News of the Imbalance
May – June 2011

Holy Kudzu! Vine In NC Town Said To Resemble Jesus (PHOTOS)
AOL News, 30th June 2011

KINSTON, N.C. (AP) -- The Gospel of John quotes Jesus as saying "I am the true vine," and some folks in eastern North Carolina think they may have witnessed a literal demonstration.

A utility pole about a mile south of Kinston has attracted attention in the last week or so from people who say the kudzu clinging to it resembles the image of Jesus on the cross.

Comment: Now that I have found this version of the Kudzu vine story with a photo, I have realised that this is not quite in the same vein [pun not intended] as the other anomalous images appearing on flat surfaces. There is a photo gallery here with some 'real' anomalous images, some fake and some photos that are just plain stupid.

Holy Kudzu! Vine in NC Town Said to Resemble Jesus
New York Times, 29th June 2011

KINSTON, N.C. (AP) — The Gospel of John quotes Jesus as saying "I am the true vine," and some folks in eastern North Carolina think they may have witnessed a literal demonstration.

A utility pole about a mile south of Kinston has attracted attention in the last week or so from people who say the kudzu clinging to it resembles the image of Jesus on the cross. [...]

Believers have reported seeing the face of Jesus in everything from sheet metal to a grilled cheese sandwich, but the depiction of the crucifixion is a rarer phenomenon. "I just thought it was my imagination," Hardison said. "I thought I was crazy the first time I saw it and it resembled Jesus."

Hardison and some of his customers think the vine might be an indication that God is watching over the region. "Maybe it's a sign of the times," Michelle Davis said. "There's been a lot going on in this area."

Comment: Even the New York Times is reporting this phenomenon. Well, I have already explained, this an aetheric phenomenon where there is a seepage of images held in the aether and religious symbols and images are those with the most human energy (emotional) and therefore are most likely to be affected by the increase in aetheric energy on the planet. It's just going to get worse and worse and I agree with the opinion here, "it's a sign of the times".

French village bemused by Apocalyptic strangers
Reuters News, 27th June 2011

(Reuters) - Residents of the tiny southern French hamlet of Bugarach, population 194, are up in arms at a rising influx of Doomsday believers convinced it is the only place that will survive judgment day in 2012.

Apocalypse devotees dressed in white are now a familiar sight in this picturesque village, drawn here by various New Age theories including claims that a nearby rocky outcrop, the Pic de Bugarach, harbours an alien technical base.

"These blasted prophets from all over the world have turned our mountain into some sort of UFO garage," Jean-Pierre Delord, mayor of Bugarach, told Reuters.

Comment: I think it's hilarious that these New Agers are dressing up in white as if that makes any difference at all... So J.Z. Knight is now in France.... To this day, I still can't believe that Lee Carroll (Kryon book 2), made the HUGE mistake of backing the pill popping, wine slugging J.Z. Knight, who supposedly channels Ramtha, that some of her original followers say left her back in 1989 and now she's just perpetuating a huge hoax to bilk her followers for severe amounts of cash. Having investigated this hoaxer and plenty of others, I have come to the conclusion that people have the spiritual leaders they deserve and it explains why there is scant interest in the arrival of Space Weather generated by the arrival of an interstellar 'etheric' cloud and what the spiritual implications mean. Simply, too much reality does not sell very well in the New Age community...

The Legendary Udumbara Flower
Epoch Times, 4th August 2010

MALACCA, Malaysia—According to Buddhist scriptures, there is a flower called the Udumbara flower, which blossoms once every 3,000 years. Udumbara is a Sanskrit word; it means “an auspicious flower from heaven.” The appearance of Udumbara blossoms is a sign of the arrival of the Holy King Who Turns the Wheel, rectifying the Dharma in the world

Volume 8 of the Buddhist scripture “Huilin Phonetics and Interpretation” writes: “The Udumbara flower is the product of propitious and supernatural phenomena; it is a celestial flower and does not exist in the mundane world. If a Tathagata or the King of the Golden Wheel appears in the human world, this flower will appear due to his great virtue and blessings.”

Comment: The Epoch Times provides a selection of articles relating to paranormal phenomena taking place in the East that seems to be more normal in this part of the world. The noted appearance of a 'celestial' flower is significant when we consider this is yet another 'sign of the times', and the accompanying traditional beliefs and mythology can be tied in with other important works that point out to those who are interested, about being aware of celestial influences and times of great change. The phrase "the arrival of the Holy King Who Turns the Wheel" reminds me of the 'Wheel of Time' depicted in what is now called 'The Lost Book of Nostradamus'. In reality, all we know is that illustrations were found in Rome in 1984 and people claim they were drawn by the great legendary seer Nostradamus, because these illustrations clearly reveal esoteric knowledge associated with cosmic cycles. Nostradamus is considered the most likely candidate because of his other works that attempt to pass on esoteric information in a secretive way. Plate 35 is highly instructive when decoded. It is highly relevant now as we have the recent fuss with astronomers insisting there are 13 constellations in the Zodiac and the re-insertion of the 'hidden' constellation of Ophiuchus. In Plate 35, there is a man with a snake wrapped around him and that is a depiction of Ophiuchus and all the other zodiacal symbology is related to a time of change.I believe the symbols all come from different traditions but all relate to a point in cosmic time. Well, this period of change is here and many different traditions have retained ancient knowledge that is highly relevant now. Why this all seems strange to us is because we have had a version of reality that has been largely devoid of the higher spiritual forces that exist in the universe and that is now being 'corrected' to create a new version of Earth and a new type of human that will be in harmony with the new cosmic environment.

Buddha Statues in Malaysia Seen Moving and Emitting Light
Epoch Times, 2nd April 2011
"Several Buddha statues in the Pu Xian Service Center of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were recently seen moving their lips, blinking, moving their chests and hands, and emitting light. The strange phenomenon occurred for about an hour." "“Before the Buddha statues moved their mouths, some members said they saw a ray entering the statues, and the statues immediately moved as if life had been injected,” Yang Ping, a Buddhist at the center, told Guang Ming Daily."
This is the same type of paranormal phenomenon as statues of Jesus and Mary crying and blood appearing etc....

FBI Releases Documents Describing UFO Investigations
International Business Times, 30th June 2011

Many people have dismissed recent reports of UFO sightings over London with a scoff, wondering how another sucker can be taken in by a hoax or a simple mistake.

However, it turns out the Federal Bureau of Investigation took these incidents a lot more seriously.

Documents recently added to the FBI's online reading room, the Vault, detail the period between 1947 and 1954 when "a rash of sightings of unexplained flying objects (UFOs) swept America," according to the website. Visitors can peruse a virtual library of photocopied letters describing government investigations into reports of extraterrestrial encounters.

Comment: So, if UFOs do not exist, then why are all these government organisations around the world now revealing their old UFO files demonstrating their long term interest and some setting up new commissions aiming to resolve the enigma? Despite the need to keep the general public misinformed about this issue, many in the know have been pondering the issue based on classified data for decades and Retired US Col. John Alexander says, "we're not even asking the right questions." In a recent article he states:

"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."
Ret. Col. Says UFOs Are Real, but Denies Government Cover-Up
AOL News, 23rd February 2011

The issue is resolved immediately if you realise that since the 1940s when radar was invented, the military and scientists have been mostly detecting another lifeform. UFOs or UAPs as the military prefer to call them these days, are plasma entities that make up a Shadow Biosphere on Earth. Here is the link to my new archive webpage, Best of the Blog UFO Disclosure.

UFO Facts and a Solution to the Energy Crisis Testimony of 60 Government & Military Witnesses
WantToKnow.info, 22nd July 2011

Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial
Watts Up With That, 30th June 2011

I am often amused by claims that we understand Earth’s climate system, are able to accurately measure its behavior, eliminate all potential variables except CO2 as the primary driver of Earth’s temperature and make predictions of Earth’s temperature decades into the future, all with a high degree of confidence.

I have been studying Earth’s climate system for several years and have found it to be a ridiculously complex, continually evolving and sometimes chaotic beast. Furthermore, our understanding of Earth’s climate system is currently rudimentary at best, our measurement capabilities are limited and our historical record is laughably brief. To help demonstrate the complexity of Earth’s climate system I have been compiling a list of all of the variables potentially involved in Earth’s climate system.

1. Earth’s Rotational Energy;
2. Earth’s Orbital Energy, Elliptical Orbit around the Sun (Eccentricity), Tilt (Obliquity) and Wobble (Axial precession):
3. Gravitation:
4. Solar Energy;
5. Geothermal Energy;
6. Outer Space/Cosmic/Galactic Influences;
7. Magnetic Forces;
8. Atmospheric Composition;
9. Albedo
10. Biology

Comment: I have only listed the major headings but there are 125 references provided. As we are experiencing evolutionary change, all these variables will be rapidly changing with time. The main point is that climate models are extremely rudimentary and when you look at the complexity, blaming climate change on CO2 is just laughable. I think the most important thing to consider is that Cosmic Intelligence is in control, there is nothing that humans can do without generating unnecessary risk to the balance of this planet. Simply, we don't know everything there is to know.

Wildfire Continues to Burn Near Nuclear Facility in New Mexico (Video)
Lede NY Times blog, 30th June 2011
[...] "The laboratory’s Twitter feed also points to relevant video and information elsewhere on the Internet, like this time-lapse video of the fire posted on YouTube by a blogger named Michael Zeiler: Mr. Zeiler explained on YouTube:

On this fourth day of the devastating Las Conchas fire which is threatening Los Alamos, New Mexico, the night sky finally cleared enough to see the flames licking all around the labs and the city.

This time-lapse video is comprised of 113 photographs taken 30 seconds apart. Each photograph is shown for one second. My vantage point is from my home on a ridge just to the north of Santa Fe.

Have some of the Los Alamos labs already burnt down?

LANL: Fire updates from the Emergency Operations Center
LANL, 30th June 2011
"Fire Mitigation Efforts Ongoing at Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico, June 30, 2011, 5:00am—Though no fires are burning on Los Alamos National Laboratory property, numerous personnel are actively engaged in fire mitigation projects throughout the Laboratory’s 36 square miles. Crews are in the process of thinning fuels and improving existing fire roads at five locations on Laboratory property."
This is the official position.... but who knows...

The Jury: James Ray Caused Emotional Harm
Celestial Blogspot, 30th June 2011

"The jury deliberated for the better part of two days over charges of aggravating circumstances. This afternoon found them deadlocked on a number of issues and unwilling to deliberate further. The one thing they all agreed upon: James Ray caused emotional harm to the families of all three decedents. That is to say, guilty on three counts of the aggravating factor of emotional harm.

They also agreed that Ray held a unique position of trust in the case of Liz Neuman. So one count of unique position of trust. On the rest of the aggravators, the unique position of trust for Kirby Brown and James Shore, and pecuniary gain, they were hopelessly deadlocked.

Judge Darrow has set a sentencing date of July 25th, 2011. He declined a motion from prosecutor Sheila Polk that Ray be taken into custody immediately.

A little reminder from Cosmic Connie: July 25th will be the second anniversary of Colleen Conaway's death in a San Diego mall; or as she was known on that day, Jane Doe. How darkly fitting. "

Comment: I think James Ray will be going to jail...

UFO, 'Star Gate' or just a ballistic missile? Mysterious bubble-like light burst seen over Hawaii (Video)
Daily Mail, 30th June 2011

Footage of this incredible bubble-like burst of light in the night sky was captured by cameras at an astronomical observatory in Hawaii. Sky watchers have been flooding internet forums with speculation about the burst, filmed by a webcam mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea.

Captured in time-lapse footage, the glowing sphere takes several minutes to expand until it virtually fills the frame - then it vanishes as mysteriously as it appeared. Theories as the cause of the mysterious luminous sphere have ranged from the opening of an inter-dimensional portal to the future to a battle between two alien starships.

But the most likely explanation is that is shows a U.S. Minuteman III inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM), ejecting fuel as it enters the upper reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. The time-lapse footage shows the night horizon filled with stars, when suddenly an ethereal arc pops into view.

Comment: Wow, the video is quite amazing...You have just got to laugh... it used to be Russian satellites and rockets that were blamed for every strange meteoric sighting in the sky but now its ICBMs... It would be interesting if we could find an astronomer to provide us with a more believable explanation... Anyway, interestingly, there is a recent article at the thunderbolts.com website about plasma bubbles... Update I wonder if this was a Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flash? I have never believed that the energy just flew out to space but it explains the energy coming from a point in space and expanding out. See NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space. The animations provided here makes it easy to see that since there are estimates of 500 TGFs a day in our atmosphere, this might be the right explanation.

Blowing Hot Air
thunderbolts.info, 28th June 2011
"Astronomers have found a star in a nearby galaxy that has “collimated jets of fast moving particles” and “a huge bubble of hot gas.” One astronomer compares it to a soccer ball with jets that reach to the orbit of Pluto. The standard model of stars assumes that they are isolated balls of really hot air bound by gravity. The hot air is escaping from this newfound star, and it’s expanding into a bubble. So far, so good.

Unfortunately for the model, the hot air is refusing to expand until it gets hundreds of light-years away from the star. Then suddenly it expands into a bubble a thousand light-years wide that “contains a mixture of hot gas and ultra-fast particles at different temperatures.”
Hmmm.... I think it might be quite an interesting exercise to make some comparison here with what has been detected in our skies...

Awesomely weird expanding halo of light seen from Hawaii
Bad Astronomy, 29th June 2011
There is plenty of hot air in the ideas discussed here...

Jellyfish force shut down of nuclear power station - E. Lothian, Scotland [UK]
Two reactors at Torness shut down after huge number of jelllyfish found in seawater being taken into the plant.
STV News, 30th June 2011

An influx of jellyfish has forced the shutdown of two reactors at the Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian.

Seawater is taken into the plant and filtered before it is used to cool the reactors, but the number of jellyfish coming through the system resulted in the filter systen becoming clogged.

Jellyfish, seaweed or other debris causing the flow of cooling water to be reduced is not an unusual situation. The shutdown, which took place on June 28, was done as a precaution and the cooling sytstems performed properly during the procedure and both reactors are now safely shut down.

Comment: I am not even trying to report all the problems with nuclear reactors but this is getting strange...

Mind Games
ABC News, 29th June 2011

Participants paid thousands to attend retreat that would end in tragedy.

Comment: This is a repeat of this documentary. The reality is that predators do not actually believe in The Law of Attraction. James Ray taught this very popular idea, but he himself obviously did not actually believe it, as we know he used a plethora of well known techniques to literally mind control his followers. What I find most interesting is that he played a numbers game and made sure that he set strict criteria for sorting out those who were most likely to become ardent followers. As they say in the LGAT business, you can fool some of the people all the time, and they are the ones you need to concentrate on... Predators KNOW that if you believe this teaching, they have found someone who is more likely to be easily manipulated and can be pushed to pay large sums of money in the hope of using this so called spiritual law. I am sure this revelation is upsetting for some, but I personally want to understand how someone who claimed to be a spiritual guru (actually, he was a salesman of pseudo spirituality), could cook some of his own followers to death and then show no remorse. If this link does not work due to being outside of the USA, you can try the ABC Mind Games video clips, but there are adverts. Here is a link James Ray Convened Fateful Retreat . Interestingly, the person who has produced this documentary explains some of the classic LGAT techniques, but if you have not done the study, you may miss the important facts.

Heartwrenching Testimony During Ray Sentencing Phase (Video)
My Fox Phoenix, 28th June 2011

James Ray Guilty of Negligent Homicide x3 (28th June latest update)
Spirituality Is No Excuse, 28th June 2011

James Arthur Ray, motivational tweeter and “philosopher” from the film The Secret has been found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide.

Ray has so avoided being investigated by police in San Diego in relation to the death of his first victim, Colleen Conaway who died in one of his seminars barely two months before he negligently caused three further deaths at a further seminar. Colleen’s death was inadequately investigated by police after Ray and some members of staff lied to police about the circumstances of Colleen’s death, after they had abandoned her body in a shopping plaza in San Diego. [...] The cover up has been covered extensively on this site (see previous link), and a more complete description of events can be found here in a comment posted by a member of Colleen’s family.

Comment: Many people are refusing to forget about Colleen Conaway's death. I have heard the calls to Colleen's mobile phone (c/o Salty Droid) by James Ray Staffers pretending to care about her welfare when she was supposed to be doing the 'homelessness' exercise. In reality, these JR staffers knew she had already committed suicide and were ignoring the fact that since they had taken the mobile phone away from her for this ridiculous and pointless exercise. These people are so stupid... Whatever, it's just so sad that this was supposed to be a seminar organised by people claiming to be spiritual, but it must be realised that this operation was a complete sham.... awful... The JR staffers involved in the cover up of Colleen's death need to be prosecuted too. There is a long month wait for the final sentencing of JR.

Doctors to help boy with hairy face
Orange News, 28th June 2011

Doctors in China have agreed to operate for free on an eight-year-old boy whose face is partly covered with thick black hair. An Qi, of Dehui, Jilin Province, was born with a large birthmark on his face which sprouted hairs as he grew older.

He is being brought up by his grandparents after his father died when he was four and his mother remarried. Grandfather Fan Jingzue said: "From being very young, he would try to cover his face with his hands all of the time.

Comment: China again. I don't even go looking for these stories but these DNA abnormalities are appearing almost weekly... . So, the Chinese government acknowledges that the environment is the cause of the rocketing no. of children with birth defects, but they have not seen anything yet as cosmic rays and manmade radiation dramatically increases on our planet. This is because we know that once mutagenic agents reach a certain level, the switch for DNA mutations is reset and the rate of DNA mutations will just increase. See previous comments and articles about China and their pollution problems.

Radiation revelation
New Scientist, 04 October 2000
A study on wheat grown close to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has found a DNA mutation rate three times higher than expected. "This was a very big surprise," says Yuri Dubrova of Leicester University, UK. "Our results point to as yet unknown effects of low-dose chronic exposure to ionising radiation, which make it substantially more mutagenic than previously thought," he says."

Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier melting from below twice as fast as previously thought
Extinction Protocol, 28th June 2011

June 28, 2011 – ANTARCTICA – Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. A growing cavity beneath the ice shelf has allowed more warm water to melt the ice, the researchers say — a process that feeds back into the ongoing rise in global sea levels. The glacier is currently sliding into the sea at a clip of four kilometers (2.5 miles) a year, while its ice shelf is melting at about 80 cubic kilometers a year — 50 percent faster than it was in the early 1990s — the paper estimates. –Science Daily

What’s really melting most of the ice under Antarctica?

How about submarine volcanoes as the above NASA infrared thermal imagery shows? Underwater vents are alive and well around the massive continental ice sheet as numerous expeditions have already proven but the stories of man-made causes of global warming by runaway carbon emissions continue to fill newspaper headlines. In 2004, numerous volcanic vents were found by Eugene Domack of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y which you read about here. And then there’s the 2009 expedition which uncovered volcanic vents and a massive caldera on the Antarctica seafloor which you can see in the video.

Comment: Strangely, the Science Daily article cited here does not mention the word volcano and presumably readers are not meant to make the connection but nevertheless the connection has been made by various scientists. An underground volcano is the obvious answer but politically incorrect, as it means that the energy inbalance caused by an influx of energy into Earth's core due to Space Weather, is warming the oceans through the activation of underwater volcanoes and this is what is causing the release of CO2 and generates more water vapour NOT human activity. However, global temperatures are not rising and in fact may fall because more surface volcanoes are also becoming active. Volcanic ash generate aerosols that cool the skies and so the overall result will become "global cooling" with an eventual build up of more snow and ice which is the real cause of Ice Ages. Please note the massive flooding in America is caused by massive amounts of snow melting and the water being suddenly released as a "spring pulse".

Scientists Explore Origins of 'Supervolcanoes' on the Sea Floor
National Science Foundation News, April 9, 2010
Ocean Currents Speed Melting of Antarctic Ice: A Major Glacier Is Undermined from Below
Science Daily, 22nd June 2011

Q&A: Is New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory Really Safe?
TIME, 29th June 2011

[...] The Associated Press reports that LANL is storing “as many as 30,000 drums of plutonium-contaminated waste in fabric tents above ground.” Is that really a safe standard procedure? Ideally, how should LANL store this waste? You would think [LANL] would get rid of that stuff. They talked about getting it out of there, but they simply haven't. They [should] store it at WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) in southern New Mexico, an underground storage facility for low-level waste. But again, now they claim these barrels can stand up to tests of fire.
[...]
Obviously, Japan is still on everyone's mind. Is there anything that LANL should learn from the way the country has handled its nuclear crisis? Or anything LANL shouldn't do?

[Regarding] the $6-billion building I was telling you about, there's a seismic problem with that, and there's a seismic problem with a lot of the places at the lab. [LANL is on a fault line.] All of a sudden [officials] are starting to focus on that now. I do believe LANL should be honest about what the situation is. I'm not arguing that they are lying about anything, but they're putting on the absolute best face, acting as if nothing can happen. But as you know, things can happen.
[...]
Is there anything else you want to say about this situation in Los Alamos?

Just hope to hell that the wind blows in the right direction.

Comment: These people are just too casual...

Local TV: Los Alamos residents rushed out of town fearing future children “would be born with a third-eye and extra limbs”
Energy News, 30th June 2011
I'm disgusted, I don't know why this media moron thinks this is funny....

Lightning kills 18 kids at primary school
News.com.au, 29th June 2011

A LIGHTNING strike at a primary school in western Uganda has killed 18 students and injured 50. Lightning hit Runyanya primary school in Kiryandongo district, about 225km northwest of Kampala, killing 15 girls and three boys yesterday, police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said.

"The injured were taken to hospital nearby and 15 of those who were seriously injured were transferred to Mulago hospital," in Kampala, Nabakooba said.

Local media reported that a further 21 pupils were burned after lightning struck at a second school in Zombo district, about 380km north of Kampala. Police could not confirm the incident.

Comment: These mega lightning events are now killing large numbers on a regular basis...

Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We've Almost Lost Nebraska
Oped News, 29th June 2011

Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry.

We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about it---at least to the extent of what they actually know, which is nowhere near enough. Indeed, the assurances from the nuke power industry continue to flow like the floodwaters now swamping the Missouri Valley heartland. [...]

The stream of reactor disasters spewing from this dying industry is certain to escalate. The toll rises with each leak at Fukushima, every flame at Los Alamos, each legal brief at Vermont Yankee, every foot of Nebraska floodwater.

The need to stop the madness grows more desperate every day.

Comment: The headline summarises the apocalyptic news in the modern sense. As far as I am concerned, humanity have been marching down the wrong road and the major nuclear accidents that are now taking place were inevitable... Check the archives as I said there would be more accidents, but it seems we are now on fast forward... If nothing else, we are seeing the rapid destruction of an old world and so maybe we should recognise that a new world will emerge through the chaos, but it did not need to be this harsh. However, world controllers thought they could ignore reality and the reality is the world is transforming into a high energy environment, it seems that evolutionary change is not negotiable.

MAP: Conchas Fire at 60,741 Acres; 'A Road Away' from LANL
Santa Fe Reporter, 28th June 2011
Updated 4:30 pm: The Las Conchas fire, at 60,741 acres as of this morning, is "a road away" from the nuclear lab, according to Los Alamos Fire Chief Doug Tucker.

According to a recent press release from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Las Conchas fire has burned up to State Road 4, which borders the lab's southwest edge.

"When you ask how close it is to the border, it’s a road away,' Tucker says in the release. The lab remains on essential services only tomorrow (Wed., June 29). Approximately 12,000 residents have been evacuated. [...]

There are, of course, plenty of people who are a lot less sanguine. Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group, for one, today spoke with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now on the risks the fire poses to a nuclear lab. Click here to read/listen.

Comment: Obviously there is a lot of news reports about Los Alamos but this particular report has quite a few links and a link to the highly informative Democracy Now video about nuclear bomb making facility at Los Alamos and the storage of nuclear waste.

Wildfire swells near Los Alamos nuclear lab
CBS News, 28th June 2011

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - A vicious wildfire spread through the mountains above a northern New Mexico town on Tuesday, driving thousands of people from their homes as officials at a government nuclear laboratory tried to dispel concerns about the safety of sensitive materials.

The wildfire — which has swelled to about 93 square miles — sparked a spot fire at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on Monday. The fire was quickly contained, and lab officials said no contamination was released and radioactive materials stored at spots on the sprawling lab were safe.

No fires burned on lab property overnight, but teams from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Radiological Assistance Program were headed to the scene to help assess any nuclear or radiological hazards, said Kevin Smith, Los Alamos Site Office manager. [...] The spot fire scorched a section known as Tech Area 49, which was used in the early 1960s for a series of underground tests with high explosives and radioactive materials.

Lab spokesman Kevin Roark said environmental specialists were monitoring air quality, but the main concern was smoke. He said that the lab has taken many steps to prepare for a wildfire, including thinning trees and underbrush and surrounding key buildings with gravel to create a defensible space. Many of the buildings are also constructed to meet strict standards for nuclear safety and aggressive wildfires are taken into account, he said.

The anti-nuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety said the fire appeared to be about 3.5 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. The group said the drums were awaiting transport to a dump site in southern New Mexico.

Lab officials at first declined to confirm that such drums were on the property, but in a statement early Tuesday, lab spokeswoman Lisa Rosendorf said such drums are stored in a section of the complex known as Area G. She said the drums contain cleanup from Cold War-era waste that the lab sends away in weekly shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Comment: So..... there has already been a fire on the Los Alamos Property and a specialist team to measure levels of substances such as plutonium and uranium in the air are being drafted in “as a precaution.”? More info at Energy News.

MSNBC News: “This has grown much more serious" at Los Alamos
VideoMe, 28th June 2011

Los Alamos Nuclear Lab: What Are the Dangers?
ABC News, 28th June 2011
"Physicist Michio Kaku discusses the threat wildfires pose to the government lab."

MSNBC: Michio Kaku On America's Current Nuclear Emergencies In Nebraska & New Mexico
YouTube, June 28, 2011
"Nebraska is basically FUKUSHIMA IN SLOW MOTION. The magic number is 1014. When the water flood levels reach 1014 feet, it's game over. It's all over. At that point we're talking about flooding, short-circuits, pumps, generators around. But we're there. We don't expect to be there soon."
Martin Bashir reports, Michio Kaku starts speaking at about 3:10. Kaku: This is a triple whammy....

Breaking_ US Nuclear Emergency LOS ALAMOS, N.M - What You're Not Being Told
YouTube/NewsTsar, 28th June 2011
Informative with good video clips

"Note from Kevin:
Thank you for your continued interest in our work. For the past 2 weeks, Arnie and Maggie have been traveling and presenting while I have been traveling and working in Brazil. As such, you have not seen any new content from us. At this time we are all back in the office and I am preparing new content for publication while Arnie and Maggie are working on back-to-back expert reports through the end of July. You can expect to see more video and updates soon.
Thank you again for your interest in our work.
This is from the latest email notification from Fairewind Associates. I think Arnie needs to talk about Los Alamos too! Radio link Stream WBAI Pacifica Radio @ 5:10pm

Arnie Gundersen, Five OClock Shadow, June 28, 2011 at 5:00 pm EDT
wbai.org, 28th June 2011
The Arnie Gundersen interview starts at about 15:00 minutes.

Debris Forces Astronauts To Evacuate
Sky News, 28th June 2011

A piece of debris has narrowly missed hitting the International Space Station, forcing astronauts to scramble to their rescue vehicles. The unidentified space junk missed the fragile craft by just 250m, a Russian space industry source told the Interfax news agency.

The six astronauts on board the station had to take refuge in their rescue vehicles because it was moving at such speed they had no time to take evasive action. The crewmen had to spend around half an hour in the Soyuz escape capsules before the debris passed safely.

Comment: These days, there are millions of pieces of space debris but the Russians dispute this and say there are billions under a fraction of a centimetre (see below), but there are natural hazards too like micrometeroids (space dust) chipping the solar panels on satellites and shortening their lives, but the intriguing factor is the small asteroids that cannot be detected until the last minute. I am rather cynical that NASA et al. are interested in these small asteroids hitting Earth because they are expected to burn up in the atmosphere on impact, so I imagine the real concern is something hitting the ISS or a billion dollar military/research satellite. This is the reality of worsening Space Weather making a bad situation worse. So, if you are wondering why I talk about what is going on in our local space environment, it is because over the last twenty years or so, there has been a drastic change and consequently, there are massive implications for all life on Earth.

Bend it Like Beckham! Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011
NASA/JPL NEO News, 26th June 2011

13000 SATELLITES - Google Earth view
YouTube, 19th September 2010
With 13,000 satellites in orbit, is it any wonder that scientists panic when they discover an asteroid at the last minute wandering through Earth's geosynchronous orbit.

Why monitor objects in orbit?
European Space Agency, 31st May 2010
Orbital debris mean danger

Space debris are defined as all non-functional, man-made objects, including fragments and elements thereof, in Earth orbit or re-entering into the Earth atmosphere.
Space debris hits satellite animation

Is is estimated that the total number of space debris objects in Earth orbit is on the order of:

20 000 - for sizes larger than 10 cm
600 000 - for sizes larger than 1 cm
more than 300 million - for sizes larger than 1 mm

Any of these objects can cause harm to an operational spacecraft, where a collision with a 10-cm object would entail a catastrophic fragmentation, a 1-cm object will most likely disable a spacecraft and penetrate the ISS shields, and a 1-mm object could destroy sub-systems on board a spacecraft. The problem is compounded when you consider that satellites orbiting close to the Earth, such many Earth observation satellites, travel constantly at over 30 000 km/hr.

CNN Reports on Indian Country’s Reactions to James Arthur Ray Verdict
Indian Country Network, 24th June 2011 (late entry, will re-file later)

CNN reported on reactions throughout Indian Country to the verdict of self-help guru and author James Arthur Ray.

“He deserves to pay for the lives he took,” Valerie Taliman, a Navajo who serves as the West Coast editor for Indian Country Today Media Network, told CNN. “Our prayers go out to the families who lost their loved ones because of his greed and wrongful exploitation. He had no right to create the false illusion that he had any connection to Native ceremonies,” she said in an e-mail to CNN. “He is a worst case example of charlatans selling spiritual snake oil.”

Taliman hopes that when jurors determine Ray’s sentencing next week, they persecute him to the extent of the law. Convicted of negligent homicide on June 22, although prosecutors pursued manslaughter charges, Ray could face anywhere from probation to as long as 11.25 years in prison for the deaths of three of his followers at a sweat lodge ceremony outside Sedona, Arizona on October 8, 2009. [...]

“He took something we hold sacred and broke every rule we go by, then sold his desecrated version of our ceremonies to people that he actually profited from, then killed,” Taliman told CNN. “I hope they make an example of him and give him the maximum sentence.”

Comment: ~~CNN are broadcasting~~ ~~today (28th)~~ the aggravation phase of this trial to determine sentencing and there are pleads for ex JR followers to send email details to the prosecution about their JR induced injuries. I am glad the Native Americans feel that some justice has been done, but this is going to be a very interesting part of this trial (2 days) as the prosecution is going to be able to say exactly what has been going on, without the defense trying to steer the jury away from the truth. Update Another mistrial motion and uncertainty with CNN, most think live coverage this will not happen. There are rumours on the Droid that Megan Fredrickson did not turn up to testify in court and has done a runner with her husband... since she has only lied to cover up for JR, she might end up going to jail to be in sympathy with her master.

What Went Wrong? (Video)
Fox News, 30th April 2011
"How did Arizona sweat lodge turn deadly?"
Fox News interviews Dawn Medicine Wolf a retired MD. Native American opinion is given.

Heartwrenching Testimony During Ray Sentencing Phase (Video)
My Fox Phoenix, 28th June 2011

Are aliens getting less camera shy? UFOs filmed above BBC building in London
Dail Mail, 27th June 2011

If UFOs are real and trying to get our attention perhaps they are getting a little more savvy about the way we humans work.

A new video has emerged purporting to show 'a mothership and its fleet' zipping around in the clouds above a BBC building in West London. [...]

Instead they were caught on camera by a passer-by, and at least one other person who can be seen filming or taking pictures on his camera phone while the video is filmed.

In the video, the cameraman runs towards the corner of Bolsover Street and Clipstone Street where two other men are already standing, gazing skywards, one of whom is using a mobile phone camera.

Comment: I have been neglecting UFO/UAP reports despite the fact there have been some absolutely spectacular sightings in the last week or so... Simply, more radiation, more sightings...

UFOs Over London Friday 2011 - UFO fleet over Tower Bridge London 6/24/2011
YouTube, 25th June 2011
"Over the last couple days, several videos have emerged showing several white gowing orbs flying over london. This is one of the newer ones that was posted by a tourist that was filming the Tower Bridge as several orbs made a fly by. The original HDV tape of this video has been given to me right out of the camera and has not been tampered with. I will allow this tape to be analysed by a professional to authenticate it as untampered evidence. The woman who filmed the video is willing to take a lie detector test."

27June - 2 July (issued 22 May) VERY MAJOR EXTREME Weather events and Major Earthquake/volcano events predicted (Extra Top Red warning Period)
weatheraction.com, 27th June 2011

=> Extreme weather events likely in many parts of world Tornadoes & tornado swarm and other weather extremes likely USA: For forecast maps see 30day USA extreme events forecast (also Europe & world) via http://www.weatheraction.com/wactmember.asp (USA forecast subscribed now includes July forecast available after 2nd July when June-July2 forecast ends). Largest tornado events probably July 1-2.

=> MAJOR Earthquake/volcanism likely at anytime but July 1-2 probably most likley.

Comment: Things are already bad.... I think I have got to the stage when I hope that Piers Corbyn is wrong, but he is usually never wrong...

Piers Corbyn Forecasts Major Event June 27-July 2 (speaking June 14 2011)
YouTube, 25th June 2011
He predicts very dangerous events way ahead of this date...

New Mexico wildfires force evacuation at Los Alamos nuclear labratory
NY Daily News, 27th June 2011

Raging wildfires in New Mexico forced the evacuation of the famed nuclear lab at Los Alamos Monday, though officials insist that radioactive material is secure.

Fires have burned as close as one mile from the government lab - threatening buildings, power lines and gas lines, officials said. "Lab emergency crews have been dispatched across the lab to protect key facilities and materials," said lab spokesman Jeff Berger.

Comment: The news these days verges on the apocalyptic.... I think we are seeing some systemic collapse in the US.... It's hard not to think this when the environment is pushing hard on a weak infrastructure that has not been designed to cope with Earth and climatic change. More info at Energy News.

Report: Up to 30,000 drums of plutonium-contaminated waste stored in fabric tents above ground at Los Alamos dumpsite — Lab declines to comment
Energy News, 27th June 2011

Concern at Nebraska Reactors as Floodwaters Rise
New York Times, 26th June 2011

BROWNVILLE, Neb. — Like a city preparing for siege, operators of the nuclear reactor here are hunkering down to defend it against the swollen Missouri River at its doorstep. On Sunday, eight days after the river rose high enough to require the operators to declare a low-level emergency, a swarm of plant officials got to show off their preparations to the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The reactor, Cooper Station, is one of two nuclear plants on the Missouri River, which has been beset by flooding in recent days. Another reactor, Fort Calhoun, took two steps backward on Sunday. In the pre-dawn hours, a piece of heavy equipment nicked a temporary rubber berm, 8 feet high and 2,000 feet long, and it deflated. And water there began to approach the switchyard, where grid power enters the complex, so operators started up their diesel generators.

Comment: Wow! That is some incompetence.... I am now wondering if anyone predicted a radiation apocalypse, Fort Calhoun Nebraska looks like it's the next one to go...

Waters Encircle Nuclear Plant
Wall Street Journal, 27th June 2011
"The berm's collapse allowed floodwaters to wash around the main electrical transformers. As a result, emergency diesel power generators were started. Later in the day, power was restored. [...] Even when in shutdown mode, a nuclear plant requires electricity to keep key components cool in order to avoid any degradation or melting of the core that could result in the release of radiation. In response to the berm collapse, the NRC has activated its Incident Response Center."
Many containers of fuel to power pumps were washed away after breach at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant
Energy News, 27th June 2011
Wonderful...
100% chance of reactor core damage if floodwaters went above 1010 ft. at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant, NRC said in 2010 — River now around 1,007 ft. and expected to rise
Energy News, 27th June 2011
3ft and it's game over?
Ft Calhoun Newest Photos Have Disappeared
Rense.com, 27th June 2011
"I'll guess that when the aqua dam burst, the control room was flooded. They are saying "no problem, there is no danger"- but, of course, there IS a problem. The REASON there is a problem and why they aren't telling the truth is because, while Fukishima is equivalent to about twenty Chernobyls, Ft. Calhoun is equivalent to about twenty Fukushimas. Not because it has a lot of reactors - or even a very big one. But because it is holding an immense amount of nuclear fuel in its cooling pool."
Flooding: The worst is yet to come
Omaha.com, 26th June 2011
The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland
American Thinker, 22nd June 2011
Environmentalists at the heart of this disaster?
"Greg Pavelka, a wildlife biologist with the Corps of Engineers in Yankton, SD, told the Seattle Times that this event will leave the river in a "much more natural state than it has seen in decades," describing the epic flooding as a "prolonged headache for small towns and farmers along its path, but a boon for endangered species." He went on to say, "The former function of the river is being restored in this one-year event. In the short term, it could be detrimental, but in the long term it could be very beneficial."

Can earthquakes be predicted by electromagnetic signals?
Scripps, 17th June 2011

SAN FRANCISCO - Earthquakes often seem to send out mysterious electromagnetic signals before the ground ruptures, but what they might mean has sparked controversy for centuries.

Now researchers seeking ways to predict quakes say they have detected those signals in an experiment ripping apart a huge granite boulder near Yosemite.

They liken the signals to the "magnetic pulsations" they say they detected weeks before a 5.6-magnitude quake that struck beneath San Jose's Alum Rock Park on the Calaveras Fault four years ago. [...]

Bleier and geochemist Friedemann T. Freund of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View tested their "precursor" ideas in an experiment with an 8-ton boulder at Bass Lake in the Sierra, 14 miles from Yosemite's south entrance.

Comment: This article provides actual details of an experiment.You can ignore the opinions of scientists who are not involved with this research, because Friedemann T. Freund has been very careful to explain that the energy is released when rocks are squeezed is a plasma, see Freund's paper, Rocks That Crackle and Sparkle and Glow: Strange Pre-Earthquake Phenomena. [2003].

Nuclear Plant's Flood Defenses Trigger a Yearlong Regulatory Confrontation
New York Times, 24th June 2011

Pictures of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb., show it encircled by the swollen waters of the Missouri River, which reached a height of nearly 1,007 feet above sea level at the plant yesterday.

The plant's defenses include new steel gates and other hard barriers protecting an auxiliary building with vital reactor controls, and a water-filled berm 8 feet tall that encircles other parts of the plant. Both systems are designed to hold back floodwaters reaching 1,014 feet above sea level. Additional concrete barriers and permanent berms, more sandbags and another power line into the plant have been added.

Comment: More stupidity, lack of foresight and adequate planning.... More info at Energy News.

Photos: Flood at Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant:
Cartor Radiations, 25th June 2011
Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant: The spent fuel storage is in a modular concrete structure at ground level. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects record water release from the federal dams along the Missouri River to continue until mid-August.
Great photos!

Robot, drone fail on Japan nuke-plant missions
Boston.com, 24th June 2011

TOKYO—Two high-tech machines intended to help workers at Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant malfunctioned Friday, including a long-awaited Japanese robot making its first attempt to take important measurements in areas too dangerous for humans.

The other machine that failed was a drone helicopter that made an emergency landing on a reactor roof at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Comment: This is some kind of bizarre corporate comedy and TEPCO seems to have some kind of corporate myopia. We have the greatest industrial disaster in modern times and TEPCO refuses to comprehend the consequences of high levels of radiation. When I read the stories of the drone crashing onto the top of reactor 2, it did not register. All I can think now is that my mind wanted to reject this high level of stupidity... We have read report after report of ridiculously high levels of radiation and we know that at a certain level electronics will simply not work, so what do TEPCO do? Let the situation get beyond stupid so they can't use humans and they can't use robots... Checkmate. I got the image of the drone from the Asian Week website that has a whole section on Fukushima Fuku-Ups.

Robot fail, HoverDrone Fail, Water Decon Fail
Asian Week, 24th June 2011

Jellyfish-Like UFO Photographed in Mexico City (Video)
Epoch Times, 24th June 2011

A translucent jellyfish-like UFO with a fiery, glowing tail was photographed "swimming" in the morning skies of Mexico City. The object was photographed using a high-speed zoom lens in January 2009, and revealed in a video released by OpenMinds.tv on June 17.

Jason McClellan, Open Minds photographer, captured the images from the rooftop of fellow photographer Arturo Robles Gil's residence. Robles regularly sees mysterious UFOs such as these above Mexico City and invited McClellan's team to document some evidence.

"My initial thought was, 'This might be a weather balloon,' but after only a couple of seconds, I was convinced otherwise," says McClellan in thevideo.

"I can best describe the characteristics and movements of the object as jellyfish-like," he adds. "The object was semi-see through, and it billowed and undulated as it moved."

Comment: Jelly-fish type entities and other biologcal type entities that look like amoeba and plankton have been documented over and over again in the skies around the world, but ufologists tend to ignore these reports because they don't fit into their preconceived ideas. However, we can consider that Earth has a Shadow Biosphere with a wide-range of characteristics that are based on these objects being interdimensional plasma entities. In order to come to this conclusion, we must realise that we live in a universe that is 99.999% plasma and this lifeform would have had billions of years to evolve if they represent the original form of life that our scientists speculate exists and call the Universal Ancestor or indigenous people know exist and simply call The Ancestors. Earth is becoming a high energy plasma environment due to Space Weather, which means that Earth is much more likely to be more attractive to these beings and since the environment is changing dramatically, we must seriously consider metaphysical beliefs that suggest we are experiencing the 'Lifting of the Veil', a dimensional shift or the original meaning of The Apocalypse..

AP EXCLUSIVE: Power grid change may disrupt clocks
Yahoo News, 24th June 2011

WASHINGTON – A yearlong experiment with the nation's electric grid could mess up traffic lights, security systems and some computers — and make plug-in clocks and appliances like programmable coffeemakers run up to 20 minutes fast.

"A lot of people are going to have things break and they're not going to know why," said Demetrios Matsakis, head of the time service department at the U.S. Naval Observatory, one of two official timekeeping agencies in the federal government.

Since 1930, electric clocks have kept time based on the rate of the electrical current that powers them. If the current slips off its usual rate, clocks run a little fast or slow. Power companies now take steps to correct it and keep the frequency of the current — and the time — as precise as possible.

Comment: OK, we had the strange phenomenon in Italy with clocks jumping 15 to 20 minutes a day and now the US authorities are warning they will be running an experiment by adjusting the power grid frequency, but it all sounds very fishy to me.... Whatever, this is a most interesting development... Looking around for some intelligent comment on what was happening in Sicily (see links below), it seems that there are lots of different opinions but fluctuations on the grid by an external cause and clocks and watches being remotely incorrectly updated by atomic clocks were the most interesting. You could explain both of these two aberrations by interference from Space Weather. The atomic clocks in GPS satellites in orbit around the Earth cannot provide the accuracy they were originally designed for because they rely on stable geomagnetic conditions in the ionosphere to transmit signals that can be accurately timed and these days that is just not possible. Electromagnetic pulses would effect the power grid (and atomic clocks if they were not being shielded enough?) when a solar flare erupts and high speed radiation blasts through the Earth in minutes from the Sun, (the magnetosphere is not much of a cosmic shield these days) so, I would suggest that continuous strange clock runs and slowing down could be caused by geomagnetic substorms that can be considered like geomagnetic aftershocks reverberating around Earth, but places that act like portals or vortexes for electromagnetic energy and particles would be most effected. Here is the Corriere della Sera (June 8th) article translated from the Italian using Google translation.

It hertz when you do that – power grid to stop regulating 60 Hz frequency
WUWT, 25th June 2011
Intelligent comment here

All forward 20 minutes a day: The mystery of the Sicilian clocks
Corriere della Sera, 8th June 2011
[...] "The People's Network had thought well to electromagnetic fields related to Etna, although this would be valid only for Catania, while some have even mentioned the effects of solar winds."

GPS Technical Description
GPS Fleet Solutions, June 2011
"Changing atmospheric conditions change the speed of the GPS signals as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere and ionosphere. Correcting these errors is a significant challenge to improving GPS position accuracy." [....]

Control segment

The flight paths of the satellites are tracked by US Air Force monitoring stations in Hawaii, Kwajalein, Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, along with monitor stations operated by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The tracking information is sent to the Air Force Space Command's master control station at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, which is operated by the 2d Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) of the United States Air Force (USAF). 2 SOPS contacts each GPS satellite regularly with a navigational update (using the ground antennas at Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, Kwajalein, and Colorado Springs). These updates synchronize the atomic clocks on board the satellites to within one microsecond and adjust the ephemeris of each satellite's internal orbital model.The updates are created by a Kalman Filter which uses inputs from the ground monitoring stations, space weather information, and other various inputs.

So how do you take precise measurements when it's hurricane force conditions in space?

Moo-dini: Cow with 'unusual intelligence' opens farm gate with tongue so herd can escape shed
Daily Mail, 22nd June 2011

A farmer has been forced to beef up the security in his cowshed after an unusually smart heifer found a way for her and her friends to escape.

Daisy the cow, from a farm in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, has learned the trick to unbolting the gate to her pen with her tongue. She deftly and accurately unfastens both bolts, allowing her and her bovine buddies access to the verdant fields outside for breakfast.

Comment: This is an hilarious story, but we are seeing more and more reports of animals displaying 'unusal' intelligence. I believe it is symptomatic of rapid evolutionary change that seems to be quite sporadic at the moment, but it could get weird as some animals evolve in intelligence and more humans devolve....

Tesco Bank customers remain locked out of accounts following migration glitch
Computer Weekly, 23rd June 2011

Tesco Bank customers are still unable to log into accounts following a migration glitch.

Customers faced difficulties logging into accounts earlier in the week when Tesco Bank systems crashed as it migrated savings and loans accounts from in-house systems at its former partner Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The company said the process was complete and its online banking system had returned to normal service.

But a spokesman for Tesco Bank confirmed some customers were still experiencing difficulties.

Comment: There tends to be many reports of computer 'glitches' after the Earth's magnetosphere has been under pressure due to a blast of solar radiation. Since I have worked in a large computer department developing computer systems, I know the procedures for system/data migration and I don't believe banks and other important installations are having these massive regular and embarrassing failures due to human error. Simply, it's much easier to believe that cosmic rays are causing software upsets (SEUs). This is a matter of bits ansd bytes, where 0s are turned into 1s by cosmic rays that can corrupt computer programs and hardware. This is what the Australian goverment has to say:

Space is not the benign environment that was once thought. It is traversed by small pieces of matter (meteoroids) and also by a large and variable radiation flux. The radiation field in Earth orbit comes from three sources, galactic cosmic radiation, trapped radiation belts (the Van Allen belts) and solar radiation. The first two sources are particulate radiation, mostly protons and electrons. Solar radiation is both electromagnetic and particulate (atomic and sub-atomic).

Galactic cosmic radiation consists mostly of very high energy protons that form a constant low level background radiation source. These particles are not particularly significant for communications satellites, but present a possible hazard for long duration manned spaceflights to other planets. Occasionally they may be responsible for memory upsets in communication satellites. [...]

Solar radiation is extremely variable. The background solar ionising radiation consists of low level X-rays and a small particle component we term the solar wind. However, during explosive events that occur on the sun (flares and coronal mass ejections), the flux of X-rays may increase several orders of magnitude, and the energy of this radiation increases (becomes "harder"). Electrons and protons may be ejected in large numbers, and in rare events some particles may be accelerated to very high energies (even in excess of 1 GeV). It is these solar energetic particles (SEP's) that can cause damage to spacecraft.

SEP's may cause direct radiation damage to spacecraft components such as large solar cell arrays. Some spacecraft have had the efficiency of their solar cells reduced by over 30% in a single large solar particle event. This effectively reduces the lifetime of the spacecraft by several years (and denies the owner several million dollars revenue). Even large numbers of lower energy electrons have caused damage to satellites, in one case resulting in a total spacecraft loss (a Canadian Anik geosat).

Satellite Communications and Space Weather,
IPS Radio and Space Weather Services

The increase in cosmic rays at ground level means that computer hardware manufacturers must at least inform their important clients about the deteriorating situation and offer more products that are radiation hardened, just like the protection provided for electronic components used for satellites in space. More recent computer 'glitches' below:

UPDATE: NYSE Euronext Aims To Solve Glitches As Trading Hit Again
Wall Street Journal, 21st June 2011
The technical glitch on Tuesday disrupted trading in a wide range of markets, including Amsterdam's AEX and Brussels' Bel-20 benchmark indexes. In Paris, trading in some stocks and bonds was suspended while the market for derivative products was unaffected, said Caroline Tourrier, a Paris-based NYSE Euronext spokeswoman. In Lisbon, meanwhile, trading in exchange-traded funds was disrupted. [...] It was the second straight day that trading on NYSE Euronext's markets was disrupted. On Monday morning the operator suspended all trading between 0700 GMT and 0800 GMT because of a "technical problem." NYSE Euronext declined to say whether the problems are related.
SunTrust glitch doubles some bills
Customers charged twice for transactions
Atlanta Business News, 22nd June 2011
A technical glitch that caused some SunTrust Banks customers to be hit twice for bills paid online appears to have also affected other transactions, the bank said Monday. The technical problem not only affected certain customers with automatic withdrawals through SunTrust’s online bill paying system, but other “client-initiated” transactions as well, Hugh Suhr, a spokesman for Atlanta-based SunTrust, said in an email.
Time Warner Cable fixes glitch in digital phone service
Kansas City Star, 22nd June 2011
"Time Warner Cable digital phone customers saw outages throughout most of Wednesday in scattered markets across the U.S., including Kansas City."
Irishman sues State Department over diversity lottery glitch
Irish Central, 22nd June 2011
But the couple’s happy plans were short-lived. A glitch in the State Department’s computer system would deem the results null and void. Some 22,000 were informed they had been mistakenly told they were eligible for green cards. The State Department announced that the selection was not a true random sampling of the 15 million people worldwide who applied for the lottery between October 5 and November 1 of last year.
Southwest Airlines Computer Glitch Prevents Access to Sale Prices
Travel AOL, 24th June 2011

Tesco beer price glitch leads to mayhem in the aisles Security guards called in to control lager-loving shoppers as computer error cuts cost of top-brand drinks to £4 for 24 bottles
The Guardian, 23rd June 2011

Tesco customers have been taking the store's "Every little helps" slogan literally after discovering a computer pricing glitch in a drinks promotion.

