News of the Imbalance
July – August 2011

Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment
Field test by British academics marks first step towards recreating an artificial volcano that would inject particles into the stratosphere and cool the planet
The Guardian, 31st August 2011

It sounds barmy, audacious or sci-fi: a tethered balloon the size of Wembley stadium suspended 20km above Earth, linked to the ground by a giant garden hose pumping hundreds of tonnes of minute chemical particles a day into the thin stratospheric air to reflect sunlight and cool the planet.

But a team of British academics will next month formally announce the first step towards creating an artificial volcano by going ahead with the world's first major "geo-engineering" field-test in the next few months. The ultimate aim is to mimic the cooling effect that volcanoes have when they inject particles into the stratosphere that bounce some of the Sun's energy back into space, so preventing it from warming the Earth and mitigating the effects of man-made climate change.

Comment: There is plenty of evidence in the public domain that reducing world temperatures is not the main aim of all these geoengineering ideas, because the planet is not warming to any considerable degree. There are lots of volcanoes going off that are known to cool the planet and sometimes cause drastic cooling that induces an ice age, so it seems that world controllers have other major concerns. Since our planet is getting blasted by severe amounts of energy being delivered by space weather, it seems more reasonable that the main issue is the protection of the world's technological infrastructure, especially communications. Since the rich want the poor to pay for everything, the ridiculous ideas of removing CO₂ have been shoot down by many scientists, incredulous at the pathetic 'science' and outright fraud being used to convince the public to care about what is happening to our world. There is really no need to go over the arguments because they have been extensively discussed all over the internet. Here we have another ridiculous waste of money scheme that will no doubt have unintended consequences like previous attempts at dabbling with Earth's delicate biosystem, that has managed over billions of years to self-regulate itself without the help of humans.

UFO sighted in many Chinese cities
People's Daily Online, 31st August 2011

On Aug. 20, a huge glowing bubble-shaped floating object was spotted in many cities in China.

Some witness claimed that the glowing object grew bigger and bigger as time passed. "It was several hundred times bigger than the moon, with a diameter of more than 50 nautical miles. About 20 minutes later, the shining bubble became darker and gradually disappeared," one witness said.

On Aug. 20, a pilot of China Southern Airlines posted on the microblog that the unidentified flying object was more than 10,000 meters above Shanghai when it was spotted. He said he was in the cockpit when he saw the object. Later his post was followed and forwarded by many internet users.

Comment: Unfortunately, it seems that anything in the sky that people don't understand is designated as a UFO and that is because most people have no idea what is going on in our ionopshere. Plasma bubbles are major problem for GPS and satellite communications! This is one of the reasons the “First Workshop of the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI)” in Egpyt, meeting Nov. 6th through 10th, 2010, was convened by the United Nations, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Scientists from more than 30 countries, especially scientists from Africa were especially welcome, see The International Space Weather Initiative. Thus, I can only presume that the fact that people are now seeing these bubbles at ground level, implies that the ionosphere has lowered dramatically. This is not just mere speculation because this was announced by a NASA press release in see, Boundary Between Earth's Upper Atmosphere And Space Has Moved To Extraordinarily Low Altitudes, NASA Instruments Document, but after the last solar minimum, there has been no notice that the height of the ionosphere has recovered.

'UFO' sightings above crop circle fields
Newbury Today, 31st August 2011

Unexplained lights appear above West Woodhay crop circle land

AFTER the crop circle has come the almost obligatory UFO sighting. This spectacular formation appeared overnight on July 28 in a field at West Woodhay. It immediately attracted hundreds of sightseers and simultaneously earned the ire of landowner Harry Henderson, who dismissed it as the work of trespassers. But even those artists who lay claim to some of the designs that appear in the fields each year have seen strange lights associated with the formations.

Now Newbury businesswoman Bonni Southey has reported unexplained light phenomena after she decided to visit the area. She said: “We were having a look to see if the crop circle was still there. Looking across to the horizon above and to the right of the crop circle formation we saw first one bright, static light, which then disappeared and re-appeared again about two miles away in a matter of seconds.

“It hovered there for a couple of minutes and a second light slowly appeared next to it, and then a third. We watched these for quite a while - about 15 minutes - and then decided to try and get closer to them, driving over towards Ashmansworth. We then lost them geographically, or they disappeared completely.”

Comment: Our cosmic friends are very ostentatious these days...

Electricity as the universal basis for a new money system
Activist Post, 31st August 2011

A couple of weeks ago, a fresh idea for a new monetary system was quietly introduced that deserves more consideration. In fact, it's an idea so profound that it could potentially solve some of the biggest problems facing human civilization. Increasingly the masses are becoming dreadfully aware that the current predatory monetary system is the greatest threat to human freedom, world peace, and environmental harmony, and must be abolished and replaced with something new.

The pioneering proposal is to create a monetary system based on electricity. Popular alternative news radio host and former NASA scientist, Michael Rivero, motivated by his knowledge and extreme displeasure of the current banking system, proposed the "Lectro": a universal currency based on one kilowatt hour of electricity

Comment: Well, I have not been persuaded by the argument here and my initial view is this is just a crazy idea... electricity as currency.... (pun intended). Seriously, I don't know much about economics but I do know that the planet is being bombarded with highly charged sub-atomic particles that can flow like electricity, thereby affecting electronics and electrical equipment. Soon it's going to become a real problem, as there have been incidents when charged particles flowing through the air and ground, have caused some major problems (and ongoing problems like pipeline erosion), see the news archive Space Weather, Electronics & EM Chaos. Certainly, I was impressed when The Netherlands lost 3 TV/radio towers in one day and poor geomagnetic conditions must be considered as the likely cause of strange electrical fires. If we get a category 5 geomagnetic storm then national power grids are extremely vulnerable and hundreds of transformers could be burnt-out by ground currents, stopping the delivery of 'normal' electricity supply. Basically, electricity is literally falling on our heads, the problem is harnessing this energy and maybe the component of space weather that is normally invisible to our instruments but we KNOW it exists. Interestingly, a few intrepid scientists have proven with patents that they can utilise this power but the subject is generally taboo. Due to Space Weather, any vision for the future of mankind, must include safe power supply generation at a local level, but I think converting power supply into financial currency still seems really strange to me...

"Progress M" fell into the Peruvian jungle?
tiwy.co, 31st August 2011

The Peruvian military for several days have been actively seeking a "space object" that crashed in the difficult to access outskirts of the Cusco city. The comments of the national mass media noted that the "object" was a large meteorite or "extraterrestrial device" (UFO).

For this region of Peru, as well as for the entire zone of the Andes Mountains, the emergence of "unidentified flying objects" is a frequent phenomenon, but the present case is remarkable in the fact that it was accompanied by strange sound and light effects. Thousands of people saw the fall of the "UFO". "This has never happened before, - said one of the witnesses, - many of us were panic-stricken." That is why the mountain-wooded neighborhood of Cusco has been examined by military helicopters and commandos units.

But there is another reason for the deployment of intensive search of a suspicious space object. The Peruvian authorities have been warned by a "certain friendly government" that "most likely" the debris of the space truck "Progress M-12M" have dropped on the territory of the country. I

Comment: I was very struck by the "Progress M" satellite trajectory provided here and the fact it says the Russians can't find the crash debris after saying the wreckage was found in Altai Region in southern Siberia. Quite frankly, it would not surprise me if this is actually a second satellite that has fallen out of the skies, because the Peruvian military are involved and we have seen similar events with general news blackouts on several occasions in the last few years. At the moment, this is a real mystery...

How Steve Jobs sold conformity to the hipsters
The outgoing Apple CEO’s genius was in embracing the precise corporate values to which the Apple brand was ostensibly opposed, writes Andrew Potter.
Montreal Gazette, 30th August 2011

[...] Yet there is one thing that the “1984” commercial glosses over, which is the fact that there is no “Information Purification Directive” in our society. Or at least there wasn’t until Steve Jobs came along. More than any other company in the industry, Apple exerts a tremendous amount of control over its customers’ user experience. From the tethering of the iPod to a specific iTunes account to the way Apple jealously guards applications (and hence, content) for the iPhone, the Apple ecosystem has become its own “garden of pure ideology.”

And therein lies the paradox of Apple under Steve Jobs, and the key to his company’s unbelievable success. For the past quarter century, Apple has retained its credibility as the flagship brand of techno-cultural cool, even as it treats its customers with a darkly paternalistic attitude that some have dubbed “iFascism.”

Why does Apple get away with it? One answer is to say, as many have, that under Steve Jobs, the Apple user community has become something near to a cult, with its infantilized members tolerating all manner of indignities in the blind service of the leader’s vision. But that misses the central point, which is that Apple products make their users feel freer than they do when they are using other operating systems, other computers, or other devices. As The Economist pointed out in an editorial a few years ago, the most salient feature of Apple products is that they work.

Comment: I think the idea behind the famous "1984" commerical is simple ironic.... Anyway, I like this Steve Jobs quote:

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. -- Steve Jobs, US computer engineer & industrialist

True evolutionary leaders do not conform to consensus thinking, especially when the consensus has been looking like George Orwell's "1984" Orwellian society for quite some time...

Dark Matter Is an Illusion, New Antigravity Theory Says
Boiling sea of particles in space may create repulsive gravity
National Geographysic, 31st August 2011

The mysterious substance known as dark matter may actually be an illusion created by gravitational interactions between short-lived particles of matter and antimatter, a new study says. [...]

Dark matter is thought to be an invisible substance that makes up almost a quarter of the mass in the universe. The concept was first proposed in 1933 to explain why the outer galaxies in galaxy clusters orbit faster than they should, based on the galaxies' visible mass. [...]

Empty Space Filled With "Virtual" Particles

The quantum vacuum is the name physicists give to what we see as empty space.

According to quantum physics, empty space is not actually barren but is a boiling sea of so-called virtual particles and antiparticles constantly popping in and out of existence.

Comment: Unfortunately, we have a legacy of wrong ideas about space because astronomers only realised that space was not empty when they developed radio astronomy telescopes that could see radio waves, but now they have infra-red telescopes too. This means that scientists have discovered that space is certainly not a vacuum, but the use of the term "virtual" in the following statement, "a boiling sea of so-called virtual particles and antiparticles" is again misleading. It's either real matter or not matter at all, virtual is just plain misleading. By the way, the old fashion term for matter that is invisible to the eye and mostly invisible to our instrumentation but still exists as sub-atomic püarticles at very high frequencies is called aether or the more modern term quantum foam (plus a lot of other terms that scientists use). Regardless of what we call this matter, due to Space Weather, we are getting lots of it bombarding our planet and that is becoming a major issue.

Higgs boson may be a mirage, scientists hint
Yahoo News, 22nd August 2011
"GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists chasing a particle they believe may have played a vital role in creation of the universe indicated on Monday they were coming to accept it might not exist after all. But they stressed that if the so-called Higgs boson turns out to have been a mirage, the way would be open for advances into territory dubbed "new physics" to try to answer one of the great mysteries of the cosmos."
Well, not being able to find the Higgs 'God' particle is only a problem for those who believe the current scientific theories are completely correct, when the evidence suggests the theories are most certainly flawed.

NASA astronaut Ron Garan sings the ISS blues
With Apologies to Guitar Players & Music Lovers Everywhere
YouTube, 30th August 2011

"Learning his return to Earth from the International Space Station might be delayed for possibly up to two months, NASA astronaut Ron Garan sings the blues from the Soyuz spacecraft that will take him home. Eventually. It's all in good fun, so enjoy. (Note: Since Ron and the Expedition 28 crew made this video during some weekend downtime, return options have been under review by NASA)."

Comment: This is a seriously brilliant piece of video if you have never seen the inside of the International Space Station. At about [2:30], a Russian cosmonaut is caught with masking tape in his hands..... it's hilarious because many have had suspicions for a long time about the state of the ISS...

Congressman: Emergency diesel generator was inoperable due to flooding at Maryland nuke plant where transformer exploded during hurricane
Energy News, 31st August 2011

Massachusetts Representative Edward Markey’s letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, August 29, 2011: (.pdf) link

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Comment: Seriously gobsmacking.... please download and read the complete letter, there were NUMEROUS nuclear plants affected... This is the highlights from this letter. How are we going to survive on this planet when people refuse to recognise the increasing impact of Space Weather triggering more and more Earth change? It is not as if we are not getting enough warnings.... Energy News has many more links to the latest on the Nuclear Radiation Madness.

UK UFO Files Show High Level Officials Were Concerned
Huffington Post, 28th August 2011

Britain's Ministry of Defence ceased to collect UFO reports as of December 2009, because, as they put it, "...in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom." However, the UFO files being released by the British National Archives contain cases that clearly should be of concern, and I am not alone in this opinion. In fact, the last batch of files includes correspondence between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and two high level military officials who were adamant that UFO cases should be taken more seriously. [...]

Ralph Noyes, who retired as the Undersecretary of State in 1977, was another British government official whose letters petitioning that the UFO matter be taken serious can also be found in the UK UFO files. In 1969 he was head of Defense Secretariat 8 (DS8), and one of his responsibilities was to answer public questions about UFOs. He says he was not able to share his true opinions on the subject. In the files he states, "It is only since I left the MOD (in 1977) that I have seriously tried to consider what may possibly lie behind the 'UFO phenomenon'. It was impossible to discuss it seriously within the Department: I would merely have 'rubbished' my working relationship with the RAF and scientific colleagues if I had disclosed the interest I felt in the better reports which reached us. What I retain from my MOD experience -- greatly reinforced by much that I have since read -- is that the 'phenomenon' is veridical and important"

In a recent Open Minds article on Ralph Noyes, Antonio Huneeus, suggested that some of the responses Noyes received from the MOD might have actually been authored by Pope. I emailed Pope to inquire about Huneuus' suspicions, which Pope confirmed. He went on to write:

I had tremendous respect for Ralph Noyes, who I met on several occasions. He briefed me about his earlier UFO-related work at the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Defense. In many ways, we grappled with the same problem, albeit several years apart: we had official responsibility for a phenomenon that defied conventional explanation, but we faced a situation where we had to follow the official line that UFOs were of no defense significance. But this was Orwellian doublethink. How could it not be of defense interest, when our own radar systems were picking up these things, when jets were being scrambled and when both pilots and radar operators confirmed that these objects -- whatever they were -- were capable of speeds and maneuvers that defied conventional explanation? So we had a bizarre situation where we were telling the public that we weren't interested, but behind the scenes, our scientific and technical intelligence specialists were desperate for data, hoping that solving the UFO mystery might enable us to make a quantum leap breakthrough in propulsion system technology, aerodynamics or a related field.

Pope continued to explain,

"The ultimate irony was that it wasn't just the public who were out of the loop. There were factions at the MoD on this issue. I was involved in work that led to the setting up of a highly classified study into the UFO phenomenon, codenamed Project Condign. But my successors didn't enjoy the close relationship with the Defense Intelligence Staff that I'd had, and weren't briefed on the study. When the final report was issued in 2000, it wasn't copied to Directorate Air Staff, despite their being the division with the policy lead for UFOs! When the report was declassified and made public under the Freedom of Information Act, there was a farcical situation: it emerged that the people who had been sending out letters to the public saying that MoD didn't investigate UFOs hadn't been aware that, behind their backs, intelligence staffs had been doing the very thing that the civil servants had been telling parliament, the media and the public that we didn't do." [Basically, top MOD officials have been lying to the public all along.]

Comment: I am only adding this entry because I have just finished reading Ralph Noyes's book A Secret Property (1985). My first impression is that Noyes has worked out UFOs/UAPs are part of a realm or property that belongs to Earth, which humans have the ability to psychically interact, manipulate and even control. I got the distinct impression through this work of fact-fiction that Noyes's wanted to get the message across that UFO groups are routinely infiltrated and a disinformation campaign has been waged to mislead people about the true nature of UFOs/UAPs. I also got the impression that Noyes had studied UFOs/UAPs to a level where he understood there is a spiritual component, as he managed to link in scientific studies that humans have the ability to interact with even things that seem inanimate because everything has a spirtual or 'mind' component. I really did not enjoy the style of this fact-fiction and I felt the conclusion was quite weak but there were enough gems for me to want to re-read this book more carefully. Quite frankly, if you have not studied the work of high calibre authors like, Trevor James Constable, Paul Devereux, John Keel and Jacques Vallee and others with similar views, then I think reading this book is a waste of time, especially if you believe that every strange bright light in the sky is some spaceship with occupants from other worlds. What is going on is far more complex than that and maybe Noyes wrote in such a way as to get his views across to those who are more educated about the true nature of reality. In summary, Ralph Noyes had a senior position in the British government and within the Ministry of Defence so we are not talking about a crank, his views however strange to people who have never seriously studied the subject of UFOs/UAPs, have tremendous historical importance as our world and reality is currently undergoing a major transformation and UFOs/UAPs become part of our 'normal' reality.

Comet Elenin Breaks Up
spaceweather.com, 30th August 2011

SO MUCH FOR DOOMSDAY: Comet Elenin (C/2010 X1), widely known for inaccurate reports of its threat to Earth, appears to be breaking apart. Observations by amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo of Castlemaine, Australia show a rapid dimming and elongation of the comet's nucleus akin to that of Comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4), which also disintegrated when it approached the sun in 2000. Comets are fragile objects, so this development while unexpected comes as no surprise. Readers with pertinent images of Elenin are invited to submit them here.

Comment: Really, the hype over this little comet has been ridiculous... it did not even light up in a spectacular way, whilst approaching the sun... However, Comet Garradd has appeared (image icon above) so we can expect some doomers to state they made a mistake and that Garradd is the new harbinger of doom...

COMET GARRADD MEETS M71: This weekend, amateur astronomers around the world are watching the green tail of Comet Garradd (C/2009 P1) sweep across golden star cluster M71. Nick Howes sends this picture of the encounter from Cherhill in Wiltshire UK:

Discovered two years ago by Gordon Garradd in Australia, the 8th-magnitude comet is currently visible through small telescopes in the constellation Sagitta inside the evening Summer Triangle (finder charts). The comet is approaching the sun and brightening; recent projections place it at peak magnitude 6 in February 2012, just at the limit of naked eye visibility. Because Comet Garradd is a first-time visitor to the inner solar system, however, it could behave in unexpected ways. Stay tuned for surprises.
Spaceweather.com, 28th August 2011

Indonesian Government: Moon Is Not In The Right Position
Reuters, 30th August 2011

(Reuters) - Indonesia's government has declared that the moon is not in the right position for the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan to end as expected on Tuesday, causing hungry disappointment in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Indonesians, 90 percent of whom are Muslim, celebrate the end of Ramadan or Eid al-Fitr festival with a feast and new clothes, but they have been forced to put their delicacies back in the cupboard for one more day.

Housewife Nur Arifah did not expect the announcement, which came late on Monday, and got up early that day to cook plenty of stewed beef for her family in Jakarta.

"My nephews and nieces have all gathered in my father's house to celebrate with new clothes, yet it's the wrong day.

Comment: We have the first government to point out to the world that there is something strange about the moon, but many people have been complaining about the moon refusing to follow astronomical projections for a long time and an Italian scientist even wrote a paper about the moon's eccentricity, see archive for mid April 2011. So what about NASA et al., why have they nothing to say?

It's Official: Idul Fitri Is on Wednesday
Jakarta Globe, 29th August 2011
The Ministry of Religious Affairs has announced that Idul Fitri will fall on Wednesday, Aug. 31, not Tuesday as most calendars assume. The decision was taken following a session at the ministry on Monday afternoon and was announced by Religion Minister Suryadharma Ali.

The result was not far from previous predictions, but was taken because the moon's position is still less than two degrees above the horizon. The start of idul fitri is determined by the position of the moon.

Nasaruddin Umar, the ministry's Director General for Islamic Affairs, said earlier on Monday that the ministry had agreed with many parties including astronomy experts, the Navy, the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology and religious scholars that the moon's position was very low thus making Aug. 31 the correct date.

Moonsighting for Ramadan 1432
Moonsighting News, 29th August 2011
Iran: "The fasting month of Ramadan begins in Iran on Tuesday as the crescent moon was not spotted at Sunday's sunset, Office of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution announces."
That's interesting, it looks like Iran started Ramadan 1 day late because they could not seen the crescent moon on the day it was expected.

'There are some here that have nothing to go back to': New York town nearly wiped out by flooding in the wake of Hurricane Irene
Daily Mail, 30th August 2011

Town of Prattsville, New York, nearly decimated by Hurricane's wind, rain and floods.php
Homes and hundreds of roads and bridges washed away in Vermont
High flood waters seemed to come as a surprise to the state where evacuations had not been made
Rivers and streams burst banks in upstate New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts

Last night flood waters were rising in New Jersey closing major highways including the New Jersey Turnpike
At least 44 people have died in the storm, most of them when trees crashed through roofs or onto cars
President Barack Obama warns, 'This is not over', as he says flooding could get worse

There’s no way out of Prattsville, New York. The small town of only about 650 people in the Catskill Mountains has nearly been wiped off the map after Hurricane Irene tore through the area, taking out bridges and destroying homes.

Comment: Some distressing images, but it looks like more floods to come.

Tropical Storm Katia forms in the Atlantic
ABC Local, 30th August 2011

Fish-catching trick may be spreading among dolphins
Yahoo News, 29th August 2011

PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Dolphins in one western Australian population have been observed holding a large conch shell in their beaks and using it to shake a fish into their mouths -- and the behavior may be spreading.

Researchers from Murdoch University in Perth were not quite sure what they were seeing when they first photographed the activity, in 2007, in which dolphins would shake conch shells at the surface of the ocean.

"It's a fleeting glimpse -- you look at it and think, that's kind of weird," said Simon Allen, a researcher at the university's Cetacean Research Unit.

"Maybe they're playing, maybe they're socializing, maybe males are presenting a gift to a female or something like that, maybe the animals are actually eating the animal inside."

Comment: So we can add this trick to the news of a dolphin teaching his new dolphin friends how to tail walk after being released from an acquarium. Well, we are seeing more and more animals and sea creatures doing things that are decidedly sophisticated and some things that have absolutely nothing to do with survival like an elephant painting flowers. If this keeps up, evolutionary biologists might even start to wonder about what exactly is going on.

Comet Elenin Could Be Disintegrating
Universe Today, 29th August 2011

Astronomers monitoring Comet Elenin have noticed the comet has decreased in brightness the past week, and the coma is now elongating and diffusing. Some astronomers predict the comet will disintegrate and not survive perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun.

On August 19, a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection hit the comet, which may have been the beginning of the end for the much ballyhooed lump of ice and dirt.

“We’ve been following it in the STEREO spacecraft images and a number of amateurs have been following it in their telescopes,” said Australian amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave, author of the Astroblog website. “Shortly after the coronal mass ejection the comet flared up and you could see some beautiful details in the tail, with the tail was twisting about in the solar wind. But shortly after that Earth- bound amateurs reported a huge decrease in the intensity of the comet. We think it may presage a falling apart of the comet.”

One journalist joked that maybe Comet Elenin just couldn’t take all the doomsday talk and publicity. [...]

Unfortunately, the likely demise of Comet Elenin hasn’t put a lid on the doomsdayers who have predicted earthquakes or three days of darkness or a collision with Earth.

Comment: This is an excellent write-up on what has been happening with Comet Elenin.

Nir Shaviv: The CLOUD is clearing
Science Bits, 26th August 2011

The CLOUD collaboration from CERN finally had their results published in nature, showing that ionization increases the nucleation rate of condensation nuclei. The results are very beautiful and they demonstrate, yet again, how cosmic rays (which govern the amount of atmospheric ionization) can in principle have an affect on climate.

What do I mean? First, it is well known that solar variability has a large effect on climate. In fact, the effect can be quantified and shown to be 6 to 7 times larger than one could naively expect from just changes in the total solar irradiance. This was shown by using the oceans as a huge calorimeter (e.g., as described here). Namely, an amplification mechanism must be operating. [...]

Well, the new results just published in nature by Kirkby and company are the results of the CLOUD experiment. This experiment mimics the conditions found in the atmosphere (i.e., air, water vapor, and trace gasses, such as sulfuric acid and ammonia). It is a repeat of the Danish SKY experiment carried out by Henrik Svensmark and his colleagues (e.g., read about it here), and it produces the same results—namely, they show that an increase in the rate of atmospheric ionization increases the formation rate of condensation nuclei. The only difference is that the CLOUD experiment with its considerably higher budget, has a better control on the different setup parameters.

Comment: The scientists at CERN are not allowed to talk about these results but other scientists like Nir Shaviv, who have been publishing papers for many years, on the impact on the cosmo-climate on Earth's climate, are of course going to comment.

Prof. Dr. Nir Shaviv Presentation
YouTube, 26th January 2011
"Racah Institute of Physics - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Neue Erkenntnisse über den solaren Einfluss auf das Klima und deren Bedeutung für das Verständnis der Klimawandels 3. Internationale Klimakonferenz in Berlin, Dez 2010."
Nir Shaviv is another 'real' scientist that has been exploring the correlation between solar activity and climate

CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised'
The Register, 25th August 2011

CERN's 8,000 scientists may not be able to find the hypothetical Higgs boson, but they have made an important contribution to climate physics, prompting climate models to be revised.

The first results from the lab's CLOUD ("Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets") experiment published in Nature today confirm that cosmic rays spur the formation of clouds through ion-induced nucleation. Current thinking posits that half of the Earth's clouds are formed through nucleation. The paper is entitled Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation.

This has significant implications for climate science because water vapour and clouds play a large role in determining global temperatures. Tiny changes in overall cloud cover can result in relatively large temperature changes.

Unsurprisingly, it's a politically sensitive topic, as it provides support for a "heliocentric" rather than "anthropogenic" approach to climate change: the sun plays a large role in modulating the quantity of cosmic rays reaching the upper atmosphere of the Earth.

Comment: This announcement is getting minimum press because the result is NOT what climate campaigners have been leading the public to believe. Solar and cosmic ray variability, NOT CO₂ is the real cause of global warming or climate change.

Sun Causes Climate Change Shock
Telegraph Delingpole, 27th August 2011

"It’s the sun, stupid. More specifically – as the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has long postulated – it’s the result of cosmic rays which act as a seed for cloud formation. The scientists working on the project are naturally euphoric: this is a major breakthrough which will not only overturn decades of misguided conjecture on so-called Man Made Global Warming but will spare the global economy trillions of dollars which might otherwise have been squandered on utterly pointless efforts to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, these scientists have failed to realise just how many people – alarmist scientists, huckster politicians, rent-seeking landowners like (the late Michael Crichton’s brilliant and, of course, entirely fictional creation) the absurd, pompous Sir Reginald Leeds Bt, green activists, eco-fund managers, EU technocrats, MSM environmental correspondents – stand to gain from the Man Made “Climate Change” industry. Their discovery must be suppressed at all costs."

Climate “science” on a precipice
Scottish Sceptic, 25th August 2011
"As someone else put it. The theory of CO2 induced positive feedbacks for their doomsday warming is totally without experimental basis. The theory for sunspot-climate link is now pretty much proven beyond reasonable doubt both from the CERN work showing the mechanism and by the empirical data showing that there is a correlation. This is like comparing apples with pears. Real science with voodoo eco-political claptrap."

The amazing phenomenon of Ninel Kulagina
Pravda News, 26th August 2011

Many Russians may remember a black and white documentary of the years of perestroika in which a woman moved small objects sitting before her on a table and rotated direction of the magnetic devices. Ninel Kulagina is still considered one of the most mysterious phenomena in the field of ESP.

Ninel Kulagina was born on July 30, 1921 in Leningrad. In April of 1942, a young girl volunteered for the army. She was wounded and underwent several surgeries. She was awarded the Order of "World War I level," and many medals.

Her "supernatural" ability manifested in early adolescence. During dinner, she was too lazy to reach out for bread and the pieces "crawled" to her plate. [How about that!]

The experiments were frequently broadcast on TV, described in newspapers and magazines. Click here to see the video of Ninel Kulagina.

Once a magazine accused Kulagina of fraud, and she sued them. The scientists she worked with witnessed in the court and she won the case.

Comment: I briefly mentioned Ninel Kulagina in my book, but I am quite pleased to find this article as I did not know she was a synaesthete, as she could detect colour by touch! Do not miss the video where it discusses her issues with kundalini energies and the impact of solar storms on the human energy field, psychokinesis and psychic powers... This article and the video, is quite an amazing synopsis of Russian views on hidden human powers but it seems that Ninel Kulagina was just a forerunner demonstrating the direction that some humans are already evolving towards. Anyway, I am glad she won her case after being called a fraud.... what do the ignoramuses think 40 scientists (including 2 nobel laureates) were doing whilst taking years to check her out?

Meteorite blasts across skies of Peru leaving forest fires in its wake
Daily Mail, 29th August 2011

Blazing with the fury of a mini-sun this amazing video shows the moment a suspected meteor streaked across the sky over the city of Cusco in Peru. It was captured blasting through the upper levels of the atmosphere at 2pm yesterday afternoon, leaving an irredescent trail in its wake.

Astonished residents watched as the impressive natural phenomena eventually disappeared over the horizon. Experts believe it may have caused forest fires in the south of the city, which have been ravaged by drought.

Comment: It looks similar to other strange objects slowly entering our atmosphere, but in this video footage it does not decide to turn.... It could be a rock but it could be a strange plasma entity too. More to come: I will be linking more reported meteor sightings over the last few days.

Strange light sparks UFO theories
stuff.co.nz, 29th August 2011

"The descending point of light, which revealed a U-shaped nimbus when zoomed in on, was filmed in the sky west of Auckland about 6pm on Saturday."
And we have another strange entity in the sky.... Seriously, who can believe that this is a plane contrail?

Weird lights flash across night sky Tuesday
The Dickinson Press, 25th August 2011

Grand Forks, North Dakota: “Saw a bright green fireball in the south-southwest sky between 9:30 and 9:35 p.m. Description: Green ball of light…slightly above in brightness moving to the southeast.”
I am starting to object to the use of the term 'weird', people need to have a certain level of education before they can determine weird...

"Sprites are a true space weather phenomenon"
spaceweather.com, 28th August 2011

RED SPRITES: High above Earth in the realm of meteors and noctilucent clouds, a strange and beautiful form of lightning dances at the edge of space. Researchers call the bolts "sprites"; they are red, fleeting, and tend to come in bunches. Martin Popek of Nýdek in the Czech republic photographed these specimens on August 27th:

Although sprites have been seen for at least a century, most scientists did not believe they existed until after 1989 when sprites were photographed by cameras onboard the space shuttle. Now "sprite chasers" routinely photograph sprites from their own homes. "I used up a Watec 902H2 Ultimate security camera with UFOCapture software to catch my sprites," says Popek. Give it a try!

Comment: I wrote about sprites in my book Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spirtual Evolution and I informed the reader that sprites belong to a group of electrical atmospheric phenomena called Transient Luminous Events (TLEs). The declaration here that "Sprites are a true space weather phenomenon," is very interesting because when I did my research, this distinction was not made clear, there are plenty of research papers that do not mention space weather either, but I made the connection anyway.

The Spiritual Nature of Cancer
Henry Makow, 28th August 2011

How the patient takes the news will determine if there will be metastasis and if other cancers form in the lungs, liver or kidneys. (Metastasis is very rare in animals.)

In response to the many differing cancer cure claims, I wish to address the ignorance surrounding this class of dreaded diseases. The science of oncology is based upon certain unproven assumptions, thus obscuring the understanding of the true nature of cancer. [...]

SPIRITUAL CAUSE & CURE

I work with cancer clients by helping to see the emotional conflictual connection to their disease. Once the connection is seen, I help them to resolve the root conflicts. Most often these conflicts involve fear, lack of forgiveness, rancor, judgment and/or shame and guilt.

When the conflict is resolved, the body begins to heal naturally.

The sorry fact is people survive cancer from alternative methods because conventional medicine didn't kill them. But many also die while using alternative methods because the alternative community does not understand the true nature of cancer.

I know people that have died on carrot juice, Essiac tea, B17, Hulda Clark or chemotherapy. All of these methods are outright dangerous if the psyche is not taken into account.

Then there are some within alternative health community that are just as corrupt as any within the industrial medical complex. Some write against the truth for purposes of self promotion and profit and they are fully aware of it.

Comment: An interesting read.... but some tough talk...

Officially Declared Nuclear Nightmare (Video)
The Intel Hub, 28th August 2011

It is now being said that the amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, Japan’s nuclear agency said Friday the 26th. That’s like dropping one nuclear weapon a day since the beginning of this disaster and this is what they have been calling safe, no problem, don’t worry about it, go home and go to sleep. Dr. Chris Busby tells us in the above video that he himself went to Japan with very sophisticated equipment and found areas in Tokyo that were 1,000 times higher than the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. Tokyo is Finished

Time is running out for the 35 million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area and, in fact, in a year or two all of northern Japan will become quite uninhabitable for there is no way for them to stop the process once the fissioning materials work their way down into the earth and the water table below, which they have already done. (See my recent essay “The China Syndrome”.)

As radiation levels rise, some sanity has surfaced in Japan as the government lowered back down the radiation exposure limits for children to below one millisievert per year while at school.

Following the accident, in a move that prompted outrage, Japan raised the exposure limit for both adults and children from one to 20 millisieverts per year, matching the maximum exposure level for nuclear industry workers in many countries.

Comment: This is a good summary report with no nonsense assessment of the situation. I have a separate link of Professor Busby being interviewed by Russia Today about the situation.

RT News: Radiation Above Chernobyl Evacuation Limits Found In Tokyo
YouTube, 21st August 2011
"Radiation Levels Above Chernobyl Evacuation Limits Found In Tokyo"
Professor Busby being interviewed by Russia Today about the situation

Large Zone Near Japanese Reactors to Be Off Limits
New York Times, 21st August 2011
"TOKYO — Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades, after a government survey found radioactive contamination that far exceeded safe levels, several major media outlets said Monday."
Comment: There are complaints that this New Yortk Times article is misleading, because it downplays the extent and severity of the radiation contamination.

Perfect Storm of Hype: Politicians, the media and the Hurricane Irene apocalypse that never was
Telegraph News, 28th August 2011

Across the screen, the “Breaking News: Irene Batters Long Island” caption was replaced by stern advice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): “Stay inside, stay safe.”

The images summed up Hurricane Irene – the media and the United States federal government trying to live up to their own doom-laden warnings and predictions while a sizeable number of ordinary Americans just carried on as normal and even made gentle fun of all the fuss.

There was almost palpable disappointment among the TV big guns rolled out for the occasion when Irene was downgraded to a mere ‘tropical storm”. In New York city, CNN’s silver-haired Anderson Cooper, more usually seen in a tight t-shirt in a famine or war zone, was clad in what one wag dubbed “disaster casual”.

Comment: I think this assessment is too harsh. At one stage, there was a headline that 3.3 million people were without power and others headlines telling people to not expect any power for 1 or 2 weeks, I think that is quite something.

Breaking Weather: River Flooding Worsens
"Irene is gone but flooding will continue in the Northeast for several days.
accuweather.com, 29th August 2011

If your power is out, expect to remain without power for 1-2 weeks.: Virginia Department of Emergency Management - 12160
12160.info, 28th August 2011

‘Unusual Event’ at Maryland nuke plant: Large piece from building hits main transformer, triggers reactor shutdown — Emergency response plan in use (VIDEO)
WBA TV News, 28th August 2011
Comment: Well, it seems many are quickly learning about just how fragile our power supply infrastructure is when put to the test in various scenarios that are quickly increasing in freqency e.g. earthquakes and various other extreme weather events. Nevertheless, it seems that 2011 is quickly becoming the year of the Nuclear Disaster Wake-Up Call.

Space station could be abandoned in November
Spaceflightnow.com, 27th August 2011

HOUSTON -- Astronauts may need to temporarily withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of this year if Russia is unable to resume manned flights of its Soyuz rocket after a failed cargo launch last week, according to the NASA official in charge of the outpost.

Despite a delivery of important logistics by the final space shuttle mission in July, safety concerns with landing Soyuz capsules in the middle of winter could force the space station to fly unmanned beginning in November, according to Michael Suffredini, NASA's space station program manager. [...]

The Soyuz-U's third stage is almost identical to equipment used on the Soyuz-FG booster that propels human crews into orbit, according to Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.

Comment: Hmmm... We can presume the Soyuz rocket has not changed in design, but maybe the space environment has changed. So far, I have not come across any serious hints as to what went wrong but there will be some real concern about rocket design plus concern about the rocket debris and nuclear fuels causing some serious contamination.

ISS lifeline vulnerable after Progress burns up
YouTube, 28th August 2011
"The hunt continues for the wreckage of an unmanned Russian spaceship that crashed on Wednesday. The Progress vessel was carrying supplies for the crew at the International Space Station, when it fell back to earth in Siberia shortly after launch. Its crash spread fears its toxic fuel could be dangerous for locals and the environment. Jacob Greaves takes up the story."
Informative

Burning UFO thought to be a fireball
Times of Malta, 25th August 2011

A strange object spotted by residents in the skies above Birzebbuga on Saturday night could have been a “very bright meteor”, also referred to as a fireball, according to the Astronomical Society of Malta.

It has attempted to shed light on the outlandish sighting, described by curious resident Charles Caruana as resembling a “hot air balloon” because it was clearly on fire. [...]

Perhaps the most “extraordinary” observation, in Mr Caruana’s view, was that it was not simply rising through the air but “zipping” and “dancing” at speed. Had it merely been an object that caught fire, rising slowly into the sky, Mr Caruana, who does not have particular extraterrestrial interests, would not have thought much of it. However, as it were, the unusual sight was more suspicious than pleasant.

The fire could be deciphered from when it was spotted over Zurrieq, but the possibility that it was a plane ablaze was quickly ruled out.

Comment: We are back to the description of planes on fire zig-zaging in the skies.... I think from the description this a UAP, (see archives for many more examples). It's a shame the witness did not see the standard give-away of a UAP stopping dead and then diving into the Earth...

UFO was not debris, says local [NZ]
Hawkes Bay Today, 29th August 2011
"Taradale man Colvin Steel may have seen something the military chiefs of either the US or Russia might have been hoping to flick our way without too many people noticing. The "military satellite" theory is one explanation for the sighting of a large, glowing ball in the sky on Tuesday night, which appeared to pulsate before splitting into two separate lights."

Swift satellite alerts astronomers to cosmic accident in constellation Draco
Smithsonian Science, 24th August 2011

Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA’s Swift satellite first alerted astronomers to intense and unusual high-energy flares from the new source in the constellation Draco.

“Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year,” said David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission’s X-Ray Telescope instrument. “It behaves unlike anything we’ve seen before.” [...]

The innermost gas in the disk spirals toward the black hole, where rapid motion and magnetism create dual, oppositely directed “funnels” through which some particles may escape. Jets driving matter at velocities greater than 90 percent the speed of light form along the black hole’s spin axis. In the case of Swift J1644+57, one of these jets happened to point straight at Earth.

Comment: There are a lot of versions of this astronomical story and some are more informative than others, but a beam of X-rays has been detected by the Swift satellite that is in orbit around Earth coming from this so-called 'black hole' collision. Briefly, planet Earth has been bathed in x-rays from this cosmic event since March 28th when major flares were detected but please note, the 'norm' before this event was 30 seconds! See April 2011, 'News of the Imbalance' archive Cosmic Explosion So Strange Scientists Say It's “Unprecedented”. The question we have to ask is whether there is any impact on the energies around Earth (e.g. whistler waves that our scientists don't have a clue why they exist) and whether Earth is being re-tuned.

NASA's Swift Satellite Spots Black Hole, J164444+57, Devouring A Star, Watch An Animated Recreation
Daily Kos, 26th August 2011

Scientific paper in Nature using the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on Kibo and the Swift satellite (USA) observations - First observation of a massive black hole swallowing a star -
Jaxa News, 25th August 2011
"The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on Kibo, in coordination with the gamma-ray burst satellite Swift (USA), observed the instant that a massive black hole swallowed a star for the first time in the world, located in the center of a galaxy 3.9 billion light years away. This result was published in Nature online, issued on August 25 Japan time. The title of the paper is "Relativistic Jet Activity from the Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Massive Black Hole".

UFO Sightings Increase 67 Percent In 3 Years, History Channel Investigates Unexplained Aerial Phenomena
Huffington Post, 26th August 2011

Unemployment, gas prices, and fear over global warming aren't the only things skyrocketing -- so are mysterious objects rocketing through the sky.

The Mutual UFO Network -- the largest privately funded UFO research organization in the world -- tells The Huffington Post that more people than ever are reporting unidentified flying objects, mostly in the United States and Canada.

"Over the past year, we've been averaging 500 sighting reports a month, compared to about 300 three years ago [67 percent]," MUFON international director Clifford Clift said.

"And I get one or two production companies contacting me every week, wanting to do stories on UFOs."

So far this week, mysterious aerial lights in Laredo, Texas, and Kansas City, MO., lived up to, at least initially, the strict definition of UFOs, namely "Unidentified" Flying Objects.

[Richard] Haines [a former research scientist from the NASA Ames Research Center] was once a UFO skeptic until he started hearing reports from commercial pilots who shared their UFO experiences with him. He eventually created an organization called the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), which serves as a confidential reporting venue for pilots, crews and air traffic controllers who are otherwise afraid to make UFO reports.

"I was trying to be a conscientious scientist and let the chips fall where they may and I immediately found a great deal of bias and fear by people who shouldn't be afraid. Science should not be afraid," Haines told The Huffington Post.

Haines and his NARCAP colleagues prefer to use the term unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) to include "a wide range of atmospheric phenomena and effects that might well be extraterrestrial craft, but they might well be something quite different that science doesn't understand yet." [Haines already knows the truth, that is for sure.]

Comment: I assume Huffington Post is mainstream enough because AOL has just bought it for US $315 million, so I am pleased to see that there was a mention of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (unfortunately the title of this piece did not use the correct definition, but that's OK.) Even the United States mainstream media is getting closer to the truth and it will get there as our cosmic neighbours become more and more noticeable and people finally realise that Earth has transformed and we are now living in a cosmic aquarium with the galactic flotsam and jetsam.

Secret Access: UFOs On The Record (History Channel FULL)
YouTube, 26th August 2011

"Sightings of strange lights and darting orbs are reported from all over the world, and most are easily explained. But a few other cases present evidence that UFOs are real. SECRET ACCESS: UFOs ON THE RECORD focuses on claims that cannot be ignored: sightings over a nuclear-armed military base near Phoenix, a forest in England, a small city in Belgium. These remarkable eyewitness stories are illustrated with actual source materials such as footage, radar images and voice recordings from NASA, the Air Force and the FAA." source: History Channel Press Release - SECRET ACCESS: UFOs ON THE RECORD (.pdf)

British Admiral was tireless UFO advocate at the House of Lords
Open Minds TV, 24th August 2011

The recent release of UFO files from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) include two files, DEFE 24/2033/1 and DEFE 24/2034/1, dealing with Parliamentary Questions. A substantial amount of these—over 350 pages—show the tireless advocacy for UFOs in general and the December 1980 incidents in the Rendlesham Forest near the RAF bases of Woodbridge and Bentwaters in particular, by Admiral of the Fleet Peter Hill-Norton, a former Chief of Defence Staff and a peer in the House of Lords until his death in 2004.

Because of his senior military rank, his parliamentary position and his stubborn personality that wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer, Lord Hill-Norton was a formidable foe to the MOD bureaucrats trying to spin and minimize the significance of UFO incidents over British airspace. The people at MOD knew this, as shown by the amount of drafts with careful editing in their official responses to the various UFO questions raised by Lord Hill-Norton. However, this never seemed to satisfy him and the exercise was repeated over and over again. [...]

Besides raising the issue of allegations “that nuclear weapons were stored at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in violation of UK/US treaty obligations,” a highly sticky point considering the strong anti-nuclear climate in Western European countries, “Lord Hill-Norton asked Her Majesty’s Government”:

Whether they are aware of reports from the United States Air Force personnel that nuclear weapons stored in the Weapons Storage Area at RAF Woodbridge were struck by light beams fired from an unidentified craft seen over the base in the period 25-30 December 1980, and if so, what action was subsequently taken.

[...] There is no doubt that the Admiral of the Feet, Lord Hill-Norton, was a formidable advocate of the UFO cause and that nobody replaced him in that role after his passing in 2004. Nevertheless, his tireless efforts can now be studied and celebrated by all those interested in ufology not only in Britain but anywhere in the world, where there is a dire need for more leaders like him in political circles.

Comment: I imagine that Admiral Lord Hill-Norton was a pain in the backside and I can't understand why someone like him was not on the list of Need-To-Know...

Kan resigns; says he did all he could, given difficulties he faced
Japan Today, 26th August 2011

TOKYO — Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday announced his resignation as president of the Democratic Party of Japan, effectively ending his tenure. “I resign as the (party) president effective today,” Kan told senior party officials.

Later, in a nationally televised speech, Kan said he did all he could, given the difficulties he faced, including the disasters and a major election defeat in upper house elections last summer that left the parliament in gridlock.

“Under the severe circumstances, I feel I’ve done everything that I had to do,” he said. “Now I would like to see you choose someone respectable as a new prime minister.”

Comment: About time too.... I don't think HE should be allowed to 'choose someone respectable as a new prime minister.' Japan needs someone who can think differently to help the country recover, not somone who is happy to kill off millions of people to make sure profit margins are maintained.

Surprise! Alien Planet Made of Diamond Discovered
Yahoo News, 25th August 2011

A newly discovered alien planet that formed from a dead star is a real diamond in the rough.

The super-high pressure of the planet, which orbits a rapidly pulsing neutron star, has likely caused the carbon within it to crystallize into an actual diamond, a new study suggests.

The composition of the planet, which is about five times the size of Earth, is not its only outstanding feature. [Illustration of the diamond alien planet]

The planet's parent star is a special kind of flashing star known as a millisecond pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star formed from a supernova. The entire system, which is only the second of its kind ever discovered, is located about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Serpens (The Snake).

Comment: The explanation here sounds like gibberish... Scientists are coming up with new ideas about crystalline pulsars too, but they are having the usual struggle to get people to re-think their previous analysis. What we are told is this is a planet that is the remains of a 'dead' star, but I prefer to think that this planet regardless of it's origins, has been transformed by it's internal energy being transmuted by energy from the pulsar into a crystalline core to act as a beacon of light and frequency. Anyway, scientists are now regularly finding planets with crystalline cores and I believe there is great significance in terms of these planets acting as great receivers and transmitters of the highest frequency energy in the universe. Pure quality.

Man Regains Hearing After Earthquake
My Fox DC, 25th August 2011

WASHINGTON - For patient Robert Valderzak, Tuesday's earthquake was a blessing in disguise. On Father’s Day, the 75-year-old lost his hearing when he fell. He has been in the hospital since then.

"He has a conductive loss, meaning that could be due to fluid or problems with the bones of the ear. And he has a nerve loss as well, so it's a combined loss," said Dr. Ross Fletcher, Chief of Staff at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Northwest D.C.

Valderzak used a special speaker phone with a light on it that flashed when it was ringing and an audio device system to communicate. But on Tuesday, something strange happened while his four children were visiting and that massive earthquake rocked the region.

When it was over, Valderzak, who sat in silence for months, sat up in his bed and told his kids, "I said, you know, my hearing is back. I can hear everything, people in the hallway.” As he was shaking around in his bed, something happened in his head, and he could hear and talk again.

Comment: Amazing... baffling too...

Mass collapse at garment factory [Cambodia]
Phnom Penh Post, 24th August 2011

Another mass fainting incident struck a garment factory yesterday, this time in the provincial capital of Kampong Chhnang where more than 100 workers at M&V factory collapsed, company and union representatives said yesterday.

Staff began falling to the factory floor at about 9:00am, said Noun Chhenghour, president of Cambodia Union Workers, adding that more than 80 of them were taken to hospital.

Comment: These mass fainting episodes have been happening quite a lot recently, mostly factory workers and school children in some countries in Africa. I am actually wondering if this is something related to those with too much of a 'hive' mindset and whether something strange is happening at a morphogenetic level.

H&M in second mass faint
Phnom Penh Post, 26th August 2011

I'm oven-ready already! The chick who still has no feathers
Daily Mail, 23rd August 2011

It was one of 2,000 chicks born on a remote farm... but this is the bird that caused a real flap. Mr Feather, as he's been cruelly dubbed, won't feel cock-a-hoop though. That's because the poor chicken was born completely bald - and has remained so ever since.

Not only does Mr Feather look fowl, he must be a temptation to hungry humans - being oven-ready after all - and he's even had cats chasing him round. But, so far, he's survived. The bird of no feathers hatched in China's Shandong Province five months ago and since then he has become a local celebrity.

Comment: China.... oven ready chickens... so is this evolutionary change or a random DNA mutation? The reason for this assertion is that other strange changes are occuring and they often start with just a few examples before mass changes take place. The best example is the percentage of elephants being born without tusks is dramatically rising and this might be an evolutionary change to stopped them being killed off as a species by poachers.

Funtastic Mr Fox! Young cub has the time of its life sliding down quarry conveyor belt
Daily Mail, 25th August 2011

A disused gravel quarry became a playground for a young fun-loving fox and his family.

This photograph, taken by British man Duncan Usher, shows how the clever four-month-old creature turned an old conveyor belt into a make-shift slide, before travelling down it twice. Mr Usher photographed the amusing sight close to Bursfelde, a hamlet in the German countryside. I have not seen this type of behaviour amongst free living wild animals and I was really surprised and pleased to witness and capture this unusual event.

