneously reproducing nanotubes which cause Morgellon’s disease and according to the research of Clifford Carnicom have affected everyone.

According to the correspondence between the concerned citizen and a member of New Zealand parliament the trail he saw could likely have been from a passenger plane which allegedly have been seen spreading contrails in New Zealand and other parts of the planet. The citizen also mentioned a Nexus magazine article in which emergency rooms had been ‘inundated with flu-like cases’ after a chemtrail spraying. In London contrails leaving cobweb-like residue falling from the sky may be linked to elderly catching fatal cases of pneumonia.

According to the article in infonews.co.nz ten days after a chemtrail spraying a sudden surge in respitory-related illnesses including asthma and pneumonia were reported in the New Zealand Herald on June 3rd, 1999. Amidst recently declassified documents released by the New Zealand government were correspondences from an inquiring citizen who believed that there would be an increase in illness after they saw a persistent jet contrail in the sky which is also known as a “chemtrail.” Source: infonews.co.nz

Comment:
Wow...this is an incredibly interesting development... I think another major shift is about to occur. These days, nothing is off the table with the New Energies and changing human consciousness creating new opportunities for change.

ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC All Want Your Chemtrail Photos
Conscious Life News, 9th February 2011
"This alert is meant for the entire world, not just those living in the U.S. It is of the utmost importance that we flood the U.S. media with an awareness that a heinous crime is being committed against humanity and our precious planet in the skies around the globe. We believe that the U.S. has bullied the rest of the world into following their chemtrail-geoengineering agenda. If the U.S. stops spraying, the rest of the nations will quickly follow suit. Therefore, we are asking everyone who reads this message to immediately follow the simple instructions detailed below (and tell others to do same)."

Declassified NZ Defence Force Reports Reveal Chemtrail Linked To Outbreak Of Illnesses
Info News, 1st January 2011

Among a recently-released assortment of declassified reports of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) from New Zealand, dating from 1952-2009, were letters written in 1999 and 2000 by a concerned citizen, who predicted that an outbreak of illnesses would occur after seeing an “aircraft contrail,” otherwise known as a ‘chemtrail’, over a populated area.

Chemtrails, which are also commonly referred to as aerosols, differ from vapour trails in that they often linger in the sky for hours and can be seen in grid-like patterns, parallel lines (see above), or forming ‘X’s in the sky. While seeing a chemtrail does not constitute proof that the illnesses were caused by it, it is worth examining the issue, given all the evidence which shows that chemtrails are making people sick, and in light of what is known about their composition.

Evidence collected for over a decade reveals that chemtrails are used for at least seven functions, including weather control and military applications, and are comprised of a wide variety of harmful ingredients. They commonly include aluminium and barium, which are toxic to both humans and to the environment.



Invisible Beam to Break Up Prison Fights
Discovery News, 11th February 2011
Prison guards could soon stop fights with a harmless tool that shoots a laser-like beam, video game-style, down into a room where trouble is brewing. The Assault Intervention Device (AID), funded by the National Institute of Justice, is still large and unrefined but will soon be installed for trial in at least one prison, the Pitchess Detention Center in Los Angeles County. The AID directs an energy beam, which is in the invisible millimeter wavelength, that penetrates just deep enough beneath the skin to make the target's pain receptors shout. The sensation is a burn like touching a hot stove or an iron. It only lasts up to 3 seconds – the AID controls automatically shut the beam off to prevent shooting for longer without resetting the trigger finger. The beam can hit a target about 100 feet away, and is about as wide as a CD.

Comment:
I am sure this invention has been used in secret 'trials' already and probably used for crowd control in so called 'poor' war torn countries (with rich elite) for years.



Are UFOs buzzing the Deh Cho? [Northwest Territories, Canada.]
Northern News Services, 10th February 2011
LIIDLII KUE/FORT SIMPSON - One Fort Simpson family has seen more than their fair share of unexplained lights in the night sky and has started to wonder if maybe there's something else out there. Mary-Jane Cazon, second from left, and her daughters Bianca, left, Shannon and Chantel stand at the Fort Simpson boat launch, a location from which they've seen unusual lights on the far side of the Mackenzie River. - Roxanna Thompson/NNSL photo

In the fall of 2009 Mary-Jane Cazon and her husband Gilbert Cazon were going for a drive in their truck near Martin River when they saw a light in the sky. As they crossed the bridge the light suddenly came close to the road above the trees. At first Mary-Jane said she thought it was the scheduled flight coming back from Whitehorse. The light, however, was stationary and it made no sound. [...]

The lights usually begin appearing around 8 p.m. at night and are easier to see on clear nights from the banks of the river, Mary-Jane said. Everyone in the family has seen something unusual in the last six months and they now send texts to alert each other of sightings. Bianca was at the papal site in the beginning of January when she saw a red light hovering over the trees across the river. It was snowing and there was low visibility and no stars, she said.

Bianca watched the light for about 20 minutes until it drifted upwards and finally moved away. "When it moves side to side, up and down you have to wonder," she said. The whole family believes the lights they've seen were created by extra-terrestrial phenomena but are cautious about being labeled as the UFO family. When they do raise the subject, however, Bianca said it's well received.

"It seems like something everybody sees but nobody talks about," she said. Bianca has friends in Wrigley, Trout Lake and Deline who have all seen unexplained lights. "There's so many people that have witnessed things," said her sister Shannon.

Comment:
In the past, "the lights" have been most prevalent in the more remote parts of the world and the SETV project has identified about 35 locations around the globe with a long histories of sightings. In this more remote part of Canada, this report is completely expected, but it must be stated that these days, the lights seem to be everywhere. My defining moments have been to come across reports of huge balls of light hovering over the locals in Liverpool, UK and the October 2010 reports over New York city, you simply can't get anymore metropolitan than that. Don't the UAPs care? Apparently not! Earth is now one giant cosmic acquarium.



Airborne Anomalies: Rethinking Atmospheric Lifeforms
Mysterious Universe, 10th February 2011
Most people, when considering the possibilities as to what UFOs might actually be, tend to lean heavily toward the idea of advanced aircraft that are both intelligently designed and controlled. Many reports do indeed appear to indicate that the objects seen appear mechanical or otherwise “manufactured,” although there are also the occasional reports of rather amorphous “blobs” that seem to have little definite shape or form. Though the range of potentials for how an alien technology might appear to us remains very broad, perhaps there are other possible identities we could attribute to at least some UFO reports.

One unique (though perhaps unlikely) theory proposed a number of times over the years deals with the idea of “atmospheric lifeforms,” as proposed by the likes of Charles Fort, Trevor James Constable, and Ivan Sanderson, among others. Essentially, this approach to various reports of UFOs supposes that some of the sightings might describe strange, atmospheric “beasts” that are essentially self-contained, energetic creatures.

Comment:
Trevor James Constable and others have been ignored for nearly 50 years, but now that the evidence is overwhelming that UFOs may represent another lifeform, see archive for info and quotes. Hence, more thinkers in the UFO community are being forced to do an about turn and the number of similar articles on this perspective are starting to increase. Therefore, in the future, the notion of cigar shaped UFOs now being described as "cargo ships" by ufologists will be laughable.



TEXAS SUNDOG:
spaceweather.com, 11th February 2011

"This very bright sundog appeared on the morning of Feb 9th--very rare in our part of the world," says photographer David Blackburn.

Sundogs are formed by ice crystals in the air. Hexagonal plate-shaped crystals flutter down from the sky like leaves falling from trees. Aerodynamic forces align their flat sides parallel to the ground, and when sunlight hits a patch of well-aligned crystals at the right distance from the sun, voila!--a sundog. Look for sundogs around sunrise and sunset when the low-hanging sun is well positioned to shine through the fluttering ice. Yes, even in Texas.

Comment: Superbright yes, but rare? No! The notion of 'flutter' is baseless and I suggest these ice crystals are being pushed by electric forces nearer to the surface of Earth.



SDO Sundog Mystery
NASA News, 11th February 2011
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), best known for cutting-edge images of the sun, has made a discovery right here on Earth.

"It's a new form of ice halo," says atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley of England. "We saw it for the first time at the launch of SDO--and it is teaching us new things about how shock waves interact with clouds."

Ice halos are rings and arcs of light that appear in the sky when sunlight shines through ice crystals in the air. A familiar example is the sundog—a rainbow-colored splash often seen to the left or right of the morning sun. Sundogs are formed by plate-shaped ice crystals drifting down from the sky like leaves fluttering from trees.* Last year, SDO destroyed a sundog—and that's how the new halo was discovered.

Comment:
Very strange, at the time, I saw video of the 'ripple in the sky' but I did not see any references to a strange pillar of light... Click image icon for larger APOD image.

Sonic Boom Meets Sun Dog
YouTube, 14 February 2010
"Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch, Feb 11, 2010 HD VERSION A sun dog is a prismatic bright spot in the sky caused by sun shining through ice crystals. The Atlas V rocket exceeded the speed of sound in this layer of ice crystals, making the shock wave visible from the ground. The announcer can be heard in the video saying, "The vehicle is now supersonic."



A Twenty-Year-Old Hamadryas Baboon Gave Birth To A Rare Orange Baby Baboon In Ramat Gan Safari Park In Israel
Batangas Today, 11th February 2011
A twenty-year-old Hamadryas baboon named Scud (Skad) gave birth to a rare orange baby baboon ten days ago at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv in Israel, NTD Television reported.

According to reports, it is the first orange-colored baboon monkey to be born at the Safari Park in thirty years. Ramat Gan Safari Zoo workers were surprised with the recent birth of the ginger furred baby baboon which was considered very rare, reason for the zoo to celebrate.

“Skad, our twenty-year-old baboon, gave birth to an orange baby and we just today discovered it’s actually a female baby and we are very happy because it’s been thirty years since we last had an orangebaboon here,” Yael Baker, Safari Zoo, Primate Keeper said.

Comment:
More pictures at Yahoo News Rare 'Orange' Baby Baboon



Don't expect genome breakthroughs yet, expert says
Yahoo News, 10th February 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists should dial down expectations about breakthroughs from mapping the human genome because it will take years to make sense of all the information, a leader of the mapping project says. Ten years after the first full sequence of the human genome was published, medicine has not been transformed -- and no one should have expected that, argues Dr. Eric Green of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

"Genomics is an information science and we now have information overload," Green said in a telephone interview. "Our ability to generate that information has outpaced our ability to analyze it." While scientists have gathered "vaults of information," he said, "That doesn't mean that we will cure people or we will change clinical practice in the next 10 years."

Comment:
I suppose this announcement is to damp down expectations for people who invested in genome research who now find that the target of being able to manipulate human DNA was based on incomplete knowledge, (see previous blog comments) and therefore expectations of huge profits for investing in early startups were completely unrealistic.



You can't confess to your iPhone: Vatican bans £1.19 app for Catholics
Daily Mail, 10th February 2011
Hailed as the 'perfect aid for every penitent', it promised absolution to a guilty conscience on the move. But a confession app for religious iPhone or iPad owners has evoked the disapproval of the Vatican.

The snappily-titled Confession: A Roman Catholic App was thought to have been approved by the Catholic Church after a U.S. bishop granted it an imprimatur, the church's official endorsement. But the Vatican has warned that an app can never replace visiting a priest.

Spokesman Federico Lombardi said: 'It is essential to understand that the rites of penance require a personal dialogue between penitents and their confessor. 'It cannot be replaced by a computer application'. 'I must stress to avoid all ambiguity, under no circumstance is it possible to "confess by iPhone".'

Comment:
Deus ex machina!



Super Grandma fights off 6 jewelry shop robbers with her handbag and wins (Video)
Batangas Today, 9th February 2011
A 71-year old super grandma from UK became an instant hero when she fights off 6 jewelry robbers with her handbag and eventually won, in which her act of heroism was caught on video as shown below.

As her story was revealed on Daily Mail on Wednesday, Ann Timson, have drove away six robbers who tried to steal from Michael Jones Jewelers, in the town of Northampton, in broad daylight on Monday.

“Three lads followed him and when I saw their arms going I thought the kid was being beaten up. My mother’s instinct kicked in and I ran across the road, shouting at the lads to stop it.” Mrs. Timson told the Daily Mail.

Comment:
Awesome! No Fear! Watch the video, the old woman sprintered to the crime scene and used some brute force.... More:

Have-a-go-hero who helped 'supergran' foil hammer raiders reveals pensioner inspired him to pounce
Daily Mail, 9th February 2011
"Mrs Timson has expressed her surprise that no-one else had intervened before she began swinging her handbag. But Mr Rowley, a freelance sports therapist, said he felt criticism of the members of the public who did not intervene was unjust. 'I think it is excellent she stepped in and that she didn't get hurt, but I don't think people should be criticised for not stepping in earlier,' he said. 'There were six lads with sledgehammers and it could have ended differently.' Mrs Timson made her first public appearance since the robbery at a Northampton Borough Council cabinet meeting on Wednesday night. She was greeted with a cheer as she entered the room and hugged and congratulated as she left."



NASA’s Hathaway revises the sunspot prediction down again
WUWT, 9th February 2011
Current prediction for the next sunspot cycle maximum gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 58 in July of 2013. We are currently two years into Cycle 24 and the predicted size continues to fall. Additionally, the monthly data plots are out, and there’s been little change from last month in the three major solar indexes plotted by the Space Weather Prediction Center:

Comment:
The only thing of interest here is the discussion about the ‘real’ indicator of solar activity. Leif Svalgaard is a respected solar scientists who is still 'adjusting' to the new view of an electromagnetic universe, so some of his exchanges on this and other forums can be quite informative. So we read:
Leif Svalgaard says: February 9, 2011 at 8:50 pm

As we have discussed many times the ‘real’ indicator of solar activity is the the F10.7 microwave flux. The flux is predicted to top ~120 in mid 2013 and seems well on its way to that. The sunspot number is falling progressively below the sunspot number corresponding to the microwave flux. This may be an indication of the Livingston & Penn effect at work. If L&P are correct this discrepancy will grow worse [potentially with no visible spots at all], and the sunspot number will be rather useless as a measure of solar activity, so Hathaway will have to continually adjust the predicted SSN down, down, down. Luckily, the sunspot number is rarely used in operational practice [e.g. for calculation of satellite drag]. Instead, the F10.7 flux is used for that, so as long as we stick to the flux there should be no problems.



UFO Declassification Begins In Chile!
UFO Digest, 9th February 2011
According to Brazil’s UFO magazine, Chile’s Office of Civil Aeronautics handed over a number of videos or audiotapes of UFO events that occurred in its territory. This was done through the Comité de Estudios de Fenomenos Aereos Anómalos (CEFAA, by its Spanish acronym). The news item goes on to state that “out of a total of 183 cases, 12 of these lack an explanation.”

Chile appears to take the subject earnestly and is concerned over UFO manifestations: both the presence of these unknown quantities and their consequences.

Rodrigo Bravo, a Chilean military aviator and a correspondent for Brazil’s Revista UFO, said that the Chilean army has its own aviation corps and pilots, and it has demonstrated its “awareness and interaction with the subject of UFOs on various opportunities.”

Bravo cites a recent statement by the Chilean army: “There is no longer any need to deny or ignore the UFO situation. They represent a real and very serious threat. Today were are challenged by a complex phenomenon whose characteristics cannot be explained within natural terrestrial confines.”

Comment:
Well, it looks like yet another South American country has fallen like a domino, in some form of agreement between the militaries to not hide the existence of UFOs any longer. This is starting to look like a great new coalition of believers.... Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Maybe this will put more pressure on Mexico and Peru, who have had UFO groups for years placing pressure on their respective governments for disclosure. However, we still await confirmation from more sources.

Chile: UFO Declassification Begins
Inexplicata, 9th February 2011



Fastwalkers - UFO Documentary FULL [1:37:27]
YouTube, 8th February 2011
Fastwalkers in a feature length documentary form discloses information you were never meant to know. Amazing Fastwalker UFO photos and Fastwalker footage gathered from around the world that you were never meant to see. Never before has there been such a wealth of information presented by such unbiased experts who focus on providing a 'World View' of what is really happening on planet Earth, rather than what 'we are told is happening

Comment:
I would suggest that this documentary is only worth watching if you like UFO documentaries. Near the beginning, I nearly gave up as I hated the animations of little grey men with big eyes, but I decided to persist and there were some interesting surprises. I think the biggest surprise was the Vatican theologian Corrado Balducci who seemed to be very animated talking about UFOs, but since he was speaking Italian he was being translated by another UFO researcher Paolo Harris. Well, Balducci amazed when he stated that humans were on the bottom of the evolutionary scale and that there were far more spiritually advanced beings than us... hmmm, since when have the Vatican approved this kind of talk? There was even talk by other researchers of humans needing to spiritually evolve to become accepted into the Galactic family and references to how badly jumans treat each other and so we were a long way off being able to accept other lifeforms. So in conclusion, even though we got some of the usual UFO/ET talk, the documentary concluded with quite a spirtual perspective. OK I know there are people who think that this kind of perspective is encouraging people to fall into some kind of trap but quite frankly, circumstances on the planet are forcing humanity to face a new cosmic reality regardless of any agendas.



Did SCIENCE Just Say That Myra Shackley Was Right???
The Big Study, 7th February 2011
This is perhaps something that is well known "out there" in electronic-land, but it just became known to me, so I'll share. I was for years a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] and received the magazine SCIENCE as part of that. Upon retirement, I dropped all this, due to rather expensive dues. Once in a while the AAAS tries to get me to come back by sending me a free copy. Thus, the other day the "fateful" magazine arrived. And within was an article that rang bells. In fact, it came very close to being [for me] solid scientific evidence for the claim by the lady above that there are/were wild-living non-Homo Sapiens sapiens living in modern times in the central regions of Asia. My goodness!! What is science coming to??

Comment:
This is interesting for many reasons but primarily it means there is evidence that non-Homo Sapiens have existed until fairly recently and some might even still be around based on all the reports of wildmen seen around the world. It does make you wonder about the evolutionary process and the comment here of the 'human tree' being more like a 'human bush' is quite thought provoking. Of course there is also the belief of 'intervention' of human DNA to consider, that explains why humans are so different from their ancient relatives. Besides that, there is no explanation for why so many species have refused to evolve and have remained more or less the same for millions of years and in times of dramatic evolutionary change, some new species have suddenly disappeared and others suddenly appeared with no apparent evolution involved.



Arizona desert UFO 'morphs' into two lights
UFO Examiner, 7th February 2011
An Arizona witness reports an encounter on a lonely desert road with a red orb as close as six feet just west of Congress after midnight on May 19, 2010, according to February 5, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was three miles west of Congress when a light first thought to be a helicopter was spotted after pulling over and getting out of the vehicle. "It was a red light intermittently beaming a brilliant, focused white light down to the ground as if to be looking for someone or something, and I thought what or who would be way out there, and why there were no strobe I.D. lights on the helicopter," the witness stated.

The witness got back into the vehicle and continued to observe the light. "Suddenly, what I thought was a helicopter flying at 500 feet was much smaller and much closer; in fact, it was now just on the other side of the road and was about 10 feet off the ground, hovering."

The object appeared to be searching for something on the ground, and then "morphed" into two tiny red lights. "Now as it approached my car, it suddenly morphed back into its former shape: a spherical orb about the size of a softball, bright red (DOT emergency red, like a tail-light). Was this military? Is this a living organism? Perhaps an alien probe? It was now six feet in front of my car, four feet off the ground, just hovering."

The witness described the object. "I noticed that although the red light emitted from this thing was very bright to my eyes, it wasn’t casting shadows and did not reflect from the surrounding bushes or from the polished surface of my hood. I could see the surface of this thing seemed to be fluid- like, and composed of what appeared to be millions of tiny dots of light swirling around very fastand was very hard for my eyes to focus on it. The perimeter seemed to fuzz out at the edges, like an aura or halo. The light seemed to be luminous rather than projected, and was not radiating any heat that I could feel."

Comment:
This is a great report of a close-up encounter with a small orb of light. In fact the orb was so close that it's understandable that panic set in for someone who may have no idea that these plasma entities exist on Earth. I believe the dots of light are bioluminescent bacteria based on previous eye witness accounts by ranchers who are aware of the existence of Min Min Lights that are part of folklore in the outback of Australia. The description of a fluid surface is also consistent with many other UAP reports of close-up encounters of this type. Again, I note that some of these balls of light, especially the small ones, are certainly not too frightened of humans but they do react to our fear. Certainly, it's not possible to give hard and fast rules about their behaviour.



On the “Magnetic polar shifts cause massive global super storms” story
Watts Up with That, 7th February 2011
I’ve been avoiding this story (Magnetic polar shifts cause massive global super storms) for awhile, hoping it would simply die, but people keep asking me about it, and I see it appearing on other blogs, so I suppose I’ll have to address it. Mainly what I want to do is present facts about it and let readers make up their own minds.

There has been a lot of worry and hype on this subject. Part of it is fueled by the silly “2012? thing. Some it has been fueled by people who had been primed for “space storms” in solar cycle 24, such as in this Fox News video:

Comment:
Even Anthony Watts is getting bothered because people are starting to panic about the state of Earth's magnetic field and the looming date of 2012. This article is also in response to the article at Helium.com Magnetic polar shifts cause massive global super storms.Well, this is a long article with all the usual information (some of it is wrong too) but it's worth a browse even just for the hilarious photo near the end that should make anyone laugh. However, I can't agree with Watts who claims that just because the sun is quiet and a low number of sunspots is predicted means everything will be OK. There is the major issue of fundamental changes in the condition of Earth's magnetic shielding (magnetosphere) like the fact it occasionally disappears (breaches) and we are getting occasional mega blasts from deep space. (Actually, I am not sure if he understands what is going on with the breaches loading up the magnetosphere for some serious megablasts... think gas build up and then boom!) The Earth is now highly charged so it's what happens when we reach a critical tipping point that we have to consider. Watts fails to mention that the non-dipole components of Earth's magnetic field (aprox. 10%?) are increasing. The apparent growth in the non-dipole parts of the Earth's magnetic field does not seem directly linked to solar activity but must be considered if a magnetic excursion of reversal is on the cards and Earth's main dipole magnetic field completely breaks down. What amazes me is that nobody wants to talk about the impact on humans and mental health in an unstable electromagnetic environment, it's almost like people simple don't have a clue that all humans have a direct link with Earth's magnetic field...



NASA Administrator Believes in Alien Life
WLTX, 7th February 2011
Columbia, SC (WLTX) - It's a question man has been asking for centuries: are we alone and could there really be life out there somewhere. For some the answer is easy. They believe NASA knows that alien life exist and that we're being visited on a regular basis.

Clifford Clift is one such believer. "Maybe the powers that be are setting us up for disclosure, making it more subtle so it won't be a big jolt to us," he says. [...]

After talking with Charles Bolden, he seems it's not a matter of if we find out, it's a matter of when. Bolden said, "I have no doubt about things that will be discovered in the next year or so that will help us rewrite text books."

Comment:
Well, Bolden certainly knows how to let the cat out of the bag.... if this report is true, then we can forget about a new discovery, the evidence has been in plain sight for many decades, infact since the invention of radar... Well, if Bolden is prepared to make this statement, it makes you wonder why there is such effort by some to desperately fight the notion that humans are not alone. Please note: the astronaut talk is about alien LIFE NOT alien CRAFT. So, I might be on my own here, but I believe any anouncement will be about a Shadow Biosphere, which is the sensible thing for NASA to do, as the dimensional shift is clearly still accelerating.

NASA Warp Drive FAQ - What about UFOs?
NASA Glenn Research Center, 12 November 2009
"During several space missions, NASA astronauts have reported phenomena not immediately explainable; however, in every instance NASA determined that the observations could not be termed "abnormal" in the space environment."
This is a classic "the observations could not be termed abnormal in the space environment?" Watch the video below to see why UFOs in the space environment is considered "normal".

UFO NASA's unexplained tether overload incident
YouTube, 24th October 2006
"Tether incident unexpected electric overload. UFO during Live Nasa transmission"



Military deploys acupuncture to treat soldiers' concussions
McClatchy News, 7th February 2011
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — The U.S. military is applying an ancient Chinese healing technique to the top modern battlefield injury for American soldiers, with results that doctors here say are "off the charts."

"Battlefield acupuncture," developed by Air Force physician Col. Richard Niemtzow, is helping heal soldiers with concussions so they can return more quickly to the front lines. [...]

Stuessi, a naval doctor whose rank is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel, treats concussions, also known as mild brain trauma. "I'm seeing pretty incredible results," said Stuessi, who's based at the Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton, near San Diego, and is originally from Wales, Wis. "In my heart I think this will, down the road, become one of the standards of care."

Comment:
As I wrote in my book, the US military were convinced that acupuncture worked back in the 1960s, but according to Dr. Robert Becker author of Electromagnetism and Life[1982], The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life (with Gary Selden). [1985] & Cross Currents: The Promise of Electromedicine, the Perils of Electropollution. [1990], he was approached by a colonel from the US Army Surgeon General's office because they wanted to know HOW it worked, (Body Electric pg.233). So, one of the things that I have learnt about the US military (who I generallay don't have a very high opinion of), is that they are only interested in what works and convenience. They are not interested in promoting the Darwinian mindset, that you are only a machine if it does not serve their purpose and does not give them an edge. Therefore treating injured soldiers by using acupuncture that works by manipulating subtle energies or chi is not a source of conflict, because they simply don't care to conform to the prevailing beliefs of society. So, this article maybe a shock for some but not for me, as it is now quite well known that the US military have been training psychic spies (remote viewers) for many decades and they even had a program to train 'Jedi'. So elite military officers and even top politicians were taught how to utilise special powers. Of course, this is all a matter of public record.



Army looking at yoga, acupuncture to treat pain
US Army Military News, 26th June 2010
"WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 25, 2010) -- The Army's health-care system may soon see changes in how Soldiers are treated for pain, according to a report released by the Army's surgeon general Wednesday which recommends 109 changes. [...] "Everything we do in the Army, even managing a toothache, is all in compliance with national standards ... what we want to do is set the bar higher," Schoomaker explained."
This is also an interesting read



WUWT is a finalist in the 2011 “bloggies” awards
Watts Up With That, 6th February 2011
I was very surprised to learn today (almost a week later) that WUWT has been nominated for Best Science Blog in the 2011 Bloggies. This is like the Superbowl for bloggers. This nomination was done by a blind vote of some 200 people that got nomination ballots. I’m up there with HuffPo, Wired and many others in this award contest. Who isn’t on it is equally interesting. Please read on for info on how to cast your votes for WUWT and other bloggers.

Comment:
I am very happy to see that Anthony Watts's Watts Up With That? has been nominated, for Best Science Blog. I will be voting as I am grateful that he has worked really hard and attracted a lot of intelligent and educated people (truth seekers) who are interested in understanding our reality.



Flying Translucent Ray-Shaped Cryptid - Hampton Bays, New York
Phantoms & Monsters, 4th February 2011
I received a very interesting email on 2/3/2011 that described an encounter with a 'manta ray' shaped flying entity on Long Island:

Hello, Lon...

My name is Jeni and I live in New York; I grew up on Long Island and have always loved heading out East - the Montauk Projects, Brookhaven Labs; we've had a lot of experience with the unexplained out here (I've seen a plethora of various types of UFOs on LI since early childhood). I stumbled across your blog and am writing in response to the post "Winged Manta Ray Shaped Cryptid - Near Ashton, WV - 12/3/2004". (NOTE - follow up at Additional Ray-Shaped Cryptid Sightings in WV Ohio River Valley Revealed...Lon)

Comment:
This is yet another report of these flying 'manta ray' or 'sting ray' type UAPs and more evidence that the dimensional shift is revealing a shadow biosphere of strange creatures, as well as more conventional UFO type objects that in reality, are all representatives of another lifeform. Maybe, there is also a possibility that these reports may be associated with sightings of what cryptozoologists think are living Pterosaurs as these reports are increasing too, see archives. Click image icon for larger image of this captured Great Manta Ray.



Chemtrails: Is The Government Poisoning Us From Planes?
Conspiracy Theorists Believe Some Jet Trails Contain Toxic Chemicals Called Chemtrails
CBS Atlanta, 2nd February 2011
ATLANTA -- Conspiracy theorists believe the U.S. government is spreading toxic chemicals from planes. They call them chemtrails and there believe the toxins are damaging the environment and our health.

"It definitely angers me," said Ali Valente of Buckhead. "Some days there's only four [chemtrails] some days there's eight. Some days the whole sky is enveloped in milky white substance."

When Valente began noticing a bunch of white lines in the sky blocking the sun she searched for an explanation online. The Internet is full of allegations, photos and information about the conspiracy. "These are literally crimes against humanity, nature," said Michael Murphy, a chemtrail researcher from Los Angeles. Murphy produced a documentary about the so-called chemtrail cover-up. He said he believes the chemicals in the chemtrails, aluminum, barium and others are making us sick.

Comment:
Maybe, members of the mainstream media are spending too much time on the conspiracy websites and are starting to wonder about what is going on... Well, have you seen this documentary, What in the World are They Spraying? Actually, I was quite impressed that there are now some definitive answers. Researchers maybe interested in an old document sitting on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission website entitled 'CFTC Requests Input on Possible Regulation of "Event Contracts" Washington, DC.' The paper discusses the issue of weather modification and provides highlights from the report Weather as a Force Multiplier: owning the Weather in 2025, a research paper presented to the Air force 2025 in August 1996. The author seems to be apalled by chemtrails and the generally abusive attitude of the US military in their weather engineering efforts. PDF LINK HERE

What in the World are They Spraying? A Must See Trailer
YouTube, June 2010
"The Reality Zone is producing a documentary that explores the murky world of atmospheric geo-engineering, commonly called chemtrails. The title of the program is: What in the World Are They Spraying! and we can tell you with confidence that it will be one of the most important programs you will ever see. There are plenty of dramatic video clips of chemtrails on the Internet, and your innate intelligence tells you that what you see in the sky with your own eyes is not caused by mere vapor trails from jet aircraft, but no one yet has probed the questions: WHO is doing this and WHY. All of that is about to change. We are working with two young journalistic film makers, Michael Murphy and Paul Wittenberger who already are far advanced in the development of this incredible story."

