The New Cosmic Age is now Official!

"Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history."

"I believe we’re on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather."

"We take this very seriously indeed."

• Video: The Horrific Legacy Of Chernobyl
  The Daily Bail, May 2011
  This is only for people who can deal with reality....
  
  
• Yellow sand spreading over Japan
  NHK World, 2nd May 2011
  Japan's Meteorological Agency says seasonal yellow sand is being observed from western to eastern Japan on Monday. Fine sand from China's desert regions is being carried by westerly winds, and reached Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo on Monday. Visibility was reduced to about 5 kilometers at one point in the cities of Fukuoka and Tottori in western Japan.
  Yellow sand mixed with yellow cake?
  
  
• 442 Nuclear power plants, world-wide
  European Nuclear Society, May 2011
  A country by country listing...

When the conditions are just right, with an additional mirage effect due to the temperature gradient in the atmosphere, the elusive green flash is briefly visible at the upper edge of the solar or lunar disc when it is close to the horizon.

• Emerald Sunsets
  Spaceweather.com, 20th September 2006
  

  EMERALD SUNSET: "Tonight I saw one of the most beautiful and long lasting green flashes I've ever seen," says Mila Zinkova of San Francisco, who took this picture on Sept 17th:

  The green flash, a brilliant glint of emerald almost on the ocean horizon just as the sun disappears, relies on a mirage to magnify small differences in refraction between red and green light. This particular sunset "was a very complex mock mirage," says Zinkova. "It seemed that the sun could not get enough of playing with [thermal air layers over the Pacific Ocean] and produced a different shape every moment."

  Green flashes, once thought to be a myth, are certainly real. If you live on a western coast, look for them at sunset.

• 'Fukushima - gross miscarriage of radiation science'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 26th April 2011
  "With Chernobyl's 25th anniversary reminding the world of the terrifying consequences of nuclear safety negligence, many eyes have turned to the continuing crisis in Japan. RT talks to Arnold Gundersen, Energy Adviser at Fairewinds Associates, from Vermont in the US."
  Arnie comments on the new level of radiation exposure for young children: A child’s risk of cancer from radiation is 10-100 times higher than an adult who has the same exposure. This is why the government adviser Prof. Toshiso Kosako resigned with tears in his eyes. Another low point for humanity.
  
  
• TEPCO Data: Ongoing Criticalities Inside Leaking Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2
  GLG Research, 28th April 2011
  
  
• Fukushima still a threat: senior officials
  Euro News, 29th April 2011
  
  
• Weather chief draws flak over plea not to release radiation forecasts
  Kyodo News, 29th April 2011
  Bulletin: "The chief of the Meteorological Society of Japan has drawn flak from within the academic society over a request for member specialists to refrain from releasing forecasts on the spread of radioactive substances from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant."
  This disaster is really showing us the difference between the sociopaths and real humans...
  

“SWIFT had never seen another object outside of our galaxy appear to act this way. It is quite unlike anything we've known before, except maybe blazars.” - Andrew Fruchter, Ph.D., Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute

• A trip around the Fukushima plant 30th April 2011 (in Japanese only)
  Fnn news, 30th April 2011
  
  
• Never Before Seen Video of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Unit 4 Spent Fuel Rod Pool
  Japan News Today, 28th April 2011
  
  
• Spent Fuel Rod Pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant
  YouTube/Japan News Today, 24th April 2011
  
  

• China birth defects 'up sharply'
  BBC News, 1 February 2009
  "A senior family planning official in China has noted an alarming rise in the number of babies with birth defects, a Chinese media report says. Jiang Fan, from China's National Population and Family Planning Commission, said environmental pollution was a cause of the increase.
  
  The coal-mining heartland of Shanxi province had the biggest problem. China has reported the trend before, and it was not clear if Mr Jiang was commenting on new or old statistics. A 2007 commission report said the rate of defects had risen 40% since 2001, from 104.9 per 10,000 births to 145.5 in 2006.
  
  Officials blame emissions from Shanxi's large coal and chemical industry for the problems there. "The problem of birth defects is related to environmental pollution, especially in eight main coal zones," said An Huanxiao, the director of Shanxi provincial family planning agency. Mr Jiang said a child was born with physical defects every 30 seconds because of the degrading environment.
  
  Correspondents say the report suggests there is a human cost to China's rapid economic development. Researchers also blamed exposure to nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and particulates for the increase. "The number of newborns with birth defects is constantly increasing in both urban and rural areas," China Daily newspaper quoted Mr Jiang as saying.
  

• Tepco female worker exposed to high radiation
  Strait Times, 27th April 2011
  Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said the woman, who had worked in support functions, had received 17.55 millisieverts of radiation, compared to the limit for women of five millisieverts over three months. TOKYO - A WOMAN working at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant received radiation at over three times the legal limit for females over a three-month period, the plant's operator said on Wednesday.
  
  Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said the woman, who had worked in support functions, had received 17.55 millisieverts of radiation, compared to the limit for women of five millisieverts over three months. [...] The woman who was exposed was mostly working indoors but may have been exposed, for example, when helping workers dispose off contaminated clothing. -- AFP
  
  Comment: So here we are being told that small children are being forced to endure more than adult nuclear workers as the new equivalent limit has just been raised to 8.25 millisieverts over three months ????? This is really disturbing....
  
  
• Greenpeace condemns move to raise radiation exposure levels for Japanese children
  Relief Web, 22nd April 2011
  Tokyo, Japan, 22 April, 2011 – Greenpeace today called on the Japanese government to drop plans to raise the official limits of radiation exposure for children in Fukushima Prefecture, 20 milliSievert per year (1) – the same level as nuclear power plant workers, and twenty times the internationally recognised annual allowable dose for adults.
  
  The international environmental organisation has also asked the governments of nations including Germany, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Canada, Greece, India, France and Italy (2), to raise the issue with Japan. “It is utterly outrageous to raise the exposure levels for children to twenty times the maximum limit for adults. The Japanese government cannot simply increase safety limits for the sake political convenience or to give the impression of normality”, said Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director.
  
  “One of the lessons learned from Chernobyl was that children are far more vulnerable to the effects of radiation, and the Fukushima nuclear crisis will expose them to much higher risks of developing radiation related diseases due to contamination (3)”.
  
  Comment: Well, this new max. exposure level is different to what has already been reported but still bad... There are no words to decribe this atrocity, we are not talking about the aftermath of war and the difficulties of breathing in depleted uranium in a war zone, but I can't see much difference...
  
  
• Fukushima city removing radioactive topsoil in schools
  Kyofo News, 27th April 2011
  Bulletin: "A city in Fukushima Prefecture started Wednesday to remove topsoil from playgrounds in its elementary and nursery schools, following radiation leaks from a crisis-hit nuclear power plant nearby."
  Comment: I suppose the authorities have told people that the radiation is leak is over because there is no other sensible explanation for this action when it is clear radiation is still pouring out of the Fukushima nuclear plant and the others they are not talking about...
  
  
• Fukushima Residents Seek Answers Amid Mixed Signals From Media, TEPCO and Government. Report from the Radiation Exclusion Zone
  Japan Focus, 19th April 2011
  Last paragraph: "The government charges that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send “letters of request” to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they “take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. ”The measures include erasing any information from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality." The internet and information crack down... so, it seems people need to take the massive doses of 'diabolical' radiation and shut the hell up!!!!
  
  
• Channel 4 Documentary: Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened Part 1/5
  YouTube, March 2011
  "Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened , investigates the science behind the earthquake and tsunami that has devastated Japan. It takes viewers on a journey with Professor of Geological Sciences Roger Bilham -- in Japan only days after the earthquake struck. The programme follows Roger as he sets off on a mission to view the devastation from the air. In the magnitude 9 earthquake Japan shifted a full 12 feet towards the US."
  Quite a decent documentary
  

• Busby: 'Can't seal Fukushima like Chernobyl - it all goes into sea'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 25th April 2011
  "As world marks the Chernobyl anniversary, many say that the world has failed to learn the lessons on nuclear safety that the tragedy provided. RT talks to Professor Christopher Busby, Scientific secretary of the European Committee on radiation risks, for a little more insight on 21st century's most serious nuclear crisis at Fukushima."
  The first question is: there are rumours there was a nuclear explosion at Fukushima...
  
  
• TEPCO discloses radiation map
  NHK World, 25th April 2011
  
  
• Level of Radioactivity in Seawater near Fukushima Plant Near Hitting Record
  Arirang, 25th April 2011
  
  
• Survive the Japan Nukes- Cheaply! GOD GAVE US ZEOLITE
  YouTube, 31st March 2011
  It seems that Zeolite can be used to purify drinking water, this video is from someone who had a business in promoting it's many marvelous attributes.
  

• Japan Fukushima nuclear power plant Site
  YouTube, 30th March 2011
  I don't know whether this official, but someone drove around the Fukushima nuclear plant and took video!!!!!!
  
  
• 'Chernobyl disaster resolved far more faster than ongoing Fukushima crisis'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 26th April 2011
  "With Chernobyl's 25th anniversary reminding the world of the terrifying consequences of nuclear safety negligence, many eyes have turned to the continuing crisis in Japan. We talk to Dr. Robert Jacobs, an associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, for his opinion on whether Japan might be making the same fateful mistakes that led to Chernobyl."
  
  
• Corbett: Govt grip on Fukushima info repeats Chernobyl mistakes
  YouTube/Russia Today, 26th April 2011
  "As world marks Chernobyl's anniversary, there are questions over whether the world has learned the lessons on nuclear safety that the tragedy provided. Journalist James Corbett who's in Osaka in Japan, says the handling of the crisis at Fukushima power plant is repeating the 25-year-old mistakes."
  
  
• Fairewinds Calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Delay Licensing Until Fukushima Lessons Are Evaluated
  Vimeo/Fairewinds, 25th April 2011
  "Gundersen implores Congress and NRC to think outside the box. Pause licensing of new nukes and 20-year-life extensions until the lessons learned from Fukushima are applied. Fairewinds Associates recommends that regulators look at the feasibility of emergency evacuation plans, containment leakage, and aging management plans for 40-year-old Fukushima model reactors."

If peer review was a drug it would never be allowed onto the market,' says Drummond Rennie, deputy editor of the Journal Of the American Medical Association and intellectual father of the international congresses of peer review that have been held every four years since 1989. Peer review would not get onto the market because we have no convincing evidence of its benefits but a lot of evidence of its flaws. [Emphasis added - DS]

Yet, to my continuing surprise, almost no scientists know anything about the evidence on peer review. It is a process that is central to science - deciding which grant proposals will be funded, which papers will be published, who will be promoted, and who will receive a Nobel prize. We might thus expect that scientists, people who are trained to believe nothing until presented with evidence, would want to know all the evidence available on this important process. Yet not only do scientists know little about the evidence on peer review but most continue to believe in peer review, thinking it essential for the progress of science. Ironically, a faith based rather than an evidence based process lies at the heart of science.

NSC 23, the Cabinet Office, the amount of radioactive material were released into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station TEPCO, even at five days this month settled emissions, Terra 154 becquerels per day (One terabyte is 1 trillion) announced that it had reached. [...]

Fukushima I Nuke Plant: 154 Terabecquerels Per Day, Every Day of radioactive iodine and cesium still spewing out of the plant, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission now admits.

[...] From Yomiuri Shinbun (9:15PM JST 4/23/2011):

The Nuclear Safety Commission under the Prime Minister’s Office disclosed on April 23 that the amount of radioactive materials being released from the TEPCO Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant was 154 terabecquerels per day (1 tera is 1 trillion) as late as April 5 when the amount being released was considered stabilized.

On April 5, the estimated amount of radioactive materials released from Fukushima I Nuke Plant was 0.69 terabecquerels/hour for iodine-131 and 0.14 terabecquerels/hour for cesium-137. When the numbers were recalculated according to the INES method (converting cesium amount into iodine equivalent), the amount released turned out to be 6.4 terabecquerels/hour (which was 154 terabecquerels per day. Previously, the Nuclear Safety Commission had simply added the numbers for iodine-131 and cesium-137, and announced it was less than 1 terrabecquerel per hour [CORRECTED FROM 1 PER DAY].

• Hi Res Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos
  Cryptome, 2nd April 2011
  
  
• TEPCO Orders Filter Curtains & More Polymer Spray To Stop Radioactive Particles From Spreading
  YouTube/NHK World, 18th April 2011
  I had not heard about the 'filter' curtains.... curtains for Fukushima...
  
  
• TEPCO Releases Images & Radiation Data From INSIDE Damaged Fukushima Daiichi Reactor Buildings
  YouTube/NHK World, 18th April 2011
  Interesting at 2:25 we see three smoking reactors
  
  
• You won't hear this on any mainstream news!!! (Nuclear Fallout)
  YouTube, 19th April 2011
  "Nuclear Facts A very clued in professional who will not be bought or intimidated into silence: Dr Helen Caldicott, true to style, tells it as it is. As she sees it, you wont usually hear the truth so listen up.. Nuclear fallout from Japan and Canada, You won't hear this on the news!"
  
  Comment: Dr Helen Caldicott says we are dealing with diabolical energy.... I do think her viewpoint is extreme because she says things like 'don't eat anything from Europe' because of the fallout from Chernobyl 25 years ago... so as a long term anti-nuclear campaigner, it seems that she is now going into a meltdown over Fukushima.... I will say her description of the situation that the world faces is clear, but I do believe in divine intervention if people can be bothered to complain. She ends up with saying:

  "...we are arrogant, we have a lot of hubris and I think the reptilian mid-brain of some men's brains is pathological. We are now in a situation where we have harnessed the energy of the sun, it is totally out of control, there is simply nothing we can do about it...."

  Obviously, she is very upset, but I do think more and more people are seeing the 'psychopathic' mindset of world controllers, as it is becoming more apparent that these people have a death wish for the whole of humanity.
  

• Impact of Severe Solar Flares, Nuclear EMP and Intentional EMI on Electric Grids (Part 1) .pdf
  
  
• Options for Protection: Protecting National Electric Grids and Critical Infrastructures .pdf
  
  
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  Protecting our Critical Infrastructures: EISS Summit UK Parliament, London September 20, 2010 .pdf
  
  
• Impact on Aviation: Severe Space Weather and EMP: EISS Summit UK Parliament, London September 20, 2010 .pdf
  

• Warnings of nuclear disaster not heeded, claims former governor
  The Independent, 23rd April 2011
  "Despite his new audience, he says Japan's big newspapers and TV companies continue to ignore him. "Those who say that nuclear power is dangerous, like myself, are treated as state enemies. This is a truly terrifying logic, is it not? Whoever it may be, be it a Diet [council] member or governor, no one has been able to fight such logic so far." He calls the national policy "nuclear absolutism." Sato says there was a dry run for the March 11 disaster last year after power stopped to pumps sending water to reactor 2 on June 17, 2010.
  
  Tepco was repeatedly asked what would happen if the back-up diesel generators also failed but the company waived this concern away, he says. Last month's crisis was triggered when the magnitude 9 quake knocked out the plant's electricity and a 15-meter tsunami poured over the building housing the back-up generators which were only built to withstand a 5.7 meter wave."
  
  
• Radiation Monitoring Data from Fukushima Area 04/22/2011
  US Department of Energy/SlideShare, 22nd April 2011
  Scroll down the page for the presentation transcript.
  
  
• Hi-res photographic proof reactor core exploded at unit 3
  Lucas whitefield Hixson, 23rd April 2011
  "The following is a letter I just sent to the Union of Concerned Scientists detailing evidence that the Fukushima unit 3 Reactor was the source of the massive hydrogen explosion a few weeks ago.... and the further implications of this easily verifiable fact."
  
  
• Decentralizing Tokyo may save the nation
  Japan Times, 24th April 2011
  A recent issue of the somewhat disreputable Shukan Jitsuwa looked into a "rumor" that said the capital may be moved to the Kansai region due to the continuing threat of radiation in the eastern part of Japan. The exodus will be spearheaded by the private sector it said, mainly foreign companies but also firms that were born in Kansai but which had over time moved their headquarters to Tokyo. Jitsuwa said that Osaka governor Toru Hashimoto is excited about the possibility, hinting at a rivalry between him and Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, who has never taken the idea of relocation seriously.
  
  Comment: I imagine geiger counter readings are frightening a lot of people, so the efforts of the Japanese government pleading with foreign countries to censor the internet and trying to stop environmentalists going into the evacuation zone to take reading is largely a waste of time.

• Becquerel [Bq] To Curie [Ci] Conversion Calculator
  Translators Cafe, April 2011
  
  
• FAQ: Japanese Nuclear Emergency: Radiation Monitoring
  U.S. EPA, April 2011
  "EPA's drinking water MCL for the radionuclide iodine-131 is 3 picocuries per liter. It is important to note that this drinking water MCL was calculated based on long-term chronic exposures over the course of a lifetime 70 years. [...] FDA's DIL for iodine-131 in milk is 4,770 picocuries per liter. FDA's DIL for total cesium in milk is 33,000 picocuries per liter."
  
  
• The simple guide to the health consequences of drinking contaminated water or milk in the USA and Europe - Chris Busby (.pdf)
  European Committee on Radiation Risk, 14th April 2011
  "How can non-scientists assess the risk associated with the various levels of contamination being reported? I will address this question here."
  
  "For some reason, the USA agencies still employ the picoCurie (pCi) as a measure of activity. 1 pCi is 0.037Bq. We will work in Bq."
  
  Example 1
  The measured activity of I-131 in drinking water is 500mBq/l. The effective dose is 5.5 x 10-8 or 0.055 microSieverts. The cancer risk to an adult who drinks 1 litre is then 0.5 x 1.1 x 10-7 x 0.1 = 5.5 x 10-9. That is 5.5 cancers in 1 billion people in 50 years who have all consumed 1 litre. Drinking 1 litre for a month would obviously increase this risk by 30-fold.
  
  Example 2
  The measured activity of I-131 in milk in California is 120Bq/l. The cancer risk to a person who drinks 1 litre is 120 x 1.1 x 10-7 x 0.1 = 1.32 x 10-6. We would expect 1.32 extra cancers in 1 million individuals in 50 years. These calculations show that there is a very low level of risk from adult exposures to the quantities of these radionuclides being reported in Europe and the USA.
  
  Children, infants and the foetus.
  There is plenty of evidence that risks to the foetus, infants and children are greater. But this is not due to Iodine or Caesium exposures. The dose coefficient is perhaps as much as 5 times greater for children. Infant leukemia increased after Chernobyl at levels where the ICRP foetal doses from Caesium-137 were about 50microSieverts and the ECRR coefficients for Cs-137 would not have predicted these increases (Busby 2009). At levels of 100Bq/l of Caesium-137 1 litre would commit a ICRP dose of 100 x 1.3 x 10-8 = 1.3 microSieverts and drinking 30 litres would provide a dose of 39 microSieverts ICRP. Therefore the effects on infant leukemia are believed to be due to other radionuclides and particulates present with the Caesium-137."
  
  
• Radiation Expert: "Sr-90 and Uranium and Particulates Will Be Building Up in the USA and Europe ... For Now I Think It Prudent To Stop Drinking Milk"
  Washington's Blog, 24th April 2011
  "I wrote to radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby to ask him if he thought people living outside of Japan should take any actions to try to reduce their radiation exposure:

  I attach my "don't panic" paper. However, since then I have re-thought this advice as the thing is still fissioning and releasing 10 to the fourteen becquerels a day. This will mean that Sr-90 [strontium 90] and Uranium and particulates will be building up in the USA and Europe. I will assess this later but for now I think it prudent to stop drinking milk. I also attach the particulates note.

  Busby has changed his mind....
  

The forecast is no longer accessible, but was reported to be located here.

h/t Dutchsinse and Patrioticspace

Comment: It looks like Dutchsinse & Patrioticspace have found some proof of Arnie Gundersen's belief that we saw nuclear explosions at Fukushima. What's more, with the forecasts we have been seeing, NILU scientists have been too frightened to tell the truth and have downplayed the seriousness of the situation in their computer simulations available to the public showing radiation dispersion... It would be interesting if Arnie decides to comment...

4/17/2011 -- HIGH LEVEL FORECAST of Cesium-137 (not shown to public)
YouTube/Dutchsinse, 17th April 2011

• Rense & Yoichi Shimatsu - Fukushima Worse, Virtually Hopeless
  YouTube/JRense, 18th April 2011
  Yoichi Shimatsu former editor of the weekly Japan Times discusses the dire situation of Fukushima, and concludes by calling for the dismemberment of our globalist elite planners.
  
  "... we cannot allow these globalist people to be running the world anymore, I mean look at what they are doing, they are on a death wish, they are in denial, they have no right to govern this planet any longer." Yoichi Shimatsu
  There is video and graphics to accompany this interview of Yoichi Shimatsu by Jeff Rense. There is discussion of the ecological disaster and the implications for fishing and the food chain. WARNING: Jeff Rense is very depressed about all this...
  
  
• Radiation at No. 2 spent fuel pool 30,000,000 times above normal & 15,000 times more than troubled No. 4 pool
  Energy News, 19th April 2011
  
  
• Gundersen Discusses Current Condition of Reactors, TEPCO Claim of "No Fission" in Fuel Pool, and Lack of Radiation Monitoring in Fish
  Fairewinds, 18th April 2011
  
  
• AlJazeera TV: Japan rethinks its economic centre
  YouTube/AlJazeera English, 18 Apr 2011
  This video basically tells us that business leaders are desperate to take their business away from Tokyo, as they say, action speaks louder than words as the politicians and bureaucrats are looking to move too.
  
  
• Morgan Stanley fund fails to repay debt on Tokyo property
  Yahoo News, 15th April 2011
  "TOKYO (Reuters) – A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan."
  Under the cirumstances, I think this is very understandable, but it's a lot of money...

• Arnie Gundersen on Democracy Now - Part I
  YouTube/FaireWinds Energy, 15th March 2011
  Arnie Gundersen on Democracy Now - Part II
  YouTube/FaireWinds Energy, 15th March 2011
  
  
• Scary frontier footage of Fukushima ruins, images of robots inside reactor
  Russia Today, 18th April 2011
  "Two robots sent into the reactor buildings at the Fukushima nuclear plant have found massive amounts of radiation, barring any workers from entering. The plant's operator also announced a new 9 month plan to stabilize the situation, proposing to cover the reactors with a Chernobyl-like sarcophagus. The situation at the nuclear complex remains critical, with radiation leaks and difficult access hampering progress.
  
  Comment: For weeks now I have not believed the official statements that efforts were being made to deal with the situation in Fukushima and I think the truth is that it's imposssible whilst the radiation levels are so high. Yes, I have seen images and video footage of water spraying etc, but I really don't think they are coming from Fukushima. Take a good look at this video, these reactors are completely bombed out.
  
  
• Potential Xe-133 Fukushima Fallout Forecasts April 18-19th
  Department of Atmospheric and Climate Research, The Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), 18th April 2011
  
  
• Radioactivity wind dispersal Japan April 18-20
  DWD.de, 18th April 2011
  Tokyo and Japan are now getting some high dosages...

• Emergency landing for Mumbai-bound flight at city airport
  Times of India, 30th March 2011
  AHMEDABAD: 144 passengers had a close shave when cabin pressurization system of a Mumbai-bound Spice Jet flight had a technical snag mid-air on Tuesday.[...] "The system pumps compressed air into the aircraft cabin to maintain a safe environment, for crew and passengers to protect them from the risk of hypoxia and other physiological problems that occur in thin air on higher altitude. But when the plane was near Ahmedabad the system started showing problems and we took permission for an emergency landing," said a Spice Jet official. So, what is really happening?
  
  
• Reports Detail Incidents of Korean Air, Asiana Jets
  WSJ, 31 March 2011
  " Japanese air-safety investigators have released separate reports about a pair of hazardous in-flight incidents involving Korea's two largest airlines, and the findings reveal significant mechanical malfunctions and pilot mistakes. One of the reports details a Korean Air Lines Co. Airbus A300 jetliner that suffered a rapid cabin decompression over Nagoya, Japan, in June 2009 due to malfunctions of its air-conditioning and related systems, according to an English translation of the Japanese Transportation Safety Board's findings."
  So this has been going on for some time...
  
  
• When the Pressure's Off, Unexpectedly
  Aviation Week, January 21 2009
  "A review of 390 accidents involving business jets from 1991 through 2007, along with 811 incidents from the FAA's incident database, revealed that pressurization problems were the fifth most common mechanical failure. The incident database contained 41 reports of malfunctions with the pressurization system, of which 24 resulted in emergency descents. And it took just a few quick moments to find an additional 68 "rapid decompression" events in NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) records involving business jets, along with so many more related incidents described as "loss of cabin pressurization" there was no point in continuing the count."
  So, in 16 years there was 24 emergency descents or 1.5 per year. So, I think it's easy to see there has been a dramatic increase in recent years....
  
  
• Aviation Accident Tracker
  The Aviation Herald
  A good website to keep track of the larger airliner incidents
  

• The bio-plasma aliens and UFOs all around us all the time
  India Daily Technology, Jan. 26, 2009
  These life forms and UFOs are all around us, invisible to our perception, and rarely detectable by our scientific detectors.
  
  The bio-plasma bodies are composed of complex plasma of non-standard particles. Non-standard particles are particles that are outside the physicists'' Standard Model and which are included in dark matter - matter that is ten times more prevalent in the known universe than ordinary matter.
  
  Comment: I really don't know how I missed this article... Some of the information is confusing because plasma makes up 99.999% of the visible universe but to make current theory work, dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass-energy density of the observable universe (observable is really a misnomer here because scientists cannot observe 'missing matter' with our current instrumentation, they can only guestimate what they think exists), while the ordinary matter accounts for only 4.6% (the remainder is attributed to dark energy). I have not come across this concept of sonic booms, but the literature does talk about some UFO/UAP manifestations that are accompanied with humming sounds.

• Japan - Potential cloud spread - Iodine-131
  Weathr Online, 16th April 2011
  Japan is now getting high dosages of radiatoncontaminaiton. Click tabs for USA/Northern Hemisphere simulations.
  
  
• TEPCO releases new images of crippled nuke plant
  Xinhua.net, 16th April 2011
  
  
• Blown up photo set of Fukushima reactor 3 building with commentary
  House of Foust, April 2011
  "disclaimer: I am not an engineer. I noticed comments on some forums stating I was. I am working with a crowd sourced group that includes engineers, various people who work in the industry and a variety of people with related technical backgrounds. So there are some big brains helping educate me. My role has been image forensics, I have an extensive background in graphics with some basic education in engineering and architecture (so I have some understanding of the concepts). Statements or comments on images are sometimes mine and sometimes a synopsis of what various people I have spoken with have discovered or speculated."
  This website looks like it could be a goldmine of information for technically minded people...
  
  
• Smoke rises from control panel at TEPCO nuclear plant in Niiga
  kyodo News, 17th April 2011
  Smoke rose briefly from a control panel at a nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast Saturday, the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. No one was injured in the 7:45 p.m. incident that occurred during the checking of water purification equipment at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex, the company said, adding it has yet to determine the cause. The utility is currently battling to bring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control.

• What is a meltdown?
  abc.net.au, April 2011
  Nice diagrams
  
  
• TEPCO Releases Detailed Analysis of Tsunami that Hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (photos)
  Japan News, 13th April 2011
  
  
• Fukushima Spent Fuel Rod Pool Unit 3 Pictures Taken from Concrete Pumping Vehicle (photos)
  Japan News, 15th April 2011
  
  
• Video Released Analyzing Spent Fuel Rod Pool of Unit 4 at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
  Japan News, 15th April 2011
  Do they really expect us to believe that this is the real no. 4 reactor at Fukushima after the explosions and damage that have been broadcast all over the world? It's called smoke and mirrors.... See Daily Mail images of 'bombed out' 3 & 4 reactors at Fukushima and some more recent photos that have surfaced from Japan. Here is an image that I have saved from the Daily Mail on the 16th March where the article has now disappeared... here
  
  
  • Japanese drop giant waterbombs on stricken reactors as Foreign Office promises rescue charter flights to get Britons out of Tokyo
    Daily Mail, 17th March 2011
    
    
  • Fukushima photos
    mainichi.jp, April 2011

• Fukushima operator to start compensation payouts with $600 million
  Russia today, 15th April 2011
  TEPCO also shared its intention to drop bags with Zeolite, a mineral that absorbs radiation, into the ocean near the water scoops of Fukushima-1 reactors 2 and 3. The operation, which is aimed at reducing the level of contamination in the seawater, will start as soon as the weather permits.
  
  
• Tracking down the secrets of zeolites, a real all-round talent
  Microscopy Analysis, April 2011
  

Last summer, I visited Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, at the request of citizens concerned about the danger of a major earthquake. I spoke about my findings at press conferences afterward. Because Hamaoka sits directly over the subduction zone near the junction of two plates, and is overdue for a major earthquake, it is considered to be the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan.

Together with local citizens, I spent the day walking around the facility, collecting rocks, studying the soft sediments it sits on and tracing the nearly vertical faults through the area -- evidence of violent tectonic movements. "The structures of the nuclear plant are directly rooted in the rock bed and can tolerate a quake of magnitude 8.5 on the Richter scale," the utility claimed on its Web site.