Comment: This is a nice story but again, it's the demonstration of intelligence that is really amazing...

Irene: Worst Effects on Northeast in 50 Years Possible
accuweather.com, 25th August 2011

There is potential for the worst hurricane impacts in 50 years along the northern part of the Atlantic Seaboard as Irene plows northward.The impacts on lives, property, commerce and travel will be serious.

While Irene is not forecast to track as far west, nor as fast, as Hazel did in 1954, it will ride up along the mid-Atlantic coast in such a way as to inflict major damage in many coastal and some inland communities. In today's dollars, Hazel was a multi-billion-dollar storm and reached Category 4 at peak intensity.

Comment: Wow... the earlier earthquake shock and now a hurricane for people who have little experience of what to do in this situation...

Hurricane Irene: Major East Coast Threats
The Weather, 25th August 2011
"Our projected path map below continues to paint an ominous picture by pointing Hurricane Irene along the East Coast this weekend. The latest computer model guidance confirms this extraordinary threat and the first hurricane warnings and hurricane watches have been issued for the East Coast."
Hurricane Irene: Where Is Storm Headed?
ABC News, 25th August 2011
"Sam Champion reports on the path of the massive storm heading for the U.S." This is an excellent report

Hurricane Irene: Where is the Storm Headed? ABC News 3D Model Projections
YouTube, 25th August 2011
Copy of ABC News report

Map of lower Manhattan storm surge areas:
WARNING: 130+ mph hurricane forecast to make landfall nearby NC nuke plant that’s only “built to withstand winds of 128 mph” — Could be a “once-in-50-year” event for Northeast (MAPS)
Energy News, 25th August 2011
Hurricane Irene Looks 'Terrifying' From Space, Astronaut Says
Yahoo News, 25th August 2011

Is God Trying To Say Something?
Market Ticker, 25th August 2011

There are times you just have to wonder. A hurricane that appears to be taking dead aim at both Washington DC and Wall Street? Gee, I wonder if there's an embedded message in there somewhere? After all, insurance companies do call these sorts of events "acts of God", right? So..... as we all prepare if we're in the to-be-impacted area, let's remember a few things:

Comment: You do have to wonder... There is some reflection here about whether God is mad about something.... This is an interesting read... (The latest warning and tracking issued 5pm EDT is available here .)

What If A Hurricane Hit NYC?
CBS News, July 30, 2006
"Only On The Web: Dr. Nicholas K. Coch explains to Michelle Miller what could happen if a hurricane hit New York City, and according to the professor, history says that it's definitely possible."
Really interesting historical and geographical perspective.

Mega Disasters - Hurricane hits NYC
YouTube, 4th June 2010
"The last damaging hurricane to hit Long Island wasGloria in '85 preceded in 1938 by the "Long Island Express", which did major damage to Long Island and New England. Experts say the L.I. and N.Y.C. areas are due for another big one in the near future. Here's their take on what would happen if a category 3 or higher storm hit the Island/NYC head on..."

NOAA: Hurricane Irene Satellite Image
NOAA, 25th August 2011
US Nuclear Power Plants

Norway: Aurora Outburst
spaceweather.com, 25th August 2011

AURORA OUTBURST: Sometimes it pays to wait. "I watched the sky for three hours last night (Aug. 24-25) hoping to see some auroras," says Frank Olsen of Stø, Norway. "I was about to give up when the sky erupted in color." The 10-minute outburst was bright enough to shine through twilight and lunar glare: [...]

The display was caused by a thin but surprisingly effective solar wind stream which has been gently buffeting Earth's magnetic field for the past two days. NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% chance of continued geomagnetic activity tonight; high-latitude sky watchers should remain (patiently) alert for auroras.

Comment: So, there are now more and more 'twilight' auroras? Gone are the days when atmospheric scientists tell us that the skies have to be dark to see auroras. Today auroras are very strongly energised as a weak magnetic field allows more and more celestial energy to pour into our skies.

A New Natural Phenomenon: Crown Flash [Leaping Streamers of light above clouds]
forgetomori.com, 22nd August 2011

Last month I wrote about Bill Beaty’s “Leaping Sundogs”, with a couple of fascinating videos recording the dancing streamers of light. [...] Beaty had already updated his page with new speculations, and meanwhile, I also received comments from fellows Martin Shough and Wim Van Utrecht.

Shough notes that Beaty’s suggestion of ice crystals re-alignment due to electrical storms was considered during a 1999 conference on sprites, as it seems the phenomenon may have been observed by satellites! [...] Not only that, Utrecht also found on William Corliss’ treasure trove some references to the phenomenon recorded in decades past:

“In "Lightning, Auroras,…" there’s a Chapter called "Crown Flash" which is described as "The brightening of a thunderhead crown followed by the appearance of aurora-like streamers emanating into the clear atmosphere. Crown flash seems to be synchronized with lightning strokes from the cloud base to the ground" (although the latter synchronicity is not really that evident from the three examples CORLISS cites).

Comment: OK, it looks like this cloud phenomena is not new but from the references provided it seems in the early 1970s, scientists were writing in journals that it was a new meteorological phenomenon. Well, I even have the William Corliss's "Rare Halos, Mirages…" book and I have been too busy to check...

Mass UFO sighting spooks town [Australia]
Katherine Times, 24th August 2011

A MASS UFO-sighting in Katherine has spooked believers and non-believers likewise.

During his investigations into recent UFO sightings in the region UFOlogist Alan Ferguson met with locals to hear about their unexplainable experiences, and a group of people gathered near one of the last sighting places, the Strongbala Men’s Healing Centre, on Thursday night, where a group of sceptics and believers spotted an unidentified flying object in the sky.

“I guess the time for sceptics is over,” UFOlogist Ferguson said.

Comment: Now that even the sceptics realise that something is going on, it is time to set up a project (outdoor laboratory) to validate what everybody now knows to be true and I suggest the people of Katherine follow the precedent set by the Norwegians, who have been monitoring UFOs/UAPs for nearly 30 years in the valley of Hessdalen. The main criteria is state of the art equipment and scientists using proper scientific protocols.

[Mass] UFO Sighting In Skies Over Laredo (Video) - US
Pro 8 News, 23rd August 2011
"Dozens of Laredo residents woke up to see a bright light in the sky that some say they just cannot explain. Many people are now saying what they saw was a UFO in the sky over south Laredo before four this morning."

UFO filmed near Larnaca airport - watch the video [Cyprus]
Famagusta Gazette, 20th August 2011
A family of Cypriots say they have witnessed UFO flying in the area of ??Larnaca. In fact, they recorded the incident on video and it posted online. It is just the latest in a series of incidents of unidentified objects in our skies. The flying object appears in the video below, which appeared on August 17, 2011 and is definitely not an airplane.

History Channel Puts The Strongest UFO Evidence Under the Microscope.
Huffington Post, 24th August 2011
" ...a new two-hour History Channel special, "Secret Access: UFOs On The Record," that features in-depth accounts from people who have been willing to risk their jobs and reputations to speak out about their remarkable experiences with UFOs. "The theme of the program is that UFOs exist, but there's a small percentage of sightings that are significant and haven't been explained," said Leslie Kean, author of The New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On The Record, which forms the basis of the History Channel special."

UFO’ caught on video in KC turns out to be team of Army parachuters (Video)
Kansas City Star, 24th August 2011

A YouTube video shows a mysterious fireball in the night sky above Kansas City before it splits into multiple objects that descend slowly to Earth.

Comment: Here we go again... magnetospheric plasmoids being 'mistaken' for the Golden Knights... See previous archived comments, also Were the El Paso Lights the US Army Golden Knights?.

Progress cargo spaceship crashes to Earth in eastern Russia
RT News, 24th August 2011

The Russian cargo spaceship Progress M-12M has crashed to Earth in eastern Russia. The spacecraft’s wreckage was found in the Altai Region in southern Siberia, RIA Novosti news agency quotes a source in the regional law enforcement.

Aleksandr Borisov, the head of the district, told RIA Novosti that the explosion was so strong that the windows of buildings 100 kilometers from the place where the spacecraft crashed were nearly smashed. No casualties have been reported.

The spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. According to a source in the space industry, the accident occurred as the vehicle failed to attain its necessary orbit speed and then split from the rocket-carrier, RIA Novosti reports.

No casualties have been reported.

Earlier it was reported that the vehicle had failed to reach its target orbit on Wednesday after it had been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Progress vessel was to deliver over 2.6 tonnes of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), including water, food, oxygen, fuel.

Specialists are now investigating what could have caused the incident, the first to happen with Russian cargo spaceships in the last 30 years. One possible cause of the crash could have been problems with the engine. “According to preliminary data, there was failure in the operation of the engine unit, which led to its emergency outage,” Roscosmos press service says.

Earlier, the “Express” satellite was lost after it had been launched on board a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket from Baikonur on August 18. The satellite was sent into orbit in a bid to broaden telecommunications for Russia and the CIS countries.

Comment: So, I am wondering if anything has been launched successfully into space in the last week or so and if all the failures are related (see details of other space failures in the last week below). The delivery was 2.6 tonnes of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), including water, food, oxygen, fuel, so will the six astronauts & cosmonauts currently on the ISS be forced to leave? At the moment, the news is that they have enough supplies, but in situations like this, information can change quickly.-->

“Off-Nominal Situation” After Progress 44 Launches
NASA.gov, 24th August 2011

RUSSIAN CARGO ROCKET LOST: An unmanned Russian rocket carrying 2.9 tons of supplies for the International Space Station failed to reach orbit today when its third stage failed almost six minutes after liftoff. The Interfax news agency reported the Progress 44 spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere over eastern Russia. More information: #1, #2, #3 spaceweather.com 24th August 2011

Mapping Virginia Earthquake 2011 Locations, Tremor, Damages and Hazards
International Business Times, 24th August 2011

The 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake of 2011 occurred at 1:51 p.m. (EDT) Tuesday, Aug. 23, in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, which is believed to have produced the strongest magnitude in the history of Virginia in May 1897, a 5.9 earthquake in Giles County.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the area has produced “small and moderate earthquakes since at least the 18th century.”

The last known earthquake to have originated from the zone's epicenter occurred in 1875, when effective seismographs were not invented, but the damage from the shock suggested that it had a magnitude of about 4.8, USGS said.

Comment: I think this is a massive jolt to many on the east coast of the USA. Some are even claiming they have NEVER experienced an earthquake before and others were so shocked, they are comparing the earthquake to 9/11.

NY, DC briefly shaken by 9/11 memories during earthquake
CNN The Chart, 24th August 2011
Washington Monument Closed Indefinitely After Earthquake
International Business Times, 24th August 2011
Photos: Damage to the Washington Monument
CNN News, 25th August 2011
- Sitting on a fault line
  The Free Lance-Star, March 16th 1991
  "An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale shook Louisa County and other parts of Central Virgina shortly before 2 a.m. yesterday. Most people slept throught it. The Workers on duty in the control room of the North Anna Nuclear Poaer Plant didn't feel according to th Virginia Power officials. That's comforting news, but the fault line that lies beneath two nuclear reactors remains a cause for concern. [...] That particular fault was discovered in 1970 when the plant was under contruction, but was not reported until 1973 to the Atomic Energy Commission. Scientists have said the fault is dead but Professor Day [a University of Virginia physics professor] isn’t convinced. [...]
Emergency diesel generator fails at Virginia nuke plant hit by 5.9 quake
Energy News, 23rd August 2011
Federal officials say two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Va., were automatically taken off line by safety systems around the time of the earthquake. The Dominion-operated power plant is being run off three emergency diesel generators, which are supplying power for critical safety equipment. The NRC and Dominion are sending people to inspect the plant. A fourth diesel generator failed, but it wasn’t considered an emergency because the other generators are working, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [...]
ABC News: Virginia nuke plant has to “go to the backup to the backup” power supply — “That doesn’t sound good” (VIDEO)
Energy News, 23rd August 2011
Sawyer: [...] When you have to go to the backup to the backup that doesn’t sound good.
Michio Kaku, Physicist: Not good at all. We just dodged a bullet on this one. There are 4 backup pumps, one of them is out… if all four go out then you are on the road to a full scale meltdown [...]
We get a brief explanation of why this earthquake was felt over such a large area
Quake sensors removed around Virginia nuke plant due to budget cuts
Raw Story, 23rd August 2011
US Quake 2011 - Strange Sound during [baseball] Game before the Earthquake
YouTube, 23rd August 2011
The world really is changing.... see previous stories and details about mystery hums and sounds.

Earthquake reported along the East Coast
Washington Post, 23rd August 2011

An earthquake centered in Virginia struck along the East Coast at 1:51 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake was reportedly 5.9 magnitude.

Officials said the earthquake’s epicenter was near Mineral, Va., 87 miles southwest of Washington.

— May be the largest recorded earthquake to hit area

— Tweets and reports from the affected area

— Snap a photo of evacuations or damage near you

Minutes after the quake, the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Marcia McNutt — who watched objects falling from the shelves in her office — cautioned that the shaking might not be over.

“What the concern is, of course, is that this is a foreshock. If it’s a foreshock, then the worse is yet to come.”

She said the energy from earthquakes on the East Coast does not attenuate as quickly as it does on the West Coast, and thus even a relatively modest tremor can shake a very broad area.

Comment: This is good lengthy report. The area that people are claiming to have felt this earthquake is enormous, from South Carolina to Toronto, Canada? Apparently, the Washington Monument is tilting due to the earthquake. There are two nuclear reactors on emergency diesel backup generators, see below:

Washington Monument Clearly Leaning? - Live Cam
Washington Views, 23rd August 2011
D.C. Police Officer: There’s Concern That Washington Monument May Be Tilting Following 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake
Fox Insider, 23rd August 2011
East Coast quake causes major cell service disruptions
CNN Money, 23rd August 2011
EW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Cell service along the East Coast was spotty for about a half hour following a Virginia-based earthquake that was felt as far away as New England. There were no reports of downed cell towers or wires, but mobile providers said the fact that millions of people tried to make cell phone calls at the same time overwhelmed cellular relay stations.
Virginia Nuclear Plant Loses Power After Quake
Wall Street Journal, 23rd August 2011
A nuclear power plant in central Virginia has lost offsite power in the wake of a 5.9 earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., U.S. nuclear officials said. The North Anna Power Station, which has two nuclear reactors, is now using four diesel generators to maintain cooling operations. The plant automatically shut down in the wake of the earthquake.

Comment: Here we go again... Have they got 4 hours or 8 hours of backup power before meltdown and there must be some damage to the facility that is only 12 miles away from the epicentre of such a large earthquake...
- North Anna Power Station
- Google map: Earthquake epicentre and North Anna Power Station
  The North Anna Power nuclear plant is only 12 miles from the earthquake epicenter....
- North American Seismic Monitor

Photos: Enormous spherical mass seen in Shanghai & Beijing skies
Shanghai 1st, 23 August, 2011

And now the Truth has arrived in Shanghai and Beijing! Following news last week of a UFO being the reason why Chongqing's airport had to divert flights, an unexplained mass event occurred at approximately 9pm on Saturday night in Shanghai. A 'huge white ball' flying 10.7km (35,100 feet) high in the air was reported to the East China Air Traffic Control Bureau by civil aviation pilots, and apparently grew 'bigger and bigger' as time passed. [...]

On the evening of the 20th at 9pm, on flight number 6554 in the Shanghai area, I discovered at an altitude of 10,700 meters an enormous spherical glowing heavenly body, that grew in size from small to large. Going by rules of geometry, it was larger than the moon by several hundred times, with an estimated diameter of over 50 nautical miles. It faded away after 20 minutes, and was extremely shocking, with dozens of flight crews also reporting to Shanghai! [...]

"The white round bubble appears in the sky and then expanded quickly, until it disappeared five minutes later," said Yu Jun, a former editor of a scientific magazine and amateur astronomer who took pictures of the object.

"I believe the glowing bubble is not just a natural astronomical phenomenon, but is a phenomenon occurring around Earth, perhaps in the upper atmosphere, caused by the launching of rockets or satellites," said Yu.

Comment: So, we have a new presumably high energy plasma phenomenon [bubbles of light] that can expand to an enormous size and contract in our atmosphere, well that's novel.... There was an expanding bubble in the sky reported at the end of June in Hawaii, see UFO, 'Star Gate' or just a ballistic missile? Mysterious bubble-like light burst seen over Hawaii (Video). Also, Hawaii expanding atmospheric bubble video at vimeo. This is getting incredible and surreal...

UFO [?] sighted by Chinese airline pilots
Airline pilots claim sighting a UFO[?] hundreds of times larger than the moon above Shanghai
CNN GO, 23rd August 2011
An unidentified flying object (UFO) was reported above Shanghai and Beijing at the same time on August 20. The “colossal unidentified glowing ball” was first sighted around 9 p.m. last Saturday above Shanghai by a Chinese civil aviation pilot flying China Southern Airlines flight CZ655 from Shanghai to Changchun.
This is NOT a UFO, but another strange atmospheric (presumably high energy) phenomenon that is being reported around the world...

What Is the Mysterious, Glowing Bubble Spotted Above Beijing? (ITN news video)
The Blaze, 25th August 2011
"The Blaze contacted NASA to see if it could offer an explanation, but officials were unavailable for comment."
What is wrong with NASA pointing out the obvious when Earth is now experiencing strange atmospheric plasma phenomena that can only take place in a high energy plasma environment? The best example is the Norwegian Spiral, but rocket fuel dumps that can generate perfect spirals and perfect spherical bubbles is the preferred nonsense explanation.

Fox News video: Mysterious Bubble Cloud Appears Over Chinese Cities
YouTube, 26h August 2011
August 25, 2011 Q13 News
Hmmm... it described here as "glowing", it must have been quite a sight...

Giant 'soap bubble' found floating in space
New Scientist, 23rd July 2009
"IT LOOKS like a soap bubble or perhaps even a camera fault, but the image at right is a newly discovered planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by early astronomers, are formed when an ageing star weighing up to eight times the mass of the sun ejects its outer layers as clouds of luminous gas (see Why stars go out in a blaze of glory). Most are elliptical, double-lobed or cigar-shaped, evolving after stars eject gas from each pole (see a gallery of the nebulae).

Comment: The Cygnus Soap Bubble, was discovered by an American amateur astronomer, and officially named PN G75.5+1.7. It provides another good example of how the properties of plasma and electromagnetism can generate many diverse manifestations on vastly different scales, that can be repeated in the atmosphere of our planet on very short timescales.
Welcome to planet soap bubble: The extraordinary close-up pictures that look like an alien world
Daily Mail, 25th August 2011
Well, if you like bubbles....

Japan gov’t to finally admit indefinite forced depopulation of large zones around Fukushima plant
Large Zone Near Japanese Reactors to Be Off Limits New York Times, 21st August 2011

TOKYO — Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades, after a government survey found radioactive contamination that far exceeded safe levels, several major media outlets said Monday.

The formal announcement, expected from the government in coming days, would be the first official recognition that the March accident could force the long-term depopulation of communities near the plant, an eventuality that scientists and some officials have been warning about for months. [Maybe that should read hundreds of years. ]

Comment: Headline from Energy news. Quite frankly, due to the scale of the disaster, this was expected from day 1 by nuclear experts.

NPO in Fukui Selling Buddhist Rosaries and Bracelets Made of Rikuzen Takata Pine
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 23rd August 2011
"A Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture-based NPO "Fukui Disaster Volunteer Net" has been selling the Buddhist rosaries and bracelets made out of the core of the trunk of the pine trees that was felled in the March 11 disaster in Rikuzen Takat City in Iwate Prefecture. The firewood made out of those pine trees was to be used at "Gozan no Okuribi" in Kyoto, but radioactive materials were detected [from the bark of the wood]. There was no radioactive cesium detected from the core. [...] You can buy them at the website of the NPO "Fukui Disaster Volunteer Net", at http://www.fukkou.org/contact-us/tyumon Disaster capitalism alive and well."
New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis, as Contamination Spreads in Japan and Worldwide
Vimeo, 22nd August 2011
Inside Fukushima – interactive guide
Earlier this month, Kazuma Obara became the first photojournalist to gain unauthorised access to the power plant and produced an exclusive glimpse of life inside the facility
The Guardian, 20th August 2011

Fukushima Safety Fears , Channel 4 News (UK)
Energy News, 18th August 2011
Wall Street Journal: How the Japanese Government Failed Residents of Namie, Fukushima (Video)
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 17th August 2011
Our Nationwide Soil Testing Project has begun!
Radiation Defense Project, August 2011
"As our first work of our Nationwide Soil Testing Project, we tested soil samples from 150 areas in the Tokyo metropolitan area. This project is the first unified investigation on the diffusion of radioactive particles in the metropolitan area including Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Ibaraki prefectures, whereas the national and local governments are separately performing their investigations."

Pope's speech in Spain ended by Act of God!
Mother Nature Has Last Word on World Yute Day
99percentspace.com, 21st August 2011

[...] However, the final act of the Yute Day deserves a second look and can be explained in a mostly unbiased way just by looking at the pictures from El País. The final discourse of the Papone was to take place yesterday evening in the Cuatro Vientos air base outside Madrid, where at least a million yutes had spent all day waiting under a merciless sun at temperatures that reached 45°C (113°F) and caused over 800 sunstrokes.

The dark clouds started rolling in just as Papone rolled in, and just as he started speaking, the wind started, followed by thunder and lightning and abundant rain as if to wash it all away. By the time the storm passed, there were seven people injured, the Papone was gone and his discourse left unspoken.

Comment: At least the stage did not collapse, but 7 were injured... (don't miss the funny video on "yutes".)

ITN News Video: 'Monster' hail storm in China
The Independent, 22nd August 2011
"Hail stones the size of rice bowls rain down on cars and smash their windows."

The Bizarre Portuguese Flintstones House Built Amidst Boulders
environmentalgraffiti, 19th August 2011

Many people believed this Portuguese cottage was a Photoshop hoax when it first appeared on the internet as it seems impossible that a house could really exist squished between two enormous boulders. It does though. A true treasure, it's one of a kind.

Located in Nas montanhas de Fafe in Portugal, it certainly has a prehistoric feel, especially to all of us who grew up watching the Flintstones cartoon. It could come right out of Wilma and Fred's world with the boulders on either side. The house is rather squished at the front with just room for a door and a tiny window above it.

Comment: I am wondering if it is hurricane and tornado proof.... The Daily Mail has better images but too much chat about the Flintstones, They're the modern Stone Age family... so is this the REAL home of the Flintstones?

The mystery of Comet Elenin
RT News, 19th August 2011

Astronomers and other outer space experts are speaking out on a comet expected to make a close call with colliding into Earth later this year. The consequences could be dire, so why are so many people unaware of it?

“I think it’s worth a raised eyebrow” says author Brooks Agnew. He’s done a lot of research on Elenin and tells RT that there are some rather strange coincidences regarding the comet that people should take into consideration.

“A lot of people are concerned about it,” says Agnew. “We’ve done a lot of research on Comet Elenin and what we’ve found is there’s a lot of missing data on this comet”

Agnew says that NASA calls the comet just “a harmless little fuzzball of ice” that won’t come within more than 20 million miles from Earth. Others, he says, are claiming that this comet should raise concern since it doesn’t look like a comet, doesn’t act like a comet and is coming from outside of the area where most comets are accustomed to originate out of.

“There are a lot of things about this comet that don’t make sense,” Agnew says.

Comment: The author Brooks Agnew being interviewed ( see video) has a strange smirk on his face.... this is something I have noticed with conspiracy theorists, but I don't know if they are enjoying the attention or really enjoy frightening people or both... At the moment, I think Comet Elenin is a diversion from the huge asteroid YU55 that is coming quite close to Earth. It is a huge space rock, 1,300ft wide [400 meters] and weighs 55million tons - the largest object ever to approach our planet so close. Yet, there are so many asteroids and comets brushing past Earth, that the analogy of Earth being in a cosmic bowling alley is now quite appropriate.

NASA Answers Your Questions About Comet Elenin
NASA.gov, August 2011

NASA Calls Comet Elenin "Wimpy"
International Business Times, 17th August 2011

IBTIMES TV: NASA Calls Comet Elenin "Wimpy"
YouTube, 17th August 2011
""Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, but most pose no threat to Earth," NASA officials said. "Comet Elenin, the latest comet to visit our inner solar system, is no exception."

Bizarre, craptastic theory from the Guardian, Penn State, and NASA: “ET will kill us because global warming will tip them off that we are a bad species”
WUWT, 18th August 2011

UPDATE: co-author admits it is a “horrible mistake”, see below – Anthony

From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department.

First, I apologize to my readers for the headline. Read on and I think you’ll see it is justified. The headline is paraphrased from the article and the paper to give you the flavor. I have reproduced the passage used by the Guardian and provided a link to the full paper below.

First, the Guardian story:

Comment: The headline at Watts Up with That was hard to resist... Please note, maybe this can be linked to the stupid ideas of a false alien invasion to save the US economy... see links from last week. Lord have mercy... there is even a link to a "scientific" paper... here (PDF). This craptastic theory, has generated a lot of responses...

NIGEL WRIGHT: I know that orange 'orbs' are not Chinese lanterns
Fortean Zoology, 17th August 2011

For years now we UFO investigators have had to deal with weird, orange, glowing orbs that seem to appear from nowhere and move across the skies by day and by night. These strange visitors to our skies seem to pop up in some very odd places: over large bays, over moorland and hills. Indeed, they have even been seen floating over fields later displaying crop circles! Up to now there have been mainly two fields of thinking over these strange “orbs.” 1) They are a form of plasma energy, or ball lighting. 2) All of the sightings refer to Chinese lanterns, released by over-enthusiastic wedding guests etc.

[...] From what appeared to be ground level, or as near as can be, came two orange orbs, one very quickly followed by another. These orbs rose at an angle of approx. 45 degrees to the ground, at a very quick speed. They seemed to reach the cloud base, which was about 1000ft or so, in a matter of two/three seconds, and disappear up into the clouds themselves! There was NO way these were lanterns, not unless they have taken to launching these lanterns by high-speed catapults! The only thing these strange orbs reminded of was the tail flames of ground-launched rockets, such was their speed!

Comment: Personally, I think that after at least 50 years of research by the militaries and scientists, magnetic plasmoids floating about should not fall into the category of 'Fortean'. Maybe Nigel Wright can do some journalistic research for his next article on this subject and I suggest investigating the Hessdalen Light Phenomena. Real scientists doing real research for nearly 30 years, whilst using some of the latest state of the art radio astronomy equipment. 10 YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE HESSDALEN PHENOMENA (.pdf). In Part 5 of the documentary 'The Portal: The Hessdalen Light Phenonomena' December 2009, [47:08], assistant professor Bjørn Gitle Hauge explains the Hessdalen phenomena (one of many) that looks like a burning ball of fire that does not expand in comparison to what you would expect from the normal combustion process. It is explained as a plasmoid trapped in a strong magnetic field. Then Nigel Wright can investigate the previously Top Secret UK Ministry of Defence 'Condign Report' as code-named, that is now public knowledge: seeUnidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000]. The answers are available for those who are prepared to look.

ORANGE ORBS WITNESSES BY MANY OVER BRANT BEACH NEW JERSEY
UFO Week, 9th October 2010
Close up photos

More: UFO Reported Over Nebraska's Greenlief Training Site, Rectangular UFO Seen Moving 'End Over End' Through Texas Skies August 17; Airline Passenger Shoots Photos of Lights Trailing Commercial Jet August 18; Silent Triangle Hovers Low Along North Carolina Highway 24 at Fayetteville August 18; and Missouri Family Reports Diamond UFO Hovering '150 Feet Away' August 19. Courtesy: anomalist.com

Dangerous Trends in Personal Development
The Emotion Machine, 27th July 2011

There is an ongoing trend in personal development that seems to ignore the consequences of reality and instead focus on wishful-thinking and excessive optimism. Although I am certainly not the first to criticize works like “What The Bleep Do We Know?,” “The Secret,” or “The Law of Attraction” – I believe there is real damage being done by fostering these unhealthy beliefs, and people who know better have a duty to dispel these myths. [...]

An alternative approach to personal development – acknowledging reality.

Listen. I’m a big advocate of taking responsibility for your life. But I also acknowledge that sometimes bad things happen to good people for no good reason. This is because our mind – however positive our thoughts and noble our intentions – is not the only thing that exists in this world.

Instead, there is a whole other reality that exists outside of our minds that affects our lives. And sometimes that reality can be incredibly cruel, harsh, and impersonal.

It’s important to acknowledge this reality for several reasons:

1. We don’t have to blame ourselves for everything bad that happens in our lives.
2. By accepting these other facets of reality, we can better respond to them.

I know this isn’t the most positive and optimistic thing you want to hear – but it’s true. And accepting reality is more beneficial in the long-term than ignoring it.

I truly believe that. I’ve been hurt by wishful thinking before, and I’ve become happier and better off once I dimmed my optimism and became a little more practical.

Personal development fueled by science, reason, and honest self-analysis.

I think if the term “personal development” is going to restore any of the integrity it once had, then individuals within the community need to make an earnest effort to distinguish truth from fiction. And there are resources and tools out there to help us do this (that is one of the primary reasons I write on this blog).

To start, paying attention to scientific research in psychology and neuroscience is a good way to stay privy to many of the biases and imperfections that riddle our minds (and there are a lot of them, believe me).

I’ve written before about some of these biases and how they can negatively influence our thoughts and decision-making – these are the kinds of findings we should try to be more mindful of (not pseudo-scientific bastardizations of quantum mechanics).

Comment: I truly believe that the James Rays Sweat Lodge disaster has shocked many into waking up... Of course, there are those who believe in 'blame the victim' and will plan to make sure there are even more.

The lies I told as a psychic
I thought it would be an easy part-time gig. But faking out strangers was much trickier than I ever predicted
Salon.com, 10th July 2011

[...] I attended one short training session, where I filled out a 1099 form so I could become an independent contractor. (That sounded so glamorous, until I learned that this meant I would get reamed when it came time to file my taxes.) The trainer said that some of their contractors made thousands of dollars and worked constantly. He stressed that we didn't necessarily have to be psychic to do the job; we could learn how to perform a tarot card reading to achieve the same effect. I bought a deck along with an instruction booklet at one of those psychic specialty bookstores that sells more crystals than books. I also had to get rid of call waiting. Aside from the obvious distraction, it posed too big a risk of disconnecting conversations. Callers got my undivided attention. Considering I couldn't tell the future, it was the least I could offer.

The main thrust of the job entailed keeping clients on the phone for as long as possible. At $5 per minute, some lonely, needy or desperate person could pay hundreds of dollars for a chat. (By the time I joined the 1-900-number business in 1998, laws had been passed to automatically end the calls after an hour. Too many sad sacks had racked up thousands of dollars in phone bills they would never be able to pay. After lots of complaints, the government intervened.) The company lured callers with the promise of three free minutes, but as soon as they heard the beep, the meter started

Comment: There are people who are naturally very psychic, but many are not genuine and consider being a fake just business. Most of these people have NO empathy with the people who are being conned and fall into the category of sociopaths.

Mayan Secrets to Be Revealed by Mexican Government in '2012' Documentary
Reuters News, 17th August 2011

The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, "Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond," TheWrap has learned.

The information -- protected for 80 years -- is expected to reveal Mayan beliefs in future catastrophes and wisdom characterized as "shocking," producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of actor Raul Julia, told TheWrap.

The end of the Mayan calendar in December 2012 has long given rise to theories and speculation about the end of the world. The agreement will allow Julia-Levy to film in never-before-seen locations. [...]

"This is very important for humanity, not just for Mexico," said Julia-Levy. "This information has been protected for 80 years, and now it's important for people to understand the series of events that are coming, and the consequences for all of us."

Comment: Do we have something to look forward to... or not? If this is real information coming from the Mexican government about 'a series of events', it will completely KILL erroneous New Age ideas about a major happening on the 21st December 2012. Mayan Elders have stressed a series of astronomical events that are associated with a period of transition lasting about 25 years combined with the astronomical events of the arrival of a 'magnetic vortex' and three days of darkness. Astronomers have already told us there is a "potentially hazardous" cometary debris train on the way in 2016, and this could have the capacity to blot out the sun. It is quite possible that this was predicted by one of the 20 Mayan calendars, because despite the beliefs of narcissistic New Agers, the calendars were more than just about telling people whether they were going to have a bad day.

I have been saying for a long time that the wheels have fallen off the 2012 bandwagon, but it looks like the Mexican government are just about to drop a big bomb from a very great height. Get the popcorn ready!

Change in solar activity brings increased radiation risk to air passengers
PhysOrg.com, 16th August 2011

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radiation risks to airplanes and spacecraft are likely to increase when the Sun moves from its present grand solar maximum to lower levels of activity, says research from the University of Reading.

The researchers say this a serious concern because our present day engineering, design, operation and insurance of vulnerable technology is based on past experience from the space age and does not yet account for long-term change in space climate.

The scientists have paid particular attention to the radiation effects on aircraft crew and passengers on long-distance flights.

The Sun has been in a ‘grand solar maximum' which has already lasted longer than any other such maximum in the past 9.3 millennia and is expected to end soon. The changes in near-Earth space that will result will return Earth to conditions that last prevailed before the advent of susceptible modern operational systems, such as spacecraft, power distribution grids and aircraft.

Comment: Another reality bite... For anyone that is confused, this is really about the solar wind flagging and the interstellar debris cloud pushing into our solar system and shrinking the heliosphere, thereby letting in more galactic cosmic rays. The cause and effect relationship is not clear, but regardless, there is massive change taking place and our satellite communication infrastructure and even our electronics on Earth were not designed to take this kind of cosmic onslaught. What amazes me is that this is not something that happened yesterday. Space weather has been getting worse for 20+ years. Well, despite the ignorance of those who don't understand the science.

[People who simply don't believe that space weather has anything to do with spiritual evolution, but who cannot explain in plain English the mechanism for how anyone is recognised by universal forces. I will state that your electromagnetic field and related higher dimensional components are a signature that makes you unique and that signature is subject to environmental signals whether electromagnetic or hyperdimensional. Metaphysical and scientific studies both agree that the physical body is controlled by electromagnetic templates, but the metaphysics suggests that some of this energy is only visible in the infra-red and ultra violet and other components are simply invisible to any of our instrumentation. Yes, that is the same dark matter problem, where 96% of the energy-matter of the universe is invisible but MUST exist to comply with the commonly accepted theories of how the universe works. These days, scientists even agree that some people can see this energy and they no longer deride this as psychic, but state that the brain is processing input data differently and call those who can see some of this template energy synaesthetes. The word psychic is now longer appropriate because scientists know that people have many more than just 5 senses and some people can process more input data than others. Scientists claim that at some level we are ALL synaesthetes, I would go further and say that at some level, we all have Savant Syndrome.]

Cosmic rays represent cosmic radiation and more cosmic radiation switches on DNA to allow for more and more mutation, and that means evolutionary change. I have an idea for a film, the jet setters turning into the first real obvious mutants on Earth. Anyway, back to the news. The levels of radiation during flying are nothing compared to what people are now getting in the region of Fukushima... This is what I have presented before:

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.

Alaska's mysterious floating orange goo identified as 'rusting' fungal spores but local Eskimos fear fish will be poisoned
Daily Mail, 19th August 2011

* Isolated native community worried about damage to food supp

The mystery of the floating orange goo has been solved. [???]

But the results have only served to increase the fears of the small Alaskan village which spotted the colourful sight struck on their lagoon for the first time ever two weeks ago.

It soon disappeared but the local Eskimo community, which relies on the surrounding waters for its very existence, feared long-term damage to the water quality and particularly the fish and plants they use for food.

At first the leading theory suggested the goo was made up of millions of microscopic eggs. But now scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have confirmed the presence of fungal spores which create rust, explaining the luminous colour.

Comment: So, as expected, the story of microscopic eggs has been proven to be false. We will not get the real truth for a long time, presumably after scientists have spent months if not years looking at this ejecta. However, the latest news of fungal spores that creates rust suggests even more strongly that this stuff was manufactured by a comet. Simply, this ejecta was spread over such a large area, it had to come from a major airbourne source. This is just common sense when we view the fact that this is the tundra of Alaska, a barren place, but the land was thickly coated with this strange goo and deposits were even found 150 miles southeast of Kivalina, the main site of this deposit. The locals have a right to be worried.

China satellite aborts mission after 'malfunction'
PhysOrg.com, 19th August 2011

An "experimental" satellite launched by China failed to reach its designated orbit after its rocket malfunctioned, according to state media.

Orbiter SJ-11-04, which was propelled by a Long March II-C rocket, was launched on Thursday but was unable to complete its mission "due to a malfunction of the rocket", the official Xinhua news agency said.

The report said the satellite was an "experimental orbiter" but did not disclose further details. Observers on the web forum NASASpaceFlight.com have speculated that China was due to use the satellite as part of an operational early warning defence system, but AFP was unable to confirm the information from official sources.

Comment: Scientists are already scratching their heads about the number of satellites that are failing to launch into the right orbit and this is another one, see archives. Each time this happens, a satellite worth between 250 million to a billion dollars is lost, so it is a major financial issue. I am wondering whether the Chinese can rescue this satellite or whether this failed launch has generated the latest piece of space junk.

Russia loses contact with just-launched £160m satellite in latest setback for its space industry
Daily Mail, 19th August 2011
"Russia has lost track of a newly-launched, multi-million-pound telecommunications satellite, the latest in a series of setbacks that have dogged its space industry. The £160million Express AM-4 satellite, described by its makers as the most powerful satellite ever built in Europe, launched in the early hours of yesterday morning aboard a Proton-M rocket from the Russian-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan.
Two satellites lost in a week.... something is definitely up...

Teen With Rare Condition Could Die From Brushing Hair
Fox News, 18th August 2011

A teenage girl in Scotland with an extremely rare medical condition was told by doctors that brushing her hair could kill her.

Megan Stewart, 13, suffers from hair brushing syndrome, which means that contact with static electricity could cause her brain to shut down, the Scottish Daily Record reported Thursday.

Her condition came to light in 2008 as she got ready for school in Wishaw, central Scotland. Her mother, Sharon, said, "I was brushing her hair in the living room when she flopped over and her lips turned blue. I thought she was having a fit, which she'd never had before, so we called the paramedics. It was really scary."

Doctors at Glasgow's Yorkhill Hospital for Sick Children told her parents that they had only ever heard of one other case of the syndrome, which causes vital organs to shut down if there is a buildup of static.

Comment: I wonder how common this will become as the planet becomes more and more saturated with ambient electrical energy.

'UFO' flies past MP Tom Watson's head during TV interview
Labour MP and phone hacking crusader Tom Watson had a recent Channel 4 television appearance gatecrashed by what some viewers claim was a UFO.
metro.co.uk, 18th August 2011

Eagle-eyed viewers at home pointed out the spooky spot when they phoned into the Channel 4 newsroom and reported that as Mr Watson was talking an object flew past his head in the background.

Halfway through discussing whether or not a Parliamentary panel had been misled by Rupert and James Murdoch during their July 19 grilling, the strange craft appeared at the top of the screen, before darting downwards in a flash.

On closer inspection it's hard to work out whether it's a bird or a plane or maybe even a News International escape pod used by the Murdochs.

UFO speculators across the globe have gone into hyper-drive over the sighting, with website UFOS on Earth staunchly claiming the object was too fast to be either a plane or helicopter and had no resemblance to a bird - cue spooky sci-fi music.

Comment: LOL Simply hilarious! What are 'they' going to do as our reality continues to morph and the interdimensionals become more and more noticeable... Will a decision be made to get rid of live TV? Our planet is turning into a cosmic aquarium and there is nothing anyone can do about it because this is the New Reality.

UFO over motorway in broad daylight
The Sun, 19th August 2011
"AN EERIE-looking UFO can be seen in our shock footage darting through the sky, close to the spot where a 'freaked out' BBC reporter saw a craft."
The 'gods' are back and they are hanging out over the motorways!

Multiple UFOs recorded near Stansted Airport in Essex(Video)
Open Minds, 19th August 2011
I think this video is fake and done to discredit the people who have made genuine claims. The orb movement is just not consistent with hundreds and hundreds of other videos.

Massive UFO sighting in Seoul, South Korea; Hundreds of witnesses [video]
Unexplained Phenomena Examiner, 19th August 2011

UFO Spotted Over Chinese Airport
Fox News, 18th August 2011
"CHONGQING, China - Planes were dramatically diverted away from a major Chinese airport after reports of a UFO circling a runway. The mysterious object was spotted Wednesday afternoon floating high above Jiangbei International Airport in the city of Chongqing, an important aviation hub for southwestern China. Worried officials diverted several flights to other airports before it disappeared about 50 minutes later and air traffic was allowed to return to normal."

Comment: It's a bit worrying when people seriously believe that air traffic controllers cannot tell the difference between UFO circling a runway for 50 minutes and a balloon or sky lantern blowing about in the wind... Shanghai Daily version Flights diverted as UFO sighted over airport

Stage Collapse Kills Concert-Goers in Belgium
Incident is latest in a series of collapses at outdoor concerts; Mountain Park operator takes precautions
Chicago Tribune, 18th August 2011

At least three people are reportedly dead after a stage collapsed Thursday during severe weather at a music festival in Belgium.

Initial reports suggest that a storm moving through the grounds at the Pukkelpop Festival in Hasselt, Belgium, caused the Chateau Stage to collapse shortly before Chicago band the Smith Westerns was scheduled to perform.

Cullen Omori, the band’s singer wrote on Twitter, “Stage collapsed max almost got crushed by the tress.[sic] I hope pukkelpop has insurance bc all our [expletive] is broke.” He followed up a minute later with the hope that no one was hurt.

Comment: 3 stage collapses in just over a month.... this is just weird....

10 Photos: Scene from Pukkelpop music festival stage collapse
Chicago Tribune, 18th August 2011

Pukkelpop 2011 (10secs)
YouTube, 7th August 2011

Twitpic: Pukkelpop 2011
Twitpic, 18th August 2011

Spacecraft Sees Solar Storm Engulf Earth
NASA Science News, 18th August 2011

August 18, 2011: For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting.

“The movie sent chills down my spine,” says Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "It shows a CME swelling into an enormous wall of plasma and then washing over the tiny blue speck of Earth where we live. I felt very small.”

CMEs are billion-ton clouds of solar plasma launched by the same explosions that spark solar flares. When they sweep past our planet, they can cause auroras, radiation storms, and in extreme cases power outages. Tracking these clouds and predicting their arrival is an important part of space weather forecasting.

“We have seen CMEs before, but never quite like this,” says Lika Guhathakurta, program scientist for the STEREO mission at NASA headquarters. “STEREO-A has given us a new view of solar storms.” [...] The kind of magnetic transformations revealed by the movie deeply impressed Guhathakurta: “I have always thought that in heliophysics understanding the magnetic field is equivalent to the ‘dark energy’ problem of astrophysics. Often, we cannot see the magnetic field, yet it orchestrates almost everything. These images from STEREO give us a real sense of what the underlying magnetic field is doing.”

Comment: The STEREO video is absolutely awesome... I don't think anyone intelligent would argue against the definition of Space Weather after watching this movie. I will post more links of what went on at this conference below. Our reality has changed, we have gone from a quiet space environment where scientists stated it was a complete vacuum to a raging, stormy and highly charged electromagnetic environment in just over twenty years. This is the New Cosmic Age and metaphysical predictions have been vindicated.

NASA | Spacecraft Track Solar Storms From Sun To Earth (Tutorial with STEREO Video)
YouTube, 18th August 2011
"Newly released imagery reveals absolute brightness of detailed features in a large geoeffective CME in late 2008, connecting the original magnetized structure in the Sun's corona to the intricate anatomy of an interplanetary storm as it impacted the Earth three days later. At the time the data were collected, in late 2008, STEREO-A was nearly 45 degrees ahead of the Earth in its orbit, affording a very clear view of the Earth-Sun line."
I learnt something from this video. NASA are now claiming that biggest CMEs are one and half trillion tonnes of matter, but have you noticed that the sun is not getting any smaller.... Another mystery that solar scientists cannot explain...

Important testimony by former MOD official in latest UK UFO files
Open Minds, 17th August 2011

One of the documents that has received some attention in the latest release of UFO files by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a long letter written in 1994 by Ralph Noyes, who headed Defense Secretariat 8 (DS8) in the early seventies, to Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a, in charge of UFO reports at the Ministry.

The recipient’s name is censored but given the time frame it must be Nick Pope, who would later become one of ufology’s superstars. The letter discusses a number of UFO issues and attitudes going all the way back to 1952 and it’s not the only time that Noyes, who retired from the Ministry in 1977 with the rank of Under Secretary of State, would cross paths and sometimes criticize his former employer. This was particularly the case when both Noyes and former Admiral of the Fleet Lord Peter Hill-Norton challenged the MOD’s public stance that the famous December 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO incident was of “no defence interest.”

Ralph Noyes was born in the tropics and spent most of his childhood in the West Indies. He served in the RAF from 1940 to 1946 and was commissioned as aircrew, engaging in active service in North Africa and the Far East. He entered the civil service in 1949 and served in the Air Ministry and subsequently the unified Ministry of Defence. In 1977 he retired early from the civil service to take up a writing career, leaving in the grade of Under Secretary of State

Comment: This article details and includes some must read historical evidence and proof that the UK MOD had more than just a passing interest in UFOs. I am certainly impressed to find that sources that I have believed to be credible and have been featured on this website, were also taken seriously by the UK MOD. Hence, we read:

He provides some additional details and comparisons to other footage from civilian sources like that obtained in Norway’s Hessdalen Valley or by Dr. Harley Rutledge in the American Ozarks, noting that “the evidence for the persistence of an odd phenomenon (occasionally with very strange effects) is abundant in the serious ufological literature.”

What is really interesting is the background of ufologists who are not interested in the opinion of the UK MOD because the story is not exactly what they want to hear, ie they are desperate for evidence of humanoid ETs. If they exist and I am sure they must exist, they do not seem to provoke the same level of interest by the militaries around the world as the UAPs, who appear to be the original and primordial lifeform that exists in the universe.

Ralph Noyes Speaks
This is the link to download the MOD file .pdf on Ralph Noyes's opinion on what happened at Rendlesham (start at pg260 and there is other Ralph Noyes articles too) but we are told flat out the UK MOD were lying about the events at Rendlesham.

Revolution Spreads To Germany: Cars Of Hundreds Of “Fat Cats” Burned
Alexander Higgins, 17th August 2011

Those protests have now spread to Germany and the Germans are making it absolutely clear their actions are political. In fact, they are further making it clear the are revolting against the globalist fat cats who continue to rob the middle class and poor specifically by embarking in a campaign to torch the cars of the “fat cats” all across the country.

The outbreak of the protests follow plans by France and Germany to implement a single European government to deal with the raging debt crisis, under which their would be would be imposed constitutional amendments to all nations in the EU to impose harsh austerity measures to continue to fund perpetual illegal wars and pay for more banker bailouts.

There is also the issue of the unreported Great Depression style run on the European banks. Clearly the outbreak of political violence in Germany does not bode well for the rest of Europe as Germany has the best economy in the entire continent.

Comment: Whoaaa..... Is this 'intelligent' political rioting? I certainly don't think this can be blamed on solar flares...

Something Smells in San Diego
NBC San Diego, 17th August 2011

A strange smell kept San Diego emergency operators busy Wednesday afternoon as dozens across the county called to report the odor.

San Diego Fire and Rescue spokesman Maurice Luque said that, beginning at about 2 p.m., people complained of an obnoxious, sweet smell that resembled lighter fluid, kerosene, petroleum or a fabric softener.

Comment: Due to the historical records of earthquake precursors, people in Southern California, should be nervous that a major earthquake might occur. We have a smoking hillside and strange smells over a widespread area. If we get reports of fire coming out of the ground, I would suggest people get out of the area as fast as possible.... I have picked up a link that provides, Eye-witness Accounts of Several Major Earthquakes by Thomas Gold and I was most amazed to read these historical reports of offending smells, smoke and flames coming out of the ground prior to major earthquakes. Here, I have decided to provide some quotes but limit them to quotes about sulphurous smells. So we read:

"In Aquila and Norcia, and in other places . . . the earth was here and there observed to split in cracks, from which streamed the evil odors of sulfur and bitumen; and men in Aquila most worthy of trust write that in many places after the earthquake sulfur and fire issued from the opened earth." (Quoted by Galli, 1911)

Lisbon, 1 November 1755

"Ruptures in the soil originated in thousands of places. From almost all of them water and quicksand were emitted together with flames and stinking smoke. . . . The river Danube began to rise . . . and the water appeared to be steaming as though boiling. It had a sulphurous smell. The majority of the ruptures occurred near the river bank and from some of them flames emerged alternately with the sand and smoke. Fertö Lake, 100 km west of Komarom, began to rumble and foam very intensely. . . . Flames as big as a barrel were seen over the river itself. Many horned cattle perished in the terrible stinking vapour that came from the earth. . . . At the bank of another smaller river, the Vag, red-colored flames rushed up from the ruptures, followed by sulphurous waters. . . . At some places the waters that came fro

Lima, 30 March 1828

In Santa Rosa, according to Lawson and others (1908), a strong smell of sulphur had been noticed two days before the earthquake by one Charles Kobes. Since during an earthquake eight years previously, "sulfur fumes came up from under his house which almost drove his family from home", the recurrence of this phenomenon on 16 April 1906 caused Kobes to tell his family that there would be another earthquake.
Eye-witness Accounts of Several Major Earthquakes by Thomas Gold, 1987.