Documentary: 1 of 7 What in the world are they spraying? (Chemtrails)
YouTube, 25 October 2010



Real time Magnetosphere Simulation
NICT, 4th February 2011


Comment:
I have never seen anything like it, but it looks like some kind of standing wave (3 dimensional concave bullseye seen side on) developed after the dayside magnetosheath was slammed by the fast solar wind, presumably associated with a large coronal hole. The NICT images with this 'ringing' are from 19:14 UT until about 20:13 UT, but before and after the magnetosheath appears more normal and under a high pressure bombardment commensurate with a geomagnetic storm. If there is any comment from a space scientist, I will post the details.



Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms
Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other.
Salem News, 4th February 2011
NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it…geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples… Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather.

Forget about global warming—man-made or natural—what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun's magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet's own magnetic field. When the field shifts, when it fluctuates, when it goes into flux and begins to become unstable anything can happen. And what normally happens is that all hell breaks loose.

Magnetic polar shifts have occurred many times in Earth's history. It's happening again now to every planet in the solar system including Earth. The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating superstorms start erupting.

Comment:
I think this article is just consolidating the current opinion of many. I don't know where the author got their info for the relationship between magnetic field fluctuations and the weather, because this is usually completely ignore by meteorologists who as a consequence, often fail to predict the weather and willingly admit they do not understand the cause of the weather. However, when we pay attention to the mavericks, the extreme weather associated with the magnetic influence of certain solar, planetary and lunar conjunctions are predictable, as Piers Corbyn and others have proven. This article mentions a magnetic pole shift, but this is a poor description for the wild gyrations of Earth's magnetic field, but at least they are talking about the holes in the magnetosphere and the inevitable increase in DNA mutations as cosmic radiation pours onto our planet. According to author Robert Felix, he claims there is scientific evidence for at least 10 magnetic reversals and excursions since the Brunhes/Matuyuma boundary 780,000 years ago. The last is the heavily studied Laschamp Event, about 44,000 years ago. However he also claims that there is a clockwork magnetic excursion cycle every 11,500 years and magnetic intensity variations every 2 - 30,000 years. So, it does not matter whether a full magnetic reversal is on the cards, a rapidly fading magnetic field means cosmic radiation will pour down on our heads. By the way, as a reminder about what my research has been all about, what state is your energy field in?

Robert Felix - Magnetic Reversal and Evolutionary Leaps (Subscribers Only)
Red Ice Radio, 3rd February 2011
"Robert Felix outlines his theory about magnetic reversals and evolutionary leaps in our second hour for members. We discuss historical extinction events and the rise of new species. How close are we to a magnetic reversal? What can we expect when one occurs? We also discuss related anomalies like the sun rising two days early in Greenland and the magnetic north racing towards Russia, now at a speed of about 40 miles per year. Birds and fish have been dying worldwide. Is this related to an unstable magnetic field?"

Comment:
I am pleased to see that Red Ice Radio have interviewed Robert Felix again. In part II of the interview for subscribers only, Felix answers questions related to his second book Magnetic Reversal and Evolutionary Leaps. During this interview, he discusses the historical evidence of mass extinctions being linked to rapid evolutionary change. He also explains the evidence of massive explosions in the skies that he believes are linked to the collapse of Earth's magnetic field. This must be the inevitable conclusion that we must reach if the paleontological and geological is to be correctly understood. Have you heard of magnetic reconnection? Well, despite the arguments from plasma physicists, scientists mostly agree that when the magnetic field collapses or magnetic field lines 'merge', tremendous amounts of energy are released, but Felix takes this understanding to a whole new level in explaining Earth's past geological history.



Leaf pattern mystery in Cheltenham is internet sensation
This is Glocestershire, 5th February 2011
THIS unusual leaf pattern on Leckhampton Hill has become the latest internet sensation. The picture, taken by dog walker Freddie Holding during the winter's snow, was printed in the Echo in December. She sent the picture to the paper to see if readers had suggestions on how the patterns were formed. [...]

Experts at Cheltenham Tree Services said they believed the pattern was man-made. However, the article has now found its way onto the internet, with dozens of people contacting the paper from all over the world with suggestions. Dave Collins contacted the Echo from Virginia in the United States. He said: "It looks as though someone had gone through on a yard tractor.

"Tractors can create ruts into which snow falls and melts, being warmer than the ground surrounding it. "It is pretty but certainly not the work of any force more mysterious than a riding mower."

Ed Moors, from Holland, said: "My first thought was it might have been caused by a ground vibration. "The trees might have acted as an antenna and passed vibration to the ground."

Pierre Larouche, from Canada, added: "People walked in the woods in advance of the snow and, using a chemical powder, traced the patterns. When the snow fell, it melted faster on the pattern due to the temperature of the soil." [...]

Clifford F Oliver wrote: "I believe the phenomena is evidence that time is changing. "The pattern within the trunk is being altered by a change in magnetic flux. "As we near the point of pole shift or zero point, time may stop or become non-existent."

Comment:
Maybe the interest is that people are starting to realise something extraordinary is happening and are watching out for the next strange event. The suggestions for what caused this are interesting, but the only one that sounds feasible to me is the trees acting as antennas and the snow circles being caused by some kind of Earth vibration. See the youtube video below, for a demonstration of how this works.

Snow Circles Mystery in England.
Earthfiles.com, 4th February, 2011
“This is not something I've come across before.”

- Adrian Phillips, Managing Director, Cheltenham Tree Services
copy: These mysterious snow circles in a grove of trees on Leckhampton Hill south of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, were reported in the December 9, 2010, Gloucestershire Echo. Resident Freddie Holding was walking her dog and told the newspaper, “I couldn't believe it. I have never seen anything like it before.” The Managing Director of the Cheltenham Tree Services, Adrian Phillips, said, “There is no reason for any kind of fungus to affect the trees in the cold weather, and it seems unlikely things falling from the branches could create such a pattern. The most likely answer is that the pattern is manmade.” But how?
Image © 2010 by Freddie Holding, reprinted in the Gloucestershire Echo.



Cymatic experiment
YouTube, 9th September 2008
"A simple experiment demonstrating the visualisation of cymatics can be done by sprinkling sand on a metal plate and vibrating the plate, for example by drawing a violin bow along the edge, the sand will then form itself into standing wave patterns such as simple concentric circles. The higher the frequency, the more complex the shapes produced, with certain shapes having similarities to traditional mandala designs."



Russia locates missing satellite
Herald Sun, 5th February 2011
RUSSIA has re-established contact with a missing military satellite but it was unclear if the craft would still work. The high-tech Geo-IK-2 craft was designed to help the military draw a three-dimensional map of the earth and locate the precise positions of various targets.

But it lost contact with ground control shortly after its launch Tuesday from a northern Russian space centre, in the second such satellite mishap in less than two months. A defense ministry spokesman said Wednesday that stable contact had been established with the craft and that officials were now trying to determine if its orbit would allow it to complete its assigned mission.

"We are currently maintaining steady contact" with the craft, Russian space forces commander Oleg Stapenko told Russian news agencies.

Comment:
Well, at a cost of approx. 250 million dollars, which is not chicken feed, it's worth making every effort to get this satellite operational and thus not allowing it to become the latest piece of space junk.



Close Approaching Asteroid: Will this be a direct hit on a satellite?
spaceweather.com, 4th February 2011

CLOSE APPROACHING ASTEROID: A small (4-5 meter) asteroid discovered earlier today by R. A. Kowalski of the Catalina Sky Survey will pass by Earth on Feb. 4th around 19:40UT at a distance of 11855 km. 2011 CQ1 will not hit Earth, but it will pass well inside the Clarke Belt of geosynchronous satellites. [more]

Comment: Huh... I would call that a direct hit, I wonder if any satellites will be disturbed. Here is some Wikipedia details:
A geostationary orbit (or Geostationary Earth Orbit - GEO) is a geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth's equator (0° latitude), with a period equal to the Earth's rotational period and an orbital eccentricity of approximately zero. An object in a geostationary orbit appears motionless, at a fixed position in the sky, to ground observers. Communications satellites and weather satellites are often given geostationary orbits, so that the satellite antennas that communicate with them do not have to move to track them, but can be pointed permanently at the position in the sky where they stay. Due to the constant 0° latitude and circularity of geostationary orbits, satellites in GEO differ in location by longitude only.

The notion of a geosynchronous satellite for communication purposes was first published in 1928 (but not widely so) by Herman Potocnik.[1] The idea of a geostationary orbit was first disseminated on a wide scale in a 1945 paper entitled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first described as useful for broadcast and relay communications satellites,[2] is sometimes called the Clarke Orbit.[3] Similarly, the Clarke Belt is the part of space about 36,000 km (22,000 mi) above sea level, in the plane of the equator, where near-geostationary orbits may be implemented. The Clarke Orbit is about 265,000 km (165,000 mi) long. Source Wikipedia: Geostationary orbit (Clarke Belt)
Well, we can understand the cause of the disturbance as our solar system approaches closer to G Cloud and the Oort cloud of debris is disturbed and resultant bombardment of meteroids, small rocks and asteroids that are coming in our direction. So now we know why the US Military are hiding fireball data...

Update

RECORD-SETTING ASTEROID: Tiny asteroid 2011 CQ1 buzzed Earth on Feb. 4th even closer than we thought. According to JPL's Near Earth Object Program office, the meter-wide space rock was only 5480 km (0.85 Earth radii) over the Pacific Ocean at closest approach. That makes it the nearest non-impacting object in their catalog. The encounter was so close, Earth's gravity altered the course of the asteroid by a whopping 60 degrees. [full story] [amateur images]

Comment: So, how can Earth's gravity effect this asteroid when satellites are NOT effected by gravity? There seem to be some major facts missing from the story here.



Blackouts hit Brazil's northeast states
CNBC, 4th February 2011
SAO PAULO - A widespread blackout hit at least seven states in Brazil's northeast Friday, raising questions about the energy infrastructure of the nation that will host an Olympics and a World Cup.

Officials and local news reports indicated the power failures began in the early morning hours and quickly spread around the massive region. It was not immediately clear how many people were affected, but it was certain to be several million. In some areas, the power was only out for a few minutes, in other areas a few hours.

Mozart Bandeira Arnaud, director of operations at the Sao Francisco Hydroelectric Company, the biggest supplier of energy in the area, told the Globo TV network the power was mostly restored by 8 a.m. and that the problem originated in a substation that fed high-transmission lines leading to three other energy suppliers, causing the failure to ripple across the region.

"There was a failure in an electronic component that was part of protection system of the substation," said Arnaud.

Comment:
So, a failure in one electronic component caused a massive power outage in Brazil.... Whatever, Brazil is not the only country that has to worry about secure a power supply, the United Kingdom is hosting the Olympic games in 2012 and the report highlighting the issue of Space Weather and the impact on the national power grid will be out soon in Spring 2011. Here are the recent NOAA space weather warnings:

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: NOAA forecasters estimate a 60% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on Feb. 3rd when a coronal mass ejection is due to hit Earth's magnetic field. A solar wind stream following close behind the CME could extend the action into Feb. 4th and 5th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Source: spaceweather.com - 3rd February 2010

WEAK IMPACT: Arriving a little later than expected, a CME hit Earth's magnetic field on Feb. 4th around 0200 UT. Although the impact was weak, conditions are now favorable for high-latitude auroras. Source: spaceweather.com - 4th February 2010




Mysterious Closing of Utah Army Facility After UFO Reports (News Video)
Grant Lawrence, 3rd February 2011
UFOs are being reported over Utah as recently as last night. At the end of last month an Army facility, Dugway Proving Grounds, was closed for 12 hours.

Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a US Army facility located approximately 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah in southern Tooele County and just north of Juab County. It encompasses 801,505 acres (3,243.576 km², or 1,252.352 sq mi) of the Great Salt Lake Desert, an area the size of the state of Rhode Island, and is surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges....(wikipedia)

Some are wondering if there is any connection between the rash of UFO sightings and the lock down at Dugway.

Comment:
I have seen this incident reported on the ususal UFO websites and the original footage that clearly shows red orbs dropping what looks like white flares. There have been many reports documenting this exact behaviour in recent years and others that claim large balls of light sometimes appearing to struggle to enter the Earth and sometimes giving up and going elsewhere. However, in this case, it seems to have coincided with the Utah Army Facility being put into lock down mode. In the past, I have joked about the galactic delivery service but obviously, it's some kind of delivery of energy, but I have not come across any explanation for what the energy is supposed to do. I believe that the planet is experiencing a planetary refresh and maybe the whole planet is receiving some sort of communications upgrade. From the metaphysical literature and my knowledge of scalar energies it could be that this energy has been programmed to be used for communication within the Earth. We have been told by respected metaphysical sources that Earth's crystalline grid would be reconfigured and the history of Earth re-written, between 2002 - 2012, but I have not paid attention to any recent channelled messages on the subject.

UFO Reports Continue over Utah (News Video)
Grant Lawrence, 3rd February 2011

Video of UFOs hovering in the sky over American Fork, Utah 26-Jan-2011
The latest UFO Sightings, 6th February 2011
"Latest UFO sightings - New UFO video of 2 bright objects or orbs flying over American Fork in Utah. This was recorded on Wednesday, 26th January 2011. Witness report: Pulling into my driveway the night of the 26th, my 10 year old says "Dad, what are those?" I had a flipcam in the seat next to me so I started filming. 6 minutes later, they drifted out of view. They were hovering in perfect formation and once in a while dropped sparkler-type things. I figured the news would explain it later that night, but they didn't. ABC4 was the only newscast to carry the story. Lots of witnesses, this is the best vid of the lights that I've seen posted. Who knows?? Author (johnjayandkinna @ youtube)"



Defense in Arizona Sweat Lodge Case Wants it Moved
My Fox Phoenix, 3rd February 2011
CAMP VERDE, Ariz. - A judge overseeing the case of a 2009 sweat lodge ceremony that turned deadly ruled Thursday that evidence of past ceremonies led by the defendant and the conditions of the participants won't be allowed at trial.

The ruling limited the testimony to the 2009 event near Sedona that led to the deaths of three people, potentially shortening what was expected to be a months-long trial. James Arthur Ray has pleaded not guilty to three counts of manslaughter. [...]

Prosecutors called a handful of witnesses, who testified that Ray largely ignored participants who were throwing up, shaking violently and disoriented. Defense attorneys argued that many of the participants weren't trained in the medical field and, therefore, couldn't diagnose anyone's condition.

Comment:
I am grateful that the folks over at the Rick Ross Cult Education Forum are keeping a vigil concerning the upcoming trial of James 'Death' Ray. There is some disappointment that the prosecution case has has been weakened, as the court paper that summarises 'prior acts' has been excluded. This document amounts to the litany of injuries of people participating in previous James Ray events, but there is some acknowledgement that the court document has collated some very damning evidence which has now become a matter of public record. Just in case you are wondering why I am not supportive of this wolf in sheep's clothing New Age psychopath, from the 10 page document, The Supreme Court State of Arizona vs James Arthur Ray, we read the following small extract:
In 2007, two participants describe people vomiting and seeing at least one person who was unconscious. In 2008, participants describe a scene that can only be seen as a foreshadowing of the events of 2009. using terms like "carnage," "war zone," and "triage unit," particpants have told detective particpants were unconscious, vomiting, and "out of their minds." At least one participant indicated that she though she was going to die, another indicated that in addition to one person being unconscious, "about 20 people were "sick, overheated and throwing up."
Source: apps.supremecourt.az.gov
As a reminder, I would like to clearly state that the autopsy coroner reported that 2 of the people who died had heatstroke and the third person Liz Neuman, had internal organs that had been cooked by the intense heat in the sweat lodge, this is officially described as "multi-system organ failure due to hyperthermia," please see archives Best of the Blog Inside the Cultic Milieu for more details. Please also remember, these people paid nearly 10,000 dollars to be brutally mistreated, by James Ray who called himself a "Practical Mystic," the truth is enough to make you vomit.



Rolling blackouts nearly statewide in Texas
weareaustin.com, 2nd February 2011
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas ordered utilities to rotate electrical outages to compensate for a power shortage linked to the extreme cold weather.

The order took effect Wednesday morning, a day after an ice and snow storm blanketed parts of Texas. ERCOT had no timetable for when the rotating outages would end.

The ERCOT region includes Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, Abilene and the Rio Grande Valley. ERCOT manages the flow of electricity to about 22 million Texas customers.

Rotating outages are defined as "controlled, temporary interruptions of electric service, typically lasting 30-45 minutes per neighborhood." Critical need customers, such as hospitals and nursing homes, are generally excluded from outages.

Comment:
So politicians, scientists and activists around the world have been claiming global warming, mild winters and snow as something of the past. In reality, we have recently seen some of the harshest winters in living memory and some people are now having to freeze, maybe literally to death to compensate for the obviously wrong stance on climate change.



Gas company explains cause of shortage (Video)
KOB.com, 3rd February 2011
New Mexico Gas Company is speaking for the first time about why tens of thousands of New Mexicans have no natural gas service. The company blames supply and demand, and a lack of pressure to push the gas through the pipelines. Power blackouts in Texas have cut off power to compressors in West Texas that feed gas into New Mexico.

Comment:
Maybe people will start to think more deeply about consequences.



WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles
The United States threatened to take military action against China during a secret "star wars" arms race within the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
The Telegraph, 2nd February 2011

The two nuclear superpowers both shot down their own satellites using sophisticated missiles in separate show of strength, the files suggest.

The American Government was so incensed by Chinese actions in space that it privately warned Beijing it would face military action if it did not desist.

The Chinese carried out further tests as recently as last year, however, leading to further protests from Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, secret documents show.

Beijing justified its actions by accusing the Americans of developing an “offensive” laser weapon system that would have the capability of destroying missiles before they left enemy territory.

Comment: Well, often when space junk is mentioned the Chinese are blamed for destroying a satellite but the fact that the Americans did the same a year later is largely overlooked. The short sightedness is very apparent but space weather has not helped either. So, the whole satellite communications industry is under threat and many services that people take for granted could simply vanish. Hence the race to start new projects to clean up.

'Fishing net' to collect space debris
A giant net several kilometres in size has been built as part of a collaboration between Japan’s space agency and a 100-year-old fishing net company to collect debris from space.
The Telegraph, 2nd February 2011
"The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co aim to tackle the increasingly hazardous problem of rubbish in orbit around the Earth damaging space shuttles and satellites once and for all."

Space so full of junk that a satellite collision could destroy communications on Earth
Space is so littered with debris that a collision between satellites could set off an “uncontrolled chain reaction” capable of destroying the communications network on Earth, a Pentagon report warned.
The Telegraph, 1st February 2011
"The volume of abandoned rockets, shattered satellites and missile shrapnel in the Earth’s orbit is reaching a “tipping point” and is now threatening the $250 billion (£174bn) space services industry, scientists said."



Energy saving light bulbs 'could trigger breast cancer'
The Telegraph, 1st February 2011
Abraham Haim, a professor of biology at Haifa University in Israel, said that the bluer light that compact flourescent lamps (CFLs) emitted closely mimiced daylight, disrupting the body's production of the hormone melatonin more than older-style filament bulbs, which cast a yellower light.

Melatonin, thought to protect against some breast and prostate cancers, is produced and secreted by the brain's pineal gland around the clock. Highest secretion levels are at night but light depresses production, even if one's eyes are shut.

A possible link between night time light exposure and breast cancer risk has been known for over a decade, since a study was published showing female shift workers were more likely to develop the disease. Prof Haim explained that a recent study by himself and fellow colleagues had found a much stronger association than previous research between night-time bedroom light levels and breast cancer rates.

Comment:
OK, I have been following the eco bulb fiasco, but this is totally unexpected.



Meditation class helps lower violence at Ala. prison
'It works. We see a difference in the men and in the prison. It's calmer,' warden says
MSNBC News, 2nd February 2011
ESSEMER, Ala. — Deep inside an overcrowded prison with a reputation for mayhem, convicted killers, robbers and rapists gather in a small room. Eyes closed, they sit silently with their thoughts and consciences. prisoners.

Their everyday life is just outside in the hall — a cacophony of clanging steel doors, yelling and feet shuffling along cold concrete floors. The noise never really ends; peace is at a premium in Alabama's toughest lockup. prisoners.

Despite a history of violence at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, which is named for a slain corrections officer, the prison outside Birmingham has become the model for a meditation program that officials say helps inmates learn the self control and social skills they never got in the outside world. prisoners.

Warden Gary Hetzel doesn't fully understand how the program called Vipassana (which is pronounced vuh-'POSH-uh-nuh) can transform violent inmates into calm men using contemplative Buddhist practices.

Comment:
There are some incredible comments reported here from delighted prisoners. As we know from previous studies, the meditation will bring higher energies into the prison that will help calm down the other prisoners who are not meditating, but they will receive benefits too.



Missing Russian military satellite
RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 2nd February 2011
Russia's top military and space official launched a search Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch.

The Russian defence ministry confirmed that it had lost sight of the craft -- a dual-use vessel that can draw a three-dimensional map of the Earth and locate the precise positions of various targets. The incident came just a month after President Dmitry Medvedev sacked two top space officials for a similar setback and delivered another humiliating blow to Russia's much-maligned space industry.

The seriousness of the situation was underscored late Tuesday by reports that the defence ministry had set up an urgent joint task force with the Russia's space agency to look for the missing craft. The Geo-IK-2 satellite was created in Russia to help the military survey land and create a detailed three-dimensional map of the Earth. It was designed to spin in a circular orbit 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) above ground. But news reports said that the satellite had been put in an an elliptical orbit whose lowest point brought it to within 330 kilometres of Earth.

"We have still not been able to establish contact with the craft, and it looks like most likely, it will be declared lost," a Russian space source said. "The spacecraft will not be able to perform its intended functions at these orbit characteristics," another space official told the news agency.

Comment:
Hmmm.... another launch failure, so this is not looking too good for the new Russian equivalent to GPS. What's more, that's about a billion dollars worth of losses (4 satellites lost in the last 8 weeks....).



Lethal cyclone hits category five
ABC News, 2nd February 2011
Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi was upgraded to category five off north Queensland this morning as the weather bureau warned it was likely to be "more life-threatening" than any storm seen in Australia in living memory.

The weather bureau says Cyclone Yasi poses an "extremely serious threat" to life and property within the warning area, especially between Port Douglas and Townsville.

"This impact is likely to be more life-threatening than any experienced during recent generations," the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said this morning.

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing their homes ahead of the monster storm, which is expected to hit the coast between Cairns and Innisfail at about 10pm AEST tonight with winds of up to 295 kilometres per hour near the core.

Comment:
...and Piers Corbyn was predicting extreme weather for the end of January... it looks like he was right... lots of info here.

Australia with Satellite Overlay, BoM Weather Radar Composite Loop
The Weather Chaser, 2nd February 2011




BBC4's “Meet the Skeptics”
WattsUpWithThat.com, 2nd February 2011
Lord Monckton is rather upset with the producers of this show, so much that he filed a legal action for a right of reply according to Bishop Hill.

I was interviewed (captured really, they flagged me down in the conference hall foyer with no notice) by this production group at the Heartland conference last year in Chicago, giving well over an hour’s worth of an interview in which they asked the same question several times in different ways, hoping to get the answer they wanted. This is an old news interviewing trick to get that golden sound bite. I knew what they were doing, and kept giving the answers my way. [...]

The film features Britain’s pre-eminent sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton as he tours the world broadcasting his message to the public and politicians alike. Can he convince them and Murray that there is nothing to worry about?

This is the trailer, which everyone can view:

Comment:
Well, the global warming fight continues, Lord Christopher Monckton is a big target and the BBC seem to have lost all impartiality. I like this comment,

Boudu says: February 1, 2011 at 1:21 am

I am an video editor (some, perhaps would even say skilled) with 25 years experience of editing tv programmes and documentaries. The first thing to remember is that all documentaries are fiction. They tell a story, predetermined by the producer. ‘Meet the Skeptics’ was a great example of clumsy, heavy handed storytelling. Nothing more. The most telling techniques include the way Monckton was seldom given more than 10 seconds to say anything, with cutaways covering obvious edits in his talking in order to make it seem like he is saying something he probably isn’t. It’s easy. I do it everyday, though I tend to do it to enhance understanding not to misrepresent. On the other hand, Monckton’s detractors were given free reign to speak with 30, 40, 45 seconds of screen time to expound their ideas and make their point.



Tampa Airports Change Compass Marks While North Magnetic Pole Moves Toward Siberia.
Earthfiles.com, 1st February 2011
There have been recent media headlines about Tampa, Florida's International and general aviation airports having to repaint compass markings on their runways. Geophysicists say it's because there is a general westward drift of the Earth's magnetic field in the Western Hemisphere. So for pilot safety, Tampa airports corrected runway compass marks to reflect what compasses actually read now in southern Florida.

Why don't you hear about all airports having to repaint compass marks? Because despite some of the media headlines, the changes in southern Florida are not necessarily tied to the magnetic North Pole shifting towards Siberia. Historically, all over the planet, magnetic fields have changed region to region. Airports closer to the North Pole would have to make adjustments for the moving magnetic North Pole. But since Tampa, Florida, is so far away from the Arctic, compass changes there might only be due to a regional magnetic field shift.

Comment:
It's nice to get some comment from a geophysicist who explains that it's the local magnetic field that is changing in Tampa. However we don't get much of a useful discussion and it would have been helpful to get a meaningful explanation of the term "Westward Drift.". So, I will help here. It does seem that we were given a nod and a wink that the Florida 'Panhandle' and surrounding states are now being affected by the South Atlantic Anomaly that is now HUGE! As we can see from the historical magnetic intensity maps from 1590 - 2005, there is clearly a westward drift and a changing shape of the weakest part of Earth's magnetic field. Maybe, we can link this to the strange announcement on 20th January 2011, of the military turning off GPS for tests see FAA warns of ongoing GPS issues in southeastern US due to Defense Department 'tests'. The US military (Air Force) still seem to be in charge of the GPS system, but there are now many reports that imply that GPS is now too unreliable and the military realise they have become too dependent. So whilst we know that GPS is unreliable during bad space weather, (talk about GPS being vulnerable to enemies is misleading unless you consider the downpour of celestial energies as being comparable to the arrival of the enemy), the upshot is that top senior officials are now agonising in public. Meanwhile, civilian users have been lured into a technological trap, so amongst many different examples of failure (see archives), we can cite an uptick of oil tankers crashing at sea at the same time that we know that all planes will be using GPS by 2012. More background info below:

Schwartz warns against dependence on GPS
Air Force Times, 23rd January 2010
"The Air Force’s top uniformed leader thinks the military is too dependent on global positioning and must develop an alternative to the navigation system to reduce its vulnerability to enemies."

Glitch Shows How Much Military Relies on GPS
CBS News, 4th June 2010
"A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says."

Airline Industry Moves from Radar to GPS Tracking and Navigation
BrickHouse Security, 05 August 2010
"GPS navigation is a technology widely used in almost every car, whether it’s dashboard navigation or built into the car directly. Noting how widely GPS is used, the question arises of why different modes of transportation like the airline industry aren’t using the technology. The airline industry is currently using 70-year-old radar technology to keep track of its planes. The main problem with radar is that it can only see a plane flying over an ocean when it is within 200 miles of land. When the plane goes beyond those 200 miles the radar doesn’t see it anymore and the location of the airplane has to be estimated based on flight plans and departure times. This creates a huge problem in case the plane experiences some trouble and has to carry out an emergency landing, leaving the location of the plane completely unknown the the air traffic controllers."



Tomb of Maya "Destroyed": More Looting Confirmed in Egypt
Antiquity Lives, 1st February 2011
Some disturbing news has begun to float around the web that the tomb of Tutankhamun's Treasurer Maya has been "destroyed." Maya's tomb is located at Saqqara, where mass looting broke out over the weekend in the wake of the current political protests.

The following was relayed today from an Egyptology group via Facebook:
From our Senior Guide. A Sakkara inspector told him that in the last few days Sakkara has been ransacked. Maia is destroyed and even the reliefs in the burial chamber have been hacked out. There is mass digging around the Unas area in particular. The inspector could not get as far as the Teti area as he was threatened with guns but the mastabas will have suffered the same fate. A black day (via P.Allingham).
This reflects previous comments by Dr. Christian Greco and the radio statement of this morning by Dr. Maarten Raven. 
The loss of Maya's tomb is a devastating blow to Egyptology.

Comment:
Why would a modern Egpytian destroy his own heritage? According to a ATS thread Maya Tomb Sakkara damaged, to destroy dangerous evidence? "This tomb, locked away to the public for a long time- was looked at by Steven Mehler, author of Land of Osiris, and he photographed a very odd looking ceiling. Those photographs were sent to Mayan elders in Mexico who confirmed them as Mayan heiroglyphs. See the book for more details online The Land of Osiris. The Maya claim that they and the Egyptians BOTH came from Atlantis as a few high priests and survivors who managed to escape the catastrophe that destroyed this civilisation. This explains why there are many obvious similarities between both cultures and the attempts to destroy or suppress the evidence which scholars have been aware of and have documented over many hundreds of years.