From my research and the investigation I conducted of the rocks in the area, I found that that the sedimentary beds underlying the plant were badly faulted. Some tiny faults I located were less than 1 cm apart. When I held up samples of the rocks the plant was sitting on, they crumbled like sugar in my fingers. "But the power company told us these were really solid rocks!" the reporters said. I asked, "Do you think these are really solid?' and they started laughing.

Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette, The Japan Times, 23rd May 2004

• Quake resistance at nuclear plants in doubt
  NHK World, 15th April 2011
  "The government's nuclear safety agency is set to review safety measures at nuclear power plants across Japan. This follows the discovery that one of the aftershocks following the March 11th earthquake was stronger than the level thought of as safe for measures in place at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.[...]
  
  That aftershock last Thursday was 5.6 percent stronger than the level Onagawa's No. 1 Reactor is designed to handle. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has asked power companies twice so far to review earthquake safety measures at their nuclear power plants. Once was following the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated Kobe, and once was after the 2007 Niigata Chuetsu coastal quake, which also caused huge amounts of damage.
  
  The Onagawa plant passed the government's safety inspections those times. The plant was built to withstand extremely rare, but possible, quakes with a magnitude up to 7.1, like the one that occurred in 2003 beneath the seabed off Miyagi Prefecture. Last week's aftershock was the same 7.1 magnitude, but the registered tremors were beyond the assumed strength.
  
  I am suspicious that we are not getting the full story about what happened at the Onagawa nuclear plant after the recent 7.4 quake that was downgraded to 7.1...
  
  
• Japan Quake Map
  Japan Quake Map, April 2011
  On 14th April, around 15:07 Japanese time, we hit the 1000 earthquakes in the Japanese region since March 11th when the massive 9.0 2011 Tohoku Earthquake struck.

• Busby: 400,000 to develop cancer in 200 km radius of Fukushima
  YouTube/Russia Today, 13th April 2011
  Engineers at Japan's Fukushima plant continue work on emptying highly radioactive water from one of the nuclear reactors. The latest tests show that radiation levels in the sea near the damaged facility have spiked.
  
  On Tuesday, Japan raised the level of nuclear alert at the plant to the maximum of seven, putting it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster. Recovery efforts came under threat as series of powerful aftershocks hit the area near the power station. It came a month after the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country, leaving over 13 thousand people dead. Monitoring stations around the world have been picking up small amounts of radioactive particles spreading from Fukushima.
  
  Comment: Bold Busby says there is significant contamination in Tokyo and that is not surprising... he says the 400,000 will come from the 7.8 million people within the 200km radius of Fukushima, so obviously, the number of total cancers will be far higher...
  
  
• UPDATE - IS THE TOKAI REACTOR OR TOKAI/JCO NUCLEAR FUEL PROCESSING PLANT IN TROUBLE?
  Whatreallyhappened.com, 14th April 2011
  "The real time radiation monitoring by prefecture showed radiation levels in the city of Ibaraki going from 639 to 2040 over a period of 12 hours March 20th! "
  Mike Rivero might be onto something here... major issue is that the Tokai reactor planet is much closer to Tokyo!
  
  
• Tokai Nuclear Plant Update: High Levels of Radiation Detected
  Lucas Whitefield Hixson, 8th April 2011
  Tokai Dai-Ni was shut down automatically on Friday 11th March 2011. But operators Japan Atomic Power Company later submitted a report to local government advising that one of the two pumps used to cool water in the suppression pool had stopped working, and that two of three diesel generators used to power the cooling system during power failures were out of order. Restoring Tokai Dai-Ni to operation could mitigate Tokyo’s rolling black-outs, but at time of writing output is still flat-lining. This is a document which details the level and presence of radioactive isotopes in drinking water. Until today, the radiation levels were dropping and then quadrupled. Iitate Village yesterday was told to evacuate pregnant women and young children due to an increase in radiation. The village is North west and about 40km from Daiichi.
  Hmmm....

• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 5
  Cryptome, 10 April 2011
  Lots of interesting photos
  
  
• Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist: Fukishima Daiichi Nuclear Facility is a "Ticking Time Bomb"
  YouTube, 13th April 2011
  The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level.
  
  "Radiation is continuing to leak out of the reactors, the situation is not stable at all," says Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University Of New York and the City College of New York, in an interview on Democracy Now! April 13.
  
  "The slightest disturbance could set off a full scale melt down at three nuclear power stations—far beyond what we saw at Chernobyl."
  
  Comment: Kaku says some of his family have already evacuated from Tokyo.... this is another great interview. Again, Kaku used the 'stable' analogy of the situation of the Fukushima reactors as being like someone hanging off a cliff by their fingernails that are starting to break off...
  
  
• Professor Chris Busby: Fukushima Meltdown Could Trigger Atomic Explosion! - Alex Jones Tv 1/3
  YouTube, 12th April 2011
  
  Citing data collected by two Russian scientists, Professor Chris Busby told Alex Jones and his audience the explosions at Fukushima were nuclear. The Russian scientists, Sergey A. Pakhomov and Yuri V. Dubasov of the VG Khlopin Radium Institute in Saint Petersburg, examined data related to the explosion at Chernobyl. Part 2/3 & Part 3/3
  
  Comment: This is an amazing interview! Busby tells us that he has received confidential information that the United States want to bomb the Fukushima reactors into the ocean to remedy the situation! Part II (5:00) and Busby thinks this might be the best idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But come on! Japan is not exactly in a stable location and it could all go horribly wrong!!!!!!!!!!! See the story below:
  
  
  • The U.S. would consider bombing the Fukushima plant to drown in the ocean
    Info Revolution, 13th April 2011
    
    
  • ECRR 2010: The Health Effects of Ionising Radiation Exposure at Low Doses and Low Dose Rates for Radiation Protection Purposes: Regulators’ Edition (.pdf)
    European Committee on Radiation Risk, April 2011
    Due to the Fukushima disaster, this document which was originally £75.00 is now available for free.
  
  
• 'Worst-case scenario: Fukushima fuel pool with plutonium catches fire'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 13th April 2011
  Transcript summary of interview with Arnold Gundersen, nuclear engineer
  
  • Worst case is unit 4 fuel pool
  • Enormous amount of plutonium and depleted uranium
  • If that catches fire it could devastate a large area
  • Still a danger, they don’t have power to the fuel pool cooling systems
  • Unit 4 is the worst because it has the freshest fuel, the most physically hot
  • In addition unit 4 has a crack in the side, so even if they had water it would run out the crack
  • That is the toughest problem on site right now
  
  
• Scientists warn of years of aftershocks in Japan, and risks on other faults
  The Seattle Times, 12th April 2011
  Japan won't stop shaking. One month after the horrific March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the island was rattled anew by aftershocks: A magnitude-6.6 [?] quake on Monday was followed by a 6.3[?] quake on Tuesday. [...]
  
  Now scientists are warning that the March 11 event not only will lead to years of aftershocks but also might have increased the risk of a major quake on an adjacent fault. A new calculation by American and Japanese scientists concluded that the March 11 event heightened the strain on a number of faults bracketing the ruptured segment of the Japan Trench.
  
  "There's quite a bit of real estate on which stress has increased by our calculations," said Ross Stein, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geophysicist. "The possibility of getting large, late aftershocks to the north and south of the main shock is real."
  
  Comment: The USGS are downplaying the size of these earthquakes, but the Japanese know how to measure earthquakes since they happen all the time. See online data here.
  
  
• Potential dispersion of the radioactive cloud over The Northern Hemisphere
  Weather Online, April 2011
  "Potential dispersion of the radioactive cloud over The Northern Hemisphere This animation displays a potential dispersion of the radioactive cloud (Caesium 137 Isotope) after a nuclear accident in reactor Fukushima I. The continuous release rate is very uncertain, thus the calculations have to be interpreted qualitatively. Dispersion in the near surface level (Level 1), in appr. 2500 m height (Level 12) and in appr. 5000 m height (Level 16)."
  According to this, Europe has been getting some good sized dosages in the last few days and might explain why the French complained about the levels of radiation not being 'neglible' any more.

• CTBT Radiation detected from Fukushima 14March - 11th April
  CTBT, April 2011
  The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. Hence radiation is monitored in the environment from the Earth's surface.
  Please note the radiation scale in Becquerels is logarithmic...
  
  
• Radioactive Japanese cars detained in Russia’s Far East (Video)
  RT, 11th April 2011
  Customs officials in Vladivostok seized a radioactive cargo of 20 cars from Japan. Their level of radiation is two times higher than normal. Intensive beta-radiation was discovered during a checking of the “Asian Ice” ship.
  
  The cars are currently being kept in quarantine and will most likely be sent back to Japan. This is the first large shipment of radioactive second-hand cars from Japan. Earlier, heightened levels of radiation were found on several private vehicles.
  
  Comment: The Russians are being harsh.... only twice.... I would be interested to know what the Russians consider to be 'normal' on a day where there are high levels of cosmic radiation due to space weather...
  

• Japan Earthquake Liquefaction Video Awesome [0:23]
  YouTube, 27th March 2011
  "Japan earthquake causes liquefaction - water from water table being forced out of the ground! This is not from a broken pipe folks! This is a phenomenon called liquefaction, and happens when the water table is mixed with the shaking material, and in this case forced up through cracks in the ground. This is the first quake where we have enough video to understand more about how liquefaction works. Check out my other videos for videos that will blow your mind. I am a seismic analyst, so I look at earthquakes every day."
  this is a good example
  
  
• Moving liquefied ground by 3.11 Earthquake in Japan
  YouTube, 10 Mar 2011
  
  
• Liquefaction video of Japan Tohoku-Oki Earthquake in Central Park - Water pouring from cracks
  YouTube, 11th March 2011
  
  
• Cracks and bubbling water in a school playground & more [8:03]
  YouTube, 24th April 2011
  The kids are quite amused...
  
  
• In front of a crowd of daytime shoppers in Shin Urayasu the sidewalks buckle, crack and the earth "bleeds" mud for all to see. [11:09]
  
  
• Sand Liquefaction Video [0:26]
  YouTube, 28 Mar 2008
  This is a good video made by a researcher at Civil Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
  
  
• Cars stuck in mud - pools of bubbling water [1:11]
  YouTube, 10 Mar 2011

"The backup power and pumping systems that have been brought to the plant since March 11, including emergency diesel generators, fire trucks on standby and other generator trucks — all require workers to operate them manually, according to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. That makes them useless when workers must evacuate away from the reactors.

Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Japan’s nuclear watchdog, acknowledged the lack of an automatic backup power supply, but did not offer any solutions."

Strong Aftershock as Japan Urges More Evacuations
New York Times, 11th April 2011

• Information on the safety of Nuclear Power Plants in Fukushima, Japan Atomic Industrial Forum Inc 21:00, 11th April 2011 (.pdf)
  
  
• Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates How Fukushima's Fuel Rods Melted and Shattered
  Fairewinds Energy, 10th April 2011
  "Fairewinds' Chief Nuclear Engineer, Arnie Gundersen, conducts a field demonstration simulating the impact of Fukushima's intense heat upon Zircaloy [zirconium alloy] fuel rods. Gundersen's demonstration shows that intense heat weakens and embrittles Zircaloy changing it from a sturdy metal to a brittle oxide that is easily shattered. Images from the post accident Three Mile Island nuclear core show embrittled and broken Zircaloy fuel rods in the nuclear reactor."
  This is a nice practical lesson on why weeks ago nuclear experts told us weeks ago, that there were "three raging meltdowns"...
  
  
• Fukushima 'much bigger than Chernobyl', says Russian nuclear activist
  News.com.au, 2nd April 2011
  JAPAN'S unfolding nuclear disaster is "much bigger than Chernobyl" and could rewrite the international scale used to measure the severity of atomic accidents, a Russian expert says. "Chernobyl was a dirty bomb explosion. The next dirty bomb is Fukushima and it will cost much more" in economic and human terms, Natalia Mironova said. [...]
  
  "Chernobyl was level seven and it had only one reactor and lasted only two weeks. We have now three weeks (at Fukushima) and we have four reactors which we know are in very dangerous situations," she said.
  
  Comment: It's been obvious from the time thousands of spent fuel rods were blown sky high, live on Japanese TV.... It's over 4 weeks now and no end in sight, and there is a possibility that there are more reactors in trouble (reactors 5 & 6 have holes in the roof and are being flooded by the waters used to cool reactors from 1 -4), plus the other nuclear reactors that have been in trouble elsewhere that we know about and maybe others where the news is being hidden from the world...

• Anti-nuclear activists hold rally in Tokyo
  NHK World News, 10th April 2011
  
  
• TEPCO Fukushima - Anti-Nuclear Activists In Tokyo Call For Closure Of All Japanese Nuke Plants
  YouTube/NHK World News, 10th April 2011
  
  
• Japan No more nuclear demonstration
  YouTube, 10th April 2011

• M 7.0 quake hits northeastern Japan
  NHK World, 11th April 2011
  "A strong earthquake struck north-eastern Japan at 5:16 PM, local time, on Monday. The Meteorological Agency at one time issued tsunami warnings for the coastal areas of Ibaraki Prefecture.
  
  The agency said the earthquake's magnitude was 7.0, and that its focus was in Fukushima Prefecture at a depth of 10 kilometers.
  
  Intensities of 6 minus on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7 were registered in some areas of Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures, including Furudono Town, Nakajima Village and Hokota City. An intensity of 5 plus was registered in many areas in the southern Tohoku and northern Kanto regions.
  
  The Meteorological Agency lifted the tsunami warnings about fifty minutes later. A tsunami advisory for the coastal areas of neighboring prefectures was also lifted."
  
  
• Japan expands nuclear evacuation zone as new quake hits
  GMA News, 11th April 2011
  
  
• Japan Quake Map
  Japan Quake Map, April 2011
  We are approaching 1000 Earthquakes since 3/11/2011... at the last count, there have been 19 earthquakes for the 11th April, but there are a few more hours of the day to go in Japan...
  
  
• Earthquake Warning Report - Japan
  Quake Twiple, 11th April 2011
  This is website listing all Japanese earthquakes.

• James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 29 [Defence Tactics]
  Celestial Healing, 14th April 2011
  "The folks at In Session seem confused. They were all stunned, they announced this morning, that Judge Darrow didn't give the defense its mistrial. As the day progressed, they became noticeably perplexed that the thrashing prosecutors had coming to them didn't come."
  Excellent read on the James Ray defence team dirty tricks.
  
  
• James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 28 [Mistrial Notes]
  Celestial Healing, 13th April 2011
  "Today was something of an emotional roller coaster ride. I started my viewing this morning with In Session. Big mistake. Their pregame show was all about the likelihood of a mistrial and the prosecution's weak response."

A 1992 paper (Bui et al, “Short-period variation of cosmic-ray intensity and ozone density observed in the stratosphere” [http://www.springerlink.com/content/891061284xmx3623/]) states: “The energy deposition by slowing-down of energetic ionizing particles in the atmosphere enhances the production of constituent concentration which perturbs and eventually destroys the ozone (OZ) layer. Near the Brazilian anomaly region the cosmic-ray (CR) intensity varies greatly due to the magnetic activity in that region. In order to study these variations, stratospheric balloons were launched to measure, simultaneously, the CR and OZ fluxes in the atmosphere. The Fourier-analysed data collected during the flight on April 22, 1989 show evidences of a short-period variation for both fluxes measured.”

In 2009, University of Waterloo Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Qing-Bin Lu said [http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=5051] “it was generally accepted for more than two decades that the Earth's ozone layer is depleted by chlorine atoms produced by the sun's ultraviolet light-induced destruction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere. But mounting evidence supports a new theory that says cosmic rays, rather than the sun's UV light, play the dominant role in breaking down ozone-depleting molecules and then ozone. … Cosmic rays are concentrated over the North and South Poles due to Earth's magnetic field, and have the highest electron-production rate at the height of 15 to 18 km above the ground -- where the ozone layer has been most depleted.”

Ozone, Global Warming Science, last update: 2011/02/15

"Because it seems to me that HAARP is now becoming one of these catch-all terms for people who have no clue what it is or how it functions or any of the technical details but they invoke it almost like they would invoke the name of a god... in order to explain whats happening in the world. And to my mind, it's almost exactly identical to simply stating the devil caused the earthquake because people are simply stating it without having proof of that and they are asserting it with such vehemence that it really makes me question if people are truly applying their analytical abilities here, or if they are simply going off something they heard someone say once and believed it to be true."

James Cortbett, Episode 179 – What Caused the 3/11 Earthquake? 27th March 2011. mp3 link here

"Utterly fact-free string of unsourced innuendo that never bothers to explain anything whatsoever about what HAARP is, how it operates, how it can cause earthquakes, how its signature can be detected in any given earthquake, or how we know it was employed in this particular earthquake. Enjoy."

"This is just silly. Movement of tectonic plates causes earthquakes. No amount of messing with the ionosphere, via HAARP or anything else, is going to cause an earthquake. This is conspiracy for the scientifically illiterate.

"Watts" are not a unit of energy, they are a unit of power (energy per time). So how does a billion watts compare to the power output of natural storms? According to Wikipedia, a typical thunderstorm expends 10^15 joules. Figuring that a thunderstorm usually lasts less than 10^4 seconds, that's a power expenditure of 10^11 watts (100 billion watts). So HAARP is 1% of a thunderstorm. Whoop de doo. No doubt it can interfere with certain types of communications, and maybe disrupt the operation of an incoming missile. But you'd probably find it easier to cause an earthquake by getting 10,000 people to jump at the same time than by using HAARP."
Source: link

"The averagepeak power output of a single lightning stroke is about one trillion watts— one "terawatt" (10¹² W), and the stroke lasts for about 30 millionths of a second— 30 "microseconds".[15]
Source: Lightning

• Russia Today: Nuclear Déjà vu - Onagawa
  YouTube/Russia Today, 8th April 2011
  In Japan, radioactive water is reported to have leaked from fuel pools at the Onagawa nuclear power plant following a violent aftershock measuring seven point one. The plant is less than a hundred kilometres from the stricken Fukushima plant, which is still to be made safe following last month's devastating double hit of earthquake and tsunami. To discuss how events might develop RT talks to Philip White from the Citizen's Nuclear Information Center, who's in Tokyo.
  Comment: The headline says it all, but there have been isolated reports that there were problems at other nuclear plants and Onagawa has been mentioned several times.
  
  
• Japan Geiger Counter at a glance
  Japan Failed Robot, April 2011
  
  
• Inside report from Fukushima nuclear reactor evacuation zone
  YouTube, 8th April 2011
  "A Japanese journalist, Tetsuo Jimbo, ventured through the evacuation zone last Sunday, and filed the following video report. He says that, inside the evacuation zone, homes,building, roads and bridges, which were torn down by Tsunami, are left completely untouched, and the herd of cattle and pet dogs, left behind by the owners, wonders around the town while the radiation level remains far beyond legal limits."
  
  China concerned at Japan's prolonged nuclear crisis
  Reuters News, 8th April 2011
  (Reuters) - China said on Friday it was concerned at Japan pumping radioactive water into the sea from its crippled nuclear power plant, reflecting growing international unease at the month-long crisis triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
  Yes, the situation is completely insane, but this is planet Earth where insanity is considered 'normal'.
  
  
• South Korea schools shut over radioactive rain
  Herald Sun, 9th April 2011
  "DOZENS of South Korean schools have cancelled classes as officials scrambled to quell fears that rain contained radioactive material from Japan's stricken nuclear plant. More than 130 primary schools and kindergartens in Gyeonggi province surrounding the capital Seoul cancelled or cut classes today after rain began falling on orders from the provincial education office. An office spokesman called it part of "preemptive measures for the safety of students". Things are bad in South Korea and they have been more than a little bit inconvenienced.
  
  
  • Fukushima radiation fallout over Korea - 5-8th April 2011
    
    
  • South Korea Japan Earthquake Nuclear Crisis Pictures & Photos
    Sulekha.com, 7th April 2011
    "A South Korean environmentalist with umbrellas march in a rally demanding South Korean government to stop expanding nuclear power plants in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Fears over possible radiation contamination are growing in South Korea, the country closest to Japan, after Japanese nuclear power plants were damaged by earthquakes last month."
  
  

• NHK World: Two 7.4 Japan Earthquakes April 7 2011 with a strange blue flash Tsunami warning (Video)
  NHK World, 7th April 2011
  Comment:Incredible! I amd not sure if the pulsing bright blue light is a quakelight but some think it's a transformer but I don't think this from many previous videos of other major earthquakes, see what happened in the Chilean earthquake, February 2010 and another that is not earthquake related, at 0:33 YouTube: Transformer explosion, but I could be wrong. A few people are predicting another major quake within days and with the nuclear disaster and also many people quoting Edgar Cayce and his famous prediction; "A greater portion of Japan must go into the ocean". The way things look, I really think things could escalate. Scientists have already declared that Japan is sinking (see below), but according to a reliable metaphysical source, Japan is going to eventually sink, but that could mean it would take hundreds of years.
  
  
• NHK World Live
  
  
• IAEA Update: New earthquake in Japan (7 April, 17:30 UTC)
  Facebook/International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 07 April 2011 at 10:34
  "The IAEA confirms that an earthquake occurred in Japan at 14:32 UTC 7 April. The IAEA International Seismic Safety Centre has rated it as a 7.1 magnitude, revised from an initial 7.4 magnitude. The epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km from the Onagawa nuclear power plant and approximately 120 km from the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants."
  Three nuclear power plants with electrical power trouble
  Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant -- two out of the three lines supplying off-site power to the site were lost following the 7 April earthquake. Off-site power continues to be supplied through the third line.
  Higashidori Nuclear Power Plant -- Off-site power has been lost. Emergency power supply to the site is operating.
  Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant --NISA confirms that Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and uranium enrichment facility lost off-site power. Emergency power supply to the site is operating.
  
  Comment: This is crazy....

• Hydrogen Explosion of Fukushima reactor #2 discussed with Arnie Gundersen CNN
  CNN News, 6th April 2011
  

• U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant
  New York Times, 5th April 2011
  United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
  
  
• Town near nuclear plant rejects Japanese utility's 'token' offer
  CNN News, 6th April 2011
  "The company called the initial offer "payment for their troubles," and would not detail how much money is being offered to each community. But Kousei Negishi, who is the manager of general affairs for Namie, said that it was 20 million yen -- about $12 for each of Namie's roughly 20,000 residents."
  I would call that insult to injury...
  
  
• Japan: Fukushima operator built nuclear plants to withstand only up to 7.9 qua
  Boing Boing, 12th March 2011
  Documents from Tokyo Electric, the operator of the Japanese nuclear plants in crisis after Friday's devastating quake and tsunami, reveal that the company tested the Fukushima plant to withstand a quake up to magnitude 7.9. That threshold is well below the force of Friday's quake, recently upgraded to 9.0.

  Snip from Wall Street Journal:

  Tepco's last safety test of nuclear power plant Number 1--one that is currently in danger of meltdown--was done at a seismic magnitude the company considered the highest possible, but in fact turned out to be lower than Friday's quake. The information comes from the company's "Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 Updated Safety Measures" documents written in Japanese in 2010 and 2009. The documents were reviewed by Dow Jones. The company said in the documents that 7.9 was the highest magnitude for which they tested the safety for their No. 1 and No. 2 nuclear power plants in Fukushima.

  Thousands of evacuees from areas around Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant were scanned for radiation exposure, though the Japanese government insists radiation levels are low. Video courtesy of Reuters

  Simultaneous seismic activity along the three tectonic plates in the sea east of the plants--the epicenter of Friday's quake--wouldn't surpass 7.9, according to the company's presentation.

  
  

• South Korea raises radioactive alarm
  The Australian, 6th April 2011
  "South Korea reportedly lodged a protest yesterday over the dumping of millions of litres of radioactive water. Meanwhile, tests showed radioactive iodine and cesium had been found in fish caught in the Pacific Ocean south of the plant since northeastern Japan was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11."
  
  
• 'Catastrophic water dump means Fukushima really out of control'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 4th April 2011
  "Japan is dumping more than ten thousand tonnes of radioactive water from the Fukushima plant into the Pacific. Officials say this is a necessary step to free up storage space for more highly contaminated water. The government says it will not harm human health or the environment. But an independent nuclear energy consultant Shaun Burnie feels the move is likely to have serious consequences."
  
  
• 'No way out of waste water dumping to keep core cool at Fukushima'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 5th April 2011
  "Japanese officials say 60,000 tons of radioactive water have accumulated in the basement of the stricken Fukushima plant. Workers must keep feeding water into the reactors to stop them overheating, which is leading to a build-up of radioactive fluid. Japan has asked Russia to send a waste disposal facility to the crippled nuclear station. Almost 12,000 tons of low-tainted water are being released into the ocean to free storage space for more highly contaminated waste. Authorities say this poses no threat to human health or the environment. For more about the situation, RT talks to nuclear industry expert Arnold Gundersen."
  
  
• Potential April 5-9th Fukushima Fallout Forecasts
  Department of Atmospheric and Climate Research, The Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), 5th April 2011
  
  The Greenpeace story
  Greenpeace UK
  Some perspective: "1983: Four Greenpeace divers were contaminated by an oily radioactive slick, whilst attempting to block a discharge pipe at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant. The pipe was releasing more than 10 million litres of radioactive water into the sea every day."
  Yes, as bad as things are, humanity has had 2000 nuclear bombs detonated underground, in the atmosphere and in the radiation belts, authorities have been spewing radioactive water into the oceans and nuclear waste has been hidden underground where it expected to start leaking at some time in the future. So, if we experience millions of people killed at once and some nasty mutations then maybe humans will force change.
  
  
• TEPCO executives under investigation for charges of professional negligence resulting in death or injury. UPDATE
  Japan Subculture, 4th April 2011
  "The Japanese police continue their investigation into TEPCO, the managing entity of the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor for charges of professional negligence resulting in death or injury. TEPCO announced on April 3rd that the bodies of two Fukushima workers had been found at Fukushima Reactor #1. The bodies were found on March 30th. The announcement came a few days later. The odds are increasing that the final charges will be professional negligence resulting in death. It is not “official” and still in the early stages

• Nuclear Scientist Arnie Gundersen: Status Report on Fukushima Daiichi
  Fairewinds Energy, 3rd April 2011
  "Recent press reports have discussed the possibility that Fukushima Unit 1 may be having a nuclear chain reaction. New data released by TEPCO indicates that even though Fukushima Unit 1 was shut down during the March 11 earthquake, it appears to have "gone critical" again without human intervention. The detection by TEPCO of short-lived radioactive isotopes substantiates the existence of this inadvertent criticality."
  Experiencing extremely high web traffic
  
  
• YouTube - Fairewinds Energy's Channel
  YouTube/Fairewinds Energy, April 2011
  
  
• Japanese Govt did not reveal high level radiation estimate
  NHK World, 5th April 2011
  "The estimates were made on March 16th following explosions at the plant by an institute commissioned by the government using a computer system called SPEEDI. The system made its projections on the assumption that radioactive substances had been released for 24 hours from midnight on March 14th, based on the available data. But the government was reluctant to reveal the SPEEDI projections, and did not release them until March 23rd."
  
  
• JAPAN NEWS: High-level radiation estimates not revealed by gov't - NHK 110404
  YouTube/NHK World, 4th April 2011
  
  
• Fukushima Daiichi Reactors 5-6 Stability Under Threat 04.04.11
  YouTube/NHK World, 4th April 2011
  The presenter here is virtually in tears and is struggling to make his announcement because Reactors 5 & 6 are being flooded by the seawater was being poured to cool numbers reactors 1-4, so they are now at risk of losing their cooling systems too! Fundamentally, Japanese nuclear officials could not see any need for disaster planning and so it seems all the impromptu efforts are failing misersably.
  
  
• Fukushima Is Horrifically Worse Than You Have Been Told
  Event Horizon Chronicle, 4th April 2011
  Please be warned about the links here and the pictures of extremely deformed children and babies if you are faint of heart.

INCOMING CME? Newly-arriving data from NASA's STEREO probes suggest that a coronal mass ejection (CME) might be heading toward Earth. The source of the cloud appears to be sunspot complex 1185-1186, which experienced an episode of magnetic instability during the early hours of April 9th. Stay tuned for updates to this preliminary analysis. CME movies: STEREO-A, STEREO-B.

GRAND FILAMENT: A magnificent filament of magnetism is curling around the sun's southeastern quadrant today. Measuring more than 700,000 km from end to end, the vast structure is about twice as long as the separation between Earth and the Moon. Arrows trace the filament's meandering path in this extreme UV image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

It's not easy for such a filament to remain suspended indefinitely above the stellar surface, and indeed a collapse is possible. Filaments falling onto the sun can trigger explosions called "Hyder flares." Is one in the offing?

• Euronews: Freak Weather in Germany 4.8.2011 (Video)
  YouTube/Euronews, 8th April 2011
  

• this asteroid orbits the sun in a highly unusual horseshoe pattern

Earth has found a new companion that has joined its orbit around the sun, scientists have revealed.

It may not have the most romantic of names, but Asteroid 2010 SO16 could pursue Earth for anywhere between the next 120,000 to a million years.

And at a few hundred metres across, it is the largest space rock ever discovered so close to earth.