Shoppers on Wednesday morning were surprised to be charged only £4 for 24 cans or bottles of leading brands of lager such as Budweiser, Carling and Fosters, which were discounted for a special promotion. [...]

Tesco confirmed the error but said it had been corrected by 1pm and had only surfaced in some parts of the UK. A spokesman said: "There was a temporary systems glitch which was resolved shortly after it was discovered. The offer was two packs of beer for £16, saving customers £4. However, the system briefly put the items through at the discount of £4."

Comment: This is most likely a human induced error but people going crazy to save money on non essentials is quite normal...

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: The political background to the nuclear disaster in Japan
World Socialist Website, 23rd June 2011

This is the first of a two-part article on the historical antecedents of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster of March 11, the meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima continues to alarm people all around the world. The world witnessed the events virtually live as one reactor building after another exploded and one of the planet’s most high-tech countries tried to quell the 770 000 terabecquerel (1) radioactivity unleashed from the meltdown with bucket and hose. Japan was desperate to convince the world that everything was under control.

Comment: Since the seriousness of the situtation at Fukushima is re-traumatising the people of Japan, it will be interesting to see if authorities decide to try and persuade people that being irradiated is great. Hence, the surfacing of old government propaganda helps us consider how they could achieve this aim today, (the obvious choice would be a new Pokemon but maybe that would be too obvious)... See below:

Pluto-Kun: Childrens Japanese Nuclear Cartoon

Comment:

Pluto (mythology)

Another Asteroid To Give Earth a Close Shave June 27, 2011
Universe Today, 23rd June 2011

A newly discovered house-sized asteroid will miss the Earth by less than 17,700 km (11,000 miles) on Monday June 27, 2011. That’s about 23 times closer than the Moon. The size and location of the asteroid, named 2011 MD, should allow observers in certain locations to take a look at the space rock, even with small telescopes. It’s closest approach will be at 13:26 UTC on June 27.

According to Skymania, 2011 MD was found just yesterday, June 22, by LINEAR, a pair of robotic telescopes in New Mexico that scan the skies for Near Earth Asteroids.

As of now, asteroid 2011 MD is estimated to be between 9 to 45 meters (10 to 50 yards) wide. Dr. Emily Baldwin, of Astronomy Now magazine, said there is no danger of the asteroid hitting Earth, and even if it did enter the atmosphere, an asteroid this size would “mostly burn up in a brilliant fireball, possibly scattering a few meteorites.”

Comment: More space weather... Late detections of asteroids happens quite a lot and we have to ask why these asteroids are so hard to spot when state of the art telescopes are being used. Whatever, spaceweather.com is showing this in their 'Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters table' as .05 LD and I think that is the closest whiz past Earth that I have seen, accept for a few times where they have updated it to declare IMPACT! We are passing through an interstellar 'debris' cloud with interesting properties but I have not seen any official statistics (graphs), but it's easy to see from the history of information provided by spaceweather.com over the last 10 years or so, that there is a marked increase in asteroids and the numbers being detected.

ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above Earth's surface on Monday June 27 at about 9:30 a.m. EDT. NASA analysts say there is no chance the space rock will strike Earth. Nevertheless, the encounter is so close that Earth's gravity will sharply alter the asteroid's trajectory:

At closest approach, 2011 MD will pass in broad daylight over the southern Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Antarctica. As the asteroid recedes from Earth, it will pass through the zone of geosynchronous satellites. The chances of a collision with a satellite or manmade space junk are extremely small, albeit not zero.
Space Weather 24th June 2011
There is a map of the trajectory available. Hmmm.... We have another cosmic interloper wandering through our billion dollar satellites...

Here Comes the Sun: Coronal Mass Ejection Headed for Earth
Wired.com, 23rd June 2011

On Tuesday, the Sun threw off a large amount of material directed towards Earth in an event known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, or CME. When I state a large amount of material here, I mean large. According to a FAQ on the nature of a CME maintained by Montana State University, a typical CME contains between 1 and 10 billion tons of charged particles moving away from the Sun at speeds up to 1 million miles per hour. This recent event will reach Earth around Friday. [...]

There now exists a good collection of spacecraft monitoring the Sun and the dynamics of the Sun-Earth system. I am not going to go into detail on all of the spacecraft here, as each on its own could warrant an entire article. Instead, I will provide a list here of just some of the satellites and links to project homepages.

Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
Cluster [4 Spacecraft]
Geostationary Operational Environment Satellites (GOES) [2 Spacecraft]
Hinode (aka Solar-B)
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) [2 Satellites]

Comment: I don't report every CME that is directed away or even directly at Earth, but it's interesting that the mainstream media have started taking more of an interest, possibly due to all the recent emphasis on the Sun and Space Weather generally. The message here is out of date because spaceweather.com issued a geomagnetic storm warning because of the simultaneous and I presume unexpected arrival of a fast solar wind stream. However, at about 23:00:00 UT, it looked like it was over, then at 24th June 2011 about 00:00:00 UT we were slammed again... See the NICT simulation of Earth's magnetic field. I have noticed they are deleting the worse looking images from the main list and I presume they don't won't people too frightened but I have been watching for a while now and I have not seen anything lately that compares to the height of solar cycle 23, where Earth had some seriously ferocious blasts... or the odd blasts that are coming from deep space... However, I am aware that there may be some assumptions because parameters might have changed over the years.

STORM WARNING: A fast-moving stream of solar wind is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. The combined effect of this stream plus a CME expected to arrive soon (see below) has prompted NOAA forecasters to declare a 30% to 35% chance of geomagnetic storms on June 23-24. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

NICT real time simulations of the Earth's magnetic field

Ray negligent in deaths, jury finds
verdict: Guilty of negligent homicide, not manslaughter
The Arizona Republic, 23rd June 2011

CAMP VERDE - He became a best-selling author, made millions and gained fame for his self-help claim that you attract into your life whatever happens to you - good or bad.

On Wednesday, James Arthur Ray was convicted by a jury on three counts of negligent homicide, placing the blame squarely on him for the deaths of Kirby Brown, 38; James Shore, 40; and Liz Neuman, 49, at a sweat-lodge event he led near Sedona in October 2009. [...]

"Mr. Ray has acted recklessly for years at these events," said Thomas McFeeley, Brown's cousin and her family's spokesman, speaking by phone from Illinois. [...] Several participants said they hope the verdict sends a broader message.

"This is about more than one man's actions on one day," McFeeley said. "The self-help industry is a huge industry, and it needs watching."

McFeeley said the Brown family is launching a non-profit organization to educate people about the self-help industry and what questions they should ask.

Comment: I have had some involvement with the New Age/Self-help industry and what I discovered has shocked me and I have been traumatised by own experiences, but I have learnt that some of the methods used by those who operate Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs) can also be applied in more traditional religious groups. In the so called self-help industry, there are people who have no interest in others, they do what they do to obtain power and control over people, they will do nothing unless they get some immediate benefit and they will lie, steal and cheat and will justify this to themselves because they believe the end justifies the means. To understand how these people operate requires education, so I am pleased that someone has made the decision to educate the wider public about the business of enlightenment. Update Here is the Seek Safely website.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant?
Hawaii Daily News, 22nd June 2011

Earlier this month, workers at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant surrounded the reactor and other key parts of the facility with a massive water berm called an “AquaDam”.

Fort Calhoun had a foot-deep pool next to the reactor for spent fuel rods. The pool was so full in 2009 that they were sealing the fuel rods up in dry casks and sticking them in an on-site ‘mausoleum’

Hat tip and a bow to Arthur Hu for finding the dry-storage bunker, half-submerged OUTSIDE the condom. It’s the smaller brown building adjacent to the white tank.

Comment: Oh..... So that's legal....

Fukushima 'still a ticking time bomb' (Video)
CNN News, 21st June 2011
"Famed physicist Michio Kaku says Japanese officials still don't have control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster."
Kaku - 'They Lied To Us, They KNEW How Bad It Was'

New Age Guru Guilty in Sweat Lodge Deaths
New York Times, 22nd June 2011

PHOENIX — A jury found James A. Ray, a self-help guru, guilty of negligent homicide on Wednesday in the deaths of three of his followers during a botched sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona in October 2009.

The decision, delivered after a nearly four-month trial in Yavapai County Superior Court in Camp Verde, Ariz., means Mr. Ray was found to have caused the deaths of Kirby Brown, 38, of Westtown, N.Y.; James Shore, 40, of Milwaukee; and Liz Neuman, 49, of Prior Lake, Minn., but did not necessarily recognize the risk he put them in. He could face anywhere from probation to more than 30 years in prison on the three guilty counts as court proceedings continue next week.

Comment: The State of Arizona has won.... but most importantly, this is the death of The Secret... No doubt there will be many of his most ardent followers trying to work out how he "attracted" this conviction, but anyone who has studied LGATs and the guru culture will know that injuries and even the death of followers is considered collateral damage. Mostly these predators have literally got away with murder, but today, the State of Arizona has finally dealt a significant blow to the LGAT business. If you want to understand how this works then I recommend at least 200-300 hours of study and you can start off with a James Ray thread over at the Cult Education Forum , where the experts recognised that James Ray was dangerous and pointed this out 2 years before he got his mega star break when he was invited onto The Oprah Show.

Sweat-lodge case: Ray guilty on 3 counts of negligent homicide
AZ Central, 22nd June 2011

James Arthur Ray Verdict (Court Video)
YouTube, 22nd June 2011

Korea's GCF: Scientific Standards For Game Addiction Needed
gamasutra.com, 22nd June 2011

South Korea's Game Culture Foundation, which opened a local game addiction clinic earlier this month, said there needs to be scientific standards for game addiction.

At a recent debate on treating game addiction and improving its facility, the organization's chairman JongMin Kim (pictured) said that scientific standards can put the irrational controversies and exaggerated doubts surrounding the issue to sleep.

TaeYoung Choi, a psychiatrist at the DaeGu Catholic University Medical Center, agreed and opined that a diagnostic criteria is required for game addiction or excessive playing.

Comment: See previous comments in Best of the Blog Imbalance about this issue.

Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
NASA Science News, 22nd June 2011

In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average1 solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure how to categorize it. The blast peppered Earth with the most energetic protons in half-a-millennium, induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire, and sparked Northern Lights over Cuba and Hawaii.

This week, officials have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to ask themselves a simple question: What if it happens again? "A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," says Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS, and satellite communications--all of which are vulnerable to solar storms."

She and more than a hundred others are attending the fifth annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum—"SWEF" for short. The purpose of SWEF is to raise awareness of space weather and its effects on society especially among policy makers and emergency responders. Attendees come from the US Congress, FEMA, power companies, the United Nations, NASA, NOAA and more.

"A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," says Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS, and satellite communications--all of which are vulnerable to solar storms."

Comment: People have been confused by the apparently mixed messages from NASA about the Sun becoming very quiet, but if you are a regular to this blog, you will not be confused. For those who a new to the concept of Space Weather, it must be understood that it does not matter whether the Sun is entering into a quiet phase, because the Sun can still develop a sunspot and then let rip a massive explosion at any time. This is evident as solar records reveal that solar scientists can expect at least one massive explosion during solar minimum (approx. 11 cycle). There is also the historical precedent that we can expect a huge mega blast once every 100 years and a super mega blast once every 500 years. However, what NASA are not making clear is that the properties of space have changed and this is combined with Earth's magnetic shielding, the cosmic umbrella that scientists call the magnetosphere, that has seriously deteriorated and that is why any space weather we get now is far more significant that even 20 years ago. We cannot compare the past to what we can expect in the future because the conditions of our local space environment have completely changed and that is why NASA scientists are so worried. Yes, this is the reality of the Mayan New Age of the Ether.

James Ray Trial: In the Hands of the Jury (Video)
Celestial Blogpot, 21st June 2011

As expected, Sheila Polk's final rebuttal was brilliant. Despite the nearly four hours she had available to her, she took only a couple... and managed to cover more ground than Luis Li did in over six. This is because Polk is a good public speaker, where Li -- and I say this as a former competitive public speaker -- is terrible.

I have much to say about Polk's close but I find that even after two blog posts on the subject, Li's closing argument is still stuck in my craw. I'm actually a little amazed at how much it irritated me. And not just because it was six hours of my life I'll never get back. Upon consideration, I realize that it comes down this: Narcissists really push my buttons.

Comment: James Ray's Defence lawyer Luis Li was so desperate in his epic 6 hour rant, that he even complained that the State prosecutor left pictures of the KILLED victims up on the screen in court for 11 minutes. The video here is a good selection of the drivel that was used to defend JR who looks like he will be going to jail.

James Ray Trial: As the Ending Nears the End (ABC 15 News Video)
Celestial Blogpot, 20th June 2011

The Last Words (Video)
Salty Droid, 22nd June 2011
"The trial of James Arthur Ray for the manslaughter of Kirby Brown :: James Shore :: and Liz Neuman has been completed and is with the jurors. GloryHallelujah!"
The video is of State prosecutor Sheila Polk who has the final word. A different tone, very sober...

Humans May Have 'Magnetic' Sixth Sense
Live Science, 21st June 2011

Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic fields.

The researchers caution that the results suggest this human protein has the capability to work as a magnetosensor; however, whether or not humans use it in that way is not known.

"It poses the question, 'maybe we should rethink about this sixth sense,'" Steven Reppert, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, told LiveScience. "It is thought to be very important for how animals migrate. Perhaps this protein is also fulfilling an important function for sensing magnetic fields in humans."

Comment: Hundreds of scientific studies over the last 50 years indicate that humans have many different senses and the notion of only 5 senses is completely false. These books can be recommended: Deciphering the Senses: The Expanding World of Human Perception & Sensation and Perception: An Integrated Approach. Studies have now got to the stage where scientists admit that so many people are developing new senses that they should not be defined as extra-sensory. Neuroscientists have defined 63 different types of synaesthsia that are based on a fusion of senses creating a new way of perceiving the world. Electrohypersensitives complain that they can see electric and magnetic fields and they think this is a medical disorder, but at the end of the day they are only perceiving more of our reality that most humans have not been able to perceive well. Since I have seen into other dimensions on many occasions, from my perspective, I believe that I have just glimpsed into more of what is actually around me, but as evolutionary changes accelerate, many humans will realise there is more to our reality than has previously met the eye.

Japan Strains to Fix a Reactor Damaged Before Quake
New York Times, 17th June 2011 (late entry, will re-file later)

TSURUGA, Japan — Three hundred miles southwest of Fukushima, at a nuclear reactor perched on the slopes of this rustic peninsula, engineers are engaged in another precarious struggle. The Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor — a long-troubled national project — has been in a precarious state of shutdown since a 3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor’s inner vessel, cutting off access to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods at its core.

Engineers have tried repeatedly since the accident last August to recover the device, which appears to have gotten stuck. They will make another attempt as early as next week. [...]

A top manager at the plant recently committed suicide, on the day that Japan’s atomic energy agency announced that efforts to recover the device would cost almost $21.9 million. And, like several other reactors, Monju lies on an active fault.

Comment: The video below provides a synopsis of the situation and compares the various disaster scenarios in Japan that includes the fiasco of the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor with the situation in the United States with various ongoing incidents' and previous near misses...

Thom Hartmann: Second Japan Nuke...more dangerous than Fukushima? (Video)

Prepare to be shocked...

Space Weather 21st June 2011
Spaceweather.com, 21st June 2011

INCOMING: Magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1236 erupted during the early hours of June 21st, producing a C7-class solar flare and a full-halo CME. The expanding cloud is heading almost directly toward Earth:

UPDATE: According to analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab, the CME left the sun traveling 800 km/s and it will reach Earth on June 23rd at 23:22 UT (plus or minus 7 hours). A very cool 3D heliospheric model shows the cloud sweeping past our planet. The impact is expected to trigger a G2-class (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm.

Comment: Wait a minute, the best estimate is plus or minus 7 hours? So what does that mean when governments decide to take down national power grids? Do they expect hospitals to have emergency backup systems that will last for 14 hours from when it might stike to when it could eventually hit? Nuclear power power plants do not even have backups that can last this length of time, as we now know because of Fukushima... I would be interested to know what procedures are being drafted and so should anyone else who is interested in the survival of our current modern technological world. Update: OK, I have been thinking that something would have to be automated and that the signal for shut down could only be applied when the ACE Satellite at L1 (or it's replacement) provides the specific advanced warning of approx. 15 - 45 minutes. See below for more comments on advanced warnings.

Update 22nd June

CME FORECAST, REVISED: A CME propelled toward Earth by the "solstice solar flare" of June 21st may be moving slower than originally thought. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab have downgraded the cloud's probable speed from 800 km/s to 650 km/s. Impact is now expected on June 24th at 0700 UT plus or minus 7 hours. In this animated forecast model, the yellow dot is Earth:

A slower CME should deliver a weaker blow to Earth's magnetic field. Forecasters now predict a relatively mild G1-class (Kp=5) geomagnetic storm when the cloud arrives. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras during the early hours of June 24. The season favors observers in the southern hemisphere where solstice skies are winter-dark.
Space Weather 22nd June 2011

Comment: Yes, from the CME forecast we are going to get a direct hit.... another cosmic blessing...

Understanding space weather forecasts and the risk of solar storms
Washington Post, 21st June 2011

Part I of this series, “Space weather: Are we ready for a solar strike?” reviewed the background and nature of the threats of space weather.

I concluded that major solar storms have the potential to: 1) occur with limited advanced warning, 2) strike with insufficient means to protect vital earth and satellite based systems, 3) be disastrous to technology dependent societies and 4) leave in their wake totally inadequate resources and capabilities to recover for a periods ranging from weeks to years – at a cost of trillions of dollars. [...]

At present, even if we know for sure that a CME plasma cloud is directed towards Earth some days ahead, the effects on power grids, satellites, etc, depend upon the relative orientation (polarity) of the magnetic fields of the plasma and Earth. Under certain alignments, even the most intense plasma disturbance will pass earth with virtually no effect whereas, under others, the threat is real and potentially disastrous. Intermediate levels of danger depend upon the relative polarity of Earth and plasma magnetic fields between these two extremes.

Critically, the only source of information on the alignment of the magnetic fields is NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite and, therefore, the only system able to provide advanced warning of geomagnetic storms. Given the position of ACE in space between the Earth and Sun (L1 point), however, only short term advance notice (1 hour at most) is possible. [...]

Sidebar: Are the days of the ACE space weather satellite numbered?

NOAA acknowledges the possible loss of ACE would constitute the ‘most serious gap’ in its space weather services by leaving the world without a vital early-warning system against a devastating solar storm. It’s something which Tom Bogdan, Director of SWPC, admits keeps him awake at night.

Comment: This article provides some Space Weather Education. Also, we are given a nice synopsis of the situation with the ACE satellite which is crucial for space weather forecasters to help provide some advance warning. If this important satellite gets crippled by the radiation from a solar flare (that sends high speed radiation towards Earth in minutes) and there is NO BACKUP system, then this means that there is a possibility that space weather forecasters could be left completely in the dark and will not be able to warn about the arrival of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that usually arrives 3/4 days later. High speed CMEs can arrive in half that time and that is another reason for the worry, people should forget about averages because the Sun cannot be trusted, the peak of solar cycle 23 is proof is you want to check the facts. Basically, the situation is unbelievable. Humanity has sleepwalked into a situation where world controllers now admit that we are now playing celestial russian roulette with the Sun. The Sun can fire a bullet or a blank and space weather forecasters just hope they can tell the difference. Just great....

Snow Falling in Colorado on Eve of Northern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice
Bloomberg News, 20th June 2011

The calendar says summer starts tomorrow in the Northern Hemisphere. The snow falling in the mountains of Colorado tells a different story.

A storm that has prompted a tornado watch across Nebraska and Kansas today also left 2 to 4 inches of snow in the Rocky Mountains, said Joe Ramey, a weather service meteorologist in Grand Junction,

Comment: Hmmm....

Tokyo area parents' radiation worries grow with discovery of local 'hotspots'
The Mainichi Daily Times, 20th June 2011

More than three months after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, Tokyo region residents are becoming increasingly worried over radiation exposure as a number of radioactive "hotspots" have been discovered in and around the capital.

Comment: This is hard to believe that this is happening in a so-called modern 'advanced' society.

Playground Radiation in Kashiwa Japan June 20, 2011
YouTube, 20th June 2011
"I'm here at a local playground in Kashiwa Japan just taking some geiger counter readings. Yes that is 6.46�Sv/h right there on the play ground! The kids just keep on playing, its actually very sad if you think about it. Many of us here have been desperately trying to raise awareness. However, the government is still trying to keep this out of the news."
#Radiation in Japan: Greenpeace Detected Cobalt-60 and High Radiation "Hot Spots" in Fukushima City in Fukushima
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 20th June 2011

Flooding Brings Worries Over Two Nuclear Plants
New York Times, 20th June 2011

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As record floodwaters along the Missouri River drench homes and businesses, concerns have grown about keeping a couple of notable structures dry: two riverside nuclear power plants in Nebraska.

Though the plants have declared “unusual events,” the lowest level in the emergency taxonomy used by federal nuclear regulators, both were designed to withstand this level of flooding, and neither is viewed as being at risk for a disaster, said a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Comment: Well, not even the New York Times is interested in pretending there is not a problem here... I found this image over at the Daily Mail, it really makes you think about what is happening to the United States...

Levee near Nebraska’s Cooper nuke plant “about to break” and “at risk of washing away completely” after being overtopped Sunday (VIDEO)
Record River Surge Recorded In Southeast Nebraska: River overflowing levees In northwest Missouri WOWT News, 20th June 2011
I saw the headline provided above at Energy News and I thought they were exagerating until I watched the local news video at WOWT.... Crisis...
Missouri river floods: 250 residents evacuated as water threatens to breach banks | Mail Online
Daily Mail, 21st June 2011
Fort Calhoun nuclear plant new Fukushima?
RT America, 20th June 2011
This is a nice summary of the situation...
AP IMPACT: US nuke regulators weaken safety rules
Yahoo News, 20th June 2011

Sixty Minutes: Fallout!
60 Minutes, 17th June 2011

When Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake and tsunami back in March, we told ourselves the worst was behind us. Tens of thousands dead, an economy shattered, whole communities razed. Surely the Japanese had suffered enough.

But all these weeks later, the crisis is far from over. The crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is still leaking and, judging from the experience at Chernobyl, Japan's recovery won't be measured in years, but centuries.

Full transcript:

Comment: Sixty Minutes documentary. I found the section with people trying to make cardboard boxes home very distressing.

Ask and ye shall receive NOAA
Watts Up With That, 18th June 2011

NOAA’s draft scientific integrity policy is available for public review and comment until Aug. 15, 2011. The policy incorporates the principles of scientific integrity contained in guidance from the White House, and addresses how NOAA ensures quality science in its practices and policies and promotes a culture of transparency, integrity and ethical behavior.

“Scientific integrity is at the core of producing and using good science,” said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., undersecretary for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.

Comment: Since scientific integrity has been under severe scrutiny recently, as so many scientists have become extremely disillusioned, especially when it comes to climate science, this is an interesting development.

PETA urges rabbis to overturn dog's death sentence
Ma'an News, 18th June 2011

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A leading US animal rights organization is urging rabbinical authorities in Jerusalem to overturn a "death sentence" by stoning of a dog alleged to be a reincarnated lawyer.

The sentence stems from the suspicion that the spirit of a secular lawyer, said to have insulted the court's judges decades earlier, has been transferred into the dog's body, Israeli media reported Thursday.

Comment: How ridiculous... It's amazing what some people can dream up to create a bit of excitement...

Minister looks to higher power behind church bell's mysterious ringing
Detroit News, 19th June 2011
I prefer the electrical short explanation...

Magician thrown out of pub for bending his own forks
The Sun, 20th June 2011
"Paul Fisher was first given his marching orders by a doorman after performing the trick for friends despite having his own cutlery. As he walked away a police van roared up and he was stopped for questioning."
Pathetic... desperate for control...

Eight million gallons of water drained from reservoir after man urinates in it

Eight million gallons of water had to be drained from a reservoir in Oregon after a man urinated in it.
The Telegraph, 19th June 2011
Ridiculous...

Flood Contol Around The World
What Really Happened, 19th June 2011

Levees in northern Missouri breached, overtopped: Several levees in northern Missouri were failing Sunday to hold back the surge of water being released from upstream dams.

Authorities said water—some of it from recent rain—began pouring over levees Saturday night and Sunday morning in Holt and Atchison counties, flooding farmland and numerous homes and cabins.

Comment: This is not a fair comparison but the final picture made me laugh....

Sanity break: Cat that barks like a dog — until someone notices
Raw Story, 17th June 2011

"In Russia, even the cats suddenly shift gears when they realize Big Brother is watching. This one is barking out the window like a dog until it sees the camera. Then it’s all, “Meow. Yes, of course, meow, meow. I’m a cat, obviously, meow. Did you think something different? No dogs here. Meow, meow.”

This video is from YouTube, uploaded by irik7070 on June 12, 2011.

Comment: Hilarious video.... So what is going on here, the cat has 'learnt' how to bark like a dog? This evolutionary change is already producing many oddities... but maybe we are just becoming aware of the 'Fortean' anomalies that authorities have so desperately tried to ignore and downplay. I am trying to sort the different type of weirdness here, see more below... Update I have found another version of this and the cat is clearly not barking so maybe this is a hoax, but the video here is still funny.

Breakdancing Calgary gorilla becomes online sensation (Video)
Edmonton Journal, 21st June 2011
A gorilla named Zola at the Calgary Zoo is garnering a lot of attention for his abilities to bust a move.

Comment: The comments on the YouTube version says the gorilla just likes playing in water and the music was added later but the gorilla seems to be having some fun.

Clocks in Sicily Mysteriously Jump Ahead
SOTT News, 9th June 2011
"For over a week, the digital clocks in Catania have been perplexing owners by skipping ahead 15 to 20 minutes every day."
Our reality is just getting more and more strange... There has been quite a lot of discussion on forums about this clock phenomenon, there are some intelligent comments here but I don't have time to investigate...

UFOs Responsible for Volcanic Activity?
Inexplicata, 16th June 2011

There are hundreds of consequences to the bothersome ash of the Puyehue Volcano, everything ranging from school closures to paralyzed airports. But the latest news to emerge has to do with the source of the eruption -- a cause that some ascribe to the presence of beings from other worlds: the recently famous UFOs.

A recently displayed series of photos and recordings depicts unidentified flying objects hovering in the volcano's vicinity just as the volcano was reaching its maximum violence.

Comment: Actually, this is an interesting question. If you believe that some UFOs act like messaging systems throughout the universe and "tell" volcanoes when to erupt then possibly UFOs are responsible for eruptions. However, I think this is not exactly what is going on. In a metaphysical sense, everything in the physical has higher dimensional components that monitor and "control" how the physical representatives behave. These higher dimensional representatives also liase with environment "controllers" (UAPs) and the best analogy is the fact we know that the human body is filled with mini-systems that communicate intelligently with each other as an ordered whole, but the physical aspects are directed by higher dimensional components. I believe planet Earth has an Earth Management Team that runs the show and communicates with the being Gaia. I presume that volcanoes have their own system of management, but this is a completely different scenario to volcanoes having inhabitants and can be thought of in the same way as human bodies that have friendly and unfriendly bacteria and parasites etc. The author of this piece needs a new mindset, to understand that Earth has a Shadow Biosphere, not every strange thing that appears in the sky is an unfriendly enemy ready to take over the world. The logic is that since there is evidence of UFOs and aliens that stretches back thousands of years, (have you heard of Oannes and friends?), then invading aliens should have taken over millenia ago. The video link here is blocked so I found another copy that was on YouTube, see below with related info.

UFO over Volcano Puyehue CHILE, 5 June 2011 [1:16]
YouTube, 13th June 2011
"SANTIAGO - The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted on Saturday after half a century of sleep, forcing the evacuation of 3,500 people and generating a giant cloud of ash that reached neighboring Argentina. The National Service of Geology and Mining (SERNAGEOMIN) of Chile has announced that the Puyehue erupted in the volcanic complex Caulle cord, caused "an explosion that produces a high gas column height of 10 km about ". The government ordered in the afternoon the evacuation of some 3,500 people residing in over twenty towns near the volcano, located 870 km south of Santiago, near the Argentine border."
Very picturesque videos here

Unsafe Radiation Found Near Tokyo, Vast Area of Japan Contaminated
Daily Kos, 16th June 2011

Japan is dangerously contaminated by radioactivity over a far larger area than previously reported by TEPCO and the central government according to new reports from multiple sources. The prefectural government of Iwate released new data that shows radioactive contamination of grass exceeds safety standards at a distance of 90 to 125 miles from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plants.

The prefectural government found on Tuesday radioactive cesium exceeding the limit of 300 becquerels per kilogram in grass collected from pastures in four areas, including Tono and Otsuchi. The areas are located about 150 to 200 kilometers north of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Science Magazine reports that Japanese scientists have become so concerned about the health of their children that they have initiated their own radiation monitoring program and made their own maps. The results are shocking.

Comment: Sorry to say this but what do people expect? Nuclear energy has to be carefully controlled but on a planet that is experiencing massive Earth changes, it is impossible to prevent natural disasters and it seems humanity has now walked into the trap of nuclear power plants emitting dangerous levels of radiation when things go wrong. Well, my emphasis was on cosmic radiation, but I got it wrong because we now have a major issue with cosmic AND manmade radiation and this is only just the start...

Documentary: NHK Special - Japan's Nuclear Crisis, Part 1
Nippon Sekai, 15th June 2011

In this special documentary, NHK interviewed more than 200 people including government and TEPCO officials, experts, and engineers.

While reluctant, they agreed to speak with NHK. Some of the rather candid comments confirm that TEPCO, nor the Japanese government where adequately prepared for a disaster of this magnitude. The Economy, Trade, and Industry Minister, Banri Kaieda even made a rather damning remark (around the 4m30s mark in clip 1-A) that he could not deny there was a myth of safety regarding the nuclear power plants and that probably somewhere in their minds, they always felt that measures against emergency situations were unnecessary because such situations would never occur. This 1 hour video is split into 4 parts and hosted on Dailymotion (so you'll need to put up with the advertisements automatically displayed) since it is blocked on YouTube.

Editorial note: At least to me, this wreaks of extreme overconfidence and arrogance and puts into context the sort of thought processes which were occurring early on until those involved finally realized the gravity of the crisis being beyond anything they could realistically imagine (and just how much officials underestimated the problems from the beginning).

Comment: In English, but I have not watched this documentary yet.

The US Is Having A Catastrophic Nuclear Emergency In Nebraska And The Obama Administration Is Covering It Up -- Russia
Business Insider, 19th June 2011

Here's an interesting report from Pakistan's daily newspaper The Nation. It cites a Russian regulatory agency as saying that the US is currently having a major nuclear emergency at the flooded plant in Nebraska and that the Obama Administration is trying to cover it up.

The Russian report describes the Nebraska situation as one of the worst nuclear accidents in the history of the United States. [...]

Bear in mind that this report comes from Russia and Pakistan--two countries that aren't particularly happy with Obama right now.

But the FAA has enacted a no-fly zone over the Fort Calhoun nuke plant, which was damaged by a fire and flooding from the Missouri river.

Comment: Well, it's just amazing how quickly things are escalating... 1 week before Fukushima, it was reported that US nuclear experts were worrying about poor electrical backup systems in the event of a natural disaster and look what is happening now on US soil, just three months later. We have not even had a knock out blow from the Sun yet either, so maybe we should be grateful for the heavy warnings, because it looks like it's the only way humans will pay attention...

Cooper Nuclear Station On Lowest Warning Level [Nebraska Nuclear Plant II]
WOWT News, 19th June 2011
"Flooding precaution at southeast Nebraska plant along river As the Missouri River rises, the Nebraska Public Power District declared a Notification of Unusual Event Sunday for the Cooper Nuclear Station located three miles southeast of Brownville, Nebraska along the riverfront.

U.S. reactors have weaker back-up batteries than Fukushima Daiichi had
Homeland Security Newswire, 31st March 2011
"Almost all American nuclear power plants have backup batteries that would last only half as long as those at Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant did after a tsunami knocked out power there; just eleven of the U.S. 104 plants had eight-hour batteries, and 93 had four-hour batteries; the batteries are not powerful enough to run pumps that direct cooling water, but they can operate valves and can power instruments that give readings of water levels, flow and temperatures."
Experts: Move to protect nuke plants from solar flare damage
Scripps News, 4th March 2011

WASHINGTON - It has happened before and it will happen again: an Earth-bound electromagnetic pulse from the sun that disrupts the power grid by burning out high-voltage transformers. [...]

Thomas Popik, an economic researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical engineering graduate and a former Air Force expert on unattended power sources at radar sites, and his New Hampshire-based Foundation for Resilient Societies, think they have a solution to one sobering consequence of a grid failure.

They filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission earlier this month addressing a dire concern: If the spent fuel rod pools at the country's 104 nuclear power plants lose their connection to the power grid, they believe current regulations aren't sufficient to guarantee those pools won't boil over, exposing the hot, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation.

Their solution is a relatively inexpensive, $152,800-per-plant arrangement to keep the coolant pools operating unattended in the wake of such an event. The foundation's members are not anti-nuclear, he insists, and their evidence comes from existing government studies, not advocacy groups.

Comment: Now it's too late, I suppose someone at the top (none technical paper pusher) was penny pinching, just like the cause of the BP Gulf disaster...

James Ray Trial Updates: Final Phase
Spirituality is NO Excuse, 17th June 2011

State prosecutor Sheila Polk made the closing statement earlier in the week. Salty Droid has edited a video of the main points of Ms Polk’s statement.

Defense Attorney Luis Li then babbled for hours and hours and hours over two days. Part of the strategy was clearly to bore the jury into not paying attention, in the hope that they would not realize how much he is distorting and misrepresenting the evidence, and to give the impression that James Ray was actually defended.

The strongest aspect of Li’s argument was the “free will” gambit, that Ray didn’t physically prevent anyone from leaving, therefore the victims were all responsible for their own fate. Further, that Ray had no reason to expect that anyone would die, and didn’t know there was any problem until it was too late.

Comment: How could any jury NOT convict James Ray after this amazing closing statement by State prosecutor Sheila Polk. However, this synopsis of what happened and James Ray's culpability (with the unbelievable lie that James Ray told a police detective that Ted did it!, is still nowhere near as bad as the full details and the amount of trauma that has been caused as a consequence. Well, it's hard to believe that the jury will not convict him of something, but we will have to see... This will be the death of The Secret... This image is typical of how JR used the marketing of The Secret to obtain his wealth and fame "Harmonic Wealth".

Northwest sees 35% infant mortality spike post-Fukushima
Medical professionals publish report highlighting post-Fukushima mortality spike.
Q13Fox News, 17th June 2011

Physician Janette Sherman, M.D. and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published a report Monday highlighting a 35% spike in northwest infant mortality after Japan's nuclear meltdown.

The report spotlighted data from the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on infant mortality rates in eight northwest cities, including Seattle, in the 10 weeks after Fukushima's nuclear meltdown.

The average number of infant deaths for the region moved from an average of 9.25 in the four weeks before Fukushima' nuclear meltdown, to an average of 12.5 per week in the 10 weeks after. The change represents a 35% increase in the northwest's infant mortality rates. In comparison, the average rates for the entire U.S. rose only 2.3%.

Comment: It looks like this sad news is going mainstream, even though there has been talk in the blogosphere for about a week. I don't think I really need to expound the reality that manmade radiation will cause a huge drop in birth rates. In so-called 'advanced' countries there will be many more abortions due to deformed babies being detected by medical specialists, so that means in countries without the advanced technology, there will be a dramatic increase in deformed babies being born. Of course, as I have stated before, infertility will increase dramatically too... I have been talking about spirtual evolution and it seems the criteria for this is being set higher and higher. Just in case there are a few new to my website, please find details provided by Physicist Professor Chris Busby, the world's top radiation expert, he says that radiation throws a switch on DNA that allows for more and more mutations... I have been saying this in relation to cosmic radiation, as Space Weather gets more severe, but our planet is now being flooded with manmade nuclear radiation too.

China: 3 More Rabbitts With NO ears (Video)

China? These rabbitts are becoming star attractions... At the moment, I am not linking to rumours about an increase in miscarriages, I prefer to wait for a medical professional to comment.

Amazing mirage appears over river in Anhui Province, East China, 16th June 2011
China Central TV, 18th June 2011

Amazing mirage appeared on Thursday at dusk at the Tunxi section of the Xin'an River in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, when continuous pouring rain had just stopped.

In the thin mist above the river were spectacular images of mountains, buildings and trees, which seemed to be floating on the river. The phenomenon began at about 17:00 p.m. local time, attracting a large number of people, who paused to watch the ethereal scene.

Comment: This is a longer video and the close-up of the trees in the so-called mirage is just weird... it looks like the scientific explanation of mirages has just been blown...

ITN NEWS: MIRAGE - Buildings and mountains appear in China ( INCREDIABLE )
YouTube, 17th June 2011
This footage completely disproves the theory that mirages are caused by high temperatures... I would even suggest that it may not be a mirage at all... Interesting, there is no report (yet) that anyone actually recognised the city that was seen in this mirage... We are certainly living in strange times...

Venezuela darkened by power outages
Despite its energy wealth, Venezuela is plagued by power blackouts.
Global Post, 18th June 2011

CAGUA, Venezuela — Blessed with huge oil and natural gas reserves as well as massive rivers that power hydroelectric dams, Venezuela is energy rich. So why do the lights keep going out?

In 21 of the country’s 24 states, blackouts and power rationing are keeping thousands of businesses, schools, hospitals and neighborhoods in the dark.

Besides dragging down the economy, the energy deficit has become a political problem for President Hugo Chavez, who plans to run for another six-year term in 2012 but whose government has been unable to solve the problem. [...]

Now, the government is pointing fingers at the opposition. In speeches, Chavez often claims that electrical plants are being sabotaged by his political foes to make his government look bad. [...]

“Any business that doesn’t have a generator,” Power says, “is at the mercy of government officials who decide when to turn the electricity on and off.”

Comment: Over the last few months and years, UK authorities have been stating that power will become a precious commodity and people will get it only when it is available. Then this week, the US and UK announced they will switch off national power grids if they think they will be burned out by a geomagnetic storm caused by a blast of charged particles from the Sun. Hence, I think the situation in Venuzuela makes an interesting case study for those who are seriously interested in what life will be like in the near future if we don't start to do business differently.

Computer glitch grounds United Airlines travelers Airline says systems have been restored; passengers allowed to cancel or rebook without penalties
MSNBC News, 18th June 2011

Thousands of travelers were stranded at airports around the United States Friday night after a computer failure of United Airlines' reservation system.

United spokesman Charles Hobart confirmed the outage and said the airline apologized to customers. A statement released by the airline did not say what caused the computer issue or how many passengers or flights were affected.

Comment: This is happening so frequently that I am now wondering whether the computer 'glitch' is just the generic excuse, but I have written about various Space Weather relate issues concerning airports before. I need to find a nerd website in the geekosphere to confirm what I think is happening but I too busy at the moment. Whatever, maybe it's a coincidence that Earth got hit by a glancing blow from a CME, see below:

WEAK IMPACT: A sharp gust of solar wind hit Earth's magnetic field today, June 17th, at approximately 0230 UT. This probably signaled the arrival of a CME en route from the sun since June 14th. The impact did not spark a significant geomagnetic storm, so bright auroras tonight remain unlikely. Spaceweather.com - 17th June 2011

Delta Airlines emergency landing on remote Pacific Island
ETN News, 17th June 2011

A Delta Airlines Boeing 747-400, registration N669US, DL-277 from Honolulu,Hawaii (USA) to Osaka Kansai(Japan) with 359 passengers and 19 crew, was enroute at FL360 about 300nm southeast of Sand Island/Midway Atoll (USA), when the captain's windshield cracked prompting the crew to divert to Sand Island's Henderson Field - runway length 2410 meters/7900 feet.

The aircraft hit two birds while on approach to Henderson Airfield on Midway Islands causing damage to a flap, the airplane continued for a safe landing about one hour later. [...]

The airline said the aircraft suffered a "major crack" in the windshield. Given the condition of the windshield the crew could not wait for the landing until after dark, but had to land still in daylight.

The FAA said, there was no loss of cabin pressure but the damage was sufficient to divert to Midway Atoll's runway that serves as an emergency strip for the Pacific.

Comment: I simply can't keep up with the repeat events warning us that the electromagnetic environment is getting more and more intense. I keep thinking of the metaphysical messages I read in the past warning people that the changes would mean that some people would literally fry because they would not be able to handle the intense electrical activity. Now we know about space weather and the evidence suggests the celestial downpour is turning into a deluge of epic proportions.

Volcano ash turns eclipse blood red
Winnipeg CTV News, 16th June 2011

SYDNEY — Asian and African night owls were treated to a lunar eclipse, and ash in the atmosphere from a Chilean volcano turned it blood red for some viewers.

The Sydney Observatory said the eclipse was to begin at 3:25 a.m. Thursday (1:25 p.m. EDT, 5:25 p.m. GMT Wednesday) and last until after 5 a.m. Scientists said the specific phenomenon happening Thursday -- known as a "deep lunar eclipse" -- often exudes a coppery color. But the intensity of the color depends on the amount of ash and dust in the atmosphere.

Comment: Yes, but we don't need an eclipse to turn the moon blood red. There are now a tremendous amount of amount of ash and dust in the atmosphere but I would suggest that there a significant amount of cosmic interstellar dust too, see archives for more details.

From Russia with Moon: Amazing RT video of lunar eclipse in Moscow
YouTube/Russia Today, 16th June 2011
"The bright midsummer full moon has all-but disappeared into darkness around much of the world - with the longest lunar eclipse in a decade now underway. RT filmed some stunning footage of eclipse in Moscow."
This is some impressive footage.

Perú: Air Force Investigates Strange Phenomena in the Peruvian Skies
Inexplicata News, 15th June 2011

UFOs? The Peruvian Air Force (FAP) acknowledges that there’s something going on in our airspace. The Dirección de Investigación Aeroespacial (DINAE), which investigates events that still lack a scientific explanation, has been in service for a decade.

Are we alone in the universe? This is the question that millions of human beings have asked themselves for centuries, and Peruvians are no exception. There is a department within the prestigious Peruvian Air Force (FAP) that was created in December 2001 and is devoted to the research of anomalous aerospace phenomena (to avoid calling them UFOs) and even now undergoes a restructuring phase to obtain a larger budget and more personnel.

Comment: The Peruvian government has been very resistant to UFO disclosure, and it looks like despite their official UFO organisation stating there is nothing useful to report, they still believe their mission warrants more money and personnel. It's a shame because their South American neighbours are taking UFO disclosure much more seriously.

IPCC 'considering sending mirrors to space to tackle climate change'
The Telegraph, 16th June 2011

Reflective aerosols would be sent into space under a series of radical “geo-engineering” measures being considered by the UN climate science body to tackle climate change, leaked documents disclose.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) papers, leaked ahead of a key meeting in Peru next week, outline the series of techniques in which scientists hope will manipulate the world’s climate to reduce carbon emissions.

Among the ideas proposed by a group of 60 leading scientists from around the world, including Britain, include producing “lighter coloured” crops to reflect sunlight, blasting aerosol “mirrors” into the stratosphere and suppressing cirus clouds.

Other suggestions include spraying sea water into clouds as another reflection mechanism, depositing massive quantities of iron filings into the oceans, painting streets and roofs white and adding lime to oceans.

Comment: Many years ago, when I first saw an article about using mirrors to try and control the Earth's climate I thought it was a joke. Now, the situation with the erratic, aberrant sun that is lacking sunspots but can fire absolutely massive bullets at Earth is way beyond strange and the scientific community are completely out of their depth. This has now reached a point where scientists cannot predict or prevent damage, so world authorities are just hoping they will have enough time to shut down planet Earth first (satellite communications, national power grids etc) to stop a massive CME blast blowing us back to the time before the Industrial Revolution. Yet, we have scientists warning of an imminent mini-Ice Age and significant climate change that will cool the Earth, but geo-engineering ideas are still being promoted to prevent climate change. So, we have to conclude that the very real fear is about the quality of the energy that is hitting the Earth, generally referred to as Space Weather. This is the real cause of dramatic climate and evolutionary change and the source of the real problem perceived by world controllers. Fundamentally, our world is now at the mercy of Universal forces. We cannot control celestial forces or what they will do (Epigenetics) and our modern technological world is at risk. Do you get that? Our whole modern world is at risk... We have scientists like Henrik Svensmark et al. who have already proven that climate change is driven by the stars, but if you do the research you will clearly see that massive evolutionary change is also driven by celestial influences, hence the many ancient warnings provided by our ancestors who lived in societies that in some instances, were more advanced than our modern world, (despite the continuous effort by archaeologists today to hide the truth). Space Weather is the warning provided by our ancestors who created the constellations and called one of them Aquarius and left a picture of man pouring water out of an urn. I will not even bother with the technicalities here, but I will state that the imagery was about explaining that at certain times in the precessional cycle, we can expect a celestial downpour of epic proportions. Guess What? Space Weather is about transformation and it is clearly obvious that we will have to do things differently on this planet to survive. Who can argue with that? We now seeing epic manmade disasters (Fukushima) and I expect more to come because we have failed as a collective to heed the ancient warnings.

How’s the [Space] Weather?
New York Times, 16th June 2011

LATELY, the Sun has been behaving a bit strangely. In 2008 and 2009, it showed the least surface activity in nearly a century. Solar flare activity stopped cold and weeks and months went by without any sunspots, or areas of intense magnetism. Quiet spells are normal for the Sun, but researchers alive today had never seen anything like that two-year hibernation.

Now that the Sun is approaching the peak of its magnetic cycle, when solar storms — blasts of electrically charged magnetic clouds — are most likely to occur, no one can predict how it will behave. Will solar activity continue to be sluggish, or will solar storms rage with renewed vigor?

Luckily, policy makers are paying attention to space weather. Late last month, President Obama and the British prime minister David Cameron announced that the United States and Britain will work together to create “a fully operational global space weather warning system.” And just last week, the United Nations pledged to upgrade its space weather forecasts.

But most people have never heard of space weather, which is a problem, because both high and low solar activity have serious effects on life on Earth.

Comment: Good basic info. Anyway, it's worse than people not knowing about the existence of Space Weather but there must be a few wondering why the UK and US are so desperate they are prepared to shut down the national grids to prevent a total catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions. What is incredible is people who claim to be spiritual who have no idea how the universe works. Our scientists tell us that 96% of the energy matter of the universe is dark, that means that scientists cannot detect it at all but they reason that it must exist to make their theories of the universe work. So why can't people make the connection that the majority of Space Weather is dark energy-matter? We have scientists telling us that they predict that dark matter clouds move through earth on a regular basis, enough to 'nudge' the orbit of the Earth and folk still don't get it... What amazes me is that this is the mundane stuff, nobody is talking about the really interesting implications but quite frankly, I am not giving out my latest research, there might be some swine about... For more space weather images, see the spaceweather.com June 2011 Aurora Gallery

Tsunami lit up the heavens
Camera captures quake-triggered atmospheric ripples over Hawaii Science News, 16th June 2011

Japan’s recent monster earthquake did more than jolt the island nation and send a tsunami racing across the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds of kilometers overhead, that tsunami also lit up the atmosphere in celestial glowing ripples.

In the first picture of its kind, scientists photographed these “airglow” ripples as they washed over Hawaii hours after the quake. The report will appear in an upcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

“It’s just total serendipity that we got this measurement,” says team leader Jonathan Makela, a space scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “It’s a really neat example of how the environment is coupled together.”

Comment: More evidence for my planetary refresh theory, but the conspiracy theorists in their ignorance, fail to pay attention to the evidence that strange emissions have been linked to earthquakes for hundreds of years.

'Deer with wings' causes power outage in Montana
Yahoo News, 16th June 2011

HELENA, Mont. – A Montana resident says an energy company has identified the cause of a brief power outage as "deer with wings." Lee Bridges says she was outside with her dogs around the time the power went out when a NorthWestern Energy truck pulled up, giving her a chance to ask the driver what caused the problem.

She says he pointed up and said, "Apparently, we've got deer with wings."

Comment: OK, I can accept the explanation of a giant eagle dropping its prey...

Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public.
Aljazeera, 16th June 2011

"Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.

Japan's 9.0 earthquake on March 11 caused a massive tsunami that crippled the cooling systems at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan. It also led to hydrogen explosions and reactor meltdowns that forced evacuations of those living within a 20km radius of the plant.

Gundersen, a licensed reactor operator with 39 years of nuclear power engineering experience, managing and coordinating projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the US, says the Fukushima nuclear plant likely has more exposed reactor cores than commonly believed.

"Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four fuel cores exposed," he said, "You probably have the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactor cores because of the fuel cores, and they are all in desperate need of being cooled, and there is no means to cool them effectively."

Comment: Long article. The situation is absolutely desperate, Arnie Gundersen provides the terrible facts.

Radiation in Japan: Nosebleed, Diarrhea, Lack of Energy in Children in Koriyama City, Fukushima
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 15th June 2011

Once a malicious "baseless rumor" on the net, now it is written up in a regional newspaper with readership in Tokyo and Kanto area.

Tokyo Shinbun (paper edition only, 6/16/2011) reports that many children in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture, 50 kilometers from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, are suffering inexplicable nosebleed, diarrhea, and lack of energy since the nuke plant accident.

(The photo of the page from this blog site, in Japanese.)

Comment: This is going to be terrible. The Japanese government response has been really pathetic. Heartbreaking, but only for people who can actually feel any emotions...

Plague Could Worsen With Climate Change
Yahoo News, 14th June 2011

When the climate gets wetter, plagues can get worse, according to a new study that reveals why the plague was much worse in China's north than in the south.

The results also suggest that climate change could mean more virulent plagues in northern China and North America, as parts of the globe get wetter.

A bacterium called Yersinia pestis, which is carried by rodents, is responsible for three types of plague: bubonic (also called Black Death), septicemic and pneumonic plague. Together, these illnesses have been responsible for the deaths of millions of people the world over, including an estimated third of Europe's population during the Middle Ages.

Comment: Climate change is driven by an influx of cosmic energies and the historical evidence is not disputed. This is only possible because Earth is an energetic system that is not closed. What's more, we know that in any energetic system, there cannot be change without energy coming from somewhere to create the change. So, as our planet is being flooded by space weather then we can presume that these scientists are warning the inhabitants of planet Earth what we can expect more plagues. I actually believe the real reason is the chaotic environment that favours some creatures more than others, but this would only be on a very limited timescale.