Snow Spirals
spaceweather.com, 1st February 2011

SNOW SPIRALS: As a winter storm of historic proportions prepares to sweep across the USA later this week, midwesterners should be alert for some unaccustomed sights. One of them is snow spirals. Michael French photographed this specimen in Frederick, Maryland, on Jan. 29th:

"I call them Karra Spirals, after my wife Karra Strickland who discovered them in our yard," says French. "They were all over town, spiraling down the braided metal guy-wires on telephone poles. Here's the curious thing: The wires were spun clockwise, while the snow formations were spun anti-clockwise. The hardened snow spirals were rotated opposite of the metal wire's weave. We also noticed that spirals near the top of the wires were longer (~1 meter) than spirals at the bottom (0.1 - 0.3 meters)--perhaps because of gravity?"

Indeed, the changing wavelength of the spiral suggests gravity played a role in their formation. This could be how heavy snow sags under its own weight when it clings to a braided wire. Why the spirals should oppose the braid, however, is not obvious. Readers with explanations are invited to submit them for consideration.

Comment: Even spaceweather.com is stumped for an "official" answer, however my wonderful new Dutch friend Guido Jonkers has made the following suggestion for the snow spirals that he thinks have been formed in 4 stages.
  1. Bare telephone wire, no snow.
  2. Snow covers telephone wire.
  3. Snow slips down telephone wire due to gravity to generate a cone shape.
  4. Spiraling energies quickly arrive to sculpt the snow by melting it slightly to create the spiral.
  5. The sculpted spiral is then refrozen very quickly to become 'hardened' snow.
This explanation does not explain the variation in sizes but I suspect the snow is charged so that more sticks together when there is a higher voltage potential and therefore when it is higher above the ground.



ORB UFO Over Jerusalem May Change UFOlogy
Barf Stew, 31st January 2011
I have been rendered nearly speechless before by YouTube videos of UFO activity - consider my mouth hanging open once again. Yesterday I was checking my sources for my UFO blog called UFO Disclosure Countdown Clock and low and behold I found an ORB/UFO video of quite high quality to share with my readers. What the video showed was a nighttime video (1:00am about) shot from a distance of about several miles from Jerusalem and UP in the sky is this shining light/orb.

Comment:
The second video is simply priceless, the American tourists sure got their money's worth! It looks like more ufologists are having an awakening...

Jerusalem videos stir UFO buzz
MSNBC News, 31st February 2011

Surprisingly convincing Israeli and American UFO footage appears...
Asylum, 1st February 2011
The side-by-side Jerusalem footage included

Fourth video of UFO over Jerusalem!
YouTube/Allnewsweb, 1st February 2011

UFO mystery in Kolkata air
Deccan Herald, 1st February 2011
"A glowing round object making a speedy descent near the West Bengal-Bihar border early on January 26 left pilots of five aircraft baffled, triggering widespread speculation about unidentified flying objects (UFOs)."

UFO hovers over Jerusalem shrine
Two different films have surfaced of a glowing ball hovering over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem before zooming off skywards
The Telegraph, 21st February 2011

UFO Sightings in Jerusalem Shown at Different Angles
God Discussion, 3rd February 2011 Wow!
I'm impressed, even The Young Turks are discussing this! Get the control guy talking about this as being some kind of spiritual thing.... I love it when the thinkers think out loud...

Jerusalem weather cam captures light over dome
Above Top Secret, 3rd February 2011
The serious detective work has started...

The Crapology Of UFOlogy - Or - Making Sense of Responses To The Jerusalem UFO
UDCC, 3rd February 2011
"But, I promised you crapology - and you know - UDCC tries to deliver. And, depending on how much you `believe' the `debunking' using technical terms you are unlikely to know - will influence you on how you feel about what you saw in those videos of the last couple of days. So, you ready?"

Comment:
Since I am a fan of Rick Phillips I am delighted to offer his latest article discussing the crapology of ufology...



The Continued Reports of Extremely Strange UFOs [Unidentified Floating Objects]
Chris Holly Paranormal World, January 2011
Recently I wrote an article about reports I was receiving describing odd large building size and shape UFO's being seen all over the world. I found the reports strange and thought they were very rare.

As soon as I published that article new reports started to come in concerning this type of sighting. I realized that this may not be as rare as I assumed. I also found a thread running through each report stating that since the people who witnessed these strange crafts never heard about anyone else seeing them they remained silent about their encounter. Once they read others also were encountering these odd large crafts or floating structures they decided to come forward by sharing their experience.

I think this may be a case of a strangeness that has been swept under the carpet by way of its odd appearance and fear of ridicule by those seeing them. I do think they are uncommon but feel there are enough people on this planet who have seen them to realize this is another face of the UFO subject that simply has been neglected.

Comment:
Let's get weird! My suggestion is that these are shapeshifting UAPs who think that they can cleverly disguise themselves and just blend into the background. However, these entities don't realise that buildings on Earth do not float or meander along... This is in the same category as ghost ships, ghost airships and even ghost cars that have been reported over many decades. For anyone new to this website and my views, these entities are basically mental energy or consciousness with the ability to construct a vehicle 'body' from plasma for whatever purpose. The metaphysical community were warned things were going to get weird and it's certainly happening, but it's a shame that the obvious connection of high strangness with UFOs/UAPs was not made earlier. By the way, this should not be considered as paranormal anymore, it's the new reality...



Indonesian Air Force Orders Probe Into Crop Circle Formation Formed By UFO
UFO Blogger, 24th January 2011
Air Force orders probe into crop circle formation in Krasakan, Jogotirto Village, District Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta - Indonesian Air Force chief Marshall Imam Sufaat on Monday instructed his staff to use a helicopter to take aerial photographs of crop circles discovered on Sunday.

Crop circle was formed in the rice water paddy field in Krasakan, Jogotirto Village, District Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta on 23rd January, 2011. The circle had a diameter of about 25-30 meters residents are alleging it was created by UFO. [...]

Marshall Imam Sufaat said : "If we examine the photographs, we will possibility see if the patterns were in fact created with powers beyond human knowledge," Imam said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com, on the sidelines of the Air Force commander meeting in Yogyakarta." Imam, however, declined to comment further on the geometric pattern.

Comment:
Of course, the Indonesian military don't believe that Doug & Dave travelled to Indonesia to make a crop circle in a rice field.... Some nice pictures and video here. More:

Another Crop Circle discovered In Yogyakarta, Indonesia
UFO Blogger, 26th January 2011
"Residents in Yogyakarta were stunned to find a second crop circle on Tuesday, this time in a rice field in Bantul district, about five kilometers away from a similar pattern reported a day earlier."



Birds use quantum theory to literally 'see' Earth's magnetic field as they fly
Daily Mail, 28th January 2011
Birds may be able to ‘see’ the Earth’s electromagnetic field as they fly through the sky, scientists have suggested. Many creatures, including all birds, navigate by sensing the direction of the magnetic forces around our planet to guide them.

But now researchers have found that different reactions are produced in the eyes of all avian creatures depending on which way the field spins. These reactions could create a picture of the field in different shades of light and dark across the bird’s eye, they have suggested.

Scientists said that if true it would be another example of Mother Nature’s wonder - in tests using the most exotic chemicals they could find, they could not match the bird’s eye for its ability to do what it does. [...] Scientists have long suggested that birds' eyes have entanglement-based compasses but now they claim in a new paper the process could produce an image of the Earth’s electromagnetic field in the eye as well. Such an image would not be a clear outline of a shape but just shades of dark and light depending on how the field moves.

Comment:
I imagine that birds are really struggling a lot more these days as Earth's magnetic field is now highly unstable.



The Fate of the Kilo Weighs Heavily on the Minds of Metrologists
Wall Street Journal, 28th January 2011
Dr. Phillips and other mandarins of metrology were gathered at Britain's Royal Society to debate an urgent question in the science of measurement—how to re-define the basic unit of mass, as well as other measurements such as the second, ampere, kelvin and mole.

The aim is to tie each to a widely accepted property of nature, rather than to a lump of metal or some other imprecise benchmark. The meter, for instance, was once measured as the distance between two notches on a metal bar. It is now defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

The new definitions are "as big a change as the introduction of the metric system during the French Revolution," says Terry Quinn, a dapper Briton who organized the seminar and once served as director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, which ensures world-wide uniformity of measurements. Frequent clashes about the best approach mean the temperature of debate has at times "risen quite high," he added, without specifying by how much.

Comment:
To be honest, I did not want to report again about these scientists moaning about being fed up with the kilo shrinking, but I could not resist the complaint that it was effecting "everything else in the universe!" Really? Was this an exaggeration of some who is closed to a greater reality in a vast universe of at least 300 sextillion (3 x 10 23) stars. Anyway, a major constant changing seems to be quite common these days, as scientists are now starting to face up to the fact that radiation decay rates vary in a predictable way over the year and experimental error and environmental conditions have all been ruled out.



Kenyan mother 'cursed' with six sets of twins
BBC News, 27th January 2011
Most women would struggle to cope with six sets of twins but for Gladys Bulinya it is even more difficult - as many people in her part of Kenya think twins are cursed.

Her relatives will have nothing to do with her, and her husband left her, fearing she was jinxed, after the sixth pair of twins arrived last year.

Comment:
This woman has been so badly treated... I hope this woman gets some help due to this article, it seems that life has been really tough.



Parrot deaths remain mysterious
731 African grey parrots were discovered dead after a short flight from Johannesburg to Durban, South Africa, on Christmas eve. The circumstances surrounding these birds deaths remain mysterious and suspicious.
The Guardian, 26th January 2011
[...] The most likely possibility, one that I first suspected based on the presumed speed at which the parrots deaths occurred, suggests they might have been killed by carbon monoxide fumes. But these fumes would have also sickened or killed the puppy, which shared the same cargo hold (and the same air). But the puppy arrived "in perfect health". Further, carbon monoxide detectors in the cargo hold did not sound an alarm, and the passengers and pilot -- who also shared the same air with the parrots -- all arrived safely, too.

"Not only were our passengers all in perfect condition, but the puppy was delivered safely and without harm," asserted 1time airlines' official statement. "We are adamant that there have been undisclosed events leading to the transportation that need to be investigated,"

Whatever lethal agent(s) killed these parrots was selective, either because the parrots were the only creatures exposed to it, or because the puppy and the humans were not susceptible to its effects.

Comment:
Something is happening in the mainstream media, this section is called "Punctuated Equilibrium", have members of the press found my website? LOL! Anyway, it looks like there is a fuss over these parrots dying and maybe government officials have done some tests. Oh well, lets face some facts, this journey was in the region of the South Atlantic Anomaly, the weakest part of Earth's magnetic field, it could have been a bad space weather day, the magnetosphere had collapsed or a beam of electrons could have hit the plane. The official report states the birds had "massive hemorrhaging around the parrots' eyes and grey, collapsed lungs." So, maybe the air was ionised and they were deprived of oxygen and the situation was unavoidable because they were so tightly packed. It would be better to see an official report, so we can stop the guessing game.



Strange lights appear in the sky above Utah County - United States (Video)
abc4.com News, 28th January 2011
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Reports of strange lights in the night sky have people in Utah County talking about UFO’s. Three red lights appeared between 7:15 and 7:30 last night. Witnesses say they hovered in formation and dropped what appeared to be flares.

Lynette Chidester lives in Highland and is one of those puzzled by what she saw. "I don't believe in extra-terrestrials.” But she also doesn’t believe the lights were from airplanes or helicopters. She says they didn’t make a sound, and there were no blinking lights, just a constant red.

Comment:
Well, the energetic transformation of planet Earth continues... We have good eye witness accounts with video and people who are adamant that they know what they saw.

Rescue flares (or 'shape-shifting' UFOs) light the sky [Canada]
Times Colonist, 28th January 2011

UFOs Over Utah Drop Flare-Like Objects
AOL News, 31st January 2011
The second video from YouTube is original footage.



Caltech geobiologists uncover links between ancient climate change and mass extinction
Eureka Alert, 27th January 2011
PASADENA, Calif.—About 450 million years ago, Earth suffered the second-largest mass extinction in its history—the Late Ordovician mass extinction, during which more than 75 percent of marine species died. Exactly what caused this tremendous loss in biodiversity remains a mystery, but now a team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered new details supporting the idea that the mass extinction was linked to a cooling climate.

"While it's been known for a long time that the mass extinction is intimately tied to climate change, the precise mechanism is unclear," says Seth Finnegan, a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and the first author of the paper published online in Science on January 27. The mass extinction coincided with a glacial period, during which global temperatures cooled and the planet saw a marked increase in glaciers. At this time, North America was on the equator, while most of the other continents formed a supercontinent known as Gondwana that stretched from the equator to the South Pole.

By using a new method to measure ancient temperatures, the researchers have uncovered clues about the timing and magnitude of the glaciation and how it affected ocean temperatures near the equator. "Our observations imply a climate system distinct from anything we know about over the last 100 million years," says Woodward Fischer, assistant professor of geobiology at Caltech and a coauthor.

Comment:
It is evident that our world is currently facing climate change and mass extinction, but history also reveals that there is also massive evolutionary change and new life. The issue is that mankind has no control over how this is achieved and sometimes the transition is done in an extreme manner, as we can see as clearly evident from Earth's geological upheavals.



V-TOPPED LIGHT PILLARS:
Spaceweather.com, 27th January 2011
Light pillars are a common sight around cities in winter. Urban lights bounce off ice crystals in the air, producing tall luminous columns sometimes mistaken for auroras. But the light pillars Mike Hollingshead saw last night near a corn mill in Nebraska were decidely uncommon. "They had V-shaped tops," he explains, "and some of the Vs were nested." Here is what he saw:

"These light pillars are not just rare, they are exceptional!" declares atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "Ordinary pillars are produced by plate-shaped ice crystals roughly half way between you and the light source. These ones are different. Their rarely seen flared tops show that they were made by column-shaped crystals drifting slowly downwards and aligned horizontal by air resistance."

"The flares are a form of the upper tangent arcs that we sometimes see in daytime halo displays," he continues. "But even more exotic, some flares have a second one nested within them! Some ice crystal columns do not rotate but instead keep two of their prism faces improbably horizontal to give us the very uncommon Parry arcs of solar halo displays. The nested flares here are amazing and probably the light halo equivalent of Parry arcs."

Comment: So, if these Trumpet Pillars are ultra rare, why are they being reported so often? See previous comment, from about two weeks ago! By the way, the magnetosphere appears to have virtually disappeared... 01/27/2011 03:14:27 UT - 01/27/2011 19:29:34 UT

The curious phenomenon of the new Northern Lights: Optical illusion caused by ice crystals in the Yorkshire night sky
Daily Mail, 29th January 2011



EdgeScience Magazine - issue 6
Society for Scientific Exploration, January 2011
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.

Comment:
No. 6 is free! Download here.



The lake that glows in the dark: Eerie phenomenon that turned waters (and midnight swimmers) luminous blue
Daily Mail, 26th January 2011
Swimming is supposed to give you a healthy glow, but these swimmers weren't quite sure what was going on when they took a late-night dip and turned a fluorescent shade of blue.

'It was like we were playing with radioactive paint,' said photographer Phil Hart who snapped the bizarre sight as his friends emerged from a lake in the dark of night. The light is created by a chemical reaction called bioluminescence, which happens when a naturally-occuring micro-organism in the water is disturbed.

Comment:
Bioluminescence organisms have been associated with what looks like pillars of fire and very mysterious geometrical formations seen over ocean waters. There are even reports of Min Min lights being made up of glowing organisms, so this is not a straight forward phenomena to try and understand. Recently, we had a river turning green overnight for no apparent reason, so it's interesting to contemplate if this is going to become yet another high strangeness phenomena on Earth, as energetic changes become more apparent. Well, the images did remind me of the movie Avatar, the thought of future Earth becoming anything like Pandora will delight more than just a few...



Gorilla walks on hind legs
Nine News, 27th January 2011
A male gorilla may be preparing for the next stage of the evolutionary process after mastering the ability to walk upright. Twenty-one-year-old Amban has become a crowd favourite at England's Port Lympne Wild Animal Park after being filmed tottering around his enclosure on his hind legs. All gorillas are able to walk on their hind legs to some extent, but Amban's surefooted walk is another thing altogether.

Comment:
Wow... the mainstream are talking my language! LOL! Well, everything on this planet is being given the opportunity to evolve, with some kind of testing process that proceeds massive evolutionary change. This means some species with go extinct and others will flourish, a persistent pattern in the evolution of all life on Earth during periods of rapid evolutionary change.



Rep. Giffords starts rehab, is recovering at 'lightning speed'
Ultimate Clear Lake, 27th January 2011
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords continued a recovery on Wednesday that doctors called remarkable and "lightning speed" as she moved out of an intensive care unit and began full-time rehabilitation 18 days after a bullet ripped through the left side of her brain.

As police halted traffic and a media horde captured the scene, Giffords was moved by ambulance early Wednesday from Memorial Hermann Hospital to TIRR Memorial Hermann, just two blocks away in the Texas Medical Center. She received physical therapy after her transfer and was expected to also participate in occupational and speech therapies.

"Since Gabby arrived last Friday, we have noticed daily improvements in her neurological condition," Dr. Dong Kim, Giffords' neurosurgeon, said at an afternoon news conference Wednesday. "We're very pleased with that. In terms of recoveries for brain issues, this is really at lightning speed."

Comment:
I truly believe that people are praying for this woman all over the world and wish her well, hence the remarkable recovery.

Giffords strong enough to watch TV for an hour
CNN, 26th January 2011
Gabrielle Giffords watched an hour of television from her hospital bed, a development her husband Mark Kelly called "exciting," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a friend of Giffords who spoke to Kelly Tuesday.



UFO sightings surge around Colombian volcano
Columbia Reports, 25th January 2011
The highest volcano in Colombia has been the scene of numerous UFO sightings in recent weeks, which according to some is due to extraterrestrials monitoring seismic activity in an effort to save the human race.

Locals in the border region between the two departments of Huila and Cauca, where the Volcan Nevada del Huila is situated, believe the UFOs to belong to extraterrestrial beings, and have documented sightings with pictures and video, reported Diario del Huila Tuesday.

These claims were backed by local UFO expert Ricardo Ayerbe, who told the newspaper that he has witnessed an increase in unidentified flying objects over the last decade.

Ayerbe explained that he is currently investigating the phenomenon and believes that alien beings have an interest in the geological area, which is at present at Level 3 risk level, meaning that there are changes in volcanic activity.

Comment:
Maybe, the vicinity of the volcano is a portal.



World business leaders told flying saucers are real & extraterrestrials exist
Exopolitics, 25th January 2011
At five thousand dollars a ticket, some business leaders got more than they bargained for when they attended the first day of the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They were told flying saucers are real, and they better start thinking about the business implications of extraterrestrial life and technologies.

Convened each year by the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, the GCF brings together business and political leaders to discuss ways of promoting business competitiveness. For the first time at its annual conference, the GCF held a panel discussing UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

Titled “Learning from Outer Space” the panel comprised five speakers who all endorsed the view that extraterrestrial life is real, and has many implications for the world as we know it.

Comment:
Oh... the message is UFOs and extraterrestrial life, so does that mean acknowledging the Shadow Biosphere and other off-planet ETs? The graphic is interesting, NOT LITTLE GREEN MEN did catch my eye... The BIG MONEY IN ALIEN LIFE slogan is somewhat distasteful... Quite frankly, this was not quite what I had in mind, but maybe people need to be SOLD their next evolutionary leap of consciousness.... Honestly, I am not convinced...



Solar Sail Stunner
NASA Science News, 24th January 2011
In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet.

"We're solar sailing!" says NanoSail-D principal investigator Dean Alhorn of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. "This is a momentous achievement."

Comment:
Heart warming stuff! I'm happy that something has worked for these NASA scientists. A nice reminder: Never give up, never surrender... LOL!



Evolution by mistake
PhysOrg.com, 24th January 2011
A major driving force of evolution comes from mistakes made by cells and how organisms cope with the consequences, University of Arizona biologists have found. Their discoveries offer lessons for creating innovation in economics and society.

Charles Darwin based his groundbreaking theory of natural selection on the realization that genetic variation among organisms is the key to evolution.

Some individuals are better adapted to a given environment than others, making them more likely to survive and pass on their genes to future generations. But exactly how nature creates variation in the first place still poses somewhat of a puzzle to evolutionary biologists.

Now, Joanna Masel, associate professor in the UA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology, and postdoctoral fellow Etienne Rajon discovered the ways organisms deal with mistakes that occur while the genetic code in their cells is being interpreted greatly influences their ability to adapt to new environmental conditions – in other words, their ability to evolve.

"Evolution needs a playground in order to try things out," Masel said. "It's like in competitive business: New products and ideas have to be tested to see whether they can live up to the challenge."

Comment:
This evolutionary mechanism discovered in organisms, has got nothing to do with ideas proposed by Darwin's Theory of Evolution. An organism has an inbuilt ability to adapt to new environmental stimulus within a certain degree and this is achieved by permitting dna copying "mistakes" to be stored and used later, if they are beneficial to permit evolutionary changes and adaptation to new environmental conditions. This means organisms do not wait for drastic environmental changes to occur that threatens it's survival and then sit around waiting for some random dna mutation to come along to change it's DNA blueprint to help it to survive. This explains how organisms can evolve at will, because the blueprint is designed to be flexible and so has nothing to with The Dogma believed by Darwinists who for 250 years have claimed that change can only take place over millions of years. Today, we are seeing rapid changes in DNA that can take place in only decades, hence there are far more interesting theories that can be cited that help us understand the creative intelligence that supports evolutionary change.



Guest Post “Global Floods – Why Were They Not Predicted?” By Will Alexander
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr., 24th January 2011

Global floods – why were they not predicted?

Do you recall the following quote in my semi-final Memo 15/10 of  2 August 2010?

Scientific predictability also raises the question of the scientist’s ethical responsibilities. His conclusions must be guided by respect for truth and an honest acknowledgment of both the accuracy and the inevitable limitations of the scientific method. Certainly this means avoiding needlessly alarming predictions when these are not supported by sufficient data or exceed science’s actual ability to predict. But it also means avoiding the opposite, namely a silence, born of fear, in the face of genuine problems.
    –Pope Benedict XVI, 6 November 2006

[...] I now have a simple question. Were these global extremes the consequence of weather or climatic phenomena? Nobody seems to know. In either case the answer is irrelevant. The claimed consensus views of hundreds of climate change scientists are fundamentally erroneous. Hundreds of peer reviewed papers published in the hydrological literature during the past 50 years demonstrated that climate is NOT a steady state phenomenon.

Comment:
“Global Floods – Why Were They Not Predicted?” The short reply is that "solar linkage" as opposed to anthropogenic global warming is not what certain people wanted to hear.



Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong
Newsweek, 23rd January 2011
If you follow the news about health research, you risk whiplash. First garlic lowers bad cholesterol, then—after more study—it doesn’t. [...] But what if wrong answers aren’t the exception but the rule? More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now making that claim. It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed, they charge. Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a system that leads patients and physicians astray—spurring often costly regimens that won’t help and may even harm you.

It’s a disturbing view, with huge im-plications for doctors, policymakers, and health-conscious consumers. And one of its foremost advocates, Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, has just ascended to a new, prominent platform after years of crusading against the baseless health and medical claims. As the new chief of Stanford University’s Prevention Research Center, Ioannidis is cementing his role as one of medicine’s top mythbusters. “People are being hurt and even dying” because of false medical claims, he says: not quackery, but errors in medical research.

Despite the explosive nature of his charges, Ioannidis has collaborated with some 1,500 other scientists, and Stanford, epitome of the establishment, hired him in August to run the preventive-medicine center. “The core of medicine is getting evidence that guides decision making for patients and doctors,” says Ralph Horwitz, chairman of the department of medicine at Stanford. “John has been the foremost innovative thinker about biomedical evidence, so he was a natural for us.” [...]

The situation isn’t hopeless. Geneticists have mostly mended their ways, tightening statistical criteria, but other fields still need to clean house, Ioannidis says. Surgical practices, for instance, have not been tested to nearly the extent that medications have. “I wouldn’t be surprised if a large proportion of surgical practice is based on thin air, and [claims for effectiveness] would evaporate if we studied them closely,” Ioannidis says. That would also save billions of dollars

Comment:
I am certainly very interested in the opinion of Dr. John Ioannidis who seems to be on some kind of campaign to clean up the medical cartel. It seems that more and more medical professionals are gaining a new higher level of awareness and consciousness and this helps to explain why a character like Ioannidis is attracting such high levels of support when maybe 20 years ago he would have been shunned and run out of the medical profession. It truly does seem in the words of a song, ...a change is going to come and a real change in the medical world.



WA meteorite excites scientists
TheWest.com.au, 22nd January 2011
A unique meteorite that smashed into the West Australian outback last year is exciting the scientific world. The ancient rock has an unusual composition and is being studied by scientists around the globe.

Now in the Natural History Museum in London, the meteorite is undergoing preliminary analysis and will be returned to the WA Museum when those tests are complete. Curtin University department of applied geology Adjunct Professor Phil Bland said the meteorite, which is roughly the size of a tennis ball, could reveal vital clues to the origins of the universe.

Not only is its chemistry proving intriguing but scientists were able to track its fall to earth to determine where in the solar system it came from. There have been more than 50,000 documented meteorite falls over the past 200 years but scientists know the origins of just 10, highlighting the importance of the latest find. [...]

"Locating where they come from is important, because it enables scientists to link geological information to the correct location in space," he said.

"We've only really just started analysing (this latest meteorite). We've got a very precise orbit for it, so we're currently looking through the asteroid database to see if there's anything out there that matches it - that could have been the source for our rock. But in terms of composition, it does look kind of interesting."

Professor Bland said the meteorite tracking project could provide some fundamental insights into how the solar system and rocky terrestrial planets formed.

Comment:
I wonder of this will upset American researchers who have recently been denied fireball data from US military satellites? Presumably, the issue is that the military don't want people to know just how many incoming objects are hitting the planet and I now presume that is because our solar system surrounded by the Oort cloud of rocky debris has just hit G Cloud, hence the arrival of more fireballs, comets and asteroids.



Piers Corbyn predicts: TOP RED WARNINGS of very extreme events world-wide in the last week of January
WeatherAction.com, 21st January 2011
"The Claim 2010 is '2nd warmest year on record' - is delusional, irrelevant & disingenuous – the last gasp of the failed global warming cult”

· The ideologically driven global warmist joke must be swept aside. The time has come for useful science-based forecasts to reduce misery & save lives.

· More end Jan extreme warnings for USA, Australia + UK/Europe.
· The most exciting weather year for a century has begun.

Comment:
I hope Piers is enjoying is new found fame. It's quite brilliant that more and more people are introduced to the effect solar and lunar magnetics, on Earth's weather. Of course, this is no surprise because research over the last fifty years has indicated that specific planetary alignments have predictable outcomes.

Astronomy & Magnetics - The Evidence
Whole Earth Forecaster
"This body of work empirically proves that a connective, perhaps causal relationship exists between astronomical tides, solar activity, weather and environmental change."



Social networking sites are a 'modern form of madness'
Social networking websites are making us "less human" by isolating people from reality, a US academic claims.
The Telegraph, 21st January 2011
The way in which people frantically communicate online via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook can be seen as a modern form of madness, according to the leading sociologist.

Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writes in her new book, Alone Together: “A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological.”

She explains that people are become isolated from reality due to such social networking sites because technology is dominating our lives and making us "less human".

Comment:
The reference to the woman who comitted suicide should touch any thinking person and I admire the professor quoted here for understanding what is going on and daring to point out this issue. Quite frankly, I am amazed by the nastiness on forums, too many people are like little bombs ready to explode over the slightest provocation, just horrible. A Lord of the Flies mentality is prevailing and "Forum Man" might be a sign that some are quite clearly devolving. See below:

THE NEW DELUDED HUMAN ... ... ‘FORUM MAN’
Davidicke.com, 21st January 2011
"Firstly, let me make it clear that I am not criticising or condemning Internet forums. They can be a great source of interaction and information exchange by some very intelligent and aware people. But through this medium has emerged a mentality, what I call Forum Man, that we need to be aware of and, more than anything, Forum Man needs to be aware of.

I say ‘Man’ because from what I have seen this mentality is expressed mostly through the male mind, though certainly not exclusively. Forum Man sits at his computer hiding behind log-in names, often hurling abuse in all directions, and claims to be streetwise about life and world events while talking the most monumental bollocks ..."

Facebook - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Noosphere - Not
Alex Waterhouse Haward Blog, October 8th 2010
"I came to understand that Facebook is a rosy and wonderful world where everything is o.m.g fantastic and most are blown away by everything and anything. It is world-wide Disney Fantasyland. [...] As I study Facebook I notice that it is becoming "Twitterized". By this I mean that those who post comments or “what’s in their mind” do so in an extremely brief manner. [...] To me Facebook has become the air guitar of the net. Not being able to play a guitar we live the artificial world of watching the celebrities and commenting on what they do or not do. Most participate in a passive way. I wonder if Pierre Teilhard de Chardin might not remove that smile from his face and frown, just a bit."



Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in eight weeks
Science Daily, 21st January 2011
ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) — Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain's grey matter.

Comment:
Well, there seems to be a lot of scientific interest these days in meditation, hopefully these will be scientists who are interested in the truth and not promoting a particular belief system.



The BBC became a propaganda machine for climate change zealots, says Peter Sissons... and I was treated as a lunatic for daring to dissent
Daily Mail, 25th January 2011
Institutionally biased to the Left, politically correct and with a rudderless leadership. This is Peter Sissons’ highly critical view of the BBC in his new memoirs, in which he describes his fascinating career over four decades as a television journalist. Here, in the latest part of our serialisation, he reveals how it was heresy at the BBC to question claims about climate change?.?.?.