DOUBLE ASTEROID FLYBY: It's notable when an asteroid flies past Earth closer than the Moon. Today, April 6th, two asteroids will do this. Newly-discovered space rocks 2011 GW9 and 2011 GP28 will zip through the Earth-Moon system at Earth-distances of 77,000 km and 192,000 km, respectively. Both are ten-meter class asteroids two to three times smaller than the Tunguska impactor of 1908. There is no danger of a collision. spaceweather.com 6th April 2011

BRIGHT CME: NASA twin STEREO spacecraft observed a spectacular coronal mass ejection launched from the vicinity of decaying sunspot 1176 on April 3rd around 0500 UT. The blast was not Earth directed. Nevertheless, there is a chance that the expanding cloud will deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on or about April 6th. CME movies: STEREO-A, STEREO-B.

DEEP SKY AURORAS: This weekend, April 2-3, Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into the United States with sightings as far south as Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. To the naked eye, the auroras were mostly pale-white, but exposures of 10 or more seconds with off-the-shelf digital cameras revealed spectacular color. Brian Larmay sends this picture from Pembine, WI:

• Instrument failure causes United Airlines emergency landing
  Airlines/Airport Examiner, 5th April 2011
  "A United Airlines Airbus 320-232, registration N409UA, encountered a catastrophic electrical failure at 4,000 feet, knocking out primary instruments about 6 minutes after a 7:05 a.m. EDT takeoff on Monday, April 4, 2011 from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY), and forcing the crew to declare an emergency and return to the airport, as reported by The Times-Picayune, JACDEC aircraft incidents, CBS San Francisco, other media sources, and the NTSB on Monday, April 4, 2011."
  

The following has been partly referenced and inspired by Numberwatch. The differences between this list and Numberwatch are:

1. I have tried to select my sources only from peer reviewed letters, papers, abstracts, correspondence etc, or from the IPCC.

2. The list contains only research that appears to arrive at contradictory and opposite findings.

3. Items and links in brackets are just for extra information purposes though some are peer reviewed.

4. I have also added many of my own finds to the list.

• The Fukushima Daiichi Incident, Matthias Brau, Areva Slideshow
  Scribd, 25th March 2011
  Just in case you had any doubt that world experts understood from day 1 the seriousness of this nuclear disaster.
  
  
• Bertrand Barré: An expert’s opinion on the Japanese nuclear crisis
  Areva, 17th March 2011
  
  
• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Hi-Res Photos, March 24th & March 20th
  
  
• Radiation levels around Japan.
  Graphing Earthquake, Radiation and Water data in Japan, 31st March 2011
  Good graphics. The Radiation levels around the Fukushima nuclear plants is insane...
  
  
• Radiation watch West Tokyo Japan (Akiruno City)
  There are adverts! Info: CPM = counts/clicks per minute. Normal background is approx. 10-20 CPM Convert radiation in units of CPM to radiation in units of mR. Geiger counters commonly use a conversion ratio of 1,000 CPM = 1 mR. This conversion ratio is not exact due to the definition of the rem. Hence, normal is about 2Mr or 2000 CPM. Recent screenshot 2nd April here. Update 6th April 2011. Radiation levels have increased slightly here.
  
  
• Fukushima - Nuclear Titanic? Seawater radiation hits new high in Japan
  YouTube/Russia Today, 31st March 2011
  "RT discusses Fukushima situation with John Large, an independent nuclear consultant."
  As we already know, the Japanese had NO plans on how to deal with a major disaster and the New York Times has reported that after the emergency had started, when nuclear engineers tried coming up with a plan on how to deal with the situation, it just turned into a slanging match. Here, there is discussion of the Japanese ignoring the risk of a massive earthquake and a tsunami but there is no mention of the obvious, tsunami is a Japanese word...
  
  
• TEPCO URGENT: Radioactivity 10,000 times the limit found from groundwater
  Kyodo News, 1st April 2011
  

"I could hear him sayin' at some point that he was the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, and he was God, uh.."

• Good Morning America: Hole Rips in Roof of Plane [6:08]
  YouTube, 2nd April 2011
  Fatigue cracks? Nice report, people did good...
  
  
• Southwest grounds 79 Boeing planes for emergency inspections
  Los Angeles Times, 3rd April 2011
  "It cancels 300 flights, some at LAX, so Boeing engineers can check the planes after a Southwest plane's fuselage ruptured Friday. The inspections could take days, officials say."
  
  
• Southwest: Cracks found in 3 more planes
  Damage similar to plane that made emergency landing Friday
  MSNBC News, 3rd April 2011

• Commercial Aircraft Air Quality Danger - Aerotoxic Syndrome
  YouTube/CNN, 20th April 2010
  "CNN's Allan Chernoff reports on how eight people were sickened due to an oil leak on a US Airways jet engine. A similar incident also occurred several times on a Northwest (now Delta) Airlines aircraft."
  
  
• Pilot Susan Michaelis says plane fumes making passengers sick
  Aviation News, 27th March 2011
  "A FORMER Qantas pilot has claimed people are “getting seriously sick” after breathing contaminated air aboard aeroplanes, despite study saying fume leaks are “exceptionally rare”. [...] “The whole issue of toxic air in cabins is controversial. Some pilots believe it is a widespread problem, but the bulk of pilots don’t believe that,” he said. [...] The Department for Transport in the UK has commissioned a study by Cranfield University that is due to be published “very shortly”.Since 2006 there have been seven incidents involving toxic fumes reported to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and one to Balpa. These are where it is proved that a toxic substance had leaked somewhere on an aircraft. There were 270 engine oil incidents recorded by the CAA, where oil had leaked and fumes had entered the cabin. The Balpa spokesman said this was because air goes through the engine and into the cabin. But he said the next generation of aircraft would not use this system.
  
  
• Plane with sick passengers makes emergency landing in Dayton
  Dayton Daily, 1st April 2011 Update
  [...] A passenger, Christina Saull of Washington, D.C., said the plane had pushed out of the gate at Reagan but had not left the tarmac when an announcement was made about problems with the air and cabin pressurization system.
  
  Saull, who was traveling with her husband Bradley, said maintenance personnel arrived, came onto the plane and went into the cockpit. The plane eventually took off, she said.
  
  “Halfway through the flight, the woman in the row behind us … we thought she had a seizure,” Saull said. They quickly learned that woman and another woman next to her had passed out. Then some passengers who were 10 rows in front of the Saulls started complaining about smelling fumes.
  
  “I didn’t smell anything,” she said. “Other passengers were complaining about being light-headed ... Five minutes later, they were announcing they were going to drop the masks.” Saull said she thought the passengers were pretty calm despite the situation.
  
  Comment: Fumes in the cabin and a few folks don't get the oxygen masks on fast enough, it really does not inspire confidence...
  

"The grid is going to be a very different system in 2020/2030. We keep thinking that we want it to be there and provide power when we need it. It's going to be a much smarter system then, we are going to have to change our own behaviour and consume it when it is available and available cheaply."

"Because it seems to me that HAARP is now becoming one of these catch-all terms for people who have no clue what it is or how it functions or any of the technical details but they invoke it almost like they would invoke the name of a god... in order to explain whats happening in the world. And to my mind, it's almost exactly identical to simply stating the devil caused the earthquake because people are simply stating it without having proof of that and they are asserting it with such vehemence that it really makes me question if people are truly applying their analytical abilities here, or if they are simply going off something they heard someone say once and believed it to be true."

James Cortbett, Episode 179 – What Caused the 3/11 Earthquake? 27th March 2011. mp3 link here

"Utterly fact-free string of unsourced innuendo that never bothers to explain anything whatsoever about what HAARP is, how it operates, how it can cause earthquakes, how its signature can be detected in any given earthquake, or how we know it was employed in this particular earthquake. Enjoy."

"This is just silly. Movement of tectonic plates causes earthquakes. No amount of messing with the ionosphere, via HAARP or anything else, is going to cause an earthquake. This is conspiracy for the scientifically illiterate.

"Watts" are not a unit of energy, they are a unit of power (energy per time). So how does a billion watts compare to the power output of natural storms? According to Wikipedia, a typical thunderstorm expends 10^15 joules. Figuring that a thunderstorm usually lasts less than 10^4 seconds, that's a power expenditure of 10^11 watts (100 billion watts). So HAARP is 1% of a thunderstorm. Whoop de doo. No doubt it can interfere with certain types of communications, and maybe disrupt the operation of an incoming missile. But you'd probably find it easier to cause an earthquake by getting 10,000 people to jump at the same time than by using HAARP."
Source: link

"The averagepeak power output of a single lightning stroke is about one trillion watts— one "terawatt" (10¹² W), and the stroke lasts for about 30 millionths of a second— 30 "microseconds".[15]
Source: Lightning

• Silent Island: Grim scenes as RT films Ishinomaki trashed by Japan tsunami
  YouTube/Russia Today, 31st March 2011
  "RT presents exclusive footage from quake-tsunami devastated Ishinomaki region. The earthquake and tsunami wiped out entire communities in Japan. People who lost their homes are living in overcrowded shelters while the clean-up operation goes on. But even after that's finished, many will still have nowhere to go."

Muir Russell and the Briffa Bodge

• Experts: Move to protect nuke plants from solar flare damage
  Scripps News, 4th March 2011
  
  

• Russia Today - Chris Busby: Full meltdown in full swing? Japan maximum nuclear alert
  YouTube/Russia Today, 30th March 2011
  Busby says the North of Japan has been destroyed...
  
  
• Chris Busby Explains Why Uranium Is Bad For You (Part 1)
  YouTube, 2nd December 2009
  "Chris Busby of the University of Liverpool explains precisely how uranium - including natural, enriched, and depleted uranium - causes health problems. I don't know how useful it is to someone without a science background, at least introductory molecular biology, but Busby explains it extremely well in a convincing and frightening presentation. This information has not thus far been acted on by any regulatory agencies. The presentation was made in February 2008 as part of the public interventions in the environmental assessment of AREVA's proposed Midwest uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan. Busby was asked to present by the Saskatoon-based Inter-Church Uranium Committee Education Cooperative."
  
  
• Dr. Chris Busby, UK - (23:43 min - mp3 file) on the health risks of low level radiation. World Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, October, 2003
  Around 14:00, there is a good explanation of why uranium particles in the body combined with natural background cosmic radiation in the form of gamma rays causes high levels of ionisation. Unfortunately, Busby forgets to mention that Uranium particles like to clamp onto DNA and hence the damage is being done locally on DNA and this explains why DNA mutations by these nasty radioactive particles are so dreadful. See other Chris Busby lectures and documentation for verification.
  
  
• Health Consequences of DU Chris Busby, Ph.D. at World Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, October, 2003. (.pdf)
  
  
• Lord Monbiot: "A Spinley Little Twit" - Alex Jones TV
  YouTube, 29th March 2011
  An Hilarious Alex Jones rant...
  

• Incredible video of Aurora Borealis -
  Boing Boing, 23rd March 2011
  "Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd spent one week around Kirkenes and the Norway-Russia border, in -25 Celsius temperature, to make this magnificent time-lapse video of the Aurora Borealis."
  
  
• NICT: The Aurora Live
  NICT, March 2011
  

NICT: The Aurora Live (Alaska)
NICT, March 2011
Nuclear Scientist Arnie Gundersen: Status Report on Fukushima Daiichi
Fairewinds Energy, 29th March 2011
Comment: Gundersen discusses the plutonium found on site, explains what the breaches mean, he queries how come there is radioactive material getting into the ocean, the core damage is compared to his personal knowledge of what happened with the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and explains how the meltdown is occuring. His final conclusion is there are going to be large quantities of radiation leaking and he can't see how it is going to be stopped.

• Result of Pu measurement in the soil in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (.pdf)
  TEPCO, March 2011
  "Analysis: Density of detected Pu-238, Pu-239 and Pu-240 are within the same level of the fallout observed in Japan after the atmospheric nuclear test in the past."
  
  
• Part I - "Fukushima - Undoubtedly the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl" - A.Gopalakrishnan
  YouTube, 24th March 2011
  "Newsclick interviews Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board in India on March 24, 2011. He speaks about the primary reasons for the continuing disaster in the Fukushima reactors following a major earthquake and tsunami in Japan. " Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan says there was no containment with Chernobyl so it appears that the Fukushima disaster is considered to be different for this reason alone but this has only given them some lead time but the outcome is becoming similar. On the 24th, Dr. Gopalakrishnan did not think that meltdowns were in progress but I wonder if he has changed his mind with all the recent bad news.

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Greenpeace: From our radiation sampling team in Japan
Greenpeace.org, 29th March 2011
Jacob Namminga, one of our radiation safety advisors, spoke to Brian Fitzgerald at our international office, about the radiation monitoring that began on Saturday March 26, in a rural area of Japan to the north west of the Fukushima nuclear plant.

The trip's aim was to asses the true extent of radiation risks to the local population, which has reported radiation levels of up to ten micro sieverts per hour in Iitate village, 20km beyond the official evacuation zone - levels high enough to require evacuation. As told to Brian, here are Jacob's reflections on the trip.

Comment: Well, it's not too difficult to see the ranks of environmentalists are going to swell and this incident will not be forgotten in the short term. This is a disaster of epic proportions and those people trying to play this down have no idea of the seriousness of what is taking place. The following is a collection of Greenpeace related news plus radiation coverage maps.

• Japanese authorities expand evacuation zone, cite no health risks
  Russia Today, 26th March 2011
  Jan Haverkamp, an atomic power expert for Greenpeace, believes that the government's advice to those living close to the evacuation zone to voluntarily leave their homes has come too late.
  
  “Several organizations in Japan, including Greenpeace, already called on Sunday on the authorities to give this advice,” he told RT. “The authorities also gave this advice earlier [but] the advice is now stronger, because the chance that larger amounts of radiation could come out are still there, and people have been in their houses already for two weeks.”
  
  Haverkamp notes that it is, perhaps, time to start slowly comparing the Fukushima disaster with what happened in Chernobyl.
  
  “There are already calls for registering this as a [level] 7 event,” he said.
  
  
• CTBT Radiation detected from Fukushima 12-25th March Animation
  CTBT, 25th March 2011
  The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. Hence radiation is monitored in the environment from the Earth's surface.
  
  
• CTBT - Fukushima potential dispersion of the radioactive cloud over The Northern Hemisphere
  CTBT, March 2011
  

Japan nuclear: PM Naoto Kan signals 'maximum alert'
BBC News, 29th March 2011
The problem is nobody that understands the issues believes that the Japanese understand how to deal with this disaster.

Sarkozy to visit Japan on Thurs. to show support, solidarity
Kyodo News, 29th March 2011
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Japan on Thursday to show the international community's support for and solidarity with the country following the devastating March 11 quake and tsunami as this year's chair of the Group of Eight and Group of 20 major nations, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto said the French president is scheduled to hold talks with Prime Minister Naoto Kan during his stay in Tokyo. Sarkozy will be the first foreign leader to come to Japan since the disaster occurred."
I think he should be kicking ass and not showing any 'solidarity' at all...

Vanishing act by Japanese executive during nuclear crisis raises questions
Washington Post, 28th March 2011
[...] "Amid rumors that Shimizu had fled the country, checked into a hospital or committed suicide, company officials said Monday that their boss had suffered an unspecified “small illness” because of overwork after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake sent a tsunami crashing onto his company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. [...] Shimizu’s vanishing act “is not so much extremely strange as inexcusable,” said Takeo Nishioka, the chairman of the upper house of Japan’s Diet, or parliament. Speaking to reporters, Nishioka described as “mysterious” Shimizu’s refusal to join the head of the nuclear safety agency at a briefing on the crisis for parliament. “I cannot understand this,” Nishioka fumed."

• Japan earthquake: president of Fukushima nuclear plant company admitted to hospital
  Telegraph, 30th March 2011
  

Michio Kaku - TEPCO Leave Homer Simpson in Charge of Fukushima?
YouTube/ABC News, 28th March 2011 Wry humour at a time of grave events...
Kaku wants TEPCO removed, a new team of top scientists in charge and the military on stand-by. At least it's a plan...

• Latest Helicopter Footage Of Fukushima, Zoom-In On Ruined Reactors: Pool Of Radioactive Water Found OUTSIDE Fukushima Plant
  The Daily Bail, 28th March 20111
  "Workers trying to prevent a total meltdown at a Japanese nuclear power plant suffered another setback Monday when they found a pool of highly radioactive water leaking from the crippled facility. "The trench is located outside the building and the water contains radioactive materials," Hiro Hasegawa, a spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Co., told The Daily Telegraph of London. "There is normally no water found in this area."
  I've been wondering about this trench of water...
  
  
• N. Korea on high alert for radiation from Japan: scholar
  Yonhap News Agency, 29th March 2011
  "MUNSAN, South Korea, March 29 (Yonhap) -- North Korea is on high alert for any possible radioactive damage from an unfolding nuclear crisis in neighboring Japan, a senior North Korean scholar said Tuesday during talks with South Korea on a possible volcano eruption in the communist state."
  
  
• Traces of radioactive iodine, cesium detected in S. Korea
  Kyodo News, 29th March 2011
  "Trace amounts of radioactive iodine and cesium believed to have come from Japan's quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been detected in South Korea, the Education, Science and Technology Ministry said Tuesday."
  
  
• Sweden tells citizens to immediately begin taking iodide tablets if within 150 miles of Fukushima — Includes Tokyo
  Energy News, 29th March 2011
  … [T]he Swedish Embassy is recommending on its website that citizens within 250 km of the Fukushima plant take [iodide tablets] once every three days.
  
  
• POINT OF VIEW/ Heita Kawakatsu: Wean Japan from dependence on nuclear power
  asahi.com, 29th March 2011
  "The credibility of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the plant, is in tatters."
  
  Time and again, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), an arm of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, was unable to offer convincing explanations of the crisis that had enveloped the nuclear power plant. It prefaced every other statement with "according to TEPCO."
  
  Comment: No doubt that Michio Kaku has been getting his info from Japanese insiders to be confident to tell us there are "three raging meltdowns", but here we have some severe chastisement of Japanese nuclear 'safety' authorities. Quite frankly, it's impossible to think that anyone with any intelligence and who understands what is going on will have any patience left for these buffoons. Quite rightly people are saying that the when the Russians messed up, they dealt with the issue as best as they could and hundreds of Russians sacrificed their lives. Here it seems the Japanese authorities would rather see the pollution of the whole planet and the slow death of millions of Japanese. Hence, it's easy to see why some think Japan falling into the sea to save the world looks like an attractive option.

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Pilot finds hole in plane's fuselage; airline and FBI investigate
CNN News, 29th March 2011
FBI investigators were working Tuesday to discover what caused a small hole in the body of a US Airways jet. A pilot discovered the hole Monday while checking the aircraft before a flight, the airline said.

The puncture in the Boeing 737 airliner is the size and shape of a bullet hole, but that doesn't mean someone shot at the plane, said Amy Thorenson, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Charlotte, North Carolina. Investigators don't yet know what could have caused the hole, she said Tuesday morning. [...] The aircraft had flown to Charlotte from Philadelphia and was being prepped for another flight when the pilot discovered the hole above a passenger window toward the back of the plane, according to airline officials. The airline pulled the plane from service and called in the FBI.

Comment: It could have been a meteoroid and since we know that Earth is being bombarded with an assortment of cosmic debris see archives, this is the most likely suggestion, but off course an airline is not going to admit that flying conditions in the atmosphere are getting worse.

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DARPA gets behind bid to put flame-quelling electric wands in the hands of firefighters
Herald Sun, 29th March 2011
Last week, team leader Ludovico Cademartiri showed the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society how electricity could bend, twist, turn and flicker flame. And yes, it can even snuff it out.

Dr Cademartiri proved it for the society by shooting a beam of electricity from a "wand" at 30cm-high flames. Almost instantly, it was snuffed out, time and time again. The wand was channelling about the same amount of power as a high-end car stereo system, which Dr Cademartiri said was about 10 times more than he thought was necessary.

That means a similar device could be carried in a backpack - in other words, future firefighters could all be carrying portable, fire-quelling magic wands. "Our research has shown that by applying large electric fields we can suppress flames very rapidly," he said.

Comment: I suppose this concept has never been developed because the electromagnetic nature of our reality has been heavily downplayed and many useful inventions have been suppressed in preference to more traditional methods and remedies

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Church of England row as cathedral opens doors to tarot card readers and crystal healers in 'new age' festival
Daily Mail, 28th March 2011
The Church of England was braced for a fresh row today after a cathedral announced plans to host a 'new age' festival. The event - featuring tarot card readers, crystal healers, dream interpretation, and a fire-breathing vicar - is to be held in Manchester Cathedral in May.

But the move is certain to anger traditionalists, who feel the Church has already strayed too far from tradition. Hundreds have already defected to the Roman Catholic Church after deep splits over the ordination of gay and women priests.

Anglican leaders in Manchester decided to hold the festival in the historic cathedral in a bid to embrace alternative forms of Christianity.

Comment: Alternative forms of Christianity ???

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Obama administration restricts findings on Gulf’s dead dolphins
Digital Journal, 28th March 2011
Biloxi - The Obama administration has issued a gag order on data over the recent spike of dead dolphins, including many stillborn infants, washing up on Mississippi and Alabama shorelines, and scientists say the restriction undermines the scientific process. An abnormal dolphin mortality this year along the Gulf coast has become part of a federal criminal investigation over last year’s BP oil spill disaster and as a result, has led the US government to clamp down on biologists’ findings, with orders to keep the results confidential.

The dolphin die-off, labeled an “unusual mortality event (UME),” resulted in wildlife biologists being contracted by the National Marine Fisheries Service to record the recent spike in dolphin deaths by collecting tissue samples and specimens for the agency, but late last month were privately ordered to keep their results under wraps.

Comment: Many have not forgotten the criminal pollution of the Gulf of Mexico with Corexit to stop BP having to pay massive fines. Here we have another insult in an effort to cover up the fact that dolphins are being killed alongside most of the other creatures that live in this ocean.

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Caught on Tape: UFO Sighting Spooks Lafayette, Colorado
Strange Triangular Formation of Red Lights Cause Internet Frenzy
ABC News, 28th March 2011
The strange triangular formation of lights hovering above Lafayette, Colo., last week has many wondering if it's a sign that we're not alone. Leroy van der Vegt and his son Nick captured the sight on camera.

"It was completely quiet. No noise at all," van der Vegt said. The unidentified red lights did not blink but were in a triangular shape as they hovered in the sky.

Van der Vegt doesn't know what it was but he is sure that what he saw was not a satellite, helicopter or airplane. Eventually, the triangle headed northeast and the lights faded, van der Vegt said. Lester Valdez and all of his neighbors saw the unidentified lights.

Comment: These days, three orbs in a triangular formation is not really anything new, but occasionally the MSM gets excited and the attention is worth noting. At the end of the video report, ABC News wanted to know whether this is plain old terrestrial and I have to say probably YES! Unfortunately, ufologists are not interested in the fact that most UFO sightings are in fact 'lights' referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) by miltary, scientists and pilots and those with the scientific equipment tell us that they are mostly plasma entities. As I have written about many times before, in a Universe that is billions of years old and made up of 99.999% plasma, a lifeform that exists in this promordial state should be no surprise but unfortunatel, most humans refuse to consider the true nature of reality. The childish belief that ALL strange sightings in the sky are humanoid beings from another planet in space ships is unrealistic.

UFO frenzy goes into overdrive as three red lights hover over Colorado town
Daily Mail, 26th March 2011

UFO mystery lights up sky again [Australia]
Fraser coast Chronicle, 28th March 2011
" MARYBOROUGH’S UFOs made another appearance over the weekend, with a local couple witnessing up to 16 bright lights flying in geometric patterns on Friday night. Robert Kluytenberg and Michelle Johannessen saw the objects in the sky about 10pm and originally thought it was the start of a fireworks display. That changed when more of the lights came over the horizon and joined the original group, until there were 16 moving slowly across the sky for about 30 minutes."

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Computer glitch causes rail chaos and delays
Sunday Sun, 27th March 2011
PASSENGERS were stuck on trains for hours yesterday after a major signaling fault caused rail chaos. The computer glitch during the afternoon led to cancellations and delays at peak time.

The East Coast Main Line was busy in both directions with Scottish football fans heading to London for today’s friendly with Brazil and thousands of marchers returning home from the capital after the TUC protest. At the height of the disruption, 10 trains were stuck between York and Northallerton. Trains were also stranded outside Durham with services eventually forced back to Newcastle.

The fault meant all signals turned to red at around 1.10pm. At Newcastle Central station angry crowds waited to speak to staff and formed long queues for buses and taxis.

Comment:It's only going to get worse...

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Braidwood nuclear plant declares ‘unusual event’ for power glitch
Herald News, 25th March 2011
BRACEVILLE — Operators at the Braidwood Generating Station declared and terminated an unusual event Thursday morning when power to a plant control room alarm system was temporarily interrupted. The event was declared at 10:18 a.m. and terminated at 10:47 a.m., Exelon reported. Nuclear Regulatory Commission policies require a station to declare an unusual event when there is an interruption to this system for greater than 15 minutes. Plant operators are investigating the cause of power interruption to the alarm system. Both Braidwood units continued to operate at full power during the event. Plant instrumentation for monitoring was always available to plant personnel. There was no impact to plant safety or security, officials said.

Comment: Hmmm.....

Qantas web glitch hits Japan flights
The Sydney Morning Herald, 18th March 2011
"Australians looking for flights out of Japan should visit Qantas' website again, after a temporary computer glitch today showed flights were full, despite seats being available."

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NASA, Science Magazine exposed by Journal of Cosmology
PubSub, 27th March 2011
Press Releases from the Journal of Cosmology

Feb 14, 2011
Journal of Cosmology To Stop Publishing--Killed by Thieves and Crooks JOC will publish its last edition in May of 2011.

The Journal of Cosmology (JOC) was founded in the summer of 2009, published its first edition in October, and immediately became a success. Within one year it was receiving nearly 1 million hits a month and dozens of news articles were appearing regularly about its content--a phenomenal achievement for a scientific journal.

Naturally, JOC's success posed a direct threat to traditional subscription based science periodicals, such as "science" magazine; just as online news killed many newspapers. Not surprisingly, JOC was targeted by science magazine and others who engaged in illegal, criminal, anti-competitive acts to prevent JOC from distributing news about its online editions and books.

Because JOC's editorial policy was to publish all peer reviewed science-based theory, including articles which directly challenged the "sacred cows" of "conventional wisdom", its success posed a direct threat to the entire scientific establishment and the "gate-keepers" who wish to protect easily disproved myths and crush dissenting views. Suddenly, here was this upstart, highly successful scientific journal, with a prestigious editorial board, which was directly challenging the status quo and their control over science. [...]

In conclusion: The Journal of Cosmology has reviewed the evidence, has solicited commentary, we have invited scientific criticism, we have reached out to our competitors who have refused to cooperate because they know the data is real, and therefore, the only logical conclusion is that the Journal of Cosmology and Hoover study are beyond reproach.

As reported in the peer reviewed Journal of Cosmology, 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. The findings are valid. The implications are staggering and the public deserves to know the truth, that life may be everywhere, throughout the cosmos. The Journal of Cosmology has compiled this wealth of data, along with the Hoover paper and commentaries, and the peer reviewed discoveries of numerous independent scientists, in a single inexpensive book, titled: "The Discovery of Alien ExtraTerrestrial life" which features the landmark discovery of Richard Hoover. Based on the evidence compiled in "The Discovery of Alien ExtraTerrestrial life" and the Hoover discovery, the conclusions are threefold: We are not alone. Life is everywhere.Life on Earth, came from other planets.

Comment: Wow... going out with a bang... I did not know that the evidence of extraterrestrial microfossils of bacteria were older than the Earth. I think the book should be worth reading...

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Developing ozone hole approaches Europe
EurAtiv News, 25th March 2011
An exceptionally large area of depleted ozone has formed over the North Pole, and scientists warn that it could settle over Scandinavia and Eastern Europe on 30-31 March. The fast-thinning Arctic ozone layer was first detected by an international network of over 30 ozone sounding stations spread across the Arctic and sub-Arctic, and coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. The institute's latest predictions, based on data collated from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, are that it will affect parts of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe on 30 March and 31 March.

Comment: I will just repeat what has been explained on this website already.

"University of Waterloo scientist says that cosmic rays are a key cause for expanding the hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole — and predicts the largest ozone hole will occur in one or two weeks.

Qing-Bin Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy who studies ozone depletion, said that it was generally accepted for more than two decades that the Earth's ozone layer is depleted by chlorine atoms produced by sunlight-induced destruction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere. But more and more evidence now points to a new theory that the cosmic rays (energy particles that originate in space) play a major role." "Satellite data in the period of 1980-2007, covering two full 11-year solar cycles, demonstrate the significant correlation between cosmic rays and ozone depletion."
New theory predicts the largest ozone hole over Antarctica will occur this month - cosmic rays at fault
WattsUpWithThat.com, 25th October 2008

Previous Comment: Here we have another example of a cosmic caused phenomenon that has been wrongly attributed to human (anthropogenic) causes. It seems that in this report, scientists are attempting to set the record straight by linking the ozone hole to cosmic rays, whilst others also cite the decline of the Earth's magnetic field. The destruction of the ozone layer is held in check by the horizontal component of the Earth's magnetic field which is strongest at the equator and this explains why the ozone hole is over the polar regions (70% Antarctica, 30% Artic). Theory would dictate that the mid-latitude northern hemisphere, the location of the most industrialised and polluted parts of the world, where ozone destroying man-made chemicals, chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) compounds and ozone depleting substances (ODS) are to be found, should be the location of the ozone hole, NOT Antartica which is one of the most pristine places left on the planet. Thus, we can see why the Montreal Protocol an agreement by some countries to ban/reduce CFCs and ODS and ratified in 1989, has made absolutely no difference to the behaviour of the ozone layer and we can only anticipate that as Earth continues to lose it's protection against galactic cosmic rays, the ozone hole will continue to seasonally expand.