There are more reports below:

Sulfur smell in city [Washington] Tuesday night
Washington Post, 17th August 2011
"A sulfurous odor was reported Tuesday night in many sections of Washington near the Potomac River, as well as in Arlington, authorities said. "

San Diego – Strange fume event occuring in southern California – Aug 18, 2011
The Truth Behind the News, 18th August 2011

"First a fresh lava field erupts off the coast of Oregon, then mystery plumes erupt from lava fields all the way up the west coast from Pisgah area north to the washington state line… a 6.0 magnitude quake hits Baja California, then a hill side in Santa Barbara (just north of Los Angeles) begins to smoke and steam…"
There is a video here by the popular YouTuber Dutchsinse. He links up all the different strange geological events in the last 3 weeks or so in the region of Southern California, Oregon, San Diego and I think his analysis of precursor events to a large earthquake is credible.

Report: Workers say ground under Fukushima plant is cracking and radioactive steam is coming up — Melted core may be moving out of building (VIDEO)
Energy News, 17th August 2011

Host: “Workers at Japan’s Fukushima plant say the ground underneath the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks” [...]

Dr. Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute: “It’s a very serious and alarming development because this started to happen specifically after two large earthquakes in the last few weeks, there was a 6.4 on the 31 of July 31 and a 6.0 on August 12? [...]

“It’s an indication that radioactive material is moving under the ground” [...]

“When you have a fragile structure that’s already suffered a great deal of damage and when you have continual aftershocks at the level of six-point, or there’s been some even higher, what we have now is we have the radioactive core that has melted down into the basement, into the bottom of the containment vessel of these reactors, and if the radiation level is going down, where it’s been monitored inside the buildings, and if the water pressure is going down, and the temperature is going down, it’s not that the radiation is just suddenly going away, it means that the radioactive material, the melted core, is simply moving further away from where it’s been measured. And it may have — as a result of these aftershocks — be moving down out of the building itself.” [....]

Comment: The nightmare continues...

Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released By Fukushima (Video)
Washington's Blog, 17th August 2011
Radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby says that huge quantities of radiation - 10¹³ or 10 trillion becquerels per hour - are still being released from Fukushima.

This is down slightly from some of the radiation levels observed in March, which - as I noted in April - exceeded levels pumped out at Chernobyl during the week-long fire.

But given that the Fukushima crisis has continued for months, Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl in terms of radiation released.
Tends to concentrate in the testicles”: 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushimab>
Energy News, 17th August 2011
When the news broke yesterday that a previously unreported type of fallout from Fukushima—radioactive sulfur—had reached the United States in late March, nearly all mainstream media reports made the claim that it poses no threat to the health of Americans. [...]

And if you’re a man, you may be interested to know that some miniscule portion of it could be in your testicles. [...] Sulfur-35 is absorbed by the entire body but is of particular concern to men because it tends to concentrate in the testicles, according to a Nuclide Safety Data Sheet from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Beta radiation occurring there could damage neighboring cells. [...]

Comment: Let's see how long it takes now for people (men) to wake up and decide enough is enough...
Now, #Radioactive Sanitary Napkins??
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 17th August 2011
"Someone tested the "Unicharm" brand of feminine sanitary napkins, and the survey meter showed 0.15 microsievert/hr on a napkin. The ambient radiation level was 0.07 microsievert/hr (indoors). He was worried for his wife, and traced the manufacturing number on the package, and it was made in the factory in Fukushima Prefecture."
Young Turks: America's Nuclear Nightmare
YouTube, 12th August 2011
The Young Turks tell it straight

Solar Flare Activity Prompting NASA to Convene a News Briefing Thursday in Washington
Weather Tech, 17th August 2011

Increasing solar activity and the threat that coronal mass ejections (CME) pose to Earth has prompted NASA to convene a news briefing at its Headquarter building in Washington on Thursday afternoon.

Thursday’s briefing has been arranged, space agency officials say, in light of new information coming from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), spacecraft and other NASA probes. The briefing will feature new details about the structure of solar storms and the impact they have on Earth.

Comment: I have been thinking for a while that solar cycle 24 might be following the same way as the solar cycle that led to the massive geomagnetic storm in 1921/1859 and this is why solar scientists are nervous. This would be the 100 year storm that would lead to millions with no power for YEARS if authorities don't take the decision to take down the grids, a proposal that is not necessarily as straight forward as it sounds. Despite the opinion of conspiracy theorists who are now claiming this is a perfect cover for some genocide, I don't think the resulting anarchy would be that easy to manage... This is the space.com announcement, NASA to Discuss Solar Storm Tracking Efforts Today. Below are details of the latest CME blast that appeared to hit the planet Venus.

VENUS AND THE SOLAR STORM: (Note: No planets were harmed in the production of this movie.) Yesterday, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory witnessed a spectacular explosion on the sun that seemed to pass perilously close to Venus. Did the cloudy planet survive? Play the movie for answers:

As the movie shows, the CME passed harmlessly. There was no collision, and it wasn't even close. Although Venus seems to be near the sun, the planet is actually more than 100 million kilometers away. The two bodies are "in conjunction" this week as Venus moves almost directly behind the sun. Because of this arrangement, more CME-Venus conjunctions are possible in the days ahead. spaceweather.com 17th August 2011

The Venus CME hit - 16th August 2011
spaceweather.com, 17th August 2011

Bid to Rename Homo Sapiens Is Called Unwise
Live Science, 17th August 2011

Humans received the species name, Homo sapiens, meaning "wise man," in 1758. But given our short-sighted behavior, that name needs to be changed, one writer proposes.

For about 250 years, our species has been known as Homo sapiens, a scientific name in Latin that means "wise man."

Given the havoc humans are wreaking on natural systems, putting ourselves and so many other living things in peril, we don't deserve this name, contends Julian Cribb, an Australian science writer and book author. In a letter published in the Aug. 18 issue of the journal Nature, Cribb makes a proposal.

"Changing our species name might risk infringing some of the hallowed rules of nomenclature, but it would send an important signal about our present collective behavior," he writes.

Comment: My suggestion is Homo Ridicudougalus...

Earth Not Expanding, Says NASA
Irish Weather Online, 17th August 2011

NASA has completed a study, published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, which its says quashes a widely held belief that Earth is exanding due to tectonic forces.

Since Charles Darwin’s time, scientists have speculated that the solid Earth might be expanding or contracting. That was the prevailing belief, until scientists developed the theory of plate tectonics, which explained the large-scale motions of Earth’s lithosphere, or outermost shell. Even with the acceptance of plate tectonics half a century ago, some Earth and space scientists have continued to speculate on Earth’s possible expansion or contraction on various scientific grounds.

Comment: What is interesting is why NASA felt the need to respond to this theory of the expanding Earth, especially now when the evidence is starting to pile up...

Flood Bugnadoes Sweep Across Missouri
Irish Weather Online, 17th August 2011

Parts of Missouri affected by serious flooding in recent months are having to contend with a bizarre new natural hazard, swarms of bugs that appear in the shape of tornado funnels.

The large bug vortexes of flying bugs, which have been referred to by local people as “bugnadoes”, have been spotted throughout low-lying parts of the State in the vicinity of the Missouri River.

It is unclear as of yet what species of flying insects is involved. To make matters worse, however, swarms of dragonflies have been seen flying around and feeding on the swirling bug funnels.

Comment: The weirdness continues, swarming bugs that can form tornadoes.... well I can only presume that the morphogenetic fields that control swarm behaviour are also being affected by the chaotic and intense electromagnetic conditions. I think I am at liberty to make this assertion as biologists cannot explain using conventional science what controls swarm behaviour. Btw, I saw a small mini-tornado (maybe two metres long by half a metre across) of bugs right outside my appartment when I was on my balcony one early evening last summer. I could not believe my eyes and I ran inside and shut the doors and windows immediately...

Indiana fair tragedy was no 'fluke,' expert says
Weather Channel challenges governor's assertion with detailed look at events
MSNBC News, 17th August 2011

In a recent AP article, Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana was quoted as saying that the blast of wind that toppled the stage rigging at the Indiana State Fair, killing 5 people, was a "fluke event".

A "fluke" by definition is an unlikely chance occurrence. The destructive and deadly wind gust on Saturday evening in Indianapolis was no chance occurrence. [...]

Inclement Weather Had Been in the Forecast
From the Indianapolis National Weather Service: The potential for severe weather was noted as early as Thursday (August 11) and again on Friday (August 12). Forecasters addressed the severe weather threat in greater detail early on Saturday (August 13). This product highlighted that damaging winds and large hail would be the most significant impacts with any thunderstorms moving through central Indiana during the late afternoon and evening. Other risks included dangerous lightning and heavy rainfall. [...]

At 8:49 p.m. ET, ten minutes after the bulletin was issued, the stage rigging at the Indiana State Fair dramatically collapsedonto concert-goers after an outflow boundary or gust frontswept through the fairgrounds. That is a ten-minute lead time for event officials to evacuate concert-goers and usher them into a place of safety and shelter. Does this seem like a fluke to you ... a chance occurrence? If a known hazard — wind gusts in excess of 60 mph — is approaching, how is the destruction it causes a fluke?

We are talking about a recipe for disaster — an approaching line of severe thunderstorms containing high winds and lightning bearing down on a large, metal but seemingly fragile outdoor stage set with its rigging standing high and hovering over the crowd below.

Comment: A meteorologist explains the facts...

As U.K. Releases UFO Files, Former UFO Project Chief Apologizes For 'Spin And Dirty Tricks' (Exclusive) (Video)
Huffington Post, 17th August 2011

As the British National Archives continues to release UFO-related documents, the former Ministry of Defense (MoD) UFO Project chief is openly admitting to being part of what he claims was a U.K. policy of ridiculing UFO reports and the people who reported them.

The U.K. made public 34 previously-classified files, totaling about 9,000 pages of documents covering the years 1985 to 2007. For three of those years, 1991 to 1994, Nick Pope was in charge of the official MoD office.

"What's abundantly clear from these files is that, while in public we were desperately pushing the line that this was of no defense interest," Pope told The Huffington Post. "We couldn't say 'There's something in our air space; pilots see them; they're tracked on radar; sometimes we scramble jets to chase these things, but we can't catch them.' This would be an admission that we'd lost control of our own air space, and such a position would be untenable."

"Every time we got a report from a pilot, we were checking the radar tapes. So it was an interesting sleight of hand. We were telling the public we're not interested, this is all nonsense, but in reality, we were desperately chasing our tails and following this up in great detail," he added. [...]

It turns out that Pope may have been directly involved with this case. "I'm a little bit apologetic about this because obviously, when I was in MoD, I had to play this game myself. To really achieve our policy of downplaying the UFO phenomenon, we would use a combination of 'spin and dirty tricks.'

Comment: I think the implications here are quite serious. Nick Pope (an ex Ministry of Defence insider) is airing his views but they will be taken seriously. Pope can explain the facts from an historical perspective, because he ran the UFO desk for a few years at the UK MOD. However, he is not currently an official spokesperson for the UK Ministry of Defence, but at at least he is clarifying the fact that there were abundant lies and deception from the UK MOD in an attempt to play down their interest in UFOs, that their own internal reports admitted existed.

Well, the UK MOD has provided us with proof that they believed UFOs or what they called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) exist. We have military officers and other senior officials all over the planet that KNOW UFOs/UAPs exist, but we are NOT generally talking about ETs in spacecraft. I can't talk about the existence of aliens that look similar or dis-similar to humans, but that is not the major issue. The real issue is that world controllers KNOW that we are talking about another form of life that exists throughout the universe and acts like a shadow biosphere on Earth, and this is the news that many do not want revealed. Even worse, the facts indicate that humans are not the top of the universal pecking order and that is a problem for arrogant world controllers who want to pretend that they are omnipotent.

CNN Hypes Alien Invasion As Tool To Improve The Economy – And Admits It Would Be Fake
federaljack.com, 15th August 2011
New York Times Breaking News: Superhero Paul Krugman Saves World from Imaginary Alien Invasion!
Revolutionary politics, 16th August 2011
"... off the charts lunacy..."
A stupid American economist revealing his stupidity...
Fox News: Vatican Hosts Conference on Extraterrestrial Life
YouTube, 16th August 2011
A Five day conference too!

Lightning no longer blamed for Amazon data center outage
Utility retracts earlier diagnosis, continues investigation.
Data Center Dynamics, 15th August 2011

The power outage that brought down a portion of an Amazon data center in Dublin, taking down along with it the virtual infrastructure of a number of the company's Cloud customers, is no longer believed to have been caused by a lightning bolt.

In a detailed online account of the outage, the Amazon Web Services team wrote that the utility whose transformer went down on the morning of 7 Aug. had taken back its initial diagnosis of the culprit, when it said a lightning strike had caused the outage, but had not offer an alternative explanation. [...]

Regardless of the cause of the utility outage, the company's Dublin facility failed to switch to back-up generators as it was supposed to when utility power is lost. The AWS team said it believed the facility's programmable logic controllers were at fault for this.

PLCs synchronize the electrical phase between generators before feeding power into the facility. In last week's case, however, a PLC at the data center detected a ground fault, which caused it to fail to complete its task, the AWS team believes at the moment. [???]

Because of the PLC's failure, backup generators for most of the data center were disabled and there was not enough power to continue running all the servers. [...]

A 110kV 10MW utility transformer serving the data center failed around 10:40 a.m. About one hour later, Amazon technicians were able to bring some of the back-up generators online by phase-syncing them manually.

Comment: So, there was current coming from the ground (GICS) that completely negated any efforts to deal with normal electrical input? Another report says it was similar to what happens when a electrical wire becomes earthed. An earth provides a reservoir of charge and GICS can use the earth connection to come up through the ground and damage a transformer, so I don't know enough to be 100% sure what happened but the fault completely negated any efforts to deal with normal electrical input and some customers across Europe had to wait for three days to get their computing facilities back again....ouch! This is what Amazon Web Services customer management had to say:

The service disruption began at 10:41 AM PDT on August 7th when our utility provider suffered a failure of a 110kV 10 megawatt transformer. This failure resulted in a total loss of electricity supply to all of their customers connected to this transformer, including a significant portion of the affected AWS Availability Zone. The initial fault diagnosis from our utility provider indicated that a lightning strike caused the transformer to fail. The utility provider now believes it was not a lightning strike, and is continuing to investigate root cause.

Summary of the Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, and Amazon RDS Service Event in the EU West Region

It's absolutely amazing to me that more people are not making the effort to deal with the consequences of the planet becoming highly charged. There are anomalous electric currents flowing where they are not normally expected and we are now seeing the affect with transformers blowing up on a regular basis. Our modern technological infrastructure is being affected as charge continues to build up. This is happening because over the last 20+ years, the Earth has been receiving massive solar blasts called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and solar flare magnetic energy. We are talking about ~~thousands of billions~~ trillions of tons of plasma (charged sub-atomic particles) and the equivalent of ~~thousands of billions~~ trillions of megaton nuclear bombs worth of magnetic energy. Fortunately, some electrical engineers woke up in 1989 after the Power grid failure in Quebec, Canada when a geomagnetic storm knocked out a major transformer and 6 million people lost power for 10 hours in winter. So, as it becomes increasing obvious that there is a problem with anomalous electric currents (GICs), more electrical enginneers are making efforts to increase general awareness of the problem, see archives. People are being affected, but most don't realise it yet, however I am sure that will soon become completely obvious too, I still wonder about the man who created 'burnt footprints' see archives.

Amazon outage described as 'worst in cloud computing history' - 08/17/2011
CenterBeam Industry News, 17th August 2011

Electrostatic fields & Leaping Streams of Light
YouTube, 15th August 2011

I was pool side in my apartment in Singapore, when I saw something weird in the skies.

As I looked over head I saw some weird cloud shoots of light and puff as the clouds seemed to reform sporadically. I could see that a storm cloud was building, but the light and visual show was intriguing me. So I grabbed my iPhone and recorded this :)

Comment: I reported about this phenomenon in July 2011, but this latest YouTube video is amazing. In the report Leaping Streams of Light: a New Natural Phenomenon, it cites the opinion of well respected electrical engineer Bill Beaty who speculated about the impact of electrostatic fields. He is quoted as saying:

"I stumbled across a strange idea: shouldn’t the strong electrostatic fields in thunderstorms have a visible effect on rainbows?”, he speculated.

“E-fields should slightly distort falling raindrops, causing the light distribution of a rainbow to change slightly. Sometimes we should notice that a rainbow suddenly "flicks" during a lightning bolt, then slowly changes to its initial pattern as the e-fields build before another strike.”

The author of this reports states that we do not see flicking rainbows but instead writes:

" ...the behavior of the leaping streams of light, by almost instantly changing (apparently faster than a shockwave, thus eliminating mechanical action), and then slowly returning to the initial configuration, is certainly indicative that Beaty’s original suggestion of electrical fields influencing suspended ice crystals or droplets may be on to a fascinating, and so far unknown natural phenomenon."
Leaping Streams of Light: a New Natural Phenomenon
forgetomori.com, 2nd July 2011

I think this is a good explanation. We are seeing so many new dynamic, energetic and electrical behaviour in the skies, and considering them in the light of current and alternative electromagnetic theory seems to provide the best explanations. Of course, the source of all the new electricity or more correctly (electrically charged sub-atomic particles or plasma) is off-planet and is being delivered (sometimes violently) by Space Weather. The planet is literally 'humming' and sparking with lots of different manifestations of this increased electrical input.

Going ape! Crazed chimp runs amok and throws food at staff after escaping
Daily Mail, 16th August 2011

A chimpanzee who escaped her enclosure went on the rampage stealing food from the zoo's kitchen, stunning staff and visitors.

In a scene which could have come straight from the new film Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, female chimp Josie barricaded herself in the kitchen, hurled food at staff and smashed pots at Twycross Zoo in Atherstone, Warwickshire.

It took staff 40 minutes to calm down the 23-year-old chimpanzee before they were able to coax her back into her enclosure.

Her keepers were joking that she heard about the riots in the rest of the country and fancied looting a bit of grub for herself.

Comment: Hmmm... I am wondering if something is going on as there are more and more reports of animals behaving oddly.... However, I don't like zoos and I don't think animals should be in small enclosures, but it's the intelligent behaviour of escaping and then barricading themselves in the chimpanzee 'kitchen' and hurling food and pots at staff that is most curious...

We have also had stories of beheadings reported in the last few days, and I am wondering if there is a link to these kind of atrocities occuring in bad geomagnetic conditions...

Father 'decapitated and dismembered cerebral palsy son, 7, with a meat cleaver and left his head at side of road'
Daily Mail, 16th August 2011

Shell detects second Gannet Alpha North Sea leak point
BBC News, 16th August 2011

Shell says stemming a second leak at its Gannet Alpha Oil platform in the North Sea is proving to be a challenge A second leak point has been found in the flow line beneath the Gannet Alpha oil platform, 113 miles (180km) off Aberdeen.

Shell has been dealing with the release of an estimated 216 tonnes - 1,300 barrels - from a leak near the platform discovered last week. The oil company said it was working to tackle what was described as a "second pathway" of leakage.

Glen Cayley, technical director of Shell's exploration and production activities in Europe, said: "The leak source remains the same. The initial release path was stopped, however the oil found a second pathway to the sea.

"Since then we have been working to find the source of the much smaller flow of hydrocarbons. It had proved difficult to find because we are dealing with a complex subsea infrastructure and the position of the small leak is in an awkward place surrounded by marine growth.

Comment: See below:

Crude Awakening ~ Summer 2010
Jane Fulton Alt, Fine Art Photography, July 2010

North sea oil spill 'worst for a decade'
The government estimates oil leak could involve more than 1,300 barrels but claims it has been greatly reduced The Guardian, 15th August 2011

The flow of oil from the worst spill in UK waters in the past decade, at one of Shell's North Sea platforms, has been "greatly reduced" but not yet stopped completely, the government said on Monday.

Conservationists warned that the leak could harm bird life in the area, at a delicate time in their development, as the oil company worked to minimise the damage.

Stuart Housden, director of RSPB Scotland, said: "We know oil of any amount, if in the wrong place, at the wrong time, can have a devastating impact on marine life. Currently thousands of young auks – razorbills, puffins and guillemots – are flightless and dispersing widely in the North Sea during late summer. So they could be at serious risk if contaminated by this spill." [...]

Green campaigners said the incident raised questions over the safety of oil companies' plans to drill in deep water in the Arctic, as the North Sea is generally supposed to be the safest in the world in terms of spills. Ben Ayliffe of Greenpeace, which has been campaigning to stop further oil-drilling exploration in delicate environments such as the Arctic, said: "The North Sea is supposed to be ultra-safe – we are told spills can't happen there. Shell is looking to move into the Arctic where an oil spill would all but impossible to clean up. Events in the North Sea should give the company pause for thought."

Comment: Will the Coastline of the UK soon be awash with oil because TPTB refuse to negotiate with reality? The North Sea is not directly underneath the auroral electroject that surrounds the North pole but it seems that it is now close enough to be affected by the heightened geomagnetic activity associated with space weather and large electric currents flowing through the sea. Oil companies are now having major problems with protecting their pipelines against space weather and it will only get worse as space weather starts to dominate our reality here on Earth.

From the Finnish Meteorological Institute we find specific details about General information on ground effects of space weather (GIC) and the following specifically about pipelines.

Space weather effects on ground systems

Large electric currents are continuously flowing in the magnetosphere and ionosphere. When hitting the magnetosphere, a disturbance in the solar wind produces a change in the current system, in which the magnetospheric-ionospheric coupling plays an important role. The geomagnetic field brings the disturbance in particular to high latitudes resulting in visible auroras and in an intense ionospheric current system.

The variations of magnetospheric and ionospheric currents are seen as geomagnetic disturbances or storms at the Earth’s surface. In accordance with the basic electromagnetic theory, a geomagnetic variation is accompanied by a geoelectric field. The structure and intensity of the geoelectric field is greatly dependent on the Earth’s conductivity structure, smaller conductivity implies larger electric fields. Although the auroral electrojet system is of particular importance concerning geomagnetic disturbances, similar effects may also be experienced at lower latitudes.

Pipelines

Buried oil and gas pipelines are prone to corrosion, which may occur at points where an electric current flows from the metal into the surrounding earth. To avoid corrosion, pipelines are covered by an insulating coating and equipped with a cathodic protection system that tries to prevent electric currents leaving the pipeline.

GIC flowing along pipelines are accompanied by voltages between the pipeline and the Earth. Voltage variations related to GIC can easily exceed the cathodic protection potential making the protection thus invalid. Today’s coatings cause larger GIC-related pipe-to-soil potentials, thus significantly increasing the risk of corrosion at defects in the coating. How much pipe-to-soil voltages induced by space weather effects really increase the corrosion rate of a pipeline is anyhow still a somewhat open question.

Besides a direct contribution to corrosion, geomagnetically induced pipe-to-soil voltages are a nuisance when measuring cathodic protection parameters and making control surveys. The measurement results may be completely incorrect and thus lead to erroneous conclusions.
General information on ground effects of space weather (GIC), Finnish Meteorological Institute

Chinese oil spill half the size of London went unreported for a month
It has taken a month and an 840 square km oil slick, but the government has finally admitted to a seabed leak from wells in the Bohai Sea
The Guardian, 7th July 2011

The Evolving Animals: Yvonne, A Cow Wrapped In A Mystery Inside A Forest
NPR News, 15th August 2011

In Germany, a dairy cow named Yvonne's death-defying escape — and continued success in eluding capture — has become an incandescent symbol of freedom and animal dignity. Okay, that may be hyperbolic. But how else to explain scores of visitors to Zangberg, the Bavarian commune Yvonne calls home, or the 10,000-euro reward offered for her safe return?

Curious visitors and search parties have been romping through the woods around Zangberg, looking for signs of the cow. Yvonne has been at large since she breached an electric fence on her farm nearly three months ago, on May 24. Since then, she's adopted a lifestyle that might be called Sherwoodian: sticking to forests, eluding police, a

"Yvonne knows exactly what she's doing, and she's tricking us," the manager of an animal rescue farm told a German newspaper. The same paper, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, says that Yvonne has now become a type of freedom fighter "for the animal-loving republic." [...] Michael Aufhauser, the founder of a nearby animal sanctuary called Gut Aiderbichl, has asked an animal psychic for help finding Yvonne, and possibly negotiating her surrender

Comment: This is simply hilarious.... so a cow is outsmarting humans... at times, the randomness of evolutionary change and increasing animals intelligence, makes for some interesting news... The Guardian version has more details...

Yvonne the runaway cow brings fame to Bavarian village but no milk
€10,000 reward offered for Yvonne's safe return as Zangberg mayor revels in animal's wanderlust
The Guardian, 15th August 2011

Cow leaps three foot fence and squashes car
Motorist Robert Gould is lucky to be alive after a startled cow leapt over a three-foot fence and landed on his car. The Telegraph, 12th August 2011
"It is understood the cow which died at the scene had been trying to escape from a farmer when it jumped into the road on the outskirts of Leek, Staffs."
Another cow in the news...

More UFOs over Cottered? [Herts, UK]
Mercury News, 15th August 2011

A NATIONAL radio travel broadcaster has come forward saying she saw something inexplicable in the sky in Cottered the day after a BBC reporter spotted an object.

Last Thursday (August 4) the day after sports reporter Mike Sewell told Radio Five Live listeners about his encounter, Heart Radio’s Joanne Webb, who lives outside Cottered, told her story on presenter Jamie Theakson's breakfast show.

Describing an incident that happened one morning at 4am on her way to work, the 35-year-old said: "A few weeks ago I saw this ball of light, it was bright white and until recently I thought it was a shooting star

Comment: What is going on with reporters these days, reporting what they have seen with their own eyes and calling it news... I mean, the woman saw a UFO and they aren't suppose to exist despite seeing it with her own eyes like millions of other "nutcases" who have been ignored over the decades...

Four UFOs hover over residential neighborhood in Commerce, Colorado [video]
Unexplained Phenomena Examiner, 12th August 2011
The "gods" are back and hanging out over my house! LOL! More from Tracey Pearce here.

Irish Chase Church Cash, Real Estate Toward $2 Billion Child-Abuse Bill
Bloomberg News, 15th August 2011

Ireland is squeezing the Roman Catholic Church to hand over cash and real estate toward a 1.4 billion-euro ($2 billion) child-abuse bill amid the bitterest stand-off yet seen between the Vatican and the government.

In the sharpest language an Irish leader has ever used against the church, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said last month the Vatican’s handling of the scandals has been dominated by “elitism and narcissism.”

“The relationship between the state and the Vatican has never been worse,” David Quinn, a religious commentator who is also director of the Dublin-based Iona Institute, which promotes religion in society, said in an interview. “I struggle to think of a stronger attack by a Western European leader on the church than Enda Kenny’s.”

Comment: Wow.... Just wow... The Catholic Church have been fearing the arrival and influence of the "Christ" Energies and now we can see why... I have been studying the history of the Catholic church on and off for over 30 years and I could not be any more stunned...

Smoking / Steaming Hillside Phenomenon - Southern California - Aug 12, 2011 (Video)
YouTube, 14th August 2011

Hope Ranch - An unsolved mystery is smoldering on a dirt hillside below Hope Ranch. Smoke and steam are coming out of the soil, very similar to an event in October of 2006. Geologists have said a landslide five years ago may have opened up a crack in the bluff. That may have added oxygen to an underground super heated tar site.

The hot zone is being controlled with sprinklers spraying waters in all directions. A fence is up in the area to keep inquisitive beach walkers away. Santa Barbara County Fire officials say there is no immediate threat to the area or risk to the public.

Comment: Another geological mystery....

Strong wind topples stage at US fair, killing 5
Gov.: Wind gust at Sugarland concert a 'fluke'; fair closed Sunday
MSNBC News, 14th August 2011

INDIANAPOLIS — The summer evening at the Indiana State Fair turned strangely cold. The wind blew hard, then harder still, tearing the fabric from the roof of the wobbling grandstand stage.

The crowd, waiting under a thunderous sky for the country duo Sugarland to perform Saturday, had just been told over the loudspeakers that severe weather was possible. They were told where to seek shelter if an evacuation was necessary, but none was ordered. The show, it seemed, was to go on.

None of the phone calls workers had made to the National Weather Service prepared them for the 60 mph to 70 mph gust that blew a punishing cloud of dirt, dust and rain down the fairground's main thoroughfare. The massive rigging and lighting system covering the stage tilted forward, then plummeted onto the front of the crowd in a sickening thump.

Comment: Hmmm... It's a bit strange when virtually the same thing happened in Montreal, Canada at the Bluefest when the stage collapsed nearly a month ago (see below or archives), and that was believed to have been caused by a downburst — a strong downdraft of air from a thunderstorm that spreads out in all directions when it hits the ground at much faster speeds.

Oil slick is heading to British coast after North Sea pipeline leak
Daily Mail, 14th August 2011

An oil slick measuring 50 square miles is heading for the British coastline after a North Sea pipeline started leaking. Crude oil has been spewing from the pipe on the seabed, at a depth of 300ft, sparking fears of a threat to marine life.

Shell admitted on Friday night that crude oil had been leaking into the sea from beneath its Gannet Alpha rig, 112 miles east of Aberdeen, since at least Wednesday.

Comment: OK, it seems the corrosion of pipelines in the North Sea is now a major problem and space weather is the cause, see below for more information.

Oil and gas spills in North Sea every week, papers reveal
Documents list companies that caused more than 100 potentially lethal – and largely unpublicised – leaks in 2009 and 2010
The Guardian, 5th July 2011

Reference 1:
"Abstract. Geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) flowing in technological systems on the ground are a direct manifestation of space weather. Due to the proximity of very dynamic ionospheric current systems, GIC are of special interest at high latitudes, where they have been known to cause problems, for example, for normal operation of power transmission systems and buried pipelines."

April 2000 geomagnetic storm: ionospheric drivers of large geomagnetically induced currents
A. Pulkkinen1, A. Thomson2, E. Clarke2, and A. McKay3
Annales Geophysicae (2003) 21: 709–717 c European Geosciences Union 2003
link

Reference 2:
"Abstract. Geomagnetically induced currents (GIC) in technological systems, such as electric power transmission systems, oil and gas pipelines, telecommunication cables and railway equipment, are a manifestation of space weather at the earth's surface. In power systems, GIC cause saturation of transformers, which may lead to problems in the operation of the system, and even to a collapse of the whole system and to permanent damages of transformers. The best-known GIC effect occurred in March 1989 when the Québec province in Canada suffered from an electric black-out for about nine hours. The corrosion rate may be increased in pipelines when GIC flows from the pipe into the soil, and the associated voltages can disturb pipeline surveys and the cathodic protection. This paper summarizes GIC effects on power systems and pipelines."

POWER AND PIPELINES (GROUND SYSTEMS)
Risto Pirjola, Ari Viljanen, Olaf Amm and Antti Pulkkinen
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Geophysical Research Division [1999]
link

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Impact Mitigation
Universe Today, 13th August 2011

The save-the-Earth rehearsal mission Don Quijote, commissioned by the European Space Agency, is planned to test the potential of a real life-or-death mission to deflect a mass-extinction-inducing asteroid from a collision course with Earth.

Currently at ‘concept’ stage, the Don Quijote Near Earth Asteroid Impact Mitigation Mission – has been modelled on a proposed flight to either 2002 AT4 or 1989 ML, both being near-Earth asteroids, though neither represent an obvious collision risk. However, subsequent studies have proposed that Amor 2003 SM84 or even 99942 Apophis may be more suitable targets. After all, 99942 Apophis does carry a marginal (1 in 250,000) risk of an Earth impact in 2036.

Whatever the target, a dual launch of two spacecraft is proposed – an Impactor called Hidalgo (a title Cervantes gave to the original Don Quixote) and an Orbiter called Sancho (who was the Don’s faithful companion).

Comment: Historically comets are more of a problem than asteroids and according to an astronomer that has not been gagged, there is a cometary debris train on it's way to arrive in 2016 and again in 2023, (see archives). Since the report stated that if the comet "hit" Earth it could be "potentially hazardous" but since they have not spotted the comet, just a train of debris, it seems to me this should really be called a plasmoid train. So, if it's big enough, it might produce our three days of darkness. If this happens then that will be the full initiation for the start of Earth's Space Weather era in terms of Mayan thinking. Yes, I know, lot's of ifs.

Verizon Site Mischief Cuts Police Phone Service
State Trooper Says Someone With Keys Went In Underground Vault
WTAE Pittsburg News, 12th August 2011

LEMONT FURNACE, Pa. -- State police in Uniontown said a 29-hour loss of landline phone service was caused by an act of criminal mischief when someone went into locked underground Verizon vaults and shut off the power.

Trooper Timothy Kirsch said there was no forced entry at the sites on Main Street and on Route 119 in Lemont Furnace, near the Penn State Fayette campus. Police believe whoever shut off the power had keys.

Police are trying to determine if the incident, which began at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, is related to an ongoing strike by Verizon landline workers.

The local state police barracks was without phone and computer service for 21 hours, police said. Calls had to be forwarded to dispatchers who worked out of another barracks several miles away.

Comment: Really? And nobody with keys could turn the power back on? Well, I don't believe it....(I am starting to sound like the TV character Victor Meldrew), the planet is charging up and additional currents will be flowing through the ground, but the US seems to have more of a problem than other countries due to an aging infrastructure, poor maintenance and geology that encourages currents to build up. I am thinking this might be related to the surge (excuse the pun) of transformer fires in the last week or so that might be related to the latest bout of space weather. For more info, please read the references above about Geomagnetic Induced Currents (GICs).

Transformer fire sparks large emergency response, traffic jam in Dongan Hills
silive.com, 4th August 2011
"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A transformer caught fire outside a strip mall in Grasmere just before 5 a.m. this morning, sparking a smoke condition and traffic jams heading for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in time for the morning rush hour."

Waldorf-Astoria Has Small Electrical Fire
NY1 News, 4th August 2011
"An electrical fire broke out Thursday at the famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, but it was quickly brought under control."

Workers Hurt In Deadly Substation Blast Identified
Out-Of-State Contractor Dies In Explosion, Fire At Substation
WESH Orlando, 8th August 2011

Electric Substation Burns In St Joe County
wtvbam News, 9th August 2011
"CONSTANTINE -- Engineers for Midwest Energy Cooperative say they have never seen anything like this. A mysterious fire destroyed an entire power substation and left 12-hundred customers in White Pigeon and Constantine in the dark for much of Monday evening."

Hanson Place Manhole Fire Causes Temporary Evacuation
The Local, 14th August 2011
"We got a tip from a reader today about an electrical manhole fire outside the Shirley A. Chisholm State Office Building at 55 Hanson Place, near the corner of South Elliot Place. [...] Two manholes, one by the Shirley Chisholm Building and the other in the middle of the street on Hanson & South Elliot, were billowing smoke. Loud clanging noises & booms were echoing in the street and sometimes flames would shoot out of the manholes. Firetrucks and firefighters came out and shut down the street & were standing by."

Failures on aging Northeast rail system spur delays, worries
Philly.com, 14th August 2011
"Power failures, a transformer fire, and last week's derailments in New York have stranded thousands of riders and demonstrated the problems with old power lines, congested tunnels, and deferred maintenance.

Flanders transformer fire leaves more than 1300 customers without power
Riverhead Local, 14th August 2011
"A transformer fire on Flanders Road this morning left 1385 customers without power according to the Long Island Power Authority."

Surging Retractions in Scientific Publishing
Roger Pielke Jr, 11th August 2011

The Wall Street Journal reports that retractions of scientific papers have surged in recent years, with the top 3 journals issuing retractions being PNAS, Science and Nature. The graph above shows the increase in the rate of retracted papers.

Pharmalot provides a summary:

[T]here were just 22 retraction notices that appeared in journals 10 years ago, but 139 were published in 2006 and by last year, the number reached 339. Through July of this year, there were a total 210 retractions, according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science, which maintains an index of 11,600 peer-reviewed journals. Meanwhile, retractions related to fraud rose more than sevenfold between 2004 and 2009, exceeding a twofold rise traced to mistakes, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. After studying 742 papers that were withdrawn from 2000 to 2010, the analysis found that 73.5 percent were retracted simply for error, but 26.6 percent were retracted for fraud. Ominously, 31.8 percent of retracted papers were not noted as retracted (read the abstract).

The conclusion? Either there is more fraud or more policing?

Comment: More evidence of "bad" science but according to watchers, the retractions are mostly related to the medical field which should help those climate scientists who have been under some intense scrutiny recently for their particular brand of poor/fake science.

The annotated apocalypse: Anthropologists tackle 2012
Boing Boing, 13th August 2011

There are 1000s of people who think that something important—if not the end or the world, then something—will happen on December 21, 2012. These speculations spring from a well-seasoned cultural melting pot, but a key ingredient is the writings and beliefs of both ancient and modern Maya people. In fact, the folks promoting the 2012 movement often frame themselves as experts in Maya traditions.

Here's the thing, though: There are actual experts in ancient Maya traditions, and actual experts who study the culture and religion of modern Maya living today. These archaeologists and anthropologists have, inadvertently, created some of the pop culture legends that spawned the 2012 movement. [...]

JH: I try to be fairly diplomatic about it. I try to realize that these myths play a very important role in people’s lives. They make them feel comfortable, help them feel better. I try to help people develop critical thinking skills, and help them understand that you can’t educate yourself simply by reading the web and watching the History Channel. That it requires a lot of scholarship and reading, and you have to look at the original academic literature. You can’t rely on popular magazines. You have to evaluate the primary information itself. Lots of people can’t afford the academic training they want and so they try to do it themselves and wind up with an autodidactic education that includes a lot of bizarre and totally wrong speculative literature. In fact, a lot of people writing about this are self taught in the same way.

Comment: Archaeologist John Hoopes seems to be jumping on the 2012 bandwagon when the wheels have already fallen off. Anthropologists and archaeologist have virtually nothing to do with the modern Maya, but want to tell the world about their understanding of ancient Mayan monuments when modern Maya say that 90% of this information is highly speculative (that's a nice way of saying it's complete rubbish.) According to modern Maya, the discussion of the end of the Long Count calendar and the date 13.0.0.0.0 is only the approximate start of a new era that will be dominated by the element of ether (modern spelling aether). As Carlos Barrios points out, it's the birth of a new era but babies don't always come on the exact due date... Well, despite the fact that academics have not being able to integrate enough information to realise the obvious, the aether in the form of Space Weather has arrived approximately on time. There is other indigenous, esoteric and metaphysical knowledge that supports the beliefs of the modern Maya, but the Maya are the traditional galactic, cosmic and Earth energy Timekeepers and they have adequately fulfilled this role.

Residents search for the cause of the strange acoustic anomaly reported in Kiev
Extinction Protocol, 13th August 2011

KIEV – This was of such sound intensity that it shook windows in buildings. If you can prove and argue that this was coming from the building, please do so and we would welcome it. This was recorded on the 5th floor. Construction work is truly in nesokolkih neighboring houses, and is heard on the video but the construction work – sounds like a mosquito squeak in this terrible hum. Neither the power used nor the power of sound construction holds any comparison with what was heard.

Comment: OK, this sound is incredible but it does sound completely natural, almost like a whale calling... Strange sounds and low frequency hums are being heard in many metropolitan areas. Scientists are not willing to comment yet about on what is taking place on a wider scale, but we do know that scientists have identified new Earth humming and strange radar rings suggests influxes of energy. For more background info, see comments related to the article Tibet’s Cave of Spirits is Singing, March 2011, Best of the Blog - Earth Changes.

Mystery hum gains another believer
Councillor to track vibrations
Windsor Star, 13th August 2011
"The phenomenon of mysterious rumblings under Windsor has a new believer - and he says it's time to start taking it seriously. "It's very present and real," said Ward 10 Coun. Al Maghnieh."

HAVE YOU HEARD THE HUM..
YouTube, 17th August 2011

Eye Witness News 9 TV report plus other video [11:00]

Highlights from newly released British UFO files
Open Minds, 11th August 2011

The UK National Archives has released its eighth batch of UFO files, and as usual the stories are making headlines. From the ridiculous to the eye-opening credible cases, there are dozens of interesting stories in the files.

The National Archives began releasing their UFO files in 2008. They claimed that they received so many request for UFO files that it was easier for them just to release them all in batches over the next four years than to have to fulfill all of the requests. The first batch came out in May 2008, and there have been two a year ever since. This is the second batch for 2011, the first came out in March.

The media will be covering the stories within the files for the next couple of weeks. [...]

MoD official recalls Winston Churchill’s interest in UFOs

In a 1994 letter from retired official Ralph Noyes to MoD says he was Private Secretary to Vice Chief of Air Staff Sir Ralph Cochrane in the summer of 1952 “when news reached him of the remarkable UFO events over Washington DC”. Noyes said his boss was interested “as was the then MP Winston Churchill.” The then Scientific Advisor to the Air Ministry, Robert Cockburn, was “instructed to make enquiries…[his] report convinced Cochrane that it was “all American hysteria?, though he naturally wouldn?t have put it in quite those terms in public. [Churchill] was advised that there was nothing in the “UFO nonsense?.” He adds that after 1952 “no further official notice was taken of the subject within the Air Ministry…[but] other subsequent events suggested to some of us that a “UFO phenomenon? of some kind or another certainly existed. But there were never solid grounds for regarding it as a Defence threat or as justifying official steps such as the establishment of a standing committee of enquiry.” As a result the subject remained “something of a joke (albeit an uneasy one on occasion)”.

MoD UFO study

In an internal memo from DI55 Wing Commander dated 5 July 1995 says there was no reason to continue publicly denying intelligence interest in UFOs. It says press stories have described DI55?s role as a “defender of the Earth against the alien menace” which is “light years from the truth.” He feared that if this interest was revealed it could lead to “disbelief and embarrassment since few people will be believe the truth that lack of funds and higher priorities have prevented any study of the thousands of reports received.” Another official has scribbled “Ouch!” in the margin of the document. The same file contains papers from 1986-87 on a DI55 proposal to enter details of UFO reports onto a computer. But in March 1988 Sec(AS) (the “UFO desk?) “decreed that all work should cease as it was in contravention of Ministerial statements to the effect that UFOs did not pose a threat to the UK”. They feared news of the proposed study “could be very embarrassing for [MoD]”.

However the idea for a MoD UFO database was revived in 1993 when a limited study was proposed by DI55, despite the “potential for political embarrassment” if news leaked out. Background to the study can be found in a briefing document from 1995. The DI55 study of UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) was completed in 2000 and was classified “Secret?, but was declassified and released to the public following a FOIA request in 2006.

The report’s conclusions are summarized as: “sightings can be explained as mis-reporting of man-made vehicles, natural but not unusual phenomena and natural but relatively rare and not completely understood phenomena”. Following completion of the report, it was decided no further work on UFOs would be carried out by Defence Intelligence.

Comment: Yes, it's the "not completely understood phenomena" that have been called UAPs, that the Ministry of Defence have been interested in all along. Hence, those in the know have occasionally pointed out the truth by stating: "...it is clear from the reports that we receive that there are many strange things to be seen in the sky". Yes, the radar angels can seen very strange if they become visible to the the naked eye. I really don't know why this Open Minds article is coy about sharing with us the actual details from the MOD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000] report, codenamed Project Condign. I downloaded this previously Top Secret Condign report and the Executive Summary opens with this unequivocal statement:

"Reports of UAP (popularly known as "UFOs") are usually described as coloured lights and sometimes shapes. They are typically spherical, disc, torroidal or cigar shaped. Very occasionally they are reported with sound and even with smell. Reports occur because they comprise unfamiliar and unexpected lights, shapes and patterns, in the context in which the observer sees them. The phenomena occur on a daily, worldwide basis. […]

"That UAP exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take-off, accelerate to exceptional velocities and vanish, they can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamic characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile-either manned or unmanned."

There is no meandering around the truth here, the MOD Condign report was rather unequivocal.

Riots, wild markets: Did space storms drive us mad?
Reuters News, 12th August 2011

(Reuters) - Rollercoaster financial markets and the worst riots Britain has seen in decades have made it quite a week for a time of year that is usually so dead the newspapers are filled with "silly season" tales of amusing pet antics.

Everyone is pointing fingers -- at blundering politicians, hooded thugs, disaffected youths, bumbling police and greedy bankers -- but could the cause for all the madness really be the star at the center of our solar system?

Comment: The fact that space weather has the ability to unbalance people is the reason why I started to make my tremendous efforts to 'make a difference', but others people's indifference has been hard to cope with.

Thousands riot in China’s Guizhou province: Xinhua
Raw Story, 12th August 2011

Riots Spread To China
YouTube, 13th August 2011

Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses
Breitbart News, 11th August 2011

A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday.

The micro-electronics technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), was developed by an international team of researchers from the United States, China and Singapore, and is described in the journal Science.

"It's a technology that blurs the distinction between electronics and biology," said co-author John Rogers, a professor in materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Our goal was to develop an electronic technology that could integrate with the skin in a way that is mechanically and physiologically invisible to the user."

Comment: I am wondering why scientists think this device would need ambient electricity, as the human skin is already imbued with natural electromagnetic energy. What's more due to space weather, the levels of ambient electricity is already increasing on the planet. This reminds me of the years of messages in the metaphysical coimmunity warning folk about the need to straighten out their energy fields to cope with an influx of electrical energy because some would struggle to cope with the additional charge. Now that scientists are re-confirming their research of electrodynamic templates that surround all biological entities, it seems that these messages were highly relevant.

“Hurricane” in the desert
weatherpictureoftheday.com, 10th August 2011

From the comments: I live in Blythe, California, due east of Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. I was out attempting to take lightning photographs on the night of July 5th as this system swept overhead. I got just one semi-successful photo as the lightning, while intense, was heavily shrouded by the extreme rainfall which developed. It was one of the strangest storms I’ve seen in my 12 years of desert lightning photography!

Normally a cell forms, shoots off some cloud-to-ground lightning, then begins to rain, then the lightning ceases as the rain becomes the primary transport of electrons back to the ground. This storm had lightning coming down lighting huge sheets of rain, so much so that the branches of the lightning couldn’t be seen even as close as a half mile from the strikes. I saw lightning hit a power transformer and a tree, and saw the sparks fly through the air, but never saw the bolt, other than as a sheet flash. This began to form directly over Blythe, out of the clear skies and intense heat and humidity we had that day, once it had been destabilized by the outflow of storms over western Pinal County in Arizona.

Note on the animated gif that at no point in time does this swirl ever come up from the Gulf of California. It was not the result of a “storm that developed over the Gulf of California”. No way, no how. There were no low level winds associated with this, other than typical t-storm inflow and outflow. It is sheerly a construct of the quirky high humidity we had that day, and the high diurnal desert heat, which remained in sunlight for the entire day west of the Colorado River which divides Arizona and California.

Comment: More anecdotal evidence that the theories of hurricane formation are basically wrong. The comments here are quite interesting.

Riddle of the late night rumblings that caused a sonic boom in Norfolk
Norwich Evening News24, 7th August 2011

Mystery surrounds what made the earth tremble across Norfolk in a bizarre late-night phenomenon. Experts and amateurs alike believe a sonic boom - triggered by a meteorite or aircraft - caused strange tremors to shake homes and spook pets.

The rattling was reported by people across the county, including Norwich, North Walsham, Gayton, Belton, Cringleford and South Lopham at about 10.30pm on Tuesday. [...]

Glen Ford, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey, said: "From the descriptions and the lack of seismic information ,it sounds like it could have been a sonic boom."

Mr Ford said sonic booms can be caused by aircraft or meteorites. And in a bizarre coincidence some people reported seeing a meteor over the skies of Norwich just before the tremor started.

Dominic Hyde-Smith, 44, spotted "a streak of fire" land south of the city while on his way home to Hempnall. "It just shot down in a split second," he said. "Rather than a shooting star, this went straight down towards the ground."

Comment: According to spaceweather.com Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower that should reach its peak on August 12-13. However, because space weather conditions have changed, it seems that larger objects are being dislodged and objects that we are not expecting are arriving thick and fast. Hence, there have been some significant meteor reports in the last few days or so, see below.

Loud noise heard in Niue thought to be caused by meteor
Radio New Zealand, 5th August 2011

Riddle of the late night rumblings that caused a sonic boom in Norfolk
GFW Advertiser, 8th August 2011

Meteor streaks across sky over Hungary
Caboodle, 8th August 2011

Pacific island's big bang blamed on meteor
ABC News, 8th August 2011

The Inconvenient Truth is Out There…
Dr David Clarke, 7th August 2011

The truth about the British Government’s interest in UFOs has been released by The National Archives.

In what I believe to be the most important revelation so far in the British disclosure programme, the MoD’s Defence Intelligence Staff admit that “lack of funds and higher priorities” had prevented any detailed study of the thousands of reports they had received since the end of the Second World War. [...]

Other highlights include details of MoD’s continuing interest in photographs depicting “unidentified aerial phenomena”. Click here for my more detailed summary of the key stories. The files include:

Comment: Dr David Clarke provides the link to download the latest batch of UFO files that are on offer free for 1 month, but there are links here to his latest summary and the previous 7 summaries of the UFO files released from the UK National Archives.