Daniel Petric Assassinates Mom, Shoots Pastor Dad in Head Over Video Games
True Crime Report, 14th June 2011

A staph infection from a snowboarding accident rocked teenager Daniel Petric's carefree world hard. It saddled him homebound, unable to go to school, and forget about physical activity. The hook was set when a friend introduced the X-Box and video games to the 16-year-old Ohioan..

Relegated to the home front, Petric soon found himself plying games like "Halo-3" up to 18 hours daily.

Comment: So, teens and children killing their parents over mobile phones and video games is becoming so common, that it really makes you wonder, what would happen if the power grids go down and stay down... The US and the UK might be making a sensible decision to at least try and save some of the grid, but this is far from a satisfactory solution, more like a game of celestial Russian roulette...

Coronal Mass Ejection - 14th June 2011 (Video)
Spaceweather.com, 15th June 2011

CORONAL MASS EJECTION: On June 14th around 0810 UT, a magnetic filament near the sun's eastern limb became unstable and erupted. The resulting blast hurled a bright and massive CME into space:

The expanding cloud was observed by 3 spacecraft: STEREO-A, STEREO-B and SOHO. Researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Weather Lab assembled data from the fleet to create a 3-dimensional model of the expanding cloud: movie. According to their analysis, the cloud blew away from the sun at a speed of 830 km/s and it could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on June 17th at 10:50 UT (plus minus 7 hours). The impact is not expected to provoke strong geomagnetic storming. Nevertheless, high-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the CME arrives.

Comment: There seems to have been two blasts here at about the same time, but the lower looks like what I will call a 'trumpet' CME. Very nice. So a day after NASA has caused confusion by the announcement of low sunspot counts and therefore low solar activity, we get a very nice CME that is partially Earth-directed. Hopefully the Earth's magnetosphere will be in a good enough shape to cope with anything that arrives.

Current Solar Activity and Heliospheric Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Conditions
Berkeley Edu, 15th June 2011
Info: The SOHO spacecraft, is stationed between Earth and the Sun, has an instrument called a Large-Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) and provides a wide view of the Sun's corona, it's outer atmosphere. The corona is millions of times fainter than the Sun's photosphere and is therefore only seen on Earth during an eclipse when the Moon blocks the photosphere's light. LASCO mimics an eclipse, simply using a disk to block light from the photosphere, allowing the corona to be observed.
This is a movie of solar activity over the last 4/5 days.

Nebraska Nuclear Plant at Level 4 Accident (Video)
Hawaii Daily News, 15th June 2011

The Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, Nuclear power plant is going down fast due to massive flooding. The NRC has declared it a level 4 accident. The FAA has issued the following directive, shutting down airspace over the plant:

Comment: Another nuclear disaster in the making caused by a natural disaster.... Arnie Gundersen now has another disaster to make comments about.

*High Alert* - Fire -Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant near Omaha Nebraska- Flooding Missouri River [40:25]
YouTube, 13th June 2011
"Five O'Clock Shadow" with Robert Knight and Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds Associates. Fire knocks out spent fuel cooling pool at nuclear plant near Omaha — Operating under heightened alert level because of nearby flooding on Missouri River."
Full length interview
Twitpic: Flooded Nebraska, Nuclear power plant
Nebraska Aerial Flood Tour (Video)
WOWT, 13th June 2011
"According to Olson, the Nebraska Resource District told area landowners that the dikes in areas of Washington County "were designed to withstand two, maybe three weeks of water, maybe a month." Olson said, "we're talking three to four months of water at that height, how can those levees last, how can they hold?"
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, Nebraska: "A castle surrounded by a moat..." I don't think it will stand a chance...
Nebraska Nuclear Power Plants Missouri River Flood Conditions
cryptome.org, 15th June 2011
mega photos

'I woke up in the wrong life'
Naomi Jacobs went to bed a 34-year-old mother – but the next morning was convinced she was 15 again. She describes how she fought a rare form of amnesia to find her way back to the present
The Independent, 14th June 2011

I opened my eyes with a start, breathing heavily, my pyjamas drenched in sweat. I must have had a nightmare, I told myself. But as my eyes came into focus, cold fear gripped my belly – I realised I had no idea where I was; my nightmare was real. Where was my lower bunk bed and my pink bedspread? Why wasn't my sister sleeping soundly above me? Why couldn't I hear my parents making breakfast downstairs? I scrambled from the king-size bed I'd woken up in, frantically looking around the room for something I recognised, some clues as to how I got there. Had I been kidnapped?

Comment: This is quite a story... I hope this is exceedingly rare, but I would not bet on it becoming more frequent, due to the electromagnetic chaos of our current environment...

How will they keep the bugs off the windscreen? Airbus unveil the transparent plane we'll be flying around in come 2050 (but maybe not those with a fear of flying)
Daily Mail, 14th June 2011

With its see-through aircraft cabin, passengers of the future will get a get a window on the world as they fly through the sky. For this plane with it's 'intelligent' cabin wall membrane and interactive games, may be everyday air transport in 2050. The futuristic concept for travel in 40 years' time was yesterday unveiled in London by Airbus - and it'll terrify those who already have a fear of flying.

Most of the basic technology such as moulding seats and 'head-up displays' already exist, but how Airbus plan to make the plant-based, transparent 'skin' of the plane remains a mystery.

Comment: How can the technology remain a secret? They are obviously using ORMUS particles and if they deriving that from plants, then that should encourage a few to at least think about what that means. Tick tock...

Article: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
Space.com, 14th June 2011

Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.

The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated.

The results of the new studies were announced today (June 14) at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society, which is being held this week at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. [...]

Altrock sifted through 40 years of observations from NSO's 16-inch (40 centimeters) coronagraphic telescope. New solar activity typically emerges at a latitude of about 70 degrees at the start of the solar cycle, then moves toward the equator. The new magnetic field simultaneously pushes remnants of the past cycle as far as 85 degrees toward the poles. The current cycle, however, is showing some different behavior.

"Cycle 24 started out late and slow and may not be strong enough to create a rush to the poles, indicating we'll see a very weak solar maximum in 2013, if at all," Altrock said. "If the rush to the poles fails to complete, this creates a tremendous dilemma for the theorists, as it would mean that Cycle 23's magnetic field will not completely disappear from the polar regions. … No one knows what the sun will do in that case."

Comment: For the overall climate on Earth, sunspot activity is important, so this announcement is really a political embarrassment with billions upon billions spent on the gamble of promoting the belief in global warming when low sunspot activity implies global cooling or even an Ice Age. In terms of Space Weather, the Sun could still unleash a massive Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) like it did last week and if it was Earth-directed, there could be some disasterous results due to the increased transmitting properties of space in our solar system, so low sunspot activity is not a good indicator for space weather effects on Earth.

Major Drop in Solar Activity Predicted
Space Ref News, 14th June 2011
"A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)."

Comment: When I wrote my book, I had no idea that a small group of scientists had already worked out that we would experience the lowest sunspot activity in 100 years and in fact they were wrong, instead we experienced the lowest sunspot activity in 200 years. NASA sponsored solar scientists will have red faces whilst these guys are celebrating being right...

BREAKING – major AAS solar announcement: Sun’s Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
Watts Up With That, 14th June 2011

"As I have been saying for some time: The long term Ap (the solar geomagnetic index) has been on a downtrend, ever since there was a step change in October 2005."

Comment: We are waiting for the Venus Transit in 2012, if we see the solar geomagnetic index dramatically change like it did in October 2005, then all bets will be off and it could be hell fire on Earth. Nobody knows for sure and I have not heard anything in the metaphysical community, but quite frankly, I have been not been paying much attention as I can't be bothered to sift through the crap. I expect there to be a lot of more informed discussion at WUWT.

New Insights On How Solar Minimums Affect Earth
NASA JPL News, 14th June 2011

Warning: extreme weather ahead
Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding'
The Guardian, 13th June 2011

Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there.

Welcome to the climate rollercoaster, or what is being coined the "new normal" of weather. What was, until quite recently, predictable, temperate, mild and equable British weather, guaranteed to be warmish and wettish, ensuring green lawns in August, now sees the seasons reversed and temperature and rainfall records broken almost every year. When Kent receives as much rain (4mm) in May as Timbuktu, Manchester has more sunshine than Marbella, and soils in southern England are drier than those in Egypt, something is happening.

"I think that global 'weirding' is the best way to describe what we're seeing. We are used to certain conditions and there's a lot going on these days that is not what we're used to, that is outside our current frame of reference," says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University.

Comment: So scientists are talking about global 'weirding'... well, it least it's accurate. I am quite tired of pointing out the obvious that we are seeing rapid evolutionary change that can only come about through chaos -- basic science that no one can argue about. The cause is space weather delivering an influx of energy to drive the changes, where a slow build up has now become a flood of celestial energies. The properties of space have changed that is a fact. The Earth's magnetic field is in tatters when it exists and routinely completely fails, that is a fact. What totally amazes me is: where are the metaphysicians who made the connection with Space Weather and what ancient astronomers tried so hard to preserve through ancient text, mythology and monuments?

James Ray Sweat Lodge Trial Roundup June 11
Celestial Blogspot, 11th June 2011

So, as stated, the defense suddenly and unexpectedly wrapped up their case Thursday after having called only two witnesses. But it would appear that they will be aggressively pursuing to the bitter end their real defense strategy, which is to say, getting this case thrown out before it can go to the jury. Even at this late date, they are apparently screaming about Brady violations and mistrial motions.

Yes, CNN's dogged coverage of weather maps and the empty blackness of the void deprived James Ray trial watchers of two days of courtroom drama.

Then again, maybe I should thank them for sparing us another Luis Li law lecture.

Comment: I have not been paying much attention but others have. Apparently, The Jury are a bunch of old folks but they seem to have all their faculties in place and they have a knack of asking expert witnesses some very insightful questions, something that I have noted on several occasions. Well, I am on tenderhooks now because if JR goes down, there will be a rat's nest of vipers (sorry about the mixed metaphors) in the business of, 'the brutalisation of people in the name of enlightenment' who will have to change their ways or risk going to prison. Hopefully, a major clean-up.

James Ray Trial : The Defense Rests
Salty Droid, 9th June 2011
Do not use this link to the The Salty Droid unless you can cope with bad lanaguage and people who definitely want to see JR in prison.

Can evolution outpace climate change?
UC Davis, 8th June 2011 (late entry, will re-file later)

Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published today (June 8) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The tide pool copepod Tigriopus californicus is found from Alaska to Baja California — but in a unique lab study, the animals showed little ability to evolve heat tolerance.

“This is a question a lot of scientists have been talking about,” said study co-author Eric Sanford, an associate professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis and a researcher at the university’s Bodega Marine Laboratory. “Do organisms have the ability to adapt to climate change on a timescale of decades?”

Comment: How interesting! This article based on the results of one study, neglects to inform the reader that the geological record shows that at times of rapid evolution change, many species die but many others flourish and scientists have NO idea what the factors are behind the changes. Whatever, the fact that scientists are even talking about evolution change taking place in decades reveals there must be more than enough examples to force them to reconsider what they know about evolutionary change. Hence, we have geneticists and evolutionary biologists/ecologists organising new conferences where it is obvious they seem to have completely abandoned their prior Darwinian theology. Hence we read:

Ecological and Evolutionary Epigenetics is a new field of frontier research at the intersection between molecular genetics and evolutionary ecology. Research in this field is rapidly expanding because of the growing realization that epigenetic processes, notably those involving DNA methylation, might be much more relevant for ecology and evolution than previously acknowledged. Indeed, there is accumulating evidence that:
(1) epigenetic variation can be a source of heritable phenotypic variation that is independent of DNA sequence variation
(2) epigenetic variation is widespread in natural populations
(3) the environment plays an important role in inducing epigenetic variation both within and across generations.
Thus, epigenetic variation might be a significant source of heritable phenotypic variation in natural populations. Moreover, induced epigenetic changes could represent an important component of the ecological and evolutionary responses of organisms to environmental change.

ESF-EMBO Symposium, Epigenetics in Context: From Ecology to Evolution [18-23 September 2011]

Japanese gov’t report on Fukushima: “The situation has become extremely severe”
The Denki Shimbun (The Electric Daily News), 13th June 2011

TOKYO --The Japanese government prepared a report on the accident at the Fukushima I nuclear power station (NPS) of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (TEPCO) and submitted it to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on June 7. The findings will be reported at the IAEA ministerial conference due to start on June 20. The 750-page report outlines several facts and observations...

The report consists of 13 themes. In the introduction, it points out that "the situation has become extremely severe" in dealing with the Fukushima I accident, due to the circumstances where the accident had to be dealt with in parallel with reconstruction work following the disaster caused by the great earthquake and tsunami. The report also includes an apology in relation to the nuclear accident, stating, "Japan sincerely regrets causing anxiety for people all over the world about the release of radioactive materials."

Comment: The headline comes from Energy News where there are many more alarming headlines. What is so strange is the general ineptness, no disaster plans, no satisfactory response right at the begining of this disaster, the Japanese nuclear workers had nothing, not even flashlights, no decontamination unit available, etc etc. The world had 4 years warning after the Sumatra Indonesia 9.2 earthquake when 250,000+ people died. Geologists did not believe that such a massive earthquake could occur in that region, but they were wrong. What excuse do the Japanese have? Again geologists did not believe that such a massive earthquake could occur but tsunami is a Japanese word and they have a history of tsunamis killing many tens of thousands of people. So, where do they locate the nuclear power plants? On fault lines directly on the coast, with no decent back-up electricity lines. As we now know, the meltdown was caused by the earthquake and not the tsunami, just as a geologist predicted was extremely likely to happen. Our planet is humming with new higher frequencies, the energy inbalance means that more massive Earth changing events are likely and the world is still only interested in maintaining the status quo that simply cannot support humanity, but it suits the powers that be who prefer to have less people to try and control. Meanwhile, nobody can escape the radiation (cosmic and man-made) and it's down to how well people can cope with radiation on an individual basis.

Japanese Nuclear Cleanup Workers Detail Lax Safety Practices at Plant
Wall Street Journal, 14th June 2011
OGAKI, Japan—When Masayuki Sakamoto stepped onto the grounds of the world's most dangerous nuclear power plant in March, he had little preparation other than a half-hour briefing on protective gear.

The 56-year-old owner of a 30-person construction firm from central Japan had been hired to clear debris and shovel dirt at the Fukushima Daiichi plant at a time when its reactors were belching smoke and oozing gamma rays. He had never worn a hazmat suit or used a dosimeter. He still doesn't have the proper paperwork that, in normal times, would be needed to work in a radioactive environment.

Mr. Sakamoto's rare and detailed description of daily conditions at the plant reveals the extent of worker-safety concerns there. On Monday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, said six more workers—bringing the total to eight—have likely received larger doses of radiation than allowed, even under Japan's loosened exposure limits.

Mr. Sakamoto, a junior-high graduate, says he feels a "mission" to help tame the national crisis, but at the same time jokes that he's too dumb to be scared. "Smart people know about sieverts and becquerels, so they've really got this sense of self-preservation, fear, suspicion," he says. "When you think about it, it's a real plus to be uneducated and ignorant."

Comment: The world is now watching but TEPCO still has no ability to see what is right and act accordingly. This is pathological corporate behaviour. Obviously, it does help if you can find those who don't mind being used and abused.

RT in Fukushima: Radiation 1000 times over normal outside no-go zone
YouTube/Russia Today, 13th June 2011
Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Live Camera Shows Huge Smoke/Steam Enveloping the Reactor Buildings
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 13th June 2011
"Steady streams of smoke/steam out of the Reactors 3 and 4 suddenly started to engulf the entire reactor complex at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It is the TEPCO's live camera footage after 12AM JST on June 14. Watch after 2:00. (h/t whomeco) Something bad is happening there that we aren't told of."
Black and white video that clearly shows plumes coming off one of the reactors that gets quite impressive after 2 mins.
Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam
YouTube, 13th June 2011
Fukushima Live Cam: No.3 reactor smoking away or just the local fogium?
Arnie Gundersen: Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed. (Video)
Fairewinds, 12th June 2011
"Original estimates of xenon and krypton releases remain the same, but a TEPCO recalculation shows dramatic increases in the release of hot particles. This confirms the results of air filter monitoring by independent scientists. Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen explains how hot particles may react in mammals while escaping traditional detection. Reports of a metallic taste in the mouth, such as those now being reported in Japan and on the west coast, are a telltale sign of radiation exposure."

'Controlled' power cuts likely as Sun storm threatens national grid
The Independent, 13th June 2011

Officials in Britain and the United States are preparing to make controlled power cuts to their national electricity supplies in response to a warning of a possible powerful solar storm hitting the Earth.

In an interview with The Independent, Thomas Bogdan, director of the US Space Weather Prediction Centre, said that controlled power "outages" will protect the National Electricity Grids against damage which could take months or even years to repair should a large solar storm collide with the Earth without any precautions being taken.

Dr Bogdan is in close discussions with scientists in the UK Met Office to set up a second space weather prediction centre in Britain to co-ordinate a global response to a threat viewed seriously by both the US and UK governments. One topic of discussion is how to protect national electricity grids from the immense power surges caused by the geomagnetic storms which happen when highly energetic solar particles collide with the Earth's magnetic field. [...]

The aim of the joint US-UK collaboration is to improve solar weather forecasting to a point where it is possible to warn power companies of an imminent storm. There is a feeling that if a "category 5" solar storm – the biggest of the five categories – were to be predicted, then taking the grid off-line before it is due to hit Earth and letting the storm pass would be better than trying to keep things running, he said.

Comment: OK, I have given my opinion ad infinitum, but I think the powers that be are desperate and might have been even more frightened by the massive CME last week that only gave Earth a slight glancing blow. I can only suggest watching the Discovery Channel documentary/drama Perfect Disaster: Solar Storm because this explains the logic of shutting down the grid, despite the disruption this might cause in the event of a false alarm. (By the way, if you have been following my blog for a few years, you will know there has been a few suspicious events that are explained by this documentary, like crashed satellites and cellphone networks in trouble.)

Laser is produced by a living cell
BBC News, 13th June 2011

A single living cell has been coaxed into producing laser light, researchers report in Nature Photonics. The technique starts by engineering a cell that can produce a light-emitting protein that was first obtained from glowing jellyfish. Flooding the resulting cells with weak blue light causes them to emit directed, green laser light. [...]

The authors note in an accompanying interview in the journal that the living system is a "self-healing" laser; if the light-emitting proteins are destroyed in the process, the cell will simply produce more. "In cellular sensing, we may be able to detect intracellular processes with unprecedented sensitivity," they said. "For light-based therapeutics, diagnosis and imaging, people think about how to deliver emission from an external laser source deep into tissue. Now we can approach this problem in another way: by amplifying light in the tissue (itself)."

Comment: Actually, DNA produces ultraweak biophoton emission that have been commonly referred to as the aura. The best known researcher is German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp, who has been researching the laser light emissions from living systems for decades. Presumably, as this research is designated as photomedicine, scientists are trying to understand this process and how it can be used to enhance healing with light.

Mexico's Infrared UFOs
Inexplicata, 12th June 2011

Salim Daniel Sigales lives in Mexico City’s Gustavo A. Madero District. He has a degree in Computer Science and works at Benito Juarez International Airport (MCIA). He is interested in the UFO pheomenon and has devoted many hours to skywatch, securing some very interesting evidence.

Having developed a problem with his knee three months ago, he was placed on medical leave and forced to remain home. From his place of residence, and with great patience, he began recording passing aircraft, only to learn that the air corridors are frequented by unknown objects. Salim also employs an infrarred lens, of which he says: “It has served me well. I’m able to detect things that cannot be picked up by the unaided eye. When I recorded the video that shows the moon, there was apparently nothing strange in the sky, but my camera’s screen did show a rather large sphere.

Comment: I thought this was interesting and worth mentioning that scientists have been able to detect UFOs in the infrared and ultraviolet parts of the electromagnetic spectrum for many decades. The Russians have been the most candid in explaining they have been watching UFOs with satellites that look into the ultraviolet and state there is quite a traffic of these plasma entities flying into and out of Earth's atmosphere. As I have stated before, well respected military historian and ufologist Trevor James Constable, in the 1950s onwards, was able to use special film that could see into the infrared that allowed him to photograph the "critters" that were distinctly biological in appearance, see archives for more info. If you spend time perusing the internet there are now hundreds of videos taken by people using infrared "night vision" cameras to record UFOs. I actually prefer to use the term Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) but even that is a misnomer because they are really a known phenomena and should be considered as another lifeform that is part of Earth's Shadow Bisophere. Lots more reports over at Latest UFO Sightings, but I have picked out a few of interest to me, see below.

Multiple UFOs over Bedford, UK, 11th June 2011 [1:00]
Latest UFO Sightings, 12th June 2011
The commentary is amusing, no swearing in the 1st video but with the 2nd footage of the Armada of UFOs over Bedford [1:14], the lads break down and start swearing...

New photos of triangle formation over Michigan, USA 11-Jun-2011
Latest UFO Sightings, 12th June 2011
"Latest UFO sightings - This photos of unknown bright objects in triangle formation were recorded flying across the sky over Michigan in United States on Saturday, 11th June 2011 around 8 pm."

Daytime UFO over Derby, UK 9-Jun-2011 [0:46]>
Latest UFO Sightings, 11th June 2011
Derby is very close to my home town of Burton upon Trent

UFO over Boracay, Philippines 5-Jun-2011 [3:37]
Latest UFO Sightings, 5th June 2011

UFO 2011 - This strange unknown object was recorded hovering above Boracay in Philippines on Sunday, 5th June 2011 around 9 pm. Witness report: A UFO is an Unidentified Flying Object, that is what I saw. My personal belief is that this is something extra-terrestrial.

I spotted this in the night sky over Boracay Island in the Phillipines at about 9 pm on June 5th 2011 (about 8 hours ahead of BST). I managed to catch it on my Casio Excilim GPS 14MP HD camera. I got about 25 hi res stills at 10X optical zoom, and a further 25 stills at a total of 27X (the additional 17X coming from digital zoom). I also took some HD footage at different zoom distances, this footage is at 27X. This video shows the last three minutes that the UFO was visable. It was visable for a total of about 25 minutes.

This video is taken from prone position on the beachfront facing South-South-West, with the camera positioned in the sand so that it didnt move. I made a couple of adjustments as the UFO went off screen, but you can see that it isnt totally stationary.

Comment: Gobsmacking.... (For Americans, that means shock and awe...) This was filmed with a commentary by an English tourist and others who saw this whilst eating dinner and then ran onto the beach to join the party of people watching a UFO that had apparently been seen over the previous two weeks. Hi res photos were uploaded too and I found them with additional comments at the Latest UFO Sightings website, here

The Paranormal Negativity Overload
AOL News, 11th June 2011

Turning on your television may lead you to believe that our world is about to end, that the bump you heard in the other room is an evil spirit inhabiting your home, and that aliens are preparing an invasion -- and that's before you even watch the nightly news!

With the popularity of the paranormal soaring, Hollywood big and small is grabbing onto anything that will draw in ratings, even if it means leaving viewers feeling like anything having to do with the paranormal is terrifying and evil. This negativity overload on screen has actually resulted in a staggering increase in questions from frightened viewers, and the coverage continues to drive far more fear than fact about these subjects.

Comment: An interesting perspective. Basically, this article suggests there is a real search for truth in the mainstream, but recognises that the media has overhyped the fear factor, but the writer hopes that not too many people will be put off in their search for truth.

A Mermaid Tale: something that I don't believe happened, but I don't know what did.
The Big Study, 11th June 2011

Well, who doesn't like mermaids?? Even Disney recognizes that the concept is charming and attractive, and in folklore those two words have their own darker meanings. I like all the Mer-people, Aquafolk, Naiads et al, and will heartily sympathize with good encounter tales of such beings. I'm not sure that the one which follows meets that criterion. [...]

Regarding the event itself: the witness was attracted to a commotion among the "natives" who had netted a creature. Upon approaching the scene, the witness saw that what they had in their net was no "fish" but something with human characteristics.

The witness asked what it was and was informed that they had, once again, caught a mermaid. [who knows what actual terminology was used, as the "broken-english-using" locals would seem unlikely to be using the term "mermaid" --- this begins to concern me a bit].

He was told that they wouldn't kill it but that it would die on its own. Which, "weeping", it did over the space of a half an hour.

Comment: Well, I am spending more time studying ancient mythology and astronomy, so the enigma of mermaids is becomes highly relevant, especially when we have modern stories to fan the flames and keep ancient memories alive.

Tests 'reject new particle claim'
BBC News, 10th June 2011

Cross-checks on data that hinted at the discovery of a new sub-atomic particle have failed to find support for the observation.

In May, researchers working on the CDF experiment at the US Tevatron "atom smasher" announced they had detected tantalising hints of an unanticipated particle. But independent checks using a separate experiment called DZero have not been able to corroborate the findings - dealing a blow to the idea. [...]

US Department of Energy budget cuts are forcing the Tevatron to shut in September this year; by the time the machine accelerates its last particles, it will have been operating for some 28 years.

Comment: I remember being rather cynical that scientist associated with the US Tevatron had found a new particle and I believed it was a desperate attempt by scientist to keep their research funding and jobs. Looks like I was right.

Tiny village is latest victim of the 'The hum'
It is a mysterious sound on the very edge of perception that has driven thousands of people around the world to distraction.
The Telegraph, 9th June 2011

Now a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as "the hum". Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to the throb of a car engine. It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders.

But no matter how hard they look, the community cannot find the source of the problem and, at their wits end, have called in the council to investigate. The 300-strong population is the latest around the world to be hit by the rumble which has in the past led to wild conspiracy theories blaming it on UFOs, government experiments and abandoned mine shafts.

Comment: The strange humming noise phenomenon is happening all over the world and is related to specific places that act as conduits for celestial energies most often called energy vortexes and portals. Scientists have found evidence of a new 'horizontal' and 'vertical' hum in recent years and we must assume that the metaphysical messages of the Earth being driven up to a new higher frequency are actually correct and can now be scientifically verified in a number of different ways. In my book Tuning The Diamonds, I wrote about how experiments prove that vibration is related to geometry and so helps us to see how specific places will register this vibration more, see archives for more info.

Special Comment - 7th June 2011

I am still looking at the mess of the Gregorian Calendar, how that relates to precession and the various astrological zodiacs because it is impossible otherwise, to understand why estimates for the start time of an astrological age, that is only supposed to last 2150 years, can vary by over 1000 years. Amongst the detailed analysis by various scholars, I have come across the research of John Charles Webb, Jr who states:

We are now in the third millennium and our Macro cosmic timekeeping has been virtually ignored. It's like knowing what day it is but not knowing the week, month, year or century. According to the present scheme (no precessional adjustments) of The Gregorian Calendar we will NEVER enter the Age of Aquarius!

Source: The Gregorian Calendar

Since the the Gregorian Calendar is an invention of the 'Holy' Church that is anything but holy, it seems that the current state of affairs is deliberate. What's more, astrologers who stick to the Tropical/Sidereal zodiacs are actually mostly unwittingly conspiring to maintain this unenlightened state of affairs by fixing these zodiacs to a 4th century map of the stars. Hence, astronomers are correct to point out that we are actually in the Age of Aquarius and Space Weather is the ultimate proof. No amount of fiddling with any calendars can stop the outpouring of spiritual energy onto our planet, the Universe rules supreme, nothing can stop reality.

Mutant rabbits, economic meltdowns and nuclear tourism
Japan times, 12th June 2011

In the first week of June, media attention shifted briefly from the Fukushima reactor calamity to skirmishes on the floor of the National Diet, where the government headed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confidence vote.

But the Fukushima reactor troubles keep coming back, creating a state of affairs best summed up by an obscure corollary to Murphy's Law that goes, "After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle repeats itself." [Classic....]

A professor of zoology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology would not rule out the possibility of the birth defect being caused by radiation exposure to the mother rabbit, but he told Flash it would be difficult to ascertain the cause of the mutation. Needless to say, no one at this stage even wants to think about the potential effects on the humans who will be born from around this autumn.

Comment: I am impressed with the discovery of an obscure corollary to Murphy's Law, but I think it is only appropriate here because most have failed to comprehend the significance of the times that we are living in. Humanity largely failed to prepare adequately and now in the attempt to carry on as 'normal' or 'business as usual', many are disappointed that this is in fact, impossible. There is lots more disasterous news at Energy News.

Head of Fukushima health study: 100 mSv/yr OK for pregnant moms — “Effects of radiation do not come to people that are happy… They come to people that are weak-spirited”
Energy News, 11th June 2011
I suppose this comes from some idiot who believes in encouraging people to believe in the power of positive thinking, in the hope that people will stop thinking about reality and working to do something about making some drastic changes...

Anger over Fukushima spills on streets in Tokyo anti-nuke protests
YouTube/Russia Today, 11th June 2011
It's exactly three months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing widespread destruction and leaving some 15,000 people dead. The nuclear crisis that followed shows no sign of abating as radiation continues to leak, forcing tens of thousands of evacuees into crowded shelters. Our correspondent Sean Thomas is in Tokyo where anger over the situation is spilling onto the streets.
Very interesting footage showing nuclear protestors... I have just listened to Kei Sugaoka's interview so I am still in shock, I can't imagine people would be still so cheerful if they knew the truth...
GE Nuclear Plant Inspector/Whistleblower Kei Sugaoko Speaks About Fukushima, GE
YouTube, 6th June 2011
"General Electric nuclear plant inspector Kei Sugaoka was one of the inspectors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2000. He noticed a crack in the steam dryer which he videotaped. He was later ordered by Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO to edit this part of the tape which is illegal in the United States. He went public and some TEPCO managers were fired. He thought that things would change but they have not. Additionally, as a result of being a whistleblower he was also laid off by General Electric and has been struggling to get the truth out about these dangerous plants. Sugaoka has inspected plants throughout the world including in Taiwan and Europe. This interview was done on May 5, 2011.

Comment: This information provided in this interview is just frightening.... shocking... awful....

Telenor's Norway Mobile Network Partly Down
Wall Street Journal, 10th June 2011

STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)--Telenor ASA (TEL.OS) said Friday its mobile telecommunications network in Norway is partly inoperative due to a technical fault, but gave no indication of when it would be rectified.

According to a statement on Telenor's webpage that was released at 1245 GMT, the company said it is experiencing problems with its mobile network that affects both mobile voice and SMS services. Fixed telephony isn't affected by the fault, the company said.

On its Facebook-page Telenor said "large parts" of its mobile network in Norway was inoperative, as from 1100 GMT. The company said there hasn't been a complete outage, but added that voice and data traffic "has been significantly reduced" and that the flaw affects Telenor's customers and other operators which use Telenor's mobile network. Norway's Telenor has three million mobile subscriptions in Norway, according to the company financial statement for the first quarter 2011.

Comment: So.... the timing here is very suspicious with this being the exact time that the NICT simulation of ACE satellite data, a fairly reliable early warning system for space weather, reported a white-hot magnetosphere at the time the Norwegian mobile communications system went down and it's not fixed yet, more than 36 hours later.

To make matters worse, Telenor’s mobile telephone network broke down Friday afternoon, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without telephone and text messaging (SMS) capabilities. In Oslo, the Get cable TV network also broke down. It was unclear whether the communications problems were also weather-related and Telenor apologized profusely on national radio, using a good old-fashioned land line.
Source: Rain wreaks havoc, phones hit, too
Views and News from Norway, 10th June 2011

Breaking: US Airways Computers Crash Nationwide: All Flights Grounded
NYC Aviation, 10th June 2011

US Airways’ computer system—including their website—reportedly crashed Friday evening, crippling the airline’s flight check-ins nationwide and leaving hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers grounded.

According to at least one US Airways employee, their corporate email was also inaccessible. The Phoenix-based carrier did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Comment: Maybe this is a casualty of the CME that hit Earth just before 13:00 UT, where the magnetosphere bombardment seems to have steadily got worse for the rest of the day. Not surprisingly, the NICT real time simulation of the earth's magnetic field shows that Earth's shielding (magnetosphere) has failed. This is the worse that I saw after only taking a brief look NICT Magnetosphere Pressure - 10th June 2011 at 22:49: 11 UT. Well, this was only suppose to be a glancing blow...

NICT real time simulations of Earth's magnetosphere.
Use this link to check out the latest details.

Huge sun explosion rocks astronomers' world
Analysis, research ramped up: 'We're seeing things we've never seen before'
MSNBC News, 9th June 2011

A huge storm on the sun this week unleashed what some have called the most massive eruption of solar plasma ever seen. While that's up for review, the solar storm has revealed a tantalizing glimpse at the inner workings of our nearest star, scientists say.

NASA astronomers said the huge June 7 solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, probably wasn't the biggest ever, but it is notable both for its size and its perplexing behavior. Huge waves of plasma roared off the sun only to rain back down on the solar surface.

"We're seeing things we've never seen before," said Phillip Chamberlin, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and a deputy project scientist on the agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite. "It's a really exciting event. There are a lot of exceptions to it." [...]

Another mystery researchers are hoping to solve is why this super-powerful coronal mass ejection was paired with just a moderate solar flare. Experts aren't sure about the connection between the two events, which usually seem to roughly correlate both in timing and strength.

"One of the big questions in solar science is the relationship between solar flares and coronal mass ejections," Chamberlin said. "Can you have one without the other or are they really intimately tied? There are people in the field that will argue both ways."

Comment: The Sun is processing a different type of energy so some of the effects are now recognised as being very different as scientists struggle to be able to predict massive releases of plasma. Solar eruptions create highly disruptive Space Weather that effect our modern technological systems that are highly reliant on satellite communications and technology as well as making our national power grids vulnerable. This solar event is just the latest "surprise" for solar scientists, who acknowledge the sun's recent abberant behaviour that scientists can only suggest is related to unknown long term solar cycles, but it's also likely that the sun is also being affected by an influx of interstellar cosmic dust and energy caused by the arrival of 'G Cloud'.

A new model of the Sun’s open magnetic flux
UCAR, 6th June 2011
"The solar minimum that bottomed out from 2006 to 2010 was the longest and deepest since modern space observations began. Among other effects, it reorganized the areas of flux from open magnetic field lines that produce solar wind. NCAR postdoctoral researcher Liang Zhao is using data from the last two minima to revise a model of how open magnetic flux is transported through the solar atmosphere."

Rare Snowfall Blankets African Desert
Irish Weather Online, 9th June 2011

Parts of the south-west Africa nation of Namibia usually associated with heat and dust have been blanketed in snow.
A storm brought sub zero temperatures and snow to the Namib-Naukluft Park this week, which local forecasters have described as an extremely rare event. The average overnight temperature, measured from Tuesday 18h00 until 06h00 Wednesday, was a record low of 2.1 degrees Celsius.

According to namibiaweather.info, the lowest temperature recorded by weather stations on Tuesday was minus 7.8 degrees Celsius, just south of Waterberg in the Otjozondjupa Region. The cold conditions are expected were expected to ease Thursday.

Comment: Another 'rare' weather event....

While country is hit by drought, snow falls on Snowdon [Wales, UK]
Wales Online, 11th June 2011

Radioactive Tea: Shizuoka Government Told Online Food Grocer Not to Publish the Test Result for Tea on Their Website
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 9th June 2011

It can't get any better. (But that's what I've thought ever since March 11 and I've been wrong.)

It was the proverbial "fly in the ointment" when an online food grocer (home delivery of fresh produce) alerted the Shizuoka prefectural government that one of Shizuoka's teas tested high in radioactive cesium according to the grocer's test. For Shizuoka, it was going to be a "clean bill of health" for all teas in Shizuoka when they started testing the final products, "seicha". 8 tea-growing regions tested below the limit on June 8, and 11 more regions were going to do the same on June 9.

But this grocer came forward with the information that one of the teas were radioactive, exceeding the national limit. So the government was forced to test that particular tea, and it was indeed exceeding the limit. But it was not before the prefecture told the grocer not to publish the data, because the prefectural government was already doing the minimum necessary to alert the consumer. Their words.

In other countries, this kind of arrogant behavior by the producer ignoring the safety of the consumers may result in boycott of the product. [Are you sure about that....]

Comment: Japan is looking more and more like China with the total disregard for human life constantly being advocated by government authorities, who only seem to care about maintaining business interests. This is now so short sighted, they don't seem to comprehend that they will actually kill all the "customers" off.... Read the news and think.... Tokyo is already showing hot spots of high levels of radiation. This mentality of lets not destroy business interests, will instead sabotage the whole country...

Police to Send 150 Officers, Riot Squads to Tepco Meeting
San Francisco Chronicle, 9th June 2011
June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's National Police Agency will send 150 officers and riot squads to Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s annual general meeting this month to quell possible protests by shareholders and terror attacks, a police official said.
Share price has fallen off a cliff....
Widen evacuation zone for children, pregnant women: Greenpeace chief
Japan Times, 10th June 2011
"The government should consider evacuating children and pregnant women from a wider area around the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because radiation levels remain high even outside the 20-km no-go zone, Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, said Thursday in Tokyo."

Comment: The Japanese government response is incredible compared to how the Russians dealt with Chernobyl, government advisers don't cry in public because they think everything is going to be OK.
- Children's Lives At Risk - Slideshow (.pdf)
  Greenpeace, 27th June 2011
  21 slides, I found this really sad...
U.S. Nuclear Industry: Japan Accident Won't Harm Health
Wall Street Journal, 9th June 2011
More lies....
Hot particles in Japan
THE LOW LEVEL RADIATION CAMPAIGN, 19th May 2011
"Autoradiograph of dandelion leaves picked since the disaster. An autoradiograph is an image created by placing a specimen in close contact with X-ray film. If radioactivity is present it will darken the image. This image is from Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences. There are more autoradiographs on his blog site. He says the pictures show that radioactive materials have been absorbed from the roots and distributed throughout the plants."
This is Professor Busby's website and there has been talk about dandelions before the birth of the rabbit with no ears.... the youtube video below is a little troubling too....
Japan Fukushima Dandelion Mutations??? Alberta Canada
YouTube, 7th June 2011
"This video is comprised of photos taken in Edmonton Alberta Canada one week ago. The mutant Dandelions were in a 4 square foot radius. Some flowering candidates looked promising the day before... and then just died and then some just seem to flourish like marigolds on steroids! I'm no botanist but this doesn't seem right!"

This Week's Solar Flare Illuminates the Grid's Vulnerability
New York Times, 9th June 2011

A massive burst of solar wind that erupted from the sun Tuesday is expected to deliver only a "glancing blow" to the Earth's vulnerable magnetic field, NASA officials said yesterday. But it will preview what some experts call a potentially existential threat to the power grids of the United States and other nations, and the populations that depend on them.

"Geomagnetically-induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers," a 2009 report (pdf) by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says. [...]

The Hydro-Québec power system draws almost entirely on hydroelectric generation, which permits a relatively simple and rapid restoration, he said. In contrast, the U.S. grid relies predominantly on steam electric generation, making restoration much more difficult, and a recovery as fast as Quebec's "is highly unlikely."

Comment: Another two Space Weather reports to read, I have quite a collection now.... This NERC report includes sections that focus on the risks to the national grid associated with terrorism, pandemics, as well as a geomagnetic/electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event. Interestingly, natural disasters and meteor strikes were mentioned but were not a focus and after the recent historic tornado levels, with a brisk hurricane season expected too and the ever increasing number of meteors being seen, I suppose they would all present similar issues and would be covered by the same procedures. The talk of the peak of solar cycle 24 being in 2012-2014 is questionable because the suns' behaviour still appears to be quite abnormal and I am still waiting to see if more scientists think we are NOW at the peak of the solar cycle. The point of the real concern is that it would only take one huge blast to wipe out grids across the world and historically, an X-rated flare and associated massive CME is possible at ANY time, just like we have seen this week. (Please note: we were fortunate because the CME was facing aware from Earth and and so we only clipped a little of the main energy, but the world cannot assume that Earth will not get hit by a mega solar event, some point in the near or distant future.)

Metatech: Geomagnetic Storms and Their Impacts on the U.S. Power Grid
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2010

"This report describes the threat of geomagnetic storms on the Earth caused by solar activity and further discusses their impacts (past and future) on the U.S. power grid. The intention is to describe the seriousness of the threat through a description of past geomagnetic storms and their impacts. In addition, the ability to model the interactions of the geomagnetic field with power grids allows an understanding of past events and the ability to predict the effects of future geomagnetic storms. This report provides the baseline for determining the future recommendations for protecting the U.S. power grid from this threat in the future."
I have modified the front cover of this report with a Metatech image to create this image icon

Interview: Erling Strand
Unexplained Mysteries, 6th June 2011 (late entry, will re-file later)

UM forum regular "The L" recently secured an interview with teacher and researcher Erling Strand who heads a long-running project aimed at investigating the mysterious Hessdalen Valley lights in Norway.

1.Is it proven that 95% of Hessdalen phenomena is plasma? Or are we still talking about UFOs? I read that conclusion of the research was that "...its behavior most often unpredictable." And unknown origin.

No, it is not proven that the Hessdalen Phenomena is a plasma, but in many cases it might be a possibility. The many differences of shapes, colors, lifetime, behavior etc. makes us believe there may be different types of phenomena we are studying. There may be several answers to the question: What is it?

Comment: This is an interesting interview where Erling Strand is being asked about the Hessdalen Phenomenon being a plasma. The questions are from someone who does not seem to have read the relevant scientific reports that are freely available on the internet or studied the properties of plasmas in relation to electromagnetic fields. I think that Strand has no choice but be quite evasive about whether the Hessdalen phenomenon is a plasma, because context is very important for a scientist. I think the answer to question 4. is probably the best Strand can do to help the interviewer understand the issue. The simple definition of plasma is like comparing a human to a selection of elements on the periodic table, obviously, that is a very long way off from understanding a human being. Humans have been scientifically studying human biology for hundreds maybe even thousands of years, we have defined many other different facets that make up a human being, but the importance of the electromagnetic and the interdimensional properties of humans are often studied, but the importance is mostly downplayed. It's the same issue with cosmology and the electromagnetic properties of the universe that have been mostly ignored until recent decades. Scientists are happy to explain they believe in completely undetectable "dark matter" and "dark energy", but have balked at the idea of electricity in space, but Space Weather has changed a lot of opinions. At the moment, due to our poor understanding of plasma and it's electromagnetic properties, calling the Hessdalen Phenomena "plasma" is just too all encompassing for a scientist, especially when funding is not that forthcoming.

Scientific campaign analysis luminous phenomena observed in the valley Hessdalen Norway
CNES Geipan, November 29, 2010

Google translation: "[...] Despite intensified observations during recent years, it was not possible to formulate a clear hypothesis on the origin of these luminous phenomena, although they could be likened to plasma balls giving or not light emission side. The geomorphology of the valley and the existence of very large deposits of minerals could also contribute to the formation of these luminous phenomena. Finally, these events could also occur in the valleys surrounding desert.

By the recurrence of these events, the site Hessdalen is therefore an ideal site for scientific research for understanding the phenomena of light. At the request of cooperation with the Norwegian teams GEIPAN (Group for Study and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena; http://www.cnes-geipan.fr/), it has promoted an expansion of research scientists to a consortium led by Norway, Italy and France. A nucleus of French scientists from several research institutes, has proposed an assessment mission of these luminous phenomena during the winter season 2010-2011.

The objectives of this first campaign, conducted with limited resources, are to identify possible disturbances of low frequency electromagnetic field (below 40 Hz) associated with these events light to measure the spectrum of the electric field in a frequency band very wide (1kHz to 5MHz) to study the seismic noise, recording radar traces of these phenomena with the Italian radar, and shoot on automatic triggering the phenomena of light through the Norwegian material. Four sites are currently operational: the Norwegian central station called 'Blue box' where the Norwegian equipment and measuring the electric field, the radar station located 4 miles south and two electromagnetic stations located in the valley and powered by batteries and solar panels."

Comment: Please note: Scientists have NOTHING else to compare this luminous phenomenon to but plasma and for a good reason, when plasma makes up 99.99% of the known universe but we still don't understand much about it at all.

A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
NASA Science News, 9th June 2011

June 9, 2011: NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system.

Mission scientists say the probes have just sent back some very big news indeed. It's bubbly out there. "The Voyager probes appear to have entered a strange realm of frothy magnetic bubbles," says astronomer Merav Opher of Boston University. "This is very surprising.

Comment: The NASA video that accompanies this media release is quite succinct. The description of the new 'Foam Zone', makes me wonder how long it takes these scientists to come up with a phrase that sells an idea. Again, it's interesting that these scientists stated this discovery was a total surprise, but I would be prepared to bet that someone came up with idea before, but was was just completely ignored by those with less imagination and creative thinking ability.

Magnetic Effervescence
Thunderbolts.info, 13th June 2011
Predictable response form the EU theorists

Wichita experiences rare 'heat burst' overnight
KSN News, 9th June 2011

WICHITA, Kansas -- Last night Wichita experienced a very rare weather phenomenon known as a “Heat Burst.” At 12:22 a.m. the temperature at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport was 85 degrees. At 12:44 the temperature spiked to 102 degrees. This was a 17 degree increase in only 20 minutes. Winds also gusted between 50 and 60 MPH. The heat burst winds and temperatures rapidly dissipated as they spread across Sedgwick and Southern Butler Counties.

A heat burst is caused when rain falls into very dry air, high up in the atmosphere. The rain quickly evaporates as it falls through the dry parcel of air and that parcel cools rapidly. This dense mass falls rapidly toward the ground, heating up as it compresses. When this hot ball of air hits the ground it spreads out in every direction creating very strong, warm and dry winds.

Comment: I wonder whether this was related to strong geomagnetic activity associated with the solar flare and CME. Probably the best guess would be a substorm but because this event is very rare, I think it must be noted.

Heat burst hits Wichita: 102 degrees at 1AM
Watts Up With That, 8th June 2011
"Wichita, Kansas was hit with a thunderstorm induced “heat burst” early Thursday morning, with the temperature jumping from the mid-80s up to 102F after midnight! Wichita has now experienced the earliest string of 7-straight 100F+ days (so far) this June."

Dr. Lakhmir Chawla Frustrates Near-Death Experience Researchers
Skeptico, 7th June 2011

George Washington University Medical Center Professor, Dr. Lakhmir Chawla, answers critics of his near-death experience research.

Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with Dr. Lakhmir Chawla. During the interview Dr. Chawla discussed whether his discovery of a surge in the brain’s electrical activity seconds before death might, or might not, be related to near-death experience:

Dr. Lakhmir Chawla: We have a hypothesis for why this may be happening, that causes this large intensity of electrical energy. What we basically hypothesize further and speculate is that if somebody within the field, someone who’s having a heart attack, for example, and their heart stops and the oxygen to their brain went down and they have this sort of terminal surge of energy and then they were resuscitated and brought back, it’s very likely that they would recall that electrical surge.

If they did recall that electrical surge, we hypothesize and speculate that that could be what people describe in their near-death experiences. The one thing that we’ve seen rather consistently when you read the literature of near-death experiences is that not everyone has the same imagery. Not everyone has the same experience.

But the one thing that they all have in common is that the experience is very intense and very vivid. People can usually recall many, many years later on with great detail what they experienced. So it would take something that would be a very durable electrical event of energy for someone to have that. So we put those notions together and arrived at that speculation.

Comment: I am pleased that this doctor is brave enough to point out his observations because it helps us to understand why people who have a Near Death Experience become more enlightened as their brains are literally electrically re-wired. It also helps us to understand why in our current chaotic electromagnetic environment, with some extreme electric fields occuring at ground level, why people may have a quick brain upgrade, seemingly for no particular reason.

U.N. to upgrade 'space weather' forecasts
Severe solar storm could cause $2 trillion in damage, require 10 years to recover MSNBC News, 8th June 2011

OSLO — A U.N. plan to upgrade "space weather" forecasts can help the world cope with solar storms that might wreak up to $2 trillion in damage if the sun repeated a giant flare of 1859, experts said.

The sun is entering a more active phase due to peak in 2013 on a roughly 11-year sunspot cycle, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. Power supplies, air traffic control, communications and satellites can all be disrupted by storms.

"We are increasingly being impacted by space weather," Barbara Ryan, director of the space weather program at the Geneva-based WMO, told Reuters. She said there was a need to coordinate forecasts and upgrade warnings of looming storms.
"No country has enough resources alone ... we need observations from all over the globe," she said. "A common alerting protocol (is) an issue we will be looking at over the next couple of years" to help limit impacts.

Comment: Good! Hopefully more people will wake up to what Space Weather really signifies.... There has been other space weather reports and announcements in the last week or so, but strangely, they have received very little attention in the mainstream media. See below:

Rays from solar eruption will start hitting Earth today
ABC News, 9th June 2011
"PETER CAVE: Electronic equipment near the North and South Poles could be knocked out today after the biggest solar eruption in five years."

Scanning the Skies for Debris Hazards
Science Daily, 6th June 2011

Today, orbiting satellites are threatened by over 700 000 pieces of debris. Avoiding them requires knowing where they are, and that means surveillance with radar and telescopes. The European Space Agency is designing a system to catalog debris and warn satellite operators when to take evasive action.

This week, over 150 global experts will meet at an ESA-organised conference to share the latest research findings on space debris, surveillance technology, orbital hazard detection and satellite safety. The first European Space Surveillance Conference (ESS2011) will be held 7-9 June in Madrid, Spain.

The conference spotlights ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, now in the preliminary phase, which aims to put in place a 'three-legged' system to warn of hazards posed by orbital debris, space weather and natural objects like asteroids that may strike Earth.

Comment: More Space Weather, more space debris... Asteroids are now becoming a major part of Space Weather, as more objects drift along with the new aetheric tide...

UK/US To Collaborate On 'Space Weather'
Build.co.uk, 1st June 2011 (late entry, will re-file later)

Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama have welcomed the growing partnership between the Met Office and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service in working toward the delivery of space weather alerts.

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Met Office and NOAA in February 2011 provides for a coordinated US-UK partnership. This involves a range of UK and US agencies and organisations in the delivery of Space Weather alerts to help provide critical infrastructure protection around the globe.

The two governments have announced that they will embark together on an ambitious programme to create the world's first combined space weather model capable of forecasting terrestrial weather and also indicating where, when, and for how long space weather effects will persist in our upper atmosphere. Space weather anomalies can disrupt and degrade GPS-enabled positioning, navigation, and timing capabilities.

Comment: This really did not get any publicity in the mainstream media and I wonder, why?

Make GPS Robust, Says AMS Report on Satellite Navigation and Space Weather
Space weather is the largest source of accuracy errors for most GNSS users
Inside GNSS, 28th May 2011 (late entry, will re-file later)

A new report by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) highlights the vulnerability of GPS-dependent critical infrastructures to disruptions caused by solar flares and other space weather events, and sets forth a series of recommendations for building robustness of the GPS service.