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What's that humming sound?
Radio Nedtherlands Worldwide, 23rd March 2011
People in the northern province of Groningen have been complaining since 2009 of a droning, humming sound keeping them awake at night. The Dutch Institute for Public Health and the Environment is investigating the source of the mysterious sound.

Many reports came from people in the village of Grijpskerk, which is also the location of natural gas pumping stations owned by Gasunie, the national gas drilling company. An initial investigation revealed that the pumps were not in use at the time of the earliest complaints. Moreover, the reports are also coming in from other parts of the province.

Groningen is the gas hub of the Netherlands. It is sitting on an enormous gas field, producing 93 million cubic metres of gas per day. Compressors or gas conduits are suspected of being the source of the sound. A spokesperson for Groningen province estimated that about 2 percent of people are sensitive to the low frequency hum. The incessant sound is upsetting their lives, depriving them of sleep and undermining their health in the long run.

Comment: I have not been diligent recording all these instances over the last few years, but others have. Now, there are more and more reports and I am wondering if these represent the 'Golden' Hum that means we have reached a new era.

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Scientist: Japan earthquake, nuke “accident” are tectonic nuclear warfare
Seattle Exopolitics Examiner, 21st March 2011
Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times [Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette] unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre that the “Japan earthquake and “accidents” at the Fukushima’s 6 nuclear power plant units starting March 11, 2011 are in fact deliberate acts of tectonic nuclear warfare, carried out against the populations ecology of Japan and the nations of the Northern Hemisphere, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Comment: Well, I decided to watch a very recent interview of Leuren Moret, a geoscientist and nuclear radiation expert because in 2004, she wrote that a nuclear disaster in Japan was inevitable, it was just a matter of time and because there were no realistic disaster plans in place, Japan was playing "nuclear routlette". This article is based on the interview. Well, I nearly gave up in the first 5 minutes because Moret was being interviewed by Alfred Lambremont Webre of Exopolitics about her opinion that the massive 9.0 earthquke had been induced by HAARP and I am incredulous that people believe this is possible. Anyway, I am glad I persisted because this is now being listed in my top five horror interviews. It all started when I noted the permanent smirk on this woman's face and I thought it was because she was pleased about the attention she was receiving, but after a while it just got sinister. I was particularly interested in her reasoning that this MUST have been caused by HAARP so I was intrigued when she stated that due to the size of the earthquake, it could have only been caused by an external force that she attributes to HAARP. Unfortunately, there were no more scientific details provided and that would have been helpful to provide some proof of why this statement could be considered to be credible. Well, all the literature states that HAARP only acts like a trigger so where is the evidence that a massive stress had built up to cause this interplate earthquake? Since the earthquake was so powerful, it changed the earth's axis of rotation but we have scientists who refuse to believe that this can be caused by an earthquke but a gravitational wave from deep space could theoretically cause a powerful seismic effect and at least there is some physical evidence that can be cited like a gamma ray arriving within a suitable timeframe. This is the exact same scenario that scientists speculate caused the 2004 Sumatra, Indonesia 9.1 earthquake that set the Earth ringing for over 6 months. Experts are now baffled about the abnormal earthquake aftershock pattern of what the Japanese are calling the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, but if this was truly a unique seismic event, then it might explain the anomaly. I duly noted that she was just restating old ideas about HAARP but linking this to other disasters that I would classify as disinformation. A good example is the talk of hurricane Katrina being steered by a laser beam, but she carefully omitted the understanding that researchers claim hurricanes can be steered by satellites NOT HAARP. I did not know that the USGS had originally tried to downplay the size of this earthquake but she stated the USGS changed this a number of times and she cited a 7.1, 7.3. 7.9, but at this time, I can only find evidence that the first USGS estimate was 7.9. There was a lot of stuff that was just totally subjective and fearmongering but I was particularly disturbed when she was talking about the spent fuel rods and their long half lives. When she mentioned plutonium she was dribbling and salivating enough to make her wipe her mouth... just really creepy. Moret's whole demeanour was so totally creepy that I wondered if anyone else had noticed and sure enough I found the following in the YouTube comments:

this woman troubles me though. half truths? hissing from her mouth, blinking lights reflecting off? her glasses at 2:00- 4:00 mark. teeth morphing. hmmmmn...
bigmikey1979 3 days ago

Hmmm..... Yes, a true horror flick. I truly think a few blinded by their faith in HAARP but devoted to the teachings of Master Icke might find themselves in a quandary over this interview.

FAQ: How much energy is released in an earthquake?

Magnitudes and corresponding energy (Joules and tons of TNT)

Magnitude	Es (from Me)	Es (from Ms or Mw)	Tons of TNT	Nuclear Bomb Equivalence (# of bombs)
4	0.22E+11	0.63E+11	15.	0.00
5	0.71E+12	0.20E+13	475.	0.02
6	0.22E+14	0.63E+14	15023.	0.79
7	0.71E+15	0.20E+16	475063.	25.0
8	0.22E+17	0.63E+17	15022833.	790.6
9	0.71E+18	0.20E+19	475063712.	25,003.3

[Note that Me and Mw do not necessarily have the same numerical value because they measure different physical quantities. Mw is a magnitude that is derived from low-frequency displacement spectra whereas Me is measured from higher frequency velocity spectra. Mw is a measure of the area of rupture and the average slip across the fault, whereas is Me is a measure of the shaking from an earthquake.]

Once the energy is known in Joules, it can be compared to the explosive energy of TNT. One ton of TNT has an energy of 4.2*10E09 Joules.
Source: FAQs - Measuring Earthquakes, USGS

Comment: The sheer huge amount of energy involved in a 9.0 earthquake, makes the whole idea that such massive earthquakes can be manmade seem highly implausible.

Joe Cirincione, Nuclear Analyst on CNN: Fukushima will end very, very badly — No one knows how to stop it (VIDEO)
Energy News, 27th March 2011
So far, all the nuclear experts who have seen the writing on the wall and provided us with pessimistic outlooks have been correct...

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Workers evacuated as radiation soars at Japan reactor
Sydney Morning Herald, 27th March 2011
Extremely high levels of radiation were detected in water leaking from reactor two of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, forcing the evacuation of workers, its operator said Sunday.

A spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power said the level of radiation found in the leaked water was 10 million times higher than it should be for water inside the reactor, indicating damage to the fuel rods.

"We detected 1,000 millisieverts per hour of radiation in a puddle of water at the reactor number two. This figure is 10 million times higher than water usually kept in a reactor," the spokesman said.

"We are examining the cause of this, but no work is being done there because of the high level of radiation. "High levels of caesium and other substances are being detected, which usually should not be found in reactor water. There is a high possibility that fuel rods are being damaged."

Comment: It's just getting worse but the Japanese seem to be paralysed and are not taking the right action soon enough. Hence, I suspect thr real problem is world controllers are more bothered about 'managing' the financial meltdown and fallout before concerning themselves with saving lives.

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• Japan Nuclear crisis: Nuke plant radiation 10 million times high
  YouTube/NewsXLive, 27th March 2011 Good info
  Well, it seems the Indian media are not hiding the facts about the Fukushima disaster and we details of protests in Japan which the MSM have carefully hidden plus a succinct summary of the impact of large dosages of radiation on humans. Yes, I know the Japanese are saying the original 10 million times is wrong and it's ONLY 100,000 times but anyone with enough brain cells functioning knows that many parts of the media have been downplaying the seriousness of the situation from day 1. We also have an excellent example of an engineer being reported direct, so it would mean that a reporter got the metrics wrong by a factor of 100 or the engineer could not read his instrumentation properly. Hence, you can take your pick about what you think happened but I think it's unlikely that an engineer would not know how to read his instruments properly unless he was mentally incapacitated and in this circumstance, it's sad to say that is a possibility...
  
  
• Paul Watson - Christopher Busby: Fukushima Contamination Levels Twice as High as chernobyl! Part 1/2 [15:12]
  YouTube/Info Wars, 26th March 2011
  Comment: Christopher Busby, is a British scientist and activist known for his work on the health effects of ionizing radiation. Questions are answered about the comparisons between Chernobyl and Fukushima. The advert breaks are annoying. There is discussion of newspaper pundit and so-called environmentalist George Monbiot, who is now supporting nuclear technology after the Fukushima disaster. In this interview, Busby called him an ignorant person and "criminally irresponsible" for stating that dangers of radioactive fallout are wildly exaggerated. Busby is not too worried about being accused of slander, as he regularly goes to court to provide evidence on the dangers of radiation and he always wins.

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Nuclear Crisis in Japan
Nuclear Information and Resource Service, 25th March 2011
UPDATE, 11:00 am, Friday, March 25, 2011. Greenpeace Germany has released a statement that, according to an analysis of radiation releases by consultant Dr. Helmut Hirsch, Fukushima is now a Level 7 accident on the international scale (currently it is officially ranked as a Level 5, comparable to the Three Mile Island accident of 1979; Level 7 would make it comparable to Chernobyl).

Comment: It seems that those nuclear experts who have been the most open and direct about what is going on, have been correct all along. On the 18th, Japanese Michio Kaku stated "A Meltdown is Forever" , on the 25th (abcnews) he said the Japanese safety agency had become international laughing stock, there are three raging meltdowns and whilst giving the run down on the seriousness of the situation, he sounded cross to me...

There is no comparison between internal and external contamination and this is where the general public need to be educated on just how dangerous some of these manmade nuclear fuels actually are. From a metaphysical point of view, it is certainly worth reflecting on the evilness of creating these highly toxic elements that we cannot safely dispose of and why they have been given the names they were, like plutonium that reflects it's nature of death and destruction.

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Germany set to abandon nuclear power for good
PhysOrg.com, 23rd March 2011
The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nuclear energy because of its inherent risks. It is betting billions on expanding the use of renewable energy to meet power demands instead.

The transition was supposed to happen slowly over the next 25 years, but is now being accelerated in the wake of Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant disaster, which Chancellor Angela Merkel has called a "catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions."

Berlin's decision to take seven of its 17 reactors offline for three months for new safety checks has provided a glimpse into how Germany might wean itself from getting nearly a quarter of its power from atomic energy to none.

Comment: Well, since this epic disaster started, I have learnt that nuclear energy is the most dangerous way imaginable that man could devise to boil water...

• Nuclear Scientist Arnie Gunderson: Status Report on Fukushima Daiichi
  YouTube/Fairewinds Energy, 23rd March 2011
  Here is Arnie Gunderson, a nuclear scientist with Fairewinds Energy, explaining how bad things are.... This is the guy who coined the phrase "Chernobyl on steroids" and here he provides some insight into why this is the case.
  
  
• Arnie Gunderson: A tutorial on nuclear radiation terminology
  YouTube/Fairewinds Energy, 25th March 2011
  
  
• Arnie Gunderson: A tutorial on Fukushima Facility Damage Explained
  YouTube/Fairewinds Energy, 18th March 2011
  
  
• A Nuclear Crisis in Japan unprecedented in history
  YouTube, 25th March 2011

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Russia checking high-radiation ship in Far East: official
Space Mart, 24th March 2011
Russia on Thursday was checking a cargo ship that arrived in its Far East with radiation levels three times the norm after passing close to Japan's quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.

The quarantining of the Panama-flagged vessel on the Pacific coast of the Khabarovsk region came as Russia banned the import of food from four Japanese regions amid continued concern about the situation in its neighbour.

Comment: So the Russians are forced to place ships and humans in quarantine now... Hmmmm... but we even have some suspicious looking yellow residue on cars near Tokyo... According to authorities quoted in the Japan Times, it's only pollen, see Pollen caused 'yellow rain': agency. Well, let's remember, it was only about a week ago it was snowy with blizzard conditions in Sendai, 300km from Tokyo, as it was reported to be hampering rescue efforts.

• Tokyo pollen or is it uranium yellow cake?
  YouTube, 24th March 2011
  

This is from Wikipedia:

"Yellowcake is used in the preparation of uranium fuel for nuclear reactors, for which it is smelted into purified UO2 for use in fuel rods for pressurized heavy-water reactors and other systems that use natural unenriched uranium." link

It seems that history is repeating. So we find:

"Thinking back to 20 years ago, it’s the splashing in yellow rainwater that Antonina Sergieff vividly recalls. [...]

Today, on the 20th anniversary of the incident, the Russian languages and literatures student can look back to the explosion and accept a childhood surrounded by radioactive contamination.

“We all jumped in the puddles with the yellow stuff. ... You don’t see (it in) the air, it doesn’t materialize. But when you see the yellow dust, you see radiation,” Sergieff said. [...] It was not long after that residents in her hometown knew it wasn’t simply “pollen” – which is what government officials assured them, she said.

Soon, people started losing their hair, pictures of deformed animals sprouted up in independent newspapers, and incidences of cancer in Belarus skyrocketed, Sergieff said."
Remembering Chernobyl
Daily Bruin, 25th April 2006

The sociopathic nature of these blatant lies just boggles the mind...

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Fukushima radioactive fallout nears Chernobyl levels
New Scientist, 24th March 2011
Japan's damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has been emitting radioactive iodine and caesium at levels approaching those seen in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors – designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests – to show that iodine-131 is being released at daily levels 73 per cent of those seen after the 1986 disaster. The daily amount of caesium-137 released from Fukushima Daiichi is around 60 per cent of the amount released from Chernobyl.

The difference between this accident and Chernobyl, they say, is that at Chernobyl a huge fire released large amounts of many radioactive materials, including fuel particles, in smoke. At Fukushima Daiichi, only the volatile elements, such as iodine and caesium, are bubbling off the damaged fuel. But these substances could nevertheless pose a significant health risk outside the plant. [...]

In the 10 days it burned, Chernobyl put out 1.76 × 1018 becquerels of iodine-131, which amounts to only 50 per cent more per day than has been calculated for Fukushima Daiichi. It is not yet clear how long emissions from the Japanese plant will continue. Similarly, says Wotawa, caesium-137 emissions are on the same order of magnitude as at Chernobyl.

Comment: It's been obvious since the first explosions that this was ultra serious, the smoke and mirrors of water drops and electricity being turned back on, is just the Japanese way of trying to save face. It's interesting that so many authorities are providing information, but I am still waiting for reports of people glowing in the dark...

Radiation 10,000 times normal level found in water that hit workers
Kyodo News, 25th March 2011
"Water which three workers were exposed to at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contained radioactive materials 10,000 times the normal level, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday. The finding underlines the possibility that part of the fuel in the No. 3 reactor of the plant or the spent fuel stored in the pool in the reactor building may be damaged. The three, who are from a company cooperating with TEPCO, were involved in work to restore power to the No. 3 reactor, which has lost cooling function. They were working in the basement of the reactor's turbine building when they were irradiated. Two of the three have been hospitalized due to possible burns caused by beta rays which can cause major skin damage. They were not wearing boots at the time and therefore their feet were soaked in the water."

Comment: This is really tragic, but it reminds me of some old Keystone Cops comedy... Can you imagine what experts around the world are thinking? However, it does seem that some workers in the Japanese nuclear power industry are not adequately trained to work in hazardous conditions with radioactive materials and they are certainly not prepared to deal with disaster situations. See below:

"Even more shocking was the revelation that unqualified workers had been mixing liquified uranium in buckets."
Tokaimura: One year on
BBC News, 30 September, 2000

This reminds me of the children's nursery rhyme "there's a hole in my bucket...." it's especially poignant as it is being slowly revealed that there could be some serious holes being made at the bottom of these reactors...

• Fears of full meltdown as more smoke rising from Fukushima reactors
  RT News, 24th March 2011
  Three workers have been exposed to harmful radioactive elements while working at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. Two of them have been hospitalised. There have been reports of a rise in temperature and new plumes of smoke rising from the facility's most troubled reactor. Engineers are attempting to restore the cooling system of the facility, damaged by the devastating earthquake.

What They're Covering Up at Fukushima
Counterpunch, 22nd March 2011
Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the military-industrial complex. Probably his best known book is Nuclear Power Plants for Tokyo in which he took the logic of the nuke promoters to its logical conclusion: if you are so sure that they're safe, why not build them in the center of the city, instead of hundreds of miles away where you lose half the electricity in the wires?

He did the TV interview that is partly translated below somewhat against his present impulses. I talked to him on the telephone today (March 22 , 2011) and he told me that while it made sense to oppose nuclear power back then, now that the disaster has begun he would just as soon remain silent, but the lies they are telling on the radio and TV are so gross that he cannot remain silent.

I have translated only about the first third of the interview (you can see the whole thing in Japanese on you-tube), the part that pertains particularly to what is happening at the Fukushima plants. In the latter part he talked about how dangerous radiation is in general, and also about the continuing danger of earthquakes. [...]

Hirose: In principle, it can’t. Because even when a reactor is in good shape, it requires constant control to keep the temperature down to where it is barely safe. Now it’s a complete mess inside, and when I think of the 50 remaining operators, it brings tears to my eyes. I assume they have been exposed to very large amounts of radiation, and that they have accepted that they face death by staying there. And how long can they last? I mean, physically. That’s what the situation has come to now. When I see these accounts on television, I want to tell them, “If that’s what you say, then go there and do it yourself!” Really, they talk this nonsense, trying to reassure everyone, trying to avoid panic. What we need now is a proper panic. Because the situation has come to the point where the danger is real.

Comment: This is a MUST READ. We are provided with the opinion of an engineer and quite frankly, these are the only kind of people who are going to provide us with hard facts. The point about needing panic is because people being comatose is not the action required to deal with the situation.

Chernobyl Cleanup Survivor's Message for Japan: 'Run Away as Quickly as Possible'
AOL News, 22nd March 2011

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IAEA: Radioactive materials found in seawater near Japan nuke plant
GMA News, 23rd March 2011
Radioactive materials have been detected in seawater near a quake-crippled nuclear power plant in Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday. The IAEA cited reports from Japanese authorities that the Tokyo Electric Power Company detected the radioactive materials in seawater near a discharge canal.

"Samples taken included levels of iodine-131, cesium-134, and cesium-137," it said in an update Wednesday (Manila time). It said the samples were found at one location near the Southern discharge canal at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Comment: OK, the Digitalglobe satellite images are probably worth considering here, see what looks like red hot coals strewn about and even in the water.

• DigitalGlobe’s constellation image of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, March 17th

Chernobyl Cleanup Survivor's Message for Japan: 'Run Away as Quickly as Possible'
AOL News, 22nd March 2011

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Neutron beam observed 13 times at crippled Fukushima nuke plant
Kyodo News, 23rd March 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11 quake-tsunami disaster.

TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the plant's No. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour and that this is not a dangerous level.

The utility firm said it will measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam, as well.

Comment: Have the Japanese been caught out by spy satellites? A meltdown occurs when the control rods fail to contain nuclear reactions in the form of neutron emission and so heat levels inside the reactor rises to a point where the fuel itself melts. This is the level, where neutron beams can be observed. When a nuclear chain reaction occurs, neutrons bombard atoms of the nuclear fuel, splitting them (fission), which creates a lot of energy, and more neutrons and then the process just self perpetuates. Hence, the production of neutron beams are a clear sign of fission within the plutonium/uranium. This announcement most certainly means that the Japanese have been forced to admit the truth that meltdown is well underway.

Nancy Grace, Weatherman Bernie Rayno Fight About Radiation (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 22nd March 2011
Well this women actually has some fight left in her and tells us live on CNN that a State of Emergency has been declared in California over radiation concerns. Apparently, the media are silent, so maybe this information was just for a few in the know...

• Kyodo: NEWS ADVISORY
  Kyodo News, 23rd March 2011
  "No. 2 reactor power repair work halted, 500 millisievert per hr radiation found."
  That's high...
  
  
• Radiation Plume over the United States
  Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (Austria), 21st March 2011
  
  
• Accident in the Japanese NPP Fukushima: Spread of Radioactivity, (Update: March 21, 2011 15:00) (.pdf)
  Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (Austria), 21st March 2011
  Document in English

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Japan Quake Map
Japan Quake Map, March 2011

Double Click image for the original simulation

About this site: On the 11th of March 2011, the world's media reported a massive earthquake off the East coast of Japan. It turned out to hit magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, and caused a devastating tsunami; the region's nuclear power facilities have been experiencing major difficulties since the earthquake and tsunami triggered a series of events leading to massive overheating, with complete nuclear meltdown still a possibility.

The Japan Quake Map on this website pesents a time-lapse visualisation of the Sendai earthquake and its aftershocks, primarily to help those outside the affected area understand what the people of Japan are experiencing. It plots earthquake data from USGS on a map using the Google Maps API, with the size of the circle denoting the magnitude (the higher the magnitude, the larger the circle) and the colour showing the focal depth (see the legend below the map).

How to use the Map: The map will start playing through the earthquakes, starting on March 11 2011, once it finishes loading. The controls to the right allow you to play/pause the animation, jump to the start or end of the sequence, or adjust the playback speed. You can also use the links above the map or the "Show Day" dropdown box and links to the right to view quakes from a specific time period.

Comment: There has been nearly 700 earthquakes since the 11th March 2011. There is talk of old Edgar Cayce predictions concerning Japan and it really does make you wonder if this could happen...

Monster aftershock could strike within days This did not happen!
The Sydney Morning Herald, 14th March 2011
"NORTH-EASTERN Japan can expect another monster earthquake large enough to trigger a tsunami within days, the head of the Australian Seismological Centre says. The director, Kevin McCue, said there had been more than 100 smaller quakes since Friday, but a larger aftershock was likely.

"Normally they happen within days," he said. "The rule of thumb is that you would expect the main aftershock to be one magnitude smaller than the main shock, so you would be expecting a 7.9. "That's a monster again in its own right that is capable of producing a tsunami and more damage."

Comment: At the moment seismologist are reporting earthquakes that are not considered aftershocks. So, there has been 730+ earthquakes over 4.5 (latest count) in about 12 days. This has to be more evidence that our scientists are monitoring events that do not have a scientific precedent.

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Greater levels of radioactive materials found due to rain
Kyodo News, 22nd March 2011
Far greater amounts of radioactive iodine and cesium were found in rain, dust and particles in the air in some areas over a 24-hour period from Sunday morning due to rainfall, the science ministry said Monday.

''Considering the results of a separate test, radioactive materials in the air and drinking water are confined to levels that would not affect health,'' an official of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said. ''The impact on agricultural crops needs to be examined mainly by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.'' [...]

A radiation level of 100,000 counts per minute will be introduced as a new standard for decontamination, up from 6,000 counts per minute, the government said, adding that raising the bar will not endanger health. The government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the decision was made based on advice from domestic nuclear experts and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Comment: Here is yet another measurement for radiation, all designed to confuse people. This is combined with the need to raise the 'safe' levels of contamination from 6,000 to 100,000 counts per minute, to spare the Japanese authorities from taking responsibility in the short term.

High radiation outside Japan's evacuation zone, says IAEA
Sify News, 22nd March 2011
Vienna: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that high radiation levels were measured recently not only inside, but also outside the 20-km evacuation zone around Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. [...] "On Sunday, one measurement 58 km from Fukushima registered 5.7 microsieverts per hour, the IAEA said in data provided to reporters.

At that rate, people would be exposed to the IAEA's annual recommended maximum radiation of one millisievert within about seven days. The IAEA assumes that receiving more than one millisieverts per year, in addition to the dose from naturally occurring radiation, raises long-term cancer risk. IAEA radiation expert Gerhard Proehl also mentioned one site more than 30 km from the nuclear plant where 100 microsieverts per hour are being measured.

Comment: Normal background radiation is 0.1 - 0.3 millisieverts per year but that means that 1-3 people in a hundred people will be expected to die of cancer. 5.7 microsieverts per hour is basically a years worth of exposure in only 7 days but this is the same risk as flying and the risk of exposure to cosmic rays. According to old FAA guidelines. "At an altitude of 35,000 feet, for example, the dose equivalent rate from cosmic rays is about 6 microsieverts (0.6 millirem) per hour (O'Brien 1978, as revised)." The 100 microsieverts per hour is 0.1 millivsieverts and that means that people are getting a whole years dosage of what is considered normal but low background radiation every hour.

• The present international unit of dose equivalent is the sievert. The sievert replaces the rem; 1 sievert = 100 rem.
  
  1000 millisieverts = 1 sievert;
  1000 microsieverts = 1 millisievert.
  
  Radiation Exposure of Air Carrier Crewmembers - FAA AC 120-52, National Transportation Library, : March 5, 1990 AC No: 120-52 link

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Pentagon: Getting the hell out of Dodge (Japan)
U.S. military personnel, families could be ordered to leave areas threatened by radiation after aircraft carrier's departure
CBS News, 21st March 2011
THE PENTAGON - The Defense Department was considering Monday night ordering the mandatory departure of all American military personnel and their families from the areas of Japan threatened by radiation, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

The government considered such an order after distributing potassium iodide pills, which defend the body from radioactive iodine, to service members of the USS George Washington and their families left ashore after the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier abruptly left Yokosuka, Japan, Monday morning.

The George Washington got underway not to aid in the relief effort but to save itself from radioactive contamination.

The decision to send the George Washington to sea, even though one of its nuclear reactors is down for repairs, came in response to a shift in the wind, which is now blowing increased amounts of radioactivity south over Tokyo toward the American bases at Yokosuka and Atsugi. The winds threaten to dump as much radioactivity in the next 24 hours as in the preceding 10 days.

Navy officers decided they could not allow the George Washington to keep absorbing even low levels of radioactive contamination for the indefinite future. At $4.5 billion, it is one of the Navy's most valuable ships, and the fear is that radiation would be sucked into the ventilation system and leave it contaminated for the rest of its service life.

Comment: The Americans do not want their expensive nuclear-powered aircraft carrier tainted by radiation so when the wind was blowing in it's direction, they just turned the ship around and got away from the scene as fast as possible. Just think about what that means... Just think about all those millions of human ventilation systems belonging to people who don't have the opportunity to run, even as others are running as fast as they can...

URGENT: Radiation 1,600 times normal level 20 km from Fukushima plant: IAEA
Kyodo News, 22nd March 2011
Radiation 1,600 times higher than normal levels has been detected in an area about 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, International Atomic Energy Agency officials said Monday. Data collected by an IAEA team show that radiation levels of 161 microsievert per hour have been detected in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, the officials said. The government has set an exclusion zone covering areas within a 20-km radius of the plant and has urged people within 20 to 30 km to stay indoors.
This is probably why the USS George Washington made a quick exit...

• Fukushima radioactive inventory is “30 to 40 times as high as in Chernobyl”: German radiation expert
  Energy News, 21st March 2011
  
  "How long does it take for a contaminated area can be inhabited again?
  
  [Renowned radiation biologist Edmund Lengfelder:] There is a rule of thumb: For a nuclide such as cesium-137, the half-life of 30 years. It takes ten half-lives, so you can populate an area again, making a total of 300 years. But in Japan is still added a difficulty: the nuclear fission process, radioactive substances, it is called the radioactive inventory of a reactor. In a boiling water reactor in Fukushima this inventory is 30 to 40 times as high as in Chernobyl, it can thus escape much more radiation. If we summarize it: In Japan, more people are concerned because the population density is higher than in Chernobyl and there is a higher contamination."
  
  
• Close-up footage of ruins at Fukushima reactor, helicopter flyover of plant YouTube/Russia Today, 21st March 2011
  "Turning to developments in Japan, where smoke is rising yet again at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Workers have been trying to get power back to restore the cooling systems after last Friday's powerful earthquake. They have now been evacuated from the area amid fresh concerns of a radiation leak and a potential nuclear metldown. Aerial pictures of the quake-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant shot last Wednesday revealed the full extent of the damage of at least two of its troubled reactors: Units 3 and 4."
  
  
• Nuclear Thriller: What if Fukushima meltdown not stopped on time?
  YouTube/Russia Today, 17th March 2011
  "Japan is struggling to regain control over the overheated reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant, after a series of blasts and fires. The government's most-senior spokesman said cooling reactor number 3 is now the top priority because it's posing the biggest danger. The prognosis doesn't look good for those risking their lives to prevent the worst from happening at Fukushima. Paul Gunter of the Beyond Nuclear campaign group in Washington explains what they face."
  Comment: I missed this... we have a nuclear expert Paul Gunter, telling us that three reactors at Fukushima are in meltdown. Yes, it's obvious this is the case, but few are prepared to actually tell the truth. We get an explanation of meltdown but Gunter is reticent to even voice the consequences of a nuclear chain reaction effecting all the reactors.
  
  
• How bad is it really Fukushima?
  Welt.de, 21st March 2011
  The Germans are quite interested in specifics... I assume the thermal photo here is from a spy satellite being put to some good use... Here is the full thermal photograph showing the situation at a nuclear power plant Unit 3 of Fukushima 1 link

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FDA Will Monitor Japanese-Made Drugs as Well as Food for Radiation
WSJ Health Blog, 21st March 2011
The FDA is going to monitor pharmaceuticals made in Japan — as well as food products — for any signs of elevated radiation levels, a spokeswoman for the agency tells us.