My time as a news and ­current affairs anchor at the BBC was characterised by weak leadership and poor ­direction from the top, but hand in hand with this went the steady growth of political correctness.

Indeed, it was almost certainly the ­Corporation’s unchallengeable PC culture that made strong leadership impossible.

Leadership — one person being in charge, trusting his or her own judgment, taking a decision and telling others what to do— was shied away from in favour of endless meetings of a dozen or more ­people trying to arrive at some sort of consensus.

Comment:
The battle over the science behind the claim that humans are changing Earth's climate is basically one that has been fought at many levels. The high pressure to conform to an ideology with massive implications for the future of mankind means that many people have been placed in a position where revealing their honest truth really mattered. Yes, there is a real concern, but not for the reasons offered to the general public who were asked to become paying believers. World government is now trying to change our perception of what is happening, but it is now becoming common knowledge that evolutionary change is being driven by Space Weather, something that cannot be controlled by humans, despite the many different desperate attempts being made.



Argentina Air Force Website Hacked To Protest Against UFO Crash Cover-Up
UFO Blogger, 21st January 2011
Anonymous hacker hacked the official Argentine Air Force (FAA) website on January 20th to claim information about a unknown UFO crash in January 1985 in the city of Mendoza. The AAF hacked page lasted a few hours on Thursday and now the website is back to normal again.

In his complaint, he indicates that on January 26 , 1985 their was a cigar-shaped UFO crashed in the area of Papagayos. And a large number of military personnel and foreign national were sighted after that incident. Even the daily Los Andes had also reported the tremor shook in the region ion same day and the people connecting this to UFO crash.

Comment:
What a nerve! I mean, isn't there supposed to be a new spirit of Glasnost in Argentina? Why couldn't this hacker wait to see what happens, before hacking in rage... all rather incredible, but maybe a sign that some people are losing patience with authorities... Related article:

The Triumph of Hacker Culture
Slate, 21st January 2011

Hackers cause internet storm after breaking into Nicolas Sarkozy's Facebook page and announcing his resignation
Daily Mail, 24th January 2011



UFO Enthusiasts Abuzz Over Indonesian Crop Circles
Fox News, 21st January 2011
Indonesia’s first crop circles have appeared -- and locals call it evidence of alien life.

Found in a rice field in a hamlet of Sleman, Yogyakarta, the crop circle consists of triangles and circles with a diameter of about 70 meters. While some observes say the shapes are manmade, local scientists and government officials are struggling for a concrete explanation, leaving UFO enthusiasts murmuring of extraterrestrials.

"According to several residents, they saw a tornado on Saturday evening," said Ngadiran, one of six farmers who owns the land in Sleman. "On Sunday afternoon, we saw the footprint in our fields."

The pattern was first reported by a farmer, Tukiman, on Sunday at 6 a.m. His story drew hordes of people, causing heavy traffic congestion in the region. Enthusiastic locals all seem to have their own theory on the genesis of the mysterious occurrence. [...]

Others noted the pattern's unique symbology. "This particular crop circle is fascinating because of its striking resemblance to the muladhara chakra -- one of the basic chakras in Tantric Hinduism," Perdana told local news agency kompas.com.

Comment:
OK, it's not the fact that it was reported in Indonesia that is newsworthy..., no, it's the fact that FOX NEWS, felt the need to share...

Crop circles found in Yogya rice field
Jakarta Post, 24th January 2011
The photograph here is a better perspective to view the crop circle, but it's not very good quality which is a shame.

Indonesia’s first crop circle - geometry
This is an image of the same geometry used in the crop circle.


Michio Kaku on Fox Business: Massive solar flare in the years 2012/2013 could throw us back 100 years

You Tube, 19th August 2010
link

"Physics of the Impossible" author Michio Kaku on the consequences of a massive solar storm to our global infrastructure and economy."

Yes, Kaku makes a few mistakes but at least he is on mainstream TV warning. I know there are a lot of people saying this is 2012 hype, but unfortunately, the vast majority of 2012 pundits have completely missed the REAL MAYAN MESSAGE i.e 21st December 2012 is the official birthday of a NEW AGE dominated by space and the ether (modern spelling aether). As NASA have declared, Space Weather has arrived and the strange behaviour of the Sun cannot be ignored because the risks are too great. Meanwhile, we are losing our solar system and planetary shielding, so this is not about a 1 day Y2K scare, it's about our modern technological society being able to cope in a completely different near space environment. For once, NASA and the space agencies have no choice but to explain the seriousness of the situation, but due to the climate of lies, excuse the pun, many think they are just being scared for the sake of it. In reality, people should realise that they have to wake up and FORCE change so that our societies can survive. This is exactly what has happened with the efforts of John Kappenman, a lowly electrical engineer who took it upon himself to warn that the US power grid was vulnerable and lobbied hard so that even the US military took notice so this has become a national security issue. Personally, I am full of admiration for his interest in the welfare of his fellow man. If the initiative fails due to the lack of foresight in spending peanuts (100 million dollars, a few US bankers' bonuses in a good year), to try and stop the grid failing in an emergency, it could be BANG and our societies could revert back 100 years plus (Stone Age for some), without the necessary skills of ordinary people knowing how to grow food. Please note: the really poor in poor countries won't know any different and will just cope as usual, but it would be some serious levelling of the playing field.

NASA's Solar Shield to Protect Power Grids From Sun Storms
space.com, 08 November 2010
NASA has devised a new tool in the battle against massive eruptions from the sun: an early warning system to protect electrical grids on Earth from extremely powerful solar storms.

The new project, called Solar Shield, is designed to predict the severity of powerful sun storms at specific locations on Earth to help power companies plan responses and limit the potential damage to their equipment.

"It amounts to knowing 'something is coming and it may be big,'" said project leader Antti Pulkkinen, a research associate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., told SPACE.com. But Solar Shield should provide "much more specificity."

Comment:
This is still experimental but you can see it's not exactly foolproof as it relies on the ACE satellite located at at Lagrange point 1 (L1), a million miles from Earth, to be functional enough to monitor the interplanetary magnetic field and plasma flows. Hence, Solar Shield relies on data being available and not lost due to the fast moving radiation storms that arrive, very quickly after the initial flash of a solar flare that are often associated and precede a coronal mass ejection.

Public spot significant solar storm heading for Earth
UK Space Agency, 13th December 2010

"For the first time scientists have used data analysed by the public to make a real-time prediction of a solar storm that should hit Earth today (Monday 13 December), thanks to the Solar Stormwatch web project (link opens in a new window)."

Comment:
21.01.11 OK, I have been checking the UK Solar Stormwatch site that is promoting Citizen Science which is an incredibly old fashion label, but I am quite amazed that they are aiming to compete with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. Watch the SPOT tutorial where they explain in 3:58 what exactly they are asking UK citizens to help with. At the moment, it's very early days, but it's organised and the project has started.


Cosmic rays contribute 40 p.c. to global warming: study
The Hindu, 21st January 2011
A key belief of climate science theology — that a reduction in carbon emissions will take care of the bulk of global warming — has been questioned in a scientific paper released by the Environment Ministry on Monday.

Physicist and the former ISRO chairman, U.R. Rao, has calculated that cosmic rays — which, unlike carbon emissions, cannot be controlled by human activity — have a much larger impact on climate change than The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims.

In fact, the contribution of decreasing cosmic ray activity to climate change is almost 40 per cent, argues Dr. Rao in a paper which has been accepted for publication in Current Science, the preeminent Indian science journal. The IPCC model, on the other hand, says that the contribution of carbon emissions is over 90 per cent.

‘Cosmic ray impact ignored'

Releasing Dr. Rao's findings as a discussion paper on Thursday, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh noted that “the impact of cosmic ray intensity on climate change has thus far been largely ignored by the mainstream scientific consensus.” He added that the “unidimensional focus” on carbon emissions by most Western countries put additional pressure on countries like India in international climate negotiations.

Comment:
Yes, carbon dioxide is naturally made in Earth's atmosphere due to the action of cosmic rays indirectly interacting on nitrogen atoms. Man-made carbon in the air comes from burning fossil fuels and detonating nuclear bombs, see Radiocarbon Dating and Bomb Carbon. Since, I made this discovery, I have been wondering why this was not being discussed on climate websites and forums, because of the well reported recent large increase in cosmic rays.



Pole Shift: North Races, South Crawls
Modern Survival Blog, 21st January 2011
While the speed of the earth’s magnetic north pole shift has drastically sped up lately to about 34 miles per year (55 km), let’s look at what is happening with the south magnetic pole.

Every magnetic field has two polarities, North and South for example, and one might think that whatever is happening with one pole would be happening (in the inverse?) to it’s opposite pole. Well as it appears, the earth’s magnetic south pole is not behaving similarly to it’s opposite north pole. In fact, it’s drift, or pole shift, is actually slowing down! Presently it’s only moving 3 miles (5 km) per year, only a tenth the speed of the north!

Not only that, but it is interesting to note that both the north and south magnetic poles are favoring one side of the earth – the south pole is heavily favoring one side, and continues to move further away from true south. The south magnetic pole is actually 1,800 miles (2,900 km) away from the earth’s true south pole! That is a substantial offset.

The north magnetic pole is fairly near true north and is ‘only’ about 360 miles (580 km) away.

Comment:
This blog entry discusses the discrepancy between the north and south poles and the graphics are quite good. The explanation of the cause of Earth's magnetic field, even with a so-called correction, is just standard theory and even Wikipedia tells us that the concept of dipole magnetic field only applies when the field is viewed at a distance. What's more, the explanation for Earth's magnetic field derived from the core, does not take into account that there are other states of matter that could apply to the interior of the Earth. Well, I am wondering whether the magnetic pole deviations are caused by an imbalance of matter polarities in the core, too much male or solar energies and not enough female or cosmic energies. People should stop complaining, the imbalance is being adjusted whilst the sun is so weak, hence the racing North pole. Thank you Venus!



Bird Death is spreading
NRK, 20th January 2011
Google translation: Andøy municipality should take water samples from the harbor after hundreds of eider ducks mysteriously found dead.

Port Director Odd Bernt Mevold is one of those who collect the birds. So far today we've picked up ten birds, so there is a high mortality rate now. What happens in the harbor here is tragic, "said Mevold to NRK.

Now the rate is about 10 birds a day in the area, and it is not normal, "says Mevold. The bird behaves strange: Also NRK employee observed today eider ducks behaved very strange. They behave quite abnormal, nervous system and their coordination ability does not work, "says Mevold. It is also found dead crabs. . Do not think the pollution is to blame County Department of Environmental Affairs keeps a close eye on bird death in Andenes Harbour, where people still find dead birds. County Miljøvernsjef Roar Høgset do not think the birds have died from pollution.

Comment:
I am not reporting all the different stories of mass bird and animal die-offs, but this is a credible source with some expert opinion clearly stated.



Will the Earth Have Two Suns by 2012?
Time, 21st January 2011
In the Star Wars saga, George Lucas imagined a world where twin suns rose and fell in the horizon. Looks like his vision may not be so far-fetched.

Astrophysicists say that Betelgeuse, the red super-giant that is the ninth brightest star in the sky, is losing mass—an indication of gravitational collapse. Brad Carter, a senior lecturer of physics at the University of Southern Queensland, explained to news.com.au that the star is essentially running out of the fuel at its core. “This fuel keeps Betelgeuse shining and supported. When this fuel runs out the star will literally collapse in upon itself and it will do so very quickly,” he said. The subsequent explosion will appear tens of millions of times brighter than the sun, meaning 24-hours of light on Earth.

Comment:
Is this mainstream media 2012 hype? Another version of this same theme is Tatooine's twin suns - coming to a planet near you just as soon as Betelgeuse explodes However, it comes after the story of George Lucas, the Star Wars director apparently hyperventilating about 2012, see Rogen stunned by Lucas' 2012 theory Well, there has been plenty of scientific speculation about Betelgeuse, Nostradamus is supposed to have made a prediction and the Hopi talk about the coming of the Red Star Kachina that will arrive soon after the Blue Star Kachina, (which they claim was Comet Holmes), but there has never been a link to 2012. Quite frankly, these press releases are very suspicious and smack of hyping up 2012, so that the media can turn round and claim nothing happened. Meanwhile, there is a massive elephant in the room called Space Weather that is far more relevant to humanity and our technological societies.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/21/betelgeuse-explode-scientists-say/" target="_blank">Dying Star Betelgeuse Won't Explode in 2012, Experts Say
Fox News, 21st January 2011
Oh, what a surprise....



FAA warns of ongoing GPS issues in southeastern US due to Defense Department 'tests'
Engadget, 20th January 2011
Don't panic, but anyone planning on using GPS in the southeastern US for the next month or so will likely want to make sure they have a fallback option. That's according to a flight advisory just issued by the FAA, which warns pilots that their GPS signal "may be unreliable or unavailable" due to "GPS tests" that the Department of Defense will be conducting between January 20th and February 22nd.

Details are fairly light beyond that, but the FAA does note that when the "tests" occur they will be active for 45 minutes, and be followed by 15 minutes of off time -- additional notices to pilots will apparently be issued at least 24 hours prior to any test. Of course, while this particular advisory is directed at pilots, it will presumably will also affect all other GPS devices, as the FAA doesn't mention any GPS issues specific to aviation. The real question, however, is just what those mysterious "GPS tests" are -- if they're, in fact, GPS tests at all...

Comment:
This DOD "test" is affecting GPS signals over at least six states but they only seem to have given one days' notice... I think that is quite unbelievable, but it is especially interesting after a government report raised questions about the future reliability of the Global Positioning System satellite network with headlines in May 2009 of GPS system 'close to breakdown': Network of satellites could begin to fail as early as 2010 & GPS satellites not 'falling out of the sky': Air Force. GPS is used for a myriad of uses including:
  • Aircraft & shiping navigation
  • Oil & gas, drilling and related operations
  • Mapping, construction, and surveying
  • Vehicle transportation systems, delivery and courier services
  • Atmospheric weather balloon monitoring
  • Tracking animal and bird maigration
  • Computer network synchronisation
  • Timestamping financial transactions
  • Agricultural applications
This should be interesting to monitor. Here is the official FAA GPS Flight Advisory in .pdf format, link



NASA says solar sail satellite has deployed from FASTSAT
al.com, 19th January 2011
HUNTSVILLE, AL - Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center here say new data confirm that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite has ejected from the larger satellite that carried it into space.

The news partially reverses one of the biggest disappointments associated with NASA's Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite FASTSAT launched in December. FASTSAT was an attempt by NASA to launch an affordable platform for experiments in space.

Comment:
Hah.... I see why why there has been articles about strangeness occuring at satellite launches... Well, this unadvertised NASA failure looks like it has recovered from being booted from the relative safety of Earth, to the hostile junk laden environment of near Earth space. Yet, all is not completely well as NASA are now asking AMATEUR ham operators to check that this newborn satellite is OK. The whole thing is just ridiculous, but highly indicative of the generally chaotic nature of venturing into space these days.



High-Speed Geology - Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two
Spiegel Online, 20th January 2011
The fissures began appearing years ago. But in recent months, seismic activity has accelerated in northeastern Africa as the continent breaks apart in slow motion. Researchers say that lava in the region is consistent with magma normally seen on the sea floor -- and that water will ultimately cover the desert.

Cynthia Ebinger, a geologist from the University of Rochester in New York, could hardly believe what the caller from the deserts of Ethiopia was saying. It was an employee at a mineralogy company -- and he reported that the famous Erta Ale volcano in northeastern Ethiopia was erupting. Ebinger, who has studied the volcano for years, was taken aback. The volcano's crater had always been filled with a bubbling soup of silver-black lava, but it had been decades since its last eruption.

The call came last November. And Ebinger immediately flew to Ethiopia with some fellow researchers. "The volcano was bubbling over; flaming-red lava was shooting up into the sky," Ebinger told SPIEGEL ONLINE. [...]

Scientists have also noted that the kind of magma bubbling up in the region is the type otherwise only seen spewing forth from mid-ocean ridges deep below the water's surface. One of its signature characteristics is a low proportion of silicic acid. The magma coming out of Erta Ale has the same chemical composition as the kind that emerges from deep-sea volcanoes. The entire region increasingly resembles an ocean floor -- one without water.

Comment:
Finally an update. So the appearance of a new ocean basin that geologists formerly believe would take millions of years, is now stepping up the pace in just a matter of years? The images in the photo gallery are excellent. See previous 2005, 2007 & 2009 articles in the archives.



Sun Pelted by Icy Comet 'Storm'
space.com, 19th January 2011
For 10 days in December, a mob of icy comets pelted the sun in an extraordinary cosmic storm. Scientists who monitored the solar tempest now think the flurry of sundiving comets might herald a much bigger comet to come – one that could potentially be visible to the naked eye.

"The storm began on Dec. 13th and ended on the 22nd," Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. "During that time, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected 25 comets diving into the sun. It was crazy!"

These sundiving comets, known as sungrazers, are not altogether uncommon. In fact, the sun-circling SOHO spacecraft will usually see one plunge into the sun and disintegrate every few days. "But 25 comets in just ten days, that's unprecedented," Battams said.

Comment:
Here we have a classic case of amnesia as the author 'forgets' to mention what happened when Comet Neat appeared after only being discovered in November 2002. On February 18th, 2003, the arrival caused a massive blowout on the Sun , which solar scientists immediately claimed was just 'a coincidence', but the Electric Universe theorists totally and utterly refuse to accept this and just added this to the growing list of other coincidences. Interestingly, the recent comet disturbances were also associated with CME's but because of their small size, the CME's were also minor. Anyway, it's official, the space community are expecting the arrival of a monster comet....

Comet Neat and CME's
Thunderbolts.info, May 26, 2005



European carbon market suspended over fraud fears
The European carbon market has been thrown into turmoil after the scandal-hit scheme was suspended for a week over suspicions of fraud.
The Telegraph, 19th January 2011
More than €2bn (£1.7bn) of trade is likely to be disrupted after the European Commission said it would prevent transactions until January 26.

The suspension follows allegations that 475,000 carbon credits worth €7m were stolen in a hacking attack on the Czech carbon register. It appears that the intangible allowances were bounced between eastern European countries before disappearing without a trace.

France's Bluenext exchange was the first to close its platform, while Austria, Poland, Estonia and Greece also shut their registries for trade. This is not the first challenge to the credibility of the €90bn annual market in carbon allowances

Comment:
OK, it was obvious that Carbon trading was just the next big stock market scam but it's starting to look like certain players realised that the traditional fraud of waiting for pension fund money etc before pulling out, (the colloquial 'pump and dump'), was not going to work and have been "stealing" their money back. This sounds just ridiculous, but how could €5bn just disappear?



Electronic devices could cause plane crashes, experts warn
The increasing number of electronic devices brought onto planes by passengers could cause a plane crash, experts have warned.
The Telegraph, 19th January 2011
Despite announcements from cabin crew to turn off items such as mobile phones and lap tops many people ignore the request.

Many devices emit a signal, made up of electromagnetic waves, which could potentially interfere with the plane's own electronic system.

Bill Strauss, an engineer who has investigated the use of electronic items by passengers, described the situation as "worrisome".

He told the New York Times: “A plane is designed to the right specs, but nobody goes back and checks if it is still robust.

"Then there are the outliers — a cellphone that’s been dropped and abused, or a battery that puts out more than it’s supposed to, and avionics that are more susceptible to interference because gaskets have failed. And boom, that’s where you get interference. It would be a perfect storm that would combine to create an aviation accident.”

Comment: The link to the New York Times has a longer report about the same issue. So is the message being sent out that EMI is solely caused by passengers using gadgets and therefore cosmic rays and electron beams interfering with plane electronics can be ignored?



Do UFOs Have a Metaphysical Aspect?
Fate Magazine, 18th January 2011
Untold amounts of high-strangeness UFO-abduction information has been ignored, rejected, or never even noted. When an investigator is told by a UFO witness, “I had the feeling that I was being watched,” it has been dismissed as the thinking of an attention-seeking individual. In gathering data there is typically no place to record much in the way of subjective reality. [...]

Pressures for the Investigators There are so many elements of the UFO phenomenon that are illogical, unreasonable, unbelievable, or just too weird to be given serious consideration by scientific observers. It is not surprising that the door has been closed to investigating or even contemplating the most paranormal claims of UFO and abduction percipients.

Comment:
The origin of the Men in Black was from an occultist and that is probably enough information for most people. This is an area that I have not studied much but I am curious because I did have a very strange experience when doing a visualisation that was offered from someone I thought I could trust. Basically, I flipped into a dream state where I was surrounded by extremely tall "MIB" characters where I felt oppressed. Quite frankly, I have never had good experiences with most guided meditations and I have generally avoided them but this was especially horrible. I only made the MIB link quite some time later and I have wondered about it ever since. This part of the article is especially interesting:
A curious sidelight to this issue can be found in an entry in Harper’s Encyclopedia, stating that in “Eastern mysticism the MIBs have a parallel in the ‘Brothers of the Shadow,’ evil beings who try to prevent occult students from learning the great truth.”
Hmmmm.....



Search on for 'huge' meteorite
RTE News, 21st January 2011
The search is on for fragments of a meteorite which blazed across Irish skies yesterday evening.

The search is on for fragments of a meteorite which blazed across Irish skies yesterday evening. The meteor - described as 'huge' by Astronomy Ireland - is known as a fireball.

Astronomy Ireland says it is likely to be a piece of a comet or asteroid that passed near Earth's orbit sometime in the past. It appeared in the moonlit sky at approximately 6pm, or shortly after.

Comment:
I am starting to think there could be a link between close asteroid fly-bys and reports of meteors. It's busy out there, as there have been 4 NEOs in 6 days, see spaceweather.com Near Earth Asteroids. The 17th Jan flyby was classified as "close" as it flew past Earth, within orbit of the Moon (0.8 LD). There have been a few reports of booms and meteors but nothing sensational, but there was a Greek meteoroid that was quite interesting, as it was described as a "streak" and reminiscent of the plasma objects "streaking" in our atmosphere that have been seen at ground level.

Greece: Meteorite Streaks Past Moon
SOTT, 11th January 2011



NASA Sun Spot Number predictions revised again
WUWT, 18th January 2011

The solar cycle 24 predicted sunspot maximum has been reduced again – predicted peak down to 59 Max. (1/3/11) http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Philosopher Y. Berra

This will be at the level of the Maunder Minimum of 1675 -1715.
Previous NASA predictions below:

  • 2010 October: Predicted peak 60-70
  • 2009 May 29: predicted peak: 80-90 range
  • 2009 Jan 5: predicted peak: 100-110 range
  • 2008 Mar 28: predicted peak: 130-140 range
Comment: Confused with the NASA solar scientists revising solar activity down again? I have linked to WUWT because we have some decent graphics but they don't date back to 2006 when NASA solar scientists were predicting a monster blowout for solar max in 2012. The problem is that it does not matter whether the Sun is generally quiet and lacks sunspots, the Sun has proven that a massive blast can come from nowhere and knock out technological systems. We also have historical data that suggests that this sluggish start could lead to some serious activity and a once in a hundred years (1921/1859) geomagnetic blowout. Then the cosmic environment has changed, as we can conclude after learning that 25 comets hitting the sun in 10 days in December 2010. Yes, that is some serious unprecedented celestial activity to consider when recent observations like when Comet Neat appeared and revealed that the Sun will react to these 'sungrazer' comets. Then there are the Magnetar blasts from deep space that are also hitting the Sun and we have no idea when those are going to occur and how they will effect the Sun. Quite frankly, the commentators here are seriously interested in what is going on with the Sun and their knowleldge and insight is highly valuable, so we read:
Cam (Melbourne, Australia) says: January 18, 2011 at 9:46 pm

I just love how many in the astrophysicist community were predicting a quiet, delayed SC24 5-6 years ago, but of course were never listened to then nor now. They are becoming correct by the day through the process of comparing observational records against their hypotheses, yet the Hansenist NASA among others can move the goalposts monthly and still be the ‘go to’ voice and remain totally unapproachable when it comes to criticism of their failed predictions. [...]

PS. Pardon my ignorance, but what is happening re. the DeVries Cycle – the 208-210yr long-term solar cycle. We’re due for a significant change any year now aren’t we?!
The information I have summarised in the reason why nobody knows for sure what is going on but the risks for our technological society is still too high to ignore. More background info:

Solar Cycle 24 Update
WUWT, February 2, 2010
De Vries Cycle discussion



15-year-old girl dies of mystery burns
Times of India, 19th January 2011
HOWRAH: A 15-year-old girl died after suffering burn injuries under mysterious circumstances at Howrah's Bantra on Tuesday. Police have started a probe.

Police said that Binita Puri, a Class IX student and resident of Hooghly's Pandua, was visiting her maternal uncle Kalachand Puri's house at Brindavan Mullick Lane at Bantra.

Kalachand lives on the ground floor of a highrise building. His wife Seema Puri was cooking when Binita suddenly shouted from inside the toilet. When everybody rushed in, she was found aflame. To save Binita, her aunt Seema rushed to her and tried to douse the fire by wrapping a cloth around her. Seema, too, sustained serious burns. Both were rushed to Howrah district hospital, where Binita was declared dead. Kalachand, who runs a cable business, was not at home then.

Comment:
Jay Alfred has made an outstanding contribution with his integration of science and metaphysical beliefs, that he first called Plasma Metaphysics and later renamed Dark Plasma theory. Here is an excerpt from an important essay about spontaneous combustion, a subject that all spiritual aspirants need to understand.
"'Real Yoga' is as dangerous to an impure and undisciplined body as a match to a cask of gunpowder." – Annie Besant

In the meditative state of one-pointedness (also known as "hot" meditation or "active" meditation under the Newberg-Aquili model) or in qigong exercises, a person opens himself or herself up to absorb energy from the environment. Ruptures in the membrane of the magma body of an undisciplined person reduce the resistance of the magma body to external currents. If unsupervised by a teacher, a prodigious amount of current may leak into the magma body of the undisciplined and unsuspecting meditator. This energy will accumulate in an uncontrolled manner in the torso. When the electromagnetic stress exceeds a certain threshold, the current is discharged in a brief moment and a spontaneous human combustion occurs in extreme cases. In order to reduce the risk of this happening, meditators should go on to more energetic exercises in a gradual manner under the supervision of a more experienced person.

"Your body must be able to withstand the high voltage of this energy. Some of the delicate sinews of your body may be damaged if the voltage is too high for you to bear." – Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

Uncontrolled surges of electromagnetic energy during meditation or prayer can damage the cells of the physical-biomolecular body. If it is close to any vital organ such as the heart, it can cause death. If it is near the brain, it can cause a breakdown of neural processes which may result in insanity. It can lead to spontaneous combustion of certain parts of the body. It is important in these cases to interrupt or absorb any flows of charged particles (or currents) from the body. According to Osho, a modern mystic, the use of wooden platforms for meditation had no other purposes than the fact that they were poor conductors of electricity. Deer and leopard skins were also frequently used for the same purpose: so that electromagnetic energy that is released during meditation does not damage the internal organs of the physical-biomolecular body. "A man can be killed by this electric shock," said Osho. "Therefore, the sadhak [or Yoga practitioner] puts on wooden sandals and slept on a wooden platform."

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SHC – "Lightning Discharge" Hypothesis Receives Support

Plasma metaphysics' "lightning discharge" hypothesis, proposed in this Jay Alfred's article Spontaneous Human Combustion and Electrical Discharges in the Subtle Body (see above) published on April 16, 2007 has received further support from recent research. In the article, Jay Alfred proposed that spontaneous human combustion is caused by electrical discharges, similar to lightning discharges, within the body. The article states, "A bolt of lightning is an electrical discharge within this system. According to plasma metaphysics, the same phenomenon that occurs in space and on Earth can occur within our subtle bodies... The energies of our subtle (high energy) magma bodies far exceed anything the biomolecular body can withstand. "

In December 2007 researchers at the University of Michigan discovered, to their surprise, "electric fields inside cells as strong as those produced in lightning bolts". However, "scientists are not clear as to what causes these strong fields or what they might mean."

Plasma-induced Human Combustion and Electrical Discharges in the Subtle Body
Jay Alfred 2007, Dark Plasma Theory - (New) Biology

In recent years I have seen only one case that might have applied to a meditator and other cases of people living alone having died in mysterious fires, but I did highlight the strange story of someone leaving burnt footprints in the ground from an article in the Fiji Times, 2nd November 2009, Villager leaves mysterious burnt footprints.

Well, for the record, parts of the metaphysical community were being warned for years with many messages encouraging people to sort out their energy fields, because the incoming energy would literally fry their physical bodies. At the time, I did not understand why the messages were so persistent, until I came across Space Weather and realised that the planet was being bombarded with highly electrical energy, some or most of which is aetheric and falls into the category of universal or the more scientific "dark" energy. I don't know what is being taught in the cultic milieu of the various religious, spiritual, esoteric, metaphysical, New Age groups that exist. In my opinion, based on my own experience and my research from respected spiritual teachers and scientists who haver studied the Kundalini syndrome, those who are at highest risk of spontaneous combustion are those who practice yoga and meditate at the same time.