National Archives UFO Files #8
Dr David Clarke, August 2011
"In public MoD policy was they did not spend public money on UFO research. But in private desk officers at the Defence Intelligence staff were keen to take a look at photos and films of UFOs obtained by members of the public. In order to do so, UFO desk officers would need authorisation to approach members of the public by phone or a personal visit. This was seen as a risky public relations strategy. They were well aware that both the Press and UFOlogists would interpret any interest, let alone personal visits from “the men from the Ministry”, as proof that MoD were involved in secret research on this subject."
This is admission of the "official" lying that has been going on for decades.... Let's think: why would the military investigate if there was not a real phenomenon that needed to be understood?

Go MoD priorities 'stopped UFOs study'
Belfast Telegraph, 11th August 2011

A lack of resources and "higher priorities" at the Ministry of Defence prevented a full-scale study of the thousands of UFO reports that have been made since the Second World War, according to official documents.

The observation is contained in a 1995 internal memo from a wing commander in DI55, the branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) which was responsible for assessing UFO reports. The author concludes that there was no longer any reason to continue denying intelligence interest in UFOs, although the public perception of the unit as a "defender of the Earth from the alien menace" was "light years from the truth".

But he thought few people would believe the truth and that lack of funds and higher priorities had prevented a full study of UFO sightings.

Comment: I can only presume that this article is refering to the MOD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Defence Region [2000] report. From the conclusion, it is very clear that the contractor who wrote this report new the truth. UFOs/UAPs represent another lifeform but that uneducated and ignorant people would struggle to believe it. Well, I don't believe that this generalisation should apply to the intelligentsia who can research, study and engage the parts of the brain that have not atrophied due to lack of use. For more background information, see the Joyfire webpage, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Index .

UFO files: Huge flying jellyfish spotted over Scotland
The Scotsman, 11th August 2011

Harrier jets in a dogfight with a "bright light" above the Queen's Highland home at Balmoral and a glowing white ball "like a flying jellyfish" over East Kilbride are among the alleged UFO sightings made to the Ministry of Defence.

The National Archives' latest batch of "alien activity", released yesterday, reveals sightings by the Scottish public, newspaper reports and official inquiries. The register shows that there were 61 reports between 2002 and 2006 alone.

The also include a "glowing white flashing light" seen over St Andrews on the evening of New Year's Day 2002, to the "huge white ball that glowing. Looked like a flying jellyfish" over East Kilbride.

Comment: More old reports of jellyfish like entities in the sky, see archives for more stories and comments.

Chandler women claim UFOs spotted in sky
CHANDLER, AZ (KPHO), 8h August 2011
Two Chandler women claim some lights they saw in the sky Saturday night have no other explanation than being UFOs. "I noticed that it started to move like jagged...kind of like a fly," Jessica Hurwitz told CBS 5 News.
Note the witness describes "critter" behaviour...

UFO sighting files released in UK
The Independent 11th August 2011
"One of the more bizarre tales from the files is the 2003 sighting of "worm-shaped" UFOs "wriggling around in the sky" over East Dulwich in London."
Plasma is recognised as having life-like properties, i.e. it behaves like it is alive. Reports of something wormlike wriggling in the sky are now quite common due to the massive influx of plasma onto our planet. 2003 was when we had the massive 'Halloween' X-rated solar storms. See archives for some reports and video links.

Sun unleashes largest solar flare in five years, sending 10 billion ton storm cloud hurtling through space at 5million mph
Daily Mail, 10th August 2011

The sun unleashed an unusually powerful solar flare yesterday, the largest in nearly five years. The eruption launched a ten billion ton storm cloud hurtling through space at five million miles per hour. Scientists said the event took place on the side of the sun that was not facing Earth, so there will be little impact to satellites and communication systems. [...]

Scientists have warned that solar storms could have 'devastating effects' on human technology when they hit a peak in two years' time. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration assistant secretary Kathryn Sullivan said the storms pose a growing threat to critical infrastructure such as satellite communications, navigation systems and electrical transmission equipment. Solar storms release particles that can temporarily disable or permanently destroy fragile computer circuits.

Dr Sullivan, a former Nasa astronaut who in 1984 became the first woman to walk in space, earlier this year told a UN weather conference in Geneva that 'it is not a question of if, but really a matter of when a major solar event could hit our planet'. She is not the only expert to issue a warning about the threat posed by solar storms.

In February, astronomers warned that mankind is now more vulnerable to such an event than at any time in history - and that the planet should prepare for a global Hurricane Katrina-style disaster.

A massive eruption of the sun would save waves of radiation and charged particles to Earth, damaging the satellite systems used for synchronising computers, airline navigation and phone networks.

Comment: OK, I have not come across these comments or anything from scientists at this conference but this quote is quite stupendous...

"...mankind is now more vulnerable to such an event [Solar Storm] than at any time in history."

I believe it would have been more accurate to state that our modern technological world is now more vulnerable to such an event [Solar Storm] than at any time in modern times. Massive geomagnetic storms causing electricity to flow through the air occur on a regular basis. The difference now is with the sudden onset of space weather changing the properties of space, means that a massive geomagnetic storm will cause even more damage for unprotected electronics and our national power grids that will be fried in the process, thereby causing a societal collapse unless we wake-up and start doing business differently on this planet.

Sun Unleashes Largest Solar Flare in Years
Space.com, 9th August 2011
"This flare had a GOES X-ray magnitude of X6.9, meaning it was more than 3 times larger than the previous largest flare of this solar cycle - the X2.2 that occurred on Feb 15, 2011," scientists with NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space observatory that monitors the sun, wrote in an update."

How Does the Sun Spark X-Class Solar Flares?
Space.com, 10th August 2011

The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History
Space.com, 9th August 2011

Space Weather 9-11th august
Spacweather.com, 10th August 2011

MAJOR FLARE, NOT EARTH-DIRECTED: On August 9th at 0805 UT, sunspot 1263 produced an X7-class solar flare--only the third X-flare of new Solar Cycle 24 and the most powerful so far. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the explosion's extreme ultraviolet flash:

The brunt of the explosion was not Earth directed. Nevertheless, radiation from the flare created waves of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere, briefly disrupting communications at some VLF and HF radio frequencies. The blast also accelerated a mild torrent of protons toward Earth; they can be seen speckling the images in this SOHO movie of a CME emerging from the blast site. The CME will probably miss Earth. At this time, however, we cannot rule out a glancing blow from the flank of the cloud on August 11th or 12th. Stay tuned for additional analysis. Solar flare alerts: text, voice. X-flares of Solar Cycle 24: Feb. 15, 2011 (X2), March 9, 2011 (X1), Aug. 9, 2011 (X7). Before these three, the previous X-flare occured on Dec.14, 2006, (X1) during old Solar Cycle 23.

The brunt of the explosion was not Earth directed. Nevertheless, a minor proton storm is in progress around our planet, which could affect satellites in high-altitude orbits. Also, radiation from flare created waves of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere, briefly disrupting communications at some VLF and HF radio frequencies. Space Weather 9th August 2011

Comment: I am wondering about the news of a proton storm because they were not considered a major issue until Janaury 2005, when there was a severe blast and a proton storm went on for a whole day. Earth being bathed in protons day and night is not something that satellite controllers would be happy about at all and I am wondering why they have not been highlighted as a type of space weather unless there has been a recent change due to an increase in frequency. See old NASA news for more details.

Sickening Solar Flares
The biggest solar proton storm in 15 years erupted last week. NASA researchers discuss what it might have done to someone on the Moon.
NASA Science News, January 27, 2005:
"On January 20th, 2005, a giant sunspot named "NOAA 720" exploded. The blast sparked an X-class solar flare, the most powerful kind, and hurled a billion-ton cloud of electrified gas (a "coronal mass ejection") into space. Solar protons accelerated to nearly light speed by the explosion reached the Earth-Moon system minutes after the flare--the beginning of a days-long "proton storm."

NASA - A New Kind of Solar Storm
Going to the Moon? Be careful. A new kind of solar storm can take you by surprise.
NASA Science News, June 10, 2005:
"Scant minutes after the January 20th flare, a swarm of high-speed protons surrounded Earth and the Moon. Thirty minutes later, the most intense proton storm in decades was underway.

"We've been hit by strong proton storms before, but [never so quickly]," says solar physicist Robert Lin of UC Berkeley. "Proton storms normally develop hours or even days after a flare."This one began in minutes."

Investigators try to decipher meaning of Temple Balsall crop circle
Coventry Telegraph, 10th August 2011

A STUNNING crop circle has appeared near an old RAF base in Warwickshire and a 1,000-year-old hamlet founded by the Knights Templar.

The intricate geometric pattern in Temple Balsall features an eight and 16-pointed star around a central sun, alongside pyramids and oval-shaped ‘helmets’.

Many believe it has religious, spiritual or scientific meanings, from its mathematical properties to its similarity to the Cross of St John, a Lotus flower and a rose compass.

Comment: Very nice. This crop circle has a 8 petal spiral tip meander pattern embedded that is often found in nature. This is a pattern that I explained in my book but I think the crop circle is indicating new higher frequencies on our planet.

Orange gunk found near remote Alaska village identified
'We'll likely never have a definitive answer' on why eggs suddenly appeared on shore, scientist says MSNBC News, 9th August 2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Scientists have identified an orange-colored gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets.

But the mystery is not quite solved. Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday they don't know for sure what species the eggs are, although they believe they are some kind of crustacean eggs or embryos. They also don't know if the eggs are toxic, and that worries many of the 374 residents of Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo community located at the tip of an 8-mile barrier reef on Alaska's northwest coast.

Comment: The mystery deepens... microscopic eggs or microscopic cells? The scientists will probably want to hide the truth under scientific jargon, but we will have to see because we have the precedent of the red cells (some say with DNA) that rained down over a period of months in Kerala, India. Maybe it's worth speculating that there there might be a comet in orbit around Earth that is currently off-loading...

Atmosphere May Help Power Huge Freak Waves
Our Amazing Planet, 9th August 2011

In 1995, an 84-foot wall of water pummeled an offshore oil rig in the North Sea. This massive wave wasn't a tsunami triggered by an earthquake — it was the first documented occurrence of a "rogue wave."

Rogue waves are enormous waves that occur far out at sea seemingly in isolation and without an obvious cause. They have been plaguing sailors since the advent of seafaring, yet it wasn’t until monitoring equipment on the rig captured the telltale data that scientists could confirm that freak waves, as they’re also known, were not just the product of a sea-soaked imagination.

But in the years since then, the study of rogue waves has yielded as many questions as answers. Scientists have examined the wave patterns to look for clues as to how this seemingly random phenomenon could occur. New research suggests that atmospheric pressure may play a role.

"Maybe this isn't just a wave problem, which is how we've been looking at this for the past decade," said Tim Janssen, associate professor of oceanography at San Francisco State University, who was not involved with the study. "This time, let's step out of the box and say maybe there's atmospheric variation going on."

Comment: Scientists stepping out of the box is always interesting to hear about as it's such a rare event... Well, we are getting many more rogue waves these days and we have to consider the impact of atmospheric instability due to space weather, but I can see there might be more of a closer relationship with the moon's increasingly eccentric orbit influencing Earth.

Joan R. Ginther who won lottery 4 times is a Stanford University statistics PhD
Daily Mail, 9th August 2011

She was called the luckiest woman in the world. But now that luck is being called into question by some who think that winning the lottery four times is more than just a coincidental spell of good fortune.

Joan R. Ginther, 63, from Texas, won multiple million dollar payouts each time. First, she won $5.4 million, then a decade later, she won $2million, then two years later $3million and in the summer of 2010, she hit a $10million jackpot.

The odds of this has been calculated at one in eighteen septillion and luck like this could only come once every quadrillion years. Harper's reporter Nathanial Rich recently wrote an article about Ms Ginther, which calls the the validity of her 'luck' into question. First, he points out, Ms Ginther is a former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specialising in statistics.

Comment: Well, so it's not just about luck then...

Japan government prepares plan to flee Tokyo
ABC News, 9th August 2011

Japan is considering the possibility of creating a back-up capital city in case a major natural disaster, like the March 11 earthquake, strikes Tokyo.

A new panel from Japan's Ministry of Land and Infrastructure will consider the possibility of moving some of Tokyo's capital functions to another big city, like Osaka.

Comment: Old news, but now it's 'official'... whatever, the current radiation levels in and around Tokyo are set to kill millions of people.

Busby on Radiation in Japan: Issues & Epidemiology
femalefaust, 8th August 2011

Al Gore Lets Loose In Aspen Institute Speech About Bull**** Anti Global-Warming Pseudo-Science
Huffington Post, 9th August 2011

Speaking in Aspen last Thursday, former Vice President Al Gore warned of the impacts of global warming. In sharp contrast to previous appearances, however, Gore may have frothed at the mouth a bit when he told the Aspen Institute's 'Networks and Citizenship' panel not to believe those that dismiss global warming.

In a passionate rant, Gore says his opponents are a group of people, "washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. There's no longer a shared reality ... It's no longer acceptable in mixed company -- meaning bipartisan company -- to use the goddamn word 'climate.'"

And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!

Comment: Wow... This is a classic rant... Al Gore in meltdown mode... He really does cuss badly... listen to the MP3 but only if cussing and bad language does not bother you... Well, he says that people have no idea, but if he understands that this is really about space weather, then I can understand why he is so distressed... Most people really don't have the first idea...

[Gore] did not know, as the others did, that the conference was being streamed…
WUWT, 9th August 2011
"As reported by the NYT. Oops. Now we know why we heard the real Gore speaking, not just the made for TV version of Al. And… due to this story going viral, we get the “Full Monty” at last."

Massive Japan Quake Even Rattled Upper Atmosphere
Our Amazing Planet, 8th August 2011

The giant earthquake that struck Japan this year not only shook the Earth, but also rattled the highest layer of the atmosphere, scientists find. This research could lead to a new type of early warning system for devastating tsunamis and earthquakes.

The magnitude 9 quake that struck off the coast of Tohoku in Japan in March unleashed a catastrophic tsunami, ushered in what might be the world's first complex megadisaster and set off microquakes and tremors around the globe.

Past research revealed the surface motions and tsunamis that earthquakes generate can also trigger waves in the atmosphere. These waves can reach all the way to the ionosphere, one of the highest layers of the atmosphere.

Now scientists report the Tohoku quake generated the largest such disturbances seen yet, creating ripples in electrically charged particles reaching nearly 220 miles (350 kilometers) above the Earth.

Investigators measured these disruptions, called seismotraveling ionospheric disturbances, using about 1,000 global positioning system (GPS) receivers in Japan and Taiwan. Disruptions of the electrically charged particles in the ionosphere would lead to anomalies in radio signals between the ground receivers and the GPS satellites, data that scientists can measure.

Comment: More details about how a massive increase in electron density was detected in the ionosphere about Japan, and how the impact on GPS receivers provides a very accurate way to provide some measurement of what took place. This could be very useful new science.

Scientists Trace Heat Wave To Massive Star At Center Of Solar System
The Onion, 8th August 2011

PASADENA, CA—Groundbreaking new findings announced Monday suggest the record-setting heat wave plaguing much of the United States may be due to radiation emitted from an enormous star located in the center of the solar system.

Scientists believe the star, which they have named G2V65, may in fact be the same bright yellow orb seen arcing over the sky day after day, and given its extreme heat and proximity to Earth, it is likely not only to have caused the heat wave, but to be responsible for every warm day in human history.

Comment: LOL! This is satire but really, you do have to wonder when scientists refuse to acknowledge the obvious in so many ways relating to the science of the universe...

X6.9 solar flare took place – partialy Earth-directed!!!
The Watchers, 9th August 2011

The largest solar flare of Cycle 24 just took place at 08:05 UTC and it registered a whopping X6.9. The source was Sunspot 1263 which is nearing the Western Limb. Because of its location, any large explosions may not be fully earth directed. When watching new video images from the STEREO website, it appears the CME is less intense than the one caused by the M9.3 flare from last week. A minor S1 Radiation Storm is in progress. [...] A plasma cloud left the Sun at the moment of the event. It is now travelling through space at a speed of more then 1000 km/s. At a speed of 1000 km/s and no deceleration, a cloud bridges the distance between the Sun and the Earth in 1 day and 17 hours. The plasma cloud is not directed straight to Earth. But a glancing blow is possible and can cause a geomagnetic storm.

Comment: An X flare, now the Sun is starting to get serious... The Watchers are watching and they are producing a good summary of events.

Space Weather - A powerful solar event on Aug 09, 2011
Solar Influences Data Analysis Center (SIDC), 9th August 2011
"A powerful solar event occurred at 07:48 UT today, Aug 09 on the Sun. Email alerts are being sent."
Remember NASA has informed the world that this is the start of a new era... space weather will dominate our reality... This is now a new world....

The Classification of X-ray Solar Flares
Space Weather Reference

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

Space Weather News - 8/9th August 2011
spaceweather.com, 8th August 2011

WEEKEND AURORAS: A widespread display of auroras erupted late Friday, Aug. 5th, when a double-CME hit Earth's magnetic field and sparked a G4-category geomagnetic storm. Click on the image to view a time lapse video of the event recorded by Michael Ericsson on the shores of Tibbitt Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada:

"Although not the most intense auroras I've ever seen, this one is definitely up there on my favorites list," he says.

The show was not restricted to Canada. Northern Lights spilled across the border into the United States as far south as Oregon, Utah, Colorado, and Nebraska. (Note: The faint red lights photographed in Nebraska are typical of low-latitude auroras during major geomagnetic storms.) Observers in Europe as far south as England, Germany and Poland also witnessed a fine display. Browse the gallery for more examples.

Comment: Daylight auroras! Basically a sign of high intensity as Earth's atmosphere was being flooded with energy from the solar wind.

Tibbitt Lake, NWT.Canada (Video)
Vimeo, 8th August 2011
"A recent time lapse of aurora shot at Tibbitt Lake, NWT.Canada"
Direct link to the video

www.solarmonitor.org
Solar Physics Group, Trinity College Dublin, August 2011

Violence, rioting and looting breaks out across England
BBC News, 9th August 2011

Violence broke out in four English cities as rioting and disorder spread across London for a third night. Hundreds of people attacked and looted shops in Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and Nottingham in what police called "copycat criminal activity".

There were smaller disturbances in the Medway towns in Kent and also in Leeds. It comes as London saw a third night of violence which began in Tottenham on Saturday over the fatal shooting by police of Mark Duggan.

Comment: Maybe, we should not be surprised about the rioting. We had some significant solar flares with the most powerful geomagnetic storms in recent years and immediately people start rioting. A correlation that was first pointed out by Alexander L. Tchijevsky, a Russian scientist. One thing that social scientists have not determined is where the riots will start on the planet, but it seems it was the turn of the UK. I am thinking that solar flares & CMEs would only act as a spark literally (because humans are mentally unbalanced by massive geomagnetic storms as I detailed in my book), but it would seem that tinderbox conditions have to prevail, as column writers will have been explaining in some depth.

'This ain't about fun and burning up the place': Fearless West Indian pensioner stands up to rioting mob
Daily Mail, 9th August 2011
This speech is EXACTLY what you would expect from a normal black older person in the UK with values. She has no fear from black kids because they would fear the consequences of hurting a black elderly lady.... but, it's hypothetical anyway, because beating up old black ladies would not provide any street cred.

Camden Town, London - 9th August 2011
How British! Folk making cups of tea on riot shields for the police!
"As looters and rioters smashed up shops, looted and fought with police in Camden Town, Philippa Morgan-Walker, 25 and her husband, Jonny Walker, 31, made tea for the police who were protecting their street. Some of the officers had been on duty for more than 30 hours."

Doomsday Shelter Owners Hope For The Best, Prepare For The Worst
Huffington Post, 8th August 2011

When people look back on the period of 2011 and 2012, they may remember it as a time when the world was supposed to end. That's assuming, of course, that the world doesn't actually end. Fact is, these times are rife with doomsday predictions, be it Harold Camping's failed end-times prediction this past May to his updated doomsday date of Oct. 21. [...]

"It's got a great insulation factor," he said. "We are protected from hurricanes, tornadoes, bullets and bombs. And the utility bills are low." There is one thing that the home may not be safe from (two, if you count the aforementioned telemarketers). "The only thing that could be a problem is a flood, but I am higher than my neighbor's house."

Comment: Well, this is the first article that I have seen abou these dome homes. At a minimum, they should be built as emergency shelters and a large ones should be the standard design for community centres to save lives in areas that are prone to tornadoes and hurricanes.

Building Blocks of DNA Found in Meteorites from Space
space.com, 8h August 2011

The components of DNA have now been confirmed to exist in extraterrestrial meteorites, researchers announced.

A different team of scientists also discovered a number of molecules linked with a vital ancient biological process, adding weight to the idea that the earliest forms of life on Earth may have been made up in part from materials delivered to Earth the planet by from space.

Past research had revealed a range of building blocks of life in meteorites, such as the amino acids that make up proteins. Space rocks just like these may have been a vital source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth.

Comment: Slowly, slowly the general public are being provided with the information that life must exist throughout the universe and there is plenty of evidence in the form of ancient rocks. Of course, the Panspermia theorists have know this for decades because some highly educated people had to ability to work this out from the raw evidence but the general public have been mislead by religionistas and the scientific mafia. The probability of life throughout the universe means that other forms of life could have evolved over billions of years differently to life on Earth and this awareness is acutely required as it becomes obvious that a whole ecology or shadow biosphere appears on Earth. Disclosure is inevitable because this planet is already becoming a cosmic aquarium, it's simply getting too difficult to hide the truth when so many people are encountering our cosmic neighbours.

Polar bear's teeth removed from head of attack survivor
BBC News, 8th August 2011

A 16-year-old boy injured by a polar bear in Norway had some of the animal's teeth removed from his skull during emergency surgery, it has emerged.

Patrick Flinders, from Jersey, suffered a fractured skull and was flown to the UK on Sunday with fellow survivor Scott Bennell-Smith, 16, from Cornwall.

Patrick's father said he was a "hero" for trying to fight off the bear that killed Horatio Chapple, 17, on Friday.

Comment: Truly unbelievable.... Well, I don't think climate campaigners will be producing any more ridiculous polar bear videos, as there are going to be a lot less people feeling sympathetic for polar bears after this tragedy.

Few replicas as first cloned cat nears 10
PhysOrg.com, 8th August 2011

The leading US pet cloning company halted operations in 2009 and the livestock cloning business remains relatively small with only a few hundred pigs and cows cloned every year worldwide. But CC's doting owners still consider her a great success.

She may be slowing down a bit these days, and her grey and white figure has gotten a bit plump after giving birth to kittens three years ago, but that's part of what makes CC so extraordinary: she is completely normal. [...]

"One clone -- which was supposed to be black and white -- was born greenish-yellow where it should have been white," he wrote. "Others have had skeletal malformations, generally not crippling though sometimes serious and always worrisome," he added.

"These problems are all the more worrisome given that cloning is supposedly a mature technology in general." And while many of its dog clones turned out normal, researchers could not explain why some were plagued by physical defects.

Comment: This article is highlighted because we are given some details of cloning that has gone wrong and scientists admitting they do not understand why. At this time, I have not come across research that indicates that the electromagnetic environment is taken into account when they do the cloning. Cloning requires a spark of electricity or a chemical in order to ‘kick start’ or initiate the life process of the reprogrammed single cell that will under suitable conditions, become a fully functioning living system. Apparently, in the Dolly the Sheep experiments, the scientists used a carefully calculated electrical charge and since the details appear to be deliberately excluded, we can assume that even if the process of life is initiated, if the initial burst of energy is somehow compromised, the resulting biological offspring will not be completely correct. By the way, a spark is a volume of air that has been electrically converted into a plasma, it seems that the electromagnetic properties of the plasma has to be just right and these days with the amount of interference from plasma flowing in and out of the planet (EM Chaos), it would make cloning an extremely difficult matter and presumably, this is why the Cloning business has failed to take off.

Flights hit by air traffic delays
BBC News, 8th August 2011

Some flights into London airports were delayed because of problems with air traffic control equipment. A spokeswoman for Air Traffic Control (NATS) said its usual monitoring system had failed and flight details had to be input manually. The system was restored at about 09:00 BST. The spokeswoman apologised for any disruption caused to the airports, including Heathrow and Stansted. Most of the flight delays were less than an hour.

Comment: Space Weather? Problems caused by space weather do not have to occur at the time of the main geomagnetic storm because substorms can reverberate around the planet. For an analogy, geomagnetic storms are like Earth's magnetic field being hit like a bell and the impact causes ringing for some time afterwards.

Computer failure stops morning papers
New Zealnd Radio News, 2nd August 2011
"A major computer failure at Fairfax Media prevented the publication of several newspapers on Tuesday morning."
Computer failure due to cosmic rays can occur at any time...

Antimatter belt around Earth discovered by Pamela craft
BBC News, 7th August 2011

A thin band of antimatter particles called antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time. The find, described in Astrophysical Journal Letters, confirms theoretical work that predicted the Earth's magnetic field could trap antimatter. The team says a small number of antiprotons lie between the Van Allen belts of trapped "normal" matter.

Comment: Well, we have Terrestrial Gamma-ray Bursts (TGFs) in our atmosphere that are supposed to be creating anti-matter too, so this article is quite vague as we don't know whether this is a new development or if they have detected something for the first time that has always been there. The article at dailygalaxy.com tells us that the anti-matter is coming from Earth's atmosphere due to cosmic ray collisions and I can only assume the anti-matter is being generated by a chain reaction of cosmic interacting with the atmosphere and producing gamma rays and the gamma rays producing anti-matter. Whatever, cosmic rays creating TGFs is new news and confirms what I have been thinking for quite some time, as I speculated about the cause of TGFs in my book that was published in September 2006.

"Cosmic Ray" Belt Around Earth Verified
Daily Galaxy, 8th August 2011
Italian researchers, led by Piergiorgio Picozza from the University of Rome, using data from the satellite PAMELA have proven that theories showing there ought to be a ring of antiprotons, called the Van Allen radiation belt, encircling the Earth due to cosmic rays colliding with nuclei in the upper atmosphere are correct.

Physicists have theorized that the constant stream of cosmic rays generated by the sun and other little understand sources must produce a shower of sorts of smaller particles when they collide with other nuclei in the Earth’s upper atmosphere and break apart. Some of those smaller particles have been assumed to be antiprotons, many of which would be annihilated when colliding with particles of ordinary matter.

Gore FAIL – Gore starts cussing in climate talk
WUWT, 6th August 2011

The fact that he has started cussing while addressing audiences (even supportive ones) clearly shows that he has lost the battle.

“There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea! … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it.”

And that’s just part of the rant. More below plus a collection of news bytes from the past week that all point to Gore’s inability to restart the success of AIT he had in 2005. My personal view is that the battle was lost the moment Gore and his acolytes started trying to link severe weather events (see photo above of Gore pointing to a big mesocyclone aka thunderstorm) with global warming.

[...]
[Climate Depot Comment: 'This is psychologically healthy development for Gore. He needs to face the reality that despite his film, an Oscar, a Nobel, a compliant shoddy news media, the UN, Hollywood, untold tens of billions of dollars spent, propaganda directed at school kids, and twisted science - the movement Gore helped found, is dying scientifically, politically and economically. It is time to celebrate the utter and complete failure of the sub-prime science of man-made global warming.'

Comment: Al Gore must be mad about something! I am pleased that Morano is interested in Gore's health! LOL There is some indepth analysis of his failure here too...

It’s official: Al Gore is a prophet
WUWT, 8th August 2011
YOUNG: Did you just refer to him as a prophet?
FOX: I think he is a prophet on climate change. I think he woke up to this issue in his earliest years, expected as other people learned about it that they would also wake up to its significance … His presumption as a young man was that once you heard the information the world would shift and start getting its act together, and that hasn’t happened.

Comment: I find it remarkable that people are still calling Al Gore a prophet when his message of climate doom has been proven to be wrong, wrong and wrong!

IQ level tied to choice of internet browser
PhysOrg.com, 1st August 2011

In a study that is likely to incite controversy, AptiQuant, a Vancouver, British Columbia based Psychometric Consulting company has released a report that it says shows users of Microsoft Internet Explorer have lower Intelligence Quotient’s (IQs) than do users of other internet browsers. The company is basing its claims on scores online users received when taking the online Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (IV) test.

The test results were collected from over 100,000 English speaking people from New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Canada and the United States, over a span of four weeks and the score results were compared with the browser used to reach the site offering the test, which were offered free to random users.

Comment: Hmmm... I simply can't stand Internet Explorer it drives me nuts in comparison to Firefox, but the FireFox browser seems to be getting worse and worse for stability, but nothing would make me want to adopt IE.

Solar Storms Could Debilitate Earth this Decade: NOAA
International Business Times, 7th August 2011

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency that focuses on the condition of the oceans and atmosphere, said that a severe solar storm could cause global chaos, debilitating satellite communications and taking down the most important global power grids.

The NOAA predicted four extreme solar emissions which could threaten the planet this decade. Similarly, NASA warned that a peak in the sun's magnetic energy cycle and the number of sun spots or flares around 2013 could enable extremely high radiation levels.

Government studies revealed that extreme solar flare emissions could cause blackouts, possibly for years, in large portions of the U.S.

This type of storm could also induce geomagnetic currents that could debilitate transformers on the power grid. Electric power would be out for years or even decades.

Comment: Yes, I know most people still think this is all scare-mongering, but this belief is held by those who are completely ignorant and unaware that Space Weather has been getting worse for over twenty years. The conditions in space have changed, space weather is unpredictable, space weather satellites are sparse, space weather prediction is in its infancy, and we live in modern technological societies with infrastructures that are not geared up to deal with massive geomagnetic storms. It seems that the Mayan warnings from modern elders that we were entering a new era were completely ignored because they were not understood, even as Space Weather was causing a huge amount of upset to our high frequency radio communications and satellite communication infrastructure. Satellites have simply died in completely calm conditions even an eclipse has caused a good satellite to simply die. Now, it is becoming really obvious that our world has changed. Space Weather will dominate life on Earth, the Mayans say this will be for the next 5,200 years and as our solar system enters more deeply into 'G cloud', this is much more likely than NOAA's prediction of 10 years of vulnerability.

Mystery of the orange substance invading from skies in one of the world's most remote spot
Daily Mail, 7th August 2011

A strange orange substance raining down from the skies has left villagers in one of the world’s most remote areas mystified.

The alien invader was found in rain buckets in Kivalina, an Eskimo community in Alaska, and floating in the harbour, creating 100ft-by-10ft swathes of what one resident described as ‘bright neon orange’.

The news attracted all the townspeople, keen to get a glimpse of the phenomenon that covered much of the harbor and then began washing ashore on Wednesday. [...]

Swan helped collect some samples for testing, and grabbed some of the substance in his gloved hand. 'It was really light, with a powdery look to it, and it was just floating on there, all bunched up together,' he said. 'It looked like it could blow away very easily.' Swan added that some of the material had an oil-like sheen to it.

Comment: So, do we have a comet offloading strange substances into Earth's atmosphere? It won't be the first time nor the last. This reminds me of when astronauts found "strange goo" on the outside of the International Space Station during a spacewalk. I wrote about this incident in my book, Tuning the Diamonds because the astronauts found a large patch of dark oily substance and a white honeycombed substance, but since January 2005, when it was reported by CNN and other major media outlets, there has never been an official explanation offered to my knowledge. I was particularly interested in the white honeycombed substance that I thought might have been evidence of Ormus powder, but there is a possibility that substances are being manufactured in space that can be delivered to Earth by Space Weather. The Associated Press has more details Orange goo baffles remote Alaska villageand here is a picture of the strange goo on a river.

Power back on in the Annex -Toronto [Canada]
Globe & Mail, 5th August 2011

Close to 8,000 people were without power in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood for more than an hour on Friday afternoon.

The outage began at about 2:30 p.m. when power shut off for 7,700 people, said Toronto Hydro spokesperson Alexandra Stadnyk. Power had been restored to all customers as of 4:50 p.m. Initially a portion of the affected area, containing all but 600 homes, was restored at about 3:45 p.m. [...]

The outage was caused by damaged equipment at a transformer station, according to Toronto Hydro.

Comment: OK, if only 8,000 people lost power due to a transformer then I think they managed to escape far worse but the geomagnetic storm is not over yet. According to spaceweather.com the storm hit around 18:00 UT (Universal Time) and half an hour later, power was lost in Toronto (Timezone UTC/GMT -4 hours). It will be interesting to see what experts decide to say about what happened.

Major geomagnetic storm in progress!!!
The Watchers, 5th August 2011
Good Summary.

NIGHT-TIME SOLAR RADIO BURST: The M9-class solar flare of August 4th produced a burst of shortwave static so powerful that receivers on Earth picked it up after sunset. "A RadioJove observer in Florida recorded the burst when the sun was 38 degrees below the horizon," reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft. Ashcraft's own radio telescope in New Mexico recorded the event 1 hour and 54 minutes after sunset: Spaceweather.com 5th August 2011

NOAA space weather update, August 4 2011
YouTube, 4th July 2011
"NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center issues watch for geomagnetic storms; potential impacts to begin tonight, Aug 4. video by NOAA - directed and produced by NOAA's Katy Human and Will von Dauster."
Dr. Doug Bisecker is a physicist at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. He mostly talks about latest solar eruptions, the arrival of the 3 CMEs and the impact on the world's technological infrastructure.

NOAA Space Weather Prediction center update 2 pm MT Aug 5.
YouTube, 5th July 2011
"Aurora could be visible as low as Illinois to Oregon."
Joseph Kunches, a space scientist at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center talks about the latest developments. The geomagnetic storm is expected to last 7-12 hours.

Real time Kiruna Magnetometer reading
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, 5th August 2011

Webcams: Purple auroras in Germany!
Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, 5th August 2011

NLC Camera Network of the IAP
Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, 5th August 2011

ACE Satellite Data: CME Shockwaves detected - 5th August 2011

Effects of solar flares arriving on Earth
USA Today, 5th August 2011

Operators of electrical grids are working to avoid outages, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says some satellite communications and Global Positioning Systems could face problems.

Three solar flares erupted on the sun starting Tuesday, and the strongest electromagnetic shocks were being felt Friday by the ACE spacecraft, a satellite that measures radiation bursts a few minutes before they strike Earth, said Joseph Kunches, a scientist at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.

Comment: The planet is now getting slammed! More:

CME IMPACT--NOW: NASA's ACE spacecraft, which measures the speed of the solar wind just upstream of Earth, indicates that a CME impact on our planet is in progress. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras in the hours ahead.

UPDATE: Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab report a strong compression of Earth's magnetosphere in response to the CME impact. "Simulations indicate that the magnetopause separating magnetospheric and solar wind plasma is close to the geosynchronous orbit starting at about 19:20 UT on August 5th. Spacecraft [in these] orbits may be directly exposed to solar wind plasma and magnetic field." Spaceweather.com 5th August 2011

Comment 2: There are twitter reports that parts of Toronto has lost power. For the latest tech info see spaceweather.com, solarham.com, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Today’s Space Weather, NICT Real time Magnetosphere Simulation. Dynamic modeling of the Earth's bow shock and magnetopause. The ENLIL Model Prediction with the 3 CMEs

Blockbuster: Planetary temperature controls CO2 levels — not humans
Jo Nova, 5th August 2011

It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels.

There goes another “fingerprint”… Judging by the speech Murry Salby gave at the Sydney Institute, there’s a blockbuster paper coming soon [...]

The higher levels of CO2 in recent decades appear to be mostly due to natural sources. He presented this research at the IUGG conference in Melbourne recently, causing great discussion and shocking a few people. Word reached the Sydney Institute, which rushed to arrange for him to speak, given the importance of this work in the current Australian political climate.

The sources of CO2 don’t seem to be industrialized areas

Suspiciously, when satellites record atmospheric CO2 levels around the globe they find that the sources don’t appear to be concentrated in the places we’d expect — industry or population concentrations like western Europe, the Ohio Valley, or China. Instead the sources appear to be in places like the Amazon Basin, southeast Asia, and tropical Africa — not so much the places with large human emissions of CO2!

But CO2 is a well mixed gas so it’s not possible to definitively sort out the sources or sinks with CO2 measurements around the globe. The differences are only of the order of 5%.

Instead the way to unravel the puzzle is to look at the one long recording we have (at Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, going back to 1959) and graph the changes in CO2 and in C13 from year to year. Some years from January to January there may be a rise of 0 ppmv (ie no change), some years up to 3 ppmv. If those changes were due to man-made CO2 then we should see more of those rapid increases in recent times as man-made emissions increased faster. What Salby found though, was nothing like what was expected

The largest increases year-to-year occurred when the world warmed fastest due to El Nino conditions. The smallest increases correlated with volcanoes which pump dust up into the atmosphere and keep the world cooler for a while. In other words, temperature controls CO2 levels on a yearly time-scale, and according to Salby, man-made emissions have little effect.

Comment: This article might be jumping the gun because the research has not been peer reviewed or pal reviewed as we now find out is quite normal. Anyway, the detail of where the CO2 is coming from and how it is controlled is very interesting and ties in with the known facts that CO2 lags temperature rises, not the other way round as Al Gore tried to convince the world was the case.

Briton mauled to death by polar bear
News24, 5th August 2011

Oslo - A polar bear mauled one person to death and left four other members of a British group seriously injured in an attack on Friday in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, authorities said.

"One person has died and four others are injured. Their injuries are serious," Liv Asta Oedegaard, a spokesperson at the Svalbard district governor's office, said.

Comment: So, where was the Norwegian guide with the gun? Polar bears are dangerous and you do not visit the island of Svalbard without someone in your group with a gun, because despite all the climate change propaganda about polar bears, they are not cuddly at all and will kill and eat you given half a chance.

Eton schoolboy (17) killed by polar bear while exploring
Irish Times, 6th July 2011
Terrible, I am really apalled to find out a teenager was killed.

Freaky 'Roman God Cloud' Caught on Tape!
Gather News, 5th August 2011

A man from Canada filmed a freaky cloud formation, dubbed the "Roman God Cloud" during a storm whipping up in his backyard. Naturally, there are plenty of people rushing to claim it's some sort of portentous sign from the Heavens. Denoting just what that may be, is, as usual, pretty vague.

But it doesn't detract from the awesome spectacle which forms right in front of his very eyes. And, luckily, his handy video camera.

Comment: Sorry, I will refrain from speculating about this. The camerarman manages to refrain from swearing but he does say "Holy Freak!"

Space Weather Update 4th August 2011
spaceweather.com, 4th August 2011

TRIPLE CME ENROUTE "Likely to be a major event": This morning's M9-class eruption propelled a CME toward Earth. Moving at an estimated speed of 1950 km/s, the cloud is expected to sweep up two earlier CMEs already en route. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab say the combined triple-CME should reach Earth on August 5th at 13:55 UT plus or minus 7 hours. "The impact on Earth is likely to be major: the estimated maximum geomagnetic activity index level Kp is 7 (Kp ranges from 0 - 9). The flanks of the CME may also impact STEREO A, Mars and Mercury/MESSENGER."

Comment: We have a Major Event! Please note: spaceweather.com updates their webpage with the latest information but the above entry was picked up and placed on various websites by others interested in what's happening on the Sun. This is a tripple whammy NOT a double whammy! YouTube: STRONG CME LASCO C2 Aug 4th 2011 Please also note: STEREO A one of the handful of spaceweather satellites is also likely to be hit! The arrival time estimate of August 5th at 13:55 UT plus or minus 7 hours is not exactly accurate and reflects the fact that CME arrival times are extremely difficult to predict. Even if we use the ACE satellite at at Lagrange Point 1 (L1), 1 million miles from Earth, the fastest CMEs will only provide 15 minutes of warning and that is not really long enough to mitigate potential disaster.

(In this NASA Enlil spaceweather prediction model, the Yellow dot is Earth and we are about to be smothered by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), billions of tons of plasma in a huge cloud that can be seen here in the shape of an arc. You can click the image here to access the animation.)

STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: For the third day in a row, active sunspot 1261 has unleashed a significant M-class solar flare. The latest blast at 0357 UT on August 4th registered M9.3 on the Richter Scale of Flares, almost crossing the threshold into X-territory (X-flares are the most powerful kind). The number of energetic protons around Earth has jumped nearly 100-fold as a result of this event.

UPDATE: This morning's M9-class eruption propelled a CME toward Earth. Moving at an estimated speed of 1950 km/s, the cloud is expected to sweep up two earlier CMEs already en route. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab say the combined triple-CME should reach Earth on August 5th at 13:55 UT plus or minus 7 hours. "The impact on Earth is likely to be major: the estimated maximum geomagnetic activity index level Kp is 7 (Kp ranges from 0 - 9). The flanks of the CME may also impact STEREO A, Mars and Mercury/MESSENGER."

INCOMING CLOUDS: At least two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are now en route to Earth, propelled toward us by eruptions in the magnetic canopy of sunspot 1261 on August 2nd and 3rd. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab have just produced a new 3-D model of the advancing CMEs. Click on the image to set the clouds in motion:

According to the model, Earth's magnetic field will receive a double-strike from the clouds on August 4th at 22:39 UT plus minus 7 hours. Mild to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when the CMEs arrive.

Significant solar storm headed to Earth Friday
Washington Post, 4th August 2011
A “moderate to strong” solar storm is on its way to Earth Friday. An erupting sunspot has unleashed three solar flares in as many days, the third particularly potent. SpaceWeather.com offers this detail: “The latest blast at 0357 UT on August 4th [11:57 p.m. EDT August 3] registered M9.3 on the Richter Scale of Flares, almost crossing the threshold into X-territory (X-flares are the most powerful kind).”

Space Weather Update
spaceweather.com, 3rd August 2011

(In this NASA Enlil spaceweather prediction model, the Yellow dot is Earth and we are about to be smothered by a coronal mass ejection (CME), billions of tons of plasma in a huge cloud that can be seen here in the shape of an arc. You can click the image here to access the animation.)

M6-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Sunspot 1261 unleashed another strong solar flare this morning--an M6-class flash at 1348 UT. Like yesterday's eruption from the same active region, this explosion propelled a CME in the general direction of Earth. ETA: August 5th. Stay tuned for additional analysis.

UPDATE: A listening station above the Arctic Circle in Norway reports ionospheric waves and VHF radio noise associated with today's M6-flare: their data. Spaceweather.com 3rd August 2011

INCOMING CLOUD: Yesterday's M1-class eruption from sunspot 1261 was observed by three spacecraft: SOHO, STEREO-A and STEREO-B. Using data from those three points of view, analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab have made a 3-dimensional model of the CME now en route to Earth. Click on the image to launch a computer-generated movie of the expanding cloud:

EARTH-DIRECTED BLAST: Magnetic fields above sunspot 1261 erupted this morning at 0619 UT, producing a long-duration M1-class solar flare. At the peak of the action, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation around the sunspot: Spaceweather.com 2nd August 2011

Comment: The extreme UV radiation is the high-energy end of the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Like other forms of light such as infrared and X-rays, EUV light is blocked by the Earth's atmosphere, or so we are told.

Study links asthma to magnetic-field exposure of pregnant moms
The Globe and Mail, 1st August 2011

Can magnetic fields from power lines, computers and even common household appliances lead to health problems down the road? A new study suggests that pregnant women with the highest levels of exposure to magnetic fields are more likely to have a child who develops asthma, compared to pregnant women with low exposure levels.

The study was conducted by the same researcher who made waves in 2002 with a study that suggested magnetic fields could boost a woman's chances of miscarriage. But many experts aren't convinced the risks are real and the medical field remains sharply divided over the presence of a link between health problems and exposure to electromagnetic fields. [...]

Researchers tracked, for a maximum of 13 years, 626 children who were subsequently born to the women wearing the meters. Of those children, 130, or about 20 per cent, were clinically diagnosed with asthma. They found women exposed to the highest levels of exposure to magnetic fields had a 3.5-fold increased risk of having a child who would later be diagnosed with asthma, compared to women with lower exposure levels.

The researchers also found women who had asthma or who were pregnant with their first child, two known risk factors for asthma in offspring, were more likely to have a child with asthma if they also had high levels of magnetic-field exposure. Dr. Li says this confirms the idea that magnetic fields can potentially lead to asthma in offspring. “The message is EMF is bad,” Dr. Li said. “You should avoid EMF as much as you can, especially during pregnancy.”

Comment: What is surprising about this study is the fact that a researcher managed to get a grant to go down this route and make a connection. Everything is a dance of electromagnetic charges carefully held in a balance maintained by electrodynamic or 'aetheric' templates that can be disturbed by outside influences. Our world is supersaturated with manmade and natural electromagnetic signals and this careful balance is being tested by Space Weather providing extreme electromagnetic chaos to drive evolutionary change on this planet. The fact that this research is being disputed is no surprise, but then the pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on chemical analysis which worked OK in stable geomagnetic conditions. Yet, now, we are being told that many drugs old and new are no longer 'working' and this implies that environmental conditions are making many drugs ineffective. It does not take very much in the way of thinking to see why 'authorities' are now banning of anything natural that might be more effective because maintaining profit margins is far more important...

Amazing UFO shines a spotlight over Germany that lights up the night sky [video]
Unexplained Phenomena Examiner, 3rd August 2011

An amazing UFO was reported flying over a city in Germany on August 3, 2011. The unidentified flying object shone a bright spotlight over the city as it flew back and forth over the buildings and nearby body of water. It appeared almost as if it were looking for something specific in the darkness below. A witness was able to document the event on video.

Comment: Oh dear, the orbs are becoming more that conspicuous in their behaviour!

Disc shaped craft is spotted circling near Stansted
BBC News, 3rd August 2011
"On his way in to work this morning, Radio 5 live's sports reporter spotted a disc shaped craft circling above a field in Hertfordshire. Was it a UFO? Mike Sewell describes what he saw and Timothy Good, an unidentified flying objects expert, tells 5 live Breakfast what it could have been."
He saw a bright light.... but disc shaped... of course, the 'expert' wants us to believe that some top secret aircraft was messing around over fields near Stansted airport... hopeless, no real credibility at all....

Phone Glitch Helps Inmate Bond Himself Out Of Jail
Deemable News, 1st August 2011

An inmate confined to the Lake County Jail in Tavares, Florida, made a surprise discovery that he used to his advantage to bond himself out of jail.

32-year old Larry Stone was incarcerated since April of this year after being arrested on property-crime charges. On July 7th, Stone discovered a glitch in the inmate fund accounts which he then used to accumulate enough money in his account to cover the price of his bond.

Stone placed a phone call using the jail’s payphones, a call that typically costs about $20 dollars to complete, but when the line went unanswered Stone hung up. Based on how the phone system is designed, whenever a call goes unanswered the money spent on the call is automatically deposited back into the inmate’s account. So Stone immediately dialed to check his balance, only to discover that he now had more money in his account prior to placing the call.

Comment: Oh well, some people will take advantage, like other computer system glitches that involve 'free' money.... Opportunities will only increase too, as more computer systems fail when compromised due to the increase bombardment by cosmic rays.

Law experts speak out - academics who "guest author" medical journal articles guilty of fraud
Natural News, 3rd August 2011

(NaturalNews) Back in 2008, Mike Adams sounded an alarm about something the mainstream media seemed to know little about -- Big Pharma companies had long been paying in-house writers to ghostwrite scientific research articles then paying (Adams called it "bribing") doctors and high-level academics to pretend they were the authors (http://www.naturalnews.com/023074_g...).

Unfortunately, the use of ghostwriters and guest authored journal papers hasn't gone away. But here's good news: two prominent attorneys are speaking out that the practice is not just a sham but constitutes legal fraud.

Comment: I suppose it's a question of integrity. If you have very little integrity then pretending that you wrote an article does not mean much to you. Only the same as people who buy diplomas to pretend that they have studied a subject and their studying and research has been monitored by qualified teachers. Calling yourself Dr. is very popular these days. Only the same as people who plagiarise other people's research or book and pretend they spent thousands of ours researching. Only the same as people who "borrow" other peoples' articles and pretend they are original, even when the internet means they will be usually found out pretty quickly. Only the same as those who try to pretend they sat in the lotus position for a few days and were given some kind of divine revelation when all they have done is stolen someone else's research, work or book contents and then they have the nerve to quote liberally, with no reference to the original source. So, this is a question of integrity and it seems to be in short supply these days.

Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home
Yahoo News, 3rd August 2011

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby.

Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in southern Sweden when police showed up and arrested him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material.

The 31-year-old Handl said he had tried for months to set up a nuclear reactor at home and kept a blog about his experiments, describing how he created a small meltdown on his stove.

Only later did he realize it might not be legal and sent a question to Sweden's Radiation Authority, which answered by sending the police.

Comment: Is this a good example of extreme compartmentalised thinking? Only thinking about danger well after already completing some of his 'experiments'?

Auto Body Shops Flooded With Repair Calls After Storm
NBC New York News, 2nd August 2011

Auto body shops in Queens and Long Island are overwhelmed with repair calls today, a day after severe summer storms lashed the region, in some places dropping tennis-ball-sized hail that dented cars and smashed windows.

"It's a windfall for me, a catastrophe for others," said Bob Polgar, owner of Tip Top Auto Body in Garden City, N.Y., on Long Island.

The shop got 100 calls Monday night. On a normal day, it gets 15 calls, Polgar said. Most car owners are reporting busted windshields and dents on hoods and roofs.

"They were the size of tennis balls," said Sandy White. "I had to check if any of my windows were broken.

Comment: Tennis ball sized hail falling in New York could have been a scene from the disaster movie, The Day After Tommorow. See previous comments on the how we need to understand that strong electromagnetic forces can be the only explanation for how hailstones can be suspended in the atmosphere and become so huge and heavy before the electromagnetic conditions change allowing hailstones to hurtle down to the ground as lethal weapons. In the movie, huge brick sized hailstones were a sign of dramatic climate change, but really, it is related to extreme atmospheric conditions.