Entitled “Satellite Navigation & Space Weather: Understanding the Vulnerability & Building Resilience,” the report is based on a workshop organized by the AMS and held October 13–14, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

Space weather is the largest source of accuracy errors for most GNSS users, due to its effects on signal propagation through the atmosphere. The next solar maximum, the high point in an 11-year cycle, is expected to occur in 2013. [...]

The report also recommends R&D investments to improve understanding of space weather and enable timely space weather warnings. The AMS plans to brief congressional staff on the report during the week of June 21.

Comment: So, Space Weather is scrambling data and users of these satellite systems are not happy?

Satellite Navigation & Space Weather Policy Study (.pdf)
American Meteorological Society, June 2011
"The AMS [American Meteorological Society] Policy Program held a workshop October 13-14, 2010 in Washington DC to discuss satellite navigation's vulnerability to space weather and how to build resilience for the future. Recommendations were made on how to better understand the vulnerabilities, understand how science and and engineering can be used to build resiliency, and what policy opportunities are available for mitigating risk and improving the application of space weather information to GPS operations."

GOLD May Help Prevent Space Storm Damage on Earth
UCF Today News, 18th May 2011 (Late entry, will re-file later)

A device that may help predict and prevent GPS and cell phone blackouts has been developed at the University of Central Florida.

The imager, named Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD for short, will record images of ultraviolet light emitted by the atmosphere approximately 62 miles above the earth’s surface. Measurements will be made from a satellite orbiting in sync with the earth, meaning data can be collected across the entire hemisphere throughout the day. The data will give scientists a clear picture of how the temperature and composition in the uppermost portions of the atmosphere respond to various influences, such as changes in the sun’s output.

Comment: Yet, some New Agers are applying real 'golden energy' into their energy fields for 'shielding and protection' and most people would think this was mad because they don't haver a clue about the true nature of reality. I have seen this 'golden energy' with my own 'evolved' eyesight, so I know what they are doing is not imaginary.......

Did A Massive Solar Proton Event Fry The Earth
Space Daily, 6th June 2011

Close to the end of the last ice age there was a sudden disappearance of many mammalian species which some paleontologists say was the most severe since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In North America 95 percent of the megafauna became extinct, these being predominantly mammals having body weights greater than 25 to 50 kilograms. But even small animals were affected, as in the disappearance of 10 genera of birds.

Although North America was most affected, it had a severe impact also in Europe, Siberia, and South America. The cause of the extinction has long remained a mystery. Theories that have been put forth have ranged from overkill by North American paleolithic hunters to the impact of a large comet or swarm of meteors. But all have been shown to have serious flaws.

Now, Starburst Foundation researcher Dr. Paul LaViolette has found evidence that this mysterious die-off may have had a solar flare cause. In his paper published this week in the journal Radiocarbon, LaViolette concludes that a super sized solar proton event (SPE) impacted the earth about 12,900 years ago (12,837+/- 10 calendar years BP).*

Comment: Maybe this idea of a super sized solar proton event (SPE), is a new idea, because I can't find the particular details in LaViolette's book Earth Under Fire. It could also be a refinement to his research that suggests the Sun temporarily became a T Tauri star due to being aggravated by the arrival of interstellar cosmic dust. Whatever, LaViolette needs to be careful, the movie Knowing (2009) has an apocalyptic ending with a super sized solar flare incinerating the surface of the Earth, so people have been scared. Thus, this theory just adds fuel to the fire, if you can excuse the pun... Well, I have seen some poor efforts by people trying to debunk this film ending, but most people are ignorant of solar science and the history of conflagrations on this planet but this is especially relevant now as our solar system is currently being flooded with interstellar cosmic dust.

'Wild and weird' weather leaves its mark [United States]
USA Today, 8th June 2011

Monster tornadoes, historic floods, massive wildfires and widespread drought: Springtime has delivered a wallop of weather-related destruction and misery across much of the nation this year. And it may all be related.

Never mind the debate over global warming, its possible causes and effects. We've got "global weirding." That's how climatologist Bill Patzert describes the wide range of deadly weather effects that have whipped the nation this year, killing hundreds of people and doing billions of dollars in damage to homes, businesses, schools and churches.

"Sometimes it gets wild and weird," says Patzert, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Weather ‘on steroids’

Patzert says the La Nina conditions are "one of the strongest we've seen in perhaps the last half-century," but contributing factors in the atmosphere also play a role. [...] "All the ingredients were hiked — on steroids," he says.

Comment: I don't usually comment on the weather in the United States because it seems to be continously weird and I would like to offer an opinion that does not sound like I am rehashing conspiracy theories, but really.... it's ridiculous. I note they are refering to La Niña, but that is only a description and the root cause is not really well understood. I actually believe that the atmosphere and ionosphere over the United States has been badly damaged by sky experimentation and electromagnetic smog, so they are suffering from the lack of a something to stop strong cosmic influences, rather like a thermostat that has broken and so there is nothing to stop extremes.

Lightning strike at Mississippi military base sends 77 to hospital
CNN News, 8th June 2011

Shroud of Turin is a fake created by famous master Giotto, claims Italian art expert
Daily Mail, 8th June 2011

The Shroud of Turin was made by medieval artist Giotto, it was claimed yesterday. The 14ft length of fabric, said to be the burial cloth of Christ, bears a faint image of a man and appears to be stained by blood. However carbon-dating tests have suggested it was produced between 1260 and 1390.

Now Italian art expert Luciano Buso has suggested that the original cloth deteriorated and Giotto was asked to make a copy.

Comment: In 1998, when I lived in Italy, I was fortunate to get the opportunity to see the Shroud of Turin on public display. What was most remarkable to me was to witness the public reverence of a 'holy' relic.... However, the most interesting thing about this special event was the sideshows of goodies on display that are rarely seen by the public... the jewel infested crowns and crosses gifted to the 'Holy' Church by kings and queens for services rendered... The whole thing is really disgusting when you understand how these 'rulers' behaved. Over many years I haver studied the 'Holy' Church and living in Italy was an excellent opportunity to see evidence firsthand of how these rulers lived like kings and queens. Today, we have historians that have been forced to hold conferences because of the high percentage of forged documents from the early Middle Ages, but forgeries have been coming out at a factory rate from Rome for a long before that time. The Shroud of Turin was probably produced to bolster the religious tourism business by the rich faithful who loved to see the 'holy' relics. These days, there is too much integrity around and too many scholars are refusing to maintain the mountain of lies... and that's a good thing.

Australia's military loses its UFO X-Files?
Reuters, 7th June 2011

(Reuters) - Australia's military has lost its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.

After a two-month search in response to a newspaper Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which forces government officials to release documents of public interest, Australia's Department of Defence had been unable to locate the files, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

"The files could not be located and Headquarters Air Command formally advised that this file is deemed lost," the department's FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, told the paper. Defence officials could not be contacted by Reuters.

The only file Defence had been able to locate was a folder called: "Report on UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena in Woomera," a military weapons testing range in the center of Australia's vast outback, Carpenter said.

Comment: Interesting that even Reuters felt the need to comment.... So, the Australian military would rather people think they were just incompetent?

CNN's John King interviews Arnie Gundersen about the Hot Particles discovered in Japan and the US.
Fairewinds, 7th June 2011

"CNN's John King and Arnie Gundersen discuss "hot particles" detected in Seattle and Japan, the cozy relationship between Japanese regulator NISA (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) and plant owner TEPCO, and changes at the Fukushima accident site since March. John King and Arnie Gundersen also discuss how TEPCO's acknowledgement today of another error in calculating radiation dose more than doubles the amount of radioactivity to which people in the Northern Hemisphere have been exposed."

Comment: Arnie's revelation that some people on the West coast are getting a fair no. of "hot" particles a day is really making headlines.

Parents urge Tokyo to rethink radiation monitoring
Japan Times, 8th June 2011
"We request that the Tokyo government and Koto Ward properly check the radiation levels, especially around school areas and parks," she said. According to Ishikawa, her group, which has about 35 members, checked the soil and air in Koto Ward for contaminants between May 21 and 25 with the help of Kobe University professor Tomoya Yamauchi.

Yamauchi, an expert on radiation physics, said high levels of contamination were detected in soil, especially around a plant in Koto Ward that produces sludge, an ingredient in cement, where the level reached 2,300 becquerels per kilogram. That level is about a third of the 6,550 becquerels per kilogram detected at a schoolyard in Fukushima Prefecture in April.
Yes, it's just a matter of time before Tokyo has the same levels of contamination as Chernobyl... and then what are the authorities going to do?
ANOTHER NUKE PLANT: Fukushima Daini has 3,000 tons of radioactive water in reactor buildings
Energy News, 7th June 2011
There have been question marks about Fukushima Daini (the no. 2 nuclear power plant 10km away from Fukushima Daiichi), but the news has been very muted. Well, here it looks like they have been experiencing some of the exact same problems and we have to wonder what else has been going on there.

Hotting up: Sun wakes up from sleep for busiest sunspot cycle in years and threatens to disrupt Earth communications and power
Daily Mail, 8th June 2011

* Geomagnetic storm activity expected from around 6pm and could last 24 hours
* Possible disruption to power grids and satellites
* Flights over polar regions face being rerouted

This astonishing sequence of images shows a dramatic 'flare' bursting out from the sun which could affect satellite communications and power supplies here on Earth. The spectacular development unleashed a radiation firestorm on a level not seen for five years which is expected to cause a 'moderate' geomagnetic storm when it reaches Earth. Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the event which combines a flare, a coronal mass ejection (CME) and a minor radiation storm. [...]

This is interesting and significant because it shows the sun is returning to its more typical active state.' The resulting geomagnetic storm could cause some disruption in power grids, satellites that operate global positioning systems and other devices, and may lead to some rerouting of flights over the polar regions, Murtagh said. 'Generally it is not going to cause any big problems, it will just have to be managed,' he said.

Comment: Yes, it's only a M2.5 solar flare (see below) and a CME that is not even directed at Earth, but the problem we have is the weakness of Earth's magnetic shielding which is in tatters compared to how well the magnetosphere stood up against the onslaught at the height of Solar Cycle 23 where Earth was really blasted. What's more, NASA have already explained that we can expect a stronger impact on Earth due to the polarity of the solar wind and CMEs. We have been told the solar wind is leaking into the magnetosphere like gas and when a CME comes along, it acts like a match and the whole thing goes BOOM! This is only part of the reason why satellite controllers and the space community cannot be complacent about solar storms and why there is now so much drama surrounding space weather.

Update:

OOPS! Yesterday's epic solar flare attracted an overwhelming number of visitors to spaceweather.com. Our server buckled under the strain. Today we upgraded our hardware to handle the load; bring on the flares! The webmaster apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the outage. --Tony Phillips

STORM WARNING: NOAA forecasters estimate a greater than 25% chance of geomagnetic storms on June 9th. That's when a CME from the magnificent flare of June 7th is expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Spaceweather.com - 8th June 2011

Comment: Well, we have a mystery as it seems before spaceweather.com went down, some claim the flare was rated as an X20+. There are claims this was on the website for at least 1 hour, but I did not see it myself and can't believe that if this was true, why there was no mention in the main news because X20+ is MASSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Who knows, maybe the solar reporting system is faulty, as it seems the same thing happened in mid March. Anyway, see the saved webpage here

What is a solar flare?
How it Works, February 2011
"Solar flares are classified on a scale of A, B, C, M or X, with each classification being ten times stronger than the previous one. Within each letter classification there is also a one to nine scale; an A2 flare is twice as strong as an A1 flare, for example. This depends on their peak x-ray flux measurement as determined by the GOES (geostationary operational environmental satellite) system."
Solar flares are measured using a power-law distribution scale similar as that used to measure earthquakes. See Wikipedia Solar Flares

Sun Unleashes 'Spectacular' & Powerful Eruption
Space.com, 7th June 2011

The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say. The solar storm hit its peak at about 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT), but the actual flare extended over a three-hour period, said C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who runs a website called The Sun Today, in a video describing the event. "The sun produced a quite spectacular prominence eruption that had a solar flare and high-energy particles associated with it, but I've just never seen material released like this before," Young said. "It looks like somebody just kicked a giant clod of dirt into the air and then it fell back down." [Video: See the sun's June 7 solar flare and eruption]

Comment: The solar flare is quite amazing, I don't think I have ever seen a solar flare that has fallen back down onto the sun like mud, but strange new behaviour of the sun should be expected as the sun is now processing a different type of energy, (this is contrary to old ideas of how the sun works). Apparently, there was also a massive coronal mass ejection (CME), described in the NOAA solar report (see www.solarham.com) as a "full halo asymmetric CME" but it was facing in the wrong direction to give planet Earth the full treatment. Hence there are two separate events to check out. Here are some more links:

"M-FLARE AND RADIATION STORM: This morning around 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and a massive CME. A recording of the blast from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ranks as one of the most beautiful and dramatic movies of the SDO era:"

"HAIR-RAISING SOLAR ACTIVITY: Over the past few days, amateur astronomers have recorded some of the most photogenic solar activity in years. Onlookers describe huge prominences of magnetized plasma rising above the stellar surface as "Unbelievable!"--"Hydrogen at its best"--"Massive and incredible!" This shot was simply hair-raising:" Spaceweather.com - 7th June 2011

M2.5 Solar Flare - 7th June 2011
YouTube, 7th June 2011
"This movie was produced by Helioviewer.org."
CME Soho C2.wmv - 7th June 2011
YouTube, 7th June 2011
The CME is really strange like a CME within a CME -- a tube that explodes within a 'normal' light bulb CME. The white 'specks' are protons, so there was an accompanying proton storm too... heavy duty
www.solarham.com - 7th June 2011
www.solarham.com, 7th June 2011
You can check the NOAA solar report, sun videos and images here
NASA Enlil - Space Weather 3D MHD Prediction Model of the Heliosphere
NASA, 7th June 2011
Here, it looks like Earth will get a double whammy from the combination of the solar wind and the CME...

Melted Fuel at Fukushima May Have Leaked Through, Yomiuri Says
Bloomberg, 7th June 2011

The melted fuel at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station may have leaked through the pressure vessels of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors, the Yomiuri newspaper reported.

The Japanese government will submit a report to the International Atomic Energy Agency that raises the possibility the fuel dropped through the bottom of the pressure vessels, a situation described as a “melt through” and considered more serious than a “meltdown,” according to the report, which cited the document.

Comment: I don't have an image icon for "Melt-Through" yet and I don't have an image available for the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) "off the scale" nuclear mega disaster. I hear that nuclear engineers have been pleading for a new level at the top of the scale and I would suggest the next level (or two) is defined as "Nuclear Holocaust".

Japan Concedes Severity of Blast
Nuclear Disaster Strained Relations With U.S. in Days After the Meltdown
Wall Street Journal, 7th June 2011
"We felt pretty confident [within a few days of the accident] that there was significant fuel damage," Bill Borchardt, the NRC's operations chief, said in New York late last month. "There were numerous indications of high radiation levels that can only come from damaged fuel at those kinds of levels."

In the accident's early days, the U.S. ambassador in Tokyo, John Roos, made "around the clock" phone calls to Japanese officials, according to a U.S. official. Upset by the slow trickle of data from Prime Minister Naoto Kan's office, he began calling Cabinet-level officials representing the ministries of defense, foreign affairs and even finance, this official says.

That annoyed the Japanese foreign ministry, according to one senior Japanese official, which was trying on its own to coordinate the response to Washington's urgent pleas. [...] A U.S. official said Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell called Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, a longtime friend, to his office four or five times on March 16. Mr. Campbell told Mr. Fujisaki that the U.S. might have issue broader evacuation warnings, and brushed aside the ambassador's fears that the divergent views on evacuation could embarrass Japan.

One U.S. official says Mr. Campbell told Mr. Fujisaki that "the survival of your nation" was at stake.

Comment: I don't understand the headline.... there is one planet Earth, what happens to Japan effects us all so, why all the delay in helping to solve this crisis? Diplomats beating each other over the head does not actually make an ounce of difference.
Radiation Understated After Quake, Japan Says
New York Times, 6th June 2011
TOKYO — Japan said Monday that radioactive emissions from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the early days of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster might have been more than twice as large as a previous estimate, suggesting the accident was more grave than the government had publicly acknowledged.

Comment: The Japanese government are now admiting 40% of the total amount of radiation released at Chernobyl was released in just one week at Fukushima, but they still trying to cushion the blow by stating there is a "wide margin of error". There is already plenty of proof that the Japanese government are probably still hiding the extent of the radiation released and the figures here are probably still too low. Well, the mainstream media seems to have decided to restart reporting the seriousness of the disaster in Japan, whilst the blogosphere has maintained the stance of searching hard for stories to keep people informed.
Fukishima -- Japan's Faustian Bargain With the West
Henry Makow, 6th June 2011
It is finally dawning on the Japanese that the 'West' was not/is not what it was purported to be and that the contact with the West and its technology has been a Faustian bargain. Indeed the whole of 'West' can almost be summarized, post Renaissance and Enlightenment as an re-enactment of the myth of Dr. Faustus. And with similar tragic ending to it. [In this myth, Faustus sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.]

Comment: This is what happens when you deal with psychopaths, as it's rather foolish to believe anything they say. I think the other excellent example is the problem of Uranium weapons and Israel using them extensively to kill their neighbours, but as a result, they have now got their own major infertility problem. So, at the current increasing rate of infertility, by 2020 their aspirations as a nation will be all over....
Radiation check in Japan June7/11
YouTube, 6th June 2011
"Another beautiful day in Japan, I am 135 miles / 220 Km south of Fukushima, on the outskirts of the Tokyo area. It is Tuesday, June 7th, as you can see in the video, I just walk outside of my house and .... radiation. The air is not dangerous but the ground is. The radiation is much higher in low lying areas and the government here is desperately trying to keep it quiet."
5.77 Microsieverts per hour on the ground at a drain...

Thousands flee their homes and flights are grounded as Chilean volcano sends plumes of ash showering down (Video)
Daily Mail, 7th June 2011

The Chilean volcano which erupted on Monday has sent a towering plume of ash across South America, forcing thousands from their homes, grounding airline flights in southern Argentina and coating ski resorts with a gritty layer of dust instead of snow.

Booming explosions echoed across the Andes as toxic gases belched up from a three-mile-long fissure in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex - a ridge between two craters just west of the Chilean-Argentine border that began erupting Saturday.

Winds blew a six-mile high cloud of ash all the way to the Atlantic Ocean and even into southern Buenos Aires province, hundreds of miles to the north-east.

Comment: More volcanoes erupting.... The pictures here are spectacular, but there most be major implications for climate change and some major cooling.

Edge of Solar System Filled with Bubbles, NASA Says
Space.com, 6th June 2011

The edge of our solar system is filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles, according to new NASA research. Scientists made the discovery by using a new computer model, which is based on data from NASA's twin Voyager probes. The unmanned Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which launched in 1977, are plying the outer reaches of our solar system, a region known as the heliosheath.

The new discovery suggests that researchers will need to revise their views about the solar system's edge, NASA officials said. A more detailed picture of this region is key to our understanding of how fast-moving particles known as cosmic rays are spawned, and how they reach near-Earth space.

Comment: Again, NASA are making another announcement about what is going on at the edge of our solar system. Yes, this is historic stuff, our whole solar system is experiencing massive evolutionary change being driven by an energy influx from outside our solar system but due to a ripple effect, changes on Earth have now become noticeable.

Solar System Explained From the Inside Out
Space.coms, 2nd June 2011
Nice infographic

Police: Man takes gun to party when kids miss cake
The Tennessean, 6th June 2011

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Memphis police say a man brought more than a gift to a child's birthday party. Joseph Hayes, 48, of Memphis, has been charged with aggravated assault after police say he brought a gun to the party Saturday because his children didn't get any ice cream or cake A police affidavit says Hayes became upset and began yelling at the victim.

Comment: The control freaks are struggling....

Mudbugged: Crawfish shortage spurs shooting at business
Man fired at business after told it was out of crawfish, deputies say
Pnj.com, 2nd June 2011
"A manic shooter peppered a busy Ensley retail strip with assault rifle fire Sunday evening because a local seafood market ran out of crawfish, investigators said."

Fukushima: Never Again
Huffington Post, 5th June 2011

[...] It is hard to believe that the current Japanese government is falling so far behind the 5 mSv standard set by the Soviets. How can a government that lived with the fallout of nuclear bombs allow such high levels of radiation exposure for its children? Why is the Japanese government not actively decontaminating school grounds?

I think about Katya and the pupils of the Kopachi kindergarten who hopefully managed to grow up far away from the radiation. For those not endowed with memory of previous tragedies, surely these stories should be enough?

The Japanese government must do all that it can to protect its citizens from the aftereffects of Fukushima. Meanwhile, the rest of the world must join the Japanese, German and Swiss governments who have decided to stop funding nuclear energy. No more Chernobyls. No more Fukushimas. Never again.

Comment: This is from the Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International. He is wondering why the Japanese government does not care about the children.... It's a very good question and really highlights the behaviour of the psychopaths in charge who have got to the stage where they cannot even pretend to be interested in the well being of humans around them. The reason is because they are 'aliens', the 4% of the human population that are not in fact like 'normal' humans, as our neuroscientists have already identified and well documented.

Japan's Exporters Clamor for Radiation Tests
Wall Street Journal, 6th June 2011
"TOKYO—Since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, many global consumers have equated "Made in Japan" with "potentially radioactive," hurting business across the country. That has fueled a boom in demand for radiation-testing equipment from exporters, such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd., seeking to reassure overseas clients that their cars, computers and other products are safe. Nippon Kaiji Kentei Kyokai, which conducts safety inspections of marine cargo, has received more than 1,600 orders for radiation tests since the nuclear accident."
The full report is for subscribers only, but this is enough to tell us that it does not matter that the global media are playing this down, self preservation is kicking in hard...
TEPCO eyes design flaw in hydrogen explosion
Asahi News, 5th June 2011
"A design flaw in the exhaust system within the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant may have caused a hydrogen explosion at the No. 1 reactor March 12 that blew the top off the structure. The same type of exhaust and venting system is installed at other nuclear plants in Japan, meaning a major review will likely be required at those plants."

Comment: Hopeless.... the news was circulating immediately after the explosions that 3 engineers complained in the 1970s regarding safety issues with this old design of nuclear reactor... See, 15th March 2011, ABC News report: Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest: Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant Has Five Mark 1 Reactors

Video, Rare White Fawn Born At Deer Farm In China
Sky News, 2nd June 2011

A rare white fawn has been born in east China and staff say the animal is unusually energetic compared to other baby deer. Except for a prominent patch on its head and a strip of brown running halfway down its back, the creature is pure white. The animal was born at the Bolin Deer Farm in the city of Laiyang, Shandong province.

The fawn was galloping around the farm just four hours after it was born. Except for a prominent patch on its head and a strip of brown running halfway down its back, the creature is pure white. [...] Farm manager Yang Qi said: "This deer is far more vigorous and smarter than the other spotted deer." The white deer, also known as "snow deer" are a very precious breed and are considered an auspicious sign in China.

Comment: I am actually wondering how long the appearance of white animals and creatures will continue, if we are seeing a gradual or dramatic increase and what the final percentage of animals and other creatures will be that are born white. Whatever, it's interesting that the Chinese see this as "an auspicious" sign but I have not come across any ancient Chinese beliefs that would help elucidate why.

Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?
Huffington Post, 2nd June 2011

[...] Biomedical research has recently toppled the widespread belief that organisms are genetically controlled robots and that evolution is driven by a random, survival-of-the-fittest mechanism. As genetically controlled "robots," we are led to perceive of ourselves as "victims" of heredity. Genes control our lives yet we did not pick our genes, nor can we change them if we don't like our traits. The perception of genetic victimization inevitably leads to irresponsibility, for we believe we have no power over our lives.

The exciting new science of epigenetics emphasizes that genes are controlled by the environment, and more importantly, by our perception of the environment. Epigenetics acknowledges that we are not victims, but masters, for we can change our environment or perceptions, and create up to 30,000 variations for each of our genes.

Comment: Actually, I think modern spirituality has bankrupted peoples' souls... Just think about all the effort to promote The Law of Attraction. A wonder teaching designed to keep people thinking there must be some Secret to success and keep coming back to learn more, the next book the next seminar, the next therapy etc... I found this over at the Rick Ross Cult Education Forum:

The Nine Steps of the Law of Extraction

1. Promise people something they desperately want, no matter how ludicrous it may be. For example, promise to show people - for a price, of course - how to get everything without doing anything.

2. Make the process for achieving this sound as mysterious as possible. For example, call it a mystery or maybe even a secret.

3. Legitimize your process by quoting a scientist or two. This way you can claim your process is actually “based” on science.

4. Assure people your process is foolproof. That is, anyone can do it and it will work every time all the time. Calling it a universal law is helpful in this regard.

5. Include a universal loophole so that when the process fails you can place the blame elsewhere.

For example, “The reason it didn’t work is because you didn’t do it right. Fortunately, there are advanced techniques that can help you.”

Notice, this loophole not only deflects blame, but also creates additional revenue streams (see points 6 and 7).

6. Sell advanced techniques in the form of high-dollar, back-end products, seminars and coaching programs using a multi-level commission structure in order to maximize revenue extraction.

7. Offer high-dollar “Certification Programs” to license others to sell your process to others. Be sure to require your licensees to also pay you a sizable percentage of any future sales they may make.

8. Focus your efforts on the right target audience. As the old saying goes, you can fool some people all of the time and they are the ones you need to focus on.

9. Express gratitude at least three times a day for all the abundance the Law of Extraction is bringing into your life.

Despite Lipton being involved promoting The Law of Attraction (just google, and you will see what I mean), he has made a useful contribution teaching people about the failure of genetic theory, the role of Epigenetics and the connection with the environment.

Special Comment 3rd June 2011

HAIR (Broadway cast) - "Age Of Aquarius"/"Let The Sunshine In" (Live)

This is a great performance by the Broadway cast of HAIR on Letterman. It gets quite wild at the end and reminds me of black pentecostal church.... Anyway, I have been doing a little investigation and it looks like back in the 1960s, the hippies were indeed right! If you ask an astronomer what astrological age we are in, and if they are willing to comment, they will say The Age of Aquarius because the vernal equinox has just recently moved into the constellation Aquarius. I actually found this information on an astronomer teaching website, but other astronomers are saying the same.... Folks, after the business with the constellation of Ophiuchus being on the ecliptic and astronomers claiming there should be 13 constellations in the Zodiac, I thought astronomers were only trying to annoy astrologers, but it's a fact that the planet is under severe bombardment and the Earth's magnetic shield is in tatters.... Space Weather is the reality of the Age of Aquarius and folk need to wake up.... Ancient astronomers from past advanced civilisations, did not leave important information about the 26,0000 year precessional cycle for no reason!

More: This is a nice simple article that highlights why astrological beliefs now stand in conflict with scientific fact.

Astronomers agree, but the cosmic phenomenon, known as the earth’s precession, causes the positions of the stars as measured along the equinox to shift over a 26,000-year cycle, and both astronomers and astrologers have known about it for thousands of years.

“As the earth goes round the sun, it wobbles like a top,” VonStein explained. “That wobble makes the entire star background slightly shift by one degree every 72 years.”

The precession causes our spring equinox to gradually migrate westward to an adjacent constellation, according to Herb Schwartz, Drake University Observatory lecturer and astronomy instructor. While the spring equinox was once in the House of Aries, thousands of years of precession caused it to shift through the House of Pisces and has landed it in the constellation of Aquarius, which astronomers say is why the astrological beliefs now stand in conflict with scientific fact.

Zodiac sent into orbit: A 13th constellation throws horoscopes into upheaval.
Iowa City View, March 17th, 2011

I have been quite amused by reading a large selection of articles by astrologers who were mostly apoplectic that an astronomer had the nerve to point out some reality... See the Star Tribune 14th January 2011, article; Sign of the times: Astrology story soars like a comet. Yet, I have found a few astrologers who can actually read astronomical charts and have already adapted... For the record, I am mostly interested in the messages left by ancient astronomers and most of this has been retained in ancient religious text, philosophy, mythology and monuments. Yet, since astronomers have been acting very strange recently, like the prior upset when astronomers voted to demote Pluto to a 'dwarf' planet, I am now convinced that we are experiencing major 'winds of change'....

P.S. I have noticed there are a lot of people talking about the Age of Aquarius arriving in 700 years, but these are people repeating other people's opinions. There are some who claim the Age of Aquarius has already started and the estimates vary from the 15th century CE to the start of the new millenium! To be honest, I am only really interested in the opinions of those who can actually point a telescope in the right direction on the 21st March (Vernal Equinox) to see what constellation actually rises just before dawn because this is what how ancient astronomers determined the astrological age. According to astronomers who have, the constellation of Aquarius has been the heliacal rising constellation for some centuries! Now the other argument is that this is only true because of all the 'adjustments' made to the Gregorian calendar. I can't disagree with this argument as there are too many historians who simply refuse to believe that most of the history that has been passed down to us is even remotely true before the 11th century, (the dates of historical astrological charts are rejected too.) If you have studied this subject, you will know that a certain well known religious establishment has a well documented and well earned reputation for extensive forgery and they were the ones in charge of the calendars and we know that the constant changing of dates completely wrecked the calendars to the point where the priests themselves actually had no idea what century they were living in. If you don't know this, then check the facts! That is why Mayan Timekeepers and Elders have rather curtly pointed out that they don't have a problem with their calendars....

So, this state of affairs is so bad that I am only really interested in hard facts and Space Weather is a reality. The other thing of real interest is why religious and metaphysical folk have not pointed out the importance of Space Weather because there has been extensive literature about the arrival of new energies associated with a New World Age. This period of time has been given many names by different cultures, religious, metaphysical and esoteric groups. Interestingly, The Age of Aquarius has been associated with an outpouring of The Holy Spirit and this reminds me of Gioacchino da Fiore, or Joachim of Fiore (1135-1202), an Italian mystic, theologian, and philosopher of history, today despised by The 'Holy' Church because he pointed out that when the Holy Spirit arrives, their time will be up! Quite frankly, I have come to the conclusion that many who claim to be spiritual are anything but.... they simply have no interest in reality because reality is spiritual.

Exclusive Arnie Gundersen Interview: The Dangers of Fukushima Are Worse and Longer-lived Than We Think
Chris Martenson, 3rd June 2011

"I have said it's worse than Chernobyl and I’ll stand by that. There was an enormous amount of radiation given out in the first two to three weeks of the event. And add the wind and blowing in-land. It could very well have brought the nation of Japan to its knees. I mean, there is so much contamination that luckily wound up in the Pacific Ocean as compared to across the nation of Japan - it could have cut Japan in half. But now the winds have turned, so they are heading to the south toward Tokyo and now my concern and my advice to friends that if there is a severe aftershock and the Unit 4 building collapses, leave."
Direct Download/Play the Podcast Part 1, MP3 Important: Arnie's advice: Winds have turned, hot particles to head south from Fukushima — Advice is to leave Tokyo if Unit No. 4 collapses.... Yes, that's all 35 million of you in the vicinity...

Arnie Gundersen Interview (Part II): Protecting Yourself If The Situation Worsens

Chris Martenson, 3rd June 2011
Executive Summary

* Identifying the health dangers from radiation & contamination
* Steps those living in Japan and the US West Coast should be taking today
* Precautions to take with food
* The implications of radioactive seawater
* Urgent steps to take in a worst-case scenario if reactor 4 collapses

Direct Download/Play the Podcast Part 2, MP3

Thousands Of Worms Die Suddenly (Video)
Entomologist Explains What Cause Could Be WLWT Cincinnati News, 2nd June 2011

CINCINNATI -- People across the Tri-State awoke to an unusual sight Thursday -- thousands of earthworms lying dead on sidewalks and porches. WLWT was first alerted to the issue by Rick in West Chester.

"This appears to have started sometime yesterday afternoon, as I do not remember seeing them yesterday morning," Rick wrote. Shortly after Rick's email, WLWT reporter Brian Hamrick began taking photos from his home in Florence, where thousands of worms coated the sidewalks of his neighborhood.

After one post on Facebook, more than 90 people said they had seen the same thing, from Fairfield to Mount Airy, Pleasant Ridge, Independence and Sardinia. WLWT even got confirmation from its sister TV station in Louisville that they had a few hundred dead worms on their sidewalk.

Comment: When there is too much electricity in the ground, the worms just can't take it and get out onto the surface of the ground, but why they then died is a mystery and I can only guess they were overcome by the heat and lack of humidity... In the video, the 'expert' provides very unlikely explanations and these are very swiftly dealt with by the reporter... Interestingly, the electricity explanation seems to be common knowledge amongst fisherman who use their own, often homemade electrical devices, to quickly collect worms... Some people believe that worms coming out of the ground are an earthquake precursor but I don't believe that because there are frequent reports of worms and no accompanying earthquake. Often cited is Friedemann Freund, from Nasa Ames Research Center, who developed the scientific theory that when rocks are compressed they act like batteries, producing electric currents. This is something that I wrote about in my book but this is NOT related to the piezoelectric effect, because this only applies to rocks such as granites, which contain a high percentage of quartz. See Freund's paper, Rocks That Crackle and Sparkle and Glow: Strange Pre-Earthquake Phenomena. [2003], See other research findings below:

Earthquakes, Earthworms and Earth Changes
The Intel Hub, March 16th, 2011
[...] "Dr. Ikeya retired from Osaka University in 2004, and is now helping young people in ESR on a part-time basis. Ikeya’s laboratory experiments were conducted to see if exposure to an electrical field or electromagnetic pulses could elicit animal behavior similar to what has been reported prior to earthquakes. Ikeya’s experiments produced very interesting results. For example, fish showed panic reactions, and earthworms moved out of the soil and swarmed when current was applied. These are very similar to the behaviors that are reported before earthquakes. Dr. Ikeya’s work also sheds light on other mysterious pre-earthquake phenomena–which he was able to recreate in the laboratory–such as strange plant growth, earth-lights, fogs, atmospheric distortions, and unusual phenomena with electric appliances, such as televisions and cell phones."
Mysterious Hairy, Giant Caterpillars Invade Yogya
The Jakarta Globe, 28th May 2011
"Villagers from the border region between Yogyakarta and East Java have reported being attacked by what can only be described as jumbo caterpillars."
more plagues...

IAEA fact-finding team compiled summary report on Fukushima accident
The Denki Shimbun, The Electric Daily News, 3rd June 2011

TOKYO --A fact-finding mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visiting Japan to investigate the accident at the Fukushima I nuclear power station (NPS) complied a summarized version of its investigation report on June 1. The report credited expert staff at the Fukushima I with having done the best they could in their efforts to secure the plant under exceptionally difficult circumstances in the initial stages of the accident. On the other hand, it pointed out that several improvements should be made including strengthening of anti-tsunami measures, defense-in-depth systems and initial response plans at the power plant. The report urged that similar improvements be made also at other nuclear facilities.

Comment: Well, we have the mega photo op promoting nuclear energy.... I wonder how much radiation they all got? Well, we can see in the photo provided here that they were wearing respirators but most of the IAEA are standing with their backs to the camera... presumably, standing in front of the Fukushima 'mega disaster' nuclear plant wreckage was probably bad enough... I am not even going to bother discussing the 'findings' because anyone with a few brain cells knows this disaster should not have been allowed to happen...

Contaminated groundwater detected for first time near Fukushima plan
Asahi.com, 2nd June 2011
Surprise, surprise.... well, not really...
6.3-magnitude quake hits off the east coast of Honshu, Japan -- USGS
Xinhuanet News, 3rd June 2011
"TOKYO, June 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted off the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 09:05: 03 a.m. local time (00:05:03 GMT) on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said."
That's right by the Fukushima nuclear plants.
Japan bans radioactive green tea from area 40 miles SOUTHWEST of Tokyo
Energy News, 2nd June 2011
Japan banned the shipment of green tea leaves grown in four prefectures around Tokyo on Thursday after radioactive caesium above legal levels was found in samples, a media report said. [...] The ban covers tea leaves from parts of the Tochigi, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures and all of Ibaraki prefecture, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said, Kyodo News agency reported.

Comment: A few bloggers have noted that the radiation levels around Ibaraki prefecture have been sky high. We know that the Tokai reactor was under suspicion (see archives for mid April), because there were reports of the pumps for cooling systems failing and backup diesel generators not working during power cuts. So now, they are banning produce from that region... I think it's easy to work out what has happened.... Well, the behaviour of world powers has been nothing short of criminal, so we await the next nuclear disaster and then the next after that.... When most people can't have babies and the babies born are badly mutated or people die in droves of cancer, then maybe a few more people will come to their senses, but I am not holding my breath... This is starting to look like a holocaust: 1. Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust". Sorry, the news from Japan is just terrible and getting worse, see more headlines at Energy News.
An Angry Japanese Housewife in Fukushima City: "We've Had It, and We're Leaving"
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 1st June 2011
"Watanabe says to the NPR reporter Louise Lam that "Its our fault, we put the current DPJ government in power. We thought they'd be different from the last lot. But now it turns out we no longer know whether any political party out there will protect us. "

Comment: There are so many people who think governments tell the truth and really care about the people...

Space Weather & Midnight Eclipse
spaceweather.com, 2nd June 2011

CO-ORBITAL ASTEROID FLYBY: Small asteroid 2009 BD is flying through the Earth-moon system today about 215,000 miles from Earth. The 10m wide space rock poses no threat to our planet, but it is of acute scientific interest.

ECLIPSE OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN: A solar eclipse at midnight? It's not only possible, it actually happened last night. On June 1st, the new Moon passed in front of the midnight sun above the Arctic circle, producing a partial eclipse of exquisite beauty.

SOUTH POLE AURORAS: Earth is exiting a solar wind stream that sparked colorful auroras on May 28th-30th.

Comment: Lots of relevant spaceweather.com news. I was waiting to see if the eclipse of the midnight sun actually happened because predicted events don't always happen these days. Yet, looking through the selection of photographs, I started to seriously think something was not right until I came across the photo by from Joerg Schoppmeyer of Akureyri, Iceland; who shows us that it was indeed bright sunlight at midnight in Akureyri, Iceland and the only way to see the eclipse was to apply a filter. The asteroid fly-bys are coming in thick and fast as planet Earth has been in an interstellar debris cloud for many years now. The solar wind speed has been high but I have not seen any reports of Earth's magnetic field looking particularly bizarre because that is a normal occurence these days. Use this link to check out the latest NICT real time simulations of the earth's magnetic field.

A Curious Case Of Foreign Accent Syndrome
NPR, 1st June 2011

When Karen Butler went in for dental surgery, she left with more than numb gums: She also picked up a pronounced foreign accent. It wasn't a fluke, or a joke — she'd developed a rare condition called foreign accent syndrome that's usually caused by an injury to the part of the brain that controls speech.[...]

"But she doesn't sound like one anymore. Her accent is now a hodgepodge of English, Irish and perhaps a bit of other European accents. The problem started about a year and a half ago, when she was put under anesthesia while the dentist removed several teeth.

"I just went to sleep and I woke up and my mouth was all sore and swollen, and I talked funny. And the dentist said, 'You'll talk normal when the swelling goes down,' " Butler says.

Comment: I listed a story about this woman a month ago, but this article explains that this condition was brought on after a visit to the dentist. Well, I am quite concerned as it is obvious the electromagnetic chaos is deepening and we all go to the dentist...

Flight VY8366 intercepted by Mirage 2000 (Video)
YouTube, 31st May 2011

Vueling Flight VY8366 from Malaga (AGP) to Amsterdam (AMS), around 21.30 CET intercepted by a [French Air Force] Mirage 2000 on May 27, 2011.

Comment: According to one of the YouTube comments: "The aircraft lost communications for a short time during flight so when that happens, an interception happens, thanks to 9/11." Well, I think this is one of the most amazing videos I have ever seen... So, was this caused by Space Weather knocking out high frequency radio communications, since it was only for "a short time"? Really, this video takes your breath away, awesome.... I'm sure the passengers were told what was happening and the arrival of the jet would have been quite an exciting experience, a great bonus.... Anyway, it's interesting that we have had two stories about fighter jets accompanying domestic aircraft in a week, but in very different circumstances....

Sacred White Buffalo Born in Texas (Video)
My Fox KDFW, 31st May 2011

GREENVILLE, Texas - A white buffalo, an animal rich in the lore of Native Americans and sacred to many tribes, was recently born in Texas. Arby Little Soldier said the remarkable animal was born on his ranch near Greenville, about an hour northeast of Dallas, in the middle of a thunderstorm on May 12.

White buffalo are extremely rare. To be considered sacred they must also have certain markings. “And that is black nose, black eyes and black-tipped tail. Not the pink eyes or the blue eyes or the pure albino,” he said. “This one here is the full one that’s counting now. He’d be the third. And the fourth in our Native American prophecy that is the end of the last days.”

Comment: Nice video. There are now so many reports of white animals being born that we must conclude that the Native American traditions have correctly retained ancient knowledge of what happens at the transition point where we enter a New World Age. It is a scientific fact that our planet is being bombarded by energy from solar, cosmic, galactic and intergalatic sources. Scientists are working hard trying to understand the impact on our world and mitigate the effect on our technological infrastructure. There is an abundance of ancient knowledge that has been preserved warning us about what could happen at these times and it is easy to see the relevance once we understand enough about the true nature of our reality.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse Speaks of White Buffalo Prophecy
YouTube, 26th August 2010
"Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. The leader of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate, the great Sioux nation, is a man with a vision."
The Chief says since 1994, virtually every year a white buffalo calf has been born. In terms of timing this transition, the true Galactic Alignment was in 1998, but the build up of energies around our solar system started back in the 1960s and Space Weather kicked in hard in 1989 probably caused by the Sun processing a different type of energy whilst cloud tripping... Today, other major signs preserved by various indigenous and esoteric groups have been fulfilled, the evidence is stacking up and is quite impressive...

Plane Returns To Dulles International Airport After Fistfight Between Passengers
wusa9.com, 31st May 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government and airline officials say a United Airlines plane with 144 people aboard returned to Washington-Dulles International Airport for an emergency landing escorted by two F-16 fighter jets after a fight broke out between passengers.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says Flight 990 bound for Accra, Ghana, returned to Dulles in Chantilly, Va., just after midnight Sunday after a fistfight in the cabin.

Government officials confirmed that fighter jets were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. United spokesman Mike Trevino said Tuesday that the Boeing 767 dumped fuel as a safety precaution to lighten its weight on landing.

Comment: The escort by two F16 'Fighter' jets just adds a touch of irony to this event but it's quite serious too because passengers were under a veiled threat that if things did not calm down, the plane would be shot down.... As I have been reporting for quite some time, unruly behaviour by passengers and crew has been steadily getting worse and I am even wondering if the authorities will start suggesting new remedies to deal with this problem. For new website visitors, as I have stated many times, I believe this aggressiveness is being exacerbated by the worsening chaotic electromagnetic environment, triggering those with the most emotional baggage.

Freak hail storm blankets Cuban province of Holguin
Extinction Protocol, 31st May 2011

This Saturday, the local residents Holguin de Las Lajas, in the municipality of Calixto Garcia, lived a remarkable day when around 05:00 pm, in the midst of a heavy rain, began a strong and prolonged hailstorm never seen in these parts. This was confirmed by correspondent Rene Cabrera Mulet, who captured the unusual image of the hailstones, some the size of a Cuban currency 20 cents, covered tens of meters across the town. It is a phenomenon never before seen there, or by most of the inhabitants who have lived there all their lives.

Comment: Another freak hail storm... and another and another....

The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors
Damn Interesting, 19 January 2007
There is a global warming solution here to the formation of huge chunks of ice that I have never seen before but I been reading about these megacryometeors

Hailstorm hits Namutumba
Daily Monitor, 30th May 2011
"About 40 houses had their roofs blown off and hundreds of acres of crops destroyed when a hailstorm hit Namutumba District. The two-hour hailstorm on Thursday hit 20 villages including Isegero A and B, Ndikitwamaila, Namukoge, Busene, Nabikenge, Bakudumira, Nawampiti, Kibaale and Kivule. Domestic animals and birds were also killed. Eight hours after the downpour, ice blocks were still visible on the ground."

Hailstorm damages crops in two districts of Himachal [India]
IBN Live News, 31st May 2011
"himla, May 31 (PTI) Several areas in Kullu and Shimla districts of Himachal Pradesh were lashed by a severe hailstorm this afternoon, causing extensive damage to crops.The freak weather conditions continued in the region with isolated rains, thunderstorms and hailstorms, keeping farmers on tenterhooks.Apple, wheat, cherry, almond, pear, plum, apricot, stone fruits and flowers suffered due to the untimely rains."

Hailstorm turns crop profits sour [Australia]
ABC News, 2nd June 2011
"A hailstorm has caused millions of dollars damage to crops near the Glasshouse Mountains on Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland."

Fukushima’s operators at loss but don’t show it
The Voice of Russia, 30th May 2011

[...] In an interview to the Voice of Russia, an expert in nuclear and radiation security Maxim Shingarkin commented on the situation in Fukushima:

“In fact, this statement came with a big delay. The operating company deliberately concealed this information. The explanation is simple – the company is afraid that any checking by competent experts would reveal its inability to save the situation. Only recently, foreign experts founded a consultative body for the clean-up of the accident’s consequences. Moreover, the company is concealing the information about the amount of pollution of the environment.” However, “Tokyo Electric Power” still pretends that it knows quite well how to clean-up after the accident

Comment: I have been amazed at how restrained the Russians have been about this crisis, as their southern border is very close to northern Japan.....

Yoichi Shimatsu Japan Update 5.30.11
Rense.com, 30th May 2011
Yoichi Shimatsu is the editor of the Japan Times, his first question by Jeff Rense is about the opinion of senior political figure Ichiro Ozawa who suggested that Tokyo might become off limits. The response was to specify the extent of radiation, 1/3rd of the Japanese people will be effected, a major economic catastrophe and human health problem...
We 'came close' to losing Northern Japan
CNN News, 1st June 2011
CNN Host: No one ever suspected that we had three simultaneous core meltdowns, 100 percent core damage and that sea water of all things stopped a tragedy from taking place. The media if anything, we now realize downplayed the real impact of the accident.

Comment: Michio Kaku having another rant on CNN... I must say he looked very dapper.... this is a great summary of the current state of this crisis...
EU stress tests nuclear plants (Video)
CNN News, 1st June 2011
"The European Union begins a series of stress tests on nuclear facilities in reaction to Japan's Fukushima crisis."
N-plant worker regrets 17-yr career / Forced to leave Fukushima home, devotes self to caring for other evacuees
Daily yomiuri. Online, 31st May 2011
AWAMATAMACHI, Fukushima--Kenichi Togawa, 37, was standing nearby as an executive vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. knelt down at an evacuation shelter and bowed deeply, his forehead touching the floor. Residents of the shelter shouted angrily at the executive. "How long will you force us to live this kind of life?" one called out.

Comment: There is some interesting background information here and proof that nuclear workers knew immediately that explosions were very likely. Anyway, I realise that all this public penance is part of the Japanese culture, but grovelling does not solve the problem as we hear about the latest explosion at Fukushima. Even though the official explanation is that it was a gas cylinder, we know that TEPCO are bad liars and it's probably related to power planet no.5 losing it's cooling system for 15 hours. No doubt, we will hear the truth in a few months time, to be consistent with the way that TEPCO have conducted this mega disaster.
Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis
BBC News, 31st May 2011
"A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station. The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60."

WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk
CNN News, 31st May 2011

Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.

Before its announcement Tuesday, WHO had assured consumers that no adverse health effects had been established. A team of 31 scientists from 14 countries, including the United States, made the decision after reviewing peer-reviewed studies on cell phone safety. The team found enough evidence to categorize personal exposure as "possibly carcinogenic to humans."

What that means is that right now there haven't been enough long-term studies conducted to make a clear conclusion if radiation from cell phones are safe, but there is enough data showing a possible connection that consumers should be alerted.

Comment: This is such old news... but interesting to note as we have the pattern of concerned individuals speaking out decades before those in authority are prepared to admit the truth. This is most likely related to business cycles and since phone usage has now reached saturation point, the big players probably think they have made enough money and are now moving on. The problem of the additional no. of people sick and dying, just becomes another opportunity to make some money.

It's all hot air from the jet-setting eco brigade
Sydney Morning Herald, 31st May 2011

The Sunday Telegraph's "Carbon Cate" headline should have come as no surprise. Sure, it was a clever journalistic line in response to news that Cate Blanchett was heading the Australian Conservation Foundation's TV advertising campaign in support of a carbon tax. But Don Henry, the foundation's executive director, should have seen it - or something like it - coming.

On ABC radio on Sunday, Henry seemed unprepared for the criticism, which demonstrates just how out of touch some inner-city environmentalists are with predominant views in the suburbs and regions.

Comment: Interesting mention of "tall poppies" in the video... I know all about that, as I am still waiting for more intelligent people to see the Big Picture concerning Space Weather, and some actually interested in making a difference. Unfortunately, too many don't see the relevance despite the fact Space Weather is about the transformation of our world.

UFO theory on lights in Tassie sky (Video)
Sydney Morning Herald, 30th May 2011

A Tasmanian man has described as "spooky" an unexplained flashing object he saw in the night sky above Launceston last week. The lights flashed white and green for several minutes before turning out in the sky high above the tree line, he told the Launceston Examiner. Brendon Hill first saw the flashing lights above Mayfield on Thursday night from his backyard balcony at Riverside.

Comment: Wow... There is the actual video taken at the time and a news report video... This person wants to know what he saw, but he may never know because keeping people in the dark is now big business. Unfortunately, most simply don't have the mental hardware to integrate information coming from scientists and the military about what so-called ufos actually represent and therefore rely on others who have no interest in the truth.

Is this a squadron of UFOs flying over California?
Daily Mail, 31st May 2011
The Internet is abuzz over an alleged UFO sighting in the night sky over Oakland, California. Three fast-moving dots of light can be seen travelling close together in a video posted on YouTube by a KevinMC360. The 'UFO squadron' shows the three lights in a triangular pattern spotted on May 26.

UFO photographed in China
Stait Times, 31st May 2011
"A MAN took a picture of an unidentified flying object (UFO) while holidaying in the outskirts of Kunming, China. He did not notice anything strange in the sky until he looked at the photographs he took later. 'I took two pictures of the scenery. When I checked them later that night, I saw three black dots hovering above the Songhua dam in one of the photos. The biggest one looked like a butterfly,' he said."
Please see archives to find the opinions of ufologists that realised decades ago that another lifeform lives alongside us. I have never seen a description of a ufo looking like a butterfly but cryptozoologists would probably have lots to say on the matter...