On Thursday we reported that the FDA would monitor future imports of fish, other food products and raw materials that originate or pass through Japan in transit to the U.S. Pharmaceutical products will also be monitored, the spokeswoman says.

Comment: Made in Japan? They might as well stick a 'Warning Radiation' sticker on instead... What the media is not telling us, but honest scientists are saying is that some types of radiation are completely invisible to detection even by Geiger counters. I would not recommend people trust the FDA or any proven corrupt government organisation, to inform us about 'safe' products from Japan.

Japan's Nuclear Disaster Raises Concerns About Contamination of the Global Food Chain
Fox News, 21st March 2011
As bad as I think this is, I am not sure there is anywhere near the kind of evidence that suggests that the global food chain will be effected, but yes, Japan has a problem.

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Mysterious flight closed airport
Views and News from Norway, 25th March 2011
The skies were blue and sunny, the runways clear of snow and ice, and traffic should have flowed routinely through Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen (OSL) after a rough winter. Instead, the airport was forced to close on a busy spring afternoon, because of a mysterious aircraft that entered its air space and stayed there.

An otherwise sunny day, free of weather problems at Oslo's main airport, ended up with massive disruption and baffled officials. PHOTO: Espen Solli/Oslo Lufthavn AS

Officials were still unsure Friday morning who was behind the problem that forced aviation officials to redirect all incoming flights for nearly two hours on Thursday, because a small unidentified aircraft resembling a hang-glider or sail plane hovered at 8,000 feet in the middle of the airport’s landing patterns.

As many as 15,000 passengers had their plans ruined, because their flights were sent off to land at outlying airports like Torp and Rygge, or even as far away as Fagernes and Stockholm.

Comment: Another UFO/UAP hanging about in the sky and closing an airport... I am wondering why there was no serious investigation like a helicopter or a fighter jet sent up and the reason for suggesting the bizarre explanation of a hang glider which implies it could stay stationary at 8000ft for two hours, that is completely strange.

Air traffic halted by hang glider
The Norway Post, 25th March 2011
"All incoming and outgoing traffic at Oslo Airport Gardermoen was halted for more than an hour on Thursday afternoon, after an unidentified hang glider or sail plane was observed circling over the airport at 8000 ft. In the meantime, a number of commercial airliners had to be diverted to other airports, even as far away as Sweden. The extra costs to the airlines involved are substantial, NRK reports. Several attempts at identifying the straying aircraft were made, but by Friday morning the identity was still a mystery. (NRK/Aftenposten)"

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Ewe have got to be kidding! The 'puppy' born to a SHEEP
Daily Mail, 25th March 2011
Vets say it’s impossible - but to Chinese farmer Liu Naiying his birth is a miracle. For Mr Liu insists one of his sheep has given birth to a dog.

The 'puppy' has wool like a lamb but its mouth, nose, eyes, paws and tail look more like a dog's. His 'sheep dog' even plays like a hound. The birth has prompted thousands to flock to his farm in Shaanxi Province to see for themselves. Mr Liu told how he found the unusual baby animal shortly after it was born in one of his fields.

‘I was herding the sheep, and saw a sheep licking her newborn lamb on the grassland. The lamb was still wet,’ he said. ‘When I went up close to check on the lamb I was shocked because it looked so weird, like a cross between a sheep and a dog. ‘I was a bit frightened, as I've been raising sheep for 20 years and had never seen such a creature.’

Yue Guozhang, a researcher at Xi'an City Animal Husbandry Technology Centre, said sheep and dogs were different species. ‘It's not possible that a sheep could become pregnant with a puppy,’ he said. ‘It's likely that this is just an abnormal lamb.’

Comment: Like so many abberations that we have seen in recent times, this would make sense if the processing of dna has been mixed up because the original sheep morphogenetic information has been modified with 'dog' morphogenetic information. (Scientists use the same term for biological fields that act as templates for biologiocal development and growth with environmental information fields, but here, I am refering to the reprogramming of the biological morphogenetic field in utero). I also believe that the environmental morphogenetic fields are being upgraded too, but I think we could only say that this was being invoked if there was signs of a widespread variation in a strain of a biological species. Anyway, I believe, there will be many more examples as the electromagnetic chaos deepens and the chaos of evolutionary change becomes undeniable.

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JZ Knight Ramtha Cult Exposed
Wide Eye Cinema, March 2011
Glen Cunningham talks about his involvement with Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment (RSE). [September, 2008] In this two part video interview Glen talks about his unique experience of being employed by JZ Knight as “Ramtha’s” personal bodyguard while a member of RSE. He came to realize that he was involved In a clever and deceptive cult. In this candid interview with David McCarthy, Glen answers questions regarding, How he got involved with RSE, what his experiences were while he was employed there, especially that caused him to leave, And what he learned of the workings of RSE while he was employed there. This interview is based on Glen’s personal experiences and opinions as related to RSE.

Comment: Due to the buzz surrounding the James Ray trial, there are a lot of links being passed around hence I found this gem. I will say that this is probably only of interest to those who know about the controversial New Age character JZ Knight and her channelling of a character called Ramtha. After James Ray murdered three people in his sweat lodge I spent a lot of time trying to understand what was really going on. This led me to a selection of other questionable guru's that included JZ Knight and the Ramtha School of Enlightenment (RSE). I will state that this interview is more like a group of friends reminiscing about old times, a good old chin wag. Glen Cunningham admits that he likes being a storyteller, he says he is not a liar but then admits he made stories up about JZ Knight for a selection of reasons as he explains. I thought his recollection of his experiences with JZ Knight were actually quite kind and there is no way this account provides any serious dirt on this woman. Well, thinking about that.... actually, near the end of part II we get the story about JZ Knight's confession during a "wine ceremony" that she made up a story to get money out of her followers to pay her taxes... Anyway, from what I have read on blogs from people desperately trying to come to terms with their involvement with this character, I think the wine ceremonies and encouraging people to take prozac is probably the most disturbing aspect, but quite frankly, it's hard to decide because there is so much that is highly questionable. Well, from my point of view, someone supposedly channelling whilst drinking, to the point where they are sick and have to be carried off stage is off the charts. Apparently, there is proof as JZ Knight even sold videos of this spectacle. It was only years later she realised that maybe some people might think her behaviour was completely outrageous that she told her followers to dispose of the evidence! I am still hoping to see a video of this disgraceful behaviour to further my own investigations...

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Steve McIntyre uncovers another hockey stick trick
WUWT, 24th March 2011

Just when you think the bottom of the Hockey Stick rabbit hole has been reached, Steve McIntyre finds yet more evidence of misconduct by the Team.

The research was from Briffa and Osborn (1999) published in Science magazine and purported to show the consistency of the reconstruction of past climate using tree rings with other reconstructions including the Mann Hockey Stick. But the trick was exposed in the Climategate dossier, which also included code segments and datasets.

In the next picture, Steve shows what Briffa and Osborn did – not only did they truncate their reconstruction to hide a steep decline in the late 20th Century but also a substantial early segment from 1402-1550:

Comment: Reading through the comments, I found the following:

Paul Westhaver March 24, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Yesterday I remarked about the vernacularization of science language and discipline.

Today it is worse. Science as a word is going to end up in the thesaurus with words like:

abracadabra, alchemy, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, rune, science, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry

I disagree with the inclusion of magnetism but since it's largely a mystery to most scientists, I can see why it's included on the list...

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The Earth’s biosphere is booming, data suggests that CO2 is the cause, part 2
Watts Up with That, 24th March 2011
I first ran a story with this title in 2008, with these graphics from SEAWIFS, showing a growing biosphere. Now a new study using a different methodology, Leaf Area Index (LAI), have determined that indeed, the LAI is on the increase. Those global warming proponents, who consider themselves “green” get very upset when it is pointed out that CO2 is “plant food”, yet here we have even more evidence that Gaia’s greenery likes it. [...]

OK. The earth warmed over the past 30 years. We agree (although that has largely slowed down or even stopped in the past 10 years). Atmospheric CO2 has increased. We agree. The rise in CO2 caused the warming—not according to Lo and Hsu. The warming caused vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere to thrive—Liu et al. think so.

You get the message—warming and elevated CO2 are not combining to destroy the planet’s vegetation. Quite to the contrary, they may be a blessing!

Comment: An improvement in the world's vegetation is exactly as one metaphysical source predicted would be the result of the transition taking place and this was going to go on for thousands of years. It would be interesting to check the metaphysical literature and see who else made this claim decades ago.

Surprise: Earths’ Biosphere is Booming, Satellite Data Suggests CO2 the Cause
Watts Up With That, 8th June 2008
Until the 1980s, ecologists had no way to systematically track growth in plant matter in every corner of the Earth — the best they could do was analyze small plots of one-tenth of a hectare or less. The notion of continuously tracking global production to discover the true state of the globe’s biota was not even considered.

Then, in the 1980s, ecologists realized that satellites could track production, and enlisted NASA to collect the data. For the first time, ecologists did not need to rely on rough estimates or anecdotal evidence of the health of the ecology: They could objectively measure the land’s output and soon did — on a daily basis and down to the last kilometer.

The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA satellite data. They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%. About 25% of the Earth’s vegetated landmass — almost 110 million square kilometres — enjoyed significant increases and only 7% showed significant declines. When the satellite data zooms in, it finds that each square metre of land, on average, now produces almost 500 grams of greenery per year.

From the 2004 abstract: Our results indicate that global changes in climate have eased several critical climatic constraints to plant growth, such that net primary production increased 6% (3.4 petagrams of carbon over 18 years) globally. The largest increase was in tropical ecosystems. Amazon rain forests accounted for 42% of the global increase in net primary production, owing mainly to decreased cloud cover and the resulting increase in solar radiation.

Lush as the planet may now be, it is as nothing compared to earlier times, when levels of CO2 and Earth temperatures were far higher. In the age of the dinosaur, for example, CO2 levels may have been five to 10 times higher than today, spurring a luxuriantly fertile planet whose plant life sated the immense animals of that era.

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Are the Religious Prone to Obesity?
Study found regularly attending services was linked to raised risk in middle age
Business Week, 23rd March 2011
WEDNESDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that people who frequently attend religious services are significantly more likely to become obese by the time they reach middle age.

The study doesn't prove that attending services is fattening, nor does it explain why weight might be related to faith. Even so, the finding is surprising, especially considering that religious people tend to be in better health than others, said study author Matthew J. Feinstein, a medical student at Northwestern University in Chicago.

"It highlights a particular group that appears to be at a greater risk of becoming obese and remaining obese," he said. "It's a group that may benefit from targeted anti-obesity interventions and from obesity prevention programs."

Comment: This is a subject that is often considered in metaphysical world and it's a particular issue for healers. From a personal point of view I wonder whether it is related to the need to provide protection. Spiritual people have to deal with others who cannot process spiritual energies very well and therefore are constantly being drained by those who prefer to get this energy second hand. I know because I went through many years of this and it can get very nasty. Most of this is unconscious but at some level of awareness protection mechanisms are put in place and I think the extra weight seems to help. Hence the confused analysis here and no understanding of the spiritual dynamics involved.

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Witness Photographs Strange Object Over Louisiana
UFO Chronicles, 21st March 2011
I am a photographer, and on March 19th I was outside taking pictures of the moon during its lunar perigee. My grandparents were also outside with me, playing with my daughter on her swing set.

While aiming my shot of the moon I noticed what I thought was some debris on my lens, so I cleaned it and prepared to try the shot again. I observed at this point that I could make out the object only through the camera lens, and that it was not obvious to the naked eye.

Comment: Well, a lot of people have been trying to get great photos of the supermoon, so a few people capturing a ufo is no surprise, but this is quite strange.... More:

Supermoon spotter's UFO shock
Clacton Gazette, 23rd March 2011

New footage of UFO activity above Rockingham in Western Australia 22-Mar-2011
Latest UFO Sightings, 22nd March 2011
OK, this has nothing to do with the supermoon but the commentary is just too hilarious not to point out. I am sure this guy must have had an orgasm... There is some profanity.

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Reporter makes nonsensical comments on air
Live Leak, 22nd March 2011
It was a scary few moments for Global Toronto reporter Mark McAllister last night, who suffered an on-air medical issue that left him with badly garbled speech. While viewers watched, McAllister attempted to add to a news story on the strife in Libya, but the information he was trying to present about Canadian fighter planes performing missions in the area was nonsensical.

Comment: I wonder what is going on... it's almost like watching robots breaking down... This is not the first instance. Recently, there was Serene Branson (diagnosed as stroke) and Sarah Carlson (diagnosed as an epiletic fit) that occured live on air too. Yes, I know about the theories that not every body on the planet is human as most people understand human, even our neurologists are prepared to admit this concerning psychopaths, but I am intrigued if this is going to keep happening and what it really means...

CBS Reporter Serene Branson Appears to Have Stroke on Live TV
ABC News, 14th February 2011

Good Morning America: Serene Branson, What Happened to Grammys Reporter? 2/15/2011
YouTube, 15th February 2011

Threaten the Hoover - Ian Punnett Talking in Tongues on C2C (+Backwards replay) 07-09-2010
YouTube, March 2011
Another recent example... This also reminds me of people waking up and speaking and thinking in another language and those who wake up with a foreign accent, (see archives). Yes it's crazy and just what you would expect as the geomagnetic conditions worsen and electromagnetic humans (or otherwise) fail to cope...

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James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 17
Celestial Reflections, 23rd March 2011
I want to call Melinda Martin "Event Coordinator Barbie." Because of the resemblance and because she was the event coordinator for JRI. But also because I've always thought of Barbie as a very smart, capable, independent woman of numerous careers and aptitudes.

Martin strikes me as level headed and capable and exactly the kind of person you want in a job like that. That is, unless you're James Arthur Ray and value sycophancy over ability. Martin testified, for instance, that Dream Team members were hired based on how easy they were to get along with. And Martin, who had only a passing acquaintance with Ray's "teachings" was clearly nowhere near brainwashed enough in her short job tenure to go with the flow when all hell broke loose after the sweat lodge.

Comment: This is mainly about the witness testimonial of Melinda Martin "Event Coordinator Barbie", who worked for James Ray International. If they would produce a DVD of her appearance I would buy it and use it for inspiration in self-empowerment. This woman rocks! From the sections that I watched, it seems that Melinda was not brainwashed enough and could recognise a disaster when she saw one. This write-up does not reflect the power of her testimony, so all I can say, is read around and find out more, this woman has my full admiration.

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Burrito Backfire: Man Starts Shooting After an Increase in Taco Bell Prices
Time News, 22nd March 2011
While no one exactly enjoys price increases, one San Antonio man took a 50-cent hike on Taco Bell burritos a little too hard.

The drive-thru customer flew into a "taco rage" after learning that Taco Bell's special on Beefy Crunch Burritos had ended and they were no longer selling for 99 cents each--they were now priced at $1.49 each. The man responded by firing into the drive-thru window at the fast food restaurant. While it was a BB gun that he fired, he had a semi-automatic rifle and a pistol on him as well.

Comment: Yes, this is someone who has not resolved their major issues becoming unbalanced in a chaotic geomagnetic environment. However, it does seem that more and more people are becoming unreasonable and crazy with only some minor provocation.

Scorned granny shoots up neighbor's home
KLTV News, 23rd March 2011
OK, it's clear there are many people simmering away waiting for the opportunity to explode, but this story of a controlling old woman who is prepared to use a gun to get what she wants is still shocking.

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New plant species offers insights into how evolution works
Discovery You, 21st March 2011
Scientists have revealed that a new plant species is providing an insight into how evolution works and could help improve crop plants.

The new plant species, Tragopogon miscellus, appeared in the United States 80 years ago. It came about when two species in the daisy family, introduced from Europe, mated to produce a hybrid offspring.

The species had mated before in Europe, but the hybrids were never successful. However in America something new happened. The number of chromosomes in the hybrid spontaneously doubled, and at once it became larger than its parents and quickly spread.

Comment: Here we are told that despite the efforts of humans to create hybrids, this will only work when the environment decides that hybrids will be allowed. It's that simple.

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Why can't we predict the next big quake?
CNN News, 21st March 2011
(CNN) -- Why can't seismologists predict earthquakes? It's a question and a frustration that understandably springs to mind in the aftermath of a tragedy like the one that continues to unfold in Japan.

In the 1970s and 1980s (not exactly ancient times), leading scientists were quoted in the media expressing optimism that reliable, short-term prediction was just around the corner. Several decades later, the earthquake science community is older and wiser.

Comment: I am slowly starting to pick up information that suggests that our planet was hit by another gravitational wave from deep space, in the same way that some seismologists think this might have been the trigger for the December 2004 Sumatra, Indonesian 9.1 earthquake. Again, if you check what real scientists have to say, the 9.1 Sumatra earthquake should not have happened according to their models and theories, but we know it did and the planet was still ringing like a bell over six months later. Currently, the Japanese 9.0 earthquake is not providing the expected earthquake aftershock pattern and I am sure this is being carefully considered by world experts.

Size of Japan's quake surprises seismologists
The 8.9 magnitude earthquake is among the top 10 ever recorded and occurred on an irregular fault line where a smaller temblor would be expected.
LA Times, 11th March 2011
" Geologists had expected the portion of the Pacific "Ring of Fire" that produced this quake to yield a temblor on the order of magnitude 8 or perhaps 8.5, she said. "Something as big as an 8.9 is a bit of a surprise," she said.

A quake that big usually requires a long, relatively straight fault line that can rupture, such as those found in Peru and along the eastern coast of South America. Friday's quake occurred in the Japan Trench, where the Pacific tectonic plate slides under the Japan plate.

Scientists did not expect such a big quake in the area because the plate boundary is not straight, but is fairly irregular. According to Lucile Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey, a quake of that size would require rupturing a zone at least 300 miles long.

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Weather Radar Detects UFO Radar Anomaly Bigger than Belgium
UFO Briefcase, 20th March 2011
Unusual formations have been appearing on government weather satellite imagery all over the world. Satellite Weather images over Europe have detected an enormous unidentified object that is larger than Belgium! The key witness has recorded their observation in order to understand exactly what was seen. The video was uploaded onto YouTube with the following statement:

“Can somebody tell my what the heck is going on ?”

Comment: This radar phenomena is getting more frequent.... presumably these are nodes across the planet that have been captured whilst responding to the energetic shifts on the planet. See the latest reports of mysterious humming from Florida below:

Bizarre Unexplained Phenomena in Florida: Ground Shaking, Loud Noise (Video)
DBKP, 20th March 2011
"Two very weird phenomena stories out of the Florida beginning on March 9 when residents in Flagler County located on the east coast of Florida reported a loud noise–’very strange sounds’ that lasted ‘up to 20 minutes’. [Video, which is pretty amazing, below] Nine days later, one day before the Super Moon, scared Floridians near Tallahassee, located over 200 hundred miles to the northwest of Flagler County, reported the ground and buildings shaking."

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Biology's 'dark matter' hints at fourth domain of life
New Scientist, 18th March 2011
Step far enough back from the tree of life and it begins to look quite simple. At its heart are just three stout branches, representing the three domains of life: bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. But that's too simple, according to a band of biologists who believe we may be on the verge of discovering the fourth domain of life.

The bold statement is the result of an analysis of water samples collected from the world's seas. Jonathan Eisen at the University of California, Davis, Genome Center has identified gene sequences hidden within these samples that are so unusual they seem to have come from organisms that are only distantly related to cellular life as we know it. So distantly related, in fact, that they may belong to an organism that sits in an entirely new domain. [...]

Most species on the planet look like tiny single cells, and to work out where they fit on the tree of life biologists need to be able to grow them in the lab. Colonies like this give them enough DNA to run their genetic analyses. The problem is, the vast majority of these species – 99 per cent of them is a reasonable bet – refuse to be cultured in this way. "They really are the dark matter of the biological universe," says Eisen.

"The question is, what are they from?" says Eisen. Because the team has no idea what organism the genes belong to, the question remains unanswered. There are two possibilities, he says. "They could represent an unusual virus, which is interesting enough. More interestingly still, they could represent a totally new branch in the tree of life." Further analysis of the samples could determine whether the two gene families studied have evolved unusually rapidly or are from a cellular organism with a universally bizarre genome, he says.

Comment: OK, so we have organisms that live in the sea with bizarre genomes, so what? Scientists are constantly telling us they have misunderstood how the universe works, is this supposed to be news? We have plasma entities that have been around for billions of years, floating around us that the vast majority of scientists do not even want to acknowledge exist, despite the hard evidence. So, what is surprising about some strange stuff in the sea, the universe is inherently strange to narrow minded humans.

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Tibet’s Cave of Spirits is Singing
Wee Warrior Blog, 18th March 2011
[...] I checked around and found the page for the Russians who claim to have recorded the original and have the high definition version online for download: http://files.mail.ru/SGYD94 Just click on the link that says “earthcalling” and save it to your computer…virus free, I promise! Unfortunately, my subsequent investigations have turned up very little so far. The small amount I have uncovered has mainly been on forums and are 90% speculation. Here is the one statement that is being repeated most often:

There is a secret cave of spirits in Tibet.
This cave is not known to the public.
The Tibetan saints are sleeping in this cave.
The old men and monks are saying that Shiva is starting to sing his mantra calling for Gods to return to the Earth.
This mantra has three levels.
The last level means the coming of the new era.

Listen to this sound recorded by Russian enthusiasts who were allowed to visit the place near the cave where it was possible to record the sound. This sound has no artificial changes and is presented in raw format (only noises were reducted). As I listened to it, I was overwhelmed with thoughts about the “Music of the Spheres” as was taught in the Pythagorean mystery schools…

Comment: This is doing the rounds on the blogosphere but it has also got extra attention due to the strange humming earth sounds in Florida that has got people searching for clues. Well, I am enthralled to discover that Tibetan monks have preserved the knowledge that the increased energies on the planet would be reflected in the Earth humming that would reach a level that would represent the arrival of a new era. Due to recent geophysical discoveries, the New Scientist reported the following:

The second humming (of the Earth)

Listen closely, and you'll hear the Earth humming - in not just one note, but two. For 10 years or so we have known about Earth's quiet "vertical" hum which is probably caused by the steady thumping of deep waves on the ocean floor. A team in Germany has now discovered a second "horizontal" note, and nobody knows what's causing it.
Seven new wonders of the world, New Scientist, 02 January 2009 link

So, are the Tibetan monks correct and we are now hearing the third level of hum? We are seeing many reports of radar anomalies and humming sounds that not everyone can hear. There are many other geophysical events that appear to be related so the only conclusion we can come to is that Earth is reaching a new frequency and/or Earth is resonating more strongly with an external signal.

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NASA’s All Sky Fireball Network
NASA News, March 2011
Intro: The NASA All-sky Fireball Network is a network of cameras set up by the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office (MEO) with the goal of observing meteors brighter than the planet Venus, which are called fireballs. The collected data will be used by the MEO in constructing models of the meteoroid environment, which are important to spacecraft designers.

Network: The network currently consists of 3 cameras placed in locations in north Alabama, northwest Georgia, and southern Tennessee. The network is growing all the time, with plans to place a total of 15 cameras in schools, science centers, and planetaria in the United States, predominately east of the Mississippi River, where there are few such systems.

Comment: Is this project to get round the blackout of data from US military satellites? Very strange...

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Simulations of atmospheric dispersion of the plume formed by the release of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, between March 12 and March 20, 2011
IRSN, 19th March 2011

Double Click image for the original simulation (google translation link does not work...)

[...] Simulations of atmospheric dispersion of the plume formed by the release of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, between March 12 and March 20, 2011 [...]

IRSN simulated atmospheric dispersion of releases estimated between 12 and 22 March, using its numerical model applicable to long distance (scale of several hundred kilometers), using observations and weather forecasts provided by Weather France. Based on radioactive discharges estimated by IRSN, Meteo France has simulated the dispersion of air emissions, projected until March 26. According to this simulation, the plume would now reached the north-eastern Siberia, the United States and western Atlantic. It should reach France from 23 or 24 March."

[Important:] This simulation was applied to the cesium 137, as a tracer of the plume during this period. The modeling results are expressed in becquerels of cesium-137 per cubic meter of air (Bq / m 3).

Comment: The IRSN is the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety and this is telling us that the Daily Mail estimate of radiation arriving in 2 weeks (see below) is wrong, the British government have not provided any info as far as I am aware. Right click to view full size or double click to go direct to the simulation.

• Medicines of Light: Protection and Healing from Radiation Poisoning, Neurotoxins, Bacteria and Viruses.
  Tom Kenyon, The Hathors, 16th March 2011
  
  
• Comment: All people need to do is set up the morphogenetic fields and reinforce them by programming them with ritual and belief, that's what Big Pharma has done. It's metaphysics, but it works as evidenced by the Placebo Effect that medical researchers tell us is currently getting much stronger on the planet...

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Japan nuclear plant: Panic buyers seek out salt, seaweed and red wine as rumour fuels fallout fears
As nuclear panic began to spread around the world, pharmacies and supermarkets thousands of miles from Japan began to run out of anything and everything that was even rumoured to prevent radiation poisoning.
The Telegraph, 18th March 2011
Russia saw a run on red wine and seaweed; in China people were buying massive amounts of salt, and chemists as far away as Bulgaria reported shortages of iodine tablets.

No matter how many scientists were wheeled out to reassure people that radiation levels outside Japan would not pose a threat to health, widespread distrust of official advice meant thousands placed more faith in old wives' tales. In China, the government called for calm after shoppers bought huge quantities of salt in the belief that it contains enough iodine to block radiation.

Potassium iodide tablets, which prevent the body from absorbing radiation, have been handed out in Japan to those living near the stricken Fukushima power plant, and in China iodine is added to salt to help prevent iodine deficiency. The mere mention of the word iodine was enough to prompt panic buying of salt amid fears that a change in the wind direction could blow a radioactive cloud across China from its near neighbour.

Comment: Well, if people are buying stuff in the hope it will help them, then the fact that the placebo effect has doubled in the least 30 years means their belief might help keep them alive. Think about that.... Well, planet Earth is now turning into a cosmic and manmade radiation trap. All of a sudden, my effort to explain to people that the human energy field needs to become a cosmic shield is looking more and more prescient. I am happy for those who are genuine and have maintained high standards of searching for spiritual truth in their life and have not stamped all over others in this pursuit. For others, I don't really have much positive to say, because it is extremely unlikely that you will have the full requisite spectrum of frequencies required by universal consciousness. However, I am reminded about the Hathor comment about the need to protect the innocents and I assume that refers to children. Quite frankly, events on this planet are looking decidedly biblical in proportions.

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Status of quake-stricken reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plants
Kyodo News, 19th March 2011
Copy: The following is the known status as of Friday night of each of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the four reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant, both in Fukushima Prefecture, which were crippled by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the ensuing tsunami on March 11.

Fukushima Daiichi plant

-- Reactor No. 1 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged March 12 by hydrogen explosion, roof blown off, seawater being pumped in.

-- Reactor No. 2 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, seawater being pumped in, fuel rods fully exposed temporarily, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged Monday by blast at reactor No. 3, blast sound heard near suppression chamber of containment vessel on Tuesday, damage to containment structure feared.

-- Reactor No. 3 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core feared, vapor vented, seawater being pumped in, building housing reactor badly damaged Monday by hydrogen explosion, high-level radiation measured nearby on Tuesday, plume of smoke observed Wednesday and presumed to have come from spent-fuel storage pool, seawater dumped over pool by helicopter on Thursday, water sprayed at it from ground on Thursday and Friday.

-- Reactor No. 4 - Under maintenance when quake struck, no fuel rods in reactor core, temperature in spent-fuel storage pool reached 84 C on Monday, fire Tuesday possibly caused by hydrogen explosion at pool holding spent fuel rods, fire observed Wednesday at building housing reactor, pool water level feared receding, renewed nuclear chain reaction feared, only frame remains of reactor building roof.

-- Reactors No. 5, 6 - Under maintenance when quake struck, some fuel rods left in reactor cores, water temperatures in spent-fuel storage pools increased to about 64 C on Thursday.

-- Spent-fuel storage pools - Cooling functions lost at reactors No. 1 to 4, water temperatures or levels unobservable at reactors No. 1 to 4, no immediate threat to water level at common spent fuel pool.

Fukushima Daini plant

-- Reactors No. 1, 2, 4 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, then cold shutdown.

-- Reactor No. 3 - Operation suspended after quake, cold shutdown.

==Kyodo

Comment: Does this explain why the Akio Komiri, director of plant owners Tokyo Electric Power Company was crying today? Does this explain why so many countries are telling their citizens to get out of Japan prompto? Maybe we have a very dirty bomb that's about to explode.

Alert: Fukushima Coverup, 40 Years of Spent Nuclear Rods Blown Sky High
Info Wars, 15th March 2011
"The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools dedicated to spent fuel rods. These are located at the top of six reactor buildings – or were until explosions and fires ravaged the plant. On the ground level there is a common pool in a separate building that was critical damaged by the tsunami. Each reactor building pool holds 3,450 fuel rod assemblies and the common pool holds 6,291 fuel rod assemblies. Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. In short, the Fukushima Daiichi plant contains over 600,000 spent fuel rods – a massive amount of radiation that will soon be released into the atmosphere."
I have been struggling with this for days. I simply can't believe the high numbers and the fact they represent hundreds of tons of this stuff. I don't know whether this report is accurate, but it's the no. of spent rods with some official verfication (.pdf file that can be downloaded) that is just shocking.