The red UFO of Helsinki
The Economic Voice, 1st August 2011

A video has come to light showing a series of red UFOs flying over the skies of Helsinki, Finland.

The footage was taken on Saturday the 23rd of July, but are we seeing little green men or is there more of an oriental origin behind the mysterious red glowing objects.

The multiple UFOs (4 in total) caught on the video are unlike a great deal of video footage because there are no fast movements of the objects which does suggest that they are not from outer space.

Comment: This is some seriously good video of these orbs, but there is some swearing. IF these were Chinese lanterns, how come some were traveling at different speeds? These objects were not travelling in a tight formation at all (like many other orb sightings) and the close-ups did not look like Chinese lanterns or hot air balloons either. When one lost it's glow, they were still clearly seen as round objects in the sky. The writer of this article is obviously unaware that scientists have been researching orbs and UAPs for decades (magnetospheric or magnetic plasmoids) and it seems the role of the media generally is to put people back to sleep by reinforcing the message that all strange bright lights in the sky are Chinese lanterns.

Disc shaped craft is spotted circling near Stansted
BBC News, 3rd August 2011
"On his way in to work this morning, Radio 5 live's sports reporter spotted a disc shaped craft circling above a field in Hertfordshire. Was it a UFO? Mike Sewell describes what he saw and Timothy Good, an unidentified flying objects expert, tells 5 live Breakfast what it could have been."
He saw a bright light.... but disc shaped... of course, the 'expert' wants us to believe that some top secret aircraft was messing around over fields near Sanstead airport... hopeless, no real credibility at all....

Sightings of unexplained phenomena in the skies continue, worldwide, as evidenced by the reports from the U. S., Witness Records UFOs Over El Cajon, CA; FAA Lacks Explanation for Glowing Lights; from Canada, Mount Pleasant UFO Leaves Colorful Trail in Daylight Infrared Video; from France, Four Mysterious Objects Spotted in Nice UFO Sighting [Video]; and from the People's Republic of China, UFO Returns to Hong Kong [Video]. Courtesy: The Anomalist

#Radioactive Leaf Compost Spreads to Schools
possibly irradiating children as they planted flowers as part of school curriculum.
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 1st August 2011

Ever since the March 11 start of the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident, unthinking, order-following school teachers and administrators throughout Japan from kindergarten/nursery school on (with a few exceptions) have made small children:

pick tea leaves which turned out to be highly radioactive (in one case in Ibaraki, they made them eat the tempura made out of the leaves);
participate in outdoor PE classes with the threat that they wouldn't get good grades if they (or their parents) refuse;
clean the school yard, pulling weeds and sweeping;
clean out the swimming pools with sludges which turned out to be highly radioactive;
plant rice seedlings in rice paddies with bare feet (this was done throughout Japan, high radiation or not);
eat school lunches using beef which turned out to be highly radioactive, despite protests from informed parents and labeling such parents as "monsters" for causing totally unwarranted fuss;
go to summer schools located in high radiation areas.

Now the latest: they made them plant flowers using the leaf compost which turned out to be highly radioactive.

As journalist Takashi Hirose said, they are "killing the children".

Comment: OK, the situation in Japan is deteriorating as expected, there are people clearly in major denial and others who are fully aware that the government plus authorities are killing their own children. The list here is probably just the tip of the iceberg. There are plenty of stories here but 2 brave journalists pressing charges against various authorities is quite interesting...

Takashi Hirose Who Has Pressed Criminal Charges Against Government, TEPCO: "We remain unaware, we just want to believe everything is OK"
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 31st July 2011
"Journalists Takashi Hirose and Shojiro Akashi announced at a press conference on July 15 that they had pressed criminal charges against 32 people including TEPCO management, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Fukushima's Radiation Health Risk Advisors including Shunichi Yamashita."
“I am shaking with anger” says head of University of Tokyo’s Radioisotope Center before testimony about internal radiation (VIDEO)
Energy News, 1st August 2011
New Fairewinds video: Gundersen discusses effect of inhaling hot particles… More
Energy News, 1st August 2011
"Included in this presentation and PowerPoint is a discussion of how nuclear power plants work, how to cool a reactor during an accident, the effect of hot particles when inhaled, and concerns involving the long-term storage of nuclear waste. This presentation took place at the Nuclear Power Conference held at the University of Vermont July 23, 2011."
Record-high radiation detected at Fukushima
ABC News, 2nd August 2011
10+ sieverts per hour means there is direct exposure to fuel rods accordind to Australia’s former top radiation official

The Branch Carbonian Cult
Jo Nova, 2nd August 2011

Some commenters wonder why I allow the word cultist, but sometimes there is no better term. Remember, apocalyptic storms are coming, and we’re all going to die, unless we heed the prophesies of the new Gods of Science.

What’s the difference between a real disaster foretold by scientists, or a cult? Evidence, for starters, and we’re still waiting for observations that support the idea that a catastrophe is coming, but there are more clues.

In normal conversations people can be, you know, wrong, but in a cult, wrongness is not a comment on a scientific point, it’s a statement of identity and a judgment of moral fitness. Those who speak against the (insert doctrine) are not just wrong, they are evil, immoral, and not “worthy” of polite conversation. Believers who become skeptics, are exiled (think “apostate”) and let’s not forget the sacrifices for penance (anyone want to buy a carbon credit for their sins?).

Comment: Well, I have seen accusations of the religious nature of the AGW proponents but not so many that have pointed out the fanatical and cult-like behaviour that seems to be driving this crusade into complete political and scientific disaster.

Mysterious Crop Circles Debunked by Physics and Technology?
GPS, Lasers and Microwaves Hold The Key, Says a U.S. Physics Prof
International Business Times, 1st August 2011

Explanations for the sophisticated patterning of crop circles vary, but science, with a hint of art, can explain the craft and speed of their creation, says a U.S.-based Professor of Physics, Psychology, and Art.

In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, said the phenomenon is growing as technology advances. [...] While many still go unreported each year, the emergence of the phenomenon in the world media and the internet has allowed more information to be lodged."

Taylor called the phenomenon "the most science-oriented art movement in history". Also pointing at the increasing mystery of how the crop circles are produced, Taylor noted, "crop-circle artists are not going to give up their secrets easily.

Comment: I am surprised to see this article in the International Business Times but it does indicates the growing willingness within the mainstream to not ignore the major glaring and growing number of "anomalous" phenomena taking place, even if the article only gave consideration to some unlikely explanations. The physics professor forgot to mention that for some of the larger crop circles, a team of people trained in military logistics is required and permission from farmers who usually HATE people tramping about in their fields. (You can watch the videos of people having to make a strenuous effort to produce crop circles. However, crop circle experts can easily tell fake crop circles because they are normally real rubbish in comparison and scientifically can't stand up to the scrutiny.) The prof. also should not push the accuracy of GPS either, because the stormy conditions in Earth's ionopshere, means GPS accuracy is no longer guaranteed...

Large crop circle appears in West Woodhay Down, Wiltshire, UK field [video]
Unexplained Phenomena Examiner, 31st July 2011
An amazing new crop circle appeared in a field in West Woodhay Down, Nr Inkpen, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. It was discovered on Friday, July 29, 2011. This beautiful pattern was discovered by a farmer in his wheat field. Unfortunately, the crop circle will translate into a financial loss to the farmer due to the two tons of immature wheat that was ruined. [...]

The following description was provided on the video: "West Woodhay Down, Nr Inkpen, Wiltshire. Reported 29th July 2011. One of the largest Crop Circles ever to appear in a field in England, stretching more than 11 tramlines." The aerial photos of this crop circle show a series of geometric designs, particularly circles, that seem to form the image of a serpent.

Comment: I will admit that in a Plasma Universe with the levels of a new type of plasma rising throughout our solar system and saturating Earth, it's a bit difficult to tell what Birkeland current the crop circle makers are referring to and I can only presume it's some kind of warning of something (maybe a meteor stream), that is on it's way... So far, I have not seen any interesting comments, but I am sure they must exist.

Trail of crumbs discovered from potentially hazardous comet
The February Eta Draconids appear to originate from a long-period comet that passes close to Earth’s orbit.
Astronomy News, 29th July 2011

The Central Bureau issued a telegram July 10 for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announcing that a stream of dust from a potentially dangerous comet impacted Earth for a few hours last February 4.

“This particular shower happens only once or twice every 60 years,” said Peter Jenniskens from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, Mountain View, California. “The stream of dust is always there, but quite invisible just outside of Earth’s orbit. Only when the planets steer the dust in Earth’s path do we get to know it is there.” [...]

Now that the February Eta Draconid shower has been discovered, Jenniskens is confident that a next return can be predicted. He teamed up with Finnish astronomer Esko Lyytinen to investigate. Lyytinen calculated a possible return in 2016 or 2023, after that not again until 2076.

Future observations of this shower may bring other information about the comet that caused this stream of meteoroids, which is a potential danger to Earth. “If the meteoroids can hit us, so can the comet,” said Jenniskens, “We don’t know whether the comet has already passed us by or is still on approach.” To get some advance warning, one could look along the measured orbit to those spots where the comet could arrive at Earth’s orbit on a future February 4 date.

“Even then, chances are very small that the comet will actually hit us, as such impacts are rare in Earth’s history,” Jenniskens added.

Comment: This is another version of the cometary debris story. The point that must be made clear is that the comet does not have to hit us to cause havoc on Earth. In describing the Taurid Stream, which is similar type of cometary object, we read it is:

"...a procession of vast cosmic rubble and dust that snakes around the Sun and out towards Jupiter, will swing through Earth's orbit for the first of its bi-annual crossings.

Within the stream are probably thousands of bodies including asteroids, mountain-and island-sized boulders, smaller meteoroids, Encke's Comet and assorted fragments of celestial refuse."
A cosmic trail with destruction in its wake
The Times, May 24, 1990, Thursday

I would recommend reading the whole article from The Times. Well,we are not talking about bread crumbs here... Victor Clube, who is known as a ''catastrophist'', says the worse case scenario is a ''Multiple Tunguska Bombardment''. So when astronomers who are not ''catastrophists'', warn that there is a potentially hazardous bombardment on it's way that could collide with Earth, they understand the seriousness of making that call. Even if we don't get a direct hit, I think the concern would be dust loading up the Earth's atmosphere and even blotting out the Sun.... Could we get the promised Mayan three days of darkness? I simply don't know, but as more and more changes in the cosmic environment are being reported and things progress, I have gone from a skeptic to thinking this could actually happen. Now, I am wondering about the latest fabulous crop circle depicting a cosmic snake, maybe something else is out there that our astronomers have not spotted, see West Woodhay Down, Nr Inkpen, Wiltshire. Reported 29th July..

Unseen comet's orbit indicates possible crash
San Francisco Chronicle, 28th July 2011

A stream of dusty fragments from a comet born in the outermost reaches of the solar system has hit the Earth on a path that leads astronomers to conclude the comet itself could be "potentially hazardous" if it crashes into the planet.

The comet's location is unknown, making it difficult to say when it will approach Earth, but "the orbits of the dust trail tells us that the comet is on a path that could eventually hit us," said Peter Jenniskens, an astronomer at the SETI Institute and the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. "It's very unlikely," he conceded Wednesday. "Such impacts are extremely rare in Earth's history." [Really?...]

"I couldn't believe my eyes at first," he said. But once he had had determined the identical orbits of the fragments he teamed with Finnish astronomer Esko Lyytinen to predict that the dust trail will return in 2016, again in 2023, and once again in 2076. [...]

Jenniskens' scientific report will be published by the Journal of the International Meteor Organizations. Its title is: "Discovery of the February Eta Draconids: the dust trail of a potentially hazardous long-period comet."

Comment: Major News Well, well, well, it looks like the issue of the comet vs asteroid threat is now rearing up.... I wrote about this in my White House report that every 5-10 generations, Earth gets hit by cometary debris, an event that is much more frequent than being hit by a large asteroid. According to British astronomer Victor Clube, the consequences are always evolutionary, but this occurrence is a total embarrassment to the powers that be who prefer to hush-up and hide the evidence, as it's a regular occurence that they cannot control.... Oh how interesting.... I wonder if NASA will bother to issue a press release...

NASA Prepares for Potentially Damaging 2011 Meteor Shower
Space.com, 16th June 2010 -- flashback--
NASA is assessing the risk to spacecraft posed by the upcoming 2011 Draconid meteor shower, a seven-hour storm of tiny space rocks that has the potential to ding major Earth-orbiting spacecraft like the crewed International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope.

The meteor shower risk assessment is actually more art than science, and there has been some variation in the projected intensity levels of the 2011 Draconids by meteoroid forecasters. But spacecraft operators are already being notified to weigh defensive steps.

Current meteor forecast models project a strong Draconid outburst, possibly<>Ba full-blown storm, on Oct. 8, 2011, according to William Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. [...]

Cooke said that a significant fraction of spacecraft anomalies produced by shower meteoroids are caused by electrostatic discharges when meteoroid meets satellite.

And while no spacecraft electrical problems were reported during the strong Draconid outbursts of 1985 and 1998, he said that the lack of past anomalies should not be taken as carte blanche for satellite operators to ignore in 2011. [...]

"Because we can now forecast them, we have a way of putting it. If you are hit by a sporadic [meteor], it's an act of God. If you are hit by a shower meteoroid, it's an act of negligence," Cooke said.

Comment: OK, I have come across this old article and I am wondering: why the concern? Well, we are given a hint here that the conditions in space have changed. From this article, I wonder if these pre-existing meteor 'streams' can actually grow because they are hinting at how hard it is to estimate "intensity levels", and a variation in the order of magnitude is significant. If you want an analogy, think in terms of a spoon stiring soup. The soup of space has recently got thicker so there is more of a disturbance and more being carried on the spoon. But, as the article states, the world's communication satellite infrastructure is under threat, so I presume there are major players who will be holding their breath until it's all over and damage can be assessed. It is likely that Earth will be a graced with delicate sprinkling of aetheric energies too, alongside the meteor shower!

UFO Sighting Hochiminh City, Vietnam: & UFO Sighting Flagler Beach, Florida, US: (Video)
UFO Sighted Over Vietnam Prior To Crashing Into The Ocean At Flagler Beach, Florida, U.S. ?
ufo-blogger.com, 30th July 2011

UFO sighting was videotaped around 12AM on July 25, 2011 in district 3, Hochiminh City, Vietnam. And 48 hours later, similar kind of UFO crashed into the ocean at Flagler Beach, Florida, USA on July 27, 2011.

Comment: Can't be long now, soon nobody will be able to deny that something major is happening to our world. More of the previously hidden interdimensional presence are appearing en masse, there are more "visitors" arriving thick and fast as more cosmic neighbours call Earth home. Btw, the news report here from Flagler Beach, Florida reveals "desperation" by the media who are trying to imply that there are Chinese lanterns that have the ability to be mistaken for planes and so have the ability to "crash" from the sky. It would have been more credible to explain it away as a meteor or a failed missile or satellite debris re-entry into our atmosphere, but eye witnesses say it was a "fiery flame" that was too big for a flare and it might have been moving slowly too. At this stage, why some of these UAP type missile objects move so slowly is quite a mystery too.

U.F.O. SIGHTINGS hitting PRIMETIME NEWS NATIONWIDE like never before!
YouTube, 30th July 2011
Some swearing, but otherwise it's a great compilation. The TV Media has no choice but to cover the Greatest Transition in The History of Mankind. World controllers have no choice but to inform business leaders to get their act together or else there will miss a great business opportunity, world militaries have no choice but admit the reality of UFOs/UAPs.... The Veil is Lifting... It's MAJOR NEWS.... For those who are ignoring reality, but claim to be metaphysical leaders, the lack of focus on the current dimensional shift, means your credibility will soon bite the dust...

Possible UFO activity in the sky above Hong Kong, China 30-Jul-2011
Latest UFO Sightings, 1st August 2011
I don't know if there is any swearing...

Mystery lights spotted in East County skies [US]
CBS 8 News, 2nd August 2011
"I've seen planes, I've seen satellites, there's always tiny blinking lights, there wasn't anything like that with this. It was solid, one color the entire time," Todd said. For five minutes, the mysterious lights shifted from north to south before they suddenly disappeared."
Of course we get the pathetic 'excuser' interview with the local MUFON (got no real credibility) representative who has nothing useful to add.

Russian solar probe to predict Earthly cataclysms
RT News, 29th July 2011

Some scientists believe bursts of solar activity cause natural disasters on our planet, but until now the star has been too difficult to reach or explore in any detail. Some Russian researchers think they have the solution.

Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis – apocalyptic pictures are becoming an ordinary part of news bulletins across the globe. And scientists are not giving out reassuring forecasts.

“Unfortunately, we're expecting more severe cataclysms which may lead to large-scale human losses and destruction,” says Baku-based Professor Elchin Kakhalilov of the Global Network for the Forecasting of Earthquakes. “I'm talking about even a possible shift of the centers of our entire civilization.”

The change in the Earth's seismic activity coincides with the rise of activity on the sun. Scientists have been witnessing gigantic bursts of plasma on its surface and say they are affecting our planet, even though it is over 90 million miles away.

“Unfortunately, we're expecting more severe cataclysms which may lead to large-scale human losses and destruction,” says Baku-based Professor Elchin Kakhalilov of the Global Network for the Forecasting of Earthquakes. “I'm talking about even a possible shift of the centers of our entire civilization.” DS

Comment: So, the Russians are expecting more Earth cataclysms because of space weather? [This is the same as a British government report that stated major disasters like the Japanese earthquake and tsunami or Pakistan's floods are likely to become more frequent and global governments must prepare for an uncertain future. See, Governments must prepare for more mega-disasters - UK]. Well, some scientists have been insisting for many decades that there is a close relationship between certain celestial events and earthquakes because it was evident from the data, but it seems the Russians expect things to get much worse. I have been saying this for a long time and it will be bad because we are not prepared and have failed to comprehend 'the signs of the times'. It seems here that the Russians have decided to place a satellite in space that will hopefully provide much better space weather forecasting, but I don't know what they mean by 4 times closer to the Sun. So, does that mean 4 million miles from Earth? Lagrange Point 1 (L1), a million miles away, is where the ACE & SOHO satellite amongst others are now just parked in zero gravity just watching the sun. The new STEREO satellites are in orbit around the Sun but they are not actually close to the sun at all. Whatever, the Russians are really trying to take space Weather forecasting forward with this new plan and I think this is good news for the world if the Russians decide to share their data.

Study: ‘Huge discrepancies’ between global climate predictions and hard data
Yahoo News, 29th July 2011

Global warming may occur slower and correct itself faster than computer models have been predicting, a new study says.

The study, published in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing by Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, reports the atmosphere may shed heat much faster than previously thought — a potentially serious problem for the computer models used to predict global climate trends.

For his study, Spencer compared a half dozen climate model predictions with actual satellite data during an 18-month period before and after warming events between 2000 and 2011. “The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show,” Spencer said in a University of Alabama press release. “There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.”

Comment: Well, climate skeptics talked about a Tipping Point In The Media back in March 2009, but it seems that with the major media coverage about this particular satellite study, we have to wonder if there has been a major shift in strategy. Maybe the higher-ups have decided to shift the focus to mitigating Space Weather, which would have been the honest thing to do in the first place.

Climate Malpractice
The Resilient Earth, 1st Ausgust 2011

Unexpected Clue to Thermopower Efficiency: Uneven Temperature Can Lead to Electronic Whirlpools and Sideways Magnetic Fields
Science Daily, 28th July 2011

Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have discovered a new relation among electric and magnetic fields and differences in temperature, which may lead to more efficient thermoelectric devices that convert heat into electricity or electricity into heat.

"In the search for new sources of energy, thermopower -- the ability to convert temperature differences directly into electricity without wasteful intervening steps -- is tremendously promising," says Junqiao Wu of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division (MSD), who led the research team

Comment: Presumably, this would also explain the occurrence of tornadoes, waterspouts, fire tornadoes and maybe even hurricanes, because atmospheric temperature differences and Earth's vertical electric field are combined with air that has become ionised enough to become a semi-conducting plasma and these are all the ingredients to create the same vortexes and "whirlpools of electric current" but on a much larger scale.

Dangerous Trends in Personal Development
The Emotion Machine, 27th July 2011

Instead, there is a whole other reality that exists outside of our minds that affects our lives. And sometimes that reality can be incredibly cruel, harsh, and impersonal.

It’s important to acknowledge this reality for several reasons:

1. We don’t have to blame ourselves for everything bad that happens in our lives.
2. By accepting these other facets of reality, we can better respond to them.

I know this isn’t the most positive and optimistic thing you want to hear – but it’s true. And accepting reality is more beneficial in the long-term than ignoring it.

I truly believe that. I’ve been hurt by wishful thinking before, and I’ve become happier and better off once I dimmed my optimism and became a little more practical.

Personal development fueled by science, reason, and honest self-analysis.

The wheels on the bus...
Orange News, 26th July 2011

Terrified passengers had a right bus strop when their oblivious driver motored on - after the wheels had fallen off his coach. Driver Shi Shao, 48, told police in Shaoyang, Hunan province, southern China, that he thought he'd hit a pothole and was returning to his depot to have the suspension checked.

But his horrified passengers begged him to stop when they saw the bus's rear axle behind them in the road and could feel the floor of the vehicle turning red hot as it scraped along the road.

Comment: This reminds me of the wheels falling off the 2012 bandwagon when people find out the truth that modern Mayan Elders were trying to explain the arrival of Space Weather.... 2012 was NEVER about a 1 day jamboree to celebrate the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, rather marking a transition into a new era that could either destroy or dramatically transform our world.

Norwegian Prime Minister on terror attack
BBC News, 25th July 2011

"The BBC's Jon Sopel has been granted the only British television interview with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in the wake of Friday's terror attacks. He spoke to him in Oslo, at an official residence which has become a makeshift office since prime minister's official office was blown up. He asked Mr Stoltenberg whether there was anything that could have prepared him for what unfolded

Norway Princess’ Brother killed in massacre
Time.com, 25th July 2011

Police Knew Gunman’s Name Before Arrest
How did the Norwegian police know Breivik's name before they arrested him, after taking 90 minutes to get to the scene of the shooting? Many journalists are asking the same. What is the truth?

Update: Simple. The police ran the plates on his vehicle and got his name. I am picking up information that suggests Breivik did not act alone, whatever the police say. A leading Norwegian newspaper is reporting that the shooting suspect was TALKING INTO A HEADSET while he gunned down dozens of children on the island.
Using Google Translate: “BT.no last night reported that the perpetrator was talking in the headset during the massacre. This was observed by a number of eyewitness." link
I have lived in Norway, it is a transparent society, no coverups will be allowed by the police or anyone, especially concerning something as terrible as this.

Voodoo' row as the Lottery gives £200k to spiritual healers available on NHS
Daily Mail, 30th July 2011

Treatment 'corrects energy flow imbalances'
Critics say it has no scientific basis and wastes funds

Spiritual healing which has been branded 'voodoo' by critics is to be offered to NHS patients in a £205,000 research project funded by the National Lottery.

Healers pass their hands over the patient's body to channel 'healing energy' to affected areas in 20-minute sessions designed to see whether the treatment relieves discomfort.

Advocates say the energy works 'like a gentle set of jump leads' and can alleviate pain. But critics say the healing has no scientific basis and money raised through the Lottery should not be used to promote alternative medicine when the NHS is squeezed for cash. [...]

Three healers at Good Hope are recruiting 200 patients suffering from bowel conditions. The patients are divided into two groups, one of which receive five sessions straight away and the other after a three-month delay. The group that has had the treatment will then be compared to the one that has not.

Comment: There is no real logic expressed by the skeptics here. If healing could be proven to work, then it could be used in conjunction with modern medicine and the overall cost of health treatment would go down not up.... All the references to voodoo is typical of the ignorant and phobic. Quite frankly, they are only doing the healing trials in the first place because conventional medicine is failing badly, but the skeptics are too blinded by their hubris to see that... I hope the trial gets some 'proper' healers...

Emergency shut down at power station [NZ]
stuff.co.nz, 30th July 2011

A computer failure has caused the emergency shut down of a geothermal power station in the Far North. Northland Police responded to reports of "strange noises" coming from Ngawha Power Station, east of Kaikohe, tonight.

Russell Shaw, chief executive of Top Energy which operates the power station, said a computer failure and subsequent pressure build-up caused unusually loud noises. Top Energy rebooted the system when the station initially failed due to the computer glitch. This caused geothermal fluid to flow through the pipeline, Shaw said.

"That caused a greater pressure than we would of normally operated at. "It was a very safe shut down but it did mean quite a lot of pressure was released and there was noise which was noticed by local villages."

Comment: I can only presume this was caused by a stray cosmic ray, as there is no mention of the usual excuse of computer system upgrades or computer maintenance gone wrong. So, it seems this company were in completely reliance on a computer system with inadequate emergency procedures in event of computer failure to manage a geothermal power station. Well, someone needs to tell the Top Energy management that Space Weather is now an issue and computer hardware can be easily corrupted as our planet is being flooded with cosmic rays, such that bits and bytes can be turned on and off at random. Due to Space Weather, this is the new reality of life on planet Earth and computer hardware companies will need to start selling radiation hardened electronics, similar as those used in satellites in order to have electronics that can be used in the harsh cosmic environment of space. At the moment, I don't have enough information to make a link with the blast of X-rays from the sun due to the M9-class solar flare at 0209 UT, see below for more details and related reports of EM chaos.

A strong M9.3 solar flare took place
The Watchers, 30th July 2011
"Sunspot AR1261 unleashed a brief but strong M9-class solar flare on July 30th at 0209 UT. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the flare’s extreme ultraviolet flash:"

Power surge sets off alarms in Hastings [NZ]
stuff.co.nz, 30th July 2011
"Hastings police were inundated with phone calls from concerned residents tonight after a power surge set off alarms throughout the city. A police spokeswoman said the power surge activated numerous home alarms and the Civil Defence warning system."

Power cut causes Sydney flight delays [Australia]
stuff.co.nz, 30th July 2011
"Power has been restored at Sydney International Airport, but flight delays are expected to continue. Power was lost from about 9.40am AEST (11.40am NZT) to 11am AEST and was restored shortly afterwards, a spokesman from Sydney Airport Corporation said."
The time of the power surge is 9.30am (AEST) which is UTC + 10 hours. This means there is no link with the M9 solar flare but it might have been caused by an earlier spike of cosmic radiation due to solar flares that have been crackling for the last two days.

SHAPE-SHIFTING SUNSPOT: Three big sunspot groups are rotating across the Earth-facing side of the sun. One of them, AR1261, is morphing into a circular ring. Click on the image to view a 24-hour movie: The magnetic field of this shape-shifting sunspot is crackling with C- and M-class solar flares, including a powerful M9-blast to begin the day on July 30th. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of more such flares during the next 24 hours. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments. spaceweather.com 30th July 2011

Global Warming Doomsters' Theories Wrong, Says NASA Study
International Business Times, 29th July 2011

Global warming proponents can catch up on the sleep they lost worrying about the planet getting hotter with each passing day. A NASA study which analyzes satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011, published in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing, reports that Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than global warming proponents' computer models have predicted. [...]

"The satellite observations suggest there is much more energy lost to space during and after warming than the climate models show," Dr. Roy Spencer, study co-author and principal research scientist in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, said in a press release. "There is a huge discrepancy between the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans."

Comment: Well, it's been quite a week. The whole global warming scam is badly falling apart and even NASA scientists can't hide the truth any more. Over at Climate Depot and Watts Up with That?, climate skeptics are having a real laugh with the latest news of terrible polar bear climate science. Seriously, science at its worse... The best explanation of the controversy surrounding latest junk science can be found at Not Yet Melted, Drowned Polar Bears and Scientific Misconduct more guffaws at Climate Depot, Polar Bear fallout: 'Junk Science Unravels...The global warming fraud is coming apart faster than the alarmists can repackage and rebrand their fairy tale'.

Inspector general’s transcript of drowned polar bear researcher being grilled
WUWT, 29th July 2011

"This fellow, Charles Monnett has been suspended pending an investigation into his polar bear research. You may recall that he single-handedly inspired Al Gore (not that it takes much) into producing this piece of science fiction for his even larger fiction, An Inconvenient Truth. Gore cited Monnett’s research."
People are comparing the transcript of this 'grilling' of Monnett by the Inspector General, with a Monty Python sketch and that is exactly how I read it too... it's just hard to believe this passed as science... Some people are really enjoying this but the comment about people starving in Africa and money being wasted on this useless research is certainly very relevant... Charles Monnett managed 50 million dollars worth of research projects, I don't think that is funny at all....

Bruce Cobb says: July 29, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Looks like he [Monnet] was grilled pretty thoroughly, but his science appears to be half-baked.

President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic | National Press Club of Australia [1:00:01]
YouTube, 25th July 2011

President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus "The mass delusion of climate change." Vaclav Klaus is one of the worlds leading critics of global warming ideology; he published a book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles" in 2007 & He is currently on a speaking tour of Australia.

4 Recent Scientific Blows to the Global Warming Theory
Activist Post, 28th July 2011
Even though Gore claims to know how to solve an unproven theory, the proposed solutions to global warming are now drawing scathing criticism from some world leaders like Czech President Vaclav Klaus. Klaus, an economist who lived through the rise and fall of communism, recently said that the climate change movement is a threat to democracy.

"I consider (the global warming doctrine) a new dangerous attempt to control and mastermind my life and our lives, in the name of controlling the climate or temperature," Klaus said to an audience of the Australian-based think-tank Institute of Public Affairs. Klaus also exposed phony environmentalists, "They don't care about resources or poverty or pollution. They hate us, the humans. They consider us dangerous and sinful creatures who must be controlled by them."
Strong stuff... well, you can always rely on Vaclav Klaus to tell it how it is!

EdgeScience Magazine - issue 8
Society for Scientific Exploration, July 2011

Edge Science is a new magazine from the SSE. Why Edge Science? Because scientific knowledge is still full of unknowns. What remains to be discovered—what we don't know—very likely dwarfs what we do know. And what we think we know may not be entirely correct or fully understood. Anomalies, which researchers tend to sweep under the rug, should be actively pursued as clues to potential breakthroughs and new directions in science.

Comment: No. 8 is free! Download here. Lots of interesting info including: Pseudo-Science in Science, How Evolution Occurs: Was Lamarck Also Right?, Remote Viewing: State of the Field, Mass Bird Deaths, Why Don’t the Data Move Like They Should? A Global Consciousness Project Update.

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
Science Daily, 28th July 2011

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society.

The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion.

The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.”When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”

Comment: So, the 100th monkey occurs at 10%?

Paddy Power cuts odds in half for UFO discovery
Joe News, 27th July 2011

A group of Swedish treasure hunters believe that a 190-foot circular object is located 285 feet below the Baltic Sea, somewhere between Sweden and Finland.

Previously the odds for finding extra terrestrial life on earth were 40/1. But all this talk of finding a UFO has got Paddy Power a little worried, so they’ve dropped the odds down to 20/1. Maybe they know something we don’t.

Comment: Ok, at least the bookies are getting real... I saw the original story and ignored it, but this update is just hilarious at the same time scientists are getting very curious, see the article below:

Explorers find bizarre, spaceship-like object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea (Video)
i09 News, 20th July 2011
"Apparently there are tracks about 300 meters long leading up to the object, leading Lindberg to speculate that the object has moved."

UFO Found on Ocean Floor?
Live Science, 29th July 2011
"An ocean exploration team led by Swedish researcher Peter Lindberg has found what some are suggesting is a crashed flying saucer. Lindberg's team, which has had success in the past recovering sunken ships and cargo, was using sonar to look for the century-old wreck of a ship that went down carrying several cases of a super-rare champagne. Instead, the team discovered what it claims is a mysterious round object that might (or might not) be extraterrestrial."
If you are familiar with UFO literature and associated mysteries, finding a UFO/UAP on the ocean floor is not particularly surprising. Sweden even has some extremely well documented stories of strange objects crashing into lakes during WWII that caused major military investigations... What is surprising, is that the object has moved around a little and so it is still 'live'... I would be amazed if various military type agencies are not out there now investigating with submarines.

UFO shoots across Texas sky live on breakfast TV (Fort Worth, [US] By NBC News Skycam)
Daily Mail, 28th July 2011

If aliens are real then it appears they are becoming savvier at getting our attention. Early risers in Texas got a surprise when a UFO shot through the sky live on breakfast TV. Sharp eyed viewers spotted the white light flash across the screen as local station KXAS showed a traffic camera looking across Fort Worth at 5:40am.

In the top right of the video a bright light drops out of the sky and disappears. A slow-motion replay of the footage appears to show a faint light veering off at an angle to the right of the picture. Station managers have called in UFO investigators to review the footage. [...]

But others said they had seen the bright light with their own eyes. 'I was sitting outside my neighbors house and saw the flash of light in the sky go over the trees. Bill my neighbor saw it too,' a viewer wrote on the station's website. 'This looks more like a meteor that has reached the Earth's atmosphere but due to the severe stress of gravity at hyper speeds has been redirected,' wrote another.

Comment: I suppose UAPs caught on TV news cameras are much harder to ignore or debunk. It's not a meteorite because it did a U-turn diving down from the sky and then moving back up into the sky. It's interesting that this is making mainstream news in the UK, but no doubt I think the Daily Mail is on a mission to help aclimatise the British people to the fact that our world is turning into a cosmic aquarium. This is becoming more and more obvious. Since this is Fort Worth, Texas, I can only presume that after the incredible blasts of energy that were seen in this region in mid May 2011 (explained away as transformer explosions), that the aetheric density in this area has now changed. Maybe, this means that UAP sightings will become more common in this area.

UFO Filmed Over Fort Worth By NBC News Skycam
ufo-blogger.com, July 2011
With YouTube clip version

Unknown lights over Copenhagen, Denmark 3-Jul-2011
latest-ufo-sightings.net, 27th July 2011
In daylight too...

UFO or Ball Lightning Seen in Australia?
Epoch Times, 27th July 2011
"A luminous floating sphere of what could be electricity was spotted near Brisbane, Australia, according to a video posted on YouTube. The cameraman filmed the UFO at a distance in January last year, and believes it was ball lightning."
I will accept that if this was an example of ball lightning, it is still great that it was caught on video.

Disc-shaped UFO over Sao Paulo, Brazil 24-Jul-2011 Update
latest-ufo-sightings.net, 27th July 2011

I have been waiting for some time now for someone to try and debunk this sighting as an LED Kite with the proof. Maybe, someone is still trying to build something that is as impressive and it's taking a little too long... Apparently, the Brazilian Air Force and police deny receiving any reports from that area. So, if someone is building a massive LED Kite to put people's minds at rest, they need to hurry up because this sighting has drawn a lot of attention!

Could the Sao Paolo, Brazil UFO really be an LED Kite?
Paranormal Old Pueblo, 26th July 2011

UFO spotted over northern Australia
Katherine Times, 29th July 2011
"Brian said he’d seen a bright white object drop out of the sky, it just dropped, it wasn’t going across or anything, it fell out of the sky – like a shooting star, but there was no tail and it wasn’t going across the sky, it fell out of it and suddenly disappeared.” Mr Ferguson said although the Katherine man, who only wants to be known as Brian, had seen a “strange thing in the sky” once before, he said he could not believe his eyes. “He just couldn’t believe it, he couldn’t.”

NICAP documents available online
Hynek Center, July 2011

CUFOS acquired the files and other material of NICAP in the early 1980s as that organization was failing. We also have a complete collection of NICAP's UFO Investigator, the flagship publication of that organization. Altogether 162 issues were published, from July 1957 to June 1980. You can download each issue in a separate printable PDF file. In addition to the UFO Investigator, also available are the following publications released by NICAP: the Affiliate Newsletter, UFO Quarterly Review, Special "Confidential" Bulletins, "The Year of the UFO, A Special Calendar of Historical Highlights", and finally over 300 select NICAP documents (jpg format) giving over 1600 pages in this collection. [...]

A very brief overview of NICAP is available on Wikipedia.

Comment: The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (or NICAP) was a civilian unidentified flying object research group active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s. 162 issues of NICAP's UFO Investigator newsletter, published between July 1957 and June 1980, a historical treasure trove, are now available free online in pdf format.

| VIDEO: Chilean Civil Aeronautics Administrator Declassified Audio and Video Recordings of UFO Sightings in Chile
UFO Chronicles, 23rd July 2011

Brazilian UFO Magazine revealed that the Chilean Civil Aeronautics Administrator gave in February, some videos and audios of UFO sightings, through the Committee for Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA). There are 183 cases that have no explanation.

Meanwhile, Chile takes seriously this issue and is concerned about the UFO presence and its consequences to be subjected to a careful study.Chilean Army Captain Rodrigo Bravo (UFO Magazine Consultant), has demonstrated knowledge and interaction with the UFO subject in various statements such as:

"I do not deny or ignore the situation with most of the UFOs. They represent a real threat, high seriousness. Today we are dealing with a complex phenomenon, whose characteristics cannot be explained in a ordinary way."

Comment: Members of the Chilean Military, who are now in a real 'Coalition of the Willing' of countries in South America, have long realised that real UFOs/UAPs cannot be explained using humdrum mechanistic terminology. In a very simple metaphysical sense, UFOPs/UAPs are thoughtforms that can create their own body armour. Some of them prefer delicate shields of light and others like the heavy set metallic armour.... As the military have explained many times before, these UFOPs/UAPs have flying capabilities that are way beyond our aviation technology, (but of course, this does not including manmade UFO copies that maybe classified as Cosmic Top Secret.)

UFO TV: Out of the Blue - Military Disclosure Has Begun (Video)
Latest UFO Sightings, 28th July 2011

UFOTV: Out of the Blue - Military Disclosure Has Begun - National Press Club LIVE, Washington D.C

Join us for a truly historic event. At the National Press Club in Washington D.C., an unprecedented gathering of top military and government officials from around the world met LIVE before members of the Press to present to the public alarming facts about UFOs and an extraterrestrial presence now engaging the planet Earth. This presentation provides LIVE coverage of that historic press conference. [...]

This event was produced by Filmmaker James Fox. His award winning feature film "Out of the Blue" - is coming to DVD in a new special anniversary edition on 8/30/2011 from UFOTV. It's loaded with bonus features and interviews including this press conference.

Comment: Yet another UFO/Military Disclosure documentary.... YouTube Version [1:36:26]

Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature
WUWT, 25th July 2011

Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society’s journal Functional Ecology, could help increase the accuracy of the tree ring record as a way of estimating past climatic conditions.

Many factors in addition to climate are known to affect the tree ring record, including attack from parasites and herbivores, but determining how important these other factors have been in the past is difficult. [...]

Tree rings give us a window into the past, and have been widely used as climate recorders since the early 1900s. The growth rings are visible in tree trunk cross sections, and are formed in seasonal environments as the wood is laid down faster in summer than winter. In years with better growing conditions (in cool locations this usually means warmer) tree rings are wider, and because trees can be very long-lived and wood is easily preserved, for example in bogs and lakes, this allows very long time-series to be established, and climatic conditions to be estimated from the ring widths.

Comment: I was highly amused by the offering at Watts Up With That? about the problem of climate scientists discounting the effect of sheep on tree ring proxies. This is another reminder that climate science is just rudimemtary guess work at best, but we are all supposed to believe the garbage anyway... Personally, I trust universal intelligence to create the balance, not climate scientists being goaded by people with political and business interests. Some of the jokes in the comments are predictable but still funny....

Bob L says: July 26, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Judging by the decrease in the number of people who believe in AGW, I would have to say that sheep density is declining.

QuickieBurialAtSea says: July 26, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Now when caught, they’ll claim that pulling the wool over our eyes is normal practice.

Rick Bradford says: July 26, 2011 at 9:32 pm
This is not going to stop the AGW industry trying to fleece us at every turn.

Sheep study confirms a premise of McIntyre & McKittrick 05
WUWT, 27th July 2011

Sean Peake says: July 27, 2011 at 8:51 am
This could be baaaaaa-d news for Mann (sorry, couldn’t resist that hanging curveball) [LOL]

phi says: July 27, 2011 at 11:15 am
Maybe four-legged sheep influence ring width but it is mainly two-legged sheep who put the mess in the densities of tree rings. [LOL!]

Part of town street collapses creating large sinkhole [Canada]
No injuries reported as street closed
The Valley Leader, 27th July 2011

This was more than just a regular pothole.

Town of Carman work crews were called out to 2nd Ave SE near the corner of First Street SE after receiving a call about a large sinkhole approximately six feet by five feet and about five feet deep, on the street.

Sonja Morrison, who lives near the site with her family, said they heard a "thump" and then a second louder one when they went outside their home to take a look at around 5:15 p.m. on Monday (July 25).

"By the time we came out it had fully collapsed," Morrison said. "It was fairly deep as well."

Comment: I am suspicious that this is not a 'normal' sinkhole but this one is too close to call.... It looks laser cut on one side and the fact it was reported as being "as deep as well" is also worthy of consideration, but since we are seeing some really good 'laser cut' holes, I think we can only just make a note for future reference.

Sinkholes – A Sign of the Times?
Truth Frequency, 11th June 2011
Yes, sinkholes are a sign of the times, but not for the reasons given here. Rather, the surface of Earth is not breaking up, it's just being given a little bit of cosmic acupuncture... just chill out.... Lots of great photos here, real sinkholes and the cosmic 'acupuncture' laser cut holes.

Dolphins' 'Sixth Sense' Helps Them Feel Electric Fields
Live Science, 26th July 2011

The common Guiana dolphin has just divulged its sixth sense: the ability to sense electric fields. It is the first placental mammal known to pull off this trick, new research finds.

The dolphin, which bears live young like other placental mammals, most likely uses its sixth sense to find prey in the murky coastal waters it inhabits.

"Most of the animals which do this do this to find prey," said study researcher Wolf Hanke, of Rostock University in Rostock, Germany. "All of the dolphins' prey items, like crayfish, all of them generate electric fields to some degree."

Comment: No doubt the media headline 'sixth sense' should not be taken literally. Since the 1950s, scientists have discovered that humans have many more senses than is widely acknowledged and no doubt dolphins have many more senses too. I would like to point out that Synaesthesia (English) or Synesthesia (American) is now researching 63 different combination of the senses, which means the notion of a 'sixth sense' is becoming completely meaningless. Some humans can see electric and magnetic fields, some people thinks that makes them a guru, others think it is a medical condition and they want to get rid of this ability... Lots of creatures make use of electric and magnetic fields... if a creature was not electromagnetic, scientists would have to declare that it was dead...

Walnuts are DRUGS! FDA makes bizarre claim after seller says they 'reduce risk of heart disease and cancer'
Daily Mail, 26th July 2011

They may just be the hardest drugs on the market, if the FDA are to be believed. A company which sells walnuts has been told they are dealing in drugs because their packaging suggests health benefits which the Food and Drug Administration has not approved, it has been reported.

A fiercely-worded letter from the agency allegedly insisted Diamond Foods, from Stockton, California, remove the health claims or send off for a new drug application if it did not wish to be closed down. The nut company has been selling its products with packaging which states the omega-3 fatty acids in walnuts have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and some types of cancer.

But while the claims are backed up by research, including 35 published medical papers supporting assertions that eating walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce risk of heart attacks, the FDA is said to have insisted the company is 'misbranding' its foods because the 'product bears health claims that are not authorised by the FDA'.

Comment: Desperation... drugs are failing but few seem to have noticed, even though drug company analysts are incandescent with rage because in many cases people are having the same benefits with placebos and that means new drugs are failing trials and so can't be brought onto the market, see archives. Now, I imagine the problem is that anything natural with medicinal properties, is probably getting more beneficial to humans.... I have not seen any scientific studies about ongoing changes, but I imagine any results would be suppressed anyway, but I am studying what we should be expecting now... Again, the metaphysical community do not seem to be very interested, after years of talking about the transformation of Earth. Unfortunately, messages were hijacked and replaced with that of Earth's destruction and sold off to the mainstream for fodder. However, slowly, it seems that the Pied Pipers are getting quieter and quieter as it is obvious they have got this badly wrong, I presume they are now wondering how many have noticed the inconsistencies with their dire messages... Yet, there are some incredible changes taking place to our reality, enough to force the Obama Administration to start making enquiries amongst metaphysical leaders in 2008, to which the leaders of metaphysical trends had no answers... the real question is why did they not have any answers... are they asleep?

He’s back: An interview with Australian cult leader ‘Jesus Christ’
Dangerous Minds, 26th July 2011

Remember Alan John Miller AKA “Jesus Christ,” the smiling Australian cult leader who claims to be the son o’ God? Australian TV’s Today Tonight recently did an investigation of Miller and his flock and it’s fascinatingly strange.

Until I watched this, I was unaware that he’s predicting an impending apocalypse next year, but apparently if you’re with him in Queensland’s bible belt, you’ll be safe. But of course!

Comment: Actually, I see very little in the alternative media about cults, but I am currently writing my next long essay on the Cultic Milieu which is about the academically recognised "Society of Seekers" that have a permanent place in society. Hence, I am spending more time than normal over at the Cult Education Forum where I have already spent hundreds and hundreds of hours. Watch the video here when A.J. is interacting with his followers, note that he is bringing up people's pain and they are all crying... this guy is a professional and he knows what he is doing... this is a text book cult tactic approach, but I still think he is not even a good conman because he looks like he is constantly lying when he is being interviewed, not convincing... Anyway, this guy is not even on the radar at the Cult Education Forum who seem to have spent a lot of time discussing another major Christian cult in Australia run by a monster, but I have found a website that is keeping watch, see www.aj-miller.com/. Well, there is a surprise right at the end of this TV news report and we actually get a few comments from the great Rick Ross who runs the Cult Education Forum. This is probably the best cult resource on the internet by a long way, but it links to many other good sources of info. Rick Ross is not alone as he graced with an advisory panel of world experts in cults, but sadly, he has lost the well respected late psychologist and cult expert Dr Margaret Singer, who has recently died.

VIDEO Summer Lightning Storm Over Montreal, Canada
Irish Weather Online, 23rd July 2011

Vimeo user operatique took this incredible video of a horizontal lightning display over Montreal, Canada on at 9:20 p.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2011.

The city’s maximum temperature record was broken on the same day. Mercury levels hit 35.2 celsius, while the humidex factor was 45 celsius.

Comment: Here we are provided with some useful information about the temperature record, we must presume this might explain the formation of this most amazing cloud and it compares with other menancing clouds that have been seen recently, see archives. Montreal has been getting other 'freakish' weather events and last week a 'downburst' caused a stage to collapse, see more below.

Collapsed Bluesfest stage dismantlement begins
CBC News, 19th July 2011
Cheap Trick manager Dave Frey told CBC News the wind hit the stage "so hard that it just kind of creaked and groaned and then you heard rivets popping." The specifications of the Mark III stage that collapsed say it can withstand gusts of wind as high as 120 kilometres an hour. Ticket holders to get refunds

Winds at the Ottawa Airport were recorded at 96 km/h, but Environment Canada said a downburst — a strong downdraft of air from a thunderstorm that spreads out in all directions when it hits the ground at much faster speeds — was likely the trigger for the collapse of the main stage.

Downbursts can potentially cause as much damage as a tornado. Berger said it was "freakish weather" and not a structural defect that caused the collapse.

Intracloud lightning as a precursor to thunderstorm microbursts - by E R Williams, R E Orville
In NOAA International Aerospace and Ground Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity (1988) Pages: 454-459
Abstract: The intracloud lightning activity of microburst-producing thunderstorms is shown to be a systematic precurser to the maximum outflow velocity at ground level. The time of peak flash rate leads the time of maximum differential velocity by 5 to 10 minutes. The consistent temporal relationship between the electrical phenomenon (lightning rate) and the dynamical phenomenon (the microburst) is attributed to a common cause - ice particles aloft.

Comment: There are lots of references, but this one amused me. What on Earth does the highly energetic phenomenon of lightning have to do with ice crystals? It beggars belief that meteorologists believed the twaddle of charged ice crystals rubbing together. Well, now that atmospheric scientists are seeing the connection between the solar wind, our ionosphere and atmospheric currents, and Space Weather is forcing scientists to admit that we live in an electromagnetic universe, hopefully they will be able to come up with something more realistic...

A glowing bubbly bauble in space
Discover Bad Astronomy, 25th July 2011

Look, I’ve been around the block a few times. I’ve spent my whole life as an astronomer, so I’ve seen pretty much every big, bright object there is in the sky.

However, "pretty much" != "all". It’s still possible to surprise me, and folks, let me tell you: the Gemini telescope’s observation of the nebula Kronberger 61 did just that!

Wow! It looks like a buckeyball or a soccerball; my wife pointed out it looks like the shape you get when you use a bubble maker to make a bunch of bubbles all stuck together. Kn 61, as it’s called, is actually a planetary nebula, the gas flung off by a star like the Sun as it dies. You can get the details (along with many pretty pix) of how this works in a recent post of mine. In a nutshell, when a star runs out of useable hydrogen fuel in its core, it expands into a red giant and expels a huge wind of gas. This strips away the outer layers of the star, revealing the hot, dense core. Ultraviolet light from that star then lights up the surrounding gas, making these gorgeous nebulae.

The exact mechanisms for this process, however, are still not clear. [Well that is not a surprise...]