Argentina: Official Commission To Study UFOs is Presented
Inexplicata, 27th May 2011 (late entry, will re-file later)

Consisting of experts in various fields, it came about due to the number of sightings in the country.

As Clarín informed readers a few weeks ago, the official Comisión de Investigación de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales (Aerospatial Phenomena Research Commission) was presented yesterday at noon, consisting of both civilian experts and Argentinean Air Force (FAA) personnel.

Operating out of the Condor Building, the FAA’s current headquarters, it will start to receive reports in coming days – through the www.fuerzaaerea.mil.ar website – on sightings, and begin work on the most representative cases of recent times.

One of the reasons that led to the creation of this new agency is “the increase in sightings by people. However, the goal is not to prove the existence of life on other planets, but rather, to approach unknown phenomena from a scientific perspective and reach the truth. Because these are ultimately the goal of our study,” according to Mohaupt. The team also includes Marcelo Módica of Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), specializing in satellite information. It will be in charge of “examining the terrain and analyzing images received.”

Comment: The Argentinian military already know the truth, in fact all the militaries around the world know the truth. It's hard to believe otherwise with the sheer volume of information available in the public domain. This is about presenting the information to the general public via the recent plethora of official agencies that have been set up in different South American countries.

Woman can literally feel the noise
Medical Xpress, 30th May 2011

(Medical Xpress) -- A case of a 36-year-old woman who began to literally 'feel' noise about a year and a half after suffering a stroke sparked a new research project by neuroscientist Tony Ro from the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University. Research and imagery of the brain revealed that a link had grown between the woman’s auditory region and the somatosensory region, essentially connecting her hearing to her touch sensation.

Ro and his team presented the findings at the Acoustical Society of America’s meeting on May 25. They pointed out that both hearing and touch rely on vibrations and that this connection may be found in the rest of us as well. Another researcher and neuroscientist Elizabeth Courtenay Wilson from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston agrees that there is a strong connection between the two.

Comment: Presumably this is another type of synaesthesia and another evolutionary change that might start to appear in large sections of humanity. I am puzzled because a stroke is not associated with anomalous electrical activity in the brain that might have reconfigured the electrical connections in the brain. We do know that certain treatments that electrically simulate the brain do make a difference like the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), but maybe this stimulation is now occuring naturally at times when strong electric fields are present.

Discarded data may be gateway to new brain insights
xenophilius blog, 18th May 2010
"Scientists regularly discard up to 90 percent of the signals from monitoring of brain waves, one of the oldest techniques for observing changes in brain activity. They discard this data as noise because it produces a seemingly irregular pattern like those seen in river fluctuations, seismic waves, heart rates, stock market prices and a wide variety of other phenomena."
Surprised again by the attitude of scientists ignoring data that they don't understand, like the 90% of DNA that they called junk for decades....

Gone in SIX seconds: The moment a gaping pothole swallowed a lorry in China
Daily Mail, 30th May 2011

Staring into the huge hole in the road, this Chinese official probably cannot believe his eyes. That's because a lorry has fallen down this massive fracture in the road which opened up as he drove over it. The drama unfolded in the city of Changchun, which is the capital of north eastern China's Jilin province, earlier today

The two men who were inside the cab at the time of the accident were both injured, but there were no reports of how badly. Authorities are now investigating the accident but they suspect the truck, which was carrying steel pipes, was overweighted. The accident is just one of hundreds that take place in China each year, with the country being one of the most dangerous places in the world to drive. [...] The roads are also notorious for poor building standards.

Comment: We had a rash of potholes in Canada last week but I am not sure I should assume that we are being hit again from the cosmos... Whatever, I am seriously impressed with this hole, but I am a little surprised that there does not seem to be much substance to this road, ~~which looks like it might be above underground parking~~. Update There is a much better report at Sky News, it was a bridge and the lorry fell into the river.

Lorry Swallowed By Hole In Chinese Bridge (Photos)
Sky News, 30th May 2011

Amazing waterspout 'tornado' caught on camera off Australia
YouTube/Russia Today, 30th May 2011

Dramatic footage filmed from a helicopter by Australia's Channel 7 shows a series of powerful waterspouts near the coastal suburb of Terrigal, on Australia's New South Wales coast. Several powerful columns of swirling air could be seen blasting along the water's surface near the coastline. Channel 7 claimed the spouts reached heights of up to 600 metres (nearly two thousand feet), but dissipated as they neared land. The natural wonders came as strong winds and heavy rain also lashed other parts of the state, causing flash flooding and traffic chaos in Sydney.

Comment: Best footage of a waterspout that I have ever seen but at the end of this video, the images of the water flowing upwards, off some cliffs is truly bizarre and might be explained by the strength of the anomalous geomagnetic forces that were present.

Raw Video: Huge waterspout near Australian coast
Yahoo News, 30th May 2011
Yahoo cuts the footage so you don't see the interesting phenomenon at the cliff edge...

Fukushima Risks Chernobyl ‘Dead Zone’
Bloomberg News, 30th May 2011

Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan’s crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a “dead zone” remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded.

Soil samples in areas outside the 20-kilometer (12 miles) exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant measured more than 1.48 million becquerels a square meter, the standard used for evacuating residents after the Chernobyl accident, Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, said in a research report published May 24 and given to the government.

Comment: The article is should be entitled: The Tepco Dream: We can Magic Away Radiation, Even After a Meltdown.... My response is: dream on.... Btw, for a bit of realism: Tokyo is finished, I have been saying the same for many weeks...

Pump failure nearly brings No. 5 to a boil
Tepco installs backup unit 15 hours later for halted reactor Japan Times, 30th May 2011
"The seawater pump in the cooling system for the Fukushima power plant's No. 5 reactor broke down Saturday evening, prompting repair crews to install a backup pump 15 hours later on Sunday afternoon, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said."
High radioactivity found in Japan nuclear workers
Yahoo News, 30th May 2011
"TOKYO (AFP) – Two workers from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been contaminated by high levels of radioactive iodine, the operator said Monday, prompting fears over their long-term health. The workers, reportedly men in their 30s and 40s, may have already been exposed to radiation levels higher than the recently boosted official annual limit, Japanese media suggested."
Comment: I don't know why they are bothering to report this, it's obvious there is no way to protect the Fukushima workers in such a highly radioactive environment, they will all die of radiation poisoning.
Off the Chart: 225 Sieverts per hour at Reactor No. 1 — Highest radiation dose yet measured
Energy News, 30th May 2011
From the comments: "Not critical….critical….not critical….critical – the Blob is flashing!" LOL...
Experiment to decontaminate farmland begins in Fukushima
Japan Today, 29th May 2011
"An experiment to remove radioactive materials from farmland by growing plants and using a mineral began Saturday in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture. The farm ministry and the prefectural government have secured 3 hectares of rice paddies, vegetable fields and grassland for the program in which they plant sunflowers and amaranths in the fields to see their capabilities for absorbing radioactive cesium in the soil, they said."
Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking like a sieve - May 26, 2011
Nature News Blog, 26th May 2011

Bangladesh woman cuts off 'attacker's' penis
BBC News, 30th May 2011

Police in southern Bangladesh say a woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempt to rape her and took it to a police station as evidence.

The incident took place in Mirzapur village, Jhalakathi, about 200km (124 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.

Monju Begum, 40, a married mother of three, told police that neighbour Mozammel Haq Mazi forced his way into her shanty and started assaulting her. Mr Mazi, who denies the accusation, has been admitted to a nearby hospital.

Comment: So.... she was ready with the knife.... Well, I think it's better than the Indian woman who cut off a man's head when he tried to rape her and then wandered around the village with the head... see below:

Woman walks through market holding severed head of man who tried to rape her
Daily Mail, 17th October 2008

China goes organic after years of 'glow in the dark pork' and 'exploding watermelons'
After years of nerve-racking food scares from "melamine milk" to "glow-in-the-dark" pork and "exploding watermelons" urban China is starting to embrace the shoots of a new, green revolution and is going organic.
The Telgraph, 29th May 2011

From a runner-bean spotted spiralling along the balcony balustrade of a Beijing apartment, to long waiting-lists for allotments, a plethora of gardening websites and a mushrooming of organic farms and shops, Chinese families are increasingly looking to "grow their own".

In recent years China has been hit by a number of food scandals and fears about safety have lingered. In 2008, 300,000 babies became seriously ill and six babies died after being given formula contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine. In April this year, police seized 40 tons of beansprouts which had been treated with dangerous growth promoting chemicals and hormones, while this month, watermelons started exploding in the fields because they had been treated with too much accelerant.

In March health officials discovered pork that glowed and iridescent blue in the dark because it had been contaminated by a bacteria.

Comment: I don't think that you need to be that intelligent to realise that Chinese society has been sabotaging itself on a grand scale and things have gone too far. I think a major wake-up call was the cooking oil dredged from the sewers that was being re-sold.... I can't even imagine the level of consciousness that just sees this as good business... Whatever, the massive increase in birth defects and the bizarre medical conditions must be frightening many people. Maybe, it has got to the stage where people can no longer tolerate the nastiness of it all....

Study: Nuclear Radiation May Affect Gender of Babies
Daily Tech, 29th May 2011

Researchers found that long-term nuclear radiation exposure led to either increased male births or decreased female births Researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München have discovered that nuclear radiation exposure either causes a higher rate of male births or a decreased rate of female births. [...]

But in a new study led by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, exposure to nuclear radiation didn't necessarily have a harmful effect on humans, but rather an interesting impact on the gender of babies.

Scherb and Voigt studied those who live near nuclear facilities, as well as areas affected by radiation from the atomic bomb testing before the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. What they found was that the ratio of male to female births was biased in favor of male births by a noticeable amount.

In fact, they found that there was an increase in male births over female births in the U.S. and Europe from 1964 to 1975, which occurred immediately after the globally dispersed atmospheric atomic bomb test fallout prior to the ban in 1963. They also found a heightened amount of male births over female births in Europe in 1987, one year after the Chernobyl disaster. The U.S., which was not affected by the nuclear disaster, did not experience the same shift in male-dominated births.

In addition, the study found that those living within 22 miles of nuclear facilities in Germany and Switzerland had an increased birth rate of male babies over female babies.

Comment: If the gender of babies was all the world had to worry about, then we would not have records of children with terrible birth defects and mutations born after the disaster at Chernobyl as well as all the babies born in war zones were uranium weapons are used ... Actually, Physicist Professor Chris Busby, the world's top radiation expert, does have something to say about infertility, the general risks associated with small amount of radiation leaking from nuclear power plants (see interviews before Fukushima) and the terrible disaster in Japan, see below. I personally don't think it's possible to make any comparison's between small amounts of radiation leaking from nuclear power plants and the major nuclear disaster at Fukushima that is still ongoing, as all the experts agree, Fukushima is far far worse than the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Pr A.Yablokov and Pr C.Busby on Fukushima victim estimations [20:06] [Part 1]
YouTube, 12th April 2011
"Alexey Yablokov and Chris Busby participated in the International Radioactivity Risk Kongress in Berlin 6-8.03.2011 (http://www.strahlentelex.de/Abstractband_GSS_2011.pdf ). Alexey Yablokov´s with colleges V. B. Nesterenko and A. V. Nesterenko estimation of 1,5 million early deaths in the after Chernobyl period until 2004."
Yablokov´s speaks with a very heavy Russian accent... it's difficult to understand this interview on the street, so it might be better to read the write up, but Chris Busby starts speaking at about 7:40. Yablokov says we need to monitor all the fish from the North Pacific... Busby says that Tokyo airport is upwind of Fukushima and should be closed down... both give huge figures for the number of people expected to die from cancer in the next 10, 50 years.
Pr Chris Busby on infertility risk around Fukushima, Japan, etc [6:48][Part 2]
YouTube, 13th April 2011
"Pr Chris Busby is asked by BSRRW.org secretary Ditta Rietuma to inform the Austrian radio reporter on the infertility risk in Japan. Additional to at least 400.000 cancers in next 50 years in the 200 km radium fr Fukushima, estimated using the more reliable ECRR-model ( www.euradcom.org and http://www.bsrrw.org/?page_id=83 ) instead of the official ICRP model. "
Important: Here Chris Busby talks about specific research that radiation throws a switch on DNA that allows for more and more mutation...
Pr. Chris Busby: ECRR-model for radioactivity risk protection
YouTube, 10th December 2009
"Recent research has shown a failure in the radiation risk model of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), which radiation risk agencies in all nations currently use to regulate public exposures. There is new theoretical and experimental evidence showing that the health effects of the element Uranium have been massively underestimated."

Fukushima Could Have Avoided Nuclear Meltdown, Lost Chance By Inaction
Daily Tech, 19th May 2011
II. Chance to Advert Meltdown May Have Been Lost Due to Inaction
On the morning after the quake TEPCO finally decided to vent steam from the reactors in an effort to reduce them from heating. One thing the Japanese government is upset about is that TEPCO didn't vent them sooner. It was instructed to vent them on March 11, but failed to act until the next morning. Nuclear Safety Commission Chairman Haruki Madarame told Japan's Parliament, "We can certainly say that if the venting took place a little earlier, we could have prevented the situation from worsening."
I had missed this interesting piece of news

The book of secrets
The Age News, 29th May 2011

It has baffled code-breakers and linguists for centuries, now some wonder whether an unreadable 600-year-old book was a prank, writes Michael Day.

SOMEWHERE deep in the bowels of Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - the Ivy League institution's own cemetery of lost books - lies a tome that experts have studied for centuries, but which has yet to be understood by a single soul.

The book has no known author or official title; Yale librarians simply refer to it as MS 408. But thanks to its peculiar language, symbols and diagrams, often strangely familiar but insistently elusive in meaning, it has intrigued and frustrated anthropologists, linguists and mathematicians for centuries. Even the elite cryptologists at the US National Security Agency drew a blank after spending years trying to decode it in the 1950s.

Comment: A nice example of how hard some had to work to keep certain information away from the prying eyes of corrupt 'authorities' that would kill you immediately if they thought there was something to be gained. Yet, looking at the history of the book and the organisations still trying to decrypt it, that should tell you something too...

Tokyo could become off limits
Huffington Post, 27th May 2011

“Transcript of Interview With Ichiro Ozawa

Q: If you had been in charge, would you have disclosed all the information about the meltdown in the initial stage?

A: Yes. I would have. There is no use in holding back information. We have to decide what to do, based on the premise of the information we have. This problem may be contained in Fukushima for now, but the contamination may spread outside of Fukushima. Anxiety and frustration are growing. People cannot live in the contaminated areas. These areas are becoming uninhabitable. Japan has lost its territory by that much. If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits. There is a huge amount of uranium fuels in the plants, much more than in Chernobyl. This is a terrible situation. The government doesn't tell the truth and people live in a happy-go-lucky... [Wall Street Journal link]

Comment: The link to the Wall Street Journal only gives the introduction to this interview and the rest of the interview is for subscribers only. Here is a copy. The statement provided here is proof Japanese politicians are seriously thinking that Tokyo will have to be abandoned.... No doubt this will send a shudder down the spines of all those sociopaths in charge (at least those with a small ability to feel emotions), who that think their financial security is immune and people should carry on and ignore the obvious energetic upheaval taking place on this planet.

Update: I read the whole transcript. Senior political figure Ichiro Ozawa can actually think straight...

Q: Reconstruction will require a lot of money and resources, and the Diet is currently debating the need for a second supplementary budget. What is the urgency and how large should this second reconstruction budget be? Where would funding come from?

A: That’s another typical Japanese way of thought. No matter how much money it takes it must be done. With all that happening you can’t live in Japan. Some day we may not be able to live in Japan. There is the possibility that the power plant can reach the state of criticality again. If it explodes, it’s a huge matter. Radiation is being leaked in order to keep the reactors from exploding. So, in this sense, it’s even worse than letting the power plant explode. Radiation is going to be flowing out for a long period of time. This is not a matter of money, but of life and death for the Japanese.

Wow... this is very honest.... Maybe, we have a Japanese politician that actually cares about the lives of the Japanese people... Sometimes, it's a relief to find people who can actually think about long term consequences and not short term exploitation...

AP Exclusive: Fukushima tsunami plan a single page
AP, 27th May 2011
"TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago. In the Dec. 19, 2001 document — one double-sized page obtained by The Associated Press under Japan's public records law — Tokyo Electric Power Co. rules out the possibility of a tsunami large enough to knock the plant offline and gives scant details to justify this conclusion, which proved to be wildly optimistic."
Finally, someone has dug out the proof...

Ground holes prompt evacuations in QC [Canada]
Holes as deep as five metres appeared in green fields and driveways.
CBC News, 27th May 2011

Engineers and geologists are examining dozens of deep holes that appeared in the ground in Quebec City's north end this week, as residents are being urged to leave their homes for safer locations. City officials served evacuation papers Wednesday to about 15 homes and one business in Quebec City's Charlesbourg district, where nearly 40 holes have been reported.

The holes, ranging between five and eight metres wide, have appeared this week in various fields, and on one residential driveway. The deepest hole is about five metres deep. Some of the holes have closed, but the remaining gaps are mystifying officials. "The field is is like, there is nothing, no trees or anything and you see everywhere some holes, some deeper than others, like 30 or 40 holes everywhere on the field.

Comment: Well, I would be interested in seeing a report written by engineers and geologists about this rash of deep holes, as I don't think they are caused by 'normal' processes. Look at the driveway and see the depth of concrete there is as part of this hole.... it looks like another laser cut to me....

Wife helps fly small plane over Colorado after husband suffers oxygen deprivation
The Denver Post, 27th May 2011

Federal aviation officials on Thursday released details of a May 17 incident in which the pilot of a small plane became incapacitated from lack of oxygen, and his wife, also in the cockpit, teamed with air-traffic controllers and nearby pilots to get the endangered aircraft lower so the pilot could recover and land safely.

The couple were flying a Cirrus SR22 from San Bernardino, Calif., to Colorado Springs at an altitude of 17,000 feet [3.2 miles/5.2 kilometers] at midday when a controller in the Federal Aviation Administration's Longmont control center noticed the pilot was slurring his speech.

"I think you might be experiencing some hypoxia; would you like a lower altitude?" controller Charlie Rohrer asked the pilot, according to the FAA transcript of the incident.

Comment: Interesting, I would doubt there are many examples of pilot oxygen deprivation at 17,000 feet... (at the moment, I can't find any examples). So, at this normally safe low elevation, it is possible to surmise that oxygen has been depleted by the air being ionised by space weather. Due to the numerous strange instances that have occured in the past 6 months or so, that suggest oxygen deprivation by birds and even plane cabin pressurization problems, we can surmise that Earth's leaky magnetic shielding is generating an atmosphere that is vulnerable to the effects of space weather.

Anyway, for reference, the height of Mount Everest is 29,028 feet, but bar-headed geese -- the world's highest-altitude migrants--fly from their winter feeding grounds in the lowlands of India through the Himalayan range, sometimes even directly above Everest, on their way to their nesting grounds in Tibet.

Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake
Fox News, 27th May 2011

Italian government officials have accused the country's top seismologist of manslaughter, after failing to predict a natural disaster that struck Italy in 2009, a massive devastating earthquake that killed 308 people. A shocked spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) likened the accusations to a witch hunt.

"It has a medieval flavor to it -- like witches are being put on trial," the stunned spokesman told FoxNews.com. Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will face trial along with six other scientists and technicians, after failing to predict the future and the impending disaster. Earthquakes are, of course, nearly impossible to predict, seismologists say. In fact, according to the website for the USGS, no major quake has ever been predicted successfully.

Comment: Oh my goodness..... I can't believe it..... Maybe somebody important died or something and family members are looking for revenge... Anyway, if you go back into the archives I did report that an Italian scientist did predict an earthquake but he was arrested for scaremongering, see below:

"An Italian scientist, Giampaolo Giuliani, predicted the earthquake which has killed at least 90 people in the Abruzzo region but he was reported to the police for scaremongering, it has emerged."

Italian earthquake: expert's warnings were dismissed as scaremongering
The Telegraph, 6th April 2009

Hmmm.... the trial will be interesting...

Camping and Climate Change
Watts Up With That, 27th May 2011

Last weekend on May 21, American Christian preacher Harold Camping, once again encountered his ‘Disappointment Day’. For years he announced the end of times, predicting May 21 to be Judgment Day. On that day, the world would be destroyed and only ‘a chosen few’ would make it to heaven.

On Judgment Day, the preacher took a seat in front of his television to await news events. He expected a live report of CNN covering a wave of earthquakes that ultimately would lead to global demise.

But nothing happened.

Comment: OK, you may have noticed that I have ignored the Camping 'Rapture' fiasco but I could not resist an article headlined with images of Harold Camping and Al Gore, because I can clearly see the similarities between these two preachers.... I realise that the Catholic Church will never admit their role in the massive problem of billions of people expecting the return of a person when Christos is really about the personification of spiritual energy. It is sad to say, that the true meaning of the Return of Christos has been been mostly lost or obscured and it seems only a select few initiates, really understand the true meaning of the End Times. Meanwhile, the Signs of the Times are all around us... From the comments section: don't miss The Mayan solution to climate change:

Video: Six Climate Realist Scientists Speak The Truth (Video)
Daily Bail, 27th May 2011

May 21st—What’s Keeping Jesus?
Exohuman, 21st May 2011

Comment: This article examines the original text and explains why the modern day predictions are basically flawed. From my perspective, the Bible was written on two levels and really meant for those who have been initiated into the true meaning of esoteric texts. What's more, it is important to know that some of the source material recorded ancient astronomical information. Since most people could not read up until the last 100 years or so, to quote Sir William Drummond (1770 - 1828) in his seminal work Oedipus Judaicus (1811), he tells us that the Egyptian priesthood were basically astronomers, who regarded the people as 'the prejudiced and semi-barbarous multitude'. I would suggest that this attitude amongst the elite has not changed much, hence it's quite clear to see why we have problems with biblical interpretations today.

Harold Camping's New Rapture Date - October 21, 2011
YouTube/Young Turks, 24th May 2011
The Young Turks provide details of Harold Camping's "Invisible Rapture" and his next 'Rapture' day..."

Researchers Find "Stunning" Evidence of Cell Phone Dangers
Mobiledia News, 27th May 2011

Researchers have reported evidence that cell phone radiation has a variety of alarming biological effects, which are sure to fuel concerns about whether or not phones impact human health.

Scientists reportedly found that GSM signals fragmented insect DNA in ovarian cells, that a brief "mild electromagnetic field" affects bone formation in fetuses, and that cell phone-frequency radiation increased the permeability of the blood-brain barrier in young adult male rats.

These findings were reported in a press release issued by the Environmental Health Trust, which notes that the rat brains can be "used to correspond to the brains of human teenagers." "This work provides a warning signal to all of us," said Professor Wilhelm Mosgoeller from the Medical University of Vienna. "The evidence justifies precautionary measures to reduce the risks for everyone of us."

Comment: What is really interesting is that there are hundreds of research papers warning people about how human biology is affected by electromagnetic fields, but the attitude generally is that people are happy with the level of risk associated with gadgets like mobile phones but are less happy when they are grossly affected by cell phones masts, radar masts, electricity pylons etc that are all part of the cacophony of man-made electromagnetic signals that have saturated the planet. From the research I have seen over the years, these are the major sources of electromagnetic pollution and the effects are well documented, but it is interesting that some are continuously making claims that ionospheric heaters like HAARP can be used to generate the same effects. The only problem is there is no proof only speculation. I think that widespread heavy electromagnetic pollution that has immediate affects would be easily detectable. For example Switzerland introducted new laws concerning electricity pylons, when it was found that milk production from cows was being affected. It has been many decades since researchers noticed that very low frequency emissions prior to earthquakes completely mess up biological experiments but we are suppose to believe that major sources of biological pollution would go unnoticed. Yes, we do live in a supersaturated world but due to extensive scientific research that is often unrelated, our environment is also being heavily monitored.

Woman Kicked Off Train for 16-Hour Phone Call
Mobiledia News, 19th May 2011
Did she have a headset, earpiece or the phone directly at the head? I think we all need to know how this marathon phone call was achieved.

Police: Daughter shoots dad with arrow over cell phone
Kare 11 News, 26th May 2011
More cell phone addiction

Geiger counters selling out in Japan
ABC News, 27th May 2011

[...] It's the place you can get your hands on any electronic gadget or gizmo. And in Tokyo's Akihabara district this week the must-have device is a Geiger counter used to detect radiation.

"Before no-one even looked at Geiger counters or knew the name of them," says electronics store manager Makoto Ogasawara. "But ever since the massive earthquake struck people have become very interested in them. So we are selling a hundred times more Geiger counters than before," he says.

The reason for this surge in sales is simple - good old-fashion scepticism, even cynicism directed at Japanese authorities and the operators of the Fukushima plant.

Comment: All very sad... Looking back, there were only a few nuclear experts that were brave enough to tell the truth from the very beginning. However, the actions of the US military and diplomats telling their nationals to get out of harms way was very public knowledge and highly indicative of the seriousness of this crisis. The initial rumours, presumably coming from diplomatic channels and the latest news concerning the need to move the capital away from Tokyo, are all relevant to the situation. As I have been stating since I understood the severity of this crisis, a very large part of Japan will become uninhabitable. Since the Japanese authorities refused to get to grips with the situation immediately and ask for international help, this is now inevitable. The real question is: have they sacrificed the whole country to save face?

Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Reactor 1 RPV, Reactor 3 Cooling Pipe Broke In the Earthquake, TEPCO Now Says
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 25th May 2011
"After two months TEPCO is dribbling the information out which only proves the critics and fringe scholars and the "sensational" media abroad were right from the beginning. First was the news of core meltdowns in all three reactors, and after two months no one cared. Next, the news yesterday that the Containment Vessels, not just the RPV, have holes, and no one cared."

US Navy forecast shows super typhoon may hit Fukushima plant — TEPCO “still considering typhoon measures”
Energy News, 27th May 2011
Presumably, TEPCO (INEPTCO) never had any plans for a typhoon hitting a nuclear power plant... all part of the fairy tale miracle of nuclear power

NASA: Songda becomes a super typhoon
PhysOrg.com, 26th May 2011
"The good news is that the predicted course track is moving east and away from the Fukushima reactors, and the storm is expected to weaken before it gets there. Hopefully. Building 4 will remain standing. The bad news is that even at tropical storm levels, Songpa will suck up the accumulated radioactive debris from two months of leakages, and spread it over a wide area of the Pacific." Credit: www.whatreallyhappened.com

Oprah, James Ray, and the Media Effect
Celestial Blogspot, 26th May 2011

As Oprah wrapped her history-making show this week, amidst the cascade of media coverage could be found a lot of ambivalence about her impact on society. On the one hand, she had an undeniably positive impact on public perception of what a woman of color can accomplish in America. She broke a lot of ground for women, period. For that we can all be grateful. On the other hand, she foisted a lot of pop psychology and dumbed down spiritual teaching on an eager public. [....]

On the plus side, Oprah is a major force for literacy. She makes people feel good about reading which not a lot of television personalities do. She heightened attention to literary greats like Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. On the negative side, I can never forgive her Dr. Phil and The Secret.

I just can't.

I have little doubt that Oprah believes strongly in both. Her endorsement of the pop psychology of Dr. Phil and the spiritual pornography of The Secret are a tiny, little window into the psyche of this extremely driven woman. Both of these Oprah endorsed cottage industries are a study in control freakdom.

Comment: Hmmm.. I can't disagree with most of the negatives here but I'm still thinking about LaVaugh describing The Secret as 'spiritual pornography', I think the sentiment is a little too strong.... There cannot be any doubt that the heavily promoted and now ubiquitous shallow spirituality has encouraged the 'me, me, me', mentality to the point where our world faces a deluge of spiritual energy and most interested in spirituality are oblivious to the implications. For goodness sake, the hippies in the 1960s were singing about The Age of Aquarius

at the time Russian astrophysicists were measuring the build up of energies around our solar system... Today, our planet is being saturated, our modern technological world is threatened and the vast majority are oblivious that a massive transition is taking place... Just in case you still don't understand why this situation is incredible, note the additional image icon.... There is a lot more that can be said too.

Mmmm Whatcha Say … James Ray (Video)
Salty Droid, 26th May 2011
Salty droid has made a truly cringeworthy and sad at the same time James Ray video.... btw CNN are pulling the James Ray coverage.... that's a bummer....

Special Comment - 26th May 2011

I watched the moon (waning crescent) at about 2am and saw that it was very red. I believe it is the first time in my whole life that I have seen the moon that colour. Hence, I was astounded when half an hour later it was gleaming bright white. I realise that the vast majority of people are oblivious to the cause of the changes on this planet, but quite frankly it's really obvious now that serious amounts of cosmic dust has invaded our solar system and is affecting the sun, Earth and moon in a variety of anomalous ways. Yes, this is the arrival of a New World Age. Esoteric knowledge has been retained by many different traditions and is now widely available for intelligent people to integrate this information with current scientific observations and details for themselves — if they choose to spend the time. I am still waiting to see a blood red full moon, but I have already seen enough to be convinced of the significance.

Blood Red Moon [Canada]
YouTube, 18th May 2011
The link here is to a YouTube video of someone who caught the full moon blood red. He says it was over Crasse and I have found a Lac la Crasse (Lake Crasse) in Canada, he says it was across the provence valley, but does not give a location. In the comments someone says they saw the same on the west coast of Canada.

Angry Parents in Japan Confront Government Over Radiation Levels
New York Times, 25th May 2011

FUKUSHIMA CITY, Japan — The accusations flew on Wednesday at the local school board meeting, packed with parents worried and angry about radiation levels in this city at the heart of Japan’s nuclear crisis.

“Do you really care about our children’s health?” one parent shouted. “Why have you acted so late?” said another. Among other concerns: isn’t radiation still raining down on Fukushima? Shouldn’t the entire school building be decontaminated? The entire city? Can we trust you?

“We are doing all we can,” pleaded Tomio Watanabe, a senior official of Fukushima’s education board. A huge outcry is erupting in Fukushima over what parents say is a blatant government failure to protect their children from dangerous levels of radiation. [...]

“It breaks my heart that they did nothing for the children,” said Sadako Monma, herself a mother of two, who has run the Soramame center for 15 years. “Our answer was to stop waiting for someone to help us.”

Comment: The war has started.... What else can these sane parents do? The psychopaths in charge allowed this to happend, aided and abetted by a sleeping populace but the Japanese people are finally waking up.....

Supernatural: Messages on leafs
Brazil Weird News, 26th May 2011

ESPíRITO SANTO state/Brazil – In Serra city, leafs of trees - by ten years, have presented a strange phenomenon. Inscriptions, religious figures and others appear on the surface of the leafs. The images are like embroideries produced by combination of numerous tiny perfurations. The local population belives that the inscriptions are messages of Our Lady. The house where the tree stays became a pilgrimage place.

The first inscription, appeared sixteen years ago and was found by house owner, Mrs. Maria Aparecida D'ávila. Since then, the inscriptions don't stop to appear in leafs of all trees of the propriety. A specialist in insect explain that the marks probably were not made by ants. [...] During a retirement, drawings, similars to that appear on the leafs but much bigger, appeared on the wall. The Church says that there is no divine or supernatural phenomenon in the leaves, but does not condemn people that want pray at the site.

Comment: The translation is not brilliant, but good enough for us to know that experts have established some basics about what is going on. Well, since we know that UFOs/UAPs that were normally hidden in the aether are now appearing left, right and centre, we can start looking at all the other examples where we are seeing anomalous events that indicate the "magnetic video" of the aether appearing in strange places. From a more scientific perspective, due to the electromagnetic chaos in our environment, it seems information held as "scalar" fields are being converted into electromagnetic fields that appear in our reality.

Bacteria-rich hailstones add to 'bioprecipitation' idea
BBC News, 25th May 2011

A study of hailstones has found large numbers of bacteria at their cores. The find lends credence to the "bio-precipitation" idea, which suggests that bacteria are actively involved in stimulating precipitation. The bacteria have protein coatings that cause water to freeze at relatively warm temperatures.

Researchers at the American Society for Microbiology meeting suggest bacteria may have evolved to use the water cycle to facilitate their own dispersal. The micro-organisms that can be found in precipitation such as snow have been studied since the 1960s.

Comment: As I have stated before, the skies are teeming with bacteria but the main issue that scientists don't want to talk about is the arrival of this bacteria from space... Think about it and look at the evidence...

They definitely hate it! Denmark BANS Marmite... because it has too many vitamins
Daily Mail, 25th May 2011

They say you either love it or hate it. But it seems that people in Denmark definitely hate Marmite as the country has banned it from its shelves. The sticky brown yeast extract, commonly spread on toast and sandwiches, has built up millions of admirers around the world - and just as many who grimace at the merest thought of the dark paste.

The divisive vegetable spread has been banned in Denmark because it breaks food laws passed in 2004 governing the sale of products fortified with added vitamins. And until now, Marmite had escaped the attention of food chiefs. It is unclear exactly why the Danish authorities have launched a crackdown on foods with too many vitamins.

Comment: The sad thing is this is just part of a trend of poisoning the earth and the water supply, poisoning the food with too many chemicals and additives, introducing genetically modified (GM) food, discouraging natural medicine in favour of expensive, but not necessarily better healthcare in the form of pharmaceutical drugs and making herbal remedies illegal. Well, regardless of the efforts being made against mankind, we are going through a transition that will transform our world. Evolutionary and healing energies are pouring onto this planet, seeds will be transformed by high electric fields and the earth will bloom... Paradise is on it's way. Sometimes, I am really glad that I am not wallowing in complete ignorance about things that actually matter... I picked this quote up over at SOTT.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

UFO at the U2 concert in SLC???
Latest UFO Sightings, 24th May 2011

Was this a UFO recorded at the U2 concert in South Lake City (SLC) in Utah on Tuesday, 24th May 2011.

Witness report: Not sure what this thing really is, but it didn't move like a helicopter or airplane or anything I've ever seen. It would move quickly to the left and right, up and down, then it was just gone, like that. Did anyone else see this?? Have any answers for me? Well and there was a helicopter that flew by later and it didn't match? up at all. I'm pretty convinced it was a UFO.

Comment: I think this report of a UFO at a U2 concert is hilarious... I can't work out whether the crowd are cheering the ufo or the band... LOL! Anyway, this is especially interesting after what happened in Barcelona in 2009, where 2 giant 'angels' were photographed watching over the event. If you look at the twitpic comments, someone claims to have seen them with the naked eye, I won't dispute that because I have seen a huge bright light entity myself, but that was a long time ago, before I had any theory to help me explain what I had seen.

Today’s Tornado Outlook: High Risk of Global Warming Hype
Roy Spencer, 24th May 2011

After the catastrophic death toll from the Joplin, MO tornado, which now stands at 117, we are no doubt in for more claims — dutifully amplified by the news media — that ‘climate change’ must somehow be at least partly responsible for this Spring’s wild weather.

And, to some extent, I’m inclined to agree. That is, if they are talking about the natural cooling effects of La Nina and the tendency for tornado outbreaks to be associated with cooler (not warmer) climate conditions.

But I suspect that’s just the opposite of the message they will be preaching.
So, let’s look at 2 statistics: 1) the number of strong to violent tornadoes, and 2) the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history

Comment: For a few very different reasons, I don't think people should just think this is an abberation. Roy Spencer is a climate scientist and climate warming 'realist' but the brief analysis here just reveals a "downward trend in strong (F3) to violent (F5) tornadoes in the U.S. since statistics began in the 1950s." We also learn that before this month, the deadliest tornadoes were pre 1960, but I suspect that communications were not as good as they are now, so in theory, more people can be saved and so the statistics are skewed. Currently, we are seeing very strange atmosphereic conditions over the eastern United States that distinctly look like hurricanes forming over land, but scientists tell us that this is impossible because there is no acceptable explanation by meterologists using their non electromagnetic universe models for this occurence, even though we can look at the weather radar signatures and see the state-wide swirls of 'water vapour' for ourselves. Scientists have also predicted that the hurricance season is going to be above average too, so that should be something to worry a few. It's sad to say that tornado and hurricane formation is still not very well understood by meterorologists but there are scientists who are considered 'mavericks', who successfully and regularly predict them as part of their severe weather forecasts. Over at weatheraction.com Piers Corbyn says he was right to within 1 day of the severe risk of tornadoes in the United States that he described as a Extra Top Red warning (see the details posted for the 15th May below). Corbyn uses solar and cosmic factors to predict the weather and his track record is excellent.

NOAA hurricane outlook indicates an above-normal Atlantic season
Watts Up With That, 19th May 2011

23-5-11 Tornado swarm ~midwest predicted by WeatherAction 3 weeks ahead
Weatheraction.com, 23rd May 2011
Please note the discussion in the comments that Piers Corbyn give his expertise and knowledge away for free... this mentality is sickening... free, free, free.... the beggar mentality. I suppose these people think that Piers should live on the pavement and beg for food whilst he's making everybody else's life easier.

The Tornado Epidemic Of April 2011 [VIDEO]
Fast Company, 24th May 2011
"The weekend's tornado in Joplin, Mo., was just the latest--and most devastating--of what has been a rash of tornadoes. In April, more than 360 people were killed by tornadoes. The previous record was 267, in 1974. As of yesterday, there had been 1,151 tornadoes this year. Last year at this time, there had only been 506. NOAA has documented the tornadoes reported in the month in this chilling video:"

Astonishing new aerial images Joplin, Missouri
a12iggymom blog, 24th May 2011

Aerial Photographs of Joplin Before and After the Tornado
New York Times, 25th May 2011

Midwest Twisters Claim More Than 500 Lives(video)
Sky News, 26th May 2011

Comment:This is a good summary of storm chaser tornado footage. Some in the the blogosphere are suggesting the death toll in Jopin is far far higher than the official number reported. There are personal testimonies from people being picked up in the blogopshere and it is really to see that the probably number of dead will be in the region of 500-750 dead, just from Joplin alone. This is the same pattern of major disasters occuring in the United States and the authorities playing down the number of dead. I simply don't understand why they do this, this was a F4 tornado, 3/4 mile across and was on the ground for 6/7 miles in a city where 3/4 of the buildings were destroyed. People not in a basement had very little chance.

Lightning strikes kill 40 in Bangladesh
IOL News, 24th May 2011

Dhaka - Lightning strikes during a heavy rainstorm in Bangladesh killed at least 40 people and injured more than 150, most of them harvesting rice in fields or fishing, police and officials said on Tuesday.

The deaths, the largest number of casualties from lightning in a single day, occurred on Monday. Ten people died in northwestern Chapainawabganj district. Rainstorms ahead of the monsoon season starting in May or June often bring electric storms that kill residents and damage crops. -Reuters

Comment: What kind of 'lightning' event could kill so many people at one time? I think this is bizarre and reminds me of other recent extreme events as noted below:

Thunder, duststorms claim 56 lives in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
Times Of India, 19th May 2011
"NEW DELHI: At least 56 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar when severe duststorm, accompanied by rain and thundershowers, lashed some parts of the states on Wednesday evening, according to All India Radio."

A fish with arms... and a 'T-Rex' leech found up a girl's nose: Scientists reveal amazing top 10 'new species' list
Daily Mail, 24th May 2011

* Amazing jumping cockroach and glowing fungus also make top 10 list * 10million species waiting to be classified, say experts

It looks like a pancake, crossed with a fish, and a bat... with arms. And it hops. So it's no surprise scientists have labelled one of their new discoveries the hopping pancake batfish.

The creature is one of ten 'new species' to have made it onto a list of weird and wonderful creatures published today. Joining it is the 'T-rex leech' - a bloodthirsty 2inch invertebrate which was discovered when it was pulled from the mucous membrane of a girl in a remote region of Peru.

Comment: Again, more reports that highlight the fact that evolutionary biologists must have a dilemma when there are so much evidence of new species appearing... I even argue that there may be species on this planet that have never been seen and recorded by humans but it does not mean they are new. What's more, it only take a few DNA changes and something becomes brand new. This is especially interesting as scientists are telling us that various species can adapt in a matter of years caused by changes in their habitat and there are now many examples..

I'd like to introduce to you a new species of animal, plant, & insect
Above Top Secret, 23rd May 2011

They didn't croak after all! World's rarest toads found in area less than half the size of a football pitch
Daily Mail, 24th May 2011

Pictures: See-Through Frog, Other "Lost" Species Found
National Geographic News, 24th May 2011

Pig gives birth to elephant-like creature
Global Times, 24th May 2011

A sow in Kangbao county, Hebei Province, has become a sensation among locals after it gave birth to an elephant-like piglet recently. According to the sow owner Liu Jinjiang, "I've had the pig for more than seven years, and it always gave birth to normal pigs."

On May 6, however, the sow gave birth to a very peculiar creature – an elephant-like pig. The piglet was more than 40 centimeters long and has big ears, a 5-centimeter-long nose, and even appeared to bear small tusks. Liu said it died about 10 minutes after the birth. [...] Zoologists have yet to examine the corpse to determine what the creature really is.

Comment: Well this is getting crazy.... virtually every week now another bizarre anomaly reported from China, but this piglet ranks up there with the piglet with a monkey head... I keep on saying that it looks like something in the environment, whether chemical or electromagnetic, is randomly changing the morphogenetic field that controls the growth of the fetus and we are now getting bizarre abberations on a regular basis. The changes mean that the WRONG rules for processing DNA is getting picked up, because a straight DNA mutation would just cause a malformation or nothing, like the recent rabbit with no ears in Japan that is believed to have been caused by high radiation levels from Fukushima. Anyway, in recent years I have documented:

2007 01 30 – chicken born with duck feet
2008 07 25 – piglet born with monkey head
2008 08 27 – cats growing wings in 1 month
2008 08 22 – calf with reptile skin
2008 09 16 – duck born with chicken feet
2009 09 28 – snake with foot
2011 03 25 – puppy dog born to sheep
2011 04 14 – cat gives birth to dog
2011 05 24 – piglet born with elephant head

I have ignored the more 'normal' mutations, like my favourite cat, Yoda with 4 ears (at least they are all cat's ears), possible throwbacks like a pig with a woolly hide and possible examples of humans impregnating animals. These are abberations caused by the mixing up of the 'rules' used to process DNA, but as our scientists are prepared to admit, these 'rules' are held in the environment and I believe they are actually held interdimensionally as scientific experiments have also indicated.

Containment Vessels of Reactors 1, 2, 3 Were Possibly Damaged Within 24 Hours of March 11 Earthquake
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 24th May 2011

Someone at Yomiuri Shinbun who was made to read the TEPCO's report to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), the government overseer, found this bit of information in the main report (225 pages, in Japanese; English translation is on-going at TEPCO): Containment Vessels were damaged within 24 hours of the quake.

It is not in the summary slides (10 slides, in Japanese), which I did read. In the TEPCO's press conferences since May 15, Matsumoto never admitted to the Containment Vessel damage but he didn't deny it either. He specifically said in a press conference I watched that he "cannot deny the possibility of the Containment Vessel having been damaged." (I will link my post reporting that if I ever retrieve it; Google deleted it in their "maintenance".)
Comment: It's now official, but the news of 10cm 'holes' in the containment vessels is just part of this ongoing corporate comedy...

TEPCO Stating the Obvious After 2 Months: Reactors 2, 3 Total Meltdown More Likely
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 24th May 2011
"Here we go. It's official now. All three reactors at Fukushima I Nuke Plant had a total meltdown. What a surprise. We're so shocked, aren't we?
The Implications of the Fukushima Accident on the World's Operating Reactors
YouTube/FaireWinds, 23rd May 2011
"Arnie Gundersen explains how containment vents were added to the GE Mark 1 BWR as a "band aid" 20 years after the plants built in order to prevent an explosion of the notoriously weak Mark 1 containment system. Obviously the containment vent band aid fix did not work since all three units have lost containment integrity and are leaking radioactivity. Gundersen also discusses seismic design flaws, inadequate evacuation planning, and the taxpayer supported nuclear industry liability fund.
The more you find out, the clearer it becomes that the nuclear industry is run by cowboys....
Helicopter video over Fukushima shows what appears to be exposed molten fuel slag.(Video)
YouTube, 17th May 2011
"AT 00:31 SECONDS YOU SEE MOLTEN RADIOACTIVE MATTER!!"
Using google translation, the helicopter flew over Fukushima No. 3 No. 4. This is absolutely hopeless...
Fukushima's Secret Radionuclides
Counter Currents, 16th May 2011
“The … claim from authorities is that 2 fission products have been emitted into the biosphere by the Fukushima event. This is most odd, given that the fission product inventory (from nuclear reactions) consists of over 250 radio-nuclides. There is more than Cesium-137 & Iodine-131 being emitted.”

Barack Obama's car, nicknamed 'the beast', gets stuck
BBC News, 23rd May 2011

Barack Obama's cavalcade car caused some drama when it got stuck emerging from the gates of the US embassy in Dublin. The low bottom of the car, nicknamed 'the beast' because of its bomb-proof features, seemed to catch on a ramp crossing over the gateway.

It is not clear if Mr Obama was in the car involved as security officials blocked the view of the incident. The US President and First Lady then left by another exit.

Comment: LOL! LOL! LOL! I know that when the US president is away from home, there is a small army of people who travel with him (I know because I have travelled and I have met Americans who know the details) and there are extensive plans, so this little hiccup is even funnier.... Another little reminder that it does not matter who you, plans and circumstances do occur that we cannot always foresee.

Mutant Rabbit Missing Ears Born in Namie City, Fukushima Japan
Japan News Today, 23rd May 2011

In Fukushima prefecture Namie City a rabbit missing its ears was recently born. According to the video poster the rabbits are being fed outdoor grass possibly contaminated by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Namie City is outside of the 30 kilometer exclusion zone.

Youtube commenters are recommending calling it “Daiichi”.

Comment: This rabbit is going global.... The Japanese really do have a very wry sense of humour calling the mutant rabbit "Daiichi"....

Rabbit Without Ears, Allegedly Born After Fukushima Accident
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 27th May 2011
"The person who uploaded the video says it is one of their rabbit, and it was born after they fed their rabbits with their favorite fresh green grass after the Reactor 3 blew up. He/she says "We were working in our backyard when the Reactor 3 blew up, which we didn't know at that time. Our faces and throats felt burned, and we thought we're going to die. So we fed the rabbits with their favorite grass." And "It's just too late, telling us after 2 months how contaminated the soil is around here. We've drunk from the well water, have eaten the wild mountain vegetables."
Some analysis about the earless rabbit... but sad to hear the experience of local victims of this tragedy.

Rainbow after Joplin tornado
YouTube, 22nd May 2011

Amazing double rainbow Seen over Spingfield MO just after a deadly tornado Rips through Joplin.

Comment: We have a rainbow with a surrounding larger secondary rainbow with a band called Alexander's dark space lying between them. Curiously in my book Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows and Related Electromagnetic Phenomena (1984) by William R. Corliss, in the section GEB17 "The Dark Space Between Primary and Secondary Rainbows" there is no mention of Alexander's band. It says:

Description. A decided lack of illumination of the sky separating primary and secondary rainbows. The adjectives of chocolate-colored and purplish have been applied to this phenomenon. However, in the great majority of rainbows, the dark space is not noticed.

Data evaluation. The phenomenon is apparently rare. Nevertheless, several seemingly sound reports have been uncovered. Rating 2.

Anomaly Rating. Classical rainbow theory cannot account for the dark space. No one, however, seems to have attempted to explain it employing optical interference effects and/or psychological contrast effects. Rating 2.

Possible Explanations. Light form this region may be reduced by optical interference from light refracted from rain droplets elsewhere, similar to the manner in which supernumerary bows are created. Further, the brightness of the adjacent primary and secondary bows may remake this region seem dull in comparison.

We are given examples from 1866, 1875, 1897 & 1947, so it's quite curious that explanations with experimental proof are not forthcoming, but if you look up examples on the internet, there are lots of more recent examples and we have to surmise that what used to be caused by rare atmospheric conditions are not so rare these days...

Rainbow Springfield, MO 5/22/11
YouTube, 22nd May 2011
"Amazing rainbow just moments after very destructive tornado in Joplin,MO."

Tornadoes Rip Across Midwest; 89 Dead in Joplin, Mo. (Video)
ABC News, 23rd May 2011

Rescue workers today searched for victims of fierce storms that ripped through several Midwestern states this weekend, killing at least 89 people in Joplin, Mo., where a devastating tornado touched down and left trapped survivors still crying out for help this morning.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and activated the Missouri National Guard in response to the destruction.

St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., was fully evacuated after it took a direct hit from the tornado. Every window in the facility was blown out and the roof was torn off. Seven people have been reported dead at a nursing home, according to police reports.

Comment: There is storm chaser video of the tornado here and the video of people inside the store is a horror classic... When are people going to build tornado proof community centres and hospitals to help people survive in parts of the world that are prone to tornadoes?

Tornadoes devastate Minneapolis and Joplin, Mo. (22 Photos)
The Washington Post, 23rd May 2011
Apparently this is devastation from a category F4 tornado, so what kind of damage would a F5 do? It's hard to imagine things being any worse....

24 deaths in Joplin, say Greene County officials
News- Leader, 23rd May 2011

Ryan Nicholls with the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management has confirmed there are 24 fatalities in the wake of a tornado touching down in Joplin. The number of injuries is unknown.

Damage was widespread across the city's south side. John Campbell, operations director for the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed fatalities have been reported. Phone communications in and out of the city were largely cut off.

Comment: I picked this report up after the blogosphere were reporting that there bodies lying around everywhere... Terrible news... More: Multiple fatalities reported in Joplin tornado & Deaths reported as Joplin, Mo., hospital takes 'direct hit' from tornado

NOAA - Eastern U. S. - Visible Loop
NOAA, 22nd May 2011
Again, this looks like a hurricane forming over land...

U.S. Severe Weather Alerts Map
Weather Underground, May 2011
Twitpic - Joplin Walmart after tornado. , Twitpic - St. John's Hospital in Joplin. Photo by Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle , Twitpic - Joplin High School. , Twitpic - Aftermath of the Tornado that touchdown in Joplin, MO
Twitpic.com, 22nd May 2011
MASSIVE TORNADO HITS HOSPITAL IN JOPLIN MISSOURI
YouTube, 22nd May 2011
This short video is like out of an apocalyptic movie, the trees are stripped bear and everything seems to be levelled accept for the hospital that has all the windows blown out.... scary....
Tornado May 22nd 2011 Joplin MO
YouTube, 22nd May 2011
"This is what happend on May 22nd 2011 When a F4 Tornado ripped through Joplin Missouri"
Apocalyptic...
Deadly tornado in Joplin (68 Photos)
News-Leader, 23rd May 2011
... these photos reveal just how destructive this event was...completely terrible...
Joplin Local News

Religion may affect brain changes
Sydney Morning Herald, 23rd May 2011

FAITH can open your mind but it can also cause your brain to shrink at a different rate, research suggests. Researchers at Duke University Medical Centre in the US claim to have discovered a correlation between religious practices and changes in the brains of older adults.