Plutonium in troubled reactors, spent fuel pools
Fox News, 18th March 2011
"The Fukushima Dai-ichi site has a considerable number of fuel rods on hand, according to information provided Thursday by Toyko Electric Power Co., which owns the atomic complex: There are 3,400 tons of fuel in seven spent fuel pools within the six-reactor plant, including one joint pool storing very old fuel from units 3 and 4. There are 877 tons in five of the reactor cores. Officials have said that the fuel in Unit 4's reactor vessel was transferred to its spent fuel pool when the unit was temporarily shut in November."
More shocking details...

Feds admit radioactive xenon-133 from Fukushima detected TWO days ago in Washington State
Enews, 18th March 2011
This means that prior estimates are all wrong.

• Japan Worse Than Chernobyl Meltdown?
  YouTube 15th March 2011 It's game over
  
  
• Fukushima update - Japan's last days
  YouTube, 19th March 2011
  
  
• Japan Disaster - Understand & Prepare - Chris Everard & Max Igan -- 1/11
  YouTube, 17th March 2011
  The historical information explained here is highly enlightening.
  
  The above YouTube videos are only for people interested in reality, those in denial, don't bother.

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Exposed: Nuclear fuel rods inside wrecked reactor as experts predict radioactive plume will reach Britain in two weeks
Daily Mail, 18th March 2011

• Particles spewed from wrecked Fukushima power station arrive in California
  
• Officials admit they may have to bury reactors under concrete - as happened at Chernobyl
• Government says it was overwhelmed by the scale of twin disasters
• Japanese upgrade accident from level four to five - the same as Three Mile Island
• Military trucks tackle reactors with tons of water for second day
  

These pictures show overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.

Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, after a 45ft-deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire.

And some of the radioactive material could reach Britain within a fortnight, according to experts.

However they say it will not be dangerous when it reaches our shores while low levels of radiation have already hit Southern California.

Comment: According to world experts, this incident is actually off the charts. According to jet stream simulation, some radiation will probably arrive sooner. There is a photo here of Akio Komiri, director of plant owners Tokyo Electric Power Company crying as he left the day's press conference.

Nuclear tomb: Japan may bury stricken plant
CBS News, 18th March 2011
"(CBS/AP) Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that they may have to bury the crippled Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear plant in sand or encase it in concrete to try to contain the radiation."

Casualties among power plant workers, contamination and progress
17th March 2011
This list of injured and contaminated nuclear workers is not getting much media attention.

JAPAN NUCLEAR ALERT - MAYOR OF MINAMISOMA "THEY ARE LEAVING US HERE TO DIE"
YouTube/BBC News, 17th March 2011
"The Mayor of Minamisoma tells of how the government never even informed them about the Fukishima nuclear emergency and that he found out from TV. He says the japanese government have abandoned him and his people, and are leaving them there to die." This is heartbreaking.. The game was up after the first nuclear explosion because all those hundreds of thousands of old spent fuel rods exploded too. Hence, the truthful experts who KNEW the facts, stated immediately that this was worse than Chernobyl.

China's Empty Cities
The Unconventional Economist, 15th December 2010
It's dark at the moment, but some are talking about these empty Chinese cities. It would represent a chink of light if they were offered to Japanese refugees. The estimate is 64 million vacant homes. That's really strange isn't it?

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Fukushima Crisis Worsens as U.S. Warns of a Large Radiation Release
The New York Times, 17th March 2011
The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said his staff in Tokyo had been told by Japanese utility officials that cooling water that normally covers spent fuel was nearly or totally gone from an uncovered concrete pool above reactor Unit 4. Based upon that assessment, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo advised Americans living within about 50 miles of the plant on Japan's northeast coast to evacuate farther away. Japan has called for an evacuation within about 12 miles of the plant.

Comment: I understand that President Obama was playing down the risk for the citizens of the United States but the New York Times are having none of that, so what gives?

27 Signs That The Nuclear Crisis In Japan Is Much Worse Than Either The Mainstream Media Or The Japanese Government Have Been Telling Us
The Economic Collapse Blog, 16th March 2011

• Weather Model - North Pacific Jet Stream Wind and 250 mb Pressure (Relevant for West Coast of United States)
  StormSurf, 18th March 2011

U.S. starts evacuating Americans out of Japan
USA Today, 17th March 2011 Actions speak louder than words...
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has authorized the first evacuations of Americans out of Japan, taking a tougher stand on the deepening nuclear crisis and warning U.S. citizens to defer all non-essential travel to any part of the country as unpredictable weather and wind conditions risked spreading radioactive contamination."
There is only a short clip of Capt. Eric Gardner explaining the evauation plan

U.S. ready to evacuate 87,300 Americans in worst-case scenario in Japan
All Headline News, 18th March 2011
"The United States would be prepared to evacuate thousands of Americans in case of a worst-case scenario emerging in Japan according to the top officer overseeing U.S. military assistance to Japan but he expressed cautiously optimistic opinion that Japan will avert a worst-case nuclear disaster by preventing a full meltdown of its crippled reactors."

• Capt. Eric Gardner Explains Evacuation Plan [9:23]
  Youtube, 17th March 2011
  Capt. Eric Gardner, commander in charge of the Naval Air Facility Atsugi explains the voluntary evacuation procedues for non essential Navy personnel ie women and children go first. He says: This is unprecedented, but don't panic! Plan: 10,000 people per day to be evacuated from three different sites using air force and navy planes plus domestic airlines. Pack for 3 - 5 days, all your other stuff has to be left behind... copy
  
  
• Scientists Project Path of Radiation Plume
  New York Times, 16th March 2011
  
  
• United Nations Radiation plume projected path
  YouTube, 16th March 2011
  
  
• Small amounts of radiation headed for California, but no health risk seen
  According to RT News, at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the radiation exposure is 12 months dosage every hour....
  
  
• New aerial footage of Japan tsunami-hit reactor damage
  BBC News, 17 March 2011 Last updated at 17:21 GMT
  
  
• TEPCO: Video from helicopter over Fukushima
  YouTube, 17th March 2011
  

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Japan Nuclear Disaster Caps Decades of Faked Reports, Accidents
Bloomberg Business Week, 17th March 2011
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry.

The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami comes less than four years after a 6.8 quake shut the world’s biggest atomic plant, also run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. In 2002 and 2007, revelations the utility had faked repair records forced the resignation of the company’s chairman and president, and a three-week shutdown of all 17 of its reactors. [...]

Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismology professor at Kobe University, has said Japan’s history of nuclear accidents stems from an overconfidence in plant engineering. In 2006, he resigned from a government panel on reactor safety, saying the review process was rigged and “unscientific.” [...]

Back-up diesel generators that might have averted the disaster were positioned in a basement, where they were overwhelmed by waves.

“This in the country that invented the word Tsunami,” said Brockman, who also worked at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Japan is going to have a look again at its regulatory process and whether it’s intrusive enough.” (Japan won't have the opportunity because the country has been destroyed.)

The cascade of events at Fukushima had been foretold in a report published in the U.S. two decades ago. The 1990 report by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an independent agency responsible for safety at the country’s power plants, identified earthquake-induced diesel generator failure and power outage leading to failure of cooling systems as one of the “most likely causes” of nuclear accidents from an external event.

Comment: This is all really sad, but I feel compelled to point out that the earthquake and tsunami are natural disasters. Due to the high influx of energies on this planet, they are to be expected and many credible and not so credible people are making an assortment of ongoing predictions. From my point of view, the planet is saturated with electrical and aetheric energies and we can expect known and unknown triggers to cause more major events. However, as I have stated, especially in my last interview with Whitley Strieber, we are not making this transition easy because of the refusal to except change. Due to the unfolding disaster, people are demanding to know the truth and the media are now reporting the intransigence of the Japanese authorities and their preference for maintaining the status quo regardless of the consequences. This particular article is shocking in some of the revelations, but maybe not for campaigners who have know some of these facts for many years. We now know that watchdogs did point out the possibility of the power being knocked out and the diesel powered generators being inoperable, yet, apparently this was completely ignored, but it's hard to imagine why. Personally, what I am struggling with is the concept that nuclear power plants are supposed to create electrical power, so how could they not restore power quickly unless the reality is that all operating equipment was completely destroyed. There is discussion in this article of scandal and lies but on a deeper level, I think it's about certain people maintaining power regardless of the fact they don't know or even care about the facts. The lunatics running the asylum. People with power but no wisdom. I personally think this is a fatal blow to Japan and we will have to see just how bad it gets.

• Hopi call for Prayer to restore balance in Japan and Mother Earth
  
  
• ***Official*** Message from the Hopi Nation about Japan, Amazing and Historic
  YouTube, 17th March 2011
  

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The 9.0 Japanese Earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake
Japan Outreach and Public Relations Office, 17th March 2011
At 14:46 (Japan Time) March 11th 2011, a massive scale earthquake of magnitude 9.0 (it was announced 8.8 but is corrected by Japan Meteorological Agency on 13th March) occurred on the pacific coast along from Sanriku to Ibaraki coast.

Due to this earthquake, there are some troubles in accessing to the observed data, but this website will be updated according to all information that Earthquake Research Institute can provide.

[Basic Information]

• Location of hypocenter: 138.03N, 143.15E,10km depth
• Magnitude: Mw 8.8
• Type of earthquake: interplate earthquake
• Related plates: the Pacific plate, the North American plate
• Type of focal mechanism: low-angle reverse fault (almost East-West compressional axis)
• The height of observed tsunami: above 7 m in Soma, above 4.2 in Oarai

Comment: There is a FAQ and lots of seimsic data and seismic simulations here provided for academics, but the tsunami simulation (prof. Takashi Furumura) is excellent. Additional info:

Magnitude	TNT Equivalent	Example
1.0	30 lb	Construction site blast
2.0	1 ton	Large quarry or mine blast
3.0	29 ton
4.0	1 kiloton	Small atomic bomb
5.0	32 kiloton	Nagasaki atomic bomb
6.0	1 megaton	Double Spring Flat, NV Quake, 1994
7.0	32 megaton	Largest thermonuclear weapon
8.0	1 gigaton	San Francisco, CA Quake, 1906
9.0	32 gigaton	Indian Ocean Quake 2004

Source: Measuring the Size of an Earthquake, British Geological Survey

Info: 1 gigaton= 1000 megatons, 1 megaton= 1000 kilotons, 1 gigaton= 1,000,000 kilotons. The Japanese earthquake was equivalent to a million Nagasaki atomic bombs or a 1,000 large thermonuclear megaton bombs. To put that in perspective, solar scientists tell us a solar flare gives off as much magnetic energy as 10 billion megaton nuclear bombs. So, the Japanese earthquake had the approximate power of 1/10,000,000th of the power of a solar flare on the sun and as we know solar flares have their own ratings, so this is still only a ball park estimate.

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Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette
The Japan Times, 23rd May 2004 A nuclear disaster waiting to happen...
"The 52 reactors in Japan -- which generate a little over 30 percent of its electricity -- are located in an area the size of California, many within 150 km of each other and almost all built along the coast where seawater is available to cool them.

However, many of those reactors have been negligently sited on active faults, particularly in the subduction zone along the Pacific coast, where major earthquakes of magnitude 7-8 or more on the Richter scale occur frequently. The periodicity of major earthquakes in Japan is less than 10 years. There is almost no geologic setting in the world more dangerous for nuclear power than Japan -- the third-ranked country in the world for nuclear reactors.

"I think the situation right now is very scary," says Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and professor at Kobe University. "It's like a kamikaze terrorist wrapped in bombs just waiting to explode." [...]

It is not a question of whether or not a nuclear disaster will occur in Japan; it is a question of when it will occur.

Comment: As regulars will know, I like to understand the historical context. Here we have further evidence that some 'sane' insiders have been waiting for this disaster to happen. Read the article... back in 2004, they knew that the potential for disaster would be greater than Chernobyl but there were still no effective plans in place to deal with any disaster. Presumably, the magical thinking was that placing 52 nuclear reactors on fault lines in one of the world's most seismically active regions was a smart thing to do and nothing would ever go wrong... It really makes you wonder about the mental health of these decision makers...

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Get out of Tokyo: Foreign Office tells all Britons to leave toxic radiation zone as Japanese 'lose control' of stricken reactor
Daily Mail, 16th March 2011

• French minister: 'Let's not beat about the bush, they've essentially lost control'
• Radioactive steam spews into atmosphere from reactor number three
• Experts warn that crisis is 'approaching point of no return' as officials run out of options
  
• Officials commandeer police water cannon to spray complex
  
• Attempts to dump water on reactors by helicopter fail
• Two more previously stable reactors begin to heat up
• Rich scramble to book private jets out the country as fleeing passengers pack Tokyo airport
  
• Workers battling nuclear meltdown evacuated for hours today after radiation levels increased

The UK government is urging all British nationals to leave Tokyo as soon as possible amid fresh safety fears.

Comment: Best pictures of the 'nuked' reactors yet.... The situation is off the charts with world experts telling us that this is Chernobyl on steroids. I can't help thinking that maybe this is our Atlantis moment. Japan is no more, they will have to evacuate the whole country. Here is the quote:

At the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, where an explosion Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, the spent fuel pool, in accordance with General Electric’s design, is placed above the reactor. Tokyo Electric said it was trying to figure out how to maintain water levels in the pools, indicating that the normal safety systems there had failed, too. Failure to keep adequate water levels in a pool would lead to a catastrophic fire, said nuclear experts, some of whom think that unit 1’s pool may now be outside.

“That would be like Chernobyl on steroids,” said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1.

People familiar with the plant said there are seven spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi, many of them densely packed.

Gundersen said the unit 1 pool could have as much as 20 years of spent fuel rods, which are still radioactive.

Japan races to contain meltdowns after two blasts; third reactor loses cooling capacity
Washington Post, 14th March 2011

• 'Fukushima nuke crisis - Chernobyl on steroids'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 16th March 2011
  This is an excellent explanation of what is going on by Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.
  
  
• Russia says Japan may face meltdown at six reactors
  CNBC, 15th March 2011
  
  
• Nuclear crisis: 'Chain reaction could restart'
  New Scientist, 1820 GMT, 16 March 2011
  
  
• Thom Hartmann: It's a bigger nuclear disaster then you think!
  YouTube, 15th March 2011
  Paul Gunter, director of Reactor Oversight Beyond Nuclear, explains why this is much worse than Chernobyl and why there is going to be global contamination.
  
  
• Comment: This is all because the electricity supply was knocked out by the earthquake/tsunami and was simply not restored. Diesel generators were *%&"+&? useless as they were only meant to last for 8 hours when it takes 24-48 hours to cool the reactors down. This is piled onto top of outdated nuclear technology where the original designs caused 3 engineers to resign in disgust because it was obvious that in an emergency the system would not be able to cope. We also know that in 2008 there were concerns that Japanese nuclear facilities could not withdstand a 7.0+ earthquake and the authorities just blew off concerns, despite the fact that it had only been a few years since the devastating 9.1 Sumatra, Indonesia earthquake and tsunami which killed 250,000+ people, not that far away from Japan. So, when Japan was stress tested by galactic forces, at least 3 different nuclear power plants did not cope and it looks like all 6 reactors at Fukushima Daiichi will go into meltdown. We don't know what is happening elsewhere, but the world is shocked to hear that each reactor has 20 years worth of festering old spent radiation rods ready to catch fire too... Now I have been going on for years about people needing to protect their energy fields due to Space Weather, but I did not realise that there was going to be a severe stress test, but it seems that moment has now arrived.
  

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Japan earthquake: Japan warned over nuclear plants, WikiLeaks cables show
Japan was warned more than two years ago by the international nuclear watchdog that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes, leaked diplomatic cables reveal.
The Telegraph, 15th March 2011
An official from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in December 2008 that safety rules were out of date and strong earthquakes would pose a "serious problem" for nuclear power stations.

The Japanese government pledged to upgrade safety at all of its nuclear plants, but will now face inevitable questions over whether it did enough.

While it responded to the warnings by building an emergency response centre at the Fukushima plant, it was only designed to withstand magnitude 7.0 tremors. Friday's devastating earthquake was a magnitude 9.0 shock. [...]

Panic started to spread throughout Japan yesterday following the news that a third explosion at the plant might have damaged the protective casing around the reactor core, increasing the threat of radioactive leaks.

Comment: Shocking revelations... This whole article is very interesting and Wikileak US cables have certainly proven very useful in this instance.

Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant Has Five Mark 1 Reactors
ABC News, 15th March 2011
Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.
Well, there has been discussion on the blogs, but the mainstream media are also now revealing the major design issues that caused engineers to quit in protest. I can see the conflict between yellows vs reds, blues & oranges here, it's very clear.

• DigitalGlobe’s constellation images of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, March 14th Analysis (.pdf)
  
  
• DigitalGlobe’s constellation image of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, March 16th
  
• Copies here (large) & here (small)
  
  
• Wikipedia: Timeline of the Fukushima nuclear accidents
  
  
• Losing battle for Fukushima? Radioactive material leaked out, plant abandoned
  YouTube/Russia Today, 16th March 2011
  

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Tokyo governor apologizes for calling quake divine retribution
CNN News, 15th March 2011
The governor of Tokyo apologized on Tuesday for saying the earthquake and resulting tsunami that left thousands dead were divine punishment for Japanese egoism, the country’s official news service reported.

"I will take back (the remark) and offer a deep apology," Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said at a Tuesday news conference, according to Japan’s official Kyodo News.

On Monday, Ishihara had told reporters, "I think (the disaster) is tembatsu (divine punishment), although I feel sorry for disaster victims," according to Kyodo News, which translated Ishihara's remarks from Japanese.

Comment: Wow.... this takes your breath away... I can understand what this person is saying, but I still think that while the situation is so terrible, this is a very insensitive thing to say. I think that yes, there is human egotism, but it's at a collective level. There has not been much of a serious search for truth and understanding of universal cycles but it's obvious that a new universal directive is kicking in hard. So, the fact that humans are still mostly oblivious is a collective problem. Look, we had a warning shot in December 2004 with the Sumatra earthquake. Despite 250,000+ people dying, it did not change policies like the placement of nuclear power plants on seismically active earthquake zones. Now, there is a real possibility that the whole of Japan will have to be abandoned due to reactors in various locations blowing sky high with the nastiest radioactive materials imaginable. Will this have an impact on human consciousness, you bet! Will it stop more catastrophic events occuring, probably not. We are in a time of rapid evolutionary change and humans need to understand there are mightier forces than us and they mean business! Earth is under reconstruction. For those who might be new to what I have been saying and have not read my essay The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind I talked about Earth undergoing "Cosmic Housekeeping", a process that I compared to being like a car going through a car wash. If the car has the windows down then during the process, the interior is going to get wet but the outside structure of the car will be just fine. Humans have failed to take note of the rising energy levels on the planet and have choosen to carry on like nothing is happening, when it is clear that the planet is under a massive cosmic bombardment. The universe has a variety of apocalyptic ways of creating change, but for various reasons, as bad as things are going to get, I don't think we will have to endure the worse, but of course, I could be wrong.

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Official: Japan's nuclear situation nearing severity of Chernobyl
CNN News, 15th March 2011
(CNN) -- The explosion Tuesday at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has elevated the situation there to a "serious accident" on a level just below Chernobyl, a French nuclear official said, referring to an international scale that rates the severity of such incidents.

The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale -- or INES -- goes from Level 1, which indicates very little danger to the general population, to Level 7, a "major accident" in which there's been a large release of radioactive material and there will be widespread health and environmental effects.

"It's clear we are at Level 6, that's to say we're at a level in between what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl," Andre-Claude Lacoste, president of France's nuclear safety authority, told reporters Tuesday.

Comment: The headline probably does not reflect the severity of the crisis, but we are not being provided with all the facts. On the forums there is great concern about the spent fuel rods. The idea that hundreds of thousands of old radioactive fuel rods have been stored on site but actually ABOVE the existing reactors is shocking beyond belief. The following article talks about the spent fuel rods.

Reactor Cooling Pools May Pose Greater Danger
CNBC News, 24th March 2011
"Were the spent fuel rods in the pools to catch fire, nuclear experts say, the high heat would loft the radiation in clouds that would spread the radioactivity.

“It’s worse than a meltdown,” said David A. Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists who worked as an instructor on the kinds of General Electric reactors used in Japan. “The reactor is inside thick walls, and the spent fuel of Reactors 1 and 3 is out in the open.”
The truth is really horrible, it's beyond belief...

• MSNBC News: Japan crisis now worse than Three Mile Island!
  YouTube/MSNBC News, 15th March 2011
  
  
• 30km no-fly zone over Fukushima, meltdown fears as radiation leak confirmed Russia Today, 15th March 2011
  
  
• Russia Today: Fukushima Titanic? 'Nuke tech always 'Unsinkable Ship' gambling'
  YouTube/Russia Today, 15th March 2011
  John Large nuclear consultant talks about nuclear technology and gambling
  
  
• Latest Russia Today News Video
  YouTube/Russia Today, March 2011
  Latest RT Video.
  
  
• Russia today Live TV
  Russia Today TV
  

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Workers Strain to Retake Control After Blast and Fire at Japan Plant (4th Explosion)
New York Times, 15th March 2011
TOKYO — Japanese officials and safety workers struggled to reassert control over badly damaged nuclear reactors on Tuesday after the situation at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant appeared to verge toward catastrophe, with a huge spike in radiation levels after a new explosion and fire.

Though the situation remained perilous, there were signs that workers had, at least for the moment, contained some of the danger. The higher radiation levels of earlier in the day — possibly from a fire in the No. 4 reactor — stabilized and then declined toward evening, according to the Japanese authorities.

Comment: Catastrophe! Here are some expert opinions:

The Idiocy and Hubris of Engineers: Will GE Get Whacked for the Catastrophic Failure of its Nuke Plants in Fukushima?
This Can't Be Happening, 14th March 2011
"GE, the company that boasts that it “brings good things to life,” was the designer of the nuclear plants that are blowing up like hot popcorn kernels at the Fukushima Dai-ichi generating plant north of Tokyo that was hit by the double-whammy of an 9.1 earthquake and a huge tsunami. [...]

The drawings of the plants in question, called Mark I Reactors, provide no way for venting hydrogen gas from the containment buildings, despite the fact that one of the first things that happens in the event of a cooling failure is the massive production of hydrogen gas by the exposed fuel rods in the core. This is why three of the nuclear generator buildings at Fukushima Dai-ichi have exploded with tremendous force blasting off the roof and walls of the structures, and damaging control equipment needed to control the reactors.

One would have thought that design engineers at GE would have thought about that fact, and provided venting systems for any hydrogen gas being vented in an emergency into the building. But no. They didn’t."

Worst Nightmare? Nuclear meltdown threat as Fukushima fuel rods 'fully exposed' YouTube, 14th March 2011

Comment:15th March 13:50 UT. This is an interview of Shaun Burnie, an independent atomic energy consultant from Scotland, who discusses the 'faith in technology' by Japanese authorities. He talks about what is going to happen with the fallout, but this is only based on his knowledge of the 2nd explosion, but now I believe there have been FOUR explosions (see above). He tells us that the French government have advised their citizens to leave the Canton of Tokyo but there is 42 million people that live in this region. This is the point where he was abruptly cut off by the RT News interviewer.

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FUKUSHIMA: FUEL RODS AT THREE REACTORS ARE MELTING (Video)
Business Insider, 14th March 2011
THE LATEST: The nuclear crisis at Japan's Fukushima power facilities continues, with 3 reactors fuel rods now melting down, according to Sky. TEPCO has admitted that rods are again exposed at reactor 2.

EARLIER ON DAY 4: 11 people were injured in an explosion at Reactor #3, according to the BBC. This was somewhat expected and warned about yesterday. A wall at one of the reactors collapsed.

Meanwhile, according to Kyodo Wire, the cooling function has been lost at a third reactor -- reactor #2. TEPCO disagrees, and says that both reactors 1 and 2 are likely safely cooled down, per FT Alphaville.

Comment: There are at least 6 nuclear reactors that are in danger of meltdown, officially we are being told about three, but the rumours have been circulating for maybe 24 hours already. I had not heard about this 2nd explosion either, there is video. This webpage is being continously updated.

How Black Is The Japanese Nuclear Swan?
Business Insider, 14th March 2011
Comment: This is NOT a Black Swan event, this was highly predictable. 55 nuclear reactors in a earthquake region with three major faults that rattle the region virtually every day and where residents of Tokyo have been waiting for the long overdue Big One. Here is the definition:

The Black Swan Theory or Theory of Black Swan Events is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that The event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight.
Source: Wikipedia: Black Swan Theory

How can this be considered to be a Black Swan? It's only a Black Swan for people who refuse to accept reality and in my opinion, that is a lot of people.

Japan crisis: third explosion raises spectre of nuclear nightmare
New explosion at Fukushima plant, as engineers fought to prevent a meltdown in the second worst nuclear accident in history.
The Telegraph, 14th March 2011
Unbelievable! The blast was heard at 0610 local time on Tuesday (2110 GMT Monday). Seriously bad news for Japan and the world. Radiation levels rising steeply.

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Military Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation, but Officials Call Risk in U.S. Slight
New York Times, 13th March 2011
The Pentagon was expected to announce that the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan, causing crew members on deck to receive a month’s worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials said Sunday.

The officials added that American helicopters flying missions about 60 miles north of the damaged reactors became coated with particulate radiation that had to be washed off.

There was no indication that any of the military personnel had experienced ill effects from the exposure. (Everyone is exposed to a small amount of natural background radiation.)

Comment: At least we know that the Japanese authorities have been hiding the extent of the problem and that the wind is blowing radiation out over the Pacific. Hmmm... It does seem like an Atlantis moment to me.... Total failure to acknowledge and understand the issues facing planet Earth that is being swamped by galactic and cosmic energies. We cannot continue business as usual because it won't work in a high energy cosmic environment. Some folks are getting really upset and blaming the greedy and stupid folks in charge for building these reactors in a seismically active region, but quite frankly, I believe we are seeing the result of a collective failure. Space Weather has been getting worse for over 20 years, but who exactly has been paying attention to the consequences? Well, I did and a few others, who truly understood that this is about energy driven evolutionary change. As far as I concerned, there is no sense in trying to fight the tide like metaphorical King Canutes.

Japan Nuclear Fallout: How Bad Could It Get?
The Daily Beast, March 2011
I imagine similar links are being posted all over the internet:

• Emergency at Onagawa nuclear plant, radiation 700 times over normal
  YouTube/Russia Today, 13th March 2011
  Please note: the Russians are paying very attention to what is happening in Japan. This Onagawa and Tokai nuclear plant, are also having problems despite the media staying quiet. Discussion of the storage of spent fuel rods here by expert.
  
  
• Tokyo Geiger Counter Live
  There are adverts! Is this being done by some business minded person even in this time of crisis?
  Info: CPM = counts/clicks per minute. Higher is worse. Lower is better. Normal background is approx. 10-20 CPM 1000 CPMs = 1 Mr Normal is about 2Mr or 2000 CPM.
  Update: I think this geiger counter is misleading as it's inside someone's property.
  
  
• Tokyo Geiger Counter (mirror 2 updated every 10 min.)
  This is a graph and looks a little bit more credible
  
  
• How to Read a Geiger Counter
  Ehow, March 2011
  
  
• Yokoso News - Live Broadcast from Tokyo
  Yokoso News, March 2011
  English Yokoso News is an online social media about travel, lifestyle, study and entertainment in Japan. There are archived summary reports too.
  
  
• Winds at Japan Power Plants Should Send Radiation out to Sea
  AccuWeather.com, 14th March 2011
  
  
  "A typical wind trajectory across the Pacific is westerly, since there is often a large dome of high pressure over the central Pacific and an area of low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska." Calculated time for radioactive particles to cross the Pacific from the power plants in Japan to big West Coast cities if the particles take a direct path and move at a speed of 20 mph:

  Cities	Est. Distance (miles)	Est. Time to Cross Pacific (days)
  Anchorage	3,457	7
  Honolulu	3,847	8
  Seattle	4,792	10
  Los Angeles	5,477	11

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Is space like a chessboard?
Escience News, 18th March 2011
Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space. Space is usually considered infinitely divisible — given any two positions, there is always a position halfway between. But in a recent study aimed at developing ultra-fast transistors using graphene, researchers from the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy and the California NanoSystems Institute show that dividing space into discrete locations, like a chessboard, may explain how point-like electrons, which have no finite radius, manage to carry their intrinsic angular momentum, or "spin."

While studying graphene's electronic properties, professor Chris Regan and graduate student Matthew Mecklenburg found that a particle can acquire spin by living in a space with two types of positions — dark tiles and light tiles. The particle seems to spin if the tiles are so close together that their separation cannot be detected.

"An electron's spin might arise because space at very small distances is not smooth, but rather segmented, like a chessboard," Regan said.

Comment: But of course.... this is basic esoteric knowledge... same as the polarity structure revealed by the holographic projection of human DNA... as above so below....

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Heavens above, they're desert flying fish
NT News, 17th March 2011
THE freak phenomenon of fish raining from the sky continued with another load found bucketing down in a Territory community.

The small bait could be found en masse at the airport strip in Lajamanu - about 550km southwest of Katherine. Territory politician Rob Knight was flabbergasted to find the fish on the red soil on the edge of the Tanami Desert - hundreds of kilometres from Lake Argyle and Lake Elliot. "These fish had not long been on the ground," he said. The NT News reported on February 28 last year how Lajamanu was covered not once, but twice, by fish falling from the sky.