Quite frankly, since the literature and more recently the internet reveals most yoga teachers fail to warn their students about the issue of a Kundalini awakening, it is not unreasonable to assume that this state of affairs still exists but it is being addressed with some excellent Kundalini websites. Due to my own Kundalini issues that started in October 2001, I do feel qualified to comment. I have not practiced yoga except for a few 'social' sessions in recent years, but I practiced a type of meditation that was very natural for a thinker, something that I called inner reflection, but I did not equate this to "McMeditation" techniques learnt by others. Hence, I was fair game when I attended my first ever New Age meeting and my back caught on fire with aetheric energies, within half an hour of attendance. I have also learnt first hand of the real trauma experienced by a yoga teacher that was sent rolling over and over after a massive Kundalini blow out and was completely ignored by her wonderful workshop hosts, who left her to get on a plane and fly home. She found that there was NO help from any sources and was left to struggle for YEARS. I know all about that.

So, in spiritual traditions, Kundalini was highly prized because in my less than humble opinion, spiritual evolution was inevitable. Now, the commonly held belief is that there is "a reservoir of subtle bio-energy at the base of the spine." I can boldly state, this is incorrect. I believe that in the base of the spine is an aetheric "knot" that acts like a tap. Once that knot is undone, it can function like a tap and allow the passage of certain Earth aetheric energies through the chakra system and associated aetheric channels. Let's say, when you are on fire, you tend to be interested in understanding what worked to put the fire out. Now, besides Near Death Experiences, there are other even more secret methods used by spiritual adepts who historically have been seriously interested in their evolution and that means electrically re-wiring the brain with aetheric energies. However, it seems to me this is all fraught with danger, hence the warnings passed down through ancient spiritual and religious text, as explained in my book Tuning The Diamonds.

Today, spiritual evolution is being enforced due to massive evolutionary change to the electromagnetic environment of Earth. The energy levels of the whole planet is being driven up and like the birds sitting on highly electrical wires, humans will have to cope. Despite my own experiences and my own personal research trying to understand what the hell was happening to me as I had no idea, it seems dealing with aetheric fire is a phenomenon experienced by mystics and spiritual adepts of ALL spiritual traditions. I think those who have encorporated spiritual practices should, in theory, be able to cope better, but spontaneous combustion is a risk, especially for advanced meditators.



The Allure of Narcissistic Spirituality
Huffington Post, 18th January 2011
Several months ago, my wife and I attended a prayer service at a synagogue that is well known for its spiritual, and spirited, approach. As we entered, the rabbi was leading a meditation. "Close your eyes and breathe in the peace of Shabbat [the Sabbath]." she said. "And on the out-breathe imagine that you are sending healing love to all beings."

We passed a man who appeared to be deep in meditation. His eyes were closed, and through a slightly opened smile he slowly breathed in and out. As we moved to our seats, I accidentally stepped on his toe. He quickly turned toward me; his smile vanished and he angrily hissed, "Hey, watch it, buddy!"

Comment:
Nice article and sentiment. I could elaborate from my personal experience, but I have decided to give the opportunity a miss... LOL!



Cuccinelli-Mann probe takes a bizarre twist
WUWT, 18th January 2011
Wow. In the middle of the battle, the warmists erroneously send up a flare from their position, drawing undue attention to the target. I rather expected a moribund outcome from this investigation, maybe a couple of embarrassing quotes, maybe a hotheaded Santeresque comment by Dr. Michael Mann about Dr. Pat Michaels, but that was about it.

Now, with them trying to retroactively change the law as a way to head off the investigation, it makes me wonder if maybe there’s really something profound there in those communications after all. Bad move fellas, you just made the Q Score for this story triple.

Comment:
The Climate AGW skeptics are quite puzzled over at WUWT, but it looks like a game changer has loomed over the horizon as Mann seems to be desperately trying to fight off time in prison. I like the following comment:
jorgekafkazar says: January 18, 2011 at 4:36 pm

David L says: “What skeletons do they have in that UVa closet to make them go to such great lengths to hide some emails?”

Obviously, enough evidence that the whole AGW con may unravel world-wide. The Warmists will throw money at this problem until it goes away. They have a budget of billions, and much of it is YOUR money, anyway. “To infinity and beyond!”
Ok, we all know the levels of corruption are high but for goodness sake, this is about climate science!

ClimateGate: UVA 'Getting its Nixon On'
Survival Station, 18th January 2011
"As his other project, the University of Virginia, gets further backed into a corner on the ‘Hockey Stick’ records it is spending upwards of a half a million dollars to keep from the public (even though the public paid for and has every right to them), we now see what Charlottesville radio host Joe Thomas of WCHV likes to note in this context as “UVA getting its Nixon on”. This time with a little help from its friends outraged that laws would be applied to the academic class:"
seriously, incredible stuff....

Yes, Virginia, A Climate Cover-Up
Investors Business Daily, 20th January 2011
"Democrats in Virginia are trying to stop their attorney general from probing climate fraud carried out by university researchers at taxpayer expense. Are they afraid of finding the inconvenient truth? It's not the crime, it's the cover-up, as the saying goes."



China-style dictatorship of climatologists
NASA's Hansen prefers rule by decree to fight 'global warming'
Washington Times, 17th January 2011
November's election made it quite clear that the people of the United States do not want to radically change our society in the name of global warming. Pretty much every close House race went to the Republicans, while the Democrats won all the Senate squeakers. The difference? The House on June 26, 2009, passed a bill limiting carbon-dioxide emissions and getting into just about every aspect of our lives. The Senate did nothing of the sort. The nation's most prominent publicly funded climatologist is officially angry about this, blaming democracy and citing the Chinese government as the "best hope" to save the world from global warming. He also wants an economic boycott of the U.S. sufficient to bend us to China's will.

Comment:
Desperate times, require desperate measures, right?

Hansen gets FOIA’d on ethics issues with NASA
ATI Environmental Law Center Seeks NASA Records on Dr. James Hansen WUWT, 19th January 2011
"Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request with NASA, seeking records detailing whether and how ‘global warming’ activist Dr. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behavior."



Birdless bird sanctuary in North Holland
The Big Wobble, 17th January 2011
I took this amazing video a couple of days ago, this is a bird sanctuary in North Holland but look closely, this area should be teeming with birds but its deserted! I drive past this sanctuary frequently and it is always full of birds, where did they go?, Five kilometers East of here I filmed this: More bird doom, this time Holland! (Photos)

Comment:
There are others suggesting that birds have been seen migrating at the wrong times, but this report is backed up with local knowledge and video proof.

Google Map Mass Animal Deaths 2011
Google Maps, January 2011
This is a new and up to date version



Study: Many college students not learning to think critically
McClatchy News, 18th January 2011
NEW YORK — An unprecedented study that followed several thousand undergraduates through four years of college found that large numbers didn't learn the critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication skills that are widely assumed to be at the core of a college education.

Many of the students graduated without knowing how to sift fact from opinion, make a clear written argument or objectively review conflicting reports of a situation or event, according to New York University sociologist Richard Arum, lead author of the study. The students, for example, couldn't determine the cause of an increase in neighborhood crime or how best to respond without being swayed by emotional testimony and political spin. [...]

Comment:
This is a good read. It seems strange that someone even bothered to do the survey, as the academic world often appears to only want to maintain the current paradigm or to engineer a desired outcome like the now infamous "climate consensus". That is the reason why Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize-winning chemist created the term "Pathologiocal Science" and there is ample examples today that include the effort placed into failed ideas like Big Bang, Black Holes, String Theory and Darwin's theory of evolution. A cursory examination of the history of academic endeavour will reveal that those who can think differently are often completely ignored and sometimes even persecuted. Human development is not even considered. Hence the talk in certain quarters of "lemmings", "sheeple" and "herd mentality" but it is not restricted to those who are unintelligent/uneducated. Whatever, it is a well known fact that most people feel safe in a crowd (that is what consensus is all about) even when the few thinkers are shouting that the crowd is going over a cliff.



Wikileaks: 'Galileo boss' Smutny removed over cable row
BBC news, 17th January 2011
The chief executive of one of Germany's leading space companies has lost his job because of the Wikileaks saga. OHB-System's Berry Smutny was reported in a cable to have told US diplomats that Europe's Galileo satellite-navigation project was a "stupid idea".

Bremen-based OHB-System is part of the consortium that will build Galileo's first 14 operational spacecraft. Although Mr Smutny has denied the cable's contents, OHB's board has decided to remove him from his post. [...]

Berry Smutny was alleged to have told diplomats at a meeting in Berlin in October 2009 that Galileo, a flagship space programme of the EU, was a waste of taxpayers' money.

The cable, which was published by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten last Thursday, quoted the OHB-System chief as saying, "I think Galileo is a stupid idea that primarily serves French interests", and, in particular, French military interests. Berry Smutny (Esa) Berry Smutny denied making the comments attributed to him in the US cable

Mr Smutny was further reported to say that Galileo was "doomed for failure" or would "have to undergo drastic scalebacks for survival".

Comment:
There does not seem to be a lot of news about Europe's Galileo satellite-navigation project, so this is very interesting. Recently, I listed reports of the ESA boasting in August 2010 that the Galileo system would be able to cope with Space Weather, but this was after it was reported in October 2008, that their test satellite was knocked offline for 15 days due to a surge of radiation during the long drawn out solar minimum. At the time, I thought this was not a particularly good sign, but we have not heard any more. The fact that Galileo is described as "a stupid idea" does make you wonder, if this is only related to cost-benefit.



Magnetic reversal may now be in progress - BGS
Evolutionary Leaps, 17th January 2011
17 Jan 11 - According to the British Geological Survey (BGS), we could now be headed into a magnetic reversal, thus validating the premise of both Not by Fire but by Ice and Magnetic reversals and Evolutionary Leaps.

The South Atlantic Anomaly is growing and spreading westwards from South Africa as the Earth’s internal magnetic field rapidly weakens in this region, says this article on the BGS website. "This may be early evidence of a forthcoming reversal in the direction of the Earth’s internal magnetic field." "We do not know in detail precisely what occurs during such reversals, including the changes observed in the magnetic field and the time a reversal takes to complete," the BGS adds.

Since so little is known, and in order to determine where radiation risks may be increased and how the atmosphere might respond, the BGS is opening a South Atlantic Anomaly and South Georgia Magnetic Observatory.

Comment:
Robert Felix has done some excellent research, his book Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps is highly relevant. He is right about the increase in radiation, it's already happening.



Johnson & Johnson blames lax cleaning procedures for recall of 50 million MORE medicines
Daily Mail, 17th January 2011
Beleaguered healthcare company Johnson & Johnson has announced it will recall a further nearly 50 million more bottles and packages of medicines. The firm blamed lax cleaning procedures and other problems at a manufacturing plant behind massive recalls of products like Tylenol.

Its reputation has already been tarnished by repeated recalls totaling nearly 200 million bottles in the last year and it could face criminal charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. J&J is now recalling bottles and packages of various kinds of Tylenol, Benadryl, Rolaids and other consumer products, it announced on Friday.

J&J said the new recall followed a review of records dating back to 2007 of products made by its McNeil consumer healthcare unit, which produces most of the recalled medicines sold in the United States. While the company said it had identified a number of areas for improvement, on Friday it disclosed only the cleaning problem and a minor labeling irregularity. [...]

The company last month recalled all batches of Softchews Rolaids produced by an outside manufacturer after people found wood and metal bits in the tablets.

Comment:
OK, I was aware of drugs being withdrawn from the market because the manufacturers were failing to produce them to specification which I thought was completely strange, then we have these problems here too. Sorry, I don't know any blogs that have any interesting to say about what is going on, but I have decided to give this a little of my attention.



UFO Webcam in Hessdalen, Project Hessdalen and Norway’s Mysterious Lights
DBKP, 16th January 2011

Yep, we know we’re not supposed to use webcam footage as evidence of UFO’s. The link to the unofficial UFO webcam in Hessdalen, Norway. Webcams, the next best thing to being there.

Project Hessdalen was established in 1983 after a wave of UFO sightings in central Norway in the Hessdalen Valley. Hessdalen, the sight of mysterious lights witnessed by local residents for over a hundred years. In 1998, the world’s first UFO observatory built in Hessdalen. Through the years, numerous investigations and studies of the mysterious lights by scientists and researchers from Norway, Sweden, Italy, and France.

On the internet a paper published in 2005 by Assistant professor Bjørn Gitle Hauge at the østfold University College in Norway. Hauge’s paper, 10 Years of Scientific Research of the Hessdalen Phenomena. Hauge’s paper on the mysterious lights in Hessdalen, the investigations, research, and the world’s first ‘UFO’ observatory, ‘bluebox’, built in Hessdalen.

Comment: I noticed the first and second article at DBKP, but now we have third. At the same time, we have ufologists muttering about New Ufology, so I am wondering if the penny has dropped. This is really interesing.... Maybe after seeing all the recent amazing reports of light phenomena around the globe, some serious ufologists have realised they have been largely barking up the wrong tree and have decided to pay attention to those who state this is NOT a simple and single phenomenon. This means they will have to go back a good forty plus years to recognise the opinions of ufologists likes of Trevor James Constable, John Keel and more lately Jacques Vallee. I am sure there are others, but this is not my subject. My interest is evolutionary change and what that means in terms of the metaphysical beliefs associated with a "Dimensional Shift" and "The Lifting of the Veil."

Dancing Light UFO’s: Norway’s Hessdalen Phenomena?
DBKP, 15th January 2011

Dancing Light UFO’s, The Dorothy Izzat Story and Hessdalen Phenomena, Connecting the UFO Dots
DBKP, 16th January 2011

New Ufology
Dr Esoterica, 13th January 2011
"Not even quantum physics is radical enough to explain what lies behind Fortean anomalies such as UFOs. Eventually one will have to research consciousness, philosophy, and metaphysics (in its broadest senses) in order to begin understanding UFOs."
Really... There have been people doing this for over fifty years but nobody was interested in what they had discovered...



Sunrise arrives two days early in Greenland
The First Post, 14th January 2011
Scientists claim to have discovered more evidence of global warming after the sun rose two days early in Greenland, apparently because melting glaciers have lowered the horizon. The polar night usually ends on January 13, but this year residents of Ilulissat, the third largest settlement in Greenland, were surprised to see dawn arrive just before 1pm on January 11 after six weeks of perpetual darkness. Astronomers have ruled out the possibility of the early dawn being a result of a shift of the earth's axis and Thomas Posch, of the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Vienna, says a change in the horizon is "by far the most obvious explanation".

Comment:
It is interesting that the chat in the blogosphere escalated into mainstream media articles. Anyway, the following comment is interesting because we are given some factual details, even though the conclusion maybe incorrect.
This is just another fake linkage to 'global warming'. In the northern hemisphere the sun is at its highest in the sky on any day when it is due south. It follows that on the day that the sun first peeps over the horizon for locations within the arctic circle it will be due south (the corollary is the midnight sun in the summer, when the sun at its lowest point is due north).

On the day the sun peeps above the horizon it will light up the whole sea in its direction - its light will be glancing across the top of it. Now, if you are actually in the town of Ilulissat you can't see the horizon to the south because of a 114m hill in the way, so let's assume you climb the hill or move a few kilometres to get a better view. From there you have a view across the SEA to the horizon formed by the SEA to the south south west, and a view across distant mountains due south which are NOT covered by glaciers. Check it out on the map.

The hypothesis that this could be due to melting of glaciers which are not even in the line of sight is either rank ignorance or an outright lie. Solar 'noon' when the sun is at its highest and crosses the meridian is at around 12.33pm local time. Now, at its highest point on January 11 the sun is 0.4 degrees below the ideal horizon (assuming a perfect line of sight to a perfect horizon).

The diameter of the sun subtends 0.53 degrees in the sky, so on January 11 it was nearly a whole sun's diameter below an ideal horizon. There is no way that a 'change in the horizon' is possible below the ideal horizon (formed by dead flat land or sea), so that is not an explanation at all, no matter what that silly scientist suggests. The inhabitants of Ilulissat certainly did NOT see the sun above any horizon on January 11, so the report is nonsense. Find a proper explanation such as refraction rather than repeating silly claims manufactured by climate change fanatics.

Posted by Kevin McGrane at 3:48pm on January 14, 2011
I would suggest that McGrane was using the "official" astronomical predictions for the position of the Sun that seem to be wrong. To believe the "official" explanations for this anomaly means that we have to discount the opinion of Greenlanders who traditionally welcome the Sun. Older Greenlanders have seen the same phenomenon all their lives, but all of a sudden, we are not supposed to believe what they say? The list is growing, Inuit, Candians, Norwegians and Greenlanders, querying the official 'anticipated' behaviour of the Sun.



DNA molecules can 'teleport', Nobel Prize winner claims
Experiment spots spooky quantum imprinting effect
Techworld, 13th January 2011

A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itself between test tubes.

According to a team headed by Luc Montagnier, previously known for his work on HIV and AIDS, two test tubes, one of which contained a tiny piece of bacterial DNA, the other pure water, were surrounded by a weak electromagnetic field of 7Hz.

Eighteen hours later, after DNA amplification using a polymerase chain reaction, as if by magic the DNA was detectable in the test tube containing pure water.

Oddly, the original DNA sample had to be diluted many times over for the experiment to work, which might explain why the phenomenon has not been detected before, assuming that this is what has happened.

Comment: This is a Nobel Prize winner revealing some more of the secrets of life and nobody hardly breathes a word.... However, I imagine that those interested in the seemingly magical qualities of water, will be delighted with this breakthrough.



World business leaders to discuss UFOs & extraterrestrial life
Exopolitics, 13th January 2011
A leading business forum discussing global competitiveness will in its annual conference host a panel discussing UFOs and extraterrestrial life. The Global Competitiveness Forum is hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and discusses business trends and insights essential for future business investment and competitiveness.

The panel is titled: “Contact: Learning from Outer Space”, and features famed astrophysicist Dr Michio Kaku and a leading Islamic scholar, together with prominent UFO experts Stanton Friedman and Nick Pope. The Global Competitiveness Forum is poised to introduce, perhaps for the first time, many world business leaders to key issues concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life, and how these impact on economic competitiveness.

Comment:
I actually don't know what to make of this but the event has attracted some big names in ufology.



Clowns linked to IVF success
SBS World News, 13th January 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Is laughter the best medicine? Perhaps not always -- but it may help women who are trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an Israeli study found.

In a study of 219 women undergoing IVF published in Fertility and Sterility, an Israeli team led by Shevach Friedler found that the odds of success were greater among women who were entertained by a professional "medical clown" just after the embryos were transferred to their wombs.

Overall, 36 percent became pregnant, as compared to 20 percent of women who'd had a comedy-free recovery after the transfer procedure. Friedler said he got the idea for the study after reading about the potential physiological impact of laugher as a "natural anti-stress mechanism."

"Patients suffering from infertility undergoing IVF are incredibly stressed," said Friedler, who is based at Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre in Zrifin, Israel, in an email to Reuters Health. "So I thought that this intervention could be beneficial for them at the crucial moments after embryo transfer." [...]

The researchers found that, compared to women who came to the clinic on a "non-clown" day, those who'd had a laugh were more than twice as likely to become pregnant,when other factors such as age, type of infertility and the number of embryos transferred, were taken into account.

Comment:
I was quite amused by the notion of a clown providing comedy after "the transfer procedure".... LOL...



Strange beams of light over Ottawa area due to ice crystals in air
Ottawa Citizen, 12th January 2011
OTTAWA — If you saw funny lights in the sky before dawn Tuesday, you were looking at light from the ground filtered through millions of tiny airborne ice crystals.

People across Ottawa and up into Gatineau Park reported seeing beams of light shooting straight up from the ground about 6 a.m., and some said the effect was like hundreds of searchlights.

Geoff Coulson, a meteorologist from Environment Canada, says there was nothing unusual about the lights. The unusual part was the atmosphere. The phenomenon is known as a trumpet pillar, because it often shows up as a tall column that widens at the top, like the mouth of a trumpet. It happens most often in clear, cold air, because that’s when ice crystals form and hang in the air, close to the ground.

Comment:
I am intrigued with the response of the "expert" who explained this light phenomena is known as 'trumpet pillar'. This can be linked to the 2nd January 2009 Mystery Pillars story at spaceweather.com, when the atmospheric scientists consulted were baffled and called them mysterious, for more images see, Truhin's Pillars. For my most recent explanation given to explain this atmospheric light phenomenon, see the comments associated with the article dated 22nd December 2010, Strange phenomenon decorate Oslo Heaven



Haight Woman Finds Stranger Meditating in Her Kitchen
SF weekly, 12th January 2011
Here is case of not disturbing the peace. A San Francisco woman found an unidentified woman meditating on the kitchen floor of her apartment located near Masonic and Golden Gate Avenues Tuesday evening, police said.

The victim told police that someone rang her doorbell, and because she thought it was her roommate, she buzzed the person inside. After about 10 minutes she came out of her bedroom and saw a woman she did not know sitting cross-legged in her kitchen meditating. The mediating woman, 31, was not surprisingly calm and nonviolent toward the woman whose domicile she had breached. The victim went back into her room and called the police.

Comment:
Maybe this meditator has fallen into the trap of meditation becoming a way of medicating themselves. It seems from the description that this person was actually stoned and therefore, did not know where they were or what they were doing. Here is a quote from an article I wrote:
Yet, we find the respected metaphysician Tom Kenyon, who describes himself as "Neo-pagan Tibetan Buddhist and part-time Taoist", with forty years experience as a meditator, who believes that many practicing meditators use it as a drug and are getting stoned! He says that this means that if they don't meditate, they get depressed because they have become dependent on the psychoactive substances produced by the brain during certain types of meditation. These people have found a way to sedate the mind, thus dulling their emotional pain but they are not obtaining any kind of enlightenment!

Spiritual Intelligence, 13th September 2007
With the strong cosmic energies on the planet, I suspect there will be a lot more of these stories to come.



Environmentalist Starts Israel’s Worst Ever Fire: Greenpeace Blames Global Warming. Haunting The Library, 13th January 2011

The worst fire in Israel’s history has been the cause of some embarrassment to Greenpeace and other global warming activists when some uncomfortable facts emerged recently.

Late last year Israel’s worst ever forest fire was blazing out of control, destroying homes and releasing untold quantities of Co2 into the atmosphere. Over 5,000 hectares of forest were utterly destroyed, and experts say it will be half a century before the forest gets back to anything like its former state.

Greenpeace lost no time, of course, in pointing the finger squarely at global warming, and issued a press release, demanding Israel abandon construction of a new coal power station, and calling for all comrades to join the “international struggle”:

However, it didn’t have much to say following an investigation by Israel’s fire service which discovered that the fire was started by a global warming activist at a Rainbow Camp. As the Jerusalem Post reported:

The cause of this particular fire was, sadly enough, the good intentions of a participant in the Rainbow Festival that was being held at the site. For ecological reasons, she burned toilet paper she had used so as not to leave it in nature, and in normal circumstances, that would have been the thing to do. However, due to the strong winds and the unseasonable hot air, the dry grasses caught on fire immediately, and the fire spread in four different directions simultaneously.

Jerusalem Post.

Greenpeace have yet to retract their statement blaming the fire on global warming.

Comment: So, an environmentalist caused the worse ever fire in Israel's history? You could not make this stuff up, even if you tried.... I picked this story up at WUWT Quote of the Week



Massive Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) triggered by comet bombardment?
spaceweather.com, 14th January 2011
FARSIDE ERUPTION: An active region on the farside of the sun erupted during the early hours of Jan. 13th and hurled a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. Click on the image to play a movie of the expanding cloud recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):

Although the explosion happened on the sun's farside, one spacecraft had a direct view: STEREO-B is stationed over the sun's eastern limb almost directly above the blast site. The spacecraft's extreme UV telescope recorded the entire event. This movie shows the eruption and the shadowy shock wave it propelled through the sun's atmosphere.

The source of the activity, probably a big sunspot, won't remain on the farside for long. The sun's rotation is turning it toward Earth, and geoeffective solar activity could commence within days. Stay tuned.

Comment:
I am now wondering whether this massive CME was provoked by the recent bombardment of comets. I think the shape is quite strange too... More: We can see from the NASA SOHO coronographs (gif animations), there have been HUGE CMEs in the past few days.



Sundiving Comet Storm - 25 comets in just ten days?
NASA Science News, 12th January 2011
The sun has just experienced a storm—not of explosive flares and hot plasma, but of icy comets.

"The storm began on Dec 13th and ended on the 22nd," says Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. "During that time, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected 25 comets diving into the sun. It was crazy!"

Sundiving comets—a.k.a. "sungrazers"—are nothing new. SOHO typically sees one every few days, plunging inward and disintegrating as solar heat sublimes its volatile ices. "But 25 comets in just ten days, that's unprecedented," says Battams.

"The comets were 10-meter class objects, about the size of a room or a house," notes Matthew Knight of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. "As comets go, these are considered small."

Comment:
We can dismiss the out of date identification of comets as being icy here, because recent observations made of comets up close, have revealed hot dry rocks sometimes covered in tar and others that are demonstrating a plasma sheath (coma) electrically stressed enough to produce x-rays... sigh! Personally, I now prefer to recognise some comets as huge sparks of consciousness delivering celestial messages, based on what Russian scientists have revealed to the world. The universe is an ordered self-organised system that our scientists do not understand very well and we have to recognise that some 'scientific theory' is pure speculation that scientists have agreed amongst themselves to promote. Anyway, these comets might herald a much bigger bombardment of comet bodies from deep space, as it is possible to surmise that the massive magnetar blasts could have been disturbing the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system (50,000 AU) and beyond.



750 African Greys die on Durban flight
news24, 13th January 2011
Durban - More than 750 African Grey parrots worth about R2m died on a flight from Johannesburg to Durban. The news has caused shock waves among conservationists, bird breeders and those involved in the aviation industry. The parrots died on December 24 on a flight operated by 1time.

Dr Steve Boyes, director of the organisation World Parrot Trust Africa, said steps should be taken to ensure that something like this never happens again. The parrots were part of an order of 1 650 adult African Greys which were caught in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be sold to South African breeders. [...]

According to Anya Potgieter, spokesperson for 1time, the airline then decided it wouldn't transport more than four living animals per crate any longer, and exotic animals will only be transported if arrangements are made ahead of time.

According to The Witness she ruled out that the birds might have died from carbon dioxide inhalation, as the birds were travelling in a hold with an oxygen supply. The airline denies that something could have happened on the plane to cause the tragedy.

A small dog travelling in the same cargo hold was perfectly healthy upon arrival. Saltz, however, said parrots from the same group in two crates which were transported by another airline were healthy. According to him there are indications that a lack of oxygen or dangerous gases could have caused the deaths of the birds.

Comment:
This has been reported late, but it fits in with the timeline of the recent spate of bird deaths and fish die-offs. According to the UK Telegraph, which quotes the November 2010 Lloyds of London Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business, written by Professor Mike Hapgood of RAL Space. We read:
Airline frequent fliers are at greater risk of developing long term radiation poisoning from “solar space storms” or flare activity from the Sun, a new study warns.

Researchers found passengers faced the “hazard” of space radiation, which created unhealthy levels of exposure while flying at “typical cruise altitudes” of 40,000 feet. Experts warned passengers could be subjected to increasing risk to cancer due to such radiation levels.

Airline frequent fliers 'radiation poisoning risks' from space 'solar flare' storm activity
The Telegraph, 5th November 2010
IF this was caused by space radiation, then it explains why the birds died and not the dog as they are smaller and much more sensitive, as their oxygen supply might have been ionised enough to have kill them off. This might explain why the ariline has decided it wouldn't transport more than four living animals per crate any longer.

Update:
Just a thought, the tip of Africa happens to be in the region of the weakest part of Earth's magnetic field - The South Atlantic Anomaly that is "poorly protected" from space radiation. Related news:

300 Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Alabama (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 13th January 2011



Horoscope Hang-Up: Earth Rotation Changes Zodiac Signs
Time Newsfeed, 13th January 2011
If you're the type of person who relies on mysterious-sounding locations of stars to determine your personality and outcome in life, get ready to be shocked.

The field of astrology, which is concerned with horoscopes and the like, felt a major disruption from astronomers, who are concerned with actual stars and planets. The astronomers from the Minnesota Planetarium Society found that because of the moon's gravitational pull on Earth, the alignment of the stars was pushed by about a month.

Comment:
All change please, all change! LOL! There is now 13 signs too! Well, we are most certain to find out soon the deeper implications of all this from astrologers, but the big question is: will astrologers be shocked or not?

Yes, I have heard of Ophiuchus because some believe astrologers believe it has a bearing on the dating of the Galactic Alignment and the timing of the precession of the Equnioxes. Whatever, it is a fact that astronomers retain ancient knowledge and have contributed to ancient religious text to make sure that knowledge was not lost. If astronomers are making a declaration about the constellations, there has to be a valid reason. This is a nice quote:
"The heavens are alive and they do change after a few thousand years and the astrologer who wants to maintain accuracy must change along with the signs in the heavens." Source: The 13th sign of the Zodiac,
Well, we are certainly finding out that the heavens are alive...

Age of Aquarius Actually Age of Capricorn, Thanks to Rotation of the Earth
Fox News, 11th January 2011
It all comes down to the 26,000-year precession of the planets through space, he said, noting that a variety of gravitational forces have changed the position of the planets in the sky over time. Bottom line, the astrological forecasts we've all been turning to may -- gasp! -- not be accurate at all, or at least they may be intended for other readers. "We're off by about 10 degrees or so, a twelfth of the way around," Kunkle said.

No, your zodiac sign hasn't changed
CNN Blog, 13th January 2011
"That's because the tropical zodiac – which is fixed to seasons, and which Western astrology adheres to – differs from the sidereal zodiac – which is fixed to constellations and is followed more in the East, and is the type of zodiac to which the Star Tribune article ultimately refers. Two zodiacs. That's nothing new."
Some reaction...