Comment: This image is for anyone who still doubts that we live in a Plasma universe. Even the author here, the well astronomy skeptic Phil Plait was surprised... yep that is an amazing sight and it makes you wonder what is going on in the bubble world... Instead of providing my usual comments about the properties of plasma, I have decided to highlight one of the comments

Josie Says:
July 25th, 2011 at 3:07 pm

Neato! Yet another astronomical comparison to what I get to see at work everyday. That bubble looks amazingly like a very cystic teratoma caused by undifferentiated stem cells (I advise not googling images for that if you are at all squeamish…not all teratomas are umm…that clean).

The other thing I see every day is ‘galaxy in a petri dish’ . Growing cells in rotational culture makes little clusters of cells. if you alter the rotation the clusters develop little spiral arms.

I really enjoy seeing similar forms under my microscope and then through a telescope. It gives me a comforting sense of perspective and continuity

I have added an image icon of stems cells, that clearly demonstrates the metaphysical concept of 'As Above, So below' that is extremely easy to appreciate when it comes to plasma. Scientists can prove in the laboratory that plasma can scale up to many orders of magntitude but then we can look up into the heavens to see the truly huge scale of plasma formations in space.

Space station faces steady threat from orbiting space junk
PhysOrg.com, 25th July 2011

Now that the space shuttle is retired, NASA and space agencies around the world will focus on the International Space Station for the rest of this decade - and cross their fingers that it lasts that long.

The station, with its crew of six international astronauts, orbits Earth at an altitude of about 220 miles, a neighborhood that is increasingly cluttered by space junk, mainly parts of old rockets and satellites that were either abandoned or destroyed in orbit. Thousands of pieces are big enough - and shooting through space fast enough - to seriously damage or destroy the $100 billion laboratory.

"The orbit they are flying in is the worst possible. . . . The Russians blew up all kinds of things in that damned orbit. So there are thousands of pieces in that particular orbit," said Christopher Kraft, a retired director of NASA's Manned Space Flight Center. The odds are against the station getting hit by debris big enough to destroy it before its planned abandonment in late 2020. But the threat is no long shot. NASA's projections indicate the chance of a disastrous collision with space junk are about 1 in 13. [...]

NASA, which evaluates risk in six-month increments, says there is a 1-in-114 chance a serious debris strike will partially disable the space station during the next six months, and 1 chance in 241 of a collision that kills astronauts or totally disables or destroys the station.

During the station's lifetime, that works out to a 1-in-6 chance of a disabling strike - and a 1-in-13 chance of a fatal collision.

Comment: The complaints about space junk are steadily increasing as I have expected, but for NASA to admit a 1 in 6 chance of a "disabling strike" during the station's lifetime, makes me think they have given up and expect the ISS to get hit at some point by the hurricane of space debris swirling about in space, especially as there is also an influx of meteroids and small rocks too being dragged in by the aetheric current.

The 'Forever 27 Club' - Music's Growing List Of Stars Who Died At 27 Years Old
Starpulse.com, 24th July 2011

The 'Forever 27 Club' has become more than a legend since the dawn of music recording. As it turns out, some of music's most influential artists who were taken from us much too soon all parted with the living at age 27. Is it a coincidence or a curse?

The latest 27-year-old to "join" this exclusive club is Amy Winehouse, who died Saturday at her London home. No one knows why or how yet, but initial speculation - most likely based on her past - is that drugs and/or alcohol were somehow involved.

Well, they played a big part in the deaths of these other stars who preceded her "in the club."

The first member of the club, legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, came decades before the others. Johnson influenced a myriad of musicians - including the likes of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix - despite only recording 29 songs.

Comment: Very sad. I was forced to give away 2 Amy Winehouse CDs or I might have destroyed them I can't quite remember. There is no argument about the woman being talented, but through the music, I was constantly tapping into the energy around this woman that was simply just horrible. OK, the article provides a long list of deaths at age 27, but neglects to explain why age 27 is such a critical age. According to sources that I have found on the internet, the brain reaches peak activity at age 27, so people doing heavy drink ands drugs pushes the brain into overload and the result is they die.

Japanese government killing its own people in Fukushima (Video)
YouTube, 23rd July 2011

On the 19th of July 2011, people in Fukushima had a meeting with government officals from Tokyo to demand that the government evacuate people promptly in Fukushima and provide financial and logistical support for them. Also, they brought urine of children to the meeting and demanded that the government test it.

Comment: Watch this video! The end of this video is like a film drama.... It looks like some people are losing all patience with local authorities and are comparing this disaster with Chernobyl. People just cannot understand why the Japanese government have refused to take the same action as the Russians in order to save lives. At about 3:00 officials go berserk and walk off when parents demand that they test the urine of children... I am struggling to watch these videos of people pleading for help as authority figures simply don't care, but it is all so strange because officials and their children are being slowly contaminated too. Brains numbed, emotions numbed, 'auto'crats.

Unique volcanic complex discovered on Moon's far side
PhysOrg.com, 25th July 2011

Analysis of new images of a curious “hot spot” on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location of the province and the surprising composition of the lava that formed it offer tantalizing clues to the Moon’s thermal history.

Comment: I thought the moon was supposed to be dead? It's like the supression of the facts that there is water on the moon and clouds too! Slowly, relevant information is being released, but probably only due to the efforts of researchers making the evidence public knowledge before NASA is forced to admit the truth. Yet, NASA still refuses to provide coloured photos of the surface of the moon, but it can send space probes to various asteroids and collect cosmic dust from the edge of our solar system and them deliver them back to Earth. Sigh! Well, it seems that the alternative media are getting the message that changes on the moon are part of the evolutionary changes taking place throughout our whole solar system. Good!

Roundway Hill, nr Devizes, Wiltshire.Reported 23rd July.
Crop Circle Connector, 25th July 2011

Comment: I just love the following remark on the comments page:

The new crop circle picture at Roundway on June 23, 2011 shows the chemical structure of melatonin: maybe they think that everyone on Earth should chill out?

Comments have been moved to Facebook and since I am not a Facebook person, what information is available seems to be scrambled.

Comment 2: I am wondering whether there is a link, I don't think that I have seen spaceweather.com provide this message before:

ELECTRON WARNING: Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab report elevated levels of energetic electrons around Earth. ("GOES 13 > 0.8 MeV integral electron flux is above 105 pfu." ) This is caused by the high-speed solar stream now blowing around our planet. Spacecraft with orbits passing through or in the vicinity of the Earth's outer radiation belt could be affected by these charged particles. Spaceweather.com 23rd July 2011
SOHO July 19-24, 2011 with VENUS and massive Coronal Mass Ejections
YouTube, 24th July 2011
I noticed the SOHO coronograph at the time and I thought it was so strange that when I came across the YouTube version I decided to take the link details. I did not link all the details up into a few days later but look at the 'glow' around the sun on the 23rd July, please note there is a section missing on the 22nd. Whatever, I have never seen anything like it before... it's like space is frothing....

Well, we've have had these warnings before that humans are being "upgraded" by specific blasts of space weather and once I really felt it, but in this case, I am just wondering...

Bullet train crashes in China; at least 35 killed
LA Times, 24th July 2011

Lightning strikes a high-speed train, which loses power and is rear-ended by another train on an elevated track in Wenzhou. The safety of the national network has been called into question after a corruption scandal.

At least 35 people were killed and scores were injured Saturday when a bullet train in eastern China lost power after being struck by lightning and was rear-ended by another train, state news media reported.

The crash sent two passenger cars careening off an elevated track in Wenzhou, a city in Zhejiang province. State television showed video of rescue workers in a steady downpour pulling bloodied passengers out of a car standing on its end and leaning against a bridge.

Comment: It's the struck by lightning and losing power that makes me wonder... These bullet trains work by magnetic levitation of which there are two types in operation and a third in the experimental stage.

* For electromagnetic suspension (EMS), electronically controlled electromagnets in the train attract it to a magnetically conductive (usually steel) track.
* Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) uses permanent magnets which create a magnetic field that induces currents in nearby metallic conductors when there is relative movement which pushes the train away from the rail.

Train signalling is affected by Space Weather (see Lloyds 360⁰ Space Weather Report, November 2010) , but I am very surprised that these supposedly high tech trains can be crippled by lightning.

1921 : Earth Had A “Fever”
Steve Goddard, 22nd July 2011

Record heat, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes, millions starving, drought, floods. March was 11 degrees above normal. Temperatures for the year were 3.4 degrees above normal.

Prior to Hansen’s 2000 data ~~corruption~~ correction, 1921 was the second hottest year on record in the US – after 1934.

Comment: Actually, compare 1921 to what is happening now, especially the info about the 1921 heat wave in the United States, waterspouts, volcanoes sprouting flames, lightning, tornadoes, Koreans starving etc... I am quite shocked to read this because 1921 is when we had the 100 year geomagnetic storm that our solar scientists are worrying about now and might explain the recent action of the UK & US governments in agreeing to take down the national grids in the event of a category 5 geomagnetic storm.... History repeats, it's never quite the same, but the universe operates on cycles...

Malinda Knowles, JetBlue Passenger, Sues Airline For Kicking Her Off Flight For 'Not Wearing Underwear'
AOL News, 22nd July 2011

Malinda Knowles, a 27-year-old financial consultant from Harlem, is suing JetBlue Airlines for kicking her off a West Palm Beach-bound flight for "not wearing underwear."

Knowles claims the pilot on the 6am flight last July thought she wasn't wearing pants or shorts, according to her lawsuit she filed in Queens Supreme Court.

But the former model tells the Daily News that she was "wearing a baggy blue T-shirt over a pair of dark denim short-shorts" that she had hastily put on at 4 a.m. when she awoke for the flight.

Comment: Completely mad.... I have been listing stories about pilots, aircraft crew and sometimes passengers struggling to stay balanced due to the worsening geomagnetic conditions, but this story is off the scale...

Journal of Anthropoligical Approaches to the Paranormal Paranthropology - July 2011
Paranthropology, July 2011

The new issue, which can be downloaded for free in PDF form, includes "Capturing Intention? The PIP Photography and Shamanic Intervention" by Zoe Bran, "The Ka in Ancient Egyptian" by Callum E. Cooper, "Anthropology, Evolution and Anomalous Experience" by James McClenon; "Supernatural Abductions: UFO and Folklore Narratives" by Franco Bejarano; and "Paul Devereux Live at the Rhine: Naturalizing Psi as the Anthropology of Consciousness" by Ryan Hurd.

Comment: I have not read any of the articles but the journal is free and some of the articles are about research that I think is useful to know. Since this journal has an old format, I presume that this is the revival of an old journal, but old information tends to be less polluted by popularisation, so from my point of view that is better.

Norwegian gunman kills 'as many as 30' at youth camp on Utoya island near Oslo
At least seven dead after bomb attack in capital
Belfast Telegraph, 22nd July 2011

As many as 30 people are feared dead after a gunman opened fire at Norway Labour Party's youth camp on the island of Utoya, fifty miles south of Oslo.

An eyewitness reported seeing between 25 and 30 bodies. Police have confirmed that nine or ten people were killed in the shooting spree, but said that is a preliminary figure.

Comment: I lived in Oslo for 1 year and another 7 years in Stavanger, Norway, so I am aware of how Norwegians value their culture and society and so I am very sorry to hear about this wicked attack. The lone gunman pretending to be a policeman and taking the only ferry boat to the island of Utoya Island, is just bizarre and suggests this was some kind of political grievance and he wanted to be caught.

Update: Pictured: The blond Norwegian, 32, arrested over 'holiday island massacre' and linked to Oslo car bomb blasts
Daily Mail, 22nd July 2011
Pictures of the shooter in his MASONIC REGALIA... absolutely shocking... So what really happened?

Norway police: 'Eighty killed' in island shooting
At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a bomb attack on the capital, Oslo, police say.
BBC News, 23rd July 2011

Update 2: The real motives. This is a summary of what some people are thinking based on the evidence available. Norwegian attack, three targets one lone nut? I doubt it.

“No one will bomb us to silence. No one wil shoot us to silence. No one will ever scare us away from being Norway,” Mr Stoltenberg says. [Norwegian Prime Minister]

Norway, stay strong!

Update 3: Sky News: Firing In Youth Camp In Utoya-Norway (Aerial Footage Of The Camp).flv
YouTube, 22nd July 2011

Here is the heartbreaking witness descriptions from Utøya
NRK, 23rd July 2011 Google translation

Update 4: Anders Behring Breivik: Oslo, Norway Bombing 'Necessary'
Huffington Post, 23rd July 2011

Breivik: 'I Killed Them But Didn't Break Law'
Sky News, 23rd July 2011
OK, it's hard to imagine someone shooting approx. 85-90 young people (at the moment we cannot be 100% sure he acted alone with the bombing but we are talking in total about 100 dead) but then the perpetrator turning around and saying I did not break the law... I'm now wondering: what other law is he talking about? Bizarre... Yes I have read the stuff about the police being baffled... Norwegians have been lead to believe that only foreigners are capable of doing such a despicable act and they are all probably in terrible shock over their homegrown evil Norwegian son... Really, shooting down so many young Norwegians in cold blood requires a level of ruthlessness that is hard to imagine is even quantifiable... If Breivik really did this all alone, then he is a world class terrorist par excellence...

Deep Sleep: Hole Nearly Swallows Gran's Bed (Video)
Sky News, 22nd July 2011

A grandmother in Guatemala City has had a lucky escape after a huge sinkhole suddenly opened up under her bed as she slept. Inocenta Hernandez woke up on July 18 to discover she was lying just inches above a 12m (40ft) deep sinkhole.

Mrs Hernandez was startled by a large booming sound which she thought was a gas explosion outside. The sound was actually the earth under her bed imploding to create a deep and almost perfectly circular hole. If the pit had been a few metres larger it may have swallowed the pensioner as she slept.

The 65-year-old said: "My son was crying because you never expect something like that in the bedroom. "When they raised the bed and I stood by this big hole my son then said that we have to call the firefighters because they need to come. "Thanks to God and the holy Mary that nothing bad happened, it was an accident."

In the weeks before the pit appeared neighbours had reported hearing strange sounds coming from the earth and now fear further implosions.

Comment: Now this is strange, we find out here that Grandma was in the bed! So it seems that the certain sections of the media were not interested in reporting all the facts. Well, as a reminder, this is not really a sinkhole, geologists call them "piping features" but don't seem to have much of an explanation for how they are formed. The other explanation that I often forget to mention is that these laser cut holes could be caused by blasts of energy from within the Earth. Obviously, there is an issue explaining where all the material has gone to leave a clean hole so that is why the experts are calling them implosions, but then they don't explain why these implosions leave holes with neat straight sides (see article details below). Check archives to find details about how Russians have been finding strange deep holes in secluded areas too. Whatever, I still think they are caused by blasts from space but the evidence might suggest that the complete collapse of the hole might not be immediate.

(UPDATED*) Sinkholes: A chronic geohazard
American Geophysical Union, 2nd June 2010

Researchers Identify Seventh and Eighth Bases of DNA
Science Daily, 21st July 2011

For decades, scientists have known that DNA consists of four basic units -- adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. Those four bases have been taught in science textbooks and have formed the basis of the growing knowledge regarding how genes code for life. Yet in recent history, scientists have expanded that list from four to six.

Now, with a finding published online in the July 21, 2011, issue of the journal Science, researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered the seventh and eighth bases of DNA.

Comment: Are these really new bases or evolution right under the noses of geneticists? I thought the same when the announced the discovery of the 5th and 6th bases of DNA. My knowledege of genetics is very limited but we are talking about fundamental changes in the structure of DNA,it's like sayin that the English alphabet has just gone from 26 to 52 letters, just think about that... So, why are they saying these are NEW as opposed to saying these are previously undiscovered bases of DNA? Whatever, we await a better explanation of what is really going on.

#Radiation in Japan: Chinese Tourists Are Back, Because They WANT Radiation
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 21st July 2011

On a lighter note, Chinese tourists are back in Japan, particularly young couples, according to an article that appeared in Shukan Post, a Japanese weekly magazine. Chinese were among the first to depart en masse from Japan after the earthquake/tsunami/nuke plant disaster, and they avoided Japan altogether in April.

Why are they back now? Because they WANT to get exposed to radiation. Why? Because they believe that would get them a baby boy. It's got to be another "baseless rumor"; high-IQ and rich Chinese wouldn't do such a silly thing as trying to be intentionally exposed to artificial radiation hoping that would get them a boy, would they?

Comment: This is quite a humorous article under the current circumstances. Whatever, it seems that some Chinese have taken the German Scherb-Voigt study seriously see below:

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.

UFO sightings skyrocket in July 2011; the best video compilation so far
Unexplained Phenomena Examiner, 22nd July 2011

On July 21, 2011, a YouTube user named geeksquad1001 posted an online video showing some of the most amazing UFO sightings since the beginning of the month. It highlights some truly unexplained phenomena including a massive unidentified flying object over Queensland, Australia; an Independence Day sighting in Lafayette; a UFO in Miltown; and more Independence Day sightings, these in the Bronx, New York; Cleveland and California.

Comment: I could not resist the headline...

Quantum UFOs
The UFO Iconoclasts, July 19, 2011
"So we contend, hypothetically, that UFOs may be quantum artifacts – large quantum particles as it were. UFOs mimic several aspects of quantum theory: the indeterminacy of location, observation (measurement) of UFOs affect them, and their reality is hypothetical, not actual in practical, classical terms. Quantum artifacts behave in strange, quirky ways, as you know. UFOs behave similarly. UFOs, more often than not, disappear when observed, suddenly rather than gradually, according to most UFO sighting-reports."

Comment: I do have a problem with the use of the word "Quantum" due to the over zealous use by New Age bandwagonistas, but in this case it might be more appropriate. So far, I have only been impressed with scientific explanations from a small esoteric group that came from about 10 years of study and was later published in the mid 1950s. This means that very small groups have been way ahead of the curve (as usual) and have had a grasp on the problem of explaining UFOs for a long time...

Lord Monckton wins National Press Club debate on climate
WUWT, 20th July 2011

Love him or hate him, the man can win a debate. Andrew Bolt shares the results of the National Press Club Debate in Australia writing:

No wonder the warmists hate debate

The National Press Club debate’s results:

Lord Monckton – 10

Former Greens adviser Richard Denniss – 1

Journalists – 0.

Comment: I have always liked Lord Monckton but when he was knocked out cold by a policeman and left on the pavement in Copenhagen, he became a hero, see archives... OK, there has been some recent nastiness that he is not really a peer who is able to sit in the House of Lords but I don't think anyone cares about that. Monckton has a brilliant mind and has decided to use it fighting scientific scams (hence his appointment by Prime Minister Lady Thatcher), so of course, he has been employed fighting the Global Warming hyperbole. His richly deserved reputation as a debater is still intact and that means the Davids are still beating the Goliaths, check the latest over at www.climatedepot.com.

Natural Philosophy & The Electric Universe - Wal Thornhill
Thunderbolts Info, July 2011

Australian physicist Wallace Thornhill delivers the John Chappell Memorial Lecture at the 2011 Natural Philosophy Alliance on the University of Maryland Campus, July 8, 2011.

Comment: I am pleased to hear that Wal Thornhill believes he is a Natural Philosopher. I have come to the same conclusion because I simply cannot fit into the typical cult-o-matic mentality within the Cultic Milieu.

Islamic healers treat wounds in Russia’s Chechnya
Euronews, 21st July 2011

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) – Lying on a couch with her eyes closed, 26-year-old Milena sips water blessed by an Islamic healer who sits nearby reciting verses from the Koran to cure her depression.

Outside, a long line of patients wait at Chechnya’s state-run Islamic Medical Centre, hoping its staff can heal deep psychological wounds left by years of war in the volatile region in Russia’s North Caucasus.

Nearly fifteen years after her brother was killed in the first separatist war, and more than a decade after the second conflict drove her family from their home, Milena is one of thousands of Chechens who have turned to traditional “Islamic” medicine for relief. [...]

The government runs an evening television program promoting the Islamic Medical Centre and its healing powers. [???]

Comment: As far as I am concerned, I don't think it matters what they are reciting, but I suppose something that people believe is Holy helps, because what matters is belief in a higher power, the intent to heal, the ability to empathise with their clients and the healers ability to "connect" and that is generally the criteria for healing energies to appear automatically. (In Russia you can get can even get a licence that proves that you have the ability to "connect" with higher energies.) Then how these energies interact with humans is complicated because energies have to work on many different levels of human consciousness. Miracles are rare and physical healings generally require more patience but I would say that often energy is used for making adjustements at emotional and mental levels... Well, it's not a straight forward process but sometimes, even fake healers can get miracle cures because the power of belief especially in large groups will serve to send out a stronger request and enhance the likelihood of receipt of these energies... Have you watched the classic Steve Martin film Leap of Faith about Jonas Nightengale, a fraudulent Christian faith healer? Wikipedia has the plot. This is one of my favourite films because it provides a very interesting lesson about faith. Another good example is the child star Christian preacher Marjoe who is also famed for his expose documentary. He has also placed on record that miracle cures that happened on his watch had nothing to do with his abilities, but he was excellent at whipping people up into a frenzy of belief. Whatever, we don't know everything there is to know about guaranteeing results, I am just pleased to hear that attempts are being made to help people through the trauma of war...

euronews science – Possible breakthrough in nuclear clear-up
YouTuibe, 20th July 2011

Scientists in Japan think they may have found a way to remove caesium radiation from contaminated ground around the Fukushima nuclear plant damaged in the earthquake in March. It involves using microbes to attracts particles from the metal caesium in soil and water. So far results have been very encouraging and the scientists are keen to test the procedure on the ground as soon as possible…. www.euronews.net

Comment: This is only a video report, I can't find a long write-up. Well, scientists have known since the 1980s that microbes can be used to clean up nuclear waste, as certain hardy microbes can simply eat it and render it harmless. The reason this method is not used is economics. Bioremediation is a Mother Earth solution which means it's too cheap and not enough people can be killed in the process. The fact that humans are being slowly poisoned by radiation leakage is of no interest to world controllers. That's the truth. Google: "Scientists Seek Indestructible Bugs To Eat Nuclear Waste" or "Superbug Survives Radiation, Eats Waste" or "Deinococcus radiodurans". Look around, the truth is out there...

Sinkhole forms under Guatemalan woman's bed
AFP News, 20th July 2011

GUATEMALA CITY — When neighbors heard the loud boom overnight they thought a cooking gas canister had detonated. Instead they found a deep sinkhole the size of a large pot inside a home in a neighborhood just north of Guatemala City.

The sinkhole that appeared late Monday was 12.2 meters (40 feet) deep and 80 centimeters (32 inches) in diameter, an AFP journalist who visited the site reported.

The hole is tiny compared to giant sinkhole that formed nearby in 2007 that was 100 meters (330 feet) deep and swallowed several homes and a truck, killing three people. Area residents were forced to evacuate for days.[...]

"When we heard the loud boom we thought a gas canister from a neighboring home had exploded, or there had been a crash on the street," said Inocenta Hernandez, a 65 year-old widow.

"We rushed out to look and saw nothing. A gentleman told me that the noise came from my house, and we searched until we found it under my bed," said Hernandez.

Comment: Hmmm...... I just cannot believe the official explanation, LOOK AT THE LASER CUT SIDES OF THIS HOLE! As far as I am concerned, this is another blast from deep space forming a deep hole instantly and I think they becoming more common in this region because of the type of volcanic geology. There are other examples of strange holes like hole punch clouds too, so this is not just about this particular genre of 'laser cut' sinkholes. I have only found one metaphysical source who quietly predicted this in a book that was only printed after her death. The following details can now be considered as a brilliant explanation for what is taking place on our planet because of the scientific information that we are indeed entering into an interstellar cloud. Hence we read:

We must explain a little more clearly how these cosmic radiations affect the planet. You have a good example in a recent discovery in science which will somewhat explain the action of these radiations. The laser beam will instantly make steel molten when it strikes it. The beam can travel through space or the atmosphere without appearing hot, but when it strikes steel for example it will burn a hole in it instantly. This beam can also be directed for certain kinds of surgery to do a specific job.

These cosmic radiations of energy are of many different types. Some affect only certain minerals or solid substances and not others. At this time, the solar system is moving through a new area in space where great cosmic streams are and tides affect the sun and all the planets, first of all, on the physical level. This has happened before in the time of Atlantis approximately 25,000 years ago. These changes come in cycles of about 24,000 years. It is a cosmic spiral and cycle difficult for man to identify because he has not been able to span in his awareness such vast reaches of time. Much that is now considered to be authentic geology is not correct. However, it the best man can achieve by applying reasoning to what he is able to observe.

These radiations will raise the frequency of the planet and affect consciousness.

Cosmic Energies and Their Effect on the Planet Earth, November 16, 1963, Night Class Recalled by Viola Petitt Neal, Through the Curtain (1983) by Viola Petitt Neal, Ph.D. More Quotes

Incredible...

Meet Shun Shun the four-eared dog
Orange News, 19th July 2011

A four-eared dog called Shun Shun has been discovered in China. The owner, Peng Qiang, from Wulumuqi, Xinjiang province, said the dog was given to him by a friend a year ago.

Peng explained: "Originally we didn't spot any difference until six months ago when he started to grow another pair of ears behind the original ears."

Pang's family didn't originally pay much attention, but as time went on the extra ears started to grow longer and longer and now have even outgrown the original pair, reaching 10cm in length.

Comment: China.... this dog is cute but not as cute as my favourite Yoda, the cat with 4 ears, (see image on the right and archives). As weird as this is, it's only just one dog.... If it was hundreds of dogs growing an extra pair of ears, like the cats that grew wings in Sichuan province in southern China, I think there would be more to worry about.... This strange event was reported in the international mainstream media in August 2008, but it occured after the serious earthquake in the Spring, where I presume seismic emanations corrupted the biological templates of the cats. However, the way things are getting so bizarre on this planet, I do expect more of this kind of strangeness, but I will refrain from speculating what could happen.

Pretty pink kitty
Orange News, 20th July 2011

"A Chinese man has discovered a pink-coloured stray cat roaming around the community where he lives. Yao Xianhai, from Lanzhou, western China's Gansu Province, said he didn't at first believe his eyes when he spotted the pink coloured cat. Yao said: "I thought I had a blurred vision, but I then realized it was truly pink coloured."
So... the cat was dyed pink? But this is China, so maybe not...

The GHOST Orb Of Crossett Arkansas - Multiple Videos Offer Proof
UDCC, 20th July 2011

In the past week, UDCC searched heavily into YouTube for `UFO' videos from Arkansas and the results were numerous [...]

Anyway, one of the ideas UDCC talks about for ORBs is that some of them are possible human spirits, or some sort of entities that `haunt' - ie: read, `visit' certain areas or localities on a spontaneous basis and eventually they do it so often it becomes a local legend. [...]

First up is how I became familiar - a YT video of a VERY worried girl talking to her dad as the Crossett Light is just up ahead in the road.

Comment: In the US tradition, this is classified as an encounter with a ghost light and there are many places that are famed for seeing these lights in the US, see my webpage Mysterious Light Phenomena Known By Modern, Ancient and Traditional People. I actually thought the first video provided here was brilliant and captured the essence of so many stories over many decades about these encounters. For more information, Inamidst.com is one of my favourite websites that manages to capture the historical quaintness associated with anomalous luminous phenomenon, see The Earth's Anomalous Lightforms.

Abnormal lights over Hastings baffle skywatcher [NZ]
Hawkes Bay Today, 20th July 2011

Four lights moving steadily across the night sky have Hastings resident John Miller searching for answers.

Mr Miller was called outside by his son about 7.15pm on Saturday to see four orb-like lights moving across the sky. They appeared to be in formation in a straight line, moving at a constant speed from south to north.

There was no sound coming from them and the lights were not flashing so he did not think it came from an aeroplane.

Comment: Hmmm.... the strange lights will not be going away, and that is because we are experiencing a dimensional shift. The reports will keep coming and presumably as the volume of aetheric energy on the planet reaches a certain level (saturation point) it will become apparent that our skies are filled with strange lights... sooner or later the penny will drop in mass consciousness, as the ability to ignore our cosmic neighbours will soon be over. This is the point where there will be a MASSIVE shift of consciousness on this planet, but I am not confident about how this will work out...

Strange North Iowa lights mystify witnesses
Globe Gazette, 17th July 2011
“And these were not little balloons. These were big lights,” she said. “They were just following way too precisely in the sky to be balloons.

Chariots of fire fleet over Amsterdam - 5th July 2011
Latest UFO Sightings, 18th July 2011
Wow... Incredible... I have NEVER seen one of these before

Bright Object UFO video recorded in Sanremo, Italy 18-Jul-2011
Latest UFO sightings, 20th July 2011
Beautiful and most interesting!

Ribbon in the dust: The strange twisted ring of gas at the centre of the Milky Way
Daily Mail, 20th July 2011

A bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been observed by the Herschel Space Observatory. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years, were known before. But Herschel's view reveals the entire ring for the first time - and a strange kink that resembles a ribbon has astronomers scratching their heads. [...]

The twist in the ring is not the only mystery to come out of the new Herschel observations. Astronomers say that the centre of the torqued portion of the ring is not where the centre of the galaxy is thought to be, but slightly offset. The centre of our galaxy is considered to be around Sagittarius A, where a massive black hole lies. According to Dr Noriega-Crespo, it's not clear why the centre of the ring doesn't match up with the assumed centre of our galaxy.

Comment: I picked the Daily Mail version because there were two images and the 2nd image was added with the mobius strip figure 8 outlined for clarity. Here is the version at spacedaily.com, Twisted Tale of our Galaxy's Ring. In my research, I have come to the conclusion that many people have been mislead by all the hype about the Galactic Center and the evidence suggests that we should be interested in the center of the galaxy, but as we are being told here, they are not the same thing. Well, this is very interesting, a mobius strip figure 8 in space. This is probably a massive challenge for cosmologists with their outdated theories of the force of gravity directing cosmological evolution. From a metaphysical point of view, a torus and figure 8 loop must indicate some specific energy center. Fascinating...

Black Rain In Japan! Ex Japanese Nuclear Regulator Blames Radioactive Animal Feed on "Black Rain"
Fairewinds, 19th July 2011

"While many radioactive cattle have been discovered large distances from Fukushima, what is more important is where their feed is coming from. "It's not only about the radioactive cattle in Fukushima Prefecture; its also about the radioactive straw the cattle eat that was grown elsewhere". Straw found 45 miles from Fukushima is highly contaminated with radioactive cesium, which is an indication that radiation has contaminated large portions of Northern Japan. More than half a million disintegrations per second in a kilogram of straw are comparable to Chernobyl levels. This proves that the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission was correct when it told Americans to evacuate beyond 50 miles and that the Japanese should have done the same. An Ex-Secretariat of Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission blames this contamination on "Black Rain". Rather than minimize the information the Japanese people receive, Gundersen suggests minimizing their radiation exposure."

Comment: Also: A private citizen paid for a lab report on radiation from street material in Tokyo. It had 53000 decays per second in 1Kg of material from the street. This is a good summary but one of the most disturbing reports from Arnie Gundersen. Quite frankly, this has to be expected, as the Japanese people around Fukushima and well beyond, have been betrayed by their own government...

Black Rain In Japan! Ex Japanese Nuclear Regulator Blames Radioactive Animal Feed on "Black Rain"
YouTube, 20th July 2011

CBS Investigative Report on the Safety of the New Reactor at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Spring City
Digital Network, 19th July 2011

THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION MEETS THIS MORNING TO DISCUSS SWEEPING NEW SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS.

THE AGENCY JUST FINISHED INSPECTING ALL 104 U.S. NUCLEAR PLANTS. IN THE WAKE OF JAPAN'S FUKUSHIMA DISASTER.

CBS NEWS CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT ARMEN KETEYIAN IS HERE TO TELL US WHAT HE FOUND AT ONE OF THOSE FACILITIES IN TENNESSEE.

Comment: We all know that nuclear power is simply a way for some people to make lots of money, but it seems that things have just got far too complacent... especially in our quickly changing environment.

Paranormal Report: The Great Orb Debate
The Morton Report, 18th July 2011

A box of candy? No, various colored dust orbs

If one watches paranormal investigation TV shows -- and I do to an extent that is likely not healthy -- one cannot help but encounter "orbs." These are typically small balls of light or energy that show up in video, still, and thermal images from investigation scenes. All serious investigators agree that most of the time the orbs are natural phenomena -- light reflecting off of dust, moisture, insects, etc -- but, and this is hotly debated, sometimes they may or may not be paranormal in nature.

Comment: I can't tell whether this website is mainstream or not, but I have not seen an article about orbs for a long time. It does not matter whether these orbs are made up dust, because it is charged and magnetised cosmic dust demonstrating intelligent behaviour. Strangely, one of the few interesting articles about this phenomenon was a story back in March 2007 about orbs showing up in a US charismatic church. The phenomenon was being investigated by local TV News who became interested when a teenager got some great video of an orb moving through someone's body.... Humans are supposed to be made up of dust too, infact Genesis 3:19 states: For dust you are and to dust you will return. Anyway, this reminds me of a the Kansas hit song Dust in the Wind, but I also like the version by Sarah Brightman.

Scientists admit they have no idea what’s heating the Earth
PhysOrg.com, 17th July 2011

What spreads the sea floors and moves the continents? What melts iron in the outer core and enables the Earth's magnetic field? Heat. Geologists have used temperature measurements from more than 20,000 boreholes around the world to estimate that some 44 terawatts (44 trillion watts) of heat continually flow from Earth's interior into space. Where does it come from? [...]

One thing that's at least 97-percent certain is that radioactive decay supplies only about half the Earth's heat. Other sources – primordial heat left over from the planet's formation, and possibly others as well – must account for the rest.

Comment: The headline came from Extinction Protocol's version of this article. Scientists tell us they can only detect 4% of the matter-energy of the universe, so it's really strange why these scientists are wondering why they can't find where all of Earth's heat comes from... Anyway, in the great climate debate, despite the ferocity of the arguments, most seem to agree that there is an Energy Imbalance on Earth, see below:

Hansen et al. 2005, Earth's energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications. Science, 308, 1431-1435, doi:10.1126/science.1110252.
NASA Goddard, April 2005

"Our climate model, driven mainly by increasing human-made greenhouse gases and aerosols among other forcings, calculates that Earth is now absorbing 0.85�0.15 W/m2 more energy from the Sun than it is emitting to space. This imbalance is confirmed by precise measurements of increasing ocean heat content over the past 10 years. Implications include: (i) expectation of additional global warming of about 0.6°C without further change of atmospheric composition; (ii) confirmation of the climate system's lag in responding to forcings, implying the need for anticipatory actions to avoid any specified level of climate change; and (iii) likelihood of acceleration of ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise."

Another False Alarm on Global Warming
Heartland Institute, 2nd May 2005
"The study is "Earth's energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications," by James Hansen et al., published in the April 28 issue of Science. [...] Hansen, in a news release about his study, calls it the "smoking gun" that proves humans are causing global warming. In fact it is nothing more that a typical Hansen computer modeling exercise, the kind he has been trumpeting since the 1980s. Here's how this one goes, in seven easy steps."
The synopsis in seven easy steps is amusing...

Comment on “Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications” by Hansen et al. 2005 Science Express. June 14, 2005 Roger A. Pielke Sr. and John R. Christy
Pielke Research Group, June 2005

New Paper “Importance Of The Deep Ocean For Estimating Decadal Changes In Earth’s Radiation Balance” By Palmer Et Al 2011
Pielke Research Group, 18th July 2011
Jos de Laat has alerted us to an interesting new paper on the use of the ocean heat content changes as the metric to diagnose global warming and cooling. it is Palmer, M. D., D. J. McNeall, and N. J. Dunstone (2011), Importance of the deep ocean for estimating decadal changes in Earth’s radiation balance, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L13707, doi:10.1029/2011GL047835. [....] It says here: "the ocean is the primary heat store in the Earth System".

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment
The Register, 18th July 2011

The chief of the world's leading physics lab at CERN in Geneva has prohibited scientists from drawing conclusions from a major experiment. The CLOUD ("Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets") experiment examines the role that energetic particles from deep space play in cloud formation. CLOUD uses CERN's proton synchrotron to examine nucleation.

CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer told Welt Online that the scientists should refrain from drawing conclusions from the latest experiment.

"I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them," reports veteran science editor Nigel Calder on his blog. Why?

Because, Heuer says, "That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters."

Comment: I am disappointed but in a way I am not surprised. Since I have commented on this before, I will not repeat, but quite frankly, this suggests that WE THE PEOPLE are not supposed to make the link with what is taking place on our planet right now with the prospect of massive climatic and evolutionary change. History is repeating itself, but ignorant dumbed down citizens of planet Earth are not supposed to engage brain and realise the implications of the facts. In my book, I highlighted some Swiss research that linked massive climatic and evolutionary change to the influx of cosmic rays due to the Earth's magnetic field strength dropping to 10% of it's max value 40,000 years ago and the inevitable consequences. The evidence is there, but folk are not supposed to be interested in reality and instead significant efforts are being made to force people to believe the fairytale of CO2 is causing climate change. This notion is so stupid, that hundreds of thousands of scientists have refused to play along with the nonsense and hence these scientists have earned the title of 'deniers'. Well, it does not matter what the scientists at CERN want to suppress or not, the effort to make people believe they are responsible for climate change has already failed miserably. Update: Oh well, some folk over at WUWT are jubilant....

Green Sand says:
July 18, 2011 at 8:55 am

Excellent, what a wonderful way, albeit inadvertently, to ensure maximum publicity to the data release. Buy popcorn!

CERN: “Don’t interpret the CLOUD experiment results”

I imagine that there is going to be a lot of effort to find out the true meaning of these experimental results, that have been paid for by tax payers, but who are not allowed to know the details... Lots more comment at WUWT.

CERN chief forbids “interpretation” of CLOUD results
Calder's Updates, 17th July 2011
"And in an experimental chamber one can study, under controlled conditions, how the formation of droplets depends on the radiation and particulate matter. The results will be published shortly. I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters."
I am sure Henrik Svensmark with interpret them if nobody else will....

NUGENT: You have the right to remain stupid
Fedzillacrats are oblivious to self-evident truths
Washington Times, 13th July 2011
I just liked the headline....

Cape doctor says he's not leading survivalist group and has been harassed by believers in 'Planet X'
SE Missourian, 10th July 2011

Dr. Byron Glenn of Cape Girardeau says he wants nothing to do with the people he sees as online crackpots trumpeting a "conspiracy wrapped in an enigma."

He's not alone. The folks at NASA have fruitlessly tried to debunk what they say are wild conspiracies involving Comet Elenin -- a "wimpy" projectile expected to remain more than 20 million miles from Earth.

Glenn said he's been harassed and threatened by doomsday believers of "Planet X," an idea spreading in the blogosphere and in online chat rooms about a brown dwarf star, a low-mass object rapidly approaching the solar system and bent on destroying much of the Earth.

Comment: How can anyone believe it's possible to see a Brown dwarf 10 - 30 light years away from your backyard with an ordinary telescope? In 2009, at a discovery rate running at over 3,000 per month, there were of 535,000 registered minor planets in our solar system, hence I think it's amazing that our astronomers can spot anything coming our way. Anyway, this is a totally strange, I can't really understand why people are so frightened by the mediocre Comet Elenin, but I think it must be associated with a general climate of fear related to Earth changes and citizens of the United States who have been force fed on a high diet of fear all their lives to make them controllable. Well, I suppose the truly ignorant will assume that the growing number of voices, a whole list of scientific establishments like NASA and the European Space Agency, corporations like Insurance giant Lloyd's of London and various governments and even the US military, who have been openly providing information to the world via the interent about the issue of Space Weather for the last 20+ years, are all just scaremongering. Having intensely researched Space Weather for 6 years and having the ability to think and come to realistic conclusions, this has to be the case or else I could not have written my book in my efforts to integrate the science and the metaphysical implications and been proven right, the real issue is how so few people realised the full implications. The reality is that conditions in our solar system have changed and Earth's magnetic shielding has weakened to the extent that our world is threatened by the occurence of a celestial deluge that could seriously damage the infrastructure of modern technological world. Therefore, I think the difference between those voices who have chosen to warn the world and the ignoranti, is those who are paying attention to reality and understand it and those who are incapable.

Infrared Telescopes Find Ultra-Cool Brown Dwarf
Discovery News, 18th November 2010

The Face of a Frog: Time-Lapse Video Reveals Never-Before-Seen Bioelectric Pattern
Science Daily, 18th July 2011

ScienceDaily (July 18, 2011) — For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that reveals never-before-seen patterns of visible bioelectrical signals outlining where eyes, nose, mouth, and other features will appear in an embryonic tadpole.

The Tufts biologists found that, before the face of a tadpole develops, bioelectrical signals (ion flux) cause groups of cells to form patterns marked by different membrane voltage and pH levels. When stained with a reporter dye, hyperpolarized (negatively charged) areas shine brightly, while other areas appear darker, creating an "electric face." [...]

"When a frog embryo is just developing, before it gets a face, a pattern for that face lights up on the surface of the embryo," said senior author Dany S. Adams, Ph.D. Adams is a research associate professor in the Department of Biology in the Tufts School of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. "We believe this is the first time such patterning has been reported for an entire structure, not just for a single organ. I would never have predicted anything like it. It's a jaw dropper."

Comment: I am pleased to see this research but it must be pointed out that some of the theory goes back to the research that was pioneered in the 1940s by Harold Saxon Burr at Yale University and other biologists that tell us that biological entities need a morphogenetic template to provide guidance for biological growth. From an article called The Electrical Patterns of Life; The Work of Dr. Harold S. Burr, we read:

Dr. Burr discovered that all living things – from men to mice, from trees to seeds – are molded and controlled by electro-dynamic fields, which could be measured and mapped with standard voltmeters. These “fields of life,” or L-fields, are the basic blueprints of all life on this planet. Their discovery is of immense significance to all of us. Dr. Burr believed that, since measurements of L-field voltages can reveal physical and mental conditions, doctors should be able to use them to diagnose illness before symptoms develop, and so would have a better chance of successful treatment.
The Electrical Patterns of Life; The Work of Dr. Harold S. Burr

There are other scientists who have made discoveries about these fields and have used these same bioelectric signals to predict the health and even predict the appearance of cancer. My interest here is that there is now more solid evidence for metaphysical beliefs in the structure of the human energy field and for those who can actually see the electromagnetic fields around humans. Today, I am particularly interested as various metaphysical sources have warned that people need to protect their energy fields due to the increasing electromagnetic chaos on Earth and there have been some strange anomalies that suggest that these morphogenetic fields can be disturbed by releases of seismic energy. In my studies, I have identified various scientists with relevant research but this report takes the integration of science and metaphysics and our understanding of the existence of invisible electromagnetic or 'aetheric' templates to a new level.

BP pipeline leaks oily mixture onto Alaskan tundra
Yahoo News, 18th July 2011

LONDON/ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - BP reported yet another pipeline leak at its Alaskan oilfields, frustrating the oil giant's attempts to rebuild its reputation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

BP said on Monday that a pipeline at its 30,000 barrel per day Lisburne field, which is currently closed for maintenance, ruptured during testing and spilled a mixture of methanol and oily water onto the tundra.

The London-based company has a long history of oil spills at its Alaskan pipelines - accidents which have hurt its public image in the U.S., where around 40 percent of its assets are based.

Comment: Now, due to the worsening geomagnetic conditions on this planet, underneath the auroral electrojet in Alaska is exactly where we would expect to to see many pipeline failures due to geomagnetic currents causing corrosion.

China oil spill six times size of Singapore: govt
AFP News, 15th July 2011
BEIJING — A huge oil spill off the Chinese coast has now contaminated an area around six times the size of Singapore, state media reported Friday, as the government said it may seek compensation for the leak.

The spill from the oil field, which the United States' ConocoPhillips operates with China's state-run oil giant CNOOC, has polluted a total area of almost 4,250 square kilometres (1,650 square miles), government figures showed. [...]

The spill was kept secret by the authorities for several weeks before being made public this month, sparking suspicions of an official cover-up, and the disaster has triggered a furious public response in China. State media said the government was considering seeking compensation from ConocoPhillips over the spill.
I am sorry to point out some reality, but this is only going to get worse and worse until we decide to do business differently on this planet...

Oil Pipeline Breaks on Blackfeet Reservation; Significant Volume of Oil Floods Cut Bank River, Montana (Video)
Activist Post, 20th July 2011
"Plenty of people have heard of the recent oil spill on the Yellowstone River in Montana. Few are aware, however, that three weeks ago another leak formed a creek of crude running down to Cut Bank River just miles from Glacier National Park."
??? No I did not hear about the Yellowstone oil spill...

Smoke and Mirrors - A Psychology Experiment
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 17th July 2011

I have been thinking about that too. I believe that in college I took a course in psychology that addressed part of the human response we are witnessing.

For an experiment, scientists asked a few people to sit in a dentist's waiting room and flip through magazines as if they were waiting for an appointment when they were really just participants in an experiment. They were told that an unsuspecting person would arrive and sit in the room with them. After 5 minutes, the researchers would begin to pump white smoke under a closed door leading to the waiting room. The experiment would test the reaction of the unsuspecting person when all of the other people in the room (secretly part of the experiment) look unconcerned that smoke was coming under the door - and this test would be repeated several different times using different unsuspecting people each time.

Then they would test several more people, one at a time, by testing how they respond when the other people pretending to be patients are instructed to act concerned when white smoke was blown under the door. The researchers found that if everyone else in the room pretended not to care about white smoke coming under the door - the unsuspecting test subject would not actually do anything (no matter how worried or fearful he was) even if the room completely filled with white smoke he would just silently sit there with the others pretending to look through magazines. But if others in the room responded as if they were worried or alarmed, the test subject would do something ( get up, feel the door, ask the nurse about the smoke etc.)

This experiment was performed in the United States and it revealed an alarming degree of conformity. How much more problematic would it be for the Japanese - especially if accepting the reality of what is happening would be so overwhelming even if the country had not just endured a tsunami.

I know about this research but I still feel myself behaving the same way! I live on the west coast and there were days when we walked around with a strong metallic taste in our mouths, UC Berkely was testing and finding radioactive contaminants in milk and produce in the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles was finding radioactive contaminants in the soil etc. and because everyone I interact with acts like this problem simply does not exist, I find myself telling myself I must be wrong, the problem isn't real, I must be over reacting or imagining things. I continue to question my judgement as every day goes by. I watch the Japanese act like everything is safe and I am torn between horror and disbelief - I wonder if I am wrong about the hazards they face because look at them - they aren't worried! Even though I know better - psychological manipulation is a strong force. The US says the radiation doesn't exist and turns off it's monitors and the population goes to sleep? Japan's officials are shown eating Fukushima produce with big smiles and their faces and the rest of Japan takes a bite too?

Comment: This is such an interesting comment that I have decided to highlight this information about a psychology experiment with the conclusion that most people are basically sheep who prefer to follow others rather than making their own decisions. Well, I realised the significance of Space Weather about 7 years ago, but so far I have not had much support, but I am not one of those people who sees smoke and then looks around to see how others are reacting before I decide what to do. I am confident enough to just shout FIRE like I have done for 7 years whilst other people remain oblivious, obtuse and some obstructive based on their complete and utter ignorance and arrogance. Guess what? At least I can say I WAS RIGHT! I knew what was coming and made an effort to inform and teach others. Have you read my White House Report? We are still waiting for 60+ US 'Evolutionary Leaders' to make a similar effort.

Firefighters head off to help Los Alamos
The Daily Times, 16th July 2011

FARMINGTON — Despite the prospect of rough conditions, sleeping in tents and surviving on camp rations, a crew of unfazed Farmington firefighters left for Los Alamos on Friday.

The federal government issued a call for help from fire departments and wild land firefighting organizations all across the nation since the Las Conchas fire started last month. "We were getting resource requests daily during the Fourth of July," said Farmington Fire Department Battalion Chief Nick Mrzlak. "They were in a real bind looking for manpower." [...]

Despite the major difference between the Los Alamos fire and other wild land fires, this crew wasn't the least bit nervous. In fact, they were excited as they loaded the truck Friday afternoon. The difference can be summed up in a single word, "radiation," a word that not only resonates with the recent catastrophe in Japan, it also draws up memories of some of the worst events in modern history.

"We spend all this time training so when we finally get to use it it's a relief," Sterrett said. "It's definitely going to be a change of pace." Another reason the team might not worry about radiation exposure is that levels are constantly monitored. "The labs have technicians keeping track," Bair said. "If it's radioactive, we will know. They have crews with radiation gear." [...] The Las Conchas Fire, which started June 26, has become the largest fire in New Mexico history. Even now, as some of the threat to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory has faded, the fire is only 57 percent contained.

Comment: So.... the fires are still burning around Los Alamos and radiation IS a problem? Talk about ironic! Los Alamos Laboratories created the nuclear bombs that were droped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and now Americans are facing various radiation disasters on their own doorstep due to their own carelessness.