Local Aged Care Centre co-ordinator Christine Balmer said then she had to pinch herself when she found "hundreds". "These fish were alive when they hit the ground," she said.

A tornado may be responsible for the phenomenon. But Mr Knight speculated increased UFO activity in the Top End, as often reported in the NT News was behind the wacky appearance.

Comment: We have seen increasing levels of Fortean phenomena and I expect it to get worse as the magnetics on the planet gets more and more unstable.

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The science behind the lonely singing of the sand
io9 Science, 17th March 2011
Out in the desert, the sand sometimes hums or 'sings' as people walk along the top of dunes. Find out what causes this beautiful yet creepy sound, and listen to audio of the sand song.

Many people think that out in the desert, there's nothing to hear but the footsteps of camels, the panting of lost souls and the occasional 'caw' of a vulture. They'd be wrong. Sometimes, people walking along the top of a dune will hear a deep hum.

Comment: Interesting.... NASA Astronomer Dr. Sten Odenwald has a very informative Astronomy Cafe webpage of links (but some are dead) on the Singing Sands as part of his Weird Things in the Attic section. Even though apparently scientists understand this strange phenomenon, I still consider this to be in Fortean territory.

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Inside the sweat lodge: Witnesses describe a ritual gone wrong
CNN, 14th March 2011
Camp Verde, Arizona (CNN) -- James Arthur Ray's spiritual warriors journeyed to the foot of the mystical red cliffs of Sedona, Arizona, to find enlightenment. They were willing to shave their heads, meditate in the desert for 36 hours without food and water, then symbolically die and be reborn in a sweat lodge ritual.

They were seekers, not flakes. Doctors, engineers, salespeople, small-business owners -- professionals who paid $10,000 to break down personal barriers they believed kept them from achieving all they could.

But how hard participants in Ray's motivational seminars pushed themselves -- and how intensely Ray pushed his acolytes -- is one of the central questions being examined here in Yavapai County as his trial on manslaughter charges unfolds.

Comment: This article highlights the fact that James Ray turned his Spiritual Warrior seminar into an endurance test for Ninjas. Watching the trial has been quite eye-opening. Witnesses admit they were only focusing on themselves and trying to stay alive. Horrible stuff. James Ray turned his course participants into zombies and then tried to take them close to death for a peak spiritual 'experience' in his sweat lodge. Unfortunately, 3 actually died in the process hence the trial. It's interesting that some people woke up and actually left before the end of this nightmare and hence did not get their monies worth after paying 10,000 dollars. Well, given the opportunity, I would shake their hands to congratulate them. More:

Doctors feared mass suicide after deadly 'sweat lodge,' survivor says
CNN, 17th March 2011
"Participants in the October 2009 event paid up to $10,000 to seek "new areas of consciousness," Ray testified Tuesday."
Personally, I wonder how many have become enlightened about Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs) and the nasty folk who run them?

• James Arthur Ray - Trial Discussion pg 131
  RR Cult Education forum , 16th March 2011
  Here we have discussion of the sweat lodge participants foaming at the mouth, dehydration, tobacco/nicotine poisonoing, hyperventilation, James Ray's lack of qualifications, adult ADD and his Narcissistic behavior disorder.
  
  
• James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 13
  Celestial Healing, 17th March 2011
  Quite frankly, this women is making a great effort in covering this trial from a more spiritual, rational and sane perspective. I can recommend this blog.
  
  
• James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 14
  Celestial Healing, 18th March 2011
  Comment: LaVaughn discusses the witness testimony of the Dr. Jeanne Armstrong and I am sorry that I did not see any of this. In her testimony, Armstrong points out that people being hydrated or not is not really the main factor that will kill them, it's whether they can dissipate heat through sweat and cool the body down to prevent heat stroke. Basically, the sweat lodge was too hot and humid and not the fact that people were hydrated or not was the problem and as witnesses have stated, fat and less healthy people survived because they were lucky to be in a part of the lodge that was not so hot. Simply, perfectly healthy people died because they were over cooked. Fortunately, it seems that Dr. Jeanne Armstrong has partially scuttled the case for the Defence and I am pleased about that. It also highlights the fact that some moron versed in the black arts of persuasion and suggestion, could run a sweat lodge that creates such dangerous conditions that people actually die. Guess what! When some people tried to get out because they could not cope, James 'Death' Ray pleaded with them to get back in to finish off being cooked! Not much sanity here....
  
  
• Inside a James Ray Sweat Lodge – Unsafe at any Temperature?
  Sauna Scape, 4th March 2011
  "[...] Mr. Ray’s defense might be right: Toxins seem to us to be the cause of this tragedy. Unfortunately for Mr. Ray, it looks like he was the prime creator of the toxins, not others as his defense team alleges. It sounds to us like his participants suffered from lack of oxygen in the sweat lodge."

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Tiny Diamonds Shrink Cancerous Tumors
News Max health, 10th March 2011
U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have found a way to attack late-stage breast and liver cancer tumors by attaching a potent chemotherapy drug to tiny carbon particles known as nanodiamonds.

The technique was tested in mice and showed that nanodiamonds helped the drug, doxorubicin, get inside the normally chemo-resistant tumor and shrink it, said the study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Without the nanodiamonds, the drug was either rejected by the body and failed to work on the tumor, or in higher doses it was too powerful and lethal for the patient.

"This is the first work to demonstrate the significance and translational potential of nanodiamonds in the treatment of chemotherapy-resistant cancers," said the study.

Comment: Geometry is the key...

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Sign of California Quake to Come? (video)
Former USGS geologist has dire warning
Fox News, 15th March 2011
"From the maverick science files: A former United States Geological Survey geologist has gone on record before to predict earthquakes with startling accuracy. In this news video, Jim Berkland details the signs of an impending earthquake for the west coast of the United States, pointing a finger at the coming weekend's close approach of the Moon, increased tides, changes in magnetic fields and recent mass fish deaths in California. Ominously, the video concludes with a picture of a dead oarfish, found in California, considered by many to be a harbinger of destruction." Courtesy: www.anomalist.com

Comment: I think the Japanese earthquake and tsunami might have beem caused by a gravitational wave but the planet is electrically saturated and it seems that we have to consider that any known natural trigger like the upcoming supermoon on the 19th may have a bigger than usual effect. Jim Berkland has a respectable track record for predicting earthquakes and I think people should pay attention.

• Sign of California Quake to Come YouTube, 15th March 2011
  (YouTube version)

Earthquakes, Earthworms and Earth Changes
Before its News, 17th March 2011
"There were reports via a radio interview at rense.com that a lot of earthworms have been seen recently coming out of the soil in the Washington State area. Coincidentally, colleague writer/researcher/activist Alex Thomas from theIntelHub.com reported to me the same phenomenon. I called my son who lives not far from Alex and sure enough similar activity was spotted there. Mind you, rain levels have been high which can have the same effect, but still we should keep our eyes open."
Hmmm... I would say this is a sign of high amounts of electrical energy in the ground.

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Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis
NASA JPL, 14th March 2011
The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. But don't worry-you won't notice the difference.

Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake-the fifth largest since 1900-affected Earth's rotation. His calculations indicate that by changing the distribution of Earth's mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).

Comment: For the record... see previous comments on scientists who think earthquakes changing the earth's tilt is completely false and that only an external force can change the Earth's tilt.

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An Alternate Perspective on 2012 and "the End of the Mayan Calendar"
Elvëa Systems, March 2011
Recently, in a radio interview, I publicly stated that neither [Carl Johan Calleman's findings about] Oct. 28, 2011 nor [John Major Jenkins' and other people's assertions regarding] Dec. 21, 2012 are what we should be focused on relative to what is popularly believed to be the "end of the Mayan Calendar" [the Tzolkin] and humanity's quantum leap into Universal Consciouness. In that statement, I mentioned that the Gregorian Calendar date that is most important to consider, relative to the Tzolkin's creation cycles and the Mayan Long Count [the correlations between the Tzolkin, and the Gregorian Calendar] is March 31, 2013. Since people listening to the interview may not have fully grasped what I was communicating, this article is a brief clarification of my statement.

Comment: I was sent this online article by the author Michaele de Cygne aka Alyras. The following is part of my email response on being sent details on yet another Mayan Calendar End Date.

John Major Jenkins is now distancing himself from the 2012 doomsday hype, but unfortunately, he [his work] is one of the reasons why the 2012 meme has become so popular with many wrong beliefs. [...]

I am not interested in getting involved with the infighting between Mayan researchers because I have focused on understanding REALITY. Modern Mayan Elders were very clear that we were entering a New Age dominated by space or the ether (modern spelling aether) and it is a scientific fact that Space Weather has been escalating for over 20 years. However, in reality, these energies have been slowly appearing for the whole of the last century and we are now seeing the trickle of evolutionary energies turning into a flood. If you have read my book, Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006) or read any of my essays you will see that I make this very clear.

Since, I wrote my book and had some dealings with Geoff Stray who was shocked to discover my more scientific interpretation of evolutionary change that I could link to the beliefs of Modern Mayan Elders, I decided to re-examine the beliefs about the Galactic Alignment. In due course, I was sent an email by Raymond Mardyks, a Galactic Astrologer who informed me that he was the original source of the Galactic Alignment idea and he says he just made some of it up as a teaching aid!

2012, Galactic Cosmology & A New World Age ( April, 2009)

JMJ is still ignoring the fact that modern Mayan Elders are considered the world's timekeepers for major astronomical and astrological events and we are facing a major transition. What I don't understand is the high level of abstract teaching, consciousness is energy it's not nothing! As far as I am aware, the Modern Mayan Elders are tracking Galactic, Cosmic and Earth energies and I am seeking to integrate this so that left-brained people can understand why there is a need to evolve and change to comply with new universal directives.

At this moment in time, I am most concerned that ordinary people do not understand that our planet is being bombarded with energies from deep space. Hence, why so many focus on world disasters because they are still tapping into old memories. There are legitimate concerns for anyone who has studied the history of the Earth and the warnings that have been left by our ancestors concerning the peril for humanity that occurs at certain points of transition.

The Greatest Transition in the History of Mankind: The Return of Paradise (June, 2010) 2 .pdf files

Quite frankly the Japanese disaster unfolding now is a perfect example of humans failing to realise that the old ways of doing things on this planet are not going to work in the new cosmic environment. Please read my blog because I have been pointing out why NASA et al. have been desperate to try and predict space weather which is delivering fresh evolutionary energies to Earth. The whole of our modern satellite communications and technological infrastructure is at risk. Things are so bad that the US military are thinking of giving up their [total] reliance on GPS. That's serious.

By the way, I think the Japanese 9.0 earthquake and tsunami might have been caused by a gravitational wave from deep space in exactly the same way that some astronomers believe it was the cause of the Sumatra 9.1 earthquake and tsunami in 2004.

I am simply not interested in the narrow focus of Mayan researchers who have not integrated their knowledge with what is taking place on this planet. Hence, in examining the work of people like JMJ and Calleman, who at least has a better philosophy of the evolution of consciousness, I have been less and less impressed as I have developed my own understanding based on the beliefs of many other traditional and modern metaphysical sources.

I am explaining to people that this transition taking place on Earth, will create new cosmic conditions that will last for thousands of years, which is the same opinion as modern mayan Elders who are true keepers of ancient knowledge. They don't know the exact transition date and for convenience, the 21st December 2012 is offered as an approximate. Hence, I am satisfied with the belief that this can be viewed like a woman giving birth to a baby, we are in the [late] pregnancy stage and the arrival date is not a 100% certain. [Sent: 14th March 2011]

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Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation
NICT, 13th March 2011

Comment: This is the magnetosphere failing again. There is a high speed solar wind (550-600km/s) and daylight side of the inner magnetosphere looks to have filled up with particles for about 4 hours between 11.30 UT to 15:30 UT. It cleared up and now it looks like it has leaked again from about 19:18 UT onwards. The last shot I have viewed was 22:18 UT. I have tracked down an example in 2005 where this has been seen on a NICT Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation movie, so this leakiness maybe become more of an issue as the planetary bombardment accelerates. See below:

YouTube - Magnetosphere Simulation from 09-09-2005 thru 09-12-2005
YouTube, May 31, 2010
On Sept. 7th, 2005, a huge sunspot (789) rounded the sun's eastern limb. As soon as it appeared, it exploded, producing one of the brightest x-ray solar flares of the Space Age (X-17). In the days that followed, the growing spot exploded eight more times. Each powerful "X-flare" caused shortwave radio blackouts on Earth and pumped new energy into a radiation storm (S-2) around our planet. The blasts hurled magnetic clouds toward Earth, and when they hit, on Sept 10th and 11th, ruby-red auroras were seen as far south as Arizona.

"Solar Flares and CMEs keep me up at night..."
For the most part, you have nothing to worry about from C, M, or X Class Flares. My personal comfort level is not pushed by a single event until we're head-long and IMF tilted south with a X-12.

Comment: I would like to say that this is rather strange attitude because the Earth's magnetic field now has some serious holes (when it actually exists) and from what I can see, the atmosphere is now leaking like a sieve. Therefore the direct measurement of x-ray flashes on the sun, no longer completely equate to being able to predict X-ray flashes being received here on Earth.

Students burned, mysterious cause
KATC News, 11th February 2011
Around two-dozen high school students come home, in the middle of winter with what looks like... Get this--- a sunburn. Now, parents and teachers want to know how this happened. It's a mystery in the community of Hathaway and it has people burning to know the answers. "We don't know what caused it," parent, Donald Demary said. "We just kept trying to find answers,"

KATC News: CHILDREN MYSTERIOUSLY SUNBURNT IN FEBUARY - MAGNETOSPHERE DROPPING?
YouTube, Feb 13, 2011

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MORE Jerusalem Evidence - Two `Close Up' Photo Stills - Via YouTube
UDCC, 12th March 2011
While the unaware sheeple cling to some made up fantasy that the Jerusalem Orb of Jan. 29th was a `hoax' or viral marketing campaign - websites such as UDCC continue to bring data that upsets that comfortable apple cart. Yes, I have had this link and video for a bit of time as yet ANOTHER of the UDCC `ground troops' brought it to my attention about 2 weeks ago. And, as you can see, this video was uploaded soon after the event and has over 24K views - somehow however - it has never really been a part of the total discussion:

Description with video:
I personally photo these pictures. These are real from that night January 28 2011. This pictures proof of real Orb Spirit Ghost over Jerusalem Temple Mount Dome of the Rock. This is not UFO or solid craft. This is Apparition that appear from nowhere and disappear just as fast. There was bright light after I took second photo. There was also red lights high in sky but my camera could not pick up picture because they were not bright enough. Please respect me and my family privacy. I only want to share to the world these magnificant photos. God be with you.

Comment: Rick Phillips is doing some great work and I am pleased he has a team of workers supporting his efforts. Now, imagine this is a spiritual entity on routine business picking up the energy associated with people's prayers and delivering them to where they need to go for processing. It seems reasonable to me...

Speculation(s) About `Spirit Orbs' - And Why Their Possible Existence Complicates `UFO Disclosure'
UDCC, 13th March 2011

Comment: I saw that Rick mentioned my name and I tried to post a comment, I don't know whether it was received or not but this is what I wrote:

Hello Rick,

I have to say I do worry when you start speculating... LOL! Well, I am of the opinion that Earth has a Shadow Biosphere but some of these entities that you are calling 'Spirit Orbs' are actually universal messengers and they enforce certain universal directives. Basically, they keep the show on the road and in my book I called them the Earth Management Team. Earth is a school and it is managed, we are watched over but there is not as much interference as some would believe. This does not mean that ET outsiders do not exist, but I think the UFO phenomena is much more complex than most ufologists are prepared to accept and the vast majority of what has been detected by humans in the past are the Earth Management Team going about daily business.

In September 2006, when I self-published, I was very nervous about talking about another lifeform on this planet and so the quotes I used were quite cryptic. These days, I no longer care what people think, so I have lots of information on my www.susanrennison.com website that elucidates what I think is going on. I don't care about traditional sources either so I have paid close attention to channeled sources who were up front and stated they were not human.

Yes, that is right, some of these whacko New Agers are channelling entities that state up front they are Magnetic Masters and describe themselves in such a manner that someone like me who is interested in physics does a little research and discovers that our scientists acknowledge the existence of magnetospheric or magnetic plasmoids that are free to enter and leave Earth's atmosphere at will. These days we have some great video examples that reveal the same information provided to the metaphysical community back in 1993.

My views are based on my understanding of the integration of science and metaphysics. Matter is inherently unintelligent but spirit is where the intelligence is held. We are spiritual beings that means that we have this same essence as part of our earthly existence and this energy is now being changed on the whole planet rather like changing the oil in a car. It's that time again and it has been predicted by many different esoteric traditions.

Rick, there is a lot going on, and the metaphysical community have been given a lot of information but it seems to have been like water off a ducks back. A lot of these people are not interested in reality and just don't get it. Hence, when I answered a question during an interview (Henrik Palmgren, from Red Ice Radio in 2007) I got an email from someone claiming to be a shaman that basically told me I was going off the rails.

I am sure this person is now embarrassed beyond belief, especially if they have been following my website with the substantial evidence that our militaries have been hiding the existence of the "radar angels" since the 1940s when radar was first invented. Today, many military officers retired and some still in positions of power are now talking about the existence of the bright lights. Quite simply, if this person was a true shaman they would understand that these objects have been known to exist because all the true shamanic types have always been able to see them when under the influence let's say.

Due to a massive increase of energies on this planet caused by Space Weather, Earth is being transformed into a high energy cosmic environment and that means it is no longer possible to hide the presence of this other lifeform on this planet but we must remember that on certain parts of the Earth these orbs have always been seen my humans and I will cite the existence of the Min Min lights in Australia. Of course, there are lots of questions about whether they are all good or whether they are all bad but briefly I will say, we were told that there were some nasties on this planet and they are being booted off. Let's say I am not believing everything I am told without some good reason or evidence.

Hence, I can't agree with your ideas that the Jerusalem orb was a special act, we have had lots of special acts taking place on this planet and I have been watching in some amazement. I imagine that the Jerusalem 'Orb' is a spiritual entity on routine business picking up the energy associated with people's prayers and delivering them to where they need to go for processing. The energy levels on the planet are now very unstable and the fact that orbs and UFOs can sometimes be seen is a factor of energy levels that are fluctuating wildly and explains all the other sightings in the past.

The orbs do seem to interact and react to humans and the more ethereal types seem to hang around humans and like to appear at special events. Emotions seem to be the language that is used to communicate with them. We are seeing a lot of new major arrivals (called "Master Entities") and my belief is that they are not really interested in humans but they are arriving because of the type of region of space that we are travelling through. If you do the research into ancient mythology you will see the same concepts presented about how they operate in a high energy plasma environment, most are not the 'divine' messenger types and seem to be here for their own reasons and have no interest in humans.

Whatever, Rick, I am glad to see that you are bold enough to re-think this whole issue but there have been ufologists in the past that have done the same but they were shunned for voicing an alternative opinion. However the times are a-changing and soon it's going to get really obvious that some of these critters are not cargo ships.

I make the joke that Earth is going to become a cosmic aquarium... lately, it's been looking more and more likely.

With love, Susan Joy Rennison

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Experts: Move to protect nuke plants from solar flare damage
Scripps News, 4th March 2011 --flashback--
WASHINGTON - It has happened before and it will happen again: an Earth-bound electromagnetic pulse from the sun that disrupts the power grid by burning out high-voltage transformers.

It happened in March 1989 at the Hydro-Quebec system in Canada, tripping transmission lines, burning out a high-voltage transformer in New Jersey and causing the failure of 12 others within months, all blamed on the solar blast. It happened again in October 2003 over South Africa, frying 15 high-voltage transformers. [...]

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

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

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

"The amount of attention we're gotten so far is moderate and the reason is that, considering what would happen if the electric grid were to come down is an emotionally upsetting topic," he said. "In this kind of event -- if large transformers were to become damaged -- the major cities would become uninhabitable and the United States would not be able to support its current population," he said. "

The NRC is taking his petition seriously and will consider the possibility of new regulations after an extensive review of the petition, said spokesman Scott Burnell.

But he added: "Today there are requirements in place for both emergency power sources and spent fuel pool operations that the NRC feels are appropriate for assuring the public's health and safety going forward."

Nuclear power plants are not themselves self-powered and require a tie-in to the electric power grid to operate. They are also required to have back-up alternatives, such as diesel generators, and the ability to operate their safety systems off the grid for at least 30 days.

"The agency is well aware of a lot of scenarios that can cause what we call a loss of offsite power -- in other words, the grid goes down and you don't have any more electricity coming into the plant," Burnell said. "Even if you lose power at the plant, you still have an extended period of time before you even get to the point that you're losing enough water from the pool to be concerned."

Popik's petition says that extended period is not long enough. Replacing the 350 high-voltage transformers that could fail and bring down the grid east of the Mississippi and in the Pacific Northwest, as envisioned by a recent report by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, could take two years. He proposes regulations requiring back-up safety procedures so that spent fuel pools could operate unattended until grid power is restored.

Comment: It does seem that more folks are waking up to the reality of what will happen if we have a huge geomagnetic storm caused by a once in a hundred year coronal mass ejection from the sun. Solar scientists are comparing the current strange solar cycle to other solar cycles in the past that have generated historic geomagnetic storms and many people are starting to think there is a strong possibility of a quiet overall sun still generating a huge outburst. It's a surprise to read here that the US does not even manufacture it's own transformers, so we read:

"Right now, the kind of high-voltage transformers that might fail with a solar pulse aren't manufactured in the U.S. That will change in April 2013 when a Mitsubishi Electric plant begins operations in Memphis. Its general manager, Kenneth Badaracco, said the plant will turn out "something less than 100" transformers a year costing between $3 million and $5 million each.

With Earth's weaking magnetic field, strange solar behaviour and general Space Weather, we are going to need electrical engineers breathing down more necks of decision makers to get some common sense decisions made.

Comment: 11th March 2011 20:33 UT Well, we know the Japanese are having problems with some of their nuclear reactors because the Earthquake struck and knocked out the electricity supply and some of the backup systems failed to kick in. (How long will those generators last is another issue too.) Now we hear that they have decided to let out some of the radioactive vapours to force cooling, I guess that means a controlled radioactive leak. It seems that on some assessment, we have engineers in the US concerned that in an emergency, some backup systems are not good enough, but maybe, this should be a worldwide concern? Well, imagine this happening on a large scale due to a knock out blow from deep space. At the moment, only a few understand what awaits our world, but we could be more prepared.

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Workers scramble to cool reactors; official says 2nd blast possible
CNN, 13th March 2011 Updated 1248 GMT (
(CNN) -- Workers continued efforts to cool down fuel rods inside two nuclear reactors Sunday as a Japanese government official warned that a second explosion could occur at the plant.

The aftermath of the devastating earthquake -- from the scores of casualties to the nuclear concerns at the plant in Fukushima prefecture -- marks the "toughest and most difficult crisis for Japan" since the end of World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Sunday.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said an explosion could take place in the building housing the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan.

Comment: There seems to be two sets of news, the 'official' sources and then the 'real' experts who tell us what is really happening whilst debunking the official stories, CNN has tried to offer both sides. I have also linked the article below that offers an environmental persepctive as we become aware that Japan has 55 nuclear reactors in a region that is extremely seismically active.

Nuclear Meltdown in Japan
OpEd News, 13th March 2011
"According to anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman, Japan's quake fallout may cause nuclear disaster, saying: "This is a very serious situation. If the cooling system fails (apparently it has at two or more plants), the super-heated radioactive fuel rods will melt, and (if so) you could conceivably have an explosion," that, in fact, occurred. As a result, massive radiation releases may follow, impacting the entire region. "It could be, literally, an apocalyptic event. The reactor could blow." If so, Russia, China, Korea and most parts of Western Asia will be affected. Many thousands will die, potentially millions under a worse case scenario, including far outside East Asia."

Japan Earthquake: before and after
ABC News, 13th March 2011
Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses. Hover over each satellite photo to view the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami.
There are before and after images of the Fukushima nuclear plant. We know the electricity was knocked out, due to the earthquake and then the on site generators failed, probably due to the tsunami, but here we have evidence that some of the facility was completely destroyed by the tsunami.

Japan: 8.9 Earthquake Causes Major Damage: The latest photos from Japan
ABC News, 13th March 2011

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Meltdown Caused Nuke Plant Explosion: Safety Body
Nikkei.com, 13th March 2011
TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Saturday afternoon the explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core.

The same day, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501), which runs the plant, began to flood the damaged reactor with seawater to cool it down, resorting to measures that could rust the reactor and force the utility to scrap it.

Cesium and iodine, by-products of nuclear fission, were detected around the plant, which would make the explosion the worst accident in the roughly 50-year history of Japanese nuclear power generation. An explosion was heard near the plant's No. 1 reactor about 3:30 p.m. and plumes of white smoke went up 10 minutes later. The ceiling of the building housing the reactor collapsed, according to information obtained by Fukushima prefectural authorities.

At a news conference Saturday night, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano discounted the possibility of a significant leak of radioactive material from the accident. "The walls of the building containing the reactor were destroyed, meaning that the metal container encasing the reactor did not explode," Edano said.

Comment: This confirmation is for those who are in any doubt about what has happened. The lesson that has to be learned immediately is that this was caused primarily by the disappearance of the electricity supply. On site backup generators failed too and then batteries that were brought in ran out before the reactor was cooled sufficiently, hence the meltdown of at least one reactor. There could be other reactors in different locations with the exact same problem, but the Japanese now appear to be hiding the complete truth from the world, even as they are handing out iodine to help people deal with the radiation.

Well, it has seemed really obvious to me for a long time that out world is not adequately prepared for the massive energetic shifts taking place. My focus has always been how the bombardment of energies from so many sources mean that humans need to develop their own energy fields to act as a shield, but this is spiritual science, grown-up metaphysics mostly shunned by people who prefer the childish stuff. I will even go as far as saying that I am not particularly convinced by some who claim to be world experts on the human energy field, because they cannot justify their own teachings. You have to pay thousands of dollars to find out you have been taught some dubious energetic practices by people who at best can only be described as magicians. In the metaphysical world, too much is based on trust, but unfortunately there are too many unevolved people who can't be trusted. Self interest overides the need for the greater good. Meanwhile, evolutionary change and the associated energetic bombardment continues, regardless of whether we are prepared or not.

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Fukushima blast heightens fears of Japanese nuclear disaster
RT.com, 11th March 2011

Fears of a nuclear meltdown intensified in Japan after an explosion at Fukushima power plant, which was damaged by Friday’s earthquake in the northeast.

Japan’s Emergencies Ministry has ordered the evacuation zone to be expanded to 20km (12 miles) from the Fukushima plant. Four workers are reported to have been injured in the blast, which also caused the collapse of four of the building’s walls. [...] The cooling system also failed in three reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima No.2 nuclear power plant Saturday, the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said. Japan’s government has convened an emergency meeting to discuss the quake-hit nuclear power plant.

Around 3,000 people living nearby have been moved from their homes, while several other nuclear power plants have also been shut down. The possibility of radiation emission in Fukushima would put in danger not only Japan, but the whole Russian Far East, large areas of China and the Korean peninsula.

Comment: Of course the Russians are very interested as any radiation fallout will be hitting them very quickly. There are lots of video here and interviews with experts with environmental concerns. Lets say, I am with the environmentalists here who don't believe building nuclear plants on or near major earthquake faults is a clever idea.

According to Dr Richard Philips from the School of Earth and Environment at Britain's University of Leeds interviewed by RT News suggests that the 8.9 Japan earthquake was about 8000 times more powerful than the 6.3 earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealnd and 700 times more energy released than the January 2010, 7.0 Haiti earthquake. See the following graphic for energy comparisons:

Earthquake Magnitude vs Energy Release
Arkansas Geological survey

Battle to stabilise earthquake reactors Important status update ????
World Nuclear News, 12th March 2011 UPDATE 7: 1.35 pm GMT
We have the status of 6 units at Fukushima Daiichi and 4 units at Fukushima Daini, only 2/10 are in trouble.

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Japanese nuclear reactor in peril
Washington Post, 11th March 2011
Japanese authorities and the U.S. military on Saturday were racing to find ways to deliver new backup generators or batteries to a nuclear power reactor whose cooling facilities have been crippled by a loss of power as a result of the earthquake.

The reactor, owned by Tokyo Electric Power Co., is currently drawing on battery power that may last only a few hours. Without electricity, the reactor will be unable to pump water to cool its hot reactor core, possibly leading to a meltdown or some other release of radioactive material.

The cooling problem is with the second of six reactors at the plant, located on the east coast of Japan about 200 miles north of Tokyo and south of the heavily damaged town of Sendai. Separately there were reports of elevated radiation levels inside the control room of one of the other reactor units, which was built 40 years ago. Sources said that the authorities were contemplating venting from that unit.

Altogether, 11 Japanese nuclear reactors shut down automatically as they are designed to do in case of an earthquake.

"The multi-reactor Fukushima atomic power plant is now relying on battery power, which will only last around eight hours," said Kevin Kamps, a specialist in nuclear waste at Beyond Nuclear, a group devoted to highlighting the perils of nuclear power. "The danger is the very thermally hot reactor cores at the plant must be continuously cooled for 24 to 48 hours. Without any electricity, the pumps won't be able to pump water through the hot reactor cores to cool them."