Early sunrise upsets Greenlanders
Kurier News, 12th January 2011
Translation: Beyond the Arctic Circle, can find the time needed for day and night depending on latitude up to half a year, the sunrise is something very special - even more so when the always joyfully anticipated event is just around two days early is taking place.

According to the KNR Radio Greenland, the sun was in West Greenland Ilulissat on Tuesday (11.1.) at exactly 12:56:57 Clock. Normally the sun goes there until 13 January for the first time after the polar night again. Inhabitants of the third-largest city with 4,500 inhabitants of Greenland, made because of the early sun appeared worried.

"Here in the place the sun comes up until 13 January. There will not be the right one or the other," quoted the Greenlandic radio KNR Holger Sivertsen, a 74-year-old local, in a report on his website. Scientists rule out that the observation could have geophysical or astronomical reasons.

"In the constellation of the stars has not changed, "said Wolfgang Lenhardt, head of the geophysics department at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) on the high tower. "Since even an outcry would have gone around the world." The data of Earth's axis and Earth's rotation in question were constantly and meticulously monitored.

Thomas Posch from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Vienna completed astronomical reasons for the premature end of the polar night also made. He suggests that the observation is due to a change in the local horizon. An accelerated by the melting of the Greenland ice sheet-related lower horizon earlier than previously allowed a glimpse of the sun appears, as "by far the most obvious"explanation. According to Lenhardt it could possibly also to an atmospheric phenomenon - act - for example by ice crystals caused a mirage. Source here

Comment:
I have used another source because the Google translation is not great but the fact that this was registered on the Hungarian RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service website is also interesting... So, we have more media chatter, this time articles are circulating in the Austrian press about the early appearance of the Sun in Greenland. What is interesting is that we have the observations of people who are particularly interested, as this is celebrated after months of complete winter darkness, a tradition of people who live in the Artic regions. The comment about an uproar around the planet because something strange is happening is just plain funny. Most people have no interest in rocking the boat, unless they feel threatened in some way... Anyway, we have another expert claiming that the people are seeing a mirage and an optical illusion, but if that is the case what would be the point of publishing an expected arrival time of the Sun if it would be invalidated by atmospheric effects? This must be considered alongside the other recent media reports from Canada and Norway, where locals have been querying the expected and actual solstice times and the early arrival of the Sun from the winter darkness.



Penguins tagged by scientists with metal bands 'die more quickly and have fewer chicks'
Daily Mail, 13th January 2011
Metal bands used to track penguins may inadvertently be killing the birds, according to a study by scientists.

Thousands of penguins have had the steel rings fitted around their legs and flippers over the last decade to monitor population numbers. But a 10-year study among tagged King Penguins showed survival rates were 44 per cent lower than those without bands. It also significantly affected birth rates among the birds, with banded penguins producing 41 per cent fewer chicks than their unbanded counterparts. The French study, published in the journal Nature, theorise that the bands - made either aluminum or stainless steel - increase drag on the penguins when they swim, making them work harder. [...]

There is an alternative to the metal bands, Ratcliffe and the French researchers said. That option uses transponder tags that are injected under the penguin's skin and send radio signals to buried antennas, much like pets with radio chips embedded in them. The seabirds spend more time in the water than on land, and the transponder doesn't affect the penguin's swimming, Saraux said. But Le Maho argued this technique is a bit more expensive and has some other drawbacks.

Comment:
Well, this is the exact observation made by the Inuit Indians who complain that the polar bears were being harmed because they were being tagged by wildlife biologists and that their problems had nothing to do with global warming. Scientists have even reported that a polar bear died as a result of immobilisation caused by scientific tagging. In a recent report the opinion of Inuit Elders are cited. so we read:
"And they also attribute a different causes for the poor physical condition of many polar bears— it’s not climate change but interference from biologists who tag and drug bears for surveys in noisy helicopters, they say."

Inuit elders speak through climate change film
Nunatsiaq Online, 16th Decemver 2010
Maybe this is some clear evidence that the metal actually interferes with electromagnetic cell to cell communications, so the the use of transponder tags is most likely to have similar if not more serious electromagnetic interference effects. Really, the level of ignorance by so-called scientists is just too high. However, we live in a society that has introduced a wide variety of EMI sources like mobile phones, cell masts, electricity pylons, wi-fi etc, where humans are routinely dying due to extended use of certain devices. Recently, we have stories of women being diagnosed with breast cancer, because they have place their mobile phones in their bras, this is ignorance with consequences of the highest order. Until there is widespread acknowledgement that electromagnetic fields direct and control chemistry then people and animals will continue to be harmed.

Tags created to help penguins could be killing them
Radio tags designed to monitor endangered penguins could be killing them, say scientists. The Telegraph, 12th January 2011
Here The Telegraph is calling a spade a spade... even stronger language than the Inuit who have seen the same issues with polar bears.



Those who build on flood plains...
Sydney Morning Herald, 13th January 2011
There's nothing new about the Brisbane “flood map” – it existed before the 1974 flood but only came to light in that tragedy's aftermath as evidence of town planning gone hopelessly wrong.

Back in '74 the partial excuse offered for dumb government was that such a deluge was rated a “one in 100-year” event. So, presumably, it was OK to lose a few lives and vast amounts of personal belongings once a century.

Some 37 years later, there's less excuse. A new dam or not, the lesson of 1974 was obvious: parts of Brisbane were not suitable for housing, or at least not suitable for modern box-on-a-cement-slab housing. Air circulation and the opportunity to “brick in” decades down the track weren't the only reason the typical old Queensland home was built on high stumps. The freakish flash flooding of areas not previously flood-prone is one matter, but the majority of the Brisbane flooding is not freakish.

Comment:
This is quite sad. Piers Corbyn talks about The Eclipse Cycle occuring ever 19 years, and he highlights 1916, 1954, 1973, 1992, 2011 coinciding with peaks or severe flooding in SE Queensland. In his latest video, Corbyn does explain what happened in 1935 when it seems they were spared... Hence, due to the historical facts, it is not surprising that this commentator has been quite harsh.

Toowoomba drowns (Videos)
Herald Sun, 11th January 2011

Piers Corbyn The Jet & Gulf Stream dynamics
YouTube, 7th January 2011

Piers Corbyn Queensland Floods Eclipses and Solar Flares
YouTube, 7th January 2011

Alarming report on Brisbane River risks covered up
The Australian, 13th January 2011
A SECRET report by scientific and engineering experts warned of significantly greater risks of vast destruction from Brisbane River flooding - and raised grave concerns with the Queensland government and the city's council a decade ago. [...] The study highlighted how the council had permitted the development of thousands of properties whose owners were led to believe they would be out of harm's way in a flood on the scale of 1974.
Well, history is repeating itself in many ways...



Giant Icicle 'Rods' Fall From Sky - Mississippi [US]
Falling Ice From TV Tower Wreaks Havoc
WCTV News, 12th January 2011
Mother Nature had the employees of one Mississippi Television station in her sights this week. The weather warmed up just enough for the giant icicles on the station's tower to start falling. Click here to find out more!

Workers had to sprint through the parking lot to save their vehicles.. and themselves. Definitely a dangerous workday for the employees at CBS affiliate, WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi. Workers had to dodge the giant spikes of ice as they raced to move their vehicles from the parking lot.

Comment:
Yes, I changed the headline. I am struggling with the explanation that this was ice falling off a TV station's tower. Why would the ice fall off in giant rods, not the usual daggers? Watch the video, it is fortunate that nobody was killed. This makes the giant hailstone scene in the movie The Day After Tomorrow look pathetic... More related news:



Heavy fines for snow and ice on roofs
"Radio Sweden, 12th January 2011
Swedish police say they will ruthlessly enforce regulations governing house owners who do not clear dangerous icicles and snow from their roofs. They promise to slap an $18,000 fine on those who do not comply."



Italian man shot in head sneezes out bullet
The Independent News, 12th January 2011
A reveller shot in the head amazed doctors by sneezing out the bullet and is expected to make a full recovery with no lasting harm.

Darco Sangermano, 28, was accidentally shot during a New Year's Eve party in Naples as he celebrated with his girlfriend. The bullet entered his head through his temple, breaking the temporal bone and passing behind his eye, before coming to rest in his nose.

Mr Sangermano was one of three people shot during the celebrations in Naples. One person died from their injuries. He was taken to hospital and while waiting to see a doctor, the bullet popped out of his right nostril. After receiving a check-up, Mr Sangermano was discharged.

Comment:
Yes, this is really strange... but I find these stories of people surviving bullets in the head quite amazing...



Tribe of Many Colors or Tribe of Many Dollars
Racial Justice, 11th January 2011
Kiesha Crowther AKA “Little Grandmother” has garnered a lot of attention, over a thousand followers, perhaps millions in cash, and even more controversy in less than two years. Falsely claiming to be the “shaman” for the “Sioux Salish tribe,” Crowther has gathered an all white, mostly European “Tribe of Many Colors” around her with bizarre claims. Native activists and former followers have vowed to oppose her and expose her.

From Santa Fe to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, and soon to that most “American Indian” of places, Palm Springs, Kiesha Crowther draws crowds of hundreds with each gathering of ceremony selling, charging from several hundred to up to $6,000 a person. Crowther is a small red haired woman of 33, yet looks young enough to be a teenager. Adding to the strangeness, Crowther calls herself “Little Grandmother” (she is not one) and often talks in a little girl voice with fanciful (and largely false) stories about her childhood.

Crowther mixes in stories of vulnerability with dire prophecies of doom and fantastic claims, none of which are true. She claims to be the “shaman” for the “Sioux Salish tribe.” She claims to be the descendant of famous Lakota and Salish leaders, with a “fullblood Indian mother” and a grandmother supposedly on the reservation. Crowther claims to be made “shaman” by an alleged Salish elder named Falling Feathers. She claims to be recognized by dozens of tribes from New Zealand to United States to the Arctic Circle to Scandinavia to Central America. She claims to have been recognized by Native tribes at as young as age eight and to be the fulfillment of a supposed prophecy about a “fair haired girl.” She even suggests in one video that she is the returned White Buffalo Calf Woman of Lakota prophecy, a claim sure to outrage the Plains Indian tribes that hold the prophecy sacred. Yet not a single one of these claims are true. Most are extremely obvious lies. [...]

Dr. Al Carroll is a historian, professor, former Fulbright Scholar, and activist for Native causes. His first book is Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans From Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War from University of Nebraska Press.

Research for this article includes contributions by numerous activists, former followers, Sky Davis and T. Tavares, and a source very close to the Crowther family. Annika Banfeld translated articles and radio interviews from Swedish to English.

Comment:
Oh dear, it seems that Little Grandmother is a Little Liar... well from the information provided here, she is actually quite a Big Liar... This article on Kiesha Crowther includes all the anti-fraud research about her to date, including genealogy and all her claims of elders supporting her debunked. The Rick Ross Cult Education Forum have a thread about her Kiesha Crowther/Little Grandmother - Tribe of Many Colors, but this is the most definitive article written by Dr. Al Carroll. I am now wondering where she got her info on 2012... as she seems to have just copied other people's work... Google had 2,370 results when I used this article headline, which I found quite surprising. It seems that quite a few Native Americans, activists and sympathisers are really upset.

Appropriation of NDN Traditions, Rites, Regalia
YouTube, 20th December 2010



Brit Scientists Going Nuts
UFO Mystic, 11th January 2011

I’m still not sure if this is an elaborate joke of some kind or not, but the forthcoming issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appears to be a collection of speculative papers on the social, scientific, and (yes) philosophical implications of extraterrestrial life.

Here’s the abstract from the opening paper in the issue, entitled The Detection of Extra-terrestrial Life and the Consequences for Science and Society by Martin Dominik and John C. Zarnecki:

Astronomers are now able to detect planets orbiting stars other than the Sun where life may exist, and living generations could see the signatures of extra-terrestrial life being detected. Should it turn out that we are not alone in the Universe, it will fundamentally affect how humanity understands itself—and we need to be prepared for the consequences. A Discussion Meeting held at the Royal Society in London, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, on 25–26 January 2010, addressed not only the scientific but also the societal agenda, with presentations covering a large diversity of topics.


Comment:
Well, I quite liked the headline... It is obvious that the widespread appearance of the orange balls of light (OBOLs) and the rest of the UAP spectrum representing another lifeform, that must be considered as part of Earth's Shadow Biosphere, is now being discussed in earnest. The Royal Society has no choice, as huge balls of light, some the size of houses are now running amok in even the most genteel parts of the UK and around the world. If you want to watch video after video of UAP sightings or read about the latest sightings, I can recommend the following:


NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space (Video)
NASA Science News, 10th January 2011
Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.

Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is estimated that about 500 TGFs occur daily worldwide, but most go undetected.

"These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams," said Michael Briggs, a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He presented the findings Monday, during a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. [...]

Scientists long have suspected TGFs arise from the strong electric fields near the tops of thunderstorms. Under the right conditions, they say, the field becomes strong enough that it drives an upward avalanche of electrons. Reaching speeds nearly as fast as light, the high-energy electrons give off gamma rays when they're deflected by air molecules. Normally, these gamma rays are detected as a TGF.

But the cascading electrons produce so many gamma rays that they blast electrons and positrons clear out of the atmosphere. This happens when the gamma-ray energy transforms into a pair of particles: an electron and a positron. It's these particles that reach Fermi's orbit.

Comment:
Please note: the author of this article wants you to think that these anti-matter beams are all going out to space, which was exactly what happened when they first reported TGFs. It was only years later, that some scientists decided to report that airline passengers could be get sick by being hit by these extreme energies, see previous news.

Lightning-Storm Gamma Rays Could Harm Air Travelers
Wired Science, 15th December 2008
"Everywhere we look, we're seeing x-rays and gamma rays flying out of thunderstorms and lightning," said Joseph Dwyer, a physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology and lead author of the study. "

The gamma rays coming out of thunderstorms are so intense we can measure these 600 kilometers away and so bright that it almost blinds the spacecraft. Finding particles flying around at what physicsts call "ultrarelativistic speeds,," i.e. very close to the speed of light, came as a shocker to physicists.

Gamma rays had previously been associated with only the most extreme environments in the universe, like supernovae. Now, scientists believe that about 50 terrestrial gamma ray flashes occur per day on Earth. It turns out that these highly-energetic particles can be created by thunderstorms at altitudes that airplanes regularly fly. While planes generally avoid thunderclouds, sometimes they get surprised or can’t avoid them. And it’s those situations that worry Dwyer.

"We just don’t know enough. The consequences are bad enough that people could potentially get hurt from this," he said. "This is a call for more research. We really need to find out where we are and how big these things are. Could people be hit by these things and get sick? And how would you know?"

Comment:
Now, they are reporting up to 500 TGFs a day... that's some escalation in about 2 years... Well, the metaphysical solution is to build up the human energy field to act as a plasma shield, but so far there has not been a a great deal of interest, so we are waiting for those with pacemakers to drop dead before people will pay attention to what is happening to our environment. Apparently, birds dropping dead all over the planet and millions of fish dying is not enough to cause any alarm....



CO2 sequestration ‘splodes in Saskatchewan
WUWT, 11th January 2011
By: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press

A Saskatchewan farm couple whose land lies over the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project says greenhouse gases that were supposed to have been injected permanently underground are leaking out, killing animals and sending groundwater foaming to the surface like shaken-up soda pop.

Cameron and Jane Kerr, who own nine quarter-sections of land above the Weyburn oilfield in eastern Saskatchewan, released a consultant’s report Tuesday that claims to link high concentrations of carbon dioxide in their soil to the 8,000 tonnes of the gas injected underground every day by energy giant Cenovus in its attempt to enhance oil recovery and fight climate change.

“We knew, obviously, there was something wrong,” said Jane Kerr.

Comment:
Another 'AGW/CO2/Green' save the world idea that has gone dreadfully wrong... The worse thing about the story is that they got something simple like the geology of the cap rock wrong... hopeless... The video trailer of Crack in the World (1965) sci-fi movie, is just hilarious, showing the result of a scientific idea of experimenting with the planet going wrong. It reminded me of the the sci-fi move The core (2003) where the problem was that the Earth's core stopped spinning as a side effect of 'Project Destiny' (that sounds a lot like HAARP), which caused the 'accidental' shutdown with the resultant failure of the Earth's magnetic field.



THE term "climate change" could be replaced by "climate challenges"
The Australian, 9th January 2011
THE term "climate change" could be replaced by "climate challenges" if a federal commissioned marketing study is taken onboard. The study of attitudes to climate change among farmers, commissioned by the Agriculture Department, found only 27 per cent of those surveyed believed human activity was causing climate change, compared with 58 per cent of urban dwellers. As well, primary producers are "very resistant to carbon trading". "It fills them with dread, and there were strong negative reactions towards it," the report says. Handed to the department late last year, the report warns that terminology that fails to take into account the attitude of primary producers towards human-induced climate change risks failure. The term "climate change" sets up negative reactions among primary producers for a number of reasons, from scepticism through to perceptions that they are being held solely responsible for causing climate change, it says.

Comment:
So, people don't like the term "change", well I know that! Maybe, this can be summed up as a need to rebrand climate change, because too many people don't believe in anthropogenic warming. This view has been strengthened by the furore over Climategate and the thefts of huge sums of money associated with failed carbon trading exchanges. Well, leaving that aside, I want to know when the general public will be informed that the problem is cosmic and we are facing massive planetary upheaval caused by Space Weather. Here is the link to the WUWT article, with the nice new headline image, Spin, span, spun: now it’s “climate challenges”



I feel so lost in this society
abovetopsecret.com, 10th January 2011
I get on here because I feel like I don't fit in. I put this under social issues because I believe many people on here feel this way. I get so disillusioned. I am going to explain in depth how I feel. I am posting this here because where else do you go when you feel like an alien in a very very strange world?

My sister and one of my friends is the only one who understands. I tried to talk to 3 of my friends about some of the issue going on like the shooter incident, dead birds and fishes but they just skip over that like I never said it. They start talking about really petty things like oh some person said this to me or whatever. Am I the only person who truly cares about this society beyond my existence? My sister and I want to buy a house someday and pay it off to be open to anyone who needs a place to live. Most people would only think of what they could get out of the situation.

Comment:
I was quite touched by this post and the comments here, since I know all about being a square peg that has no interest in being rammed into a round hole. My refrain these days has been: where is the intelligence (intellectual, emotional and spiritual), where is the quality?



Earth must prepare for close encounter with aliens, say scientists
UN should co-ordinate plans for dealing with extraterrestrials – and we can't guarantee that aliens will be friendly
The Guardian, 10th January 2011

World governments should prepare a co-ordinated action plan in case Earth is contacted by aliens, according to scientists.

Scientists argue that a branch of the UN must be given responsibility for "supra-Earth affairs" and formulate a plan for how to deal with extraterrestrials, should they appear.

The comments are part of an extraterrestrial-themed edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A published today. In it, scientists examine all aspects of the search for extraterrestrial life, from astronomy and biology to the political and religious fallout that would result from alien contact.

Comment: Of course we have to have the stupid alien picture... Sigh... Again, the content of this article is poor, but the headline gives the message "prepare for close encounter with aliens" and we are seeing these same messages over and over again in the media. The discussion of world religions and the existence of ETs smacked of opportunitism, which I though was quite distasteful. More below:

NASA Antarctica Discovery Might Foreshadow Potential Extraterrestrial Life Forms
Daily Galaxy, 7th January 2011
A 2009 discovery at the bottom of the world could have implications on the search for extraterrestrial life. NASA researchers were astounded to find an amphipod swimming beneath a massive Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water. NASA scientists were using a borehole camera to look back up towards the ice surface when they spotted this pinkish-orange creature swimming 600 feet below the ice, where the NASA team expected to find no higher life form than some microbes.
Comment:
Well, it seems NASA are undeterred by the arsenic bacteria fiasco... The program to continue conditioning the general public to the idea of extraterrestrial life forms on Earth continues...

Study: Be Wary of Space Visitors
CBS News, 10th January 2011
Comment:
This is just pathetic. Why would intelligent ETs be resource hungry, when they could just tap the aether (zero point field, vaccuum, spacetime) for free energy? If there was not a need for world controllers to control control control, we would be already doing this.. Why are the media dragging down ETs to our low standards?



Environmental activists demand inquiry into undercover officer's role
Following the collapse of their trial, power station protesters say PC Mark Kennedy's actions must be investigated The Guardian, 10th January 2011
Six environmental activists who faced charges of trying to take over a power station called today for an inquiry into the role of an undercover police officer, who is accused of helping to plan and pay for the invasion.

The trial of the six, who denied conspiring to break into Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, collapsed today, after details began to emerge about the role played by PC Mark Kennedy, an undercover police officer.

An investigation by the Guardian revealed how Kennedy lived at the heart of the environmental movement for seven years, using the fake identity Mark Stone to infiltrate dozens of protest groups.

Comment:
So the Green Movement has been infiltrated with undercover police officers acting as "agent provocateurs". PC Mark Kennedy encouraged environmentalists to break the law, but bizarrely, when some of his environmentalist friends got wrongly accused, this undercover cop defended them... I suppose he was not given any orders about that scenario occuring and maybe he paid attention to his consciousness... Whatever, this does sound very familiar... It might wake a few naive people up... This reminds me of the saying, 'If there aren't any fires, there would be no need for firemen...'



Giffords' intern: 'I tried to react as best as I could'
Daniel Hernandez had basic nursing training, hurried to stem blood flow
MSNBC News, 10th January 2011
A calm and composed congressional intern who underwent basic nursing training while in high school said Monday that he knew that if U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was to have any chance of surviving her gunshot wound, he would have to stem the flow of blood coming from her head.

“I could tell she had a very severe gunshot but I was just trying do my best until emergency medical services could arrive,” Daniel Hernandez, 20, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer via satellite.

Hernandez and a handful of witnesses to a lone gunman’s shooting spree outside a Tucson supermarket are being hailed for their actions in the aftermath of the gunfire that transformed a peaceful Saturday morning political gathering into a scene of carnage and chaos.

Comment:
I am not interested in the politics here or the conspiracy theories, I just don't think the Congresswoman Gabby Giffords deserved a bullet in the back of the head. I am seriously impressed that the bullet went straight through her brain and even though she was badly injured, she could respond to her intern Hernandez, who might have saved her life. I am glad she had someone who really did cared enough about her. I have also seen the reports of the brave woman that tried to knock the gun out of the shooters hands and the old people who went after him and wrestled him to the ground, one of them was 74 years old, Ret. Col.: Loughner Cried "You're Hurting Me!", it seems the old folks in Arizona are quite tough... I am just not interested in the politics but I am quite shocked about the gun toting warlike tone of the political rhetoric, even from prominent politicians. Maybe this is just a reflection of the survival of the fittest meme - by any means - that especially dominates American society. Whatever, if the acrimony I have seen on the forums is anything to go by, there will be more similar events. More:

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
Michelle Malkin, January 10, 2011
OK, this primer was quite a shock for me. Some of the images and posters are disgusting and vile, it's almost like the ordinary people really want to make it clear how they feel and it's usually quite graphic... The whole society is going down the toilet, I think sooner or later there is going to be a civil war.



Jared Loughner's behavior recorded by college classmate in e-mails
The Washington Post, 9th January 2011
[...] From June 14:
"We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me. He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interviewed would say, Yeah, he was in my math class and he was really weird. I sit by the door with my purse handy. If you see it on the news one night, know that I got out fast..."

The class's instructor, Ben McGahee, said in an interview Sunday that Loughner had been removed from class in its third or fourth week, because of repeated disruptions.

Comment:
It's amazing to think that someone was so worried that Loughner was a shooter, they were mentally prepared and ready to run, whilst they were supposed to be in a safe learning environment...

Jared Loughner is a product of Sheriff Dupnik’s office
The Cholla Jumps, 10th January 2011
"Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County."

Comment:
So Loughner had been threatening people all over the County, yet he was still allowed to buy a 'glock' gun... this is seriously crazy...



Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved
Science Daily, 7th January 2011
One of the most enduring mysteries in solar physics is why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Now scientists believe they have discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona: jets of plasma shooting up from just above the Sun's surface. The finding addresses a fundamental question in astrophysics: how energy is moved from the Sun's interior to create its hot outer atmosphere. [...]

For decades scientists believed spicules could send heat into the corona. However, following observational research in the 1980s, it was found that spicule plasma did not reach coronal temperatures, and so the theory largely fell out of vogue. "Heating of spicules to millions of degrees has never been directly observed, so their role in coronal heating had been dismissed as unlikely," says Bart De Pontieu, the lead researcher and a solar physicist at LMSAL.

In 2007, De Pontieu, McIntosh, and their colleagues identified a new class of spicules that moved much faster and were shorter-lived than the traditional spicules. These "Type II" spicules shoot upward at high speeds, often in excess of 100 kilometers per second, before disappearing.

The rapid disappearance of these jets suggested that the plasma they carried might get very hot, but direct observational evidence of this process was missing. The researchers used new observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory and NASA's Focal Plane Package for the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on the Japanese Hinode satellite to test their hypothesis.

"The high spatial and temporal resolution of the newer instruments was crucial in revealing this previously hidden coronal mass supply," says McIntosh. "Our observations reveal, for the first time, the one-to-one connection between plasma that is heated to millions of degrees and the spicules that insert this plasma into the corona." The findings provide an observational challenge to the existing theories of coronal heating.

Comment:
OK, it's only taken about 75 years from when scientists discovered that the outside (Corona) of the Sun was 300 times hotter than the 6000 K surface and theories of the Electric Sun were first proposed. Since we know that all plasma phenomena is scalable, it's a mystery why these scientists are not telling us that they are comparing the behaviour of these spicules to that seen in plasma research. Don Scott is an ex-Electrical Engineering professor who wrote the book The Electric Sky. He has an excellent website The Electric Cosmos that explains that the theory of an Electric Universe. The webpage 'Our sun' is dedicated to explain the behaviour of the Sun based on the properties of plasma in the laboratory. In terms of plasma physics, the "spicules" represent plasma loops or 'double layers' in 'glow' mode that carry a current. When the spicule or loop current becomes too strong, the double layer will be destroyed and that is the source of a solar flare. If you look around the internet, solar flares are supposed to come from the corona and coronal mass ejections are supposed to come from the surface of the Sun called the photosphere but some will tell you that this is not correct either... sigh! This is all very very confusing and if you listen to scientists who are not plasma experts, you will get even more confused. Scott gives credit to Ralph Juergens who developed the Electric Sun model back in the 1970's and nobel prize winner Hannes Alfven's Solar Prominence Circuit. Regardless, this is not just about science for the sake of science anymore. Space Weather in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections are causing serious problems for our modern technological society as Earth's magnetic field declines, understanding when to expect a space weather event can at least help to mitigate the damage. More:

New Images From Hinode reveal solar atmospheric plasma behaviors that are 'impossible' to explain according to standard theory.
The Standard Solar Theorist's Slogan: "Anything But Electricity!"
The Surface of the Sun - blog, 3rd April 2007

According to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, new images from the Hinode satellite program are already revealing solar atmospheric plasma behaviors that are "impossible" to explain using the current solar model. Evidently the mainstream community is still having a hard time accepting the role of electrical currents in solar activity. They are also having a very difficult time accepting the fact that Hannes Alfv'en actually did know what he was talking about when he described the electromagnetic interactions that take place in *light* (non dense) plasmas. Hannes Alfv'en was the Nobel Prize winning author of magneto hydrodynamic theory. He explained in his book "Cosmic Plasma":
"Again, it should be mentioned that there is no possibility of accounting for the energy of the particles as a result of 'magnetic merging' or of 'magnetic field-line reconnection', or any other mechanism which implies changing magnetic fields in the region of acceleration. In the region of the double layer, the magnetic field during the explosive transient phase is almost constant and cannot supply the required energy (of course, the secondary effects of the explosion also cause changes in the magnetic field)." [...]

Golub may believe that this sort of plasma behavior is "impossible" to explain, but Hannes Alfv'en explained this behavior 25 years ago. The atmosphere of the sun is electrically active and it interacts with the electromagnetic fields of space.   Currents ebb and flow, particularly in the corona.  As soon as the electric currents that are flowing through a coronal loops stop flowing, say for instance the electric current seeks a shorter path of lesser resistance through the plasma, the suspended loop will deteriorate rapidly, and it will come crashing back to the surface. [...]

As Alfven explained from his work in plasma physics, certain types of plasma behaviors simply cannot be be properly modeled or properly understood without considering the electrical flow patterns that are traveling through the plasma. Alfv'en warned the mainstream community during his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize about trying to mathematically oversimplify every plasma behavior, and trying to model every plasma transaction as a purely "magnetic" event.
Please remember, it is normal in the scientific world for one scientist to be 20, 30, 40, 50+ years ahead of their peers. This becomes apparent by studying the history of many different fields of science.



January 6, 2011 - Fermi's Large Area Telescope Sees Surprising Flares in Crab Nebula
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 6th January 2011
Menlo Park, Calif.—The Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable neighbors in the winter sky, is shocking scientists with its propensity for fireworks—gamma-ray flares set off by the most energetic particles ever traced to a specific astronomical object. The discovery, reported today by scientists working with two orbiting telescopes, is leading researchers to rethink their ideas of how cosmic particles are accelerated.

"We were dumbfounded," said Roger Blandford, who directs the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University. "It's an emblematic object," he said. The Crab Nebula, also known as M1, was the first astronomical object catalogued in 1771 by Charles Messier. "It's a big deal historically," Blandford continued, "and we're making an amazing discovery about it." [...]