Dr. Bill Deagle. Japan Update 7.11.11 (MP3)
Rense.com, 11th July 2011

Comment: Update on Fukushima and other nuclear diasters.... This is a serious interview with lots of good information but Deagle made me smile right at the end of this interview with Jeff Rense, when he stated:
"We were being watched like we are a very very sick 4th dimensional sitcom. It's called 'Planet Earth the Real Story'. It's going on right now and people are sitting there, probably across the cosmos, probably popping cosmic popcorn and thinking I don't want to miss the next episode. This is the outer reaches of the twilight zone in the theme park called Earth."
Fukushima Warning (Translated) w/ Chris Busby HOT PARTICLES
YouTube, 14th July 2011
S.O.S. From Fukushima English translation (PLEASE SHARE!)
YouTube, 15th July 2011
"Fukushima residents are trapped in their community without government support to help move them out of the area. Please do what you can to support these residents. Contact whoever you can think of to spread their concern."
This is so sad I could not even finish listening to this plea....
Christopher Busby's Talk in Japan, 17th July 2011 With Japanese Translation Part 1/5
YouTube, 18th July 2011

Giant Undersea Volcanoes Found Off Antarctica
Mount Fuji-size peaks unexpected, scientists say.
National Geographic News, 15th July 2011

A chain of giant, undersea volcanoes has been found off Antarctica, scientists say. All told a dozen previously unknown peaks were discovered beneath the waves—some up to 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) tall, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

The volcanoes were found near the U.K. territories of the South Georgia Islands and South Sandwich Islands (see map) during a monthlong mapping expedition, which used multibeam sonar to fill in a 370-mile (600-kilometer) by 90-mile (150-kilometer) gap in existing seabed maps.

Comment: It looks like Robert Felix at www.iceagenow.com was right to point out the relationship between climate change and volcanic activity, especially the role of undersea volcanoes. See It's not Global Warming, it's Ocean Warming

Mediumwave back-up to cover two serious fires in FM Towers in Netherlands (Video)
Critical Distance, 15th July 2011

Rather spectacular fire this afternoon in the TV/Radio/Mobile mast in Hoogersmilde in the province of Drente. A fire broke out at 12 hrs UTC in the top section of the mast which houses antennas, leading to its total collapse as shown in the video above around 90 minutes later.

No-one was injured. The area around the mast was cleared by the police but it is farmland and no damage was done to property. A horse was slightly wounded by some of the flying debris. The video was made by the local Radio and TV station, RTVDrenthe.

Engineers working in the tower discovered the fire and concluded it was unsafe to continue. They evacuated the tower and called the emergency services. Fire fighters were quickly on the scene but it quickly became obvious that there was little chance of fighting the fire, since it occurred 80 metres above the ground.

Comment: I was not going to mention this but I got an email from The Netherlands telling me there had actually been three separate fires in three different tv/radio station towers. Well, we know at least one of these towers had ELECTRICAL problems that started the fire in one of the towers and The Netherlands were subject to some severe stormy weather at the same time. I can only presume there were too many charged particles in the wind... I think it is curious, but the way things are going on this planet with quickly deteriorating geomagnetic conditions, this should be NO SURPRISE. As I have been saying for a long time: Expect the Unexpected!

Mild tsunami strikes Cornish coast, shifting water levels 'in a flash'
Landslide at sea likely cause of surging wave along south coast and hair-raising static electricity
The Guardian, 29th June 2011

An underwater landslide is thought to have caused a small tsunami that sent holidaymakers and anglers scattering in Cornwall. Witnesses reported the sea being sucked out, or receding, before a wave struck the coast on Monday morning.

No damage was caused by the wave, thought to have been about 40cm (16in) high and causing a surge up to 90cm (3ft) by the time the seawater pushed into the Yealm estuary, 70 miles up the coast near Plymouth, Devon, but many people, along the south coast, up to Hampshire, were left baffled by the phenomenon.

There were reports that static electricity in the air at the time made people's hair stand on end.

Comment: I have received an email that pointed out this report that is over 2 weeks old. Well, I did originally read this report and I noted the comment about static electricity, but I was completely baffled. I suppose there could have been a landslide of some sort that caused a mini-tsunami and a sudden burst of energy from the Earth that caused the static electricity, but I did not think of this at the time... Yet, thinking about this report again, I was reminded of reports from the UK about strange 'vapour' looking emissions in the South around the Isle of Wight that have appeared like water spouts. One was reported at the UK UFO Sightings website (I have blogged two reports), but I have not been checking on this website recently and I have not seen anything reported elsewhere, but that does not mean things are not happening. However, there are other comparisons that could be made, like the recent report about water spouts in Australia. At the end of the YouTube version of this mainstream media news (see archives), a waterfall that normally ran down some cliffs was actually videoed being blasted into the air presumably by the electric field present, but the cliffs were not close to the water spouts.... This then reminds me that I witnessed a mini tornado in Switzerland in the summer of 2008, when freshly cut grass was sent about 10 meters into the air with a vortex that was about 3-4 metres wide. As I came out of a shop I was shocked to see this, but the most extraordinary sensation was the electric field (static electricity) which felt very strong to me... Since the planet is being bombarded with highly charged energy that is borderline physical/aethertic (there is no argument here as NASA have provided ample proof), our world is becoming highly electrified, I see this as a planetary refresh but also the reason why we can clearly state that we in the midst of a massive transition to a new Earth.

Mysterious object falls from the sky
The Standard, 17th July 2011

Panic hit a village in Kabati area in Thika District after a black object fell from the skies causing a loud explosion. The incident, which happened on Saturday at 9am, drew attention from military personnel and bomb experts. They said the mysterious object weighed two kilogrammes.

According to an eyewitness Felister Muthoni Kafuri, the object was black and smooth and cracked due impact. "We hard a loud sound before the object fell in the farm. Some of the villagers touched the object while others kept off. When the military came to retrieve the object they advised those who had touched the object to wash their hands," said Muthoni.

Some locals said the objects impact was heard about 5 kilometers away when it hit the ground. Police who arrived at the scene could not immediately tell what the object was.

Comment: OK, there is not much in the way of technical detail but I am hoping there will be more information soon. Whatever, if this was a meteorite arriving with a bang that could be heard 5km away, then that is ignificant. Update I have seen some video and I am not convinced the picture and the video of a rock is the object that fell from space, I would prefer to see a big hole!

Event into space in Kenya on Sunday, 17 July, 2011 at 04:13 (04:13 AM) UTC.
RSOE Event Report, 18th July 2011
“We believe it is a heavenly body, probably a piece of a meteor that may have disintegrated on entering the earth’s atmosphere,” said Lt Col Vungo, who was accompanied by Thika police boss Paul Leting. Mr Vungo said reports from Ndunyu Sabuk area indicated that a bigger object was seen in the skies before it disintegrated after a loud blast. The official said according to witnesses, the object raised a cloud of dust on hitting the ground, was extremely hot and was spinning on impact.

Space rock scare
YouTube, 16th July 2011
"Residents of Thika and Kangundo districts today experienced a rare natural occurence when they saw several bright objects fall from the sky. One of the objects landed in the ground near the Ol Donyo Sabuk Mountain in Thika, which is also known as Kilimambogo."
That's not a hole... more like a dint...

Storm spawns mysterious fish in driveways [Illinois, US]
Daily Herald, 14th July 2011

The wackiest stories to come out of Monday's storm revolve around the mystery of how fish ended up on suburban driveways.

When a Stevenson High School senior on Monday sent us photos of a couple of fish he found on his driveway in Buffalo Grove after the storm, I couldn't stop myself from speculating in print about “raining fish.” However, I accepted a meteorologist's suggestion that the fish could have been dropped by birds caught in the storm as a perfectly plausible explanation. [...]

“It takes a considerable amount of lift to lift things out of the water,” says Pat Slattery, the National Weather Service spokesman for Illinois and 13 other states in the central part of our nation. Hail rides the updraft, getting bigger and bigger before it falls to earth, but no one ever talks about hail the size of a bucket of five-inch-long fish.

Comment: Huh... It's raining fish again.... How Fortean.

It really is tough at the top! How alpha males suffer enormous stress just to stay in control
Daily Mail, 15th July 2011

To everybody else they appear to be effortlessly in control as they dominate social gatherings. But underneath their brash exterior, alpha males pay a heavy price for their high standing.

The kings of the party actually suffer high levels of stress hormones because of the effort to stay the top of the social hierarchy. Researchers at Princeton University made the discovery after they studied baboons, although they say that the findings apply to humans as well.

They discovered that the alpha males of the group had higher levels of stress hormones than the beta males, those below them. This was true even in times of stability for the troupe.

Comment: This has reminded me of the 'wild card' scenario of the magnetic pole shift on this planet and the impact on human consciousness. As I explained in my Delft Technical University evening presentation, the North Magnetic Pole is moving 10 times faster than the South Magnetic Pole and this will cause a re-balancing of polarity consciousness on this planet. This can be explained as some consciousness being polarised in a manner that we consider to be like positive/negative, male/female, up/down, on/off, left/right, black/white, light/dark, night/day, in/out, etc. It has been stated over and over again that there is an polarity imbalance on this planet but that is now changing. So, those people who try to maintain too much 'male' polarity are going to find things very tough and so it will be interesting to monitor how this plays out. My most astounding moment was finding out that one top financial banker suffering from a breakdown needed the constant care of a nurse who had to dress up in a business suit and pretend she was an adviser so that he could at least attend some business meetings, but the rest of his time he was under medical supervision. .... just how bizarre is that? As the energetic shift on this planet gets worse, these Alpha+ males are just going to plain suffer... I can't say I am that worried though, because this is the reality of evolutionary change. Obviously, there is a flipside and women becoming more macho might be another scenario and the latest news of penis chopping might be the start of a worrisome trend. I also hear now that angry mothers are taking credit for taking down the sleazefest called The News of the World. If that is true, then I think that is totally amazing.

Hail storm damages 40 planes, strands passengers
Brisbane Times, 15th July 2011

More than 100 flights have been cancelled at Denver International Airport after hail damaged about 40 planes and stranded about 1000 passengers overnight.

Airport spokeswoman Laura Coale said on Thursday that all damaged planes had to be evaluated, slowing operations. She says an unknown number of planes have been taken out of service because of damage. Frontier Airlines says it expects more cancellations on Friday.

The airport was pummelled by three-quarter-inch hail for about 15 minutes on Wednesday night.

Comment: Denver has been experiencing intense 'weather' conditions that I think clearly reveal intense electric fields that have caused windscreens to crack whilst planes have been on the tarmac. So, this report of more bad 'weather' damaging planes is interesting to note.

Sat nav takes woman into lake
Orange News, 15th July 2011

An Austrian woman looking for a short cut to a bathing lake got that sinking feeling when her satnav took her straight into the water. Fire fighters had to be called in to pull out driver Petra Lang's van with a mobile crane at the Grundlsee Lake, near Bad Aussee, before it could pollute the water.

Ms Lang, 27, from Salzburg, managed to get out without help before the van sank. "She insisted the satnav system was to blame - she said she typed in that she wanted to go to the lake - but got closer than she intended," said one rescuer.

Comment: Yes, there is ample evidence of just how 'zombified' some people are, and in this case, they could not even engage their brain enough to comprehend that that they were actually driving into a lake and this has happened quite a few times now... Yes, there is a problem of road changes not being updated or were actually incorrectly added into the mapping system used by GPS systems but so what? Drivers are supposed to pay attention to road conditions. As I have written many times already, GPS is unreliable due to the apalling geomagnetic conditions on this planet that can now render GPS satellite navigation systems completely useless. This has got so bad that the US military are publicly contemplating giving up using GPS completely. The implications are incredible.... So, for those who value your lives, BEWARE!

Mount Etna eruption closes airports and 'knocks clocks 15 minutes fast'
Daily Mail, 11th July 2011

An eruption by Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily left a nearby airport closed and ... locals turning up early for work.

The volcano spewed lava on to its south-eastern slopes on Saturday afternoon and winds swept ash further afield, stopping flights at Catania's Fontanarossa airport. The strong eruption - Etna's fifth since the beginning of the year - was shortlived, but left the airport closed overnight.

Bemused Sicilians, meanwhile, were quick to blame the volcano after thousands noticed that their clocks were running 15 minutes fast. The fast forward time keeping has affected a wide spectrum of digital clocks and watches - from computers through to alarm clocks. It was spotted when large numbers of locals started turning up for work early, and a Facebook page was organised for those involved to compare notes.

Comment: Some great pictures, but again we have the phenomenon of clocks running 15 minutes faster which must be considered a major anathema in Italian and especially Sicilian culture, where people pride themselves on never turning up early for anything... So what is going on? Well there must be some electromagnetic effects associated with the volcanic eruption, but since Etna is always erupting, something new has been added to the mix and this may be related to the weakness of Earth's magnetosphere coupling with the volcanic eruption and generating electromagnetic pulsations that are forcing clocks to speed up (I am even considering more concepts because the information has to be integrated with what we already know is taking place). This is getting extremely interesting.... I would be interested to know whether there is also an affect on the human biological clock... see previous comments on this subject.

Space weather risk to airlines
TG Daily, 8th November 2010
"There's growing evidence that space weather modulates the performance of power grids, producing excessive vibration and heating that can permanently damage transformers."
It's the excessive vibration that might be of interest... so can we speculate that excessive Space Weather (substorms) might set off some volcanic eruptions?

Solar Wind Changes Atmospheric Pressure over South Korea
Evidence is growing that interplanetary magnetic fields can have a significant influence on our weather.
Technology Review, 13th July 2011

Space weather is a topic of growing interest both to space scientists and researchers whose focus is more Earth bound. Solar physicists have long known that the Sun regularly sends powerful magnetic clouds our way.

When they strike, the damage can be extensive. The magnetic fields induce currents in railway tracks and power lines which can then bring down entire power networks.

But the influence of space weather on the terrestrial weather is less well understood. The solar wind, and the magnetic clouds that sometimes accompany it, contain huge amounts of energy. Much of this is absorbed or deflected by the Earth's magnetic field. [...]

It stands to reason that such an injection of energy could change the weather. And there's certainly evidence that this can happen at high latitudes near the poles. But the rest of the planet seems better protected.

Comment: Well, that did not take long from last weeks musing to this weeks confirmation. By the way, I have been pointing out the reality of Space Weather and energy driven evolutionary change on Earth since September 2006, when my book was published. Some scientists are finally acknowledging the obvious with respect to the weather but according to NASA scientists and Russians scientists too, there is hardly anything on the planet that is not affected by Space Weather.

Rockets Study Solar Winds Affect Atmospheric Currents
Irish Weather Online News, 5th July 2011

Solving the Mystery of Our Atmosphere's Electric Currents
Daily Galaxy, 14th July 2011
"NASA Rockets cutting the very edge of space are probing mysterious electric currents found in the uppermost reaches of the ionosphere that can disrupt communications and GPS satellites that beam signals through it. [...] Beginning about 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth's surface this energetic, active part of the atmosphere is filled with electrically charged particles such as protons and atomic oxygen created by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun reacting with air molecules."
It was not so long ago that electric fields and currents in space was classified information, but these days, the dramatic increase in electric fields and currents on Earth being driven by our connection with the space environment, is common knowledge.

Igloolik Isuma Productions going out of business
CBC News, 8th July 2011

Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc., which made award-winning Inuit films like Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), is going out of business, but its owners say they are still proud of their achievements.

The Igloolik, Nunavut-based film production company has been placed in receivership, following a Quebec Superior Court decision last month to appoint a receiver to wind up the company and sell off its assets.

The court action was initiated by Atuqtuarvik Corp., a Nunavut business lender. Isuma owes that company more than $500,000 and has not been able to make its payments.

Comment: Well, we can be grateful that this film company made the documentary about the Inuit's beliefs that the world has tilted on it's axis. These indigenous people don't rely on datasets that can be tampered with, they only rely on their experience and knowledge that has been past down through hundreds of generations.

Inuit People On Sun Wrong, Stars Wrong, Earth Tilting On Axis [3:54]
YouTube, 7th July 2011
This short compilation is an excellent summary of the claims being made by the Inuit and might be worth saving if the Isuma.tv website disappears with the full length Inuit documentary: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, see below.

Documentary: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Isuma.tv, October 2010
"Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience regarding climate change. This new documentary, the world’s first Inuktitut language film on the topic, takes the viewer “on the land” with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic."

Hungary destroys all GMO maize fields
All about Feeds, 13h July 2011

Some 400 hectares of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds have been destroyed throughout Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar said. The GMO maize has been ploughed under, said Lajos Bognar, but pollen has not spread from the maize, he added. Unlike several EU members, GMO seeds are banned in Hungary.

Authorities have been checking for GMO crops since the beginning of this year as a new regulation came in force this March which stipulates GMO checks before seeds are introduced to the market.

Comment: Are the instincts of self-preservation kicking in? Are even the predators deciding they don't want to be prey?

Monsanto official Beaten by farmers in India over Failed GMO Bt Cotton Seeds
Salem News, 12th July 2011
"When news of a Monsanto senior official's arrival from Mumbai reached the nearby village of Munjala, cotton farmers of the village Karanji, about 140 K.m. from Nagpur located the Monsanto official and took him to their field where a complete failure of ‘Paras Sudarshan’ Bt cotton seed was shown to him. When the Monsanto representative failed to admit the lapse, he was severely beaten up by the farmers. It was reported that even a local agriculture officer did not come to his rescue.
I have reported in the past that some poor Indians don't have much patience when they know they are being screwed over...

INDIAN FARMERS DRIVEN TO SUICIDE!
YouTube, 2nd February 2011
"Sean of Underground Wellness.com interviews Linn Cohen-Cole on the SERIOUS problems being encountered by Indian farmers with genetically modified crops, seeds and expensive Monsanto lawyers."
This short video explains what has been going on in India and the predatory tactics of the agricultural giant Monsanto.

How Does the Sky Get Hole Punched?
Flights cause more rain and snow near airports
Epoch Times, 12th July 2011

When planes fly through certain mid-level clouds they can create unusual formations known as "hole-punch" clouds. New research published in Science reveals how these circular holes in the sky are linked with an increase in rain and snow occurring around major airports.

The holes only form when aircraft pass through clouds that contain a layer of supercooled liquid at just the right temperature—about minus 15 degrees Celsius or lower for turboprop planes and minus 20 to minus 25 degrees Celsius for jet aircraft.

As a plane travels through the cloud it causes the air around it to expand and cool, which leads to the development of ice crystals. These crystals "seed" the clouds, causing the supercooled water droplets to start freezing and the hole to expand, before the crystals fall out of the cloud in the form of snow or rain.

Comment: I have been searching for historical data on Fallstreak clouds or Hole Punch Clouds and there isn't any. There are websites now dedicated to this phenomenon but they don't seem to have any historical references. I usually refer to the work of William Corliss who is famed for interest in anomalous phenomena and so produced a comprehensive catalogue of books that I believe can be used as a good reference when determing rare phenomena. Corliss does not provide any information on Hole Punch or Fallstreak clouds (the catalog topics are online) and so despite the explanation of airplane exhausts causing these holes in clouds (see below), we have to ask why have they only appeared in the last 10 years or so? Even spaceweather.com has provided the "official" explanation but at the same time did not appear to be convinced and with an opening statement, "The sky is full of mysteries..." certainly provides no confidence that our scientists really understand what is taking place. In my evening presentation at Delft Technical University, I provided an Electric Universe solution of beams of charged particles passing through the atmosphere and I related this to sink holes that look like they have been cut out with a laser and holes that appear to have been stamped on ice. Even if the explanation of airplane exhausts was basically correct then, we have to consider that the properties of clouds have changed or the properties of the airplane exhausts have changed in recent years to create this phenomena. However, we have to consider that many people live near airports but I have not seen one single report of someone capturing a hole being made (photo or video) during the take off or landing of an airplane, something that spaceweather.com also requested people to report. See previous entries from spaceweather.com for November 2006 & January 2011.

HOLE PUNCH CLOUDS: The sky is full of mysteries, and one of them appeared over Wisconsin on Wednesday, Nov. 15th. "I live in Stevens Point on the University of Wisconsin campus, and I saw some very strange clouds," reports Samantha Weise who took several pictures: [...]

These are "hole punch clouds," and no one is certain what they are. One theory holds that they are formed by jet airplanes punching through a cirrocumulous cloud deck. When the jet pierces the cloud, supercooled water droplets in the cloud suddenly crystallize. This water-to-ice transformation proceeds outward from the point of impact, creating a vast circle of icy wisps--the "hole." But how many jets would it take to create this display? A mystery, indeed.

Readers, if you ever see a hole punch cloud in the act of opening, take pictures. You could help solve the puzzle of these beautiful formations.Spaceweather.com 18th November 2006

TRIPLE PUNCH HOLE CLOUDS: "I've lived by the sea for many years, but never seen anything like this," reports Wesley Tyler of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. "On Friday, Jan. 7th, there were three punchhole clouds in the same place." He grabbed his camera and recorded the phenomenon:

Considered a mystery for many years, punch hole clouds appear on rare occasions all over the world, sometimes attracting widespread attention, e.g., the famous Moscow UFO cloud of 2009. Recently meteorologists have penetrated the mystery: punch holes form when airplanes fly through thin layers of high altitude clouds. If water droplets in the cloud are supercooled (below freezing but still liquid), they can suddenly turn to snow when shocked by the passage of the plane. This mini-snowstorm occurs over a circular area much wider than the airplane itself.

Not all flights through banks of clouds will produce snow. According to Wired Magazine, only about 7.8 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with clouds at the right elevation for supercooled droplets to form. Because jet aircraft don’t generally cruise at those altitudes, they may only form hole-punch clouds when they take off or land.

The apparition of three rare cloud-holes in one small area suggests a busy airspace around Myrtle Beach. Indeed, the Myrtle Beach International Airport is just miles from where the photo was taken. Or maybe punch hole clouds are a bit of a mystery after all. Spaceweather.com 10th January 2011

Great moments in doomsday countdowns
Watts Up with That, 13th July 2011

With Al Gore’s recent re-emergence from the dead with An Inconvenient Truth, Version 2.0, I find myself noting his website, The Climate Reality Project (formerly The Alliance for Climate Protection) countdown clock has a familiar look to it.

Comment: I am starting to think that someone has been paying attention to my website... Choose Reality? After my constant moaning that people are not interested in reality, I have even got to the stage where I thought that it's a waste of time pointing out reality to a world of people who are just not interested and now it seems that somebody somewhere has got the message.... How strange... the only problem is that nobody is paying me to point out reality, and Al Gore plus friends will not be doing anything for nothing...

Magnetism Prevents Memory Loss?
Epoch Times, 12th July 2011

Learning new skills or facts in quick succession could become less challenging with the help of magnetism, according to new research by American neurologists.

Dr. Edwin Robertson and Dr. Daniel Cohen from the Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston investigated whether it is possible to prevent interference between memory tasks. [...]

"Because brain cells communicate through a process of chemical and electrical signals, applying a mild electrical current to the brain can influence the signals," Robertson said.

"Our observations suggest that distinct mechanisms support the communication between different types of memory processing," he added. "This provides a more dynamic and flexible account of memory organization than was previously believed."

“We've demonstrated that the interference between memories is actively mediated by brain areas and so may serve an important function that has previously been overlooked."

Comment: I think this research provides some scientific validation for why having a strong personal electromagnetic field is extremely beneficial. From my research and my own personal experience, I would say holding more energy or electromagnetic charge would be like having more hardware that can be used to store information. The reason I say this is because of my own experiences when I was first heavily researching Space Weather and the geomagnetic effect on humans. I could detect my energy field and I actually felt energetically bloated. Information is not just stored in the brain, the whole energy field is carrying information and if you are sensitive enough, you can detect when you are transmitting and receiving information. This is not just theoretical for me, my own evolution is such that I can talk from my own personal experiences.

Dark Fireworks on the Sun
NASA Science News, 11th July 2011

July 11, 2011: On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only "M" (for medium) on the Richter scale of solar flares, the blast at first appeared to be a run-of-the-mill eruption--that is, until researchers looked at the movies.

"We'd never seen anything like it," says Alex Young, a solar physicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Half of the sun appeared to be blowing itself to bits." [...]

"IN terms of raw power, this really was just a medium-sized eruption," says Young, "but it had a uniquely dramatic appearance caused by all the inky-dark material. We don't usually see that."

Solar physicist Angelos Vourlidas of the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC calls it a case of "dark fireworks.

Comment: I am sorry to say I saw this headline several times and ignored it because I thought it was too dramatic.... Then I read: "Half of the sun appeared to be blowing itself to bits." Is it any wonder that some people are highly skeptical of NASA media news? The article contradicts itself by stating: "we've never seen anything like it" then it later someone says, "it might be downright common." For the record, I think we can accept the first notion that this was something that scientists have never managed to capture on video. I believe that it was caused by the fact that the sun is processing a different type of energy and since we don't know how the sun works, we could even state we don't even know whether the sun's instructions for how it processes energy from the cosmic environment has changed. Whatever, at the moment, solar scientists are still guessing, but this is important because understanding how the sun works is needed to accurately predict Space Weather.

'Dark Fireworks', unstable magnetic filament explosion, June 7, 2011 event
YouTube, 12th July 2011

Nasa fights to save the James Webb space telescope from the axe
Astronomers shocked by House of Representatives' move to scrap deep-space observatory after costs soar to $6.5bn
The Guardian, 9th July 2011

Nasa is fighting to save its next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope. Politicians want to end the project – one of the most complex ever conceived by space engineers – even though billions of dollars have already been spent on its construction.

Scheduled for launch in 2016, the James Webb, intended to replace the ageing Hubble Space Telescope, would orbit in deep space, a million miles from Earth, and peer into the dawn of the universe. Its observations would answer major questions about the structure of the cosmos, say astronomers. The cost of the observatory has soared from an initial estimate of $1.6bn (£996m) to more than $6.5bn (£4bn).

Comment: Oh dear! Besides the cost overrun being typical for these kind of projects, NASA are hardly likely to tell the House of Representatives that the James Webb Space Telescope would be most likely used to monitor any major threats from outer space, rather than the innocuous cover story of learning about the dawn of the universe. Just basic research into Earth's history and especially catastrophism will reveal that Earth is regularly affected by cosmic events. Hence, NASA would be one of the major agencies keeping a watchout. This is especially true as the rush to build telescopes and place them in the southern hemisphere implies there is evidence that something is of great interest and when it is clear the cosmic evironment of our solar system is no longer as quiet as it used to be.

Gore waves the white flag?: Suddenly he's decided that "Climate change is not your fault"
Tom Nelson, 12th July 2011

About Us | Climate Reality

Climate change is not your fault for the car you drive, the lights you turn on, or the food you eat. The climate crisis is our problem.

[...] From "An Inconvenient Truth", page 305:

...this crisis will get resolved only if we as individuals take responsibility for it. By educating ourselves and others, by doing our part to minimize our use and waste of resources, by becoming more politically active and demanding change--in these ways and many others, each of us can make a difference.

Comment: So what is going on here? Does this smell like The Higher Ups are waking up to the reality of evolutionary change? I hope so!!!!! I think I will start to pay more attention, they may now have something more truthful to say...

Contaminated soil a concern at Los Alamos lab
Reuters, 12th July 2011

(Reuters) - Following a massive wildfire, crews at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have begun removing contaminated soil from nearby canyons out of a concern that flash flooding could wash toxins into the Rio Grande, officials said on Monday.

The Rio Grande is a source of drinking water for many communities in New Mexico, including the capital Santa Fe. The Las Conchas wildfire, which scorched land in the canyons near Los Alamos before it was turned away from the lab earlier the month, has added urgency to the soil removal efforts because flash floods could rush unimpeded through canyon floors stripped of vegetation, officials said.

Comment: I actually think some expert comment is required here, because something seems quite odd about the action being taken.

High levels of radiation detected in Northwest rainwater
MSNBC News, 12th July 2011
"A Seattle nuclear watchdog group is accusing the federal government of failing to keep the public informed of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the days following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the U.S. began monitoring radiation from Japan's leaking nuclear power plants. Most of the public attention went to the air monitoring which showed little or no radiation coming our way. But things were different on the rain water side."

Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know
YouTube, 11th July 2011
"Nuclear engineers Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum discuss how the US regulators and regulatory process have left Americans unprotected."
This is an excellent presentation at Boston Public Library with an introduction by Arnie Gundersen.
Fukushima nuclear contamination in Japan: Looking at maps of Science Ministry survey data
YouTube, 10th July 2011
Shocking.... This is a very good tutorial by an American living in Japan, explaining the severe radiation contamination in Fukushima and surroundings.
FAQ: Seattle Area Radiation Testing Results May Be Kept Hidden
Washington DOH, July 2011
The headline comes from Rense.com
DHS Using Helicopter To Test Seattle Area Radiation Levels
YouTube, 12th July 2011

Front Cover of “Ted Connor's” Confiscated Greek Book
Earthfiles.com, 9th July 2011

July 9, 2011 Albuquerque, New Mexico - I asked “ Ted Connors” for a description of the library book he checked out in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 20, 2010, that was confiscated at his work place on December 22, 2010, by National Security Agency and Homeland Security agents “under the Patriot Act” and never returned. Ted Connors has also been trying to get a copy of the library's original December 20, 2010, check out information, but has been stonewalled at the library and other county government offices he has contacted.

Five months ago in a February 21, 2011, email to a research colleague, Ted had described the book cover and its images that he could remember of Zeus and the Parthenon. Today Ted sent me that February emailed description and photo examples of Zeus and the Parthenon that he thinks are close to what were on the confiscated book's front cover (below).

Comment: I can't get over this report, the confiscation of a library book about GREEK MYTHOLOGY!! Seriously, WTF? My answer to this is to do something rebellious today. Yes, read something classical.... If you can't be bothered to go the library to get your banned Greek mythology, then I suggest www.sacred-texts.com. It's full of old books with interesting information if you understand the religion. Greek mythology is mostly about the worship of the sun, moon, stars and heavens that is hidden by being anthropomorphised. It's really quite simple and the way to decode all the old astronomically based mythology. Zeus represents universal energy. I will now expect a knock at the door....

Onstott's discovery of worms in Earth's depths raises questions about life in space
PhysOrg.com, 12th July 2011

Onstott's research team, which he led with Gaetan Borgonie of the University of Ghent in Belgium, recently made a startling discovery: microscopic roundworms known as nematodes living nearly two-and-a-half miles beneath the Earth's surface in several South African gold mines. The worms are roughly a quarter of the diameter of the head of a pin. Although nematode species have been known to live as far as 20 feet below the surface, scientists generally assumed there was no reason to believe the organisms would be found anywhere near the depths of those found by Onstott's team, he noted.

Comment: So, whilst these scientists are worrying about worms, we have bizarre plasma entities arriving from deep space.... The evidence is that life is pervasive throughout the universe, why are these scientists pretending to be so dim?

Volcanoes may cause more rain than realized
USA Today, 12th July 2011

Volcanoes may release particles that can cause changes in local and regional weather at rates up to 100 million times higher than previously realized.

The eruption last spring of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano provided French scientists with the perfect natural laboratory to measure the levels of weather-changing particles released in such eruptions. Taking measurements at the Puy de Dôme research station in central France, they found was that the eruption released much larger amounts of particles at low levels in the atmosphere than previously known.

Comment: Yes, rain and snow when it's cold enough... that's why many scientists are frightened that too many volcanoes erupting is going to cause climate change and even an Ice Age if snow does not melt but keeps building up, see previous comments on volcanoes and Earth changes.

Montana ultra-marathon race cancelled due to snow
Great Falls Tribute, 8th July 2011

Comment: There was good ski-ing available on the 4th of July and now this marathon has been cancelled due to too much snow about.... if the snow does not melt at the height of summer, then it will start to build up and then we will have the start of an Ice Age.... This looks ominous to me... Now, for the conspiracy theorists, and this is unusual for me (LOL). Just imagine that certain people have know that we slowly entering an Ice Age and that there was a need to move South... Think Katrina....Think New Orleans... Think, oh shit... The Gulf Disaster.... The shenanigans have not worked out very well have they?

'Russian' debris threatens Atlantis mission as ground control fears it will hurtle 'dangerously close' to ISS during space walk
Daily Mail, 11th July 2011

* Nasa is trying to work out if the junk comes from a defunct Russian satellite
* It is scheduled to pass the space station at around 5pm GMT on Tuesday

Nasa is monitoring a piece of 'Russian' space junk that looks likely to come dangerously close to the International Space Station during a planned space walk tomorrow. The debris is heading towards the station, where Atlantis yesterday docked on its final mission.

Scientists are still trying to work out how big the object is and how close it will come to Atlantis. Some believe it originated from a defunct Russian satellite that is orbiting Earth. LeRoy Cain, mission management team leader, said he hopes the space junk will keep a safe distance and as they observe its trajectory throughout today, they will be able to work out how close it will come. [...]

Two weeks ago, the crew of the ISS had to shelter in the lifeboats after a piece of debris missed them by just over 1,000ft - the closest call to date

Comment: Space exploration should not really have to include watching out for your junk... However, the arrival of Space Weather means a quickly changing cosmic environment (more asteroids, meteors, comets, small space rocks, meteoroids, and dust), where astronauts are now being regularly threatened and more satellites are being lost. As the space environment around Earth deteriorates, the citizens of Earth should realise that our modern communications infrastructure is also under risk, this is the reality of a new era dominated by the aether or space caused by the arrival of a more densely ionised cloudlet in the Local Fluff, see the Interstellar 'Etheric' Cloud Index.

Mysterious Noctilucent Clouds Brighten Up Night Skies (PHOTOS)
Internationl Business Times, 11th July 2011

The season for spotting Noctilucent Clouds or the “night-shining” clouds has begun, NASA said in a statement in early July.

Noctilucent Clouds are composed of tiny ice crystals 40 to 100 nanometers wide, which is just the right size to scatter blue wavelengths of sunlight, a NASA scientist explained.

According to NASA, the best time and location to search for these breathtakingly beautiful phenomenon would be between mid-May and the end of August in the northern hemisphere. However, with no explanation yet found, these glowing, mystical clouds have been seen even as far south as Utah and Oregon and Denver, Colorado in the recent years.

Comment: Nice photos.... According to NASA they have only appeared in mid latitudes since 2002, and scientists do not know why, see previous Space Weather related comments.

The lies I told as a psychic
I thought it would be an easy part-time gig. But faking out strangers was much trickier than I ever predicted
Salon.com, 10th July 2011

Chartres keeps its spiritual allure
San Francisco Chronicle, 10th July 2011

[...]Was this what people meant when they spoke of Chartres' "spiritual charge?" [...]

It's no wonder historians call Chartres "the queen of European cathedrals." Spiritual questers instead say it's a magical magnet that pulls people in from around the world. Both descriptions felt right to me. The awe-inspiring edifice sits astride the hilltop where ancient Gauls performed their mysterious rites, and Romans built a citadel and forum.

There's more to Chartres, a bustling town of 40,000, than the cathedral. For more than 1,000 years it's been hedged by what's now one of France's biggest, best-preserved medieval neighborhoods. Lively, secular attractions include half-timbered townhouses on curving, cobbled streets lined by cafe terraces, restaurants and boutiques. Serenely scenic, the tree-lined Eure River edges the compact center of town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws about 2 million visitors each year. Many are pilgrims and regular returnees.

Comment: I think this article is seeking to bolster the spiritual tourism trade. Well, it is a well known fact amongst those interested in esoteric facts, that the most important buildings have traditionally been placed on energy vortexes or portals. This is literally where spiritual energy comes spiralling down from the sky and enters the Earth or spirals up from the Earth out into the cosmos. That is why churches have tall spires that act as Torsion generators, beacons picking up and dispensing Torsion fields. These are pure informational fields energies that can be a hidden component of electromagnetic fields and they provide information as first described by Elie Cartan and Albert Einstein, now known as Torsion Field Theory. These fields are related to scalar fields but scientists have retained a distinction. So what kind of information is being picked up and dispensed and who or what is processing this information.... God, the angels or what? That's a good question... In terms of being in this kind of environment, I think people who are receptive will automatically start to evolve but I have also come to the conclusion that these energies can also be misused (maybe dependent on how the energy is used). Just look at the organisations that clearly use sacred geometry to maintain their worldly powers.

Lightning kills 20 cows
Richmond County Daily Journal, 8th July 2011

A lightning storm Wednesday afternoon claimed the lives of 20 Angus cows belonging to Wesley and Sammy Anderson, of Ellerbe.

The cows congregated underneath a tree when the storm rolled in, and were killed when lightning struck and traveled through the group.

“We’re fourth generation farmers, and my dad and I don’t ever remember seeing anything like this,” said Sammy. “I’ve heard of cows being hit standing in ponds, but not this many - and I’ve never seen it myself.”

Comment: Hmmm... another example of mass killing by lightning... Are we seeing some severe Positive Lightning which is six to ten times the charge and voltage difference of a negative bolt and lasts around ten times longer than normal lightning?

Fireball UFO Seen Over Georgia, US (Video)
Epoch Times, 8th July 2011

Yet another flaming UFO has been filmed descending through the sky, this time in Georgia in the United States on July 7, according to a video posted on YouTube by the UFO Global Reporting Center.

The unidentified falling fiery object resembles other fireball UFOs spotted recently around the world, including in Australia, Germany, Mexico, and Chile.

The same pattern is visible—an object that looks like a meteorite with two fiery tails is dropping through the atmosphere. Unlike some of the previous UFOs, this particular UFO maintains a straight line as it falls.

Both the fireballs filmed in Chile in May, and Germany in February exhibited marked trajectory changes, making it hard to explain them away as meteorites or burning space junk.

Comment: Hmmm.... another 'Master Entity' arrival, but this one is closer to many previous sightings..... I wonder if TPTB are worrying or if they simply don't care because they know must people will ignore something they don't understand...See previous comments.

July Brings An Eye-Popping Burst In UFO Sightings (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 11th July 2011
The camera work is terrible so I suggest skipping the first minute or so... the reporting here is also really puerile.

The URZI Case: A UFO Mystery In The Skies of Italy
Latest UFO sightings, 8th July 2011
"In the last few years strange events have been taking place in the skies over Milan, Italy. More than 1700 UFO sightings have been filmed since the year 2000 by Antonio Urzi. These include metallic ships, spheres of light, flotillas and many other types of strange phenomena. Antonio Urzi's filmed evidence has generated tremendous interest among UFO researchers all over the world."

Comment: Regulars will know that I don't often provide sightings of object that look metallic and I suppose some people think I am ignoring the issue of artificial probes. Well, the problem is that I realise that most people have a limited mindset that assumes that all metallic type objects must be artificial and my own mindset says that this is a rule that no one can prove. These metallic objects appear out of the aether and disappear back into the aether, they can even return a radar signature but can be completely invisible to the eye even when they are supposed to be in visible range. We are not exactly talking about objects that obey our rules and that is because they don't... Hence the assumption that because they are metallic does not mean they are also must be artificial or manufactured...

Strange Lights in North Canton Sky, [Ohio, USA]
ABC Local News, 8th July 2011
"NORTH CANTON, Ohio - There are always a lot of lights in the sky on the night before Independence Day. But what one North Canton couple saw from their backyard Sunday didn't look like fireworks. "These two objects floated by and then two more floated by and a short time later, two more floated by," Joanne Damico said. She described the mysterious objects as orange colored globes.
UFO or Chinese Lanterns? 19 Action News investigates UFO's (Video)
19 Action News, 8th July 2011
"JACKSON TOWNSHIP, OH (WOIO) - Lots of people were looking up into the sky around the Fourth of July. But it seems many people were seeing something other than fireworks.
The veil is lifting, but the metaphysical community is strangely quiet, now why is that? Is this too much reality?

Perfect Disaster: Solar Storm (2006)
YouTube, January 2008 --flashback--

"Solar storms bombard Earth on a regular basis, creating northern lights at the poles and temporarily disrupting radio transmissions and power grids. As technology advances and we become more dependent on it, we are more vulnerable to the effects of large solar storms. An unusally massive solar storm could cause a global blackout lasting months or even years. Civilization would be thrust back to a time before technology." Source: link

Comment: I have just watched this documentary-drama again that was first screened 5th April 2006, that I first saw on Channel 4 in the UK after my book was published. In reality, the American and British governments have decided not to wait for a drama before they take an unprecedented decision, and this is not even five years after I dared to reveal my understanding that Space Weather was the reality of the start of a new era dominated by the aether or space. Well, the information in this documentary is not completely accurate because various factors that determine the seriousness of Space Weather have actually got WORSE, like the old North/South Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) orientation rules were discredited in July 2007... Note in part 2, the emphasis on the importance of data coming from the ACE satellite that is now at the end of it's life and vulnerable to a severe blast of Space Weather...

Well, I had to smile at the point in the video when John Kappenman [Part 3, 5:30] compares the unprecedented action of taking down National Power Grids to Russian Roulette, because that is exactly what I thought when I saw the reports that the UK & US government had decided to take this action if they think there is a storm on the way that they suspect we would not be able to handle... Well, now I can cite Kappenman because he is also the electrical engineering expert that the US military have been paying attention to... I have also learnt something else that I had missed before. It takes 1 hour to shut down a power station, so it seems that information from the ACE satellite may not be useful in making a decision about whether to shut down if a coronal mass ejection (CME) is travelling too fast (ACE can only provide between 15 - 45 minutes or even max. 1 hour due to it's location 1 million hours from Earth)...

Well, these days, I just feel terrible that after 6 years of effort, I have not made much progress explaining to people that Space Weather is changing our world. Basically, due to a number of terrible experiences, I have come to the conclusion that very few people are actually interested in reality. NASA has provided the proof that a significant amount of this energy hitting our planet is borderline physical/aetheric but the metaphysical community generally have not been that interested. It really makes me wonder why when this is MAJOR NEWS, the destiny of mankind is at stake and there has been talk for decades about a dramatic increase of energy on this planet, but we are talking about a sudden zap, too much at once for our technological world to handle, this only more likely at solar maximum but this is not an absolute necessity.

Anyway, I just don't know what to make of the lack of comprehension.... seriously, this is not rocket science... We have to change how we do business in this planet, but how can we when people refuse to accept that our world is changing, as if ignorance will stop the upgrades to our reality... To all out there who scoffed at my feeble efforts to write and market my book, start praying that the national power grids don't go down and stay down where you live some time in the near future...

Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools
Science Mags, 8th July 2011

While exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef, professional diver Scott Gardner heard an odd cracking sound and swam over to investigate. What he found was a footlong blackspot tuskfish (Choerodon schoenleinii) holding a clam in its mouth and whacking it against a rock. Soon the shell gave way, and the fish gobbled up the bivalve, spat out the shell fragments, and swam off. Fortunately, Gardner had a camera handy and snapped what seem to be the first photographs of a wild fish using a tool.

Comment: A fish demonstrating higher intelligence? In terms of consciousness, scientists struggle to understand what this is and how to differentiate humans from the rest of the life on this planet, but now it seems their task may have just got harder.

Three-Legged Duck In China Has Weird Animal Collector Ready To Go Out On A Limb
AOL News, 8th July 2011

Save a drumstick for Todd Ray -- or three for that matter. The Los Angeles resident is trying to rescue a three-legged duck that is supposedly alive and well in Nan'an, a town in the Fujian Province of China.

Ray runs the Venice Beach Freakshow in Los Angeles and has, perhaps, the largest collection of bizarre animals in the world -- including 22 living two-headed animals and a five-legged dog.

Now, he wants to find and purchase the three-legged duck and bring it to California. He hopes he has more than a wing and a prayer of making his ducky dreams come true.

Comment: China... Well, there has always been 'freak' animals and humans too, the issue is whether we are seeing a dramatic increase. Officially, Chinese authorities have already admitted that there has been a dramatic increase in human birth defects caused by the pollution of their environment. This is bad enough, but the lowering ot Earth's magnetic field will mean more cosmic and manmade radiation in the environment that will cause even more DNA mutations and genetic variability.

Strange Fruit: The costs and benefits of rural mysticism
The Economist, 7th July 2011

WHETHER extraterrestrials or pranksters are to blame, in the Wiltshire countryside crop circles are costly: around £1,000 each, says Tim Carson, a farmer in the village of Alton Barnes, whose land has been dotted by 125 circles since 1991. Lost crops have become part of his annual routine, because his corner of the county is the global centre for crop circles. Fifty or more formations appear in Britain’s fields each year, usually between May and August; around three-quarters are in Wiltshire.

They are likely to make farmers especially cross in what has already been a tricky year. Fuel and fertiliser prices have risen; a dry spring means yields are expected to be down 25-30% on last year in the south-west. Now Wiltshire is being trampled by summer tourists, many of them mystically inclined. Some circular formations are visited by thousands of these enthusiasts, causing further damage to crops and sometimes property.

Comment: This year I have not paid much attention to UK crop circles and I have only been really impressed with one, see the Honey Street, Unfinished Symphony & Finished Symphony - 4th July 2011. Again, we have the same pattern of people trying to make the crop circles fit their preconceived ideas and not providing much illumination, but I have not ventured to see what else is being offered elsewhere.

At the temple of James Arthur Ray
The Guardian, 8th July 2011

James Arthur Ray was on track to become the first new-age billionaire, thanks to his self-help teaching and promises of personal transformations. So how did three people end up dead on his watch in the Arizona desert? Christopher Goodwin reports [...] As the authorities and others started looking more closely at Ray, it became evident that a lot of his claims were untrue. People with whom he said he had studied and worked insisted he had lied about it. The Peruvian shaman with whom he claimed to have studied turned out to be a tour guide. Even his claims of childhood poverty were undermined by people who grew up with him. Ray was also denounced by Native Americans for abusing their rites and traditions. Some years before the 2009 tragedy, Ray had been "approached several times by native leaders and told he was not trained to run Native American ceremonies", said David Sitting Bear, a Cherokee Indian who lives in Sedona.

In February 2010, James Arthur Ray was arrested and charged with three counts of manslaughter. "This was a terrible accident, but it was an accident, not a criminal act," Ray's attorney said.

Comment: I laughed really hard at the obvious bullshit story of James Ray "...finding himself in the cave where Moses is said to have rested before receiving the Ten Commandments." James Ray is an Anthony Robbins clone who also once aspired to become a billionaire. Watch the videos of both these characters and you will easily see this fact. These salesmen have moved into the New Age arena because it is well known amongst predators that this community is full of especially gullible, sheep ready to be sheared. It's a shame the Guardian missed the opportunity to state the classic James Ray quote: "I am the Alpha and Omega", but we do get the seriously glib and callous comment from a "channeller" who said that those who had died "were having so much fun that they chose not to come back". I suppose this would be typical response from someone who has completely switched off life support to their brain and heart.

Fighting James Ray with James Ray
Celestial Healing, 7th July 2011
James Ray ... shouting
"You'll never be anything but a fat slob and looser if you don't attend my retreat."

Comment:I have already highlighted how JR was completely ruthless in demanding that people borrow large amounts of money to pay for his seminars and this is highlighted here again. Well, after studying human development and human evolution I have been struck by the fact that predators like JR pretend they are offering spiritual evolution but then work to create an energy shift to implant themselves into people's psyche. There is no genuine advancement, instead people are placed in a very vulnerable position and some people are so delicate that they will fall without much pushing into a downward spiral. Incredibly, once you study this subject, you realise just how many people are doing the same thing but with varying degrees of ruthlessness or subtlety.

#Radiation in Japan: Dr. Shunichi Yamashita Will Become Vice President of Fukushima Medical University
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 8th July 2011

"The diabolical country on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean (no it's not North Korea) that is what Japan seems to have morphed into will have Dr. Shunichi "100 microsieverts/hour radiation is safe" Yamashita of Nagasaki University as the vice president of the Fukushima Medical University in charge of setting up an organization to conduct research on effects of radiation on the Fukushima residents.

Well, those in Fukushima and elsewhere who wanted to remove the professor from the Fukushima radiation advisor sort of got their wish. He just made a lateral move. Or maybe he will continue to be the advisor. Criticism? What criticism?

Comment: This is an update on the consequences of the speech given by Dr. Shunichi Yamashita now famed for his "radiation won't affect people who are smiling". Personally, I can hardly believe that this kind of sociopathic lying deceitful behaviour could be considered as acceptable and it seems that someone has decided it is not.

Radiation: Like an Angel's Smile
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 30th June 2011

Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, Radiation Advisor to Fukushima: "Fukusima Will Be World-Famous! It's Just Great!"
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 21st June 2011
"To tell you the truth, radiation doesn't affect people who are smiling, but those who are worried. This has clearly been demonstrated by animal studies."
Hmmmm...

The Ultimate Time Travelers --Microbes Survive Millions of Years Traveling in Space
Daily Galaxy, 7th July 2011

In a unique experiment on a galactic scale, millions of bacterial spores have been purposely exposed to space, to see how solar radiation affects them and the results supported the idea that not only could life have arrived on Earth on meteorites, but that considerable material has flowed between planets.

Closer to home, scientists have analyzed aerial dust samples collected by Charles Darwin and confirmed that microbes can travel across continents without the need for planes or trains - rather bacteria and fungi hitch-hike by attaching to dust particles. Their results clearly show that diverse microbes, including ascomycetes, and eubacteria can live for centuries and survive intercontinental travel.

Comment: Well, I was surprised by this article after the years and years of denial and fighting against the idea of life being abundant in the universe even though the evidence is now overwhelming. Even Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick believed in the theory of Panspermia and proposed his own version that he called Directed Panspermia, yet poor old Chandra Wickramasinghe has had his astrobiology centre shut down to save a few quid... Well, that is the official story, but I suspect it was more to do with the media attention associated with the sensational article in The Journal of Cosmology (JOC), where Wickramasinghe was the editor, revealing, "...evidence of extraterrestrial microfossils of bacteria in meteorites older than Earth has been discovered and no legitimate scientist has been able to disprove the findings", see archives for more details. Oh dear!