The study, published in the open-access science journal, Public Library of Science ONE, asked 268 people aged 58 to 84 about their religious group, spiritual practices and life-changing religious experiences. Changes in the volume of their hippocampus, the region of the brain associated with learning and memory, were tracked using MRI scans, over two to eight years.

Comment: Yes, I regularly come across people who have allowed their brains to atrophy...

Things Are Slowly Changing in Japan Over the Fukushima Crisis
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 22nd May 2011

[...] In the meantime, angry and concerned parents and citizens are swarming the Ministry of Education and demand that the government withdraw the 20 millisievert/year radiation (external only) limit for children. The Minister is hiding.

They are holding a meeting outside the Ministry. Each time some punk of a bureaucrat utters something, he is being shouted down by angry protesters, demanding the Ministry retract 20 millisievert/year.

"Why can't you understand? What can't you understand?" they are shouting at the bureaucrat.

Comment: Well, it looks like I was right.... the Japanese government's sociopathic stance on new high radiation levels for children crossed the line and I think this means more than just civil unrest.... The mentality of the slave populace putting up with high levels of radiation to suit the needs of the elite will not go down without a fight.... Maybe, these materialists think that everybody will be happy if they sell toys of radiactive bunnies with no ears and that somehow this is going to change the facts....

Parents demand lower radiation limit for children
NHK World, 23rd May 2011

Power Outage At Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport
CBS Minneapolis News, 21st May 2011

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A power outage at Terminal A of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has left several jetways inoperable. The Metropolitan Airports Commission said the outage is affecting concourses A, B, C and D. The concourses are currently using a backup generator to power lights for safety, but for now, the jetways are inoperable.

Those who are onboard flights are being deboarded and ushered onto buses. Officials are working with police and the TSA to ensure everything remains secure during the outage. A few flights have been delayed. Authorities say they don’t know if the outage is weather related but electricians and Xcel Energy are working to get the power back on.

Comment: The above is from the old version of the story that has also been updated with a new headline. The latest version tells us the blackout lasted 6 hours and 250 planes had to be diverted which I think can be considered as major disruption. Well, there seems to be a pattern appearing of blackouts at airports and authorities KNOW it is probably related to atmospheric effects... Curiously, the new version has no mention of the weather.... Well since there is 100 - 300 volts per meter normally. but a dust devil can generate 4000 volts per meter at ground level, we know there can be a huge variation in electric fields but the evidence is stacking up that airports seem to be more vulnerable in the increasingly intense electromagnetic conditions on Earth....

US military goes to war with climate sceptics
Political action on climate change may be mired in Congress, but one arm of government at least is acting: the Pentagon
The Guardian News, 20th May 2011

Federal legislation to combat climate change is quashed for the foreseeable future, scuttled by congressional climate cranks who allege the climate-science jury is still out. What's become clear is that, for some, the jury will always be out. We can't stack scientific facts high enough to hop over the fortified ideological walls they've erected around themselves. Fortunately, though, a four-star trump card waits in the wings: the US national security apparatus. [...]

CNA Corporation, a nonprofit that conducts research for the Navy and Marines, echoed the Pentagon's urgency, writing, "Climate change, from the Military Advisory Board's perspective, presents significant risks to America's national security." The Army Environmental Policy Institute, the National Intelligence Council and the Centre for a New American Security have issued similar reports on the dangers of runaway climate change and what it could mean for geopolitics.

Comment: Well, the climate fanatics are desperate and are hoping the US Military can stamp all over the opposition on their behalf... Well, we know the US Military are extremely well informed based on the hundreds of their top secret satellites probing our solar system that we don't know much about. We can surmise that they know full well that the cosmic environment is changing and hence will change the climate on Earth. However, as we are finding out it, this does not necessarily mean "global warming," a prediction that has become an embarassing failure. However, there is massive planetary change as our planet is experiencing Space Weather, a deluge of solar, cosmic, galactic and intergalactic energies at the same time that Earth's magnetic shielding continues to disintegrate. The US Military are now having to worry about the effectiveness of their computer systems that use GPS. In this regard, as far as I am aware, attempts at geoengineering the planet may not actually help... to be honest, I am please to say the Electromagnetic Universe rules.

Professor may be tried over scientific report
Hurriyet Daily News, 20th May 2011

Research showing that mother’s milk and babies’ excrement contain traces of heavy metals, leading to increased risk of cancer, has put experts against officials in the northwestern province of Kocaeli. While both district and city mayors file a complaint against the professor leading the study, the professor claims that the officials are trying to prevent scientific research. ‘People will protect the values of Dilovasi, as the awareness has been created,” professor says

A complaint has been filed over a report published by an expert saying a high amount of heavy metals, including mercury and arsenic, were detected in mother’s milk and babies’ excrement in Turkey’s northwestern Kocaeli province. The professor is accused of threatening to incite fear and panic among the population.

Comment: There needs to be panic amongst the populace because too many people are asleep. There are too many corrupt officials and too many evil corporations sabotaging society to the point where we are threatening our own survival on the planet.

Penguin Flip-Flops: Reality or Myth?
YouTube/Russia Today, 20th May 2011

There is a long-standing myth that Antarctic penguins flip over at the sound of a passing plane. Unable to right themselves, they risk dying a terrible death in the snow. RT's team went to great lengths to verify the story once and for all.

Back in 1982, British pilots in the Falklands allegedly observed the phenomenon as they flew over penguin colonies. They said the birds would topple over as they lifted their heads to watch the planes fly by, then penguins were left on their backs by the thousands, unable to right themselves. But is this story true?

"I think that it is something that is widely-known amongst the public, but generally regarded amongst anyone that knows and thinks about it as a bit of a myth, to be honest. An Antarctic Falkland Islands' myth," said Stuart from the British Antarctic Survey.

Comment: I just thought this report was hilarious...

Free-Floating Planets May Be More Common Than Stars
NASA News, 18th May 2011

Astronomers have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lone worlds are probably outcasts from developing planetary systems and, moreover, they could be twice as numerous as the stars themselves.

"Although free-floating planets have been predicted, they finally have been detected," said Mario Perez, exoplanet program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "[This has] major implications for models of planetary formation and evolution."

The discovery is based on a joint Japan-New Zealand survey that scanned the center of the Milky Way galaxy during 2006 and 2007, revealing evidence for up to 10 free-floating planets roughly the mass of Jupiter. The isolated orbs, also known as orphan planets, are difficult to spot, and had gone undetected until now. The planets are located at an average approximate distance of 10,000 to 20,000 light years from Earth.

Comment: Of course, people are linking this to the belief in the existence of Sitchin's Nibiru recorded in antiquity, but apparently that is not due until 2900. What's more, there are other astronomical factors not widely know that needs to be considered when it comes to stars invading our region of space. Whatever, the fact is that astronomers think these stray planets may exist based on mathematical computations and research has been ongoing for many years. Therefore, it is quite interesting to consider that this is another reminder that most people have no idea what is really happening in our local region of space that might be effecting us on Earth.

Scientists report finding floating planets (Video)
NHK World, 19th May 2011

Bunny rabbit born with no ears after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, Tohoku
YouTube, 21st May 2011

My interpretation of the google translation of the YouTube user yuunosato's upload comments : There is a need to watch out for our health, due to the actions of the government immediately after the accident at Fukushima, 30 km outside the town of Namie, because no information is available at all, thought to be erased in a cover-up. As a result of eating from the grass immediately outside, a bunny rabbit is born with no rabbit ears. This mutation is the first time ever. The life cycle of a rabbit is short compared to man, maybe this bunny rabbit is a glimpse at the birth of children in the future.

Comment: Well, it has taken about 10 weeks for the appearance of the first mutated animal... Due to the extremely high levels of contamination this is going to be absolutely awful and I can't see this doing anything else but forcing the government's hand in large scale evacuations and that means evacuating Tokyo, the world's largest city. Use google translate to pick up more information like people were complaining about dandelions being malformed, so the rabbit is going to send some people completely off the rails. Here is another:

My interpretation of the google translation of the YouTube user albireo0106 comments : I checked the gestation period for a rabbit is about a month. There would have been exposure in the womb as Namie Shimazu town had fairly continuous exposure, it is a heavily-polluted area from the northwest side of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. There must be concern about radiation damage of the fetus relating to children.

Japanese superquake moved ocean floor 79 feet sideways and 10 feet up - and new data shows region is under more strain
Daily Mail, 21st May 2011

The ocean floor shifted sideways by 79 feet in the Japanese earthquake in March - much further than scientists originally predicted. And researchers are warning that immense amounts of seismic stress remain stored in the area, putting it at risk of further devastating earthquakes.

The journal Science has published three new papers about the effects and causes of Japan's March 11 mega-quake, which paints a picture of an earthquake hot spot much more complex and potentially dangerous than scientists had ever anticipated. [...]

'The scale is almost double that estimated only from the terrestrial data,' Dr Sato told BBC News. Under the seabed, the movement may have been even greater - perhaps 160 to 200 feet, by some estimates.

In another study sure to raise alarm in Japan, scientists from the California Institute of Technology have reconstructed how the Tohuku-Oki earthquake unfolded using GPS data recorded at more than 1,200 sites. Their data showed that - contrary to previous opinion - the area had built up massive amounts of strain prior to the earthquake.

Earlier, there had been general agreement among researchers that the 'Miyagi segment' of the fault line was not under the stress of other segments along the Japan plate boundary, where large earthquakes occur at a regular basis. But Professor Mark Simons' team showed that this assumption was deeply flawed. This raises questions about other sections of the fault line that had previously been considered low risk - including areas further south, closer to Tokyo.

Comment: This means that the 54 nuclear power plants were built in a region where scientists have been wrong about the stability of the tectonic plates that surround the country. It sure looks like Edgar Cayce might see at least some of his apocalytic prophecies fulfilled.

Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University: "No One Knows How Fukushima Could Be Wound Down" As the Corium May Be Melting Through the Foundation
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 20th May 2011

So says Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, in a telephone interview on May 19 with independent video-journalist Tetsuo Jinbo of Videonews.com (who did the video report of the 20-kilometer radius evacuation zone back in April, showing cows and dogs prowling the deserted towns).

Koide is practically agreeing with Christopher Busby that there's not much anyone can do to stop the release of radioactive materials and further contamination of air, soil and water, other than somehow "entomb" the reactors (a.k.a. Chernobyl solution).

Koide reiterates his view that the corium (he says "melted fuel" and "melted core" in the interview for lay people, but it is melted fuel, and anything else that melted with the fuel inside the RPV) may have already escaped the Containment Vessel in the Reactor 1.

Comment: Nobody has a clue what to do.... absolutely marvelous, there only seems to be people in charge who specialise in lying and what good are they in resolving this major world crisis... Btw, the physics blogs have been talking about Corium for many weeks.

Local govts clear dirt for kids' health / Reject official definition of 'safe' radiation
Daily Yomiuri Online, 22nd May 2011
It looks like people simply don't care what the Japanese government have to say.... sheeple no more....
The ‘myth of safety’ in Japan’s nuclear plants
National Post, 21st May 2011
[...] As emergency workers still struggle to control four of the plant’s six nuclear reactors, the Japanese are only now learning just how serious the crisis has been. [...] The uncertainty and anxiety surrounding the Fukushima disaster have caused an unprecedented public backlash in Japan, generating protests, tirades on Twitter and YouTube, death threats and displays of defiance. [...] Public confidence was shaken further when it emerged engineers at Fukushima were so unprepared for the disaster, they had to scavenge flashlights from nearby homes and used car batteries to try to reactivate damaged reactor gauges."

Comment: Some shocking revelations, false economy and a high level of crapiness to save money... similar to BP with their secondhand blowout preventer reconditioned in China to save money that of course failed to do the job...
Prime Minister ordered halt to cooling after he was advised seawater could cause a “chain reaction” or “recriticality”
Energy News, 21st May 2011
What a joke, 2 months later and they want to STOP using sea water.... I am now wondering how loud the explosions will be at Fukushima and whether it cause a part of Japan to fall into the sea. Well we can only hope because there does not seem to be a better solution to this world disaster.
Reactor No. 6 now has over 6 feet of contaminated water in turbine building — Water in reactor building may cause cooling system to fail
News, 18th May 2011
There has not been much media about Reactors 5 & 6 at Fukushima Daichi, but there has been an occasional mumble that there is a problem with water. Failing cooling systems means another meltdown... but those who have been paying attention would have worked this out weeks ago...

Respect for Authority Gives Way to Anger
IPS News, 20th May 2011

TOKYO, May 20, 2011 (IPS) - More than a hundred young nursing mothers living in Fukushima and nearby areas have signed up to get themselves checked for radiation contamination, but they would rather do it on their own, with no help from the Japanese government.

A laboratory the women have selected will conduct the radiation checks, said nurse Saeko Uno, who recently joined the group Mothers Monitoring Breast Milk Radiation Contamination. "This is because we do not trust the government to release the correct figures," she added.

Uno lived 50 kilometres from the Fukushima nuclear plant and harboured her own doubts about it. But she laments that local residents were lulled into a false sense of safety. "This is something I will never forget or forgive," she told IPS.

Comment: Just a few more people who have woken up to realise that those in power generally don't care much about the people they are suppose to be serving.

Ministry of Education Quietly Released WSPEEDI Simulation, It Shows Very High Organ Dose of Iodine-131 for Infants in Wide Area
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 22nd May 2011
Head of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuke plant operator resigns
RIA Novosti News, 20th May 2011
"The head of the company operating Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is stepping down and is taking responsibility for the handling of Japan's nuclear crisis, the msnbc.com news portal said on Friday, quoting Japanese media reports."
Japan’s Fukushima Reactor May Have Leaked Radiation Before Tsunami Struck
Bloomberg News, 19th May 2011
Christopher Busby: The Negative Health Effects of Low-Dose Radiation from Fukushima 1/2 [14:55]
YouTube/ TheAlexJonesChannel, 18th May 2011
"Christopher Busby, a British scientist researching the negative health effects of low-dose ionizing radiation, makes an appearance to talk about the critical situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan." Part 2 [8:27] link
Korean TV news director exposed to 148 milliSieverts — Chromosome analysis shows 7 cells out of 1,000 damaged
Energy News, 19th May 2011
148 years worth in one go... Well, what do they expect? The news was out immediately that a meltdown was taking place...
Q&A With a Former Fukushima Dai-1 Plant Manager
Spectrun IEEENews, 27th May 2011
"Futami: The scale of the Fukushima Dai-1 accident was far beyond my imagination. When I was superintendent, I could not have imagined that all electricity including battery power for units 1 through 4 would be completely lost at the same time, and would not be restored for more than 9 days."

Paralysed man can stand and move his legs again
BBC News, 19th May 2011

A US man who was paralysed from the chest down after being hit by a car is now able to stand with electrical stimulation of his spinal cord. Rob Summers, from Oregon, said standing on his own was "the most amazing feeling".

He can voluntarily move his toes, hips, knees and ankles and also walk on a treadmill while being supported, according to research in the Lancet. However, a UK expert said this should not be interpreted as a cure.

Comment: Humans are primarily electromagnetic beings, we are NOT just an assortment of chemicals....

Lightning Bolts within Cells
Technology Review, 10th December 2007

Human Cells have Electric Fields as Powerful as Lighting Bolts
Daily Galaxy, 30th July 2008

Did you see what flew by the moon? [US]
NBC Action News, 18th May 2011

Did you see something flying by the moon last night? It happened just before 10 p.m. and Brett Anthony caught it on a time-lapse camera, but he isn’t sure what it was! Do you have any ideas? Christa Dubill thinks it was Harry Potter, but Brett says that isn’t likely.

Comment: Another strange bright light in the sky reported as a joke... meanwhile militaries and pilots around the world (grown ups), have to decide how to deal with the Shadow Biosphere... Btw the moon is incredibly bright here, the same where I am, but of course trying to get an astronomer to talk openly about the relevant changes in the solar system causing these ultra bright moons is another difficulty.

'Translucent sphere' pauses over Illinois rooftops as it moves 40 feet overhead
UFO Examiner, 15th May 2011
"An Illinois witness watched a "translucent sphere" about the size of a beach ball float 40 feet overhead that seemed to be pausing over each rooftop as it moved along, according to May 15, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness testimony database."
It amazes me that ufologists suggest these small UAPs are probes, but I will admit in this instance, this is suspicious behaviour... Maybe, it was checking out what people were watching on TV... LOL

Missouri drivers pull over as 125 low-flying orange orbs shoot overhead [US]
UFO Examiner, 16th May 2011
Orbs on the move... almost like migrating fireflies...

May 15, 2011- Beijing, China Invaded by Hundreds of UFOs! Photos & Video
Lights in the sky, 16th May 2011
"Last night, May 15, 2011, around 8 PM I witnessed an awesome UFO event over the city of Beijing, China. I am an American living and working here and I live on the 4th floor of an apartment complex, in the old embassy district of town. My location is just southeast of Ritan Park, next door to the Silk Market."

Countless UFOs Caught On Camera Above Tokyo
Rocket News 24, 18th May 2011
Remember the articles from the Spoof Times? UFOs appear when there is enough radiation in the air whether this is cosmic or man-made and this has been known for a long time.

First cloned cat turns 10
Houston Chronical, 17th May 2011

Whatever happened to CC, the world's first cloned cat? It seems like only yesterday CC's baby pictures were being flashed around the world as Texas A&M University researchers presented their scientific triumph to the media.

Almost 10 years later CC, aka Copy Cat, is still in the College Station area. She has a mate, Smokey, and they live with their three offspring in a cat mansion built by Dr. Duane C. Kraemer, an A&M researcher who helped bring CC into the world. [...]

Brown-and-white CC, born Dec. 22, 2001, does not look exactly like the original calico donor, Rainbow, a domestic shorthair with white, brown and orange coloring.

Duane Kraemer likes to say that CC, being a self-respecting Aggie cat, didn't want to have anything to do with orange, so she didn't use the orange gene. However, there is a scientific explanation involving epigenetic reprogramming and color-coded X chromosomes to account for her physical appearance.

After CC's birth, the pet-clone company and A&M ended their relationship, partly because the university was uncomfortable marketing cloning as a type of pet resurrection, according to "The Copied Cat" chapter of Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend (Avery; $26). The researchers were not trying to re-create the same animal, just one with the same genetic makeup, according to John Woestendiek's new book that looks at the scientists, pet owners and entrepreneurs who can become entangled in cloning issues. Kraemer says there is no way to know whether Rainbow, who was raised in a colony of cats used for research, and CC have the same personalities.

Comment: CC or 'Carbon Copy' proved that the concept of "cloning" is actually impossible because the environment or epigentic factors are constantly modifying genes and there is no way that humans have the ability to tamper with this process. CC was actually proof of a huge FAIL by geneticists to understand the relation between biology and the direct link with environmental factors.

White kiwi chick hatched (Video)
stuff.co.nz, 24th May 2011
" A rare white kiwi chick has been born - the first to be hatched in captivity. The chick, named Manukura, is not an albino but the rare offspring of some North Island brown kiwi from Little Barrier Island. He was born at the Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre, 24km north of Masterton, on May 1, weighing approximately 250 grams.

The Little Barrier Island kiwi were transferred to Pukaha in May last year. Elders from the Rangitane o Wairarapa iwi gave the chick his name, which means "of chiefly status". Rangitane chief executive Jason Kerehi said tribal elders saw the white chick as a "tohu" or "sign" of new beginnings.
This chick is NOT albino

Windscreen cracks during flight over Norway, Smoke fills cockpit
SOTT News, 12th May 2011

English Translation: SAS-flight forced to turn around after drama in midair. "The captain couldn't speak with us because he was wearing an oxygen mask," passengers report.

A SAS flight on its way from Oslo Gardermoen airport to Stavanger airport had to return this afternoon to Gardermoen due to smoke in the cockpit and a cracked flight window.

Unusually enough, these two things occurred simultaneously. It is too early to say why smoke developed in the cockpit. As a rule, it's about cabling or smoke entering from outside, but this can only amount to speculation, says Kenneth K. Vikse, communication director at SAS, who emphasizes that the passengers never were in danger.

Comment: Hmmm... We do not get an explanation here, but since this is now a recurring problem there is a suggestion of overheated windscreen heaters short-circuiting and this implies an excess of electrical charge coming from somewhere. From the details provided in the articles below, maybe we are seeing an increase in this kind of incident, especially relating to take off and landing because of intense electric fields charging up windscreens. I am even wondering whether airports are especially vulnerable because we are seeing more and more stories of blackouts at airports and I have even been at the airport in Stavanger, Norway when they had to turn off the x-ray machines because there was "too much electricity in the ground", I know because I asked and got a truthful reply. This is interesting to consider when we know that even planes that are parked up have had their windscreens shattered... Anyway, maybe we are seeing more indications of Space Weather and worsening chaotic electromagnetic conditions on Earth, see more below.

Air Safety: 22 windshields cracking on 14 aircraft during a 90 minutes
Aviation Today, 5th March 2007
In Air Safety Week dated 26 February ("Thirteen plus One") we reported upon some of the likely causes of the 22 windshields cracking on 14 aircraft during a 90 minute period at Denver International Airport on 16th February last. The Denver-based NTSB lead investigator Jennifer Kaiser has now come up with an FOD explanation that she thinks "flies".

It's a natural phenomenon according to Jennifer. "The only commonality across aircraft type, operator, location, time and phase of flight was the wind and weather," Kaiser claimed. Despite aircraft being parked in different orientations, fine particles of grit were being swept along by gusts as high (at one stage) as 48 mph claims Kyle Fredin of the National Weather Service. On one parked aircraft, a CRJ 700, all four cockpit windows were cracked. Either the grit, or the wind, was turning corners.
Now this one incident throws a whole new light on the situation....

FAA probes shattered windshields on American Airlines jets
WFAA TV News, 29th March 2011
The Federal Aviation Administration confirms that it's looking into why cockpit windshields on two American Airlines jets overheated and cracked in mid-air. The latest incident happened Saturday on a Boeing 767 international flight to New York.

Two weeks ago, the pilot of another American Airlines 767 wide-body jet diverted to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with the same problem — a cracked windshield.

In both cases, electrical systems in the windshield heaters short-circuited and burned portions of the window. The Wall Street Journal reported 38 similar incidents over the last decade

7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes
Cracked.com News, 18th May 2011

When the international ban on the trade of ivory took effect in 1989, there were about a million elephants in Africa and about 7.5 percent of those were getting poached to death every year. Today, less than half of them are left, and we're still losing about 8 percent of elephants to ivory poachers. Pretty much everything we've done to protect our wild pachyderm friends has failed.

So elephants have decided to take matters into their own hands ... or trunks or weirdly rounded three-toed feet or whatever. To make themselves less appealing to their greatest enemies (poachers), elephants all over the world have begun selecting against having tusks at all. For example, it used to be that only 2 to 5 percent of Asian male elephants were born without tusks, and you can believe those few were the belittled Dumbos of the group.

By 2005, it was estimated that the tuskless population had risen to between 5 and 10 percent. And it's not just happening in Asia, either. One African national park estimated their number of elephants born without tusks was as high as 38 percent. It's natural selection in action: either lady elephants are deliberately choosing tuskless mates, or the only boy elephants surviving into breeding time are the ones born without tusks. Either way, that tusklessness is getting passed on.

Comment: Many scientists complain about global warming or climage change and generally only want to lament about extinctions but all along there have been many stories of animals evolving in decades rather than according to Darwinism and the text book millions of years of very slow change. Here the details, especially about the elephants evolving so quickly to stay alive from the threat of humans is absolutely incredible. I truly believe that this is due to the evolutionary energies now on the planet. This is not speculation, scientists know where this is energy is coming from and that there has been a substantial increase over the last 50 years. All I can say is, good for the elephants!

Extinctions Overestimated by 160 Percent?
National Geographic, 18th May 2011
"Global extinction rates may have been overestimated by as much as 160 percent, according to a new analysis. In recent decades numerous studies have predicted that habitat destruction will doom some 20 to 50 percent of Earth's species within 500 years."
I call this evolutionary change, the same tha as happened many times in the history of the Earth.

Spectacular mammal rediscovered after 113 years -- first ever photographs taken
PhysOrg.com, 19th May 2011
"A unique and mysterious guinea-pig-sized rodent, not seen since 1898 despite several organized searches, bizarrely showed up at the front door of an ecolodge at a nature reserve in Colombia, South America. The magnificent red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis), stayed for almost two hours while two research volunteers took the first photos ever of a creature the world thought would never be seen again."
Obviously, it's not extinct, but just good at hiding away from humans when it wants to....

Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
Technology Review, 18th May 2011

Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmospheric phenomena in the days before big earthquakes. But good data to back up these stories has been hard to come by.

In recent years, however, various teams have set up atmospheric monitoring stations in earthquake zones and a number of satellites are capable of sending back data about the state of the upper atmosphere and the ionosphere during an earthquake. Last year, we looked at some fascinating data from the DEMETER spacecraft showing a significant increase in ultra-low frequency radio signals before the magnitude 7 Haiti earthquake in January 2010

Today, Dimitar Ouzounov at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland and a few buddies present the data from the Great Tohoku earthquake which devastated Japan on 11 March. Their results, although preliminary, are eye-opening. At the same time, satellite observations showed a big increase in infrared emissions from above the epicentre, which peaked in the hours before the quake. In other words, the atmosphere was heating up.

Comment: I am very pleased to see that this information was released so soon. The scientific evidence is the exact opposite of the bogus information claimed by those who don't understand the science. What's more, my interest started when metaphysical sources claimed these same earthquake emissions fry the human energy field, hence there is a need for protection. Evolution or devolution, whatever your choice, it's what's happening now on Earth.

How Earth's Magnetic Field Would Look from Space
Space.com, 18th May 2011

The iron-cored Earth behaves like a great magnet, generating a huge magnetic field around the planet that protects it from blasts and harmful radiation from the sun. The recently released NASA visualization above shows this field, called the magnetosphere, as it might look from space.

This view is conceptual, but based on real science observations that have been made since the beginning of the Space Age. The orange and blue lines depict the opposite north and south polarity of Earth's field lines.

Comment: It looks like NASA has finally tried to catch up with the Japanese NICT real time simulations of the earth's magnetic field that I much prefer to use. The first picture is from NASA, the second and third are from NICT, but the third is how the Earth's magnetic field sometimes ends up after a massive space weather event revealing the magnetic field line disturbance.

NASA to Launch New Ocean-Watching Satellite in June
Space.com, 18th May 2011
"Aquarius will use a set of highly precise microwave radiometers to detect microwave emissions from the ocean surface. These emissions are modulated, or changed, based on the electrical conductivity of the water itself, which is influenced by the salinity."
With more ships going dead in the water due to their electronics being knocked out, I imagine the real concern is about monitoring large electrical currents in the ocean.

Space Weather: Sunspots, Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections
Space.com, 18th May 2011

Though the sun lies 93 million miles (149 million km) from Earth, its unceasing activity assures an impact on our planet far beyond the obvious light and heat. From a constant stream of particles in the form of solar wind to the unpredictable bombardment from solar flares and coronal mass ejections, Earth often feels the effects of its stellar companions. Less noticeable are the sunspots crossing the solar surface, though they are related to the more violent interactions. All of these fall under the definition of "space weather." [...]

NASA is currently implementing Project Solar Shield to provide warnings to vital systems after an Earth-affecting CME occurs. This allows satellites and power transformers to be shut down if necessary for a short period of time. The result is a short- term, controlled blackout rather than a longer one caused by the destruction of vital equipment.

Similarly, several satellites keep the entire sun under constant observation. NASA’s Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft studies the sun, while the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) focuses on solar atmosphere. And the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) samples particles from the sun as they stream toward our planet. These programs will help bring a greater understanding of the subject of space weather on Earth.

Comment: Education from Space.com about space weather.

Electrical explosion jolts Westwood
The blast at an underground transformer vault near UCLA sends up flames and smoke and propels a manhole cover into the back of a Metro bus. No passengers are injured. LA Times, 18th May 2011

An underground electrical transformer vault exploded Tuesday in Westwood near UCLA, sending smoke and a plume of flame shooting up from the street and propelling a manhole cover into the back of a Metro bus, Los Angeles city fire officials said.

The bus driver was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and treated for a "stress reaction," Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Marc Littman said.

None of the 25 passengers on board were injured, even though the back of the bus was passing over the manhole when the cover blew, shattering the vehicle's rear windows. [...] "We heard this big boom," Schmidt said, noting that she looked out a window and saw a "big plume of fire and brown smoke coming from the street."

Comment: I am still looking at this, but there is now a very long list of recent transformer failures mainly in the United States. A transformer vault is a structure or room in which power transformers, network protectors, voltage regulators, circuit breakers, meters, etc. are housed, hence when they explode, they can be extremely danagerous. The videos of this incident just shows smoke after the loud boom and fire but not a massive flare up or a light show. The United States has poor level of maintenance for their infrastructure but I do believe we are seeing a stronger electrical connection taking place between the ionosphere and the Earth, especially in places with a weak ionosphere. The Russians told us in 1997 the weakest place was over the United States with the ionosphere at 10km high, but since then, NASA have made it known the ionosphere dropped even more at solar minimum and then never recovered. I have not seen any maps of the depth of the ionopshere all over the planet but I am sure it must exist... Click icon for more information.

Westwood electrical explosion injures bus driver
ABC7 Local LA News, 18th May 2011

Why do Transformers Explode?
Transformer Protector Corp
"A one-year research project led to the discovery of 730 transformer explosions in the USA only Click for document #5. Many experts anticipate that the number of failures will increase significantly in the near future, from 1% in 2001 to 2% in 2008 Click for document #17. In addition, the shorter lifetime of new transformers will sharply increase above this rate after 2008 Click for document #18."
You have to contact them for the documents and no doubt they will charge, but the numbers here are high and so it seems there has been a massive increase in failures or there is two systems of counting 'failures'.

Interview with Akira Tokuhiro, Nuclear Engineer: Fukushima and the Mass Media
Huffington Post, 17th May 2011

"Only the mass media can put the kind of pressure on TEPCO and the Japanese government to bring about major change. This will cost at least 10 billion dollars if not 20-30 billion to clean up. It will take at least 10 years if not 20 and roughly 10,000 people working on the cleanup. The nuclear business is global. This needs an international effort to clean up Fukushima."
-- Nuclear Engineer Akira Tokuhiro

Comment:It's good to see a nuclear engineer speaking out and telling those who are interested the truth, but the major problem is economics, fear, greed and stupidity. People would rather risk the whole world be contaminated than think what is best for the planet and human life.... I suppose the idea is those with the power will survive and everybody else will need to fight to survive and that is how they want it. Unfortunately for them, we are at a time of evolutionary change and our world faces a technological collapse brought down from the heavens, so all the tools that give these people power may be removed or rendered useless, it's that simple. This is a small planet, there is no where to run to and nowhere to hide, so it really makes you wonder when authorities will start to make some realistic decisions. The discussion that hints of the karma of the US building these reactors, the Japanese using dirty MOX fuel and now the US being a major recipient of the contamination is also interesting...

Japan offers WHO apology for nuclear crisis
Japan Times, 18th May 2011
"Geneva — An annual meeting of the World Health Organization heard an apology Tuesday from Japan for the radioactive contamination in air and seawater caused by the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant."
Seriously? These WHO officials did not know the basic facts of what went down at Fukushima?

Fish Stick Has Image of Jesus Christ
AOL News, 17th May 2011

They say God is all around and that's certainly the case with believers who claim to have spotted likenesses of Jesus Christ on processed foods like fish sticks and Cheetos.

The comedy website Cracked.com crossed the country with believers on pilgrimages to unlikely holy sites like a Chicago underpass where allegedly the Virgin Mary appeared in salt stain on the wall.

Comment: There is a compilation of 28 pictures here that help to elucidate the nature of this phenomenon and so are worth viewing, but there are a few jokes in there too. I have been ignoring these stories for years, but now I am quite confident based on my research from older esoteric sources, that we are seeing images stored in the ether, appearing all over the place and they are appearing due to chaotic electromagnetic conditions bringing in images and entities into our reality that are normally hidden. Since Jesus Christ is highly venerated as God, and the Virgin Mary is venerated by millions of Catholics, they are images loaded with emotional human energy and it would take less energy to bring them out into our reality, but we have seen many other even stranger reports of writing appearing on the bodies of babies and adults too. For those who skeptical, please investigate what genuine Shamans in the Amazon have to say about how information is invisibly stored all around and then ponder about all those electromagnetic signals and fields that are detectable by our technology, but we cannot see with the limited capability of our eyes and then again, think about additional realms that are totally undetectable by our technology, but our scientists insist MUST exist.

Recalculating...Don't Trust Your GPS
Don't let your GPS lead you along. It might not know where you're going either.
Discovery News, 17th May 2011

* GPS devices can provide dangerous advice, yet people continue to trust the technology over their own instincts.
* A recent case in Nevada shows just how dangerous it is to put blind faith in a digital navigation system.
* It is better to learn wilderness skills than to become overconfident in technology.

Getting lost in the wilderness can be terrifying, even tragic. It can also be perplexing, as with a recent case in a remote area of Nevada.

A little over a week ago, a woman was rescued on the verge of death after being stranded for nearly two months on muddy back roads in the northeastern part of the state. Her husband, who walked off looking for help, is still missing. The most baffling part of the story: The couple had a GPS device. And they were following its directions when they got lost. It’s not the first time that blind faith in a GPS has led people astray and into big trouble.

Comment: I read various versions of this story last week, but the failure of GPS was very much downplayed. Well, I have written about this many times and provided articles that tell us that GPS signals are now so degraded by Space Weather that even the US military are worried about their total reliance on this system and if they are worried, then the rest of society should be worried when GPS based information (timestamping financial transactions etc.) is now being so extensively used and embedded into the processing side of so many computer systems. Whatever, this story should at least prompt a few to reconsider their actions if they want to go into the wilderness but don't know how to read a map.

“Situation at Fukushima out of control” (Video)
Russia Today, 17th May 2011

The situation at the Fukushima plant is currently out of control, says Professor Christopher Busby from the European Committee on Radiation Risks, who gave RT his insight into the recent developments in Japan. “Of course, it’s time for the Japanese government to take control. But having said that, it’s very hard to know how you could take control of the situation. The situation is essentially out of control,”

Busby stressed. “I believe personally that it’s a global problem – and not the Japanese government’s problem only,” he added.

Earlier on Tuesday, Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that his government was determined to "take responsibility" for Japan's crippled nuclear plant "right to the end" as the operator of the plant said a revised roadmap to resolve the crisis would stick with the existing timeline. Speaking to the media on Tuesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Sakae Muto said the operator would maintain the revised plan but will add new tasks, such as boosting preparedness for tsunamis and improving conditions for workers.

Comment: An informative interview... Busby confirms that there were nuclear explosions at Fukushima and no doubt the news is coming from Russian nuclear scientists... The synopsis is that no one has any ideas about what should be done to deal with this crisis, but it's a major problem for the world... This is the reality check: children have played with matches and now the whole place is on fire, but nobody has any idea about we should do now...

#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Ground May Have Shifted So Much That It May Have Caused Damage to Foundation (Guest Post)
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 17th May 2011
Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates mentioned in the latest video, in passing, toward the end, that Fukushima I Nuke Plant has sunk about a foot (about 30 centimeters) and that the foundation of the buildings must have been damaged.

One of the readers of my Japanese blog that has the Japanese translation of the video got curious and did some research using the data from the government agency (the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan), and came to a conclusion that the area where the plant sits may indeed have moved quite a bit, not just vertically but also horizontally.

His conclusion: Vertical: - 50 centimeters (it sank 50 centimeters) Horizontal: 220 to 250 centimeters to the east.

Comment: Well, this is about right when we consider that towns only just north of Fukushima are below water at high tide (knee deep) and there are calculations that some areas in Ishinomaki (north of Fukushima and only just north of Sendai) sank 4 feet (1.2 meters) lower.
Nearly 3,000 taken to hospitals by ambulances from quake shelters
Japan Today, 17th May 2011
"Nearly 3,000 evacuees living in shelters in three of the northeastern Japan prefectures worst affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami have been taken to hospital by ambulance, according to a Kyodo News survey released Tuesday."
Report: Obama administration urged Japan Prime Minister’s government “to take steps to prevent a further decline in Tepco stock”
Energy News, 16th May 2011
Oh yes, we are now getting down to the nitty gritty... take care of the friggin shareholders... just so sociopathic... please dear heavens, drop the cleansing energies and let's get this over and done with...
Tepco Says Fuel in 2 [additional] Reactors May Have Melted
Bloomberg News, 16th May 2011
"Tokyo Electric Power Co. said fuel in other reactors at its damaged nuclear plant may have melted, after confirming rods in the No. 1 unit had fallen from their assembly, potentially delaying plans to resolve the crisis."
More exceedingly late confessions -- and that means 1, 2 and 3, but wait, that's not all...

Huge meteorite crosses Cranbrook sky [Canada]
The Townsman, 17th May 2011

An enormous meteor was caught on video as it flew over Cranbrook early on Saturday morning. A video camera on the roof of the College of the Rockies caught the meteor's flight in a nine-second clip that you can view on the Townsman's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TownsmanBulletin.

Physics lab technician Rick Nowell described the sky as the meteor passed over us. "The dark night sky of Cranbrook was lit up like daylight early Saturday morning at 2:17 a.m. when a huge meteor rocketed overhead. Appearing as a dim dot at first, high to the north, it rapidly grew into a big, white ball as big as the moon, with a tail behind it," described Nowell.

"It flared into brilliance, lighting up the whole sky and layers of white clouds to the south-western horizon. Within four seconds the flare sank as it moved a bit south of west, sinking down into the clouds, towards the setting moon and Creston. Then a dull rumble of thunder followed after it."

The fireball was seen east in Cochrane, south in Coeur d'Alene and Spokane, and west in Nelson, Kamloops and Penticton. Most eye-witnesses described a greenish blue orb that looked as big as the moon. It lit up the sky as bright as day, and one person even said the automatic street lights switched off for a few minutes as they registered the light.

Comment: Wow.... So what happened? It really makes you wonder what size this rock was before it hit the atmosphere and whether it was truly invisible to astronomers when it was travelling through space... Note it switched off street lights... that's because these rocks are highly charged as they are racing through space and act as circuit breakers when they hit our atmosphere. Anyway, since we are being pelted with meteors on a regular basis these days, it's simply not possible to keep a tally of what's going on but here are a few other spectacular meteor events in the last few weeks.

YouTube - UFO DEBRIS OVER GUAYARAMERIN / BOLIVIA (28 APRIL 2011)
YouTube, 1st May 2011

Quite impressive.... I thought this could be a satellite breaking up in our atmosphere. Advice: turn off the music.

Fireball Meteor or space debris over Doha, Qatar / Saudi Arabia ~9:00pm 30APR2011
Meteor/Meteorite News, 1st May 2011

Possible meteor or space debris ‘event’ seen, felt across South
Valdosta Daily Times, 1st May 2011

"A meteorite or space debris may have been the cause of fireballs reportedly seen in South Georgia skies Friday night and the resulting impact felt from one end of Lowndes County to the other. Meanwhile, similar reports of fireballs were filed throughout the state and in other states, according to the American Meteor Society."

May 7, 2011- Georgia Visited by Another Bright Meteor!
Suite101.com, 9th May 2011

"On the night of Monday May 2, 2011, sightings of a bright meteor appearing over Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and other states were reported to news stations and meteor reporting organizations."

Rumble felt in Hampton Roads remains a mystery - Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Sulfolk [United States]
Pilot Online, 12th May 2011

"We may only ever know it as The Night the Earth Rattled. The seconds-long reverberation at approximately 7:20 p.m. Tuesday sent neighbors to porches, piqued slumbering pets and launched a thousand theories. But nobody can say for sure what it was - not police or seismologists or meteorologists or NASA or Oceana Naval Air Station or the Virginia National Guard."

Close encounter: NASA say earth shattering boom that prompted hundreds of 911 calls was just a meteorite - Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Sulfolk [United States]
Daily Mail, 14th May 2011

" ...according to NASA scientists, the earth shattering explosion was nothing more than a meteorite exploding as it entered the earth's atmosphere. The incident, which was loud enough to rattle homes in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Suffolk and other areas prompted a flurry of calls to 911 from concerned residents."

China farmers face 'exploding' watermelon problem
BBC News, 17th May 2011

Farmers in eastern China have been left perplexed after their watermelons began to explode one by one. An investigation by state media found farms in Jiangsu province were losing acres of fruit because of the problem.

The overuse of a chemical that helps fruit grow faster was blamed in one report by China Central Television. But agriculture experts were unable to explain why chemical-free melons were exploding. They cited the weather and abnormal size of the melon as factors.

China Central Television said farmers were overspraying their crops with the growth promoter, hoping they could get their fruit to market ahead of the peak season and increase their profits.

Comment: China.... but the seeds were imported from Japan.... well, you never know in this strange new electromagnetic environment developing on Earth. There may be new scenarios where certain basic variants like temperature, air moisture etc combined with harsh geomagnetic conditions will no longer work, but humans will have to find this out the hard way.

Cathay Pacific Airbus 330 makes emergency landing in Singapore (Video)
'God, save our flight! Give us your protection!' passengers pray
MSNBC News, 16th May 2011

SINGAPORE — Terrified passengers aboard a blazing jetliner prayed together before the plane made an emergency landing on Monday. An engine on a Cathay Pacific Airbus A330-300 caught fire in midair.

Cathay Pacific said the jet, bound for Jakarta with 136 passengers on board, landed back in Singapore "without incident" just before 2 a.m. It said the crew shut down the engine after receiving a "stall warning."

Comment: Chaos.... read the story, stating that the plane landed "without incident" is terrible way to downplay this... fortunately the passengers survived... I'm glad they started praying... There will be no attempt at analysis here, because some expert opinion is needed...

Power cuts strike Northern Territory homes [Australia]
Herald Sun, 13th May 2011

HUNDREDS of Darwinites may have slept through their alarms this morning when power was cut across several suburbs. Power and Water have since restored power to some homes in the affected areas. However, it will still be 1-2 hours before full restoration. Power and Water spokeswoman Lorraine Hook says power failed in Fannie Bay, Stuart Park, Parap, Ludmilla, and Coconut Grove about 5am.

Comment: I am still looking at reports but it does seem there was a sweep across the globe of power cuts over the weekend (13th-15th May) and transformer blasts across the United States that might be associated with the planetary line-up of 5 planets plus our moon. The transformer failure across the US is quite interesting because it seems that there is documentation that tells us that 19 per year was the average between 1997 - 2001 which makes the Fort Worth incident and the others since, even more interesting.

Anyway, we must remember that the whole solar system is now highly charged and according to Russian scientists the transmitting properties of space has increased. I would have thought electromagnetic disruptions are most likely a few days either side of this alignment. The Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets and Night Sky at the website www.solarsystemscope.com used to generate the image above. It helps us visualise why more scientists are seeing the rationale and the observational data that links up how earthquakes can be triggered by external cosmic events. Basically, earthquakes can be triggered by changes in the sun-Earth environment affecting the magnetic field of the Earth. More reports and info below: Update A scientist sponsored by NASA has produced an interesting report called: Apparent Relations Between Solar Activity and Solar Tides Caused by the Planets [2007]. From the conclusion we read:

ABSTRACT: A solar storm is a storm of ions and electrons from the Sun. Large solar storms are usually preceded by solar flares, phenomena that can be characterized quantitatively from Earth. Twenty-five of the thirty-eight largest known solar flares were observed to start when one or more tide-producing planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Jupiter) were either nearly above the event positions (<10° longitude) or at the opposing side of the Sun. The probability for this to happen at random is 0.039 percent. This supports the hypothesis that the force or momentum balance (between the solar atmospheric pressure, the gravity field, and magnetic field) on plasma in the looping magnetic field lines in solar corona could be disturbed by tides, resulting in magnetic field reconnection, solar flares, and solar storms. Separately, from the daily position data of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter, an 11-year planet alignment cycle is observed to approximately match the sunspot cycle. This observation supports the hypothesis that the resonance and beat between the solar tide cycle and nontidal solar activity cycle influences the sunspot cycle and its varying magnitudes. The above relations between the unpredictable solar flares and the predictable solar tidal effects could be used and further developed to forecast the dangerous space weather and therefore reduce its destructive power against the humans in space and satellites controlling mobile phones and global positioning satellite (GPS) systems.

CONCLUSION Intro:
In view of the statistics and the issues presented and discussed in this report, one must acknowledge the possibility that some type of tide-solar activity relation may truly exist, despite the widely accepted thought that believes otherwise. Evidence of apparent relations between planet positions and solar activity was observed and presented:

Apparent Relations Between Solar Activity and Solar Tides Caused by the Planets [2007], by Ching-Cheh Hung Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio. (.pdf download) Citation: link

The point is that many researchers over many decades have come to the conclusion that the position of the planets causes a variety of influences on Earth. This understanding is activity discouraged by those who control the perception of belief called 'science' and I presume this is related to a need to discourage belief in astrology or worse, cosmic catastrophism.

Power Outage In Greece
Wham 1180, 15th May 2011
"It affected around 2600 customers in areas that included Latta and Long Pond Roads."

Flights delayed in Malaysia airport blackout
AFP, 15th may 2011
"KUALA LUMPUR — National carrier Malaysian Airlines said Sunday 13 of its scheduled flights had been delayed and over 300 bags left behind following a "total blackout" at the capital's international airport. "Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) suffered a total blackout early this morning. Although it was restored within a short period of time, it had resulted in several flight delays," the airline said in a statement."

Lights go out in parts of Toronto's financial district [Canada]
Globe & Mail, 16th May 2011
"Parts of downtown Toronto were without power Monday morning. Seven large business customers in the financial district and downtown core were affected by the blackout, which began around 9:30 a.m. Power had been restored to five of the buildings by 11:30 a.m."

Cruise ship loses power at sea [nr Sweden]
MSNBC News, 16th May 2011
"The England-bound MSC Opera lost power in the Baltic Sea on Saturday. A problem with the electrical panel caused an engine power outage, stranding the ship's 1,716 passengers without lighting, water and access to working toilets. [...] The ship left Southhampton, England, on May 7 and stopped in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki and St. Petersburg. The 10-day cruise was cut short on Saturday, and the ship was towed to Nynamshamn, a port near Stockholm, Sweden."
If this was geomagnetically induced failure then it is due to large currents flowing through highly conductive sea water , see graphic.

US National Grid Outage Central
National Grid US, May 2011
I used this link to check if rumours of outages in the northeast on the 15th were true
Analysis of Transformer Failures in the US between 1997 - 2001 ( .pdf, 2003)
BPL Global, 2003
A document supplied by the International Association of Engineering Insurers presented at the 36th Annual Conference – Stockholm, 2003
America's Failing Infrastructure
YouTube/CBS, 3rd September 2010
"The American Society of Civil Engineers issues a report card every 4 years on the state of America's infrastructure. In the last two report cards, the nation got a D. Richard Schlesinger continues the series "CBS Reports: Where America Stands" with the state of America's infrastructure." Report Card = D, this might be a good explanation for why there will be a lot of geomagnetically linked problems to come in the United States causing an acceleration of problems in an already poorly maintained infractstructure.
www.poweroutages.org

Increase in Solar-Earth hits 15 May prelude to tornadoes & extreme weather events and Major Earthquake Risk 17-21 May
Weatheraction.com, 15th May 2011

On May 15th as Earth entered a fast solar wind stream*, geomagnetic activity reached K=4 level**, solar wind speed reached a very high 569 km/sec and there was a significant increase in proton flux***
* http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?month=05&day=15&year=2011&view=view
** http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html
*** http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/latest_events/
Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist of WeatherAction.com said:
"This increased activity is a prelude to our long range forecasted Extra Top Red warning for:
- Weather events 17-20 May including tornadoes in USA; and
- Increased MAJOR Earthquake risk 17-21 May. The Earthquakes may be anywhere in the world but the Pacific Rim including West coast USA is vulnerable.

Comment: OK, the solar wind speed has been high too...

Shock of the black couple who had a WHITE baby
The Sunday Mirror, 15th May 2011

The bustling operating theatre fell silent. Doctors and nurses stared at each other, stunned. And, as he stood at his wife’s bedside and looked into the eyes of his newborn child for the first time, new father Francis Tshibangu’s joy turned to disbelief. “I was clutching Arlette’s hand as they lifted Daniel from her,” Francis says.

“He was covered in blood… but then I saw his skin was white and his hair was blond. My jaw dropped open.” In a million-to-one quirk of nature, Francis and Arlette, who have no white relations, had given birth to a white baby. The genetic mix-up has baffled experts, who say Daniel is NOT an albino with no skin pigment – not to mention the parents, who already have a two-year-old black son, Seth. Francis adds: “My first thought was ‘Wow, is he really mine?’ [...]

The couple, who met in the Congo in 2007 and wed a year later before settling in the East Midlands, believe Daniel must be a throwback to Arlette’s great-great-great-grandmother, who is thought to have given birth to a white baby too.

Francis says: “That was six generations and we don’t even know if that was true. As far as our immediate ancestry goes, our grandparents and great-grandparents have all been 100 per cent black.”

Comment: This just keeps happening.... this baby is not albino but there is a possibility of a DNA throw back. Doctors can't keep saying this is rare when it is becoming more common, we have to wonder what rules are now coming into play? I would not even be surprised if a DNA test showed that neither parents shared the same DNA for reasons I have previously stated and I note this piece of useful information is missing from the analysis provided here. The picture is from the Daily Mail version of this story. The black parents shocked when their son was born white with blond hair

Beheaded woman had said she was being pursued
CBC News, 15th May 2011

The British woman who was brutally beheaded on the island of Tenerife had complained just minutes before the attack that she was being followed. The Sunday Times of London reports Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, went to a shopping centre Friday morning in the town of Arona on the Spanish island and walked into an employment centre to complain to staff that she was being followed.

Comment: These stories of people beheadings are still continuing too... I think experts will need to provide a diagnosis here for the state of mind of the attacker, as this is not the type of example I usually offer to explain how fluctuating geomagnetic fields can trigger those who are the most emotionally unstable. It just seems like a random act of madness... Now, we have a much bigger story about the IMF Boss and I am much more likely to believe that this character completely lost the plot in bad geomagnetic conditions, see more below:

Strauss-Kahn: NY Police Escort IMF Head in Handcuffs [VIDEO + PHOTOS]
International Business Times, 17th May 2011 (HKT)

Jailed IMF Chief Demands VIP Treatment In Lockup, Request Rejected
Indian TV News, 16th May 2011
"International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Sunday was outraged that he wasn’t getting the VIP treatment he’s accustomed to as the jet-setting head of the IMF and darling of the French left, a police source told The New York Post."
wow... this guy has seriously lost it.... more of his type will follow him too...