"The strength of the gamma-ray flares shows us they were emitted by the highest-energy particles we can associate with any discrete astrophysical object," Funk said. Not only are the electrons surprisingly energetic, added Buehler, but, "the fact that the intensity is varying so rapidly means the acceleration has to happen extremely fast." This challenges current theories about the way cosmic particles are accelerated. These theories cannot easily account for the extreme energies of the electrons or the speed with which they're accelerated.

Comment:
We have another 'most extreme' astronomical record being broken, which I noted is occuring more frequently in the last few years. My belief is that there has been a change in the fabric of spacetime, almost like the fog has cleared and we are seeing more energies more coherently. However, I am not sure that this is related to these extreme particle velocities, but possibly the reason they have come into focus. The following video may be of some interest:

Gamma ray burst directed at Earth
YpuTube, 10 September 2008
GRB 080319B - at 2:13 a.m. EDT on March 19, 2008, in the constellation Bootes. The gamma-ray burst became bright enough to see even without a telescope. TORTORA, a robotic wide-field optical camera operated in Chile with Russian-Italian collaboration, also caught the early light.



Watching The Brain - A Secret History - Part 1 - Mind Control
BBC 4, January 2011
In a compelling and at times disturbing series, Dr Michael Mosley explores the brutal history of experimental psychology.

To begin, Michael traces the sinister ways this science has been used to try to control our minds. He finds that the pursuit of mind control has led to some truly horrific experiments and left many casualties in its wake. Extraordinary archive captures what happened - scientists systematically change the behaviour of children; law abiding citizens give fatal electric shocks; a gay man has electrodes implanted in his head in an attempt to turn his sexuality.

Michael takes a hallucinogenic drug as part of a controlled experiment to try to understand how its mind-bending properties can change the brain. This is a scientific journey goes to the very heart of what we hold most dear - our free will, and our ability to control our own destiny.

Broadcasts
1. Thu 6 Jan 2011 21:00 BBC Four
2. Fri 7 Jan 2011 00:30 BBC Four
3. Fri 7 Jan 2011 03:00 BBC Four
4. Tue 11 Jan 2011 23:00 BBC Four

Comment:
Would you allow yourself to be injected with Psilocybin mushroom (magic mushrooms) by Professor Nut or is that spelt Knut? I am thinking: are the BBC script writers having a laugh? Quite frankly, if you are interested in mind control and the connections with cult leaders and gurus, then this documentary is recommeded as part of a necessary learning program. The section on brainwashing is defined as the process of removing existing conditioning by inducing a nervous breakdown to re-wire the brain in order to dramatically change beliefs in a short period of time. The term 'breakdown' is misleading as the same can be achieved in peak mystical experiences, that is why cult leaders who know what they are doing are so dangerous. This explanation does explain what James 'Death' Ray was trying to do, but he failed miserably as he pushed a group of seekers so hard that three died. The discussion about people obeying authority figures was interesting and explains the approach taken by some who in their normal modus operandi, will often approach people and shout 'jump', just to see who responds. For those outside the UK, Watching The Brain - A Secret History - Part 1 - Mind Control




"Fireworks" - Are You Kidding Me?
SOTT News, 7th January 2011
Since the highly published occurrence of 3,000 to 5,000 blackbirds falling to their death on January 1st 2011, more bird and fish mass suicides have occurred. Just yesterday, a new report telling of millions of dead fish surfaced in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. [...]

You might have noticed I used the words "mass suicide". I used this term to reflect the official explanations for most of these events. The Texas massacre was said to be "birds flying into cars". The Louisiana deaths were caused by "hitting power lines or cars". The Sweden incident "was caused by difficulty finding food". And of course the Arkansas suicidal occurrence was caused by "fireworks and they flew into homes and cars". [...]

The above explanations is not conjecture or satire, it is factual "official statements" presented by area authorities such as the Parks and Wildlife Department. I would suggest there could only be two reasonable answers to the recent string of bird and fish deaths

1) Man-made. This is to say some sort of new military weaponry which emits a form of geo-magnetic pulse. If so, the next question would be ... was it intentional or unintentional? Either way, this is one scary scenario. Either they don't know what the hell they're doing -or- they don't have our best interest in mind. Of the two, I would hope for "idiots-at-work."

The second two answer is no less frightening. 2) The deaths were caused by a "natural occurrence". This is to say it was caused by a geo-magnetic flux from the Sun, and its possible chain-reaction with the Earth's core.

Comment:
This is a SOTT copy because this news is probably only meant for subscribers. Mitch Battros from Earth Changes Media is only stating his disbelief that Americans are all supposed to be so dumbed down, as to believe the explanation of fireworks at New Year startingly birds so that they die of shock, even as reports continue to roll in of more dead birds from all over the world 7 days later. No doubt, the cold weather may be responsible for killing many sea creatures, but we have had many reports that indicate that more and more creatures are becoming very disorientated whilst trying to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. We know about the decline of the honey bees but there has been suggestion by credible sources that the bees may also be effected by geomagnetic storms but this theory has had very little interest. Yet, all these reports are occuring at the same time that many different official sources are telling us about the dire state of Earth's magnetic shielding (magnetosphere) that now has permanent holes, at the same time as the Earth's magnetic poles are moving at an accelerating rate which indicates the start of a geomagnetic flip or a more minor geomagnetic excursion. We have websites that allow us to watch online as Earth's magnetosphere is being hammered by blasts from the sun and deep space where no official explanations are forthcoming, but there is no doubt that the ACE satellite is picking up these blasts that indicate extreme Space Weather events. Basically, we have a smoking gun that Earth's magnetic field is in dramatic decline and my personal interest has always been what happens when there is not enough protection and cosmic radiation starts to pour into Earth's atmosphere? Do you want to know more about Extreme Space Weather? Visit the Joyfire Tour Extreme Space Weather

Mystery deepens: Radar captures mysterious turbulence over Beebe, Ark. as doomed birds take flight
News Net 5 ABC, 7th January 2011


In this 3D Spectrum Width image, flying birds can clearly be seen at the bottom of the image. But, what's the mysterious turbulence above them?
[...] We are reasonably certain that these strange radar "plumes" are birds. So, what made them fall from the sky? The first reports of dead birds came in to Beebe authorities right around 11:30pm on New Years Eve. The first bird flights that appeared on radar took place just after 9pm. No bird deaths from those first take-offs.

Our first clue may be found on on the second image posted here. This is an image of "spectrum width" or "turbulence" taken at 10:21 pm on December 31, 2010. Spectrum width is a measure of the differences in object speeds within each pixel on the radar. In other words, as birds dart back and forth in different directions from each other, radar would show a high Spectrum Width in that area. In the second 3D doppler image, the orange and red areas are areas where the birds are taking flight in the air, moving at variables speeds, and directions near each other. Black birds don't like to fly very high. The flying flock is located below 2,500 hundred feet in the image. But, now notice the orange bullseye of turbulence just above the main flock between about 7,000 and 12,000 feet. this is the only image that contains this "plume" so high up in the atmosphere.

Comment:
It seems that my analysis could be substantiated by radar data, very interesting...

Weather radar shows something unusual around time birds fell
Today's THV, 6th December 2010


NEXRAD Doppler Radar image from Little Rock, Arkansas @ 10:26pm on December 29, shows the thousands of redwinged blackbirds taking flight in the nearby town of Beebe. At @ 10:30pm CST, the radar "plume" (shown above) expands and weakens over Beebe, Arkansas. The birds appear to be dispersing or settling back down to roost. link

"NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A weather radar screen doesn't just show the weather, apparently. The National Weather Service in North Little Rock examined a speck on the radar that showed up around the same time hundreds of birds fell out of the sky from alleged trauma on New Year's Eve.

Today's THV reporter Lauren Clark talked to Science and Operations Officer Chris Buonanno at the NWS who says that the speck on the picture is definitely not precipitation.

"There are some indications that we're picking up a non-precipitation target. It has some similarities to say, like a collection of birds."

The spot on the radar is estimated to be between 1,300 and 1,400 feet in the air and Buonanno points out it doesn't move like a cloud or rainstorm would."

Comment:
Here weather radar reveals a pulsating energy source over Beebe, Arkansas, that the meteorologist cannot conclusively identify, but he thinks it might have been the birds but he does not distinguish the fact there is another feature at a much higher altitude. Certainly, this is NOT fireworks!



Bird Kill over Beebe, Arkansas … Advanced Bird Radar Video Provides Unique Insight (Video)
Bird Radar Blog, 7th January 2011
[...] Following the national news stories about the unusual bird kill in Arkansas on New Years Eve, DeTect’s scientists extracted archived radar information from AHAS to determine if the Beebe bird activity as described by local observers was evident in the data. The data (see video below) revealed several interesting facts about this event.

First, the blackbird roost near Beebe, Arkansas, was active the day before the event (Dec 30, 2010), with a characteristic roost “ring” leaving the area near sunrise. Birds returning to the roost in the evening often arrive by hopping from tree to tree or power line to power line and are often below the radar beam or in the ground clutter. Birds leaving roosts however, often get higher in the air and leave a characteristic “bloom” signature.

The radar data show an interesting “bloom” near Beebe at around 10:20 PM on December 31st. It is very unusual for blackbird species to leave a roost at night even when harassed intentionally by loud noise, pyrotechnics, or even fireworks. It is even more unusual that these birds would continue to stay in the air above the roost area for several hours after they first took flight. Again, the radar data show significant activity in the area for over 6 hours. During this time there is no evidence of significant precipitation near the roost. It is also unlikely that anyone in Beebe, Arkansas, had stockpiled enough fireworks to continue a significant show lasting through the night and into the early morning hours.

Comment:
This is a company that provides specialist radar to track birds and they are providing independent proof that the birds behaviour was completely abnormal for an extended amount of time.

The Movie - 'The Core'. A Warning?

Movie: The Core Trailer [2:20]

Movie: The Core Bird Scene [3:01]
Yes, this scene is over the top, but pay attention to the last 15 seconds when the 'thinking' scientist starts to ask his colleagues to look for all the 'weird' news about other bizarre bird migrations, dophin and whale beachings, unexplaned atmospheric phenomena, unexplained plane crashes etc. I suggest if you are new to this blog, I have been collecting the news about Space Weather & Electromagnetic Chaos and the related issues with the 'official' explanations from respected scientific organisations for nearly four years.

The Movie -The Core Part 1/13
YouTube
If you don't have time, the beginning of the film (Part 1- 2) explains the problem of the Earth's magnetic field in dramatic decline. The film The Core was released in 2003 and panned by film critics.However, since this time, many events relating to the weakening Earth's magnetic field have been happening over and over again. In part 2 we have the dramatic portrayal of a shuttle re-entry going wrong with 3 astronauts on board and they are forced to land on an empty motorway, but in real life, in April 2008, a Russian manned space capsule returned to Earth nearly 300 miles off course and the incident was described as a "ballistic" reentry. In Part 3 we have the auroras and talk of high altitude static discharge, but in real life, in August 2010, we had daylight auroras over Tromsø, Northern Norway, which is even more sensational and the incredible Norwegian spiral in December 2009, which according to plasma physicists, was a high energy plasma event. So, despite all the negativity about this film, if someone made a documentary with all the hundreds of strange atmospheric, geophysical and electronic anomalies that have happened in the last 4 years, it would be far more scary. That is a fact, read my blog! Meanwhile, very few have been paying attention or are even interested, as the signs tell us that some serious evolutionary change is ahead. The demo at Part III [5:10] is really OTT but it gets the point across... LOL! More seriously, world experts tell us straight they don't understand how the Earth's magnetic field is created they can ony propose ideas that they generally agree on, whereas other ideas are dismissed as not fashionable, but the Earth's outer core is under high pressure and temperatue and would most likely be a ball of plasma like our Sun. Researchers who have made this suggestion over the decades have been ignored, but as those who have studied the history of science will know, that means nothing. According to world respected plasma physicist Anthony Peratt, Earth’s core is a magnetohydrodynamic magma (magnetized plasma), so these early pioneers who proved their beliefs with early experiments are most likely correct. This explanation helps us to see the significance of Earth's magnetic field weakening under the bombardment of plasma discharges from deep space in the form of the severe magnetar blasts. With accompanying dark matter, that we have no idea what it is programmed to do, we can only watch what is happening and come to some realistic conclusions.



TRIPLE PUNCH HOLE CLOUDS:
Spaceweather.com, 9th January 2011
"I've lived by the sea for many years, but never seen anything like this," reports Wesley Tyler of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. "On Friday, Jan. 7th, there were three punch hole clouds in the same place." He grabbed his camera and recorded the phenomenon:

Considered a mystery for many years, punch hole clouds appear on rare occasions all over the world, sometimes attracting widespread attention, e.g., the famous Moscow UFO cloud of 2009. Recently meteorologists have penetrated the mystery: punch holes form when airplanes fly through thin layers of high altitude clouds. If water droplets in the cloud are supercooled (below freezing but still liquid), they can suddenly turn to snow when shocked by the passage of the plane. This mini-snowstorm occurs over a circular area much wider than the airplane itself.

Not all flights through banks of clouds will produce snow. According to Wired Magazine, only about 7.8 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with clouds at the right elevation for supercooled droplets to form. Because jet aircraft don’t generally cruise at those altitudes, they may only form hole-punch clouds when they take off or land.

The apparition of three rare cloud-holes in one small area suggests a busy airspace around Myrtle Beach. Indeed, the Myrtle Beach International Airport is just miles from where the photo was taken. Or maybe punch hole clouds are a bit of a mystery after all.


Comment:
It's rather strange that spaceweather.com would provide the standard explantion for these punch hole clouds and then imply that maybe this is not correct and it's still a mystery. Maybe they are partially correct, but the shock is not being provided by a plane, rather there is a burst of cosmic energy that is causing this atmosphereic phenomena. What's more, this is no longer a rare event and this atmospheric phenomenon is becoming more frequent. As I wrote in my book and stated on this website many times, it was predicted that there would be a dramatic increase in evolutionary energies arriving on this planet and there is now plenty of scientific evidence that can be cited. As I have stated: Space Weather is now a fact of life and the atmosphere is looking more and more like a sieve...



Thunder storm radiation amazes physicists
Physics World, 7th January 2011
The radiation produced during a lightning storm is more energetic and potentially threatening to aircraft than previously thought, claim researchers in Italy. Studying this radiation in closer detail could help scientists to probe some of the big unanswered questions in the study of thunder storms, such as how lightning is triggered in clouds. Scientists have known for a long time that the large electric fields and currents produced during thunder storms can also generate X-rays and gamma rays in the vicinity of clouds. But in the early 1990s a rare type of lightning event was discovered that can produce extremely bright, energetic gamma rays – known as terrestrial gamma ray flashes. So far, however, it has been difficult to determine specific details about this phenomenon such where the radiation originates from and its energy range. [...]

The AGILE team led by Marco Tavani gathered data collected from 130 terrestrial gamma ray flash events occurring in the past two and a half years. Reporting its findings in Physical Review Letters, Tavini's team noted radiation emerging in all directions from the upper atmosphere, covering a wide range of energies. In some cases gamma rays were up to 100 MeV – more than twice as energetic as previous measurements.

"100 MeV is absolutely amazing considering that these things are made deep in our atmosphere by thunderstorms," says Joseph Dwyer, a lightning physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology, who was not involved in this research. "For comparison, 100 MeV is even impressive coming from big explosions on the Sun."

Comment:
Click image icon for large version. I decided that this report deserved it's own entry, as it reminds us that airline passengers are now playing Russian roulette. Please note we are told that the radiation is flying in all directions and so we have to conclude this is the same for the electrons and the suggested anti-matter beams too, see article below. Therefore, after four years of doing this blog and six years of intense research, I don't need anymore verification that I understood clearly that our world was becoming a high energy and highly charged electromagnetic environment. More:

Chance of thunder—and gamma-ray flashes
Physics, 3rd January 2011



Mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens after 8,000 turtle doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks
Daily Mail, 7th January 2011
"Blue stain believed to be sign of poisoning or hypoxia - lack of oxygen that is precursor to altitude sickness [...] Initial tests on up to 8,000 of the doves indicated that the blue stain could have been caused by poisoning or hypoxia. Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, is known to cause confusion and illness in animals. It is also a common precursor to altitude sickness. Experts said results from tests on the doves will not be available for at least a week. They said that cold weather could have caused the birds' deaths as the flock was swept into a high-altitude wind storm before falling to the earth."

Comment:
One theory is that the birds flew into a pocket of air deprived of oxygen -- caused by Space Weather ionising a localised region of the atmosphere -- the result is the birds went unconscious and hit the ground before they could recover. This is interesting because as we already know, sudden atmospheric events are bringing dust particles that are ususally held very high in the atmosphere down to virtually ground level, providing the occasional unusual optical illusions, reported as the beams of light and 'notes' hanging in the air. This means that the birds do not have to be flying at high altitude to find themselves in a bubble of oxygen deprived air. The oxygen deprivation in the water is a well known excuse for massive fish kills and the same explanation can also be applied. Please note, there are now many reports of strange beams of light, and the official explanation of "Killer electrons" that will be ionising air as they hit the Earth's atmosphere. So, whilst we have been having individual events happening for quite some time, maybe the Earth's atmosphere is not providing much shielding and is acting more like a sieve, hence multiple events are occuring and effecting more and more sensitive creatures. Note: all the articles telling us it's normal that dead birds are dropping dead all over the planet. The question is: since when have hundreds and thousands of birds continuing to drop dead all over the planet been considered normal?

Quebec Bird Deaths Stump Wildlife Officials [Canada]
Toronto Sun, 7th January 2011
"MONTREAL — More than 80 pigeons have keeled over and died at a farm near Quebec City for unknown reasons, the latest in a string of mysterious animal deaths around the world. Environmental officials in the province say there’s no connection to a similar case in Arkansas, but Sylvain Turmel is wondering why he’s been picking up dead pigeons for more than two weeks on his farm in Saint-Augustine-de-Desmaures. [...] He said wildlife officials took seven of the dead birds for analysis and told him not to speak with the media. Still, the feisty landowner called a local radio station to recount the incident. “There’s something going on,” he said. “This is not normal."



Mystery as thousands of birds fall from sky [Australia]
The Australian, 10th January 2011
On Monday, Esperance, 725km southeast of Perth, was declared a natural disaster zone. THOUSANDS of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance and no one knows why. Is it an illness, toxins or a natural phenomenon? A string of autopsies in Perth have shed no light on the mystery. [...] District nature conservation co-ordinator Mike Fitzgerald said the first reports of birds dropping dead in people's yards came in three weeks ago. More than 500 deaths had since been notified. But the calls stopped suddenly last week, reportedly because no birds were left. "It's very substantial. We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don't have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland," Mr Fitzgerald said. Birds Australia, the nation's main bird conservation group, said it had not heard of a similar occurrence. "Not on that scale, and all at the same time, and also the fact that it's several different species," chief executive Graeme Hamilton said. "You'd have to call that a most unusual event and one that we'd all have to be concerned about."

Comment:
It seems that in some locations, bird falls have been ongoing for three weeks. Since, the blogosphere is now on red alert, we should soon have a more accurate assessment of what is going on.

Video: Dozens of dead starlings in Constanta, Romania [1:06]
webtv.realitatea.net, 8th January 2010
"There is panic in a district of Constanta. Residents have found dozens of dead birds in the streets. People are scared, because of the recent number of similiar events around the world, that experts cannot fathom."



Truthout Report on Military "Spirituality Test" Featured by Keith Olbermann (Video)
Truth Out, 6th January 2011
Truthout's reporting on the Army's so-called "spiritual fitness" test was featured on Thursday by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on Countdown. Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, discussed Jason Leopold's report detailing the forced spiritual testing of over 800,000 uniformed soldiers as part of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program.

Comment:
It's looks like the US military want their soldiers to be fundamentalist zealots, being spiritual (whatever that means), New Agey (whatever that means), or a Christian is not good enough... The US Military do have a problem with soldiers comitting suicide and it seems the problem is there are soldiers who can't see the positive side of invading other countries, bombing them back into the Stone Age amd stealing their resources. Then there are the soldiers who don't see any joy in being experimented on with nasty cocktails of drugs, chemicals and radiation poisoning, or being traumatised by the conflict of war. The female soldiers being raped by their colleagues can't be too happy about life too. Since, it's very easy to see the connection between fundamentalism and those who use cult mind control techniques to generate brain dead but 'happy' adherents, it seems the US military won't be satisfied until they have the same level of brain numbed, emotional zombie zealot types in the ranks.



NASA's silly sci-fi film list -- 2012 the most flawed (w/ Video)
PhysOrg.com, 7th January 2011
(PhysOrg.com) -- At a conference held at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, NASA experts have voted 2012 the most scientifically flawed and absurd science fiction film ever made.

The 2009 disaster film named 2012 was directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich and Harald Kloser and grossed almost $800 million. The story is set on the date the Mayan calendar supposedly ends (21 December 2012), which is believed by some to be the day the world will end. The story revolves around a marital reconciliation, which takes place as the world begins to collapse as strange neutrino particles cause global devastation.

NASA’s Donald Yeomans, who headed the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, called the film an "exceptional and extraordinary" example of bad science in Hollywood movies. He pointed out that neutrino particles cannot interact with physical substances, and there is no possible way neutrinos carried to Earth by solar flares as depicted could cook the planet’s core and cause hurricanes or earthquakes or produce tsunamis big enough to overwhelm Mount Everest as shown in the film.

NASA has received a massive amount of mail as a result of people’s concerns about the world ending in 2012, and has set up a website to debunk the myths, which is something they have never needed to do with previous disaster films. This is a major reason for their list of bad science films — because they do worry many people. (Are we expected to believe that NASA care about people's concerns?)

Other films on NASA’s silly list include The Day After Tomorrow, about accelerated global warming, Volcano, in which a volcano appears in Los Angeles, the supposed documentary What the Bleep Do We Know, The Sixth Day, Chain Reaction, and The Core. Another film on the hit list is Armageddon, a film about a massive asteroid being blown up by a nuclear bomb to save the Earth. The film was originally supported by NASA.

Comment:
NASA obviously does not have anything else better to do and their poor prioritisation, might explain why their Space Weather forecasting and mitigation attempts are going nowhere. I note that the film The Core is also on the list of 'bad' films. Yes, it is supposed to be science fiction, but certain elements were deliberately written in to teach people how we could tell the Earth's magnetic field was dramatically weakening, which funnily enough, is now happening at an alarming rate, as we see birds dropping dead all over the planet and all the other "signs" that creatures that use the Earth's magnetic field are sometimes getting into trouble. How pathetic are NASA? Well, the other view is that people are in a state of panic over 2012 fears and NASA are trying to stop this, but as an agency that is known as Never A Straight Answer, they don't have much credibibilty in the mind of many who have serious doubts about rather more important issues like: what exactly are NASA hiding about the moon? (Btw, the scientist in this video offers simplistic explanations about Earth magnetic field reversals and Earth orbital motions, to reassure uneducated adults who presumably can't be expected to understand celestial complexities.)

Documentary: Moon Rising Part 1/9
YouTube, 25th May 2009
A Jose Escamilla film that must be watched if you still have any doubts that NASA as an agency are interested in revealing all their discoveries to the general public.



There is, unfortunately, no vaccine against stupidity
The Punch,7th January 2011

The British Medical Journal has devoted an editorial to stating that an article published in popular medical journal The Lancet in 1998 linking childhood vaccination with autism “was in fact an elaborate fraud.”

The Lancet had already retracted the article by Andrew Wakefield early last year, but BMJ now sought to totally discredit the “study”, which led to a decline in the triple vaccination of measles, mumps and rubella in Britain as well as in the United States and Australia.

Sadly, despite the strength of the BMJ articles - brought on by the work of Sunday Times investigative journalist Brian Deer - there will still be people who will not only ignore it but view it as further evidence of the conspiracy.

You can read more about Wakefield’s fraud here. It also goes without saying that The Lancet has a responsibility for the Wakefield paper (he’s no longer a doctor by the way, barred from medical practice on the basis of financial conflict and unethical treatment of children) because it made the serious mistake of publishing this quackery in the first place.


Comment:
The first comment posted here refers to quackery which is quite amazing when you consider the amount of time and effort that has been given to denouncing alternative methods of healing as "quackery". The sad thing is that most people still believe that the scientific world is run with integrity, but insiders know that this notion is a long way from the truth. We now have websites dedicated to exposing scientific fraud, but there is still the problem of scientists ignoring observational data/scientific analysis that does not fit the paradigm, to perpetuate a consensus view that is wrong. So, besides the climate of fraud that was so completely revealed in the Climategate saga, there is the everyday issue of the perpetuation of out of date and misleading theories. I was stunned to recently find that the common theory of the evolution of the human brain has been overturned, but even more shocked to find that someone had boldy made the claim in the 1920s that the evidence showed that the Darwinian inspired theory of the EVOLUTIONARY LAYERS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN did not match the evidence. Darwin's theory of evolution has so many holes, that the ship has in reality already sunk, but the theory is now such a powerful meme in the human collective that many scientists still cling to the hope of some proof and hence the repeated announcements of "the missing link" between humans and animals, like the recent Ida fossil which was quickly dismissed as another hoax. Now we are left with all the texts books that have been written and even laws that Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the only theory of evolution that can be taught, which will ensure that the ghost of this theory will live on for many more years. At the back of my mind, I wonder whether the scientific frauds are perpetrated today because some scientists have realised that science is not about a correct interpretation of the current scientific knowledge, but rather, a skilful manipulation of other people's perceptions.

Darwin's Theory Of Evolution - A Theory in Crisis
All about Science, Date N/A



Stanford researchers try to solve satellite mystery
ABC 7 Local News, 5th January 2011
PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- Sending a spacecraft into orbit is a tenuous business. Surviving the launch is only part of the challenge. Once it is in space, it must survive the rigors of that environment. That can be tough on hardware.

It is one of those under-reported mysteries of the space age -- a rocket delivers a payload into orbit, or on a mission, all appears fine, and then... "Unfortunately, we do not have one way or two way communication with the spacecraft," Stanford university researcher Sigrid Close said.

It happens regularly. "Satellites are failing, there are anomalies and we are not quite sure what is happening," Close said. But at Stanford University, Close and PhD candidate Nicolas Lee have been thinking about it. "Most people focus on mechanical damage," Close said.

One theory is that these satellites are victims of meteoroids, which are smaller than grains of sand, but moving at 60 kilometers per second. When they hit a satellite, they ionize and leave behind an electrical charge.

Comment:
Please remember, the satellite communication industry is a multi-billion dollar enterprise, that generally do not want to talk about issues that relate to the viability of this business. This article is a rare glimpse, that reveals that there are new conditions in the space environment of Earth that are rendering ordinary satellites that cost about 250 million dollars each unuseable. The meteoroids, which are smaller than grains of sand could be also linked to claims that Earth is being flooded with more dust from outer space.

Earth is twice as dusty as in 19th century, research shows
Cornell University, 5th January 2011
"If the house seems dustier than it used to be, it may not be a reflection on your housekeeping skills. The amount of dust in the Earth's atmosphere has doubled over the last century, according to a new study; and the dramatic increase is influencing climate and ecology around the world."



The sun is still in a slump – still not conforming to NOAA “consensus” forecasts
WUWT, 5th January 2011
"NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) produced their monthly solar cycle progression update yesterday. The news is not encouraging. We’ve had a drop in solar activity again in December, The sunspot count is lower, but the really worrisome thing is the Ap geomagnetic index. The solar dynamo has now dropped to magnetic activity levels last seen in late 2009." [...] It seems to be time again for an update, since it seems likely that the “consensus prediction” has failed. The Livingston and Penn data (from Dr. Leif Svalgaard) continues unabated and on track for sunspots to become invisible when the umbral magnetic field reaches ~1500 gauss. Livingston and Penn paper: “Sunspots may vanish by 2015?. 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 ran with a significant story: 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:
The recent behaviour of the Sun has historic precedents, where solar activity declined and the Earth cooled resulting in intense cold in Europe. The mosted well known periods were the Maunder Minimum between the 1620s to the 1710s and the Dalton Minimum, between the 1790s and 1820s. The confusing part to predicting solar activity, is that this sluggish behavioour could quickly reverse and turn into a monsterously active Sun, so either way, life is going to change on this planet, there does not seem to be an easy option.

This is worth noting if you watched the AGU meeting (listed below), because the solar scientists did not seem to want to talk about the sun's longer cycles. Russian scientists have discovered a bicentennial cyclic changes in Sun’s luminosity, which they consider to have essential effect on Earth’s climatic changes, see archive Best of the Blog - The Sun. Yet, even the well know 11 year cycle is only approximate so we read:
"A different solar parameter showing long-term changes is the length of the approximately 11-year sunspot cycle. This quantity is far from being constant. It is known to vary with solar activity so that high activity implies short solar cycles whereas long solar cycles are characteristic for low activity levels of the Sun. Gleissberg (1944) demonstrated that the variation occurred in a systematic manner with a periodicity of 70-90 years similar to, but not exactly in phase with the variation of the magnitude of the sunspot number."

Long-term Variations in Solar Activity and their Apparent Effect on the Earth's Climate
By K.Lassen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division,
When trying to understand the probabilities for what could happen on Earth, there is a huge level of omplexity managed by universal intelligence that humans have yet to discover.



Apocalyptic Enthusiasm And The Royal Society
GWPF, 5th January 2011
On the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society we reflect on how it first successfully promoted science as a sober and reasonable force serving society by dampening the prevailing apocalyptic ‘enthusiasm’ at large in Restoration England, and how the Society’s relationship to fearful prognostations was recently reversed when it came to promote apocalyptic environmentalism. This reversal is indicated by the election of the Royal Society’s current president in 2005, shortly after he had published one of the most extremely apocalyptic books ever written by a scientist.