‘Life from space’ expert loses funding
Sky Mania, 14th March 2011

Extra-terrestrial research goes on
Closed astrobiology centre to be reborn as private company
Nature News, 17th March 2011

REFILE-Japan's nuclear industry credibility crumbles amid email scandal
Reuters News, 8th July 2011

(Reuters) - A Japanese nuclear power plant has come under fire for trying to sway the outcome of a public forum on atomic safety, dealing a fresh blow to the industry's credibility four months after the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

An employee with Kyushu Electric Power Co instructed workers at the utility and its affiliates to pose as ordinary citizens and send e-mails backing the restart of nuclear reactors in southern Japan to a televised public hearing. [...]

"There is growing suspicion that power companies are playing fast and loose with data to support their cause and will go so far as to orchestrate public support," said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University's Japan campus.

"The more the media pulls back the veil, the angrier the public is getting." The e-mail scandal has been daily fodder for mainstream media, often accused of being soft on the industry.

Public trust in utilities and their regulators has already been dented by patchy and slow disclosure about the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima plant.

"They (Tokyo Electric) have zero credibility," Kingston said.

Industry critics said the e-mail scandal was no surprise, but added it nonetheless deepened doubts about both safety and whether threatened power outages were a real risk.

Comment: This is all so pathetic... More info at Energy News.

Japanese are being told that smiling will protect them from radiation.
Revolutionary Politics, 7th July 2011
Here we have the power of positive thinking being used as defense against radiation, when plutonium was named after the god of hell... obviously, the cultic milieu claptrap has spread far and wide...
Tests show normal radiation exposure rates near Las Conchas
The Taos News, 22nd July 2011
so what's 'normal radiation' these days?

UFOs spotted in massive Phoenix dust storm?
ABC 15 News, 8th July 2011

PHOENIX - People around the world are clicking on a portion of ABC15 video that shows a massive dust storm rolling into the Valley on Tuesday.

Several well known UFO websites, which has linked the video on their websites, claim the Air15 video reveals objects known as "orbs" in the dust storm.One website states the video shows a "clear disc-shaped object".

The Open Minds website posted the Air15 video and wrote: "The object appears to have an almost saucer-like shape, which fueled speculation of extraterrestrial craft." They also offer their own explanation about what the object most likely was. UFOHUNTERORGUK also profiled the video shown on CNN with the headline, "U.F.Orbs captured at Massive ‘haboob’ hits Arizona town 6, July 2011"

Comment: I don't know what is up with the MSM, lots of UFO stories.... it's almost like they are getting the fact that we are experiencing a dimensional shift and they want to get in on the excitement... maybe they realise that folks need to get use to the fact that Earth is becoming a cosmic aquarium... The Open Minds link provides various MSM video footage, the most interesting is the CNN version showing 2 UFOs and one of them is seen to change from an orb into a disc, I'm not an expert, but this quick change could be CGI....

4th of July UFO sightings - 2011 videos: Flashing UFO over Arizona
Latest UFO Sightings, 5th July 2011
"Fleet of orange UFOs over Illinois: We have concluded that these craft were not likely to be Chinese Lanterns because of their overwhelming brightness while at a far distance and their ability to stay in formation with each other and all go off at the same time. There were also HUNDREDS of spectators that saw a triangular formation in a town nearby."
There are quite a few entries for this date, but the video entitled 'Flashing UFO over Arizona' is hilarious.. It shows a UFO/UAP wandering slowly across the scene during a huge firework display accompanied by an electric guitar version of John Brown's body.... superb.
There seems to have been lots of activity around Phoenix that was already famous for the UFOs seen March 13th 1997 and discussed on CNN Larry King with documentary maker James Fox Jan 18 2008, see link Phoenix Lights.

Chicago TV Station Captures UFO LIVE During July 4th Fireworks Coverage
UDCC, 7th July 2011

Vietnam UFO landing at U.S. base discovered by National Archives
Open Minds, 7th July 2011

One of the very first articles posted on this site was a comprehensive piece titled “UFOs during the Vietnam War,” which included both first and second-hand accounts collected by me and evidence from documents and official statements released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). These included the famous October 1973 remarks by General George S. Brown, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, that UFOs sighted in Vietnam “weren’t called UFOs. They were called enemy helicopters.”

Now, thanks to the blog of Dr. David Clarke – Folklore and Journalism, a professor of journalism at Sheffield Hallam University who works closely with the British Ministry of Defence on their periodic release of UFO files, I found a new fascinating UFO case reported during the Vietnam War. This one is particularly interesting because it involves an apparent landing of an egg-shaped object on January 6, 1969 at a major American military base in Indochina, the Chu Lai harbor on the China Sea about 40 miles southeast of Da Nang. I

Comment: As far as I am concerned, historic UFO/UAP reports written up by the military are by far the most interesting... This website has a good news section on UFO/UAP reports in the mainstream media.

Chile's Atacama Desert Hit With Record Snowfall (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 7th July 2011

One of the driest places on the planet has just experienced its heaviest snowfall in almost two decades.

As the BBC is reporting, the Atacama desert region in Chile was virtually buried with an estimated 31.5 inches of snow after a cold front brought subzero temperatures to much of South America, including Argentina and Uruguay.

Officials from Chile's Directorate of Meteorology said the area had not seen this amount of snow in close to 20 years. Local media reports said authorities rescued a total of 36 people who had been caught in the storm, the Associated Press reports.

Comment: Maybe, this is a good example of why NASA are studying the impact of the solar wind on Earth's atmospheric currents, see below for more info:

BBC News: Hyper arid Atacama desert hit by snow
YouTube/BBC News, 7th July 2011

New Force Driving Earth's Tectonic Plates
Science Daily, 6th July 2011

[...] Using analytical methods to track plate motions through Earth's history, Cande and Stegman's research provides evidence that such mantle plume "hot spots," which can last for tens of millions of years and are active today at locations such as Hawaii, Iceland and the Galapagos, may work as an additional tectonic driver, along with push-pull forces.

Their new results describe a clear connection between the arrival of a powerful mantle plume head around 70 million years ago and the rapid motion of the Indian plate that was pushed as a consequence of overlying the plume's location. The arrival of the plume also created immense formations of volcanic rock now called the "Deccan flood basalts" in western India, which erupted just prior to the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

Comment: To be honest I was surprised... I always thought that magna pushing up from the deep would be considered as a major force causing tectonic movement... So, I was hoping to read something sensational, not something obvious... Whatever, the interest here is it strengthens the belief that tectonic movement occurs at times when Earth is bombarded with high energy which enters Earth's core via the polar cusps and then appears on the Earth's surface in the form of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and plate tectonics. There are various theories that relate to Earth's expansion which I think are plausible, but regardless of whether they are right or wrong, the geological evidence is clear that in the past, Earth has experienced serious and sudden Earth changes resulting in a major makeover.

Conspiracy of Science - Earth is in fact growing
YouTube, 2nd March 2007
"This video is a Neal Adams animation about his theory that the Earth is growing. This collides with the Pangea theory. Watch it, you will be amazed."

Rockets Study Solar Winds Affect Atmospheric Currents
Irish Weather Online News, 5th July 2011

Some 50 miles up in the sky begins a dynamic region of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere. The region is filled with charged particles created by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun. At the base of the ionosphere, charged particle motions create a global current called the “atmospheric dynamo.”

Generally moving in loops from the equator to the poles, the dynamo changes daily based on solar heating and magnetic activity – but what keeps it moving isn’t well understood.

This July, scientists will launch four rockets from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, USA, for a five-minute journey some 100 miles up into the atmosphere. The rockets will collect data on the charged particles as well as winds of neutral particles that sweep through the lower ionosphere and how each affects the other, ultimately causing these dynamo currents.

Comment: Well, since NASA have informed the world that since the mid 1990s, the solar wind has been flagging and this seems to be part of a long term trend, then Earth's atmospheric currents will be changing too. What that means to Earth's climate is unknown and presumably why NASA are doing these experiments.

Solar Wind Loses Power, Hits 50-year Low
NASA News, 23rd September 2008
Sept. 23, 2008: In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power. "The average pressure of the solar wind has dropped more than 20% since the mid-1990s," says Dave McComas of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "This is the weakest it's been since we began monitoring solar wind almost 50 years ago."

Smile! It's an upside-down rainbow... but you can see there's no pot of gold at the end of this one
Daily Mail, 4th July 2011

Seen just a handful of times this stunning phenomena is known as the 'smile in the sky.' Freak weather conditions created this reverse rainbow in Leicestershire where it was pictured by antique dealer William Freeman. But while the sight looks like an upside-down rainbow, it is actually caused by light shining through tiny ice crystals in the clouds. Rather than being caused by raindrops like normal rainbows, it is the result of freak atmospheric conditions, rarely seen outside the North and South Poles. This is one of only a handful of occasions where an arc has been spotted in the UK.

Comment: More 'freak' conditions, but it can't be true that this has happened on only a handful of occasions in the UK because I have recorded two sightings in August 2010, a sighting in August 2009 and September 2008, see archives. What is noticeable, is that this is occurring at the same time as we are seeing noctilucent clouds, another mysterious atmospheric phenomena becoming common to Europe during June/July. From the facts provided by atmospheric scientists, they appear to be related but there are many other strange and rare atmospheric phenomena appearing and they all seem related to ice crystals. However, in some cases, scientists will admit that these are ice crystals with peculiar properties and I would suggest the ice has formed on highly charged cosmic dust that is now invading our planet due to our solar system being engulfed in an interstellar 'etheric' debris cloud.

Believers In Mysterious Planet Nibiru Await Earth's End
Space.com, 7th July 2011

[...] The waxing obsession with Nibiru, which conspiracy theorists say is a planet swinging in from the outskirts of our solar system that is going to crash into Earth and wipe out humanity in 2012 — or, in some opinions, 2011 — shows that an astonishing number of people "are watching YouTube videos and visiting slick websites with nothing in their skeptical toolkit," in the words of David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Morrison estimates that there are 2 million websites discussing the impending Nibiru-Earth collision. He receives, on average, five email inquiries about Nibiru every day.

Comment: No, I am not a believer and I have generally stayed well away from the Nibiru topic. However I was surprised to read here that Comet Elenin is coming in so close and I do believe that comets can generate electromagnetic effects and associated planetary alignments do matter. However, I am apalled that Dr David Morrison is still getting emails from young terrified children and I am fed up as usual that people are peddling doom but don't provide the context that we can expect chaos at a time of evolutionary change or it is impossible to have change. Yes, what is going on in the heavens is important but the speculation and constant changing of what is relevant suggests that information is being used to keep people in a state of agitation where they are much more likely to 'jump' and 'buy' on command. Meanwhile, Space Weather is now changing our world FACT and very few are paying attention despite the efforts of credible agencies and you have to wonder why so few are actually interested in a real IMPACT on our world. I don't know about you, but I seriously think that humanity has to carefully consider how we are going to survive on this planet as we are currently not making much progress adapting to the new evolutionary impetus.

Comet Elenin will not destroy the Earth
Astro Bob, 4th April 2011
"I did a search for Comet Elenin the other day and was surprised at how much gloom-and-doom blather has been written about this modest comet. The misinformation covers the full range of nonsense – everything from the name ‘Elenin’ being a coded message for ‘Extinction Level Event Notable Impact Nemesis’ to the comet being a secret brown dwarf star called Nibiru (which doesn’t exist). Some are even spreading the rumor that Leonid Elenin the person doesn’t actually exist."
Nice background information and diagrams. The comparison with Venus is especially useful.

Fiery UFO filmed over Mexico
A curious falling object has been captured on video over Mexico.
The Telegraph, 6th July 2011

The footage, shot from the side of a road in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City, appears to show a mysterious glowing object hurtling through the sky.

As the cameraman zooms in for a better look, a fiery ball with flaming wings is revealed. The video, recorded on June 29, was uploaded to YouTube by a user named only as Kimdragon1. After seeing the footage, one user wrote: "I saw exact the same thing at June 29 from Greece at 23.00 local time."

Comment: I find this amazing that some people are desperate to believe that these strange sightings are airplanes. Here we see a huge bright ball of light with a massive thick dual plasma 'trail' and you can clearly see a twist in one side that indicates to me that one side of this plasma is slightly more magnetised than the other. This is similar to the ghost rocket seen in January 2010, Canada and due to the media attention generated, the Canadian Defense minister made some arrogant comments that I thought were insulting to the local people, see archives Best of the Blog Fireballs, meteorites & strange 'heavenly phenomena'. The military KNOW the truth, but some think it's funny that most ordinary people are unaware that there is another lifeform lives alongside us that has wide ranging properties and characteristics. Personally, I don't think mass ignorance is funny at all, especially when some people actually want to understand our reality better.

An UFO/UAP falling in flames in the sky over Berlin, Germany
YouTube, 4th July 2011
I actually wonder whether we are seeing an increase in these 'Master Entities' arriving from all over the galaxy as Earth is apparently now a really happening place.... Well, again, this is not really crashing to Earth like we would expect a satellite or meteor, and as I have stated before on previous occasions, I am suspicious that this object slightly changes direction from a vertical drop for no obvious reason. I would like to see one of these in a nosedive over a major city like London and see what the authorities have to say, yet Berlin IS a major city...

End of the world? No, just the start of Arizona's monsoon season as massive dust storm rolls in from the desert and engulfs Phoenix (Video)
Daily Mail, 6th July 2011

After the floods, tornadoes, wildfires and crippling blizzards that have ravaged the U.S. this year, an enormous wave of dust rolling in and erasing an entire city would not have been a welcome sight.

But the massive dust storm - as awesome and apocalyptic as it looks - proved little more than an inconvenience to the residents of Phoenix, Arizona, as it bore down upon them yesterday afternoon.

The dust storm, or 'habub' as it is often known, is a regular feature of the U.S. state's 'monsoon' season, which lasts until the end of September.

Comment: Lots of great pictures here: "... this is a larger-than-normal storm." I think the US is getting to the stage where there is no 'normal'... Sky News video clip US City Struck By 30-Mile Wide Dust Storm

UN calls for technological revolution or ‘major planetary catastrophe’
Channel 6 News, 5th July 2011

UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) -- The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday warned that humanity is coming close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, urging a greater and faster technological revolution to avoid "a major planetary catastrophe."

The UN's yearly report titled "The World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation," underlined the importance of scaling up clean energy technologies, sustainable farming and forestry techniques, climate-proofing of infrastructure, and technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production. [...]

"Business as usual is not an option," the report concluded. "An attempt to overcome world poverty through income growth generated by existing 'brown technologies' would exceed the limits of environmental sustainability."

Comment: I try not to get too political but I have to agree that the current system of doing business on this planet is not going to work as the environment changes drastically. The give away here is the term, "climate-proofing of infrastructure". Most people are completely blind to the real cause of the changes taking place on this planet that I believe is being driven by Space Weather. World controllers are well aware of the truth but they have failed to convince people of their version of reality and the need to implement their plans for the future. Just look at the facts and extrapolate: satellite communications are under threat, GPS is becoming useless, national power grids are now vulnerable to geomagnetic storms, oil and gas pipelines are becoming very difficult to maintain due to geomagnetic conditions causing continuous corrosion of pipelines, these are all fundamental to the worlds current technological infrastructure. The rug is being pulled from under the feet of world controllers and they know it, but most people are completely oblivious and can't be convinced of any need for change. Here, the United Nations sounds like the voice of reason.

Jellyfish threaten Israeli power plant
BBC News, 5th July 2011

A swarm of jellyfish is threatening a power plant in Israel. The facility in Hadera uses sea water for cooling off purposes but huge numbers of jellyfish have been sucked into the cooling system.

Israel's Electric Corp, which runs the plant, has warned that entire cities could be left without power if the problem persists. Nachum Plaumbaum, a worker at the plant, explained how the jellyfish could stop the power plant from functioning.

Comment: Hmmmm.... there were some hilarious jokes when a squirrel was blamed for a transformer fire at Los Alamos at a time of great concern, but with all the various plagues we are seeing at the moment, it does seem like nature is fighting back...

Picture Gallery: Thousands of jellyfish clog water supply of power station in Israel
The Telegraph, 5th July 2011
Yuk... There are pictures here of containers holding thousands of jellyfish that have been cleared from Orot Rabin coal-fired power station in Hadera, Israel, after they blocked the water supply to the plant.

Millions of jellyfish invade nuclear reactors in Japan and Israel (PHOTOS)
International Business Times, 9th July 2011

Oil and gas spills in North Sea every week, papers reveal
Documents list companies that caused more than 100 potentially lethal – and largely unpublicised – leaks in 2009 and 2010
The Guardian, 5th July 2011

Serious spills of oil and gas from North Sea platforms are occurring at the rate of one a week, undermining oil companies' claims to be doing everything possible to improve the safety of rigs.

Shell has emerged as one of the top offenders despite promising to clean up its act five years ago after a large accident in which two oil workers died.

Documents obtained by the Guardian record leaks voluntarily declared by the oil companies to the safety regulator, the Health and Safety Executive(HSE), in a database set up after the Piper Alpha disaster of 6 July 1988 which killed 167 workers. They reveal for the first time the names of companies that have caused more than 100 potentially lethal and largely unpublicised oil and gas spills in the North Sea in 2009 and 2010.

Comment: Space Weather is a major problem for those tasked with maintaining oil pipelines due to geomagnetic currents causing pipeline corrosion. This was something that I briefly mentioned in my book and I have only mentioned this on this blog when there have been major incidents. Whatever, I am amazed to read that there are now oil and gas spills every week in the North Sea. Under the auroral electroject in Alaska and the equatorial electroject in Africa, I could have believed that pipelines required a constant watch, but this comes as a surprise. Well, the way things are going, the planet will become inhabitable because the powers that be refuse to face reality, i.e. the current system of energy supply [no pun intended] is simply not suited to the rapid evolutionary changes on the planet.

Cockpit audio details chaos after hole rips in Phoenix plane (Video)
ABC 15 News, 5th July 2011

PHOENIX - The Federal Aviation Administration released dramatic audio recordings Tuesday between air traffic controllers and pilots aboard Southwest Airlines flight 812. The two sides worked together on April 1 to get the plane on the ground after a six-foot hole ripped open in the fuselage .

The recordings indicate Southwest Flight 812 started out just like any other. But a few minutes in to the Phoenix to Sacramento flight, the pilot declares an emergency. "We lost the cabin," the pilot can be heard saying. The roof of the Boeing 737 had ripped open, leaving a gaping hole.

Comment: This is an update. As I have said before, my previous assumption when this kind of event occured was to suspect space weather in the form of meteroids hitting a plane, but to hear this could be due to poor plane maintenance in my opinion is even more disturbing. Anyway, I did a google news search for emergency landing this week but I decided I did not have the apetite to go through all the reports looking for space weather suspects, it is simply too much work.

Radiation at Thyroid Gland Found in 45% of 1,000 Children Tested in Fukushima
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 5th July 2011

The Nuclear Safety Commission headed by Haruki "Detarame" Madarame disclosed on July 4 that the test conducted in late March had found 45% of 1,080 children tested in Fukushima Prefecture had internal radiation exposure at thyroid gland, according to Tokyo Shinbun.

3 months, that seems to be the amount of time that these government people must feel safe to disclose what they had known all along. After 3 months, people may forget, and/or people will give up because the disclosure is too late. The NSC says the levels were low, and there was no need for more detailed evaluation.

If you look at the numbers, though, you may wonder how they came to the conclusion. To them, 100 millisieverts per year body dose equivalent for 1 year old (or 0.2 microsievert/hour) was acceptable because the ICRP says so. Since the highest they found was 50 millisieverts per year body dose equivalent, they concluded there was no need for further testing.

Comment: I have now come to the conclusion that Japanese society has decided to eradicate itself from the surface of the planet. See more reports below:

More on the NSC Disclosure of Radiation Survey on Fukushima Children in Late March
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 5th July June 2011
Tokyo Brown Tabby found a one-page document (no detailed data) that Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission created on May 12 and last modified on May 13 that simply says:

"Yes, we tested 1,080 children aged 0 to 15, and no one exceeded the threshold of dose equivalent of 100 millisieverts."

According to Tabby, the NSC person said: "It's not that we withheld this information, but nobody asked us about this already-uploaded-data until a reporter from Tokyo Shinbun did at the press conference on July 4. "

17,020 Becquerels/Kg Cesium in Dirt Cleaned Out from Elementary School Swimming Pool in Ibaraki Prefecture
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 5th July 2011
"Now on to one of the favorite topics of this blog: Swimming pools in Japan. Well they did it again, this time the Board of Education in Joso City in Ibaraki Prefecture. Back in May, as one of the annual, educational events of the schools, public elementary schools and junior high schools in Joso City had their pupils clean out the school swimming pools in preparation for the school swimming classes during summer. The teachers also helped out. Together, they cleaned the pools and scooped out the dirt that had accumulated at the bottom of the pools."
Japanese children are used to pick tea and clean out swimming pools that happen to be radioactive too!

Chinese coal blamed for global warming er... cooling
Economists ride into sulphurous cloud of aerosols
The Register, 5th July 2011

The refusal of the global temperatures to rise as predicted has caused much angst among academics. "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't," wrote one in 2009. Either the instruments were wrong, or the heat energy had gone missing somewhere.

Now a team of academics, after tweaking a statistical model to include sulphur emissions, suggest that coal power stations may be to blame for a lack of global warming since 1998. The IPCC's 2007 assessment acknowledged the negative radiative forcing (aka, cooling effect) of both natural aerosols from volcanoes and manmade aerosols, but admitted the level of scientific understanding was low. [...]

The refusal of the global temperatures to rise as predicted has caused much angst among academics. "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't," wrote one in 2009. Either the instruments were wrong, or the heat energy had gone missing somewhere.

Now a team of academics, after tweaking a statistical model to include sulphur emissions, suggest that coal power stations may be to blame for a lack of global warming since 1998. The IPCC's 2007 assessment acknowledged the negative radiative forcing (aka, cooling effect) of both natural aerosols from volcanoes and manmade aerosols, but admitted the level of scientific understanding was low.

Comment: Nice article that explains the situation and the rather pathetic excuse that temperatures have not risen due to the Chinese burning more coal.... the quote from Judith Curry is a classic:

"The political consequence of this article seems to be that the simplest solution to global warming is for the Chinese to burn more coal, which they intend to do anyway," writes Curry.

So, it does make you think: What is the real problem? The other issue here is climate scientists who can't work out that the energy influx that they are measuring is being absorbed by the Earth and then is being partially released in the form of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. It is not really hard to comprehend but this simple fact does not fit in with the obvious political and business agenda.

Really big eruptions, lots and lots of CO2
PhysOrg.com, 17th February 2011
"Twenty thousand years of massive volcanic eruptions doubled the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere 200 million years ago, according to research by Rutgers geologists published recently in the journal Science."
Hmmmm... So CO2 can come from volcanoes too?

SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING AS PLANET EARTH GETS COLDER
The Express, 5th July 2011

THE controversy over global warming hotted up last night after US scientists revealed that the Earth’s temperature declined over the past decade.

They said a surge in the use of coal-fired power stations in China may have helped cool the climate by pumping sulphur into the atmosphere.

But they also warned that the build-up of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from fossil fuels like coal and oil means that respite will be short-lived – particularly as China is cleaning up its power stations and sulphur quickly drops out of the air.

Comment: This is actually old news but interesting because it is being widely reported especially in relation to the UK getting colder winters. Whatever, there is some hindsight here and some careful ignoring of the facts like Earth recovering from the last Ice Age... what's more, volcanoes have a far more powerful effect on the climate than anything that humans can do and it could not have escaped these scientists attention that we have seen many volcanoes in the past few years sending up huge volumes of volcanic ash to act as aerosols in the atmosphere which will serve to cool the planet. Whatever, climate sceptics will be overjoyed, but personally, my stance on this issue has been associated with my search for truth, especially in relation to climate change being driven by a change in Earth's cosmic environment. Scientists are blaming the Sun, but the Sun's behaviour is directly associated with the cosmic environment that has been rapidly changing.

UK faces more harsh winters in solar activity dip
BBC News, 5th July 2011
"Britain is set to face an increase in harsh winters, with up to one-in-seven gripping the UK with prolonged sub-zero temperatures, a study has suggested."
As some have been saying for a while: who is going to deprogram all the children and teens who believe that our world is facing global warming?

Korean office tower evacuated after mysterious shaking
CNN News, 5th July 2011

Authorities in Seoul, South Korea, ordered the evacuation of a 39-story office building Tuesday after occupants reported that it shook for about 10 minutes, local media reported.

There was no seismic activity reported at the time of the tremors, which began about 10:10 a.m., according to a report in The Korea Times.

"I fled the building with everyone else while it was shaking up and down. It almost made me feel dizzy," Lim Joon-hee, who works on the 20th floor of the building, told the Yonhap News Agency.

Comment: I suppose this is related to many previous reports around the world of buildings, windows and ground shaking that is sometimes associated with sonic booms, but seismologists being adamant that there has been no seismic activity. Well, maybe a small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere, but unless astronomers reveal fireball data (if they have it) then we will never know. I can only speculate that the building shook at a resonant frequency, because ten minutes of shaking seems to be a long time...

Pissed-off elves bombard Icelandic town with rocks
Musician attempts to placate meddling huldufólk
The Register, 4th July 2011

The good burghers of the Icelandic town of Bolungarvik have intervened to prevent further action by elves who are evidently unhappy they weren't consulted about the construction of an anti-avalanche barrier.

Bolungarvik recently suffered a bombardment of rocks during "routine dynamiting" on the barrier, with fist-sized missiles causing damage to several properties.

This led locals to suspect the huldufólk (hidden people) had finally got a bit miffed with civil engineering projects, including the construction last year of a road tunnel through a hill.

Icelandic folklore advises caution when venturing into possible huldufólk territory, and disturbing the rocks in which they're believed to live.

Comment: This reminds me of the research by Jacques Vallee and his book Passport To Magnolia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds where there some intriguing discussion of the 'little' folk... Since I lived in Norway, I am very aware that there is still a strong belief in trolls (I have met a few... that's a joke) and modern day accounts still occur. You can download this as an e-book (pdf) 39.6MB here. The image icon was generated from some nice artwork, found on a website with an article about the Huldufólk .

$11 billion treasure revealed beneath temple in India
CNN News, 4th July 2011

A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a temple in India has turned up a treasure worth at least $11 billion, according to reports from the Indian state of Kerala.

An inventory of what lies beneath the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, as reported on the website Business-Standard.com and others, reads like a prop list from an "Indiana Jones" movie: [...]

As word of the find has spread, Kerala police are asking for help to safeguard the treasure, according to media reports.

"It is too big a challenge for the police. We have no trained personnel to manage such a huge treasure. We have sought the help of several agencies who can really help us," Jacob Punnose, director general of the Kerala police, told India Today.

Comment: Maybe they could sell some jewels quickly, feed some people, clean up the rivers and deal with sewage... just a few ideas... I have found a short article written by someone with a similar view, see below:

A Severe Lack Of Toilets And Lost Treasure
Or, Does The Indian Belief System Care About Its People??
Rense.com, 5th July 2011
"A few days ago, a cable channel aired a Vanguard documentary about the lack of toilets in India. It was graphic and disgusting to see people defecating outside. This isn't their fault as these people are born into the caste system at the lower levels and destined under 5,000 year old Indian culture to live a hellish life. A lack of toilets for miles won't stop nature's call. Clearly the Indian government has shown little regard for the health and well being of its own people, but we'll see that so have temple priests, too."

Comment: Over at the Rick Ross Cult Education forum, this question has already been discussed and the conclusion from intellectuals like Carl Jung who have travelled to India and investigated the culture, is that the lack of interest in the sick and the poor is institutionalised. That is because religious belief in the laws of Karma pre-ordain caste, rank, wealth and health, hence the total indifference to the plight of the poor and sick. In a more western view: it's every man for himself. This is one of the most interesting and enlightening threads that you will read on this forum, it's a short thread but the link here is for page 3 when it starts to get interesting and very informative: Abuse in the Name of Advaita - Charlie Hayes et al.. This is something that I have suspected for many years, but it's good to see that other intellectuals have come to the same conclusion.

You mustn't believe the lies of the Green zealots. And I should know - I was one
Daily Mail, 4th July 2011

Finally the Government is seeing sense about nuclear power. Last week, Energy Secretary (and former nuclear sceptic) Chris Huhne made a spectacular U-turn and backed a new generation of nuclear power stations. Far from being a ‘failed technology’ (as he once described it), he said Britain needs nuclear electricity generation to get ‘off the oil hook’ and now reforms will be introduced to encourage businesses to invest in it. [...]

It has taken me a long time to reach this conclusion. I used to passionately oppose not only nuclear power but GM crops. I once even threw a pie in the face of a Danish scientist who dared to question the orthodox environmental line. So what changed?

Comment: I have featured Mark Lynas before as a prominent Green 'heretic'. He got a lot of press in September 2008, see Green Churches: Casting Out Demons that was all about the Green movement being religious and then in The Times, he was headlined, Mark Lynas: the green heretic persecuted for his nuclear conversion. Since he has been harrassed by other Greens for his turnaround on nuclear power I am in no doubt that after Fukushima, he is now seen as a golden boy by those desperate to maintain a positive spin on nuclear power.

AUSTRALIA: Space rock passes through satellite belt
University World News, 3rd July 2011

Astronomers around the world breathed a sigh of relief last Monday night when an asteroid passed within 12,000 kilometres of Australia, closer than communication satellites.

First observed by a dedicated telescopic asteroid tracker in the US on 22 June, the object was then observed by French astronomer Professor Klotz and PhD student Michael Todd, who remotely programmed it into the schedule for the Zadko Telescope at the University of Western Australia.

Director of the telescope, Associate Professor David Coward, said the asteroid - officially known as Near Earth Asteroid 2011MD - was identified as a tumbling, elongated 4-12 metre rock during a 40-minutes observation by Zadko over Australian skies. The Zadko telescope observations were the first to determine that the rock was rotating with a period of about 11 minutes.

"NASA said asteroids of the size of 2011MD come this close to Earth on average once every six years so it's a relatively rare event," Coward said. "2011MD was within the geosynchronous satellite belt, orbiting with our communications satellites and it could do a lot of damage if it collided with one."

Comment: I wonder how many people believed me last week when I said that astronomers are not worried about asteroids this small hitting Earth as they would burn up in the atmosphere, but something hitting a billion dollar satellite was much more of a worry... well, here you have it from the horse's mouth. I don't know about once every 6 years too because according to one astronomer: "Fly bys of near-Earth objects within the moon's orbit occur every few weeks," said Don Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in a statement." [space.com] This was in reference to asteroid 2010 GA6, that flew by in April 2010. For reference: 270,000 miles away from the Earth, is very close to the orbit of the moon. Anyway, a short search at spaceweather.com reveals many asteroids and mysterious objects passing through the geosynchronous satellite belt 35785 km (22236 miles).. Here are some notable fly-bys anything in red was considered within striking range or caused an impact.

2011 GW9, 9th April 2011, 10m class asteroid, 77,000 km (0.2 LD) above surface of Earth link

2010 RF12, 7th September 2010, 10m asteroid 77,000 km (0.2 LD) link

2011 CQ1, 4th February 2011, ~~~0.03(LD)/0.00008(AU) or 11855 km~~ link. According to astronomers at Remanzacco Observatory in Italy, the 2-3 meter-wide asteroid came within 5,480 kilometers of Earth, the "closest near miss" on record. link

2010 TD54, October 12th 2010, 7m rock, 46,000 km above the planet's surface. [Region of High Earth Orbit (HEO 42,000km) of some satellites] link

2010 AL30, 13th January 2010, asteroid or derelict satellite astronomers were not sure! [0.66 LD] link

October 8th, 2009 !! IMPACT !! 10m asteroid around 11 am local time in the coastal town of Bone, Indonesia caused sonic boom. link

2009 DD45, 2nd March 2009, 35m rock (same size as Tunguska impactor of 1908), 73,000 km away (0.2 LD). link

2009 FH, March 17th 2009, [0.2 LD] 85,000 km away. That's about twice the altitude of a geosynchronous communications satellite. link

Space: Doomsday Asteroid
Discovery News, August 2010
This is a nice video explaining the issues associated with dealing with an asteroid on an Earth impact orbit. Here, they decide not to mention the idea of wrapping an asteroid in tinfoil so that it's properties will change so it can be steered out of the way, which an Australian scientist actually won a prize for dreaming up...

Daily life in Fukushima: 'It was like visiting another universe'
YouTube/Russia Today, 3rd July 2011

Jan Beranek, who is with a team of Greenpeace activists investigating the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, says Japanese are encouraged to return to their normal lives unaware of the dangers they face in the contaminated area. "I personally find it very disturbing, because on the one hand you see the Japanese authorities forcing people and society to get back to normal... And yet at the same time there are still extremely high levels of radiation and the contamination of the soil, and also potentially in the food," the activist told RT.

"This is just unbelievable because at those levels of exposure it certainly poses a risk to the lives and health of the people. If you draw a parallel to the Chernobyl disaster, then actually the Soviets decided to evacuate everyone living in the place, where radiation was three or four times lower than what we see in Fukushima City today," added Beranek, who personally visited the Chernobyl area after the 1986 disaster.

Comment: Unbelievable.... Maybe this is what the US authorities are hinting at with all the talk of a 'Zombie Apocalypse'.... a world of people who refuse to think, just living on automatic and can be controlled at a push of a button...

CDC "Zombie Apocalypse" disaster campaign crashes website
Reuters, 19th May 2011
"(Reuters) - A Centers for Disease Control blog post mentioning a "zombie apocalypse" as a lighthearted way to get Americans to read about preparing for the hurricane season drove so much traffic that it crashed the website, the center said on Thursday."

APNewsBreak: Weak defense in guru case, juror says
Huffington Post, 3rd July 2011

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Four jurors who heard months of testimony in a self-help author's criminal trial were convinced he was guilty on three counts of manslaughter, but couldn't sway the other eight who didn't believe prosecutors had proven the charges.

The jury spent about 10 hours deliberating before settling on the lesser charge of negligent homicide, placing the blame on James Arthur Ray for the deaths of three people following Ray's sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona, Ariz.

Juror Phillip Lepacek, a retired iron worker, told The Associated Press on Friday that the jury believed that Ray was guilty but initially disagreed on what charge. [...]

"It was a no-brainer there was heat," Lepacek said. "These people were baked."

Comment: This account is for the record.... By the way, the jury found that James Ray had a duty of care towards Liz Neumann because she had been a follower for many years and had actually volunteered her services as a member of the "Dream Team", at the fateful 2009 Spiritual Warrior retreat. Yet, JR staffers held her in such contempt that she arrived at the hospital with no ID and was admitted as a Jane Doe and her family only found out she was close to death through the media. Yet, JR wants probation so he can continue his mission to the world....

Newsmaker Sunday: Sweat Lodge Verdict (Video) [26:01]
My Fox Phoenix, 3rd July 2011
"PHOENIX - Dwane Cates, of Cates Law Group, talks about the verdict in the James Arthur Ray sweat lodge trial with John Hook."

Comment: This is some very interesting discussion about this trial. The manslaughter charge was really about aiming high to make sure there was some kind of conviction and the strategy worked. I really don't agree with defence of James Ray here, but I agree with the thought that he should have taken responsibility and that at the verdict, there was a distinct lack of any 'warrior' in his demeanour and his complete lack of remorse. Well, Dwane Cates thinks JR will get two and a half years behind bars. If that happens, I don't think many will complain because those who believe that JR is a fake pseudospiritual salesman see the bigger picture and his conviction and sentence as a massive blow to the New Age 'Crookiness' business. In my opinion, the continuous abuse of 'innocent' spiritual seekers is vile and needs to be dealt with. Interestingly, at about 18:30 Cates talked about people using psychological principles to get people to do things that they would not normally do. Yes, that's refering to the NLP, hypnosis and suggestion that is widely used these days. My recommendation is learn how to recognise when these techniques are being used and then run... that's some real empowerment...

Town Pond Turns Fluorescent Green
East Hampton Patch, 2nd July 2011

Town Pond in the heart of East Hampton Village has turned a bright green. What caused the change in color remains a "phenomenon," according to Mayor Paul Rickenbach, Jr. He said he noticed a change in color last Friday and on Saturday, when the color of the pond turned fluorescent, he reached out to officials for answers.

Comment: I am paying attention to these strange stories of ponds and rivers turning into bright colours and I wonder whether this is related to our world becoming more bioluminescent. Bioluminescent life forms make their own light and carry it around in their bodies, but scientists find this hard to study because when creatures are captured they often lose this ability. I do believe that increased cosmic radiation on the planet will cause viruses and bacteria to quickly mutate, but I am also wondering whether increased bioluminescence is symptomatic of our planet starting to turn into a world of light.... All I know is that this can happen locally overnight, but what about a whole world, how long would that take? For more info on bioluminescence see, HowStuffWorks "How Bioluminescence Works"

Update
DEC: 'Prankster' Likely Dyed Town Pond Fluorescent Green
East Hampton Patch, 5th July 2011
"It wasn't algae, chemical runoff or alien mischief-makers that dyed an East Hampton Village pond fluorescent green over the weekend, environmental officials say. It was a joker. State Department of Environmental Conservation officials think it was likely a non-toxic dye that turned the water the eerie shade of green. "The most likely cause would be a fluorescent dye, often times used in regards to finding leaking pipes," said DEC spokeswoman Aphrodite Montalvo. The DEC is not actively investigating the case, she said. The mayor said on Saturday that he thought it to be a natural event. Town Natural Resources Director Larry Penny, who was asked to take a water sample, thought it was a type of algae bloom. "Certainly anything's possible," Montalvo said. The dye is non-toxic and lingers for just a few days, Montalvo said.

Comment: Please note the difference between fluorescence and bioluminescence

"While some animals use fluorescence to create light, fluorescence is not the same as bioluminescence. In bioluminescence, two or more substances combine to generate light, like the substances in a light stick. In fluorescence, a substance absorbs light of one color and emits light of another color. An example of this is posters that glow purple when placed under a black light."
HowStuffWorks "How Bioluminescence Works" -- Part 5

Since these environmental officiers have done no proper investigation, they cannot say for sure what caused the pond to go green and why anyone would go to the trouble to turn a pond green for a few days. If it was a fluorescent dye, surely the pond would have been green for a lot longer than just a few days? Unless there is a proper scientific investigation, there is no reason to suppose that this was not caused by an influx of energy that shifted the properties of this water and created bioluminscent light or fluorescence from algae in the pond.

Mushroom lights up the night in Brazil: Researcher finds bioluminescent fungus not seen since 1840
PhysOrg.com, 6th July 2011

In 1840, renowned English botanist George Gardner reported a strange sight from the streets of Vila de Natividade in Brazil: A group of boys playing with a glowing object that turned out to be a luminescent mushroom. They called it "flor-de-coco," and showed Gardner where it grew on decaying fronds at the base of a dwarf palm. Gardner sent the mushroom to the Kew Herbarium in England where it was described and named Agaricus gardneri in honor of its discoverer. The species was not seen again until 2009.

San Francisco State University researcher Dennis Desjardin and colleagues have now collected new specimens of this forgotten mushroom and reclassified it as, Neonothopanus gardneri. Findings are now online and scheduled to be published in the November/December print issue of Mycologia.

They hope that careful study of the Brazilian mushroom—which shines brightly enough to read by--and its other bioluminescent cousins around the world will help answer the question of how and why some fungi glow. [...]

To catch the green glow of the bioluminescent mushroom, Desjardin and his long-time research partner in Brazil, Dr. Cassius Stevani, had to "go out on new moon nights and stumble around in the forest, running into trees," he recalled, wary of nearby poisonous snakes and prowling jaguars.

Comment: I wonder whether the new moon is a clue but I suspect the bioluminescence could be caused by a combination of energies including aetheric.

Leaping Streams of Light: a New Natural Phenomenon
forgetomori.com, 2nd July 2011

Bill Beaty may have discovered a new natural phenomenon, with the surprising help of, of all sources, Youtube.

Years ago during museum exhibits work I was explaining rainbow optics …and also explaining thunderstorm dynamics. I stumbled across a strange idea: shouldn’t the strong electrostatic fields in thunderstorms have a visible effect on rainbows?”, he speculated.

“E-fields should slightly distort falling raindrops, causing the light distribution of a rainbow to change slightly. Sometimes we should notice that a rainbow suddenly "flicks" during a lightning bolt, then slowly changes to its initial pattern as the e-fields build before another strike.”

Comment: It's just getting weirder and weirder...

An Insider's View of The James Ray Trial
Nhne Pulse, 1st July 2011

Most of you know that for the past several months I’ve been running audio for the James Arthur Ray trial in the neighboring town of Camp Verde. Many people I’ve run into have asked me out of curiosity, how I landed this gig and what my take was on James Ray and the trial. [...]

Gotta add this — I found James Ray’s energy peculiarly strange, dark and yet overtly charismatic — more than the dangerous type — the kind of man that one could imagine women fawning over due to his presence. When he’d walk into the courtroom you knew it. I often imagined how he must have been when he was conducting his seminars when he was really “on” running his own show. What could he have been like with an air of power, fame and financial wealth when he was really riding high? The kind of authoritative figure that could trigger certain people to do whatever was put in front of them in order to make him proud of them. There were several witnesses that confirmed my original feels with their testimony to this. Wanting to show off for him as to get recognized out of the crowd so as to meet his approval. Even under the tensions of the circumstances in the courtroom, a bit of arrogance emanated from him.

Passing by JAR in the hallways, his opening the courtroom door for me once as well as walking down the stairs of the courthouse on the last day shoulder to shoulder with him, I felt oddly uneasy. I found myself taking precautions not to make eye contact with him but tried my best anyway to at least act relaxed and casual around him as my cohorts appeared to be but had no success with it.

Comment: Well, watching and studying what happened to cause three innocent and trusting people to lose their lives has focused my attention on those who I have trusted in the past. Simply, there are too many people dabbling in 'pop' psychology but it is not done to help, rather the opposite. As James Ray stated, he wanted his followers off-balance and so he deliberately did everything he could to get them in a torrid state and one of the things was telling people not to sleep but to spend their time journaling.... That is encouraging people to dredge up their old memories of being traumatised in the past so this can be used to re-traumatise again. When people are emotionally vulnerable, a predator finds it much easier to re-program their minds with the aim of making people MORE dependent and ready to have more stuff upsold to them, because this method creates a downward spiral that most people have real difficulty recovering from. Now that I know what these nasty people are doing, I will walk out of any 'training' that tries this tactic on me. For me it's all over, this is just passé. And guess what? I refuse to work with people who are doing this. I will repeat. For me it's all over, this is now passé.

Radiation Expert Predicts More Threats
Wall Street Journal, 2nd July 2011

TOKYO—A former nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan blasted the government's handling of the crisis, and predicted more revelations of radiation threats to the public in the coming months.

In his first media interview since resigning his post in protest in April, Toshiso Kosako, one of the country's leading experts on radiation safety, said Mr. Kan's government has been slow to test for dangers in the sea and to fish, and has understated certain radiation threats to minimize clean-up costs. In his post, Mr. Kosako's role was to advise the prime minister on radiation safety.

Comment: It looks like Naoto Kan is refusing to give up the fight for truth on behalf of the Japanese people. He is not stupid and therefore realises that there will be serious problems on the way. If this article goes behind a pay wall, there are long excerpts at ex-skf.blogspot.com, Radiation in Japan: Professor Kosako: "Come the harvest season in the fall, there will be a chaos".

Radiation: Like an Angel's Smile
ex-skf.blogspot.com, 30th June 2011
Unbelievable.... It's almost like these pro-nukers are completely in denial, a sort of fantasy world mental existence, a total refusal to face facts and reality...
Radioactive Waste Dumped in Open Pits Outside Los Alamos National Lab
Washington's Blog, 1st July 2011
"To understand why a raging wildfire near the Los Alamos National Laboratory is a big deal, you must understand how wastes were disposed."
Shocking stuff...
Squirrel Blamed For Small Fire At LANL
Flames Quickly Put Out After Transformer Spark
KOAT News, 2nd July 2011

Stunning Noctilucent Clouds Shine Brightly in the UK
Universe Today, 1st July 2011

Mysterious “night shining” or Noctilucent Clouds are beautiful to behold, and here are some gorgeous examples what skywatchers in the UK have been experiencing. Stu Atkinson took this stunning panoramic view from Kendal Castle. (Click image for access to a larger version).

NLCs are usually seen during the summertime, appearing at sunset. They are thin, wavy ice clouds that form at very high altitudes and reflect sunlight long after the Sun has dropped below the horizon. Scientists don’t know exactly why they form, and they seem to be appearing more and more in recent times.

Comment: I wonder how many people are wondering why these enigmatic clouds are appearing? From my own research I have decided they are related to cosmic dust entering our atmosphere. Others might argue that they are related to volcanic dust, because they were first discovered after Krakatoa exploded in 1883, but this still does not explain why these clouds that once were confined to the poles are now appearing in mid latitudes. What's more, as they are on the edge of space being back lit from the sun that is below the horizon, why they appear electric blue as if they are electrified. Interestingly, scientists do admit that these clouds are charged and they do return radar signals. According to an article at Discovery Channel News: "Noctilucent clouds, which form at the edge of space 62 to 68 miles above the planet, are about 10 million times brighter than ordinary clouds. They contain electrically charged ice." Despite the fact that scientists are mystified by these clouds, there is no doubt that they represent real change and this must be considered alongside many other recent documented changes to Earth's electromagnetic environment. See previous comments at Best of the Blog Space Weather.

More:

ELECTRIC BLUE STORKS: Electric-blue noctilucent clouds are rippling over Europe this week. In Poland, that means sky watchers should be alert for the silhouettes of storks: [...]

Noctilucent clouds form at the very top of Earth's atmosphere, at the edge of space itself where meteoroids can seed the formation of tiny ice crystals. When summer sunlight strikes these crystals--voila!--the sky glows electric blue. High-latitude observers should look for these strange clouds just after sunset or before sunrise; observing tips may be found in the 2009 NLC gallery. Spaceweather.com 28th June 2011

ELECTRIC BLUE SUNSETS: The 2011 season for noctilucent clouds is gaining steam. Reports of electric-blue sunsets are now coming in from all the countries of northern Europe, Russia, Alaska and Canada. "We had our first sighting of NLCs on June 28th," reports Alan Dyer. He took this picture from Gleichen in southern Alberta: Spaceweather.com 29th June 2011

NIGHT-SHINING CLOUDS: If you live northern Europe, Canada or Alaska, keep an eye on the evening sky. You might see something like this: Adrian Maricic of Loch Leven, Scotland, took the picture on July 1st: "This is the 4th night in a row we've seen noctilucent clouds," he says. "It was a spectacular display--even better than the night before!" Spaceweather 2nd July 2011

NLCs INVADE THE USA: Last night, a bank of rippling electric-blue noctilucent clouds spilled across the Canadian border into the lower United States. In doing so, the clouds made their farthest excursion of the year away from the Arctic, their usual environment. "These were the most brilliant NLCs I have ever witnessed!" reports Steven Rosenow, who sends this picture from Washington state: Spaceweather 2nd July 2011 (Updated)

Comment: As I have stated before on this blog, if you change the charge on a particle (condensation nuclei) then the freezing point also changes. So, all this talk of climate change affecting the upper atmosphere to produce noctilucent clouds is pure speculation and not based on any proper scientific studies. The real question is: where are these charged particles coming from and what other effects are there?

Fukushima spin was Orwellian
Emails detailing how the UK government played down Fukushima show just how cosy it is with the nuclear industry
The Guardian, 1st July 2011

It was an open secret that Britain's decision to back nuclear power in 2006 was pushed through government by a cosy group of industrialists and others close to Tony Blair, and that a full debate about the full costs, safety and potential impact on future generations was suppressed.

But the release of 80 emails showing that in the days after the Fukushima accident not one but two government departments were working with nuclear companies to spin one of the biggest industrial catastrophes of the last 50 years, even as people were dying and a vast area was being made uninhabitable, is shocking. [...]

These guys were not just cosy. They were naked, in bed and consenting.

Comment: This blog is primarily about Space Weather driving evolutionary change and documenting the evolutionary impact for all life on Earth. However, the release of manmade radiation has the same impact on human DNA in that it kicks starts mutation and therefore is an evolutionary/devolutionary driver. I am not sure there are any studies that compares the difference between the impact of cosmic radiation with manmade radiation, but we do know that nuclear disasters can generate radioactive particles that can cause terrible damage once they are inside the body. Historically, when Earth's magnetic field has been at say 10% of it's full strength, cosmic radiation has flooded our planet and there has been rapid evolutionary change. Some forms of life die immediately and other forms of life flourish and thrive. Maybe in the future there will be a field of science to study Celestial Epigenetics. I have been studying some ancient mythology, so I know that the ancient astronomers understood our intimate relationship with the cosmos and knew that at certain points in the precessional cycle there would be serious impacts for all life on Earth. The issue is that few have bothered to talk about the good things, as it seems that most spiritual leaders are unaware of the significance of ancient knowledge that is now highly relevant.

Revealed: British government's plan to play down Fukushima
Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan
The Guardian, 30th June 2011
British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.

Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business and energy departments worked closely behind the scenes with the multinational companies EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to try to ensure the accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear stations in the UK.

Susan Joy Rennison, B.Sc.Hons. (Physics with Geophysics)

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The New Cosmic Age is now Official!

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Susan Joy Rennison quotes:

“Space Weather is now a fact of life.”

“We are all astronauts now!”

“We must spiritually evolve as part of the new terms & conditions for living on Earth.”

“Space Weather will force many changes in how we do business on this planet.”

NASA Press Release:

“Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history.”

“We're on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather.”

White House Executive Order:

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