The Japanese Mayor Who was Laughed at for Building a Huge Sea Wall - Until His Village was Left Almost Untouched by Tsunami
Daily Mail, 14th May 2011

The huge sea wall and floodgates took 12 years to build and had been widely regarded as a £20million folly. But today one former Japanese mayor is being hailed as a saviour after the grandiose construction allowed his small town escaped the devastation wrought by the March 11 tsunami.

In the rubble of Japan's northeast coast, Fudai stands as tall as ever after. No homes were swept away. In fact, they barely got wet. The 3,000 residents owe their lives to the late Kotaku Wamura, who lived through an earlier tsunami and made it a priority of his four-decade tenure as mayor to defend his people from the next one.

Comment: And the moral of the tale? Most people quickly forget major catastrophic events and carry on as if they won't happen again. Today our world is facing major evolutionary change and most are not interested. There are abundant messages left by our ancestors that we can expect regular cyclical events that occur over thousands of years that in the past have been accompanied by major catstrophic events. The ancient and not so ancient text warn of fire or flood, this time it is celestial fire and the heavens have already opened but most people are still too uneducated to understand the signs of the times or what should be done to prepare, I even wonder whether it's too late. In this regard, I think I have most respect for the Russians, they clearly have been preparing and not just facilities for the rich elite.

High Strangeness Indeed: More Madness in the UK and Elsewhere
Gralien Report, 14th May 2011

I don’t presume to draw connections between what are truly, from the stance of obvious probability, entirely unrelated acts of murder, mayhem, inexplicable nudity, and high-strangeness; still, there seems to have been far more of all-of-the-above occurring lately than can be easily accounted for. These range from today’s lead story, that of a 28-year-old Bulgarian transient in the UK who inexplicably (and savagely) murdered a woman in her sixties, to a now ridiculous number of instances where people have either had “spiritual epiphanies” or simply gone bonkers, tore off their clothing, and wandered around in the buff for all to see. As I often begin to ask of such things, this recent rash of so-called “madness” has me wondering “what is the meaning of all this?!” [...]

For instance, what is described as “a sudden five-percent spike in killings” has Dallas officials concerned, apparently on the upswing after “years of declines.” According to Dallas area Fox News affiliates, the area had “hit a 50-year low in 2010.” Now increased killings, amounting roughly to one homicide each day, have caused concern among area law enforcement. “Detectives can’t explain it, though some have suggested that the economy might be to blame,” a report read yesterday.

Are economic woes indeed the cause behind rising turmoil around the world, potentially responsible for everything from increased homicides, to increased UFO sightings in China and the East? And speaking of UFOs, Gralien Report correspondent Mobius notes that he’s “lost count of UFO reports, they no longer can be counted and some of them have video cannot explain or debunk. High strangeness is at hand!” High Strangeness indeed…

Comment: Someone else has noticed the high level of madness and wondering if there are other factors at play...

Update on the CERN CLOUD experiment (Video)
Watts Up With That, 14th May 2011
The CLOUD experiment chamber. Image photo credit: CERN

According to Nigel Calder’s Blog, CERN’s CLOUD experiment (testing Svensmarks’s cosmic-ray theory) shows a large enhancement of aerosol production and the results are due for release in 2 or 3 months’ time. There is a short Physics World interview with Jasper Kirkby which is worthwhile viewing and was published a couple of days ago… [...]

In this special video report for physicsworld.com CLOUD project leader Jasper Kirkby explains what his team is trying to achieve with its experiment. “We’re trying to understand what the connection is between a cosmic ray going through the atmosphere and the creation of so-called aerosol seeds – the seed for a cloud droplet or an ice particle,” Kirkby explains.

Comment: I think these CLOUD experiments are some of the most important climate related going on, but I am not totally convinced a CERN particle accelerator is needed (overkill). We live on Earth in a natural particle accelerator as cosmic rays are constantly raining down on our heads 24/7. I simply don't buy the argument about being able to simulate and control cosmic ray arrivals either. Anyway, experts tell us:

For nearly a century, scientists have wondered about the origin of cosmic rays—subatomic particles of matter that stream in from outer space. “Where exactly, we don’t know,” said Scott Wakely, Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago. “They’re raining down on the atmosphere of the Earth, tens of thousands of particles per second per square meter.”

Radiation flashes may help crack cosmic mystery
University of Chicago, 3rd December 2007

The original experiments by Svensmark et al. were done exceedingly cheaply with the same controlled environment but with natural cosmic rays coming through the ceiling for free.... Whatever, I just hope the results are not skewed for political purposes...

Ban mobile phones and wireless networks in schools, say European leaders
Mobile phones and computers with wireless internet connections pose a risk to human health and should be banned from schools, a powerful European body has ruled.
The Telegraph, 14th May 2011

A Council of Europe committee examined evidence that the technologies have "potentially harmful" effects on humans, and concluded that immediate action was required to protect children.

In a report, the committee said it was crucial to avoid repeating the mistakes made when public health officials were slow to recognise the dangers of asbestos, tobacco smoking and lead in petrol.

The report also highlighted the potential health risks of cordless telephones and baby monitors, which rely on similar technology and are widely used in British homes. Fears have been raised that electromagnetic radiation emitted by wireless devices can cause cancers and affect the developing brain.

Comment: The harmful effect on children has been a concern by a few researchers for many years but the truth is reflected in the statistics of children with brain cancers, but so far there has not been much concern from adults for a variety of business, economics and societal reasons.

Mobile phone use 'raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold'
The Independent, 21st September 2008

Amazing video shows transformers exploding in Fort Worth --United States--
Yahoo News, 11th May 2011

FORT WORTH — As storms rolled through the Metroplex Tuesday night amateur photographer Brian Luenser had his camera trained on the sky and captured some amazing photographs of lightning raining down on the city of Fort Worth.

Luenser, who lives in downtown Fort Worth's Tower building, went to his balcony with camera in hand as the storm rolled in. "I love taking pictures of storms and lightning," said the amateur photographer. And with his vantage point from the 34th floor he has a view of the world that few people get to see. [...]

Then at about 9:30 p.m. Luenser caught an amazing light show on the ground as power transformers began to explode. One by one the transformers lit-up in an unbelievable chain reaction that lasted about thirty minutes.

"It was definitely a right-place, right-time kind of moment" said Luenser as the sky glowed a brilliant blue, red and orange from the electrical flashes. "It looked like World War Three was going on below."

After the event was over about 5,000 people were briefly without power according to Oncor. Most of the power has since been restored.

Comment: I am so impressed with this event that I am ranking it at the same level as the Norwegian Spiral. These are my initial thoughts but I will modify my opinion if new information makes me change my mind. First of all, the locals on the ground are talking about fireballs as below:

FORT WORTH -- Fire and police dispatchers were busy Tuesday night answering calls about "fireballs" in the sky and on the ground in east Fort Worth. Several transformers were struck by lightning in east Fort Worth Tuesday night, Oncor spokeswoman Jeamy Molina said. [...]

Star-Telegram columnist Bob Ray Sanders said that whatever it was, it was dramatic.

"I've seen lightning strike, and this was no lightning," he said. "It may have been precipitated by lightning strikes." Sanders said he was at his home, which backs up to Randol Mill Road, when he saw "blazes up in the air." "I saw fire in the sky and on the ground," he said. "I saw 10 or 12 explosions. It was like someone was dropping bombs."

'Fireballs' reported in east Fort Worth
Star Telegram, 11th May 2011

If this was supposed to be transformers exploding, then why are there so many lights still on -- no major blackout, there is no sound of explosions, but we can hear the birds chirping? The lights are all different colours and look more like party/disco lights because of the extreme luminosity. There is a lot of good videos of transformers blowing up on YouTube to make comparisons and there cannot be so many transformers in such a small area that keep silently exploding. When this video was taken I can see no storm, no lightning but I see orbs in the sky... the first instance can be see at [0:18].

So, I wonder whether a more conventional explanation would be quakelights? The problem with the explanation of quakelights is the reports that people saw fireballs dropping.... I have a completely unconventional explanation too... maybe we were seeing a war of the gods...

Fort Worth Explosions - Brian Luenser Upload
YouTube, 11th May 2011

Update 13th May 2011

NHK World: Two 7.4 Japan Earthquakes April 7 2011 with a strange blue flash Tsunami warning (Video)
YouTube/NHK World, 7th April 2011

7.4 Japan Earthquakes April 7 2011 (a closer look)
YouTube, 8th April 2011
Comment:

Please note the identical phenomenon reported at Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture during the strong 7.4 aftershock in Japan reported by NHK World on the 7th April. At the time I suggested the pulsing bright blue light could be a quakelight, but there is a need for more evidence about what exactly was going on at Fort Worth before making any more comparisons.

Update 15th May 2011

The Blackout of Portimão, Portugal --Portugal--
YouTube, 15th April 2011
Translation: "On the night of 14 to 15 there was a blackout in Portimão accompanied by strange flashes in the sky throughout the city, this is the video".

Comment: OK, we have dogs barking, traffic noise and the commentary of people making the video, but no sound from the spectacular colourful flashes, exactly the same as the event at Forth Worth, Texas. Hence, I am now willing to state we may have the start of a new type of 'quakelight' phenomenon, that is not necessarily associated with earthquakes.

Update 16th May 2011

Fireballs in Fort Worth
YouTube, 15th May 2011
Finally, we have a collaborating video for the event at Fort Worth from a different angle, again no sound of exploding transformers... but we get a commentary and the sound of traffic.

Massive Awesome Explosions 15 MAY 2011 Brazil --Brazil--
YouTube, 15th May 2011

"Large explosions occurring at 15 MAY 2011 at 19:50"
Comment: Again, we have pulsating lights and lights flashing in the same locations that light up the whole sky. There is no obvious sound of explosions but there is the sound of heavy traffic when it's raining, the rumble of thunder and people shouting and screaming, which is hard to imagine would be enough to stop the sound of massive explosions. I tried to translate the YouTube comments from Portuguese into English and some state there was a noise of electricity so maybe there was some hissing and crackling. One commentator stated there was "interference on mobile phones including the computers". A comment about a ufo is not from an eye witness and the statement must be considered as just speculation. Basically, the mystery is deepening... so we await further info to appear..."

Rapid meltdown in No.1 reactor
NHK World, 15th May 2011

Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, says most of the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor had dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel within 16 hours of the earthquake on March 11th. The utility revealed its study on the subject on Sunday.

TEPCO said it analyzed the data and calculated a timeline for the developments in the No. 1 reactor on the assumption that the reactor lost its cooling system as soon as it was hit by the tsunami. [...] Almost of all the fuel rods melted and dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel by 6:50 am on March 12th.

TEPCO said the temperature dropped after water was poured into the reactor starting at 5:50 am on the same day. The firm says the melted rods created small holes on the bottom of the vessel, but that no major problems are developing there. It believes that the amount of radioactive substances that could spread from the reactor will be limited.

Comment: Major News! Two months late, TEPCO have finally admitted the truth to the world that it took less than 24 hours for a complete meltdown in reactor 1.... And guess what? The evacuation zone has been expanded again... sounds like everything is just dandy...

Evacuation begins in Fukushima
NHK World, 15th May 2011
"Evacuation of some people who live outside the 20 kilometer radius from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun. Families with babies and children up to kindergarten age and pregnant women are the first of the 7,700 residents of two towns to evacuate. [..] The Japanese government expanded the evacuation zone around the plant to areas where cumulative radiation levels are 20 millisieverts or higher per year."
Comment: So if you live in an area with a level of radiation that is less than 20 millisieverts per year or 20x the acceptable level suggested for the rest of the world, and if you are Japanese and live near Fukushima and any other clapped out nuclear reactor, in the vicinity, you are expected to just put up with and maybe allow yourself to be killed by the extra radiation...

Highly Radioactive Substances Detected in Tokyo
Arirang News, 15th May 2011
"Moving on to the latest developments in Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis highly radioactive substances were detected in parts of Tokyo. Japan's Asahi Shimbun reports about 3,200 and nearly 2-thousand becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram were found in the soil of Tokyo districts of Koto and Chiyoda, respectively, from testing conducted between April 10th and the 20th."

Plutonium detected in rice paddy by a food manufacturer more than 50 kms away from Fukushima power plant:
Physics forums, 15th May 2011
Terrible.... the geekosphere has now started to seriously kick in....

Professor Kunihiko Takeda: "Teachers, Wake Up and Protect Children from Radiation!"
ex-skf.blogspot, 14th May 2011

Professor Kunihiko Takeda of Chubu University is a nuclear scientist known these days as one of the "nuclear sceptics" in Japan (he has been a "global warming sceptic", too), though he was a proponent of nuclear energy until mid 2000s when the government loosened the safety standards.

He has been highly critical of the government response to the Fukushima crises - Fukushima I Nuke Plant and radioactive contamination of air, water, soil, and ocean.

He's particularly angry, as any decent human being would, about the Japanese government's strange, bureaucratic willingness and insistence on exposing small children to the high level of radiation (20 millisieverts/year).

Comment: It looks like war over the children... The rest of the latest news from Japan is absolutely terrible....

Strong earthquake [6.2] jolts Japan
Press TV, 14th May 2011
"The epicenter of the tremor was at 37.38 degrees north latitude and 141.41 degrees east longitude -- about 93 kilometers (57 miles) southeast of Fukushima -- and its depth was 37.60 kilometers. "
Fukushima I Nuke Plant Didn't Have Doctor on Site When the Worker Collapsed ex-skf.blogspot, 14th May 2011
- Man dies after collapsing while working at Fukushima — Had put on a full protective suit to help prevent radiation exposure
  Energy News, 14th May 2011
  follow the links for more details
- More on the Worker's Death: It Took 2 Hours to Get to the Hospital
  ex-skf.blogspot, 14th May 2011
  "The man may have suffered a heart attack, but it sure looks he was practically killed by TEPCO and the Fukushima prefectural government. [...] Even with 56 km/hour though, if the ambulance had come to the plant and took the worker to the hospital directly to Iwaki City, it would have arrived at the hospital in less than an hour, instead of 2 hours, and with a medical treatment provided in the ambulance. The Self Defense Force also has this thing called "helicopter", but I guess that is reserved for VIPs like Prime Minister Kan and Nuclear Safety Commission chief Madarame, and we have to be worried for the safety of the SDF helicopter pilot."
Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reactor 1 Bldg: 2,000 Millisieverts/Hr at Southeast Double Door, 3,000 Tons of Water in the Basement
ex-skf.blogspot, 14th May 2011
I imagine many more workers to be dropping dead at these kind of exposures... 2Sv/Hr see chart below:

TARDIS-like UFO spotted over Eastbourne
Eastbourne Herald, 14th May 2011

AN EASTBOURNE man swears ‘on his mother’s grave’ that he saw a TARDIS-like object floating above the town last weekend.

Steve Mackin, of Appledore Road, was on his way back from performing at The Smugglers in Pevensey just after midnight on Sunday (May 8), when he spotted a pulsating orange light coming from what looked like an old-fashioned police box, like Doctor Who’s, pictured. Mr Mackin, who believes it must have been a UFO, said it glowed and then vanished, only to reappear minutes later when he had got back to his house.

“I’m not lying because there were five of us who have seen it, and that’s on my mother’s grave,” he said. “It was there, honestly. It was really, really weird. I have never seen anything like that in my life, never – not in a million years. It couldn’t have been a helicopter, there was not a sound coming from it at all.

Comment: I put this in the same category as people who have seen buildings floating in the sky... Here we are told there are five witnesses and if this story is true, (I can't imagine anyone wanting to put themselves through this level of ridicule otherwise), I will suggest there is a need to take into consideration the urge to speak out about what is happening on this planet, that is becoming overwhelming for a lot of people. Firstly, it must be stated that it is the local media who are mostly reporting so many crazy stories that can only make sense if we take into account the true nature of our spiritual reality and that too many people are refusing to shut up about what they have seen. Anyway, I am going to play this down and suggest some new UAP arrival must have caught an episode of the BBC 'Dr Who' science fiction TV series and thought that it would make a good disguise. Otherwise, there is a possibility of a manmade Dr Who thoughtform generated by all those millions of people watching 770+ of episodes and since everything is being captured in the ethers you never know.... If you think this explanation is ridiculous, what do think is generating all the stories of images of Jesus appearing in the most inappropriate places? As they say, there is some crazy stuff going down.... just as we have been warned to expect as the energies on this planet become chaotic and weird stuff just appears and disappears. It might be possible to identify this as a thoughtform like a ghost because it may appear at regular intervals and someone might be able to identify the energetic triggers, if that can't be done, then we could just consider this as some poorly educated UAP newly arrived on the planet.... LOL!

Illinois UFO changes shape to 'mimic' passing airliner
UFO Examioner, 13th May 2011
Obviously, this UAP has been on the planet a bit longer and has caught on...

Radiation ‘Bias’ Threatens Fukushima Manufacturers Recovery
San Francisco Chronicle, 13th May 2011

May 13 (Bloomberg) -- More than two months after Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear plant started leaking radiation, manufacturers in northern Japan are still trying to dispel rumors their industrial products are tainted.

“We lost a deal worth several hundred million yen” because a customer was concerned about radiation, Yoshimasa Sekiguchi, an executive at Tohoku Bolt Manufacturing Co., a parts maker based in Iwaki about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the crippled power plant, said in an interview. “For us, it’s a significant amount of money.”

Comment: It's almost like these people think 'spin' will change the facts. Japan has been Fuk-u-shima-ed, think Hiroshima, think Chernobyl think Fukunobyl, there can be no possible 'recovery' short of a miracle and I don't think it will happen but I could be wrong... These Japanese manufacturers want folk to continue on as if nothing has happened, and hoping that people are still interested in their great goods that are only tainted with a little bit of radiation...

From a wider perspective, it seems that all these recent mega disasters are starting to focus the attention of those with some functioning mental capacity and some are seeing the light and realise that more mega disasters will be part of our future. So, as I have been saying loudly and clearly, we are at a time of massive evolutionary change where the planet is being continually bombarded by huge amounts of energy to facilitate change, hence, even the White House are prepared to admit the obvious. This quote is noteworthy:

"There is nothing we can do to stop the movement of the Earth’s plates or the associated earthquakes, and the recent earthquake in Japan is a reminder that low-probability, high-impact events can strike anytime. This situation demands that nations, communities, and individual families take steps to develop resilience to hazards generally—a process that requires the collective action of government at all levels as well as nonprofit organizations, the private sector, and individuals."

Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part II
The White House, 11th May 2011

I would suggest that due to the recent spate of mega disasters, the concept of 'low-probability, high-impact events' is becoming meaningless and we should face the facts that we will be seeing more 'high-probability, high impact events' simply because the Earth has reached a new energy level where shifts have to be made to relieve the energetic pressure accumulated over the last 20+ years of Space Weather delivering vast amounts of energy, at the same time that the energetic bombardment is still ongoing.

This Six-Year-Old Boy is the Real Life Magneto (Video)
Techland, 13th May 2011

A six-year-old Croatian boy astounds his family and friends with his 'magnetic' body. Ivan Stoiljkovic is reportedly able to stick metallic objects such as spoons, mobile phones and even frying pans to his body.

And his family, who live in a village near Koprivnica, say he can carry up to 25kg of metal stuck to his torso at a time. He demonstrated his special talent to local journalists by taking off his shirt and sticking cutlery, a frying pan and even dumbbells to his body.

And his family claim he also has the ability to heal people with his hands, alleviating his grandfather's stomach pains and taking away the pain of a neighbour who hurt his leg in a tractor accident.

Comment: We are seeing more of these reports, but it is not often reported that these ultra magnetic people have the ability to heal, but I think this is another evolutionary change. Anyway, the video here is quite hilarious with this little chubby boy demonstrating his abilities.

TEPCO Installing Giant Tents over Radiation-Leaking Reactors
Gizmodo, 13th May 2011

With radiation still seeping from Fukushima, TEPCO is taking an odd step: installing enormous polyester tents around the cores. Each steel-framed tent will be "will be 55 meters high, 47 meters long and 42 meters wide," Dow Jones reports.

We're not sure if this is silly, desperate or effective. While it will probably aid in the containment of particulate matter and radioactive steam, were there to be another reactor explosion, a polyester tent would probably wind up floating somewhere in the Pacific.

Comment: I think this is ridiculous... the first typhoon that hits Fukushima and the tents will be gone... Actually, I think this was reported before and translated as 'curtains' and not 'tents'.... The whole thing is just absolutely unbelievable...

Kaku: 'This is a ticking time bomb'
In the Arena, 13th May 2011

"Famed physicist Michio Kaku says the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan was worse than originally thought."
Kaku tells it how it is... he even makes the comparison again of Homer Simpson running these nuclear power plants....

Off the Scale: Radiation in No. 1 reactor building exceeds 1,000 millisieverts per hour — Levels too high for Geiger counter to measure
Energy News, 13th May 2011
there are more updates here...
Fukushima - One Step Forward and Four Steps Back as Each Unit Challenged by New Problems
YouTube/Fairewinds, 13th May 2011
"Gundersen says Fukushima's gaseous and liquid releases continue unabated. With a meltdown at Unit 1, Unit 4 leaning and facing possible collapse, several units contaminating ground water, and area school children outside the exclusion zone receiving adult occupational radiation doses, the situation continues to worsen. TEPCO needs a cohesive plan and international support to protect against world-wide contamination."
If you are already depressed about all this, I would not advise you to bother with this long status report.
Recriticality at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Japanese Researcher Says Nuclear Chain Reaction May Have Reignited Long After Tsunami Disabled the Plant
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 10th May 2011
"Tetsuo Matsui is a professor at University of Tokyo's Institute of Physics. On May 2, he submitted his paper titled "Deciphering the measured ratios of Iodine-131 to Cesium-137 at the Fukushima reactors" to arXiv.org, in which he says "The data of the water samples from the unit-4 cooling pool and from the sub-drain near the unit-2 reactor show anomaly which may indicate, if they are correct, that some of these fission products were produced by chain nuclear reactions reignited after the earthquake." (quote taken from his paper)

Man's 'orange peel' hands and feet
Orange News, 13th May 2011

Doctors in China are trying to treat a 51-year-old man whose severely swollen hands and feet have the texture of orange peel. Yang Bing's symptoms are an extreme but classic example of pretibial myxedema, a rare complication of Graves' disease, say doctors.

He was diagnosed with Graves' disease six years ago and was put on medication indefinitely. However, Yang complained the drugs did not relieve his original symptoms and stopped taking them after two years. It was then that his hands and feet started to swell and - eventually - he went to the Xin Qiao Hospital in Chongqing for help.

Comment: China... again...

Friends baffled by 'UFO' sightings in skies over Burton [UK]
Burton Mail, 11th May 2011

A GROUP of friends have described how they followed ‘weird objects’ through Burton that they thought they were UFOs. Tanya Marks contacted the Mail following the incident, which happened at around 10.30pm on Wednesday, May 4. She said: “At around 10.30pm me and two of my friends were parked up in a car in Stapenhill and saw at least four weird objects fly over us within 10 minutes.

“The objects were as big as a jet plane and a weird triangular shape with white blue and red flashing lights on them. “We thought they were really weird so we decided to drive in the direction that they went. “We ended up in numerous locations, one being Branston and another being in the Shobnall area in Belvedere Road.

Comment: How exciting.... Burton upon Trent is my home town and these people are describing various locations over quite a spread out area, so it sounds like quite a car chase. More reports in the local UK media below:

Aliens watching Ashbourne rugby? [UK]
Ahbourne News Telegraph, 4th May 2011
"At one point in the video, for a split second, an object can be seen travelling across the frame at extremely high speed and Mr Hope- Smith said he cannot explain what might be flying so fast. He said: “When going through the footage frame by frame I became confused by what I initially presumed was the ball suddenly being kicked high into the air, as I wound back, I realised it wasn’t the ball but something else."

UFO invasion or fishermen tales? [UK]
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 10th May 2011
"He said: “I turned around to see a green disk hovering over the tree tops slowly maybe a mile away, just above the dark treetops. As our eyes adjusted it was a green disk, no trail, with a red ring around it, “When I first saw it, it was travelling slowly then it picked up very, very rapidly and shot off and just disappeared. In around 10 seconds from first seeing it, it was gone."

Unidentified flying object spotted over Melrose [UK]
Border Telegraph, 10th May 2011
"Describing the strange phenomenon, the camerman said: "At first the photo doesn't really look like much, but what makes it curious, is when I zoomed in on it, it seems to be moving pretty fast at around 45 degrees towards the sky - as you can see by the close up it appears to have a tail showing the direction. "The first thing I thought of was lens flare, but I was at the side of a large building in the shade, with the sun out of sight at the front of the building. There was certainly no flare in the lens. I thought perhaps it was a weather balloon or maybe even some sort of military exercise going on in the area."

Was strange light over Shropshire a UFO? (Video)
Shropshire Star, 11th May 2011
"A video of strange orange lights in the skies above Shropshire and Mid Wales has become a hot topic on the internet after it was posted on YouTube."

Mysterious hole sparks fears [?] in Harlesden [UK]
London24 News, 12th May 2011

Residents were shocked to find this gaping hole as they arrived back from work late one afternoon. The crevice, which is some 3ft deep and 2ft wide, appeared in Leopold Road, Harlesden without any sign of what caused it.

Concerned residents spotted the hole shortly before 5pm last Wednesday, and rushed out to put up makeshift barriers and scrawled a ‘danger’ sign warning motorists and pedestrians of the hazard. Ray Szynowski, who has lived in the street for 24 years, said: “I have never seen anything like this before. It looks like something has fallen from the sky and the road has caved in.

Comment: The image icon is from a decent sized laser cut sink hole reported by the Epoch Times in June 2010, Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China . I thought a little perspective was required as I could not believe this report about people being frightened by a hole that's 3ft (90cm) wide by 2ft (60cm) deep, it's NOTHING compared to what is being reported on this planet and I can't understand how this story made news... Check out this report from Russian where the locals are reporting deep holes in solid rock, located in isolated woodlands where the necessary heavy equipment to drill such deep holes could not have been used, because they would have required transportational vehicles to have had accessed the area on roads that are none existent...

Holes in the Ground
English Russia, 24th May 2007
This is especially interesting based on the numerous examples of 'sink' holes that look like they have been cut with a laser... the pictures are decent quality but please avert your eyes at the bottom of this page, sorry but this is standard fair for a Russia website

Hole Found In Russia
YouTube News, 4th May 2009
The images above are used to make this short [1:13] video.

Japanese Satellite Declared Dead in Orbit
Space.com, 12th May 2011

Japan's Earth-observing satellite Daichi is dead in orbit, three weeks after a mysterious anomaly crippled the spacecraft, the nation's space agency announced today (May 12).

Daichi, formally known as the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), unexpectedly powered down on April 22 for reasons that remain murky. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) repeatedly tried to re-establish communication with Daichi over several weeks, but finally threw in the towel today.

"We decided to complete its operations by sending a command from the ground to halt its onboard transmitter and batteries at 10:50 a.m. on May 12 (Japan Standard Time), as we found it was impossible to recover communication with the satellite," JAXA officials said in a statement. [...]

The death of Daichi (which means "Earth" in Japanese) is not a complete failure, JAXA officials said. The satellite craft launched in January 2006 with a planned mission lifetime of three years, and had already outlasted expectations, they added.

Comment: Due to my research and interest in the recent phenomenon of Space Weather, I am always interested to find out about the demise of satellites and the circumstances surrounding their death. However, this particular instance is just too poignant because we find that the satellite was called Daichi meaning Earth. This provoked me to look up the definition of Daiichi and it means the 'the first', 'number one' or 'best' but somehow this did not leave me particularly comforted...

Fukushima: It's amazing what they find every day
Daily Kos, 12th May 2011

It appears Unit 1 is in complete Meltdown.

Well what happened is they calibrated the gauges and they can't find any water in the reactor at Unit 1. Now simple physics tells us that if the reactor has no water in it, and the reactor has X amount of decay heat the rods will all melt down. The positive thing is because the unit has run dry, there have been no leaks.

Comment: More dark comedy....

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 15

Norwegian Institute for Air Research is Still Running Fukushima Radiation Monitoring Under the Name "Zardoz"
Red Ice Creations, 12th May 2011
"What is Zardoz? (Wi-Zard-of-Oz)"
Comment: Dutchsinse does a great job here, a sci-fi horror/real life YouTube update... I have never heard of this Zardoz 1974 science-fiction film about a post-apocalyptic Earth, see this hilarious bad movies review, where the spiritually elite live insides 'bubbles'. Well, I would suggest the 'bubble' is your own personal energy field but most people just don't get it, even those who pontificate as spiritual leaders.... I would like to add, please don't worry about the rich elite being able to survive and poor ordinary folk will have to suffer. Universal Consciousness knows who you are by your energy field signature, that has always been the key measurement and death is not the end of the story...
YouTube - Zardoz the Lost James Bond Film - Trailer Recut - Emre Cihangir - Adam Koralik
YouTube, 13th March 2010
OK, I think a little bit of hilarity is called for after another harrowing week... I absolutely loved this brilliant James Bond trailer remix, it is one of the funniest things I have seen for a long time.

What climate science has come to: a rap music video with expletives
Watts Up With That, 11th May 2011

While not as bad as the horrid 10:10 video exploding children, I have to wonder this about the actual scientists that participated in this farce: what were you thinking ?

Of course, it does seem some circles in climate science are all about bling, and cheerleaders, and labeling people with ugly insulting profanity these days. So maybe, this is simply “state of the art”. The phrase “Real Climate Scientists” is used…hmm.

Watch this video from Australia (warning – profanities)

Comment: Unbelievable.... horrid... desperate or what? By the way, the warning about the profanities is necessary for those with delicate ears... Update We have a voice of reason... Sean OConnor says: May 12, 2011 at 2:25 am "Come on, it wasn’t that bad! But maybe a riposte could be:

Where has all the warming gone?
Long time passing
Where has all the warming gone?
Long time ago
Where has all the warming gone?
Graphs have declined every one
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?"

LOL!!

James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 42
Celestial Blogspot, 12th May 2011

[...] Luis Li completed his cross examination of Sgt. Barbaro today without managing to discredit what is arguably the most damaging testimony yet. As I said yesterday, what Sgt. Barbaro revealed was Ray's consciousness of guilt. Li did about the only thing a defense attorney could do in his situation; try to prove that this extremely likable police officer was mistaken.

This is clearly why Li spent so much time trying to underscore Barbaro's imperfect recollection of who was receiving CPR and where. Personally, I think he wasted a lot of energy on a point that Barbaro conceded without issue. Sgt. Barbaro conveyed quite well that this was not an essential issue that required his full attention. He's not claiming a photographic memory of the scene.

What Sgt. Barbaro testified to regarding Ray's assertion that there were 40 people in the sweat lodge and that it was run by Ted Mercer, was the result of a police interview, not an observation of the overall scene.

Comment: I thought I would check out what was happening and apparently the trial is currently in recess until May 26th and James Ray's defence team are completely desperate as they have put forward 6/7 motions for a mistrial. I have not been able to watch much of the trial but I have tried to keep a breast of the reports and comments on blogs but I am thrilled to hear that the media have picked up that the trial is being watched by people all over the world.... that's good news... Anyway, I am currently enraged because I have just discovered that JR lied to a detective about who was in charge of the sweat lodge ceremony see link for police documentation. These days, I have studied the art of persuasion so much that I am truly cynical about 'New Wage' gurus, but really, during the process of cooking people to death in his endurance test that he called a sweat lodge, JR bellowed out that he is the Alpha and the Omega, loud enough for people to hear that were outside and yet when people are dragged out of his sweat lodge unconscious, he does not care and goes off for his dinner, but when he is approached by a detective, he decides to lie and say the fire tender was in charge... I watched some of the testimonies and it seems the less important the position of the people involved in this affair, the more genuine. To accuse Ted Mercer, one of the most genuine and most lowly person involved with this sweatlodge, who was only following JR's orders is truly contemptable. One of JR's sayings is that 'balance is bogus', but he proved that he was bogus by killing people in his botched efforts to take them into an alternative state using heat stroke. For anyone who wants to learn about those who misuse their power, this case is a complete classic.

Sweat lodge trial: State's expert '99 percent' certain heatstroke caused deaths
Daily courier, 10th May 2011
"As an emergency room physician in Yuma, Dr. Matthew Dickson has plenty of experience with heat-related illness. And because of the proximity of a great deal of agriculture, he also has encountered instances of organophosphate poisoning. Testifying Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of James Arthur Ray, Dickson said he personally sees dozens of patients each year who are suffering from symptoms caused by excess heat, making him all too familiar with the continuum of distress that leads to heatstroke. It is his firm belief that Kirby Brown, James Shore and Liz Neuman, whose October 2009 deaths led to the manslaughter charges against Ray, died from heatstroke, and heatstroke alone. "I would say 99 percent," when asked by defense attorney Truc Do how certain he was of his conclusion."

Sweat lodge trial: Ray told detective someone else was in charge of ceremony
Daily courier, 11th May 2011
"A YCSO detective testified Wednesday that James Arthur Ray initially told him that another man was in charge of the October 2009 sweat lodge ceremony that led to three deaths. Sergeant Frank Barbaro was one of the first law enforcement officials on the scene at the Angel Valley Spiritual Retreat Center after a 911 call alerted authorities to the problems there. By the time Barbaro arrived at just after 6 p.m., ambulances carrying Kirby Brown and James Shore had already departed."

Sweat lodge trial has broad audience outside the courtroom
Daily courier, 13th May 2011
"On March 1, Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk told an 18-member jury - as well as a packed courtroom and a worldwide streaming video audience - about the case she intended to mount against James Arthur Ray. [...]

This week, though, brought a higher note with the testimony of the state's expert witness, Dr. Matthew Dickson, who clearly defined the point where simple heat-related illness changed to potentially fatal heatstroke, that being the time when a person enters an altered mental state.

"The whole thing comes down to the altered state (Ray) wanted people to go into," McFeeley said. "That's where it's heatstroke and it's a point I hope they hammer home.""
There was talk that CNN were going to stop the live coverage, but I don't know what the outcome is there...

James Ray and the "Bruenett Asian"
Celestial Blogspot, 15th May 2011
I thought this blog entry was off topic but still noteworthy... I hope it comes to the point where Truc Do regrets having anything to do with James Ray, but from the sound of the above report, that might have already happened...

SUNDIVING COMET: CAUSES MASSIVE CORONAL MASS EJECTION (CME) - Update
spaceweather.com, 12th May 2011

COMET AND CME: A comet dove into the sun on May 11th and seemed to trigger a massive eruption--emphasis on seemed. Watch the movie, then scroll down for further discussion.

A comet goes in; a CME comes out. Coincidence? Probably, yes, the sequence was coincidental. The comet disintegrated as much as a million kilometers above the stellar surface. There's no known way that the wispy, vaporous remains of a relatively lightweight comet could cause a billion-ton cloud of hot plasma to fly away from the sun at 400 km/s (the observed speed of the CME). Moreover, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the eruption that did propel the CME into space. There's no comet in the field of view of this must-see movie.

Bonus: The bright comet pictured above had a dim companion. Can you find it?

Comment: Totally predictable, spaceweather.com want folk to believe this is just a coincidence.... There are many examples of this happening, but electric comets acting like sparkplugs to ignite the sun reveals too much about the true nature of our electromagnetic universe and embarrasses NASA and astronomers who refuse to accept that their fundamental beliefs about the universe are wrong.

AURORA WATCH: A coronal mass ejection launched from the sun's eastern limb on May 9th could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field today. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of geomagnetic activity if and when the CME arrives.

SUNDIVING COMET: CAUSES MASSIVE CORONAL MASS EJECTION (CME)
spaceweather.com, 11th May 2011

SUNDIVING COMET: A comet just discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov is diving past the sun today, and it will probably not survive. Click here to view a movie of the death plunge recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory--and check back for updates in the hours ahead.

Comment: Well this comet hit the sun and caused a spectacular CME, that will delight the Electric Universe theorists and cause chagrin amongst NASA et al. who want people to think that comets are harmless fluffy snowballs/lumps of rock and ice. I don't know whether spaceweather.com will be too interested in showing us this spectacle (the gif provided here conveniently stops before the CME explosion) so I have listed some links.

SOHO Movie Theater - Lasco 2
Soho Movie Theater,11th May 2011
Important: image type=LASCO C2

Comet CRASHES into SUN causes Solar Flare - 11th May 2011
YouTube, 11th May 2011
Captured from SOHO on May 11th 2011

Sungrazing Comets Info
U.S. Navy, May 2011

“Unusual amount of smoke” billowing from Reactors No. 3 and 4 “nothing to be concerned about” says TEPCO, Japan gov’t
Energy News, 11th May 2011

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), and the Japanese government gave a joint press conference on Sunday and explained that an unusual amount of smoke that billowed from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactor on Saturday night was nothing to be concerned about.

“Steam is coming out from the spent fuel pool of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors, and I’m assuming that due to shadows created by lighting, the steam appeared black. Therefore, we assessed that it’s not smoke from something burning or that sort of thing,” TEPCO’s General Manager, Junichi Matsumoto reassured reporters at the press conference.

Comment: What? At times, this nuclear mega disaster has been more like some kind of bizarre comedy.... but I don't think it's funny... But wait, this bizarre comedy is ongoing and will be for years....

Happening Now: Smoke/steam pouring out of Reactor Units No. 2, 3, 4 (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)
Energy News, 11th May 2011
There is a link here to a live feed, looks foggy but I can also see smoke, the birds are chirping... at least they are not all dead....

“Very, Very Serious”: Unit No. 4 leaning, in danger of falling — Gov’t confirms stabilization efforts underway (PHOTO & VIDEO)
Energy News, 10th May 2011
This should not come as a surprise.... due to tsunami, continuous earthquakes, hydrogen/nuclear blasts, water dumps, liquifaction, structural deterioration due to excessively high levels of radiation, etc....

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant conditions (late April 2011)
Flickr, May 2011
85 pictures

Husband Celebrates Miracle as 'Brain Dead' Wife Wakes Up in Hospital
Fox News, 11th May 2011

DARWIN, Australia -- A woman who was diagnosed as being brain dead has recovered three days after her husband begged doctors to put in a breathing tube before switching off a ventilator at an Australian hospital, the Northern Territory News reported Wednesday. Gloria Cruz, 56, underwent brain surgery after a tumor was discovered when she suffered a stroke on March 7 and was rushed to the Royal Darwin Hospital in Darwin, Northern Territory.

Doctors told her husband Tani Cruz, 51, the case was “hopeless” and she would probably die within 48 hours following the surgery. After two weeks, a breathing tube was inserted in Mrs Cruz's mouth and the ventilator was turned off. Hospital staff were stunned when she woke from her coma three days later.

Comment: Hmmm.... I actually believe that we are living in a time of miracles because of the quality of the energies on the planet...

Doomsday fire: Millions of volcanoes are stirring beneath the world’s oceans
The Extinction Protocol, 11th May 2011

In 1993, marine geophysicists aboard the research vessel Melville discovered 1,133 previously unmapped underwater volcanoes off the coast of Easter Island. [...] That was 1993. Today, scientists estimate that there are more than three million underwater volcanoes. That’s a three followed by six zeroes!

In 2007, oceanographers Hillier and Watts surveyed 201,055 submarine volcanoes. “From this they concluded an astounding total of 3,477,403 submarine volcanoes must reasonably exist worldwide,” said this article by John O’Sullivan. [...]
To go from 10,000 underwater volcanoes to more than three million in less than 20 years shows how little we knew – and how little we still know – about this incredible force of nature. We know more about the moon.

Comment: Robert Felix of the website www.IceAgeNow has a webpage It's not Global Warming, it's Ocean Warming with lots of links about the discovery of these under water volcanoes. I generally don't go into the arguments about what will actually happen to our climate, but there is an undisputed energy imbalance that is directly attributable to cosmic factors. Robert Felix explains that Ice Ages are the result of increased volcanic activity that can be explained by the relationship between underwater and above water volcanoes. The underwater volcanoes become active, warm the oceans release CO2 and generate more water vapour, but the volcanoes above water generate aerosols that cool the skies and hence results in lower global temperatures and so the overall result is not "global warming" but actually more snow and ice build up which is the real cause of Ice Ages... Wonderfully straight forward and logical and I believe this is the best explanation for what will eventually happen to our climate.

Robert Felix - Robert Felix - The Coming Ice Age
Red Ice Radio, 3rd February 2011
"Could the next ice age begin any day? If so, what is the evidence for it? We talk with author Robert Felix about the coming ice age. Robert Felix, a former architect, became interested in the ice-age cycle back in 1991. He spent the next eight and a half years, full-time, researching and writing about the coming ice age. Robert's book is called, "Not by Fire but by Ice". Robert Felix argues convincingly that, rather than runaway heating due to humans' burning fossil fuels, the world is much more likely to face rapid onset of the next ice age in the near future."
He talks about CO2 and volcanoes from about 23 mins

Why some gorillas go unseen
Science News, May 2011

People who don’t see unexpected happenings, such as a gorilla strolling by, while concentrating on a task often have difficulty with what amounts to mental multitasking, says a team led by psychology graduate student Janelle Seegmiller of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Individuals who do poorly on a test requiring them to perform two mental operations at once are especially prone to an experimental effect dubbed “the invisible gorilla,” Seegmiller and her colleagues report in the May Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.

Comment: Quite frankly, this analogy of Missing the gorilla (see the original April 2011 scientific press release listed below) is very apt way to describe the issue of Space Weather that has been creeping up on the world for over 20 years. For the last one hundred years, any invention that could effect who controls the world has been suppressed. Now Space Weather has arrived and guess what? It's not possible to kill the inventor of Space Weather or buy the patent so that its not available to the world. So, amongst the myriad of effects we cannot even assume that our current national power grids will continue to operate (see Best of the Blog Space Weather archives) or even that geomagnetic conditions will be good enough to allow us to continue pumping oil and allow the distribution via pipelines, due to massive geomagnetic storms making compasses unreliable and extreme Space Weather causing excessive corrosion. Even worse, the more esoteric sources in the metaphysical community have been whispering for over 70 years that electricity might disappear and be replaced by something different. That's fairly serious and quite frankly, since humans do not have access to the control panels on this planet, at a time of evolutionary change, who can argue that universal consciousness will continue to provide the same deck of cards.... The Gorilla has arrived and has already been breathing fire just like the epic Godzilla, but who exactly is paying attention to what this means for our world? The way I see things, we need to develop more risk management and not wait for the disaster associated with crisis management....

Missing the gorilla
Why we don't see what's right in front of our eyes
Eureka Alert, 17th April 2011
SALT LAKE CITY, April 18, 2011 – University of Utah psychologists have learned why many people experience "inattention blindness" – the phenomenon that leaves drivers on cell phones prone to traffic accidents and makes a gorilla invisible to viewers of a famous video. The answer: People who fail to see something right in front of them while they are focusing on something else have lower "working memory capacity" – a measure of "attentional control," or the ability to focus attention when and where needed, and on more than one thing at a time.

Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part I
The White House, 10th May 2011

Ed. Note: This is the first of a two-part blog focusing on the science and aftermath of earthquakes. Part I focuses on the science of a high-magnitude earthquake and whether one could happen in the United States. Tomorrow, Part II will focus on What We Can Do About It.

Part I: Could a 9.0 Happen Here?

Four deadly earthquakes in just over a year—Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan—have provided sudden reminders of the tectonic forces active beneath our feet. Perhaps more importantly, they serve as reminders that disasters resulting from those earthquakes are not the work of nature alone. Even in the face of such giant forces, societal decisions before and after an earthquake can have a major impact on the amount of damage, lives lost, and other outcomes. So while scientists and engineers share in society’s obligation to help the victims, we have an additional responsibility to learn from these events and share lessons that can be applied to vulnerable communities—not only abroad, but also here in the United States.

Comment: I don't know quite what to make about this statement from the White House on earthquakes, but I think it's important news... Obviously, there must be an issue...

Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part II
The White House, 11th May 2011

Rare roll cloud makes its way over Portland and Weymouth [UK]
Dorset Echo, 9th May 2011

CONCERNED residents in Portland and Weymouth thought they were being hit by a tornado during in a dramatic thunderstorm. But it turned out to be a very rare roll cloud – which had broken away from a thunderstorm at around 7.30pm on Friday night.

Storm Wallace, 26, of Portland, was driving home when she saw the dramatic cloud gain speed above Portland Road in Weymouth and stopped to take a photo. She said: “It was really unusual and spinning very fast – I’ve never seen anything like it, I really did think it was a tornado or something.” [...] He said that the Met Office received a ‘significant number’ of calls from concerned residents in and around Portland asking if it was a tornado.

Comment: It was 'spinning' but officials say it was just a cloud? I think a better definition would be a magnetic 'vortex' cloud...

Made In Taiwan: Footage Of Taipei Tornado
Irish Weather Online, 12th May 2011
"This is a video shot by a Taipei resident as a tornado affected part of the Taiwanese capital on May 12th. The twister lasted around two minutes, flipping an SUV on top of some motorcycles, though there were no reports of casualties." This event is interesting to see the tornado attaching and detaching from the main cloud.

Solar Max – So Soon?
Watts Up with That, 8th May 2011

Dr Svalgaard has an interesting annotation on his chart of solar parameters – “Welcome to solar max”: Could it be? It seems that Solar Cycle 24 had only just begun, with solar minimum only two and a half years ago in December 2008. The first place to confirm that is the solar polar magnetic field strength, with data from the Wilcox Solar Observatory:

The magnetic poles of the Sun reverse at solar maximum. The northern field has reversed. There are only three prior reversals in the instrument record. Another parameter that would confirm solar maximum is the heliospheric current sheet tilt angle, also from the WSO site. Theheliospheric current sheet tilt angle has taken a couple of years to reach solar maximum from its current level.

If the Sun is anywhere near solar maximum, the significance of that is that it would be the first time in the record that a short cycle was also a weak cycle...

Comment: Oh my goodness.... I am still looking at this but we are told that the Sun's north pole has reversed but the south has not yet, so that means two south poles but I am not sure that means that we are back to a similar situation that we had back in March 2000 when we had two north poles that lasted for 2/3 months. The reason for the caution is because I have no info on duration which would determine some serious consequences related to the amount of cosmic dust being allowed into the solar system. Then we are being told that the magnetics are suggesting that this is the peak of Solar Cycle 24 which would mean we are experiencing the shortest(?) and weakest on record.... There is a lot of debate here but the concensus is that we don't understand what is going on with the sun. The comments have degenerated into the usual mud slinging between certain characters so I will have to look elsewhere for some expert opinion. Anyway, there is a nice powerpoint presentation below explaining the current status for SC24 estimates.

Update, or Lack Thereof, to the Solar Cycle 24 Prediction - Doug Biesecker (Power Point)
NOAA/SWPC, May 7th 2011

UN chief warns of big gaps in world nuclear safety
Associated Press, 10th May 2011

GENEVA — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant suggested that there were large gaps in international systems to deal with safety breaches. Ban also announced a high-level international meeting on the issue in New York on September 22 during the UN General Assembly session.

"Men and women around the world are asking: are we really doing well and all that we can to safeguard the world's people in the case of nuclear accidents?" Ban said at a UN conference on reducing disaster risk in Geneva. "Recent events suggest that there are large gaps in how societies and the international system think and act about breaches to nuclear safety," he added during a discussion on preparations for nuclear incidents.

Comment: It's a bit late now, the horse has bolted....

Welcome to Tepco Industries - Fukushima Daiichi vs Planet Earth
LWH, 9th May 2011
OK, this looks like a summary of events
BAD NEWS — Massive Nuclear Fallout Cloud Of Highly Radioactive Iodine Hammers Japan
Alexander Higgins, 9th May 2011
Fukushima's No. 1 reactor building radiation up to 700 millisieverts
Kyodo News, 9th May 2011
This is all very confusing but we can assume that the msm is providing us with a good mix of truth and lies...
Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor 'leaning'
YouTube/Russia today, 10th May 2011
"A small group of evacuees have briefly been allowed inside the exclusion zone around Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. For the first time, the government gave permission for short visits so people could gather belongings and check on their properties. Meanwhile, a recent map of contamination released by Japan shows high levels of radiation well outside the evacuation zone. Dr Robert Jacobs can help shed more light on this. He's a Research Associate Professor of Nuclear History and Culture at the Hiroshima Peace Institute."
TEPCO admits it may need to change plans and ‘slow down’ repairs because of extremely high radiation in Reactor No. 1 (VIDEO)
Energy News, 10th May 2011
the other related news here is also equally news worthy...

UFO Sightings on the Rise in Finland
Uutiset News, 10th May 2011

UFO sightings are becoming more frequent in Finland. UFO enthusiasts catch glimpses of hundreds of unidentified objects annually, but most of them turn out to have a logical explanation. Ufologists doubt that the armed forces are concealing information about their own sightings.

A typical UFO sighting involves noticing a bright light moving strangely across the sky in the dark. Hardly anything else can be said to describe the phenomenon, says Lasse Ahonen from the UFO-Finland organisation. Ufology has been Ahonen’s hobby for the last 46 years. A mere photo is not enough proof for him.

Comment: The usual not very informative news accept to acknowledge the worldwide phenomenon in the increase in UFO/UAP sightings that are usually described as bright lights. Well, the lights are on the rise because the Veil is lifting this is the same concept as a dimensional shift, but unfortunately, the metaphysical community who coined the phrase largely had very little comprehension as to what that meant... See Best of the Blog, Orbs, UAP Traffic & UFO Disclosure & Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Index for some decent information on the subject matter.

Two-headed baby born in China (Video)
A mother in China has given birth to conjoined twins who share a single body.
The Telegraph, 10th May 2011

The babies were born by caesarean on Thursday at the Suining City Central Hospital in Sichuan. The twins weighed 9 pounds (4 kilograms) and measured 20 inches (51 centimetres), according to local press reports.

The parents, who are migrant farmers living outside of the southwestern city, did not learn of the abnormality until two days before the mother was due to give birth. Two ultra sound scans in September and February failed to reveal the two heads because the technicians were viewing the single embryo in profile.

Comment: China... I did not like the video, just too graphic for me... The real point of interest is whether we are really seeing a rise of this two headed mutation for animals and humans.... I would like to see some statistics...