Comment:
If you have read my essay The Greatest Transition and understood that astronomers are much more likely than most to be aware of the truth behind massive global change, then the apocalytic tone of this book should be no surprise. I might even get a copy, as Sir Martin Rees is the Queen's astronomer and it is a complete certainty, that he will be aware of preserved ancient astronomical knowledge passed down through millenia, which relates to astronomical cycles that can have a devastating impact on Earth. If there is anyone on the planet that knows the truth behind massive global upheavals that should be rightly considered as apocalyptic, it is this man.



Blackbirds fall from sky, fish die off: What's a conspiracy theorist to think?
Absent a final explanation, wild theories abound concerning reasons Arkansans' saw blackbirds fall from sky and fish die off en masse. The event revives superstitions about birds as omens.
CS Monitor, 4th January 2011
[...] The main worry was that the birds, like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, were an indicator of a toxic threat – a possibility that has largely been ruled out. Yet the event spooked residents near and far as, in the absence of a final explanation, imaginations are running wild. People have tried to link the bird die-off – which is certainly unusual, though not unprecedented – to everything from a sign of biblical end times to chemical conspiracies, shifts in the Earth's magnetic core, and even proof of UFOs.

Top 10 weirdest stories of 2010: In Beebe, City Councilor Becky Short told The New York Times that residents were jokingly theorizing about biblical end times or a UFO collision to explain the unsettling deluge of birds.

Others took it more seriously. "[T]his strange occurrence can't help but lead this Christian writer to remember the beginning of that 1988 movie 'The Seventh Sign,' wherein signs of the apocalypse – as outlined in the Book of Revelation – seem to be coming true," writes the Examiner.com's Paula Mooney.

Comment:
Maybe we have got to some kind of tipping point, as many people can no longer tolerate the abundance of weirdness occuring in our environment. Whatever, it's still hard to believe that people are actually talking about a UFO crashing into the birds, despite their trauma, and it is much more likely the birds became disorientated by a disturbed geomagnetic field, lost the sense of where they were and hit the ground with a thump. See below:

Falling birds likely died from massive trauma
CNN News, 4th January 2011
"Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the commission, said the birds showed evidence of trauma in the breast tissue, with blood clots in the body cavity and a lot of internal bleeding. All major organs were normal."

Swedish birds 'scared to death': veterinarian
The Local, 5th January 2011
A county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark. [...] According to Sveriges Radio Skaraborg, these are between 50 and 100 dead birds. Anders Wirdheim of the Swedish Ornithological Society (Sveriges ornitologiska förening, SOF) believes the jackdaws likely were frightened in the middle of the night, then flew around in the dark and collided with various objects. "Jackdaws spend the night in trees in large flocks. If they are frightened, hundreds of birds could take flight at once," he told TT. Wirdheim noted that the affected bird species in the US are also those who spend the night in large flocks. He added that the birds' situation may have aggravated because they are weakened.


It's the Aflockalypse: More mass animal deaths see thousands of fish found floating in Florida and 200 birds dead on Texas bridge
Daily Mail, 6th January 2011
There are complaints that the Daily Mail is picking up informaiton from the blogosphere, but quite frankly, I would rather link to the Daily Mail than for people to endure the nastiness, name calling, and the totally stupidity on certain discussion websites. Many people don't have the time to sift through that rubbish to find the gems of information that seem to always appear first in the blogosphere.

Faenza Italy: The Rain of Death Turns Blue - Thousands of Doves Dying
SOTT News, 5th January 2011
The initial reports were just a few hundred...

Dead Birds in China: Birds continue to fall around the poles may be a precursor to conversion
SOTT News, 5th January 2011



Power Balance admits no science behind wristbands
Yahoo News, 4th January 2011
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Shaquille O'Neal swears by them. The Power Balance bracelet, he says, gives him a competitive edge on the court. It's no gimmick, he says. It's for real. It may be for him, but Australian authorities say the California-based company behind the wildly popular wristbands and pendants has no business claiming that they improve balance, strength and flexibility.

And they even got Power Balance to admit it. The company wrote: "We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims." It also agreed to give refunds to customers who believe they were cheated. [...] "It's just like a pair of lucky socks," Reiff said. "It's a lucky charm, and if you believe in it, then it's excellent."

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission took action after an independent review panel in September found that the Power Balance claims were misleading and breached the therapeutic goods advertising code. The Therapeutic Goods Complaints Resolution Panel demanded that Power Balance drop claims from its website that the bands improved flexibility, balance and strength.

Comment:
Well.... The makers of these powerbands are completely ignorant, but they have the ability to sell. Of course, there is science that explains how these powerbands work, it's called the Placebo Effect. If you can persuade someone that something that they can take or do, will make them feel better, improve their performance or even cure them, then it will work. Quite frankly, there is nothing wrong with Placebo. In the past, scientists stated that 30% of all healing is caused by Placebo, but with the latest shock revelations of Placebo doubling it's effect in the last 30 years, there is some confusion as to whether that means that 60% of all healing is now caused by the Placebo Effect. Seriously, Power Balance need to find scientists who understand how the Placevo Effect works to re-write their marketing literature so that it becomes perfectly legal. Please note: studies prove that even when people are told they are getting a sugar pill, it makes no difference and people improve, that is why pharmaceutical companies are in a state of panic. Now, they are even thinking that they should not even try and beat placebo, but just compete amongst themselves as to who can sell the better drug, that does not necessarily work better than a sugar pill. This is amazing but true. Whatever, may the consciousness associated with the power of belief get stronger and stronger on the planet and more and more ordinary people gain some betterment. May more people benefit from sugar pills and all sorts of snake oil, as long as it's safe and cheap. Amen. LOL.



Shift of Earth's magnetic north pole impacts Tampa airport
The Tampa Tribune, 5th January 2011
TAMPA - Scientists say the magnetic north pole is moving toward Russia and the fallout has reached -- of all places -- Tampa International Airport. The airport has closed its primary runway until Jan. 13 to repaint the numeric designators at each end and change taxiway signage to account for the shift in location of the Earth's magnetic north.

The closure of the west parallel runway will result in more activity on the east parallel runway and more noise for residential areas of south Tampa. The busiest runway will be re-designated 19R/1L on aviation charts. It's been 18R/36L, indicating its alignment along the 180-degree approach from the north and the 360-degree approach from the south.

Later this month, the airport's east parallel runway and the seldom used east-west runway will be closed to change signage to their new designations. The Federal Aviation Administration required the runway designation change to account for what a National Geographic News report described as a gradual shift of the Earth's magnetic pole at nearly 40 miles a year toward Russia because of magnetic changes in the core of the planet.

Comment:
I am surprised to see that this has hit the press. Presumably, this kind of maintenance is done quite often these days, as we know the North Pole 'wander' is accelerating into Siberia. Well, there are a lot of people checking their compasses and a lot of disquiet, maybe the frequent magnetar blasts are now quickly degrading Earth's magnetic field? My efforts to warn people that energy field shielding is necessary, is looking more and more realistic, as obviously, the cosmic radiation levels on Earth will increase as the Earth's magnetic field continues to morph and decline.

Runway rename as North Pole moves
BBC News, 6 July 2009
"Stansted Airport in Essex has renamed its 3,000m (9,750ft) runway because the position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole has moved. The runway was known by pilots and air traffic controllers as 23/05 because of its location and compass heading."
Comment:
Runway changes are now common but besides repainting, there are other things to do likle changing runway designators, new approach charts, departure charts, instrument certifications and such. Here is a nice pic of a runway upgrade in process. Info source.



Chemical plant blaze at Moerdijk sparks Dutch alert
BBC News, 5th January 2011
Southern areas of the Netherlands are on the top state of alert after a blaze at a chemical plant near Rotterdam sent out a thick plume of smoke.

The cloud from the fire at Moerdijk was floating north and had reached the city of Dordrecht, Dutch media said. Some 400,000 litres of carcinogenic material are stored at the Chemie-Pack plant, De Telegraaf newspaper says.

Some reports said toxic fumes had been released, but others said they were not dangerous. Radio Netherlands Worldwide described the fumes as a "huge cloud of toxic black smoke". However, Associated Press news agency quoted Moerdijk Mayor Wim Denie as saying measurements had not detected fumes that could form a health risk. The cause of the blaze has not yet been established.

Comment:
A reminder that many live very close to ticking timebombs... Here are some excellent pictures of this event, Gigapics: Chemical fire in Moerdijk, The Netherlands



Exclusive: Discovery, Catholic Church team for exorcism series
Ew.com, 5th January 2011
Discovery Channel is teaming with the Vatican for an unprecedented new series hunting the deadliest catch of all: Demons.

The Exorcist Files will recreate stories of real-life hauntings and demonic possession, based on cases investigated by the Catholic Church. The project includes access into the Vatican’s case files, as well as interviews with the organization’s top exorcists — religious experts who are rarely seen on television. [...]

Bunting says the investigators believe a demon can inhabit an inanimate object (like a home) or a person. The network executive says he was initially skeptical when first meeting the team but was won over after more than three hours of talks. “The work these folks do, and their conviction in their beliefs, make for fascinating stories,” Bunting says.

Comment:
Maybe, this is an attempt to make the Catholic Church and it's role in society seem interesting...



'Fluid' orbs, flashing lights reported over San Francisco
UFO Examiner, 4th January 2011
A San Francisco, CA, witness in the Cole Valley neighborhood watched a series of flashing lights and moving orbs that seemed to have a "fluid" nature to them on January 3, 2011, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was first drawn to the window when "a flashing light caught my eye from the top of the hills to the south." The witness then saw a series of flashing lights that seemed to be about a quarter-mile away. This went on for about 5 minutes.

"My first thought was that someone was taking flash photographs from the top of the hill," the witness stated. "Why someone would do this in the middle of the night is beyond me, but I was searching for a rational explanation for what I was seeing." Then the source of the flashing light seemed to move.

"Next, the flashing light took a different position on top of the same hill, slightly off to the side of where it had been. It glowed a faint 'trio' of white, blue, and red light. The light then seemed to sort of morph and change, and a glowing orb 'flew' to the hill that is the eastern side of where the UCSF medical center and campus are."

As the orb moved, the houses behind it were "illuminated a brilliant red hue." "I use the word 'flew' in quotes because the orb object seemed to move in a way that was more 'fluid gliding' if that makes sense. It seemed to be made of plasma, and the light that it was/carried was like a 'liquid light'. The orb then seemed to reposition itself on the new hill and stayed hovered there. It stayed a reddish-amber glow at this point."

Comment:
It's getting more and more obvious that entities from another dimension are appearing and many ufologists must be starting to sweat, as they realise that they ignored their peers who boldly stated over 40 years ago that Earth had a shadow biosphere. The flashing lights are something that Professor Erling Strand stated was common with the light phenomena at Hessdalen, but this is not often noted by in the usual eye witness accounts.



First WikiLeaks, Now ScienceLeaks
North County Times, 3rd January 2011

Frustrated by paywalls on scientific papers? Biologist Rosie Redfield has set up a blog site called Science Leaks that provides links to “peer-reviewed scientific papers that been liberated from behind journal-subscription paywalls.”

The idea is to ensure that research, especially research paid for by public funds, is accessible to the public, wrote Redfield, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She runs a microbiology research lab in the university’s Life Sciences Centre.

Comment: Good move...



Why Your Genes Don't Determine Your Health
Huffington Post, 1st January 2011
The decoding of the human genome at the dawn of the millennium carried the hope and promise of the beginning of the end of human suffering. However, after more than a decade of intense exploration of the human genome the burden of human disease and suffering has only increased across the globe. [...]

The story of your health is much more complex than genetic programming. It is ultimately determined by the dynamic interplay of the environment washing over genes creating the "you" of this moment. The good news is that this has been the year of discoveries about "omics"--epigenomics, exposomics, nutrigenomics and microbiomics and toxigenomics--that do, in fact, hold the key to unlocking our health and disease mysteries.

The Epigenome: Bypassing Darwin and Evolution

More important than our collection of genes, it now appears, is how those genes are controlled by both internal and external factors--our thoughts, stress, social connections, what we eat, our level of physical and mental activity, and our exposure to microbes and environmental toxins. These factors are switches that turn genes on and off and determine which proteins are expressed. The expressed proteins, in turn, trigger signals of disease or health.

What's even more striking is that if your DNA is tagged by an environmental factor, such as a pesticide, the impact this environmental factor has on your genes can be passed down through generations. The "epigenome" become inheritable. That means if your grandmother ate too much sugar, or smoked, or was exposed to mercury from too much sushi, the genetic modifications she incurred from this exposure could affect you. Her epigenome would carry an increased risk of disease that could be passed down from generation to generation. Interestingly, the Darwinian and Lamarckian worldviews are intersecting in 2010.

Comment:
It's taken a long time but the intellectual 'elite' have been forced to abandon Darwin's Theory of Evolution (1859) that has reigned supreme and geneticists are now following in the footsteps of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) who was reviled and died in disgrace. The new enlightenment reminds me of the following biblical quote:
Exodus 20:5,6: “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
In reality, this discovery strengthens more metaphysical beliefs that our thoughts affect our well being. Personally, I think this is a hornet's nest and I would like to clarify that it is our unconscious beliefs through systematic programming from others that is the biggest problem for most people. More:

Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny
Time, 6th January 2010

Bruce Lipton - The Biology of Belief
Red Ice Radio, December 16, 2007
Bruce Lipton PhD joins us to talk about his book "the Biology of Belief" and his amazing research on consciousness and biology. From the Book: "The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of new biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist, have examined in great detail the mechanisms by which cells receive and process information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts." Don't miss our continuation of our interview with Bruce Lipton.



Video: Mysterious Missile Seen on Padre Island - Texas [US]
kiii tv.com, 3rd January 2011
Comment: I can't keep up with the abberations... Now, we have another mystery missile off the coast of Texas. Please read archives for previous comment about the L.A./California mystery missile that caused great concern back in November 2010. Quite frankly the bizarreness is increasing... yes, despite everything that I have written, even I am being taken aback by the strangeness. OK, I have rarely mentioned chemtrails, but some 'chemtrailing' really makes you wonder what exactly is in the skies making some of the more 'strange' trails.

Strange Plane behaviour - Italy
Live Leak, 3rd January 2011
I'm struggling... are these critters playing in the skies? This is reminding me of the W. Kennett, Wiltshire, UK June 2007 'Alice in Wonderland' crop circle. This incredible crop circle was virtually identical to the depiction of a scene from the children's book interpreted as the existence of dimensional doorways leading to another world. My firm belief at the time was that we could expect that our world will get stranger and stranger, I don't think anyone can argue that we are seeing more and more curiosities.



Video: Eruptions from the Far-Side: New Global Views of the Sun [47:41]
YouTube, January 2011
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2010 Fall Meeting - Press Conference

New observations of the Sun indicate that the search for the factors that play a role in the initiation and evolution of eruptive and explosive events, sought after for improved space-weather forecasting, requires knowledge of much, if not all, of the solar surface field.

The combination of observations from two NASA missions, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) enable us to view much of the solar surface and atmosphere simultaneously and continuously for the first time. These near-global observations often show long-distance interactions between magnetic areas that exhibit flares, eruptions, and frequent minor forms of activity. These interactions were previously suspected, but have never been observed until now.

We analyzed a series of flares, filament eruptions, coronal mass ejections, and related events which occurred on 1--2 August 2010. These events extended over a full hemisphere of the Sun, only two-thirds of which is visible from the Earth's perspective.

Comment:
This is an exercise: count how many times the solar astrophysicists mentions plasma and magnetics in relation to the Sun. I think we can safely say there has been a paradigm shift. With all the new observations from space probes and satellites sending back data, nobody in any responsible position would now be stupid enough to wax lyrical about the relative merits of gravity to explain the ferocious and explosive plasma manifestations seen on the Sun. I was a little surprised that the experts do not have such distinct definitions for solar flares and coronal mass ejections, but I think the issue is that they are more interested in causality. Well, the Plasma/Elecric Universe pioneers have been partially vindicated, but there are many other cosmic enigmas with their associated outdated theories that need revising too. Interestingly, at around 27 mins, in a reply to a question from the media about the Earth's magnetic field, the answer was to refer to the acceleration of the magnetic North pole and fast changes to the location of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), and hence the quickly changing dynamics within the Earth's core. Again, this all scotches old theory of everything taking millions of years and reminds me of what I wrote in my book, that we know more about the Moon than we do of what is going on beneath our feet. At the end of this press conference, this panel of experts explain the dire state of Space Weather forecasting and in response, the feeling I had was: God help us...



Loose Christian Movement Says End of Days in May 21, 2011
The Blaze, 3rd January 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she’ll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here. Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.

Comment:
After decades of truth seeking, I have worked out that information about 'The End Times' has been recorded in all the world's religions, and retained by indigenous and small esoteric groups. Basically, it refers to what happens at various points in the Earth's precessional cycle that overall takes about 26,000 years. This means that all the doom and fearmongering is actually based on a certain reality, but the meaning and details have been generally lost. As far as I understand it, massive evolutionary change to the environment of Earth and major astronomical events occur, but the fate of mankind is determined by the overall spiritual state of mankind. This is explained in my essay The Greatest Transition and I would be interested in any other author who has written on this subject that could provide the same level of clarity. As far as I am concerned, the Catholic Church did the Christian world a disservice by not refering to the return of 'Christ' energies, but in reality, the serious 'Initiates' would of course know that. So, if you look at the history of these profits prophets of doom, you will note that whipping people up with tales of God's judgement is very common, but very very few properly explain how and why mankind are destined for judgement and how we can tell what the likely outcome is this time for the whole of mankind today. To cut a long story short, I think we are on a rocky road to a completely transformed world, a Paradise to host humans of a higher level of consciousness. The stress will be due to the refusal by the old guard to cooperate with Universal Intelligence and change the way we do business on this planet to one that is in harmony with planetary intelligence.



Will The Proliferation Of UFO Shapes In 2011 Continue?
UDCC, 1st January 2011
[...] Don't be utterly surprised if the USA does a `Soft UFO Disclosure' in 2011 that the Exopolitics people will herald as the next change in Humanity. I ask you - have the numerous Soft UFO Disclosures of the past few years by one country after another changed YOU?

Indeed, in this post - link I outlined just how casually our slicker than slick President Obama could let this all `slip':

".... imagine President Obama taking the time for some softball questions by our ever so investigative media -- `what do you think sir' - to which our President will say something like this "well, I've read the report and it does have some interesting testimony and many strange, almost surreal, occurrences - of which I don't know what to make of" ... "parts of it - do have a security aspect and our military has had an interest in such reports -- but -- I have 100% knowledge that we can defend our airspace - there is NO reason for concern and never, evidently, has been"..... "And, while a very very limited number of reports over the decades - seem to suggest entities not of human origin - I will leave it to others and the American people what to ultimately believe - because as you know, the mind can play strange tricks"...... "And, after reviewing this data and talking with our military - I can assure you we are not under any threat. That said, I have instructed MR. _________ to form a taskforce - to review any threats of unknown origin and to yearly provide a look from a security angle about phenomena"

And, with that - would be the END OF THE STORY -- and would YOUR life be changed?

Comment:
How curious... this IS the next massive evolutionary bomb that will serve to update/upgrade human consciousness, and a few folk have been preparing for decades.... I quite like the imagined speech by Obama that many would interprete as a 'soft' disclosure but to be honest, I think the sledgehammer approach would be better to get this hurdle over and done with. Then it would become completely apparent to the average citizen, why there has been a strange, almost nonchalant attitude of world controllers to the subject of strange objects in our skies. The public would learn the facts that we are seeing another 'out of this world' lifeform (Shadow Biosphere), that humans have absolutely no control over, but generally, they mind their own business and don't cause us that much trouble. Presumably, most would conclude that we would just have to live with a new awareness our cosmic neighbours.



Electronic Healing - Dr Valerie Hunt [1/7]
Red Ice Creations, 4th January 2011
In the 1980s, radio station KABC carried the ground-breaking radio program "OPEN MIND" with host Bill Jenkins. The subject matter covered UFOs, alternative energy, spirituality, ancient religions, remote viewing, astral projection, out of body, crystal skulls, near death, past life, and psychic healing.

Comment:
Wow! We can say a big thanks to Fredrik & Henrik at Red Ice Creations. Direct YouTube link It looks like a section is missing at the end of the question time in after about 3:50 minutes, but I will say this is a truly wonderful interview with Valerie Hunt. She seems to be still alive and working and I am guessing she is in her 90s. Total class...

Note:
Apparently this is part of a rare archive collection that has recently become available and can now be downloaded by torrent, see the Pirate Bay website for more details, here.



Hundreds of dead blackbirds found near New Roads - Louisiana [US]
WBRZ News, 3rd January 2011
LABARRE, La. - Around 500 dead blackbirds and starlings have been found in Pointe Coupee Parish, according to state wildlife officials.

The birds were spotted lying in roads and ditches near Labarre Elementary School. The community is between Morganza and New Roads on Highway 10. Scientists from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries have been sent out to collect samples, which will be sent for testing to the University of Georgia and National Wildlife Center in Wisconsin.

Comment:
It's now spreading... 3 US states, (there are more rumours of a few falls around the world, but I am seeking verification first before posting links) see below;

Woman reports dozens of dead birds in her yard - Kentucky [US]
WPSD 6 Local, 3rd January 2011
"GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. — Near her car, a dead bird. A quick walk to her mailbox, another. Scattered across her front yard, a local woman discovered dozens of dead birds."



Explorers discover spectacular caves in Vietnam
Yahoo News, 3rd January 2011
For decades, geologists have known that Vietnam is home to some of the world's most spectacular caves, many of them largely unexplored. Now husband-and-wife cavers have documented perhaps the world's largest: Hang Son Doong, big enough in places to accommodate a New York City block of skyscrapers.

The cave in the Annamite Mountains contains a river and jungle (its name translates to "mountain river cave") and even its own thin clouds, and its end remains out of sight. It's part of a network of about 150 caves in central Vietnam near the Laotian border.

Comment:
Despite all the hype, there are still parts of this planet that humans have not completely ruined...



Green Groups Try to Sex Up Climate Change
Spiegel Online, 3rd January 2011
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere keeps going up and up, but public interest in climate change is sinking. Environmentalists are trying to come up with new ways to make the issue sexy. But shock tactics can backfire all too easily. Climate change used to make headlines. But these days the issue appears to have largely fallen off the radar.

World leaders recently negotiated a new climate agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, but public interest in the issue was limited. It was a marked contrast to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, which had been declared of historic importance in the runup to the meeting, only to then fail spectacularly. The theft of e-mails from the University of East Anglia had badly damaged the image of climate research shortly before the summit.

Environmentalists and scientists are concerned about the massive drop in public interest in the topic over the last year. Now they are looking for new strategies to turn the tide. They're searching for so-called "mind bombs" -- highly emotional images that reduce a complex problem down to one core message.

Comment:
I hardly know what to say... whatever these Greens try, it does not seem to be work... yes, we know the Green Agenda is based on lies, but it's still quite amazing... From the Photo Gallery, there is one picture [2/12] of some blood splattered bodies, I suppose this was used before the 10:10 fiasco... I like the polar bear image [8/12], but it's now confirmed that the polar bears are not in trouble, as reported by the BBC, 23rd Deecmber 2010, Polar bears not endangered, US confirms .

Tim Ball - Climategate & The Anthropogenic Global Warming Fraud
Red Ice Radio, 12th December 2009
"Tim Ball joins us from Canada to discuss Climategate, the East Anglia University Hacked Emails, the Global Warming Scandal and the upcoming COP15 Conference, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the emerging of World Government. Tim has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Winnipeg, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba in Geography, and a Ph.D. degree in climatology from the University of London. He is the former head of "Friends of Science"."
In Part I of the interview, Tim Ball discusses the scientific fraud associated with Climate science but he also deals with how emotional blackmail is being used to further the AGW agenda.



What's Killing Arkansas' Fish and Birds? Tests Underway to Determine Why Birds Tumbled From Sky, Fish Floated Dead
ABC News, 3rd January 2011
Thunder and lightning is being blamed for the death of thousands of blackbirds who rained down out of the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve. "There were multiple thunderstorms that night and for several days that week," said Dr. George Badley, state veterinarian for the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission. "Red-winged blackbirds fly in large groups and if they got pulled into a thunderstorm, likely lightning struck them. That would be my best guess."

Officials sent some of the carcasses of the red-winged blackbirds to Badley's Arkansas laboratory. The rest of the birds to be tested were taken to laboratories in Georgia and Wisconsin. "Almost every one of them...had multiple internal hemorrhages which would mean that it was trauma, not a disease process. Their stomachs were empty, which would rule out toxicity from eating some kind of poison grain," Badley said. [...]

100,000 Drum Fish Dead Along Arkansas River A freakish weather week in Arkansas that included tornadoes and heavy thunderstorms ended this weekend with not only the mysterious death of thousands of birds, but also the death of hundreds of thousands of drum fish. [...] Estimates put the number of dead drum fish at 100,000. Officials from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said the fish kill and mysterious bird deaths are unrelated. [...]

Goodwin has not seen the fish yet but thinks environmental influences could have played a big role in their deaths. "My first impression was given that it's only one species and that it happened very suddenly, it has something to do with a strong environmental influence and probably not anything related to toxins," Goodwin said. "The thing that is likely to impact them is rapid temperature changes, we have had some very cold weather and very warm weather."

Comment:
These days saying the birds were killed by thunder and lightning is not an innocent explanation. Atmospheric scientists are telling us that thunderstorms are generating x-rays, gamma-rays which are basically just extreme x-rays and high-energy electrons that can be detected by satellite and at ground level. Scientists are not even sure if they are actually related to thunderstorms but speculate that if they are, energy could propagate upwards to effect planes, but what about energy propagting downwards? Here are some links, old and new that explains the extreme electromagnetic conditions in our skies.

Lightning-Produced Radiation a Potential Health Concern for Air Travelers
Science Daily, 12th December 2009

Are TGFs Hazardous to Air Travelers?
NASA News, 10th February 2010

Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera—A First
Giant camera stops the action at one-sixth the speed of light.
National Geographic News, 23rd December 2010
"The first x-ray images of a lightning strike have been captured by a, well, lightning-fast camera, scientists say. The pictures suggest a lightning bolt carries all its x-ray radiation in its tip."



On Assignment: 1,000 birds fall from the sky in Beebe
Todaysthv.com, 1st January 2011
Friday night, ringing in the New Year took on a whole different meaning for the citizens of Beebe. Around 11:30 p.m., enforcement officers with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission began getting reports of dead black birds falling from the sky in the city limits of Beebe.

BEEBE, Ark.-- Friday night, ringing in the New Year took on a whole different meaning for the citizens of Beebe. Around 11:30 p.m., enforcement officers with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission began getting reports of dead black birds falling from the sky in the city limits of Beebe.

Officers estimated that over 1,000 birds had fallen out of the sky over the city before midnight. Most of the birds were dead, but some were still alive when officers arrived. The blackbirds fell over a one-mile area in the city. AGFC wildlife officer Robby King responded to the reports and found hundreds of birds. "Shortly after I arrived there were still birds falling from the sky," King said. King collected about 65 dead birds that will be sent to the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis. The AGFC has flown over the area

Comment:
At the beginning of the science fiction film The Core (see Movie: The Core Trailer [2:20] ) , it gives different scenarios like birds being confused and humans with pacemakers dropping dead that is interpreted as a sign that Earth's magnetic field is rapidly declining. Well, as we have been told from official sources, there are now permanent holes and frequent massive breaches in Earth's magnetosphere, at the same time as as we are being blasted from the sun and deep space. On the 1st Jan, it looks like the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF ) tipped south, creating another breach, but download the NICT movie yourself to check the details. Space Weather creates "Killer Electrons" that the ESA now admit fire into our atmosphere, that we must presume act like laser beams with particles that originate from the Van Allen Belts. NASA and the ESA have explained that Space Weather is accelerating, and it seems that the British are now so desperate that the UK Space Agency are inviting the public to help them predict space weather, which could mean that the current system set up to use ACE satellite data and presumably other recent satellites are not working to prevent satellite, radio and GPS communication failures. We do know there is now tremendous concern about severe space weather and the risk of national grid power failures due to anomalous electric currents crippling transformers and the UK Defence Secretary will be presenting a new report on this matter in Spring 2011 . In terms of bird strikes, there could also be lethal energies leaving Earth too. According to NASA there are strange plasma plumes that are effecting GPS signals and scientists are detecting by satellite ULFs & VLFs emissions that occur prior to earthquakes. I have written about the process that I have called The Planetary Refresh because the evidence is very strong that Earth is is experiencing a two way traffic of all sorts of different energies, hence the associated electromagnetic chaos. So far people are nonchalant, but for how much longer? More:

Thousand of Dead Birds Fall From Sky in Arkansas
New User, 2nd January 2011
"The town of Beebe, Ark., is home to about 4,500 people—and about the same number of dead birds. State wildlife officials went door-to-door today to collect the creatures from rooftops, trees, and yards. Officials estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 birds—mostly blackbirds—began tumbling from the sky late on New Year's Eve and into the day yesterday. Officials remain stumped."

State commission says dead fish now cover 20-mile section of Arkansas River
News 3 Channel, 1st January 2011
"OZARK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman says dead drum fish now cover a 20-mile section of the Arkansas River near Ozark. Seven teams from the state agency visited the affected portion of the river Friday. Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says an official estimate of how many fish have died is expected on Monday, but he tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the number is likely in the hundreds of thousands."
Well, this is probably related to the bird fall and strengthens the argument of both being related to low or ultra-low frequency emissions that might be a precursor to an earthquake. This must be very frightening for locals.

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