~~Climate change~~ [Space Weather] 'threatens UK wi-fi connections', ~~says government report~~
Study into impact of ~~hotter, stormier~~ [Space] weather on UK infrastructure finds threat to wi-fi range and signal strength
The Guardian, 9th May 2011

Wi-fi internet access and other communications are at risk from global warming unless measures are taken to protect them from rising temperatures and stormier weather, a government report warned on Monday.

Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.

Comment: Over at WUWT people have been tearing this article apart, and I think the best description provided for this article is tripe. However, if you substitute Space Weather for "Climate Change" then magically the warnings make sense. So if we go to the Lloyds of London 360⁰ Risk Space Weather Report, we find 18 wireless references. As follows:

Foreword
Lloyd’s are publishing this report so that businesses can think about their exposure to space weather as we move into this period. Space weather is not a new phenomena, but over most of the last few millennia, it has had limited impact on human existence. However, it does affect machines – potentially anything powered by electricity generation, which would affect everything from hospital systems through to banking, and also machines using wireless technologies, such as GPS, which are critical in many types of transport. Some of the impacts of a single event, such as a spectacular geomagnetic storm could be highly dramatic in terms of disabling power grids in a short space of time. pg 2

Solar radio bursts
The Sun can generate strong bursts of natural radio emissions; for example, during the launch of CMEs. These can directly interfere with radio signals on Earth. Indeed, these bursts were first discovered in 1942 when they created false signals in British defence radars. They are now an area of growing concern because of potential to interfere with modern wireless technologies such as satellite navigation, wireless internet, mobile telephones and short-range device controls. pg 8

Internet
The internet is relatively robust against space weather, at least in relation to links that use physical wiring (such as broadband over phone lines or standard computer cables, often called ‘ethernet’ cables, that are widely used in offices) rather than wireless links, as most traffic is carried via robust optical fibre links. Internet links are rarely routed via conventional communications at 36,000km altitude because this imposes signal delays that degrade internet operation. pg18

There is growing concern that the coming solar maximum will expose problems in the many wireless systems that have grown in popularity during the quiet solar conditions that have prevailed over recent years. pg 18

Wireless communications
There has been a huge growth in the use of wireless communications over the past decade, including not only satellite navigation and mobile phones but also wireless internet and short-range device control.68 These use low-power signals in order to avoid interference with other systems, but there is evidence that they are vulnerable to interference from solar radio bursts.69 There is growing concern that the coming solar maximum will expose problems in the many wireless systems that have been developed and have grown in popularity during the quiet solar conditions that have prevailed over recent years.

These wireless systems use radio signal protocols that allow radio noise to be recognised as noise, rather than as a false signal. Therefore, there is only a limited risk that the bursts will cause wireless systems to transmit false data. It is more likely that these systems will shut down for the duration of the event. Although this shutdown may be for only a few minutes, the impact on business will depend on the consequences of that shutdown. If the wireless link is part of a safety monitoring system (for example, linking smoke and fire detectors to control units), its shutdown may trigger an alarm and disrupt business activities. For example, by forcing staff evacuation. If the links are used in computerised systems that control business processes, the shutdown may halt the process and could lead to the loss of data. Many businesses rely on wireless communications to transmit data within their own organisation and also to external parties. This will be inhibited by the loss of signal, even temporarily, and could have serious consequences if the data had to be submitted according to strict deadlines, as occurs in the legal profession. pg 18

Finance
As mentioned earlier, the loss of power can affect the retail sector, which relies on electronic cash transfers. However, solar radio bursts also pose a potential problem where portable credit card machines use wireless links to transmit and receive transaction data, as these links may be jammed during radio bursts. pg 19

There is a need to increase awareness among businesses that assessing the impact of space weather is a useful activity; especially in areas such as pipelines, railways, wireless systems and automotive technology, which would not normally consider this risk. pg 24

Conclusions
However, wireless communications systems such as mobile phones, wireless internet and short-range device controls are vulnerable to interference from strong solar radio bursts. These bursts will simultaneously disrupt many systems and could be very disruptive for business activities. pg 26

References
http://www.optisynx.com/OptiSynxArticleForWirelessBusinessReviewV3.pdf

Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business
Lloyd's, November 2010. (Lloyd's of London is the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.)

I think there is a legitimate concern about wireless connections, but the UK goverment should be more truthful and reveal that the source of this has nothing to do with global temperatures but everything to do with worsening Space Weather generating huge fluctuating geomagnetic environmental conditions.

UK Climate Resilient Infrastructure: billions needed to combat climate change effects on Wi-Fi signals
Watts Up With That, 9th May 2011

Quake shifted Japan; towns now flood at high tide
San Fransciso Chronicle, 9th May 2011

ISHINOMAKI, Japan (AP) -- When water begins to trickle down the streets of her coastal neighborhood, Yoshiko Takahashi knows it is time to hurry home.

Twice a day, the flow steadily increases until it is knee-deep, carrying fish and debris by her front door and trapping people in their homes. Those still on the streets slosh through the sea water in rubber boots or on bicycle.

Comment: This is permanent, so I wonder what the authorities are going to do. What's more this region is slightly North of Fukushima, see location map of Miyagi prefecture & and Fukushima_prefecture. So, will this create problems for those nuclear reactors sited on the coastline?

Rome Fears Devastating Earthquake Internet Forecast For May 11
Huffington Post, 9th May 2011

ROME (Reuters) – If tourists find Rome unusually quiet next Wednesday, the reason will probably be that thousands of locals have left town in fear of a devastating earthquake allegedly forecast for that day by a long-dead seismologist.

For months Italian internet sites, blogs and social networks have been debating the work of Raffaele Bendandi, who claimed to have forecast numerous earthquakes and, according to internet rumors, predicted a "big one" in Rome on May 11. [...]

Bendandi, who died in 1979 aged 86, believed earthquakes were the result of the combined movements of the planets, the moon and the sun and were perfectly predictable.

In 1923 he forecast a quake would hit the central Adriatic region of the Marches on January 2 the following year. He was wrong by two days but Italy's main newspaper Corriere della Sera still ran a front page article on "The man who forecasts earthquakes."

Bendandi's fame grew and in 1927 he was awarded a knighthood by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. During his long career his theories were studied by several prominent foreign astronomers. However the current panic appears to be due more to fear-mongering in the age of internet than to Bendandi himself

Comment: With so many major events taking place, it's no wonder that people are getting panicky.... The interest here is finding a seismologist (deceased) who believed that earthquakes are predictable. Anyway, we don't have long to wait to see what happens, but I think this earthquake prediction is probably out of date now. The Earth has changed considerably and I don't think the conditions can be considered to be the same as back in 1920s, because we know that there are orbital variations at the very least... I keep thinking of astronomical info hidden as religious text expressed in the biblical phrase "...unless the days be shortened..." Well, the days are being shortened, even NASA are prepared to admit that, so this caveat on predictions for the "End times" now seems to be operational and the full blown disaster scenarios will not happen...

Rome earthquake: Who was Raffaele Bendandi?
On January 4 1924, after an earthquake struck the Italian province of Le Marche, Raffaele Bendandi hit the headlines.
The Telegraph, 10th May 2011

Earthquake [5.3] hits southern Spain, ten dead
At least ten people were reported dead and dozens injured after an earthquake shook southeastern Spain on Wednesday, toppling historic buildings in the medieval town of Lorca.
The Telegraph, 11th May 2011
Lorca, in Spain NOT Rome in Italy...

More Frequent Whale Strandings Has Experts on Edge
Tree Hugger, 6th May 2011

In the last few years, there has been an unexplained spike in the number of whales washing ashore. While the National Marine Fisheries Service has declared an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, it's more than just oil spills that are causing increased strandings worldwide. And experts are worried.

The numbers of beached whales have been gradually rising, peaking in 2009 with 46 whales coming ashore, and The Department of Environment and Conservation is conducting an investigation into what could be causing the rise, reports ABC news.

Comment: At least authorities are admitting that something is going on.... please see archives for previous comments on this phenomenon that I believe is due to the extreme geomagnetic conditions that now exists on this planet.

Japan lawmaker: Move parliament to Fukushima
Associated Press, 6th May 2011

WASHINGTON — A Japanese lawmaker said Friday that his country should move its parliament to Fukushima to provide an economic boost and show confidence in a region struck by a nuclear crisis after a massive earthquake.

Yasuhisa Shiozaki, who was the government's number two from 2006 to 2007, acknowledged that some people may find his idea far-fetched, but said that Japan should consider it as part of a broader decentralization from Tokyo.

"I am proposing to move the Japanese Diet to Fukushima, sending the message to the world that we are not running away from this meltdown issue," said Shiozaki, a member of the conservative opposition Liberal Democratic Party.

"Why not choose Fukushima to invigorate this area and economy and also cheer them up," he said at the Stimson Center, a think-tank.

Comment: LOL! Now that is funny.... I am a learning a lot about the Japanese...

ex-skf.blogspot.com
EX_SKF Blog, May 2011
There is some good info here from a Japanese person keeping up with the latest developments

FIREBALL THE SIZE OF EARTH:
spaceweather.com, 6th May 2011

"When the sun rose on May 2nd, I was surprised to see a fully detached fireball prominence at the southwestern edge of the solar disk," reports amateur astronomer Jan T

I was stunned," he continues. "The prominence was rather faint, so I had to use a lot of gain to capture it, hence the noise: 'more gain = more grain.' But I am pleased that I captured it!"

Comment: I consider this to be a very strange report, was this a fireball just hovering around near the sun or was it shooting off into space? Or like some are suggesting, the sun giving birth to a new planet because we have been seeing a range of strange objects around the sun and some of which have looked like massive electrical discharges...

Fewer workers willing to brave radiation risk at crippled Fukushima plant
Asahi News, 6th May 2011

As critical repairs continue at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, its operator is finding it difficult to find people willing to work at the plant. The tally of workers at the plant as of May 3 was 1,312 people. Many of them are employed by subcontractors hired by operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Many current employees are anxious about the dangers of high radiation and what they say are the plant's poor labor conditions. According to a company that supplies workers to the Fukushima plant, it has become increasingly difficult to send the necessary number of people. Many workers who went to the plant immediately after the March 11 accident now refuse to return, citing bad labor conditions.

Comment: There has been a lot of talk of the brave Fukushima 50, but I wonder how many of them are now really sick or even dead and whether this is influencing the decision of others who refuse to sacrifice themselves for the good of the rest of humanity. Hopefully, this episode will be the start of the end of the insane practice of igniting the fires of hell, that can't be easily put out, just to boil water.

Email from Japanese gov’t officials says high density radiation will be released May 8 if situation continues

This email is now causing some speculation as to what they expect to happen....

Crew members on Justin Bieber’s tour refuse go to Japan for upcoming shows in Tokyo, Osaka because of radiation — Manager says to “man the f*** up”
Energy News, 6th May 2011
I don't know what to say, I like Justin Bieber...
Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History
Vimeo/Fairewinds, 6th May 2011
"A report from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission Ex-Secretariat, Dr. Saji, credits the current status of the accident to "luck". Gundersen discusses what could have happened if the wind had been blowing in-land."
Important stuff... No good news...10:14 starts talking about groundwater contamination...

UFO Engaging Hyperdrive or Russian Rocket 2011
YouTube, 4th May 2011

Comment: We have a new arrival! I liked the following comment on YouTube here;

This shape reminds me of chariot of the gods when they show the Biblical account and drawing of a man in a space ship running from another.
faron27

I think this comment is referring to the painting called "The Crucifixion" (1350), housed at the Visoki Decani Monastery in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. The image icons used here from left to right are from an outdoor surveillance camera in Russia May 2008 and the upper left and right corners of the "The Crucifixion", where figures ride in what some people interpret as aircraft or spacecraft, see the following article for more info. The UFO-Religion Connection.

Mystery 'UFO' lights spotted over Russia shock masses
Russia Today, 5th May 2011
"It was a night when many thought the great question on alien life had finally been answered. Big glowing ball with four extending tails whizzed about the sky over the Russian Urals. The sight attracked mass attention when the first messages and spectacular pictures quickly appeared in blogs. But it turns out 'life from Mars' was actually a Meridian military communications satellite being blasted off into orbit. It's the fourth of its type launched by Russia to replace the ageing Molniya system. The country has more than 100 satellites hurtling around the earth.+ I think this is the official denial... but of course, it does not explain the sequence of events and the first object shown is not the same as the original UFO/UAP objects....

Comet Elenin: Preview of a Coming Attraction
NASA News, 4th May 2011

You may have heard the news: Comet Elenin is coming to the inner-solar system this fall. Comet Elenin (also known by its astronomical name C/2010 X1), was first detected on Dec. 10, 2010 by Leonid Elenin, an observer in Lyubertsy, Russia, who made the discovery "remotely" using the ISON-NM observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico.

At the time of the discovery, the comet was about 647 million kilometers (401 million miles) from Earth. Over the past four-and-a-half months, the comet has – as comets do – closed the distance to Earth's vicinity as it makes its way closer to perihelion (its closest point to the sun). As of May 4, Elenin's distance is about 274 million kilometers (170 million miles).

"That is what happens with these long-period comets that come in from way outside our planetary system," said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "They make these long, majestic, speedy arcs through our solar system, and sometimes they put on a great show. But not Elenin. Right now that comet looks kind of wimpy." [...]

At its closest point, it will be 35 million kilometers (22 million miles) from us. Can this icy interloper influence us from where it is, or where it will be in the future?

Comment: There seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors going on at the moment. So while the nibiru/nemesis/tyche/brown dwarf/comet elenin folk are getting excited over the existence of various cosmic objects that may or may not exist, the real issue is the constant stream of asteroids and comets that are coming into our solar system and close by us on Earth, some are virtually invisible until they are nearly on top of us and sometimes they have whizzed close by us and some have only been seen when they have actually passed... I would suggest this is the REAL threat that is worrying world controllers... So, why are people getting excited about a comet that will come to within 35 million kilometers (22 million miles) from us when there are now objects routinely passing within the orbit of our moon and even within geostationary orbit? An ordinary comet is NOT going to have the influence that can explain the orbital changes related to the Earth and moon, nor the huge number of atmospheric and geophysical events taking place on Earth. I simply think that many people are swayed by whatever popular idea is being promoted, that's all.

Rocky Horror
The Sun, 5th May 2011

A GIANT asteroid heading towards Earth will just miss us in November, Nasa experts predicted last night. The space rock is 1,300ft wide [400 meters] and weighs 55million tons - the largest object ever to approach our planet so close.

It will pass at a distance of 201,700 miles - described by an astronomer as "a cosmic hair's breadth". That is closer than the Moon, which orbits 238,857 miles away on average. The asteroid, called YU55, is officially labelled a Potentially Hazardous Object.

Comment: In reality, this arrival is a lot more worrisome than Comet Elenin...

NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment
NASA Science News, 4th May 2011

Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B).

"The space-time around Earth appears to be distorted just as general relativity predicts," says Stanford University physicist Francis Everitt, principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B mission.

They developed a "drag free" satellite that could brush against the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere without disturbing the gyros. They figured out how to keep Earth's magnetic field from penetrating the spacecraft. And they created a device to measure the spin of a gyro--without touching the gyro. More information about these technologies may be found in the Science@NASA story "A Pocket of Near-Perfection."

NASA funding for Gravity Probe B began in the fall of 1963. That means Everitt and some colleagues have been planning, promoting, building, operating, and analyzing data from the experiment for more than 47 years—truly, an epic effort.

"Well," says Everitt, "we invented 13 new technologies for Gravity Probe B. Who knows where they will take us?"

Comment: Let's hope that our modern world can reap the benefit from the 13 new technologies created after 47 years of effort. I would have thought there would be major interest in the drag-free satellites due to issues associated with space weather.

I control therefore I am: chimps self-aware, says study
PhysOrg.com, 4th May 2011

Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human, according to a study released Wednesday.

The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, challenge assumptions about the boundary between human and non-human, and shed light on the evolutionary origins of consciousness, the researchers said.

Earlier research had demonstrated the capacity of several species of primates, as well as dolphins, to recognize themselves in a mirror, suggesting a fairly sophisticated sense of self.

Comment: More studies that make us query the definitions of what makes us "different" to some of the animals... especially when some humans behave worse than animals... This story reminds me of the chimp in the zoo that planned his attack on humans by collecting rocks for ammunition... premeditated violence is usually considered to be a human trait... see the article linked below:

Zoo chimp plots stone throwing attacks
New study found his cleverly orchestrated attacks were premeditated
MSNBC, 9th March 2009

Flood fears spread south along the Mississippi
Yahoo News, 4th May 2011

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Flood worries that prompted the U.S. government to blast open a Missouri levee to ease pressure on some towns are rippling down the Mississippi River, leading to more evacuations and unease as the Army Corps of Engineers weighs whether to purposely inundate more land with water.

People in eight states along the swollen Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries were filling sandbags and packing up to leave home as high water works its way downstream in a slow-motion disaster that could take weeks to unfold.

The breach of southeastern Missouri's Birds Point levee was heralded by some Illinois towns along the Ohio River as a needed relief from record flooding, and the man who ordered that action says he may do the same with other Mississippi River spillways as flood prospects mount.

Comment: This has not got much media attention, but the situation has been bad for quite some time, see below:

"The Mississippi river is going through an epic flood, meaning we're looking at a 500 year flood"
My Fox Memphis, 28th April 2011
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Mississippi River continues to rise, so much so that its tributaries are starting to flow backwards. At Tom Lee Park, preps for Memphis in May continue knowing that the worst is still yet to come.
In Brief:
- The Mississippi River is rising causing her tributaries to flow backwards.
- The river rose 2 feet after the recent batch of storms.
- It is expected to crest at 45 feet on May 10th, the same day BBQ fest contestants set up their tents.
It's a site not often seen; the Wolf River and Nonconnah Creek are flowing backwards. The swelling river cannot take on much more water.

Comment: More continuous breaking of weather records...
Slow-moving disaster rolls down Mississippi River
WAFB.com, 5th May 2011
"HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) - Jail inmates filled sandbag after sandbag to protect one of the many Southern river cities threatened by the swelling Mississippi as it broke more 1930s flood records and crept higher Thursday."

Edano urges Tohoku Electric to ensure safety at Onagawa nuke plant
Kyodo News, 5th May 2011

Bulletin: "Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano on Thursday urged Tohoku Electric Power Co. to ensure safety measures at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture so that it would be acceptable to people living near the facility, officials of the utility said."

Comment:What exactly does this strange press release actually mean? The situation in Japan is incredible but when we consider that this is an island in one of the world's most active seismic regions due to being located on the junction of 4 tectonic plate boundaries, with 54 nuclear rectors, mostly situated on earthquake faults at a time of massive evolutionary change, when the planet is humming – literally – with high energies, then nobody should be surprised at how bad things are after an historic earthquake and tsunami. Even those with blinkers who are only interested in profits who thought they could ignore all the signs of the rising tide of energy, like King Canutes who could just raise their hands and the Space Weather would just go away and have no impact, must now have got to the stage where at least some reality has penetrated. Click the image icon for a larger image for the location of the Onagawa nuclear plant.

Where is all that Fukushima radiation going, and why does it matter? [17:23]
Vimeo/FaireWinds, 2nd May 2011
"Fairewinds' founder Maggie Gundersen interviews environmental scientist and professional engineer Marco Kaltofen about his ongoing analysis of radioactive fallout from Fukushima."
This is an aside... So, cigarettes provide radioactive particles too... I have always had a problem with healers who smoke, but now I understand why because at some level, this has always been an issue with me....
Full Core Meltdown In Japan Will Send Radiation Over United States (Video)
Track Cell Phones, 13th March 2011
Comment: So the Editor of the Japan Times was told on the day of the tsunami that there was a meltdown taking place... this confirms all the others sources that made official announcements and others that state they knew immediately...

FDA approved Big Pharma drugs without effectiveness data
Natural News, 4th May 2011

(NaturalNews) Consumers constantly are told how complicated it is to get a new drug on the market. After all, researchers have to jump through all sorts of hoops to assure safety before new therapies are approved for the public, right?

It turns out they may be missing some of those hoops or not jumping through some of the most important ones. In fact, huge red flags are being raised about how drugs are tested and approved in two new studies, including one just published in the May 4th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

Comment: Should we be surprised? Well, once you realise that there is a lot of money in the illusion of healthcare, then it makes all this kind of chicanery simple to understand.

Big Asteroid's Approach in November Excites Astronomers
Space.com, 3rd May 2011

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will come closer to Earth this autumn than our own moon does, causing scientists to hold their breath as it zooms by. But they'll be nervous with excitement, not with worry about a possible disaster.
There's no danger of an impact when the asteroid 2005 YU55 makes its close flyby Nov. 8, coming within 201,700 miles (325,000 kilometers) of Earth, scientists say. So they're looking forward to the encounter, which could help them learn more about big space rocks. [...]

Asteroid 2005 YU55 is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) wide. It was discovered in December 2005 by the Spacewatch program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. [...]

"This is a C-type asteroid, and those are thought to be representative of the primordial materials from which our solar system was formed," Wilson said. "This flyby will be an excellent opportunity to test how we study, document and quantify which asteroids would be most appropriate for a future human mission."

Comment: More evidence of Earth now being in a cosmic bowling alley.... with some big cosmic bowling balls as well as lots of little ones... What's interesting is why these kind of articles never discuss what is causing the dramatic increase, to the point where spaceweather.com has to keep a table of 'Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters'. Btw, there is another tidler flying close within the moon's orbit on the 2nd June.

Asteroid Flyby 5th May 2011
spaceweather.com, 5th May 011

ASTEROID FLYBY: Asteroid 2003 YT1 is flying past the Earth-Mooon system today at a safe distance of 25 million km. Albeit far away, the 2.5 km-wide space rock is big enough to see through backyard-class telescopes. At the University of Narino Observatory in Columbia, Alberto Quijano Vodniza and colleagues used a 14-inch Meade LX200 to record this movie:

Hmmm... 2.5km wide... that's a big rock...

Fukushima parents dish the dirt in protest over radiation levels
Furious Fukushima parents dump school playground earth that may have radiation levels well above the old safety level
The Guardian, 2nd May 2011

Furious parents in Fukushima have delivered a bag of radioactive playground earth to education officials in protest at moves to weaken nuclear safety standards in schools.

Children can now be exposed to 20 times more radiation than was previously permissible. The new regulations have prompted outcry. A senior adviser resigned and the prime minister, Naoto Kan, was criticised by politicians from his own party.

Ministers have defended the increase in the acceptable safety level from 1 to 20 millisieverts per year as a necessary measure to guarantee the education of hundreds of thousands of children in Fukushima prefecture, location of the nuclear plant that suffered a partial meltdown and several explosions after the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. [...]

A group claiming to represent 250 parents in Fukushima visited the upper house of parliament and presented government officials with a bag of radioactive dirt from the playground of one of the affected schools. A geiger counter clicked over it with a reading of 38 ~~millisieverts~~ microsieverts. Confirmed wrong by Japanese checker see source below.

"How dare they tell us it is safe for our children," said Sachiko Satou of the Protect Fukushima Children from Radiation Association. "This is disgusting. They can't play outside with such risks. If the government won't remove the radioactive dirt then we'll do it ourselves and dump it outside the headquarters of Tokyo Electric."

Comment: Finally, it looks like a few Japanese people are developing a backbone... someone can dump a bag for me.... Remember these parliamentarians now want to abandon Tokyo, the world's largest city with 35 million people... really, the answer my friends is blowing in the wind... so its 38 microsieverts per hour then, well that is still quite high, you would not get that amount during normal flying but flying during the worst solar storms is a different matter, see below...

RADIATION OVER-EXPOSURE TO PASSENGERS AND CREW

The principal space weather hazard to humans is exposure to cosmic radiation while flying, which is caused primarily by GCRs. The dose rate at an altitude of 39,000 ft (12 km) in mid-temperate latitudes is typically up to about 6 microSieverts (microSv) per hour, but near the equator only about 3 microSv/hr. Typically, a London to Los Angeles flight in a commercial aircraft accumulates ~65 microSv (6 microSv/hr); however, the solar cycle can give plus or minus 20% variations in dose from solar minimum to maximum.

However, of concern are those SEPs [Solar Energetic Particles] that increase the dose at aircraft altitudes. Using data collected onboard aircraft and then modelled to large SEP storms (ie, 23 February 1956, 29 September 1989) it is estimated that the additional radiation dose received at 40,000ft (12km) on a subsonic transatlantic flight would have been approximately 10 mSv and 2 mSv respectively.

Under present ICRP guidelines, the recommended dose limit for the general public is 1mSv, and for aircrew in the EU a maximum working level of 6 mSv has been adopted by the airlines.

UK Government Space Weather Memorandum: Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies , SolarMetrics Limited (SAGE 18), 13 September 2010
Submission is for the Science and Technology Committee inquiry, examining the UK Government's use of scientific advice and evidence in emergency situations.

So if we get an intense proton storm (1956) someone in a plane at 40,000ft (12km) could get 10 times the recommended annual radiation dose and if we get a decent size normal geomagnetic storm (1989) someone in a plane at 40,000ft (12km) could get twice the annual dose... In the 2003 'Halloween' solar storms, things were so bad that they made planes divert to below 25,000ft (7.5km) but in the research that I have found, there was no references to estimates for how much radiation people were likely to have received. I suppose I should go looking for the info...

Update Cumulative Radiation Level in Namie-machi in Fukushima Exceeds 20 Milli-Sieverts in 40 Days
24.14 milli-sieverts, to be exact, in 40 days. But no one bats an eye over the number any more. Japan is busy doing the "Golden Week holidays".
EX-SKF, 2nd May 2011
May 3, 2011 3:41 PM
arevamirpal::laprimavera said...
@S. in Osaka, I've found the video of the event. It was 38 microsieverts. 9 minutes 50 seconds into the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TS9yrUtwRQ&feature=player_embedded
That's still extremely, ridiculously high number.
I'll contact Guardian.
Watch the video, that's what I call a parents meeting!

NOAA: Record 312 tornadoes in 24 hours last week
Yahoo News, 2nd May 2011

WASHINGTON – Preliminary government estimates say there were more tornadoes in a single day last week than any other day in U.S. history. Government analysts said Monday there were 362 tornadoes during last week's outbreak, including a record-setting 312 in one 24-hour period.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the largest previous number on record in one event occurred from April 3-4, 1974, with 148 tornadoes. NOAA says 340 people were killed during the 24-hour-period from 8:00 a.m. Wednesday to Thursday.

Comment: Well, there you go.... another record breaker... I have decided to re-state the general comment from last week here.

General Comment: 30th April 2011

Well, I have only been really been truly struck by a few Kryon messages via the channel Lee Carroll and I think these have been about the lack of water in the future for the United States and the return of the winds presumably for the United States, to the point where people are being encouraged to reconsider the design of their homes. Hence, in May 2007, I was pleased to discover people building 'dome' homes see, Monolithic.com and the fact that these domes can stand up to any extreme weather. Yet, due to my ongoing Space Weather research, I have known for along time about the risk to electricity supplies, but I was still shocked to read the NASA sponsored January 2009, Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts report, (the .pdf summary can be downloaded here), that tells us that once every 100 years, we can expect a huge geomagnetic storm that would knock out enough power supply transformers that 130 million people in the United States alone would lose power. Due to the fact that transformers are on short supply (the United States does not even manufacture them and has to rely on imports), the wait for the return of power supply could be many YEARS. Unbelievable.... So, we have had electrical enginneers campaigning for authorities to take this all much more seriously and I have noted various articles about this in the last few years, but I was not aware of the dire situation with nuclear power plants until I came across the following report, Experts: Move to protect nuke plants from solar flare damage, dated 4th March 2011, 1 week before the Japanese mega disaster and the tsunami that knocked out all the backup generators at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Yet, as I have highlighted, it was a disaster that some predicted would happen see, Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette, from The Japan Times, 23rd May 2004. So we know authorities cooperated and allowed the Fukushima disaster to happen, that is now effecting the whole world. At this stage, I don't know enough about WHY we will see the return of the winds, but I suspect it is related to the Earth's magnetic field weakening and allowing the solar wind to have a much greater impact on Earth's weather. In March 2011, some scientist stated:

"We believe a recent climate shift favoring a cooler Pacific and more frequent La Nina events suggests we have entered a period of increasing severe storms that could last a decade or more."
Big-Time La Nina Tornado and Spring Flood Season Possible?
WUWT, 1st March 2011

Anyway, for those who are knew to current metaphysical literature, I would like to highlight the Kryon message about these winds. I don't want to give a 100% endorsement here, because I think everyone needs to understand the concept of how cheese can be used on mousetraps (sorry, that's all I will say on the matter), but this bit of cheese is quite interesting.

So we say to you, the winds will return, and our advice is to prepare for this by creating a situation where you acclimate to the new weather. Learn to anticipate it; build differently. Feel free not to build where danger is, or learn to build in safer places. But the admonishment is this: Don't be shocked when it returns. It will return. Don't be surprised when the levees break again south of you, because they will. You'd be much better off to move the dirt around in that town, and build on higher ground. [The berm system that Kryon mentioned in the past, where you build houses on what look like large strip-rows of raised dirt, where only the streets are below the water level. The houses are all built on the dirt strips, emulating the way crops are watered.] That is smart. We'll see if it happens. "What are you saying, Kryon?" I am saying that Human Beings can adapt as they have in the past, and the way you can now. If you start thinking smarter, you can adapt for the weather changes. Take charge of how you affect it, not how it affects you. Turn weather catastrophes into weather events.

Also, do not fear what is happening. Do not project what you see today into some kind of drama that you expect tomorrow. The warming is a pre-cursor to cold, just as in the past... just as in the past. You can sit around and worry about it, or you can prepare for it.
"Current Events", Kryon Live channelling, Asheville, North Carolina, United States, July 12, 2008 link

If you want to read something from Kryon about the Japanese disaster, dated 18th March 2011, here it is Regarding the Earthquake in Japan - Kryon channel, but I have no comment accept to say this is a typical reponse. The angst from those who are failing to get the message that this is about the whole planet in upheaval and the need to plan for massive change is also becoming very apparent.

Alien Sightings in Asia Go Into Hyperdrive; (Video)
Wall Street Journal, 6th May 2011

KAO KALA, Thailand—Everybody from fund managers to jet-setting diplomats is talking about the world's center of gravity shifting to Asia. Now, extraterrestrials appear to be taking notice, too. [...] "It's not surprising, really," says Debhanom Muangman, a 75-year-old Harvard-educated physician and one of Thailand's leading UFO investigators. "Aliens have been coming to Asia for decades, but now they sense a change. [...]

"It's not surprising, really," says Debhanom Muangman, a 75-year-old Harvard-educated physician and one of Thailand's leading UFO investigators. "Aliens have been coming to Asia for decades, but now they sense a change. This is where the progressive countries are, so they are coming here much more often now."

Comment: OK, this is the Wall Street Journal, so the article is straining credulity by trying to suggest UFOs are interested in Asia and specifically Thailand's economic success. Really, this article and video is full of nonsense, except for the acknowledgement that UFO sightings are up, the same trend that is being seen all over the world..

Coast UFO 'sighting' captured on video [Australian]
Gold Coast, 5th May 2011

THE truth is out there -- and it could be closer than you think. A 10-minute video shot on the Gold Coast of a bright light in the sky has created a storm on YouTube, sparking fresh debate among UFO advocates.

Brisbane man Sean Coulter was "winding down" from a night of partying at Tallai with 10 mates about 4.30am on February 6 when he spotted the strange light.

Comment: Apparently, this UFO sighting was accompanied by an electrical storm. See more comments below:

UFO sighting Gold Coast Queensland Australia
YouTube, 22nd April 2011
"We were at a mates 21st bday. Time is around 4:30-4:45am. Clip is 10 mins long. We were all wasted, hence the crap were talking. Try debunk THIS!"
Be warned... there is foul language from start to finish, but not everyone was completely drunk and some could think logically enough to work out that this was indeeed a UFO.

New footage of 2 linked UFO lights over Auckland in New Zealand 29-Apr-2011
Latest UFO sightings, 5th May 2011
"Two linked lights were recorded hovering in the night sky over North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand. This was taken on Friday, 29th April 2011."
no swearing...

Bright object recorded over Kauai, Hawaii - May 2011
Latest UFO sightings, 7th May 2011
"Bright object was recorded hovering above Kauai island in Hawaii. This was taken in May 2011."
no swearing....

UFO sightings 2011: 2 unknown objects over Guadalajara, Mexico 8-Mar-2011
Latest UFO sightings, 8th May 2011
"UFO 2011 - Two UFOs flying across the sky over Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco. This was recorded on Sunday, 8th March 2011."

Stationary daytime UFO or Orb over Stirling City in UK 1-May-2011
Latest UFO sightings, 9th May 2011
"This huge bright object was recorded above Stirling City in United Kingdom. This video was recorded on 1st May 2011 at 9:30 pm."

UFO 2011: 2 flashing lights above Miami Beach, Florida - May 2011 [US]
Latest UFO sightings, 9th May 2011
"This footage of two flashing lights over Miami Beach in Florida. This was filmed in early May 2011."
These guys seem to be a bit spaced out and there is some swearing which seems to be obligatory by most when confronted with the appearance of another lifeform...

Conspiracy Theory Nutters - Why Can't They Be Normal Like Us?
AOL Forum, 3rd May 2011

Here we are living in a world of complete propaganda madness where small minded morons get behind the media sausage factory and ridicule those who have the intelligence to step out the box, research and question whats really happening in the world. These hypnotized morons really do believe everything they are told and anyone questioning the authoritative word of mainstream media must be labelled as kooks and loons, or even worse… “conspiracy theorists”.

From the mind of a normal western citizen?..

How dare they have the nerve to draw different conclusions from the fairy tale stories we the masses have to swallow and digest without question? Why can’t these conspiracy theorists people just be normal like everyone else and accept what our government tells us like all decent normal citizens do?

Comment: Well, I have come to the conclusion that most people like grown up fairy tales.... I had a good laugh today when I saw this German TV Fail: Star Trek’s Maquis NOT Involved In Bin Laden Mission... why do they think it was a fail? Maybe, it was deliberate by some cynical conspiracy theorist or worse, due to some wishful thinking.... Anyway, people thinking outside the box is a major threat to a lot of people, most prefer to not think deeply about anything.... that's OK, just don't expect me to be mindless and play along with the latest drivel...

Modern Day Fairy Tales
David Icke, 12th May 2011

"President Obama reveals that the world’s most wanted man lived for five years in a gingerbread house in a cake shop in Candyhar. ‘The gingerbread men must have known he was there’, the President said before returning to Never Never Land."
Thats what I call some serious fairy tales.... LOL!

Hearts Beat as One in a Daring Ritual
New York Times, 2nd May 2011

The researchers wanted to investigate what draws people to communal rituals like fire-walking. “There’s the idea about rituals that they enhance group cohesion, but what creates this group?” Ms. Konvalinka said. “We figured there was some kind of autonomic nervous system measure that could capture the emotional effects of the ritual.”

The results surprised them. The heart rates of relatives and friends of the fire-walkers followed an almost identical pattern to the fire-walkers’ rates, spiking and dropping almost in synchrony. The heart rates of visiting spectators did not. The relatives’ rates synchronized throughout the event, which lasted 30 minutes, with 28 fire-walkers each making five-second walks. So relatives or friends’ heart rates matched a fire-walker’s rate before, during and after his walk. Even people related to other fire-walkers showed similar patterns.

Experts not involved in the study said despite the small number of participants, the results were intriguing. They build on research showing heart rates of fans of team sports surge when their teams score, and on studies demonstrating that people rocking in rocking chairs or tapping their fingers eventually synchronize their movements.

“It’s one study, but it’s a great study,” said Michael Richardson, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Cincinnati. “It shows that being connected to someone is not just in the mind. There are these fundamental physiological behavioral moments that are occurring continuously with other people that we’re not aware of. There is a solid grounding of laboratory research which is completely consistent with their findings. It’s always hard to do these studies in the real world. This is the first study that has kind of done it on a big scale in a natural situation.”

Comment: I think this can be related back to the research of the Heartmath Institute and the results that people with the strongest hearts have the ability to entrain and synchronise the hearts of others around them. I presume that those who have the gumption to walk on hot coals must be pretty strong hearted...

The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic Interactions Within and Between People, By Rollin McCraty, Ph.D.
The Heartmath Institute
for more info, google heartmath+entrainment+heart

The Day Before Disclosure Full HQ - Part I
YouTube, May 2011

The Day Before Disclosure (http://www.thedaybeforedisclosure.com/) is a film documenting the growing awareness and the build up to what can potentially be the single, most important event in human history -- the day the UFO and ET presence becomes a world wide accepted reality.

This is the story of the witnesses that was laughed at, the researchers and reporters that wasn't believed and the governmental and military personnel that were sworn to silence. A story that alters the foundation of everything you thought you knew, and takes you along for a ride all the way from the darkest abyss of living nightmares, through to the brightest hope for the future of humanity.

This is the greatest story in human history.

Comment: If you have watched a lot of UFO Disclosure documentaries, you may think this is the same as others, with many of the same cast of people being interviewed, but if you persist to towards the end, the documentary takes a deeply more profound turn. I found the argument that humanity needed to acknowledge that we were not alone in the universe to be very profound but that there was a need for discernment about what might happen, and this was presented in a very sensitive way. There were a few people who I did not believe, but most of this information is well know and accepted amongst the UFO community. As usual, there is talk of extraterrestrials and ETs, visitations from beings from other dimensions, solar systems and universes but no mention that a lifeform lives alongside us that I refer to as the Shadow Biosphere and I find this just totally bizarre when the evidence is available. It's as if we are being steered into the concept that we are helpless children and that all these beings are more intelligent than us and we need their help. I actually don't think that is completely true, the evidence does not suggest that this is the complete picture, so as persuasive as this documentary is, I think the need for discernment starts with the energy behind this documentary. Simply, think cheese on a mental mousetrap. The cheese is interesting but there is a need to watch out for the trap. If you have not watched many UFO documentaries, and you have approaching 2 hours, I think this is worth watching and considering.

Terje Toftenes - The Day Before Disclosure & The New Paradigm
Red Ice Creations, 3rd May 2011

Terje Toftenes has a background with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, but has for the last 25 years worked as an independent producer, making promotional and educational films for Norwegian corporations through his company "Toftenes Multivisjon". He founded "New Paradigm Films" in 2006 as a result of long interest in the fields of new science, spirituality, UFOs and philosophy.

His vision is to build a catalog of informative high quality films giving first hand insight in the topics of the new paradigm. In this program we talk about the "new paradigm" and his latest film "The Day Before Disclosure". The film documents the growing awareness and the build up to the day the UFO and ET presence becomes a worldwide accepted reality.

Comment: This is an interesting 1 hour interview and Terje Toftenes seems to have a higher perspective and awareness of what is taking place on this planet. Another big thank you to Red Ice Creations for this interview....

Japanese MP: It's Time To Tell The Truth
The Real News, 7th May 2011
Kuniko Tanioko: Japan must tell world how it dealt with the nuclear runoff into the ocean

Daphne Wysham is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and founder and host of Earthbeat, now airing on 61 public radio stations in the US and Canada. Kuniko Tanioka is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Osaka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and received a Ph.D in design
Comment: Wow... I am impressed with this interview....
'World's most dangerous' nuclear power plant is closed down
The Independent, 7th May 2011
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has stunned Japan's power industry by asking for the closure of the country's most controversial atomic plant, eight weeks after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Mr Kan said the authorities in Japan have long accepted the high probability of a major jolt underneath the Hamaoka complex, about 200km south-west of Tokyo. "This is a decision made for the safety of the Japanese people when I consider the special conditions of the Hamaoka plant," he told reporters.
Comment: Good News....
TEPCO president makes kneeling apology to nuclear crisis evacuees
The Mainichi Daily News, 5th May 2011
Comment: I wonder when the TEPCO management will stop the public displays of grovelling...
Paper warning of Fukushima nuke plant risks draws attention on Net
The Mainichi Daily News, 7th May 2011
"TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A short paper penned 16 years ago by an anti-nuclear scientist is drawing attention on the Internet for having warned about the dangers posed by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and other old atomic plants."
U.S.-Japan joint survey reveals high radiation beyond evacuation zone
Asahi.com, 8th May 2011
"The first map of ground surface contamination within 80 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant shows radiation levels higher in some municipalities than those in the mandatory relocation zone around the Chernobyl plant.
Slideshow: Fukushima Daichi Reactors Fire 7th May 2011
Photobucket, 7th May 2011
Pictures: Fukushima Daichi Reactors Fire 7th May 2011
Photobucket, 7th May 2011
At the moment there is not much information about what is going on. These pictures are from an outdoor surveillance camera zooming in from a long way away, that is broadcasting live on the internet.

"Freak" tornado rips through Auckland's North Shore [NZ]
Courier Mail, 3rd May 2011

MORE tornadoes could strike the North Island of New Zealand, forecasters warned as police confirmed that one person died in the destructive Auckland twister.

The tornado ripped through the city's north, putting 10 people in hospital in a freak storm that has shaken disaster-weary New Zealanders. It ripped the roof off a shopping mall, overturned cars, uprooted trees and sent shoppers running when it hit the suburb of Albany about 3pm (1pm Australian time).

Comment: At the end of the commentary of the video linked below, the presenter emphasisis that this is extremely rare in New Zealand and so the silent message is: don't worry it won't happen again... The problem with this that we have the UK government releasing a report in March 2011 with the message:

"...scientists believe that recent natural disasters were not an aberration, but "the beginnings of a new kind of future in which mega-disasters are going to be more frequent."

Governments must prepare for more mega-disasters - UK
News.com.au, 28th March 2011

Really, there is an enormous need for education. We are living in a time of evolutionary change and that means destruction and recreation or else there can't be any change...

Auckland tornado leaves trail of destruction - Video [3:27]
"The tornado which swept across Auckland today killed one person, injured 20 others and left a trail of destruction from Albany to Glenfield."

Every year they get closer: UFO fan hails clearest video yet and says 'they know I'm filming them' (Video)
Daily Mail, 2nd May 2011

It seems to be world centre for UFO videos, but this the image is extraordinarily clear. UFO enthusiast Michael Lee Hill, of Eastlake, has recorded many images of something mysterious over Lake Erie, Ohio. He has just released new footage filmed along the lakefront that he says is his best so far.

That led a team from the Cleveland Ufology Project to track the lights. The organisation was founded back in 1952. Its members consider themselves experts and decided that the images were airplanes. Hill disagreed with their assessment last year and now he says he's even more confident the aliens are among us. 'The fact that this remains in the screen and is not moving, I believe, negates any notion that it's an aircraft,' he said.

Comment: Congratulations Michael! I know Michael is passionate about the existence of the UFO/UAPs so I am pleased to see that he has got some mainstream press and I happy to see that this article is quite respectful.

The winners of mass extinction: With predators gone, prey thrives
PhysOrg.com, 2nd May 2011

In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce dramatic changes in the population of prey species. For the first time, scientists have observed the same dynamics in the fossil record, thanks to a mass extinction that decimated ocean life 360 million years ago. [...]

"This is the first time that specific, long-term predator-prey interactions have been seen in the fossil record," said Lauren Sallan, graduate student in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and lead author. "It tells us a lot about the recovery from mass extinctions, especially mass extinctions that involved a loss of predators."

Comment: Well, I am hoping that Viola Petitt Neal in her book Through the Curtain was right about the removal of a select group of human predators on this planet... Yet, from my basic studies of evolutionary biology, this is exactly what we should expect at times of massive evolutionary change when the predators who have overstressed the environment are the first to be removed...

Parents fight back over raised radiation limits
The Independent, 2nd May 2011

Thousands of parents living near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant have condemned a government decision to lift radiation limits for schools in the area by 20 times, saying the move is based on incomplete science and could put children in danger. The decision, which has also prompted the resignation of a government adviser, has been condemned as political expediency. Toshiso Kosako, the adviser who resigned on Friday, denounced the Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, for his "whack-a-mole" policies on the crisis. A tearful Mr Kosako said: "The government has belittled laws and taken decisions only for the present moment."

Comment: Finally, the Japanese people are fighting back... the sociopaths/psychopaths in charge will have to watch out!

U.S. medical group blasts Tokyo radiation policy on Fukushima children
Kyodo News, 2nd May 2011
Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts, has condemned as ''unconscionable'' the Japanese government's safety standards on radiation levels at elementary and middle schools in nuclear disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture.

The PSR statement directly challenges the Japanese government stance that it is safe for schoolchildren to use playgrounds on school premises in the prefecture as long as the dose they are exposed to does not exceed 20 millisieverts over a year.
TEPCO official [Vice President]: Fukushima is man-made disaster
NHK World News, 1st May 2011
A vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Company says he believes the nuclear crisis at Fukushima nuclear power plant is a man-made disaster. TEPCO vice president Norio Tsuzumi visited Iitate village in Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday and apologized to about 1,000 villagers who gathered to hear him speak.

Kan Admits Failure to Address Nuclear Problems as Another Plant Leaks
Environment News Service, 2nd May 2011

TOYKO, Japan, May 2, 2011 (ENS) - Radioactive substances may be leaking from fuel rods at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, the Fukui prefectural government said Monday, noting a rise in the level of radioactive substances in the reactor's coolant water.

Japan Atomic Power Co., the utility firm that operates the Tsuruga nuclear plant on the Sea of Japan coast, acknowledged "technical difficulties" at the Unit 2 reactor and confirmed a possible leak of radioactive iodine from the reactor's nuclear fuel rods into the coolant system.

Comment: Japan does seem to be having a lot of "technical difficulties" with their nuclear reactors but with all the earthquakes it makes you wonder what is really going on....

URGENT: Radiation leaks from fuel rods suspected at Tsuruga plant: local gov't
Kyodo News, 2nd May 2011
URGENT: Radiation leaks from fuel rods suspected at Tsuruga plant: local gov't
FUKUI, Japan, May 2, Kyodo: Leaks of radioactive materials from fuel rods have been suspected at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, the Fukui prefectural government said Monday, citing a rise in density of the toxic substances in coolant water.
This is just a bulletin and a paywall is operating... If this is true, things are getting seriously out of hand...
“URGENT: Radiation leaks from fuel rods suspected” at Japan’s Tsuruga nuclear plant — Radioactive Xenon up 75,000%
Energy News, 2nd May 2011
Leaks of radioactive materials from fuel rods have been suspected at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, the Fukui prefectural government said Monday, citing a rise in density of the toxic substances in coolant water. [...] According to Japan Atomic, 4.2 becquerels of iodine-133 and 3,900 becquerels of xenon gas were detected per cubic centimeter Monday, up from 2.1 and 5.2 becquerels, respectively, during previous measurements conducted last Tuesday.
There is lots more related news on this website with their sources

Parents fight back over raised radiation limits
The Independent, 2nd May 2011

U.S. medical group blasts Tokyo radiation policy on Fukushima children
Kyodo News, 2nd May 2011
Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts, has condemned as ''unconscionable'' the Japanese government's safety standards on radiation levels at elementary and middle schools in nuclear disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture.

The PSR statement directly challenges the Japanese government stance that it is safe for schoolchildren to use playgrounds on school premises in the prefecture as long as the dose they are exposed to does not exceed 20 millisieverts over a year.
TEPCO official [Vice President]: Fukushima is man-made disaster
NHK World News, 1st May 2011
A vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Company says he believes the nuclear crisis at Fukushima nuclear power plant is a man-made disaster. TEPCO vice president Norio Tsuzumi visited Iitate village in Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday and apologized to about 1,000 villagers who gathered to hear him speak.

The Gulf Was Alive and Boiling With Microbes Digesting the Oil
“If I had fallen in the water, I would have been eaten alive”
World Vision Portal, 2nd May 2011

From the April 29, 2011 Living Light Network broadcast of The Gulf Blue Plague Update with Michael Edward an exclusive interview with a BP Operations contracted Lead Operator on the Toisa Pisces containment and production ship, Paul Hebert, regarding his personal observations of the Gulf water boiling with microorganisms that were digesting the oil.

Comment: I can believe this is true... I did have a shock though as I listened for more information, see Gulf Blue Plague Realities: Deadly Radioactive Microbes. It seems that this type of oil has high amounts of uranium so it's radioactive too, this means that these microbes or microorganisms have likely quickly mutated and become really aggressive.... lovely... Maybe, we can now see why there have been some very strange mass demonstrations by the more intelligent dolphins...

Post-surgery woman has British accent
The Spokesman Review, 1st May 2011

PORTLAND – When Karen Butler came out of sedation after oral surgery a year and a half ago, her mouth throbbed and her face was puffy. But that’s not all that had changed. When she spoke, the words tumbled out in a thick and foreign accent.

“I sounded like I was from Transylvania,” she said. Over the next few days, the swelling subsided and the pain vanished, but Butler’s newly acquired accent did not. Though it has softened over time, she’s never again spoken like a native Oregonian from Madras. To most people, she sounds British.

It took months to find an explanation: foreign accent syndrome, a disorder so rare that only about 60 cases have been documented worldwide since the early 1900s. [...] “When it first happened and we didn’t know what it was, all kinds of ideas were handed up as possibilities,” said Butler, a 56-year-old mother of five. Her family joked that she had spun into a past life regression. She sought help from her dentist and family physician. Both figured the dentures put in during surgery had caused the change.

Comment: It's happened again! From my previous research this condition is supposed to be rare but check out how many instances there have been in the last few years and how many in the United Kingdom alone which makes me think the statistics that are quoted cannot possibly be right, see Best of the Blog Mind & Brain. Obviously, the language control centres in the brain seems to be much more vulnerable in these electromagnetic conditions. This strange condition seems to make more sense if we understand the principles of the holographic brain. Could we see this get really serious? I don't know but the trend is definitely up... Watch out folks! People have woken up from normal sleep with a foreign accent or even thinking and speaking in another language! The joking that "she had spun into a past life regression" is also a possibility, but I can't make a scientific case for this scenario.

Made In America; Real Monsters-- Corporate Personhood
OpEd News, 1st May 2011

Thom Hartmann wrote the definitive book on this, Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance. While he was working on the book, Thom sent me a draft, for feedback. That's when it hit me.

For over 100 years, science fiction writers have predicted a time when humans and the earth would be attacked by monsters, by aliens, by "Terminators" which attempt to wipe out humans and terraform the earth for their alien needs.

Corporations exercising their corporate personhood rights are those monsters.

Chris Hedges says, "The question is, how do we stop the powerful from doing as much damage as possible." Ending corporate personhood is one major way.

Comment: For lots of reasons, this article is very thought provoking, but I really don't think the problem stops in America....

Susan Joy Rennison, B.Sc.Hons. (Physics with Geophysics)

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