Comment: 21.12 UT. Backup generators for a nuclear power plant that only last 8 hours when they need 24 to 48 hours to cool them down? Are these people joking? Well, we have some clarity here about why some electrical engineers have started to make noises about these backup generators not being adequate in the event of ANY serious natural disaster.

Japanese to release radioactive vapour into atmosphere in desperate bid to prevent nuclear reactor exploding after systems fail at plant
Daily Mail, 11th March 2011

• 3,000 evacuated from area
• Pressure rises to 1.5 times normal level
• Experts warn the situation 'could turn grave'

[...] Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the nuclear power plant developed a mechanical failure in the system which cools the reactor after it was shut down in the earthquake. He said the measure was a precaution, there was no radiation leak and the facility was not in immediate danger. Plant workers are now scrambling to restore cooling water supplies, but warned there was no prospect of an immediate success.

The nuclear plant's owners confirmed that water levels inside the reactors at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant were falling but it was working to maintain water levels to avert the exposure of nuclear fuel rods. Tomoko Murakami, leader of the nuclear energy group at Japan's Institute of Energy Economics, said there did not appear to be an imminent danger of a radiation leak.

'Even if fuel rods are exposed, it does not mean they would start melting right away,' she said. 'Even if fuel rods melt and the pressure inside the reactor builds up, radiation would not leak as long as the reactor container functions well.'

Comment: 21:43 UT This does not sound good at all....

NUKE PLANT: Japan PM Orders Wider Evacuation, As Radiation Levels Hit 1000X Normal
Business Insider, 11th March 2011
22:15 UT It looks like it will be meltdown... this webpage is constantly being updated.

Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Escalates in Japan – ‘Worse than Chernobyl’
Forbes Blog, 11th March 2011

Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima
All Things Nuclear, 11th March 2011

TEPCO went on to state the shutdowns were caused by the loss of off-site power “due to malfunction of one out of two off-site power systems.” This loss of power triggered emergency diesel generators, which automatically started to provide backup power to the reactors.

However, at 3:41 p.m. local time (1:46 a.m. EST), the emergency diesel generators shut down “due to malfunction, resulting in the complete loss of alternating current for all three units,” according to TEPCO. The failure of the diesel generators was most likely due to the arrival of the tsunami, which caused flooding in the area. The earthquake was centered 240 kilometers from Japan, and it would have taken the tsunami approximately an hour to reach the Japanese islands.

This power failure resulted in one of the most serious conditions that can affect a nuclear plant—a “station blackout”—during which off-site power and on-site emergency alternating current (AC) power is lost. Nuclear plants generally need AC power to operate the motors, valves and instruments that control the systems that provide cooling water to the radioactive core. If all AC power is lost, the options to cool the core are limited.

Comment: 12th March 00:40 UT. All this information is highly pertinent to what would happen if we get a knock out blast from the sun. By the way, according to spaceweather.com, it's geomagnetic storm conditions and the already released highly toxic nuclear radiation that has managed to bind to our DNA, is being photo-electrically enhanced by the increase in background radiation as Earth loses her cosmic shielding. We are like the proverbial frogs in the pan of water that is being slowly heated accept for the fact that bombardment has started to get serious but most people are like the frogs who have not noticed they are being boiled alive. Now, this is all too surreal....

5 nuclear reactors under state of emergency
Sun Times, 11th March 2011
12th March, 01:05 UT. OK, it's official, the s*** has hit the fan

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Apocalypse: Japan Struck by Historic Quake
ABC News, 11th March 2011 Video Direct with 88,000 quote
Japan Earthquake 8.9/Tsunami, Shocking News, Widespread Fires, New Estimate 88,000 dead (Video)
ABC News, 11th March 2011
Tsunami waves racing across the Pacific Ocean crashed through the Hawaiian Island, and California, Oregon and Alaska braced for waves that could be as high as six feet, officials said today. Warning sirens have begun blaring in some Oregon coastal communities and residents are being urdged to seek higher ground.

Orgeon officials said highways were congested with residents evacuating low lying ares near Florence. Coastal communities were bracing for possibly damaging waves of up to 6 feet. The waves are expected between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. local time.

The tsunami reached Hawaii around 3:30 a.m. local time. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says Kauai was the first island hit early by the wave, which was quickly sweeping through the Hawaiian Island chain.

Comment: I asume the 88,000 dead is an international mayday distress signal and code for total devastation. The video here is completely shocking

US Air Force transports coolant to nuclear reactor hit by giant Japan earthquake (video)
Move comes after state of emergency declared at two nuclear facilities
MSNBC News, 11th March 2011 ?????
"Officials in Japan declare a nuclear emergency at the Tokushima nuclear reactor after cooling generators failed. No radiation leakage has been detected. NHK World reports."
Conflicting reports, see below:

Japan struggling to 'cool down' nuclear plant, minister says
CNN, 11th March 2011 18:24 UT

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Tsunami Hits Japan After 8.9 Megaquake (Videos)
UK Yahoo News, 11th March 2011
The 8.9 magnitude megaquake caused a huge wave that hit the port of Sendai city, sending ships crashing into the shore and carrying cars and buildings through streets. News agencies report a ship carrying around 100 was swept away by the tsunami.

The quake also rocked the capital, Tokyo, which was among the cities shaken by at least 19 subsequent aftershocks. Mass evacuations are taking place after tsunami warnings were issued for the entire Pacific basin.

And the tsunami set off by the quake is currently higher than some Pacific islands it could wash over, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.

Comment: With, the recent solar activity combined with the largest moon approach in two decades on the 19th March, this huge earthquake and tsunami was to be expected by some, but it seems to have arrived earlier and might be a signature that Earth energies were already highly primed. However, at the moment, I have not checked for an external trigger like a GRB or magnetar blast. This is an interesting quote:

This phenomenon has reportedly heightened concerns about 'supermoons' being linked to extreme weather events - such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. The last time the moon passed close to the Earth was on 10 January 2005, around the time of the Indonesian earthquake that measured 9.0 on the Richter scale.

Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was also associated with an unusually large full moon. Previous supermoons occurred in 1955, 1974 and 1992 - each of these years experienced extreme weather events, killing thousands of people.

However, an expert speaking to Yahoo! News today believes that a larger moon causing weather chaos is a popular misconception. [...]

But according to Dr Victor Gostin, a Planetary and Environmental Geoscientist at Adelaide University, there may be a link between large-scale earthquakes in places around the equator and new and full moon situations. He said: "This is because the Earth-tides (analogous to ocean tides) may be the final trigger that sets off the earthquake."

World to see biggest full moon in two decades ,
UK Yahoo News, 9th March 2011

The expert talking about slightly higher tides has not mentioned the frequent reports of freak waves and reports of unusually high tides, so there are other factors that this expert is not taking into account. I think there will be great loss of life but it has been expected by those watching the signs of the times and there have been people reporting dreams of a tsunami on popular forums in the last few days too.

Hawaii on high alert for ten-metre high tsunami after massive 8.9 quake strikes Japan
Daily Mail, 11th March 2011 Good tsunami travel map here

Nuclear power plant crippled by Japan earthquake
Herald Sun, 12th March 2011
"ABOUT 2000 residents living near a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan have been urged to evacuate, Kyodo News Agency reports. Engineers were unable to pump water to cool the nuclear reactor at the Fukushima plant crippled by fire caused by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake. Earlier, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said there was no radiation leak after the cooling system failed. He added that the plant had automatically shut down following the quake and there was no immediate danger."

• Live Internet Seismic Server
  At 13:25 UT most of the seismic stations are black which I have never seen before, so presumably, seismic activity is ringing the planet hard.
  
• BBC News: japan whirlpool tsunami 11th March 2011
  YouTube, 11the march 2011
  
• Japanese News: Uzumaki whirlpool Japan tsunami after 8.9 quake Japan 3-201
  YouTube, 11the march 2011

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John Major Jenkins - The Myths and Fallacies of 2012
Red Ice Radio, 10th March 2011
Anthropologist John Major Jenkins has been investigating Mayan culture since 1985, helping unveil the Mayan calendar system that predicts a once-in-26,000-years "astronomical alignment"-the solstice sun and the Milky Way with the galactic center-occurring on December 21, 2012, a date that's gained an apocalyptic reputation in the popular consciousness. John joins us to talk about the misconceptions about 2012 and his book, "The 2012 story - The Myths, Fallacies and Truth behind the most intriguing date in History".

Comment: OK, I was curious to see whether John Major Jenkins had anything different to say but all this interview does is clarify that JMJ is mostly interested in justifying his 2012 beliefs based on ancient Mayan artifacts. There is no interest in the beliefs of modern Mayan Elders who demonstrate an equal lack of interest in the work of anthropologists and suggest 90% of their ideas are rubbish. Here, JMJ talks about his struggle to engage scholars but his fundamental problem is his own lack of credentials, but due to his persistence he has finally got at least one academic to pay attention and we have some new information about some symbol on the Tourtoguero monument pointing to the 2012 date. JMJ has nothing to say about what is taking place on the planet now and there is only the abstract discussion of archetypes, and shifts in consciousness. The talk about those who have jumped on the bandwagon is a little unfair because even as JMJ agrees, an energetic shift in consciousness and the arrival of a New Age has been anticipated by many different traditional, indigenous, metaphysical and esoteric groups across the globe. There are solid reasons for why so many people focus on the possibility of worldwide disaster, but JMJ says this is not the focus of the ancient Mayan texts and artefacts. Again, modern Mayan Elders and the other indigenous Elders who rely on modern Mayan Timekeepers, would not agree and this is evident by paying attention to what they have to say. The acknowledgement that the ancient Maya were good astronomers does not explain WHY they were interested and how it relates to energetic shifts and New Ages. Since, the interview was recorded prior to the disaster in Japan, it just underlies the fact that there is no real in depth understanding of what this transition is really about, unless you are satisfied with his abstract talk. Modern Mayan Elders are monitoring GALACTIC, COSMIC and EARTH ENERGIES. According to our space scientists, the planet is now being slammed, JMJ cannot justify is beliefs in terms of the real world because his focus is on the interpretation of ancient Mayan artifacts. So, it must be stated that since he does not know the spiritual science passed down amongst true Mayan Elders that relates to how to interprete their own 20 calendars, 5 of them are so secret that westerners know nothing about them, them I think JMJ's work can only be very limited in scope and should not be seen as being definitive. As usual with Red Ice Radio, the first hour is for free and the 2nd hour is for subscribers only.

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James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 8
Celestial Reflections, 10th March 2011
Much has been made of the "cult indoctrination" question. The other day, Luis Li again tried to have all the spiritual content excluded from the trial and strip it down to matters of physical causation. He argued that including Ray's spiritual beliefs and teachings was, in and of itself, prejudicial. Then he really went off on a tangent, saying that there was no foundation for the entire cult brainwashing assertion. Personally, I would tend to think that this is the kind of thing that should go to a jury because it is not a matter of obvious fact, but rather one of interpretation.

Comment: Many commentators are in complete shock that one of the participants confessed in court that if he knew someone was dying they would not do anything immediately, because they did not want to upset James Ray. Even the defence lawyer's body language could not hide his own shock at hearing this admission. This is a nice write-up with some deeper reflection of the issue of mind manipulation.

James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 6
"You look at people who, who are vegetarians and by and large they're not very grounded. Why? Because they just don't have enough protein within them. However, I don't want you grounded here. I want you off-balance. [...] Haley also testified about the lack of sufficient sleep during the course. She quotes Ray as having told participants, "You'll sleep when you're dead." Comment: I wonder how many of these people have come to their senses and have realised just what a vile character they had got involved with?

James Arthur Ray Sweat Lodge Trial: Day 9
Celestial Reflections, 10th March 2011
My goodness, you have to read what James Ray said to Dr Beverley Bunn about her issues related to shaving her head. Why do the people think this person is spiritual, he is just a high pressure salesman. Unbelievable.... The CNN video of a small sweat lodge event is quite interesting.

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Heavy UFO traffic includes spheres and orbs
UFO Examiner, 10th March 2011
Intelligently controlled spheres and orbs are common reports from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database, and the latest reports from March 10, 2011, are typical of what is being seen across the country this winter season.

Two California witnesses filed reports two days in a row - for red-orange lights in the night sky on March 8 and March 9 in MUFON Case # 28187 and MUFON Case # 28188.

"We look up after last night's sighting and see a reddish orange light moving across sky - too slow to be a plane or satellite - in the southern view of the sky," the reporting witness stated. "It came from the west above the ocean and headed east."

Comment: I wonder when Roger Marsh will wake up and realise that these reports represent the sightings of another lifeform that belong to Earth's shadow biosphere. Interestingly, even when eye witnesses describe distinctly critter-like behaviour this is just ignored because it does not fit commonly held views of what the ufo phenomena actually represents. It's incredible that most ufologists have no interest in the scientific research that seeks to PROVE that these plasma entities represent another form of life.

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Space.com: Waste Dump Discovery
Spaceweather.com, 9th March 2011

LAST WATER DUMP: At the end of the day on March 8th, a strange curlicue-shaped comet appeared in the twilight skies of Europe. It was space shuttle Discovery performing a dump of waste water. Crystals of flash-frozen urine and other substances glistened in the sunlight, putting on an impressive show. Click on the image to view of a movie of the event recorded by Jens Hackmann of Weikersheim, Germany:

Discovery is circling Earth just a few more times before it lands--and retires--at the Kennedy Space Center on March 9th. If it's dark where you live, you might be able to see Discovery one last time.

more images: from Ralf Vandebergh of the Netherlands

Comment: Seriously, that seems to be a lot of water... and I am finding the "official" explanation hard to believe, there have been similar strange sightings classed as "urine dumps" before.... the 2nd image icon comes from the pictures taken in The Netherlands.

Video: Water dump of Discovery
YouTube, 8th March 2011

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Fast Coronal Mass Ejection
Spaceweather.com, 8th March

FAST CORONAL MASS EJECTION: A coronal mass ejection (CME) exploded from the vicinity of sunspot 1164 during the late hours of March 7th. It leapt away from the sun traveling ~2200 km/s, making it the fastest CME since Sept. 2005. A movie of the cloud prepared by Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab shows a possibly substantial Earth-directed component. This CME and at least one other could brush against Earth's magnetic field on March 9th or 10th.

Comment: There has been a lot of M class flares for quite a few days now. I have collected info on the Fast CME from the 7th and another on the 8th March.

Fast CME 7th March 2011
Sungrating Comets, 7th March 2011

ENLIL Solar Wind Prediction Model that provides a 1-4 day prediction of a solar storm arrival on Earth. here
Solarimg.org, 8th March 2011
Unfortunately this .gif file is loads quite quickly so it might be easier to screen print to study any details. Earth is the yellow spot. The major CME version might disappear quickly too.

Solar Update - The M-Class flare party continued on Tuesday with multiple events taking place, primarily around Sunspot 1165 which is rotating onto the western limb and will soon be out of direct earth view. Any strong solar flares around this region will not have much impact on earth at this point. Several CME's have taken place within the last 48 hours, and one of these is earth directed and could stir up Geomagnetic Storming at high latitudes. Click here to watch a Lasco C2 movie of the Coronal Mass Ejections (8th March).

From the SWPC: Further analysis with ENLIL and other models now suggests the CME from nearly 24 hours ago, clocking a speed of more than 2000 km/s as it left the Sun, may not arrive until midday Wednesday March 9. Intricacies relating to the density of the ambient solar wind ahead -- and the subsequent deceleration of the ejecta -- are expected to lengthen its travel time. When it does arrive, look for G1 (Minor) Geomagnetic activity to follow.

There will remain the chance for M-Class flares around Sunspot 1164 which is located towards the northwest limb and also around huge Sunspot Cluster 1166.
solarcycle24.com - 9th March 2011

Update 10th March

CME IMPACT: A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on March 10th around 0630 UT. Solar wind conditions, post-impact, are favorable for geomagnetic activity. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

impact images: from Joseph Shaw of Poker Flat Research Range, Alaska; from William Helms of Fairbanks, Alaska. spaceweather.com 10th March

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James Arthur Ray jury hears the voice of a victim
Daily Courier, 8th March 2011
CAMP VERDE - Echoes of a lost life hung thickly over Judge Warren Darrow's courtroom Tuesday after a jury heard the recorded voice of Kirby Brown, one of three people who died after a sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona in 2009.

The deaths led to charges of manslaughter against noted motivational speaker and author James Arthur Ray, who has pleaded not guilty.

"When we started the (Samurai) game, I was like you," Brown said on the recording, which was made just before she and the other attendees entered the sweat lodge. It is a segment from recordings made during four days of Ray's October 2009 Spiritual Warrior Retreat. "I was gonna be the hero, and I died right there before it even began."

Brown, 38, went on to recount the efforts she made to try to save her teammates in the game from sharing her fate, saying that she swallowed her own vomit in an attempt to lie perfectly still. Had she moved, Ray, playing the role of God, would have sentenced another of her team to death.

Comment: It's very sad to hear Kirby Brown putting a positive spin on the abuse dished out by James Ray under the guise of a "game". The Salty Droid (Update 5) has got the 230 seconds MP3 audio clip that can be downloaded here. No sanity at all.

Not a ‘Weenie-A** Lodge’: James Ray Trial Begins
The Star, 24th February 2011
Just after the tragedy Melinda Martin, a former employee of Ray’s, told ABC news that the scene was so chaotic that EMT’s thought at first they had arrived at a more ominous event. “There was vomiting, you know, moaning and crying, and it looked like a mass suicide. It looked like people were on their way out. It was crazy.”
Comment: Playing full on.... until you die

Salty Droid James Ray Trial Updates
Salty Droid coverage of the James Ray trial. I understand there has been a promise to keep the usual profanity down to a more acceptable level

• Follow Elizabeth Erwin from abc15.com twittering live from court... link

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Saudi Arabia business forum posts videos of UFO lectures
Open Minds, 8th March 2011
In late January 2011, business leaders from around the world met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the 5th annual Global Competitiveness Forum and of the many issues tackled UFOs and extraterrestrial life was one of them. Now they have put videos of the event on YouTube for all to see. You can view them below.
World Leaders such as Tony Blair and Bill Clinton attended the conference, although they did not attend the UFO portion of the event. Leaders in UFO research were on hand to discuss its validity and potential for the advancement of global business. Jacques Vallee, a computer scientist, venture capitalist and long-time UFO researcher was among the speakers, as well as physicists, Dr. Michio Kaku and Stanton Friedman, author and journalist, Nick Pope, who worked for the UK Ministry of Defence investigating UFOs, and Dr. Zaghloul El Naggar, an accomplished and well respected professor of earth sciences. The UFO section of the event was called Contact: Learning from Outer Space, and was moderated by Harvard business professor, John Quelch.

Comment: I was surprised to see this...

Debunking The Debunkers - Interview With Mr. Stanton Friedman
UFO Blogger, 24th February 2011
Stanton Friedman is a tough guy! By the way, the video showing of all the stuff on sale at the 2011 annual UFO congress is revealing, it's like the stuff you would find on sale at a psychic fair.... It only strengthens my conviction that ufology is just another business and actually understanding the phenomena is not part of the business plan.

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Flamingos Drop From Siberian Sky: Locals Mystified
NPR, 7th March 2011
[...] Where did they come from? There are Asian flamingos. The nearest live and nest in Kazakhstan, so perhaps those birds came from there. It's a long way, as you see here:

So what brought them so far north and east? Davison isn't sure, but she has a notion. (We discussed it on NPR's Morning Edition. Push the "listen" button on this page to hear her theory.)

Checking the library, she discovered that 100 years ago scientists also reported multiple sightings of flamingos, again deep in Siberia, and again it was November.

November is the month when flamingos normally fly south from their nests in Kazakhstan to Iran. So, she thought, maybe this is an example of "reverse migration", a behavior known in migrating birds but not – thus far — in flamingos.

Here's the idea. Suppose a bird is wired to fly one direction every fall and for some reason the wiring screws up so the animal goes 180 degrees the wrong way, exactly the opposite direction. This happens to a few birds in migrant populations every year. When she looked on a map, she noticed that the village of Vernemarkovo in Siberia, where the first bird landed, was roughly the opposite distance and the opposite direction from the flamingo's normal winter quarters in Iran.

Comment: When I first saw this story headline, I thought it was a joke. Anyway, I listened to the audio and it was done very nicely explaining that the story has been factually checked. So, Siberian locals found a flamingo in November 2003 & again in November 2004. Well, guess what I am going to say? Yes, it was the Halloween Storms in October/November 2003 when the planet's geomagnetic field was in complete chaos from a constant bombardment of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. In November 2004, there was also solar flares and coronal mass ejections around the 7/8th November. Because there is a prior historical precedent, it does seem that some of these flamingoes get caught in the firing line... The discussion of "Reverse Migration" here is very interesting and the idea that the birds have some wiring flipped in their brains might explain other stories that have surfaced recently.

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How Satnav reliant Britain could be paralysed in an instant by cyber terrorists solar activity
The Daily Mail, 8th March 2011
Britain is so dependent on the GPS navigation system that cyber terrorists could cripple banks, send ships floundering on to rocks and bring death to the roads at the click of a mouse, engineers warn.

Satellite navigation technology is now embedded in almost every aspect of our lives – from ambulances and air traffic control, to banking and the transport of food.

But the system, which relies on a network of satellites broadcasting radio signals to Earth, is worryingly vulnerable to man-made jammers, space weather and technical glitches.

Comment: The powers that be want people to worry about terrorists when really we are now at the mercy of the environment and as humans, we have a choice of whether we want to cooperate with universal forces or not. My opinion is that we don't stand a chance trying to fight such overwhelming force. Again, the 2012ers waiting for the knock out blow on the 21st December 2012 must have realised by now that they have not quite understood the messages that we are in transition into a new era. The Hindu expectation of, 'The Age of Energy' is succint and apt and it has now truly arrived.

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Classified Docs Reveal UK Tried to Stop Worldwide UFO Investigation
AOL News, 8th March 2011
When Britain released 8,500 pages of previously classified UFO files last week, one set of key documents quickly caught my attention and had a profound effect on me as it took me back in time 33 years.

The file includes many pages detailing the British government's attempt in 1978 to derail the country of Grenada's plan to convince the United Nations to form a special UFO study committee. The reason these documents resonated so strongly with me is because I'm the one who produced Grenada's UFO presentation at the U.N. all those years ago.

One 1978 document just released in the British National Archives addresses the United Kingdom's desire to oppose a UFO committee out of fear that it would ultimately cause the U.N. to fall into some sort of disrepute:

The British delegation does not think that the establishment of an agency for research into unidentified flying objects is appropriate to the functions of the United Nations. ...

Hopefully, a confrontation with the representatives of Grenada can be avoided, but the U.K. should not hesitate to make its views known as and when appropriate. ...

Foreign and Commonwealth Office ministers expressed the view that to set up any such body would reduce the credibility of the U.N.; accordingly, the U.K. delegation was instructed to oppose.

I wondered why Britain suggested that an international commission to study UFOs "would reduce the credibility of the U.N."

Comment: Nice to see Nick Pope commenting here on something relevant.

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Solar flare warning for S Africa: ‘People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment’
Investment Watchblog, 8th March 2011
The Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) on Sunday said a large solar flare was currently being experienced in South Africa. The solar flare would result in higher radiation levels from the sun.

SWWC’s forecaster Kobus Olckers said people should be careful when they go outside. “People must wear high sunscreen factor at the moment or preferably go shopping,” he said.

A powerful solar flare could overwhelm high-voltage transformers with electrical currents and short-circuit energy grids, with one such event in 1989 disrupting power across the Canadian province of Quebec. However, solar flares are nothing new, with the first major solar flare being recorded by British astronomer Richard Carrington in 1859.

Comment: Please see the graphic below for the explanation for the warning. I have never seen this "Absorption Factor" in the ionosphere so high. I am assuming that I missed capturing the peak of this event too. The recommendation for people to go shopping is well, just typical. The image icon is current. The Sun is flaring. This image was taken by the SOHO satellite 6th March 13:06, click for the original source image. Presumably we are experiencing a breach with the magnetosphere too, as it looks like a breach in the records for the 7th & 8th March and the IMF has turned south which also indicates it woud create a large breach.

"Conditions in the D-Region of the Ionosphere have a dramatic effect on High Frequency (HF) communications and Low Frequency (LF) navigation systems like Loran. The global D-Region Absorption Product depicts the D-region at high latitudes where it is driven by particles as well as low latitudes, where photons cause the prompt changes. This product merges all latitudes using appropriate displays, and is useful to customers such as commercial aviation and maritime users."

Here's some info about the D-absorption chart:

The current D-region absorption product only addresses HF absorption due to solar X-ray flares, which affect only low and middle latitudes on the sunlit side of Earth, in spite of the fact that the entire globe is graphically depicted. Solar X-ray flares ionize the D-region, dramatically increasing local electron density, and hence the total electromagnetic (EM) absorption. Due to geometric effects, D-region ionization is greatest at the sub-solar point, where the sun is directly overhead. The amount of ionization and absorption falls with distance away from the sub-solar point, reaching zero at the day/night terminator. The night side of the Earth is unaffected and the polar regions are minimally affected.

The aviation industry relies primarily on HF for communications in remote areas, which include large portions of polar routes. The current D-RAP product can mislead users into believing that HF communication over the poles is unaffected by space weather. Solar radiation storms that sometimes follow large solar eruptions can result in significant and extended degradation of HF communications at high latitudes. D-RAP2 will identify HF degradation at all latitudes.

Source pdf file: [D Region Absorption Prediction, Release 2 (DRAP2), September 2009

More info on how breaches can occur.

Southward Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) orientations enable solar wind energy to enter the Earth's magnetopshere, while northward IMF orientations allow solar wind plasma to enter the magnetosphere. Eruptions on the sun, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), cause geomagnetic storms on Earth. The sun has an eleven-year activity cycle, at the end of which its magnetic field change its polarity, or direction. The next cycle is due to bring mostly north-south CMEs, which will cause plasma to enter into the northern hemisphere of Earth's magnetosphere, fueling the storm and energizing the southern hemisphere, creating larger geomagnetic storms than in the current solar cycle.

THEMIS Observations

The THEMIS spacecraft detected a thick layer of solar particles inside of Earth's magnetosphere. This solar particle layer is 1RE thick, or approximately 4,000 miles, and is growing rapidly. This solar particle layer is much thicker when the sun's and Earth's magnetic fields are aligned than when they are not aligned. øieroset et al. reports that twenty times more particles enter the magnetosphere when the fields are aligned.

"Southward Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) orientations enable solar wind energy to enter the Earth's magnetopshere, while northward IMF orientations allow solar wind plasma to enter the magnetosphere. Eruptions on the sun, known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), cause geomagnetic storms on Earth. The sun has an eleven-year activity cycle, at the end of which its magnetic field change its polarity, or direction. The next cycle is due to bring mostly north-south CMEs, which will cause plasma to enter into the northern hemisphere of Earth's magnetosphere, fueling the storm and energizing the southern hemisphere, creating larger geomagnetic storms than in the current solar cycle."

Breach in Earth's Magnetosphere Discovered,
2008 THEMIS SCIENCE NUGGETS

Its interesting to discover details and definitions here that were not available in the original press releases back in December 2008.

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Overheard locker tot outrage
Herald sun, 8th March 2011
VIRGIN Blue has sacked a male flight attendant and offered an angry mother free flights after her toddler was put in an overhead locker.

Natalie Williamson claims she, her 17-month-old son, Riley, and her now estranged husband were on a Virgin flight from Fiji to Sydney, when the flight attendant picked up Riley, placed him in the locker and closed the latch.

Virgin has admitted an incident did take place, but claims Ms Williamson's husband was playing a peek-a-boo game with Riley involving the overhead compartment when the flight attendant joined in.

"We conducted a thorough investigation of the incident and the staff member involved was subsequently terminated," a Virgin spokeswoman said.

Comment: Well, it's been a good few months since we have had some flight attendant/airline passenger madness, but I think this is another incident that can be considered to be off the charts. I used a pic of ex-flight attendent Steven Slater, since he has become very famous after his epic abrupt resignation and departure from a JetBlue plane, see archives August 2010.

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News Flash -NASA Scientist: "Solid Evidence of ET Fossil Life in Meteorite Fragment"
Daily Galaxy, 7th March 2011
An award-winning NASA scientist, Richard B. Hoover, Astrobiology Group Leader at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, claims that he found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite has stirred both excitement and skepticism in the world astrobiology community, and is being closely reviewed by 100 experts.

Hoover claims to have found fossilized bacteria that appear similar to bacteria found on earth - like Titanospirillum velox, below from meteorites known as CI1 carbonaceous chondrites – of which only nine are known to exist on earth. [...]

Hoover is the author or editor of 33 books and some 250 papers on astrobiology, extremophiles, diatoms, solar physics, X-ray/EUV optics and meteorites. He co-directed the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Astrobiology in Crete, for which he published the book "Perspectives in Astrobiology" in 2005.

Hoover's paper, along with pictures of the microscopic earthworm-like creatures, were published late Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Cosmology, which is available free online. Hoover sliced open fragments of several types of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, which can contain relatively high levels of water and organic materials, and looked inside with a powerful microscope.

Comment: This story is getting a lot of press.... What's interesting is that this scientist has good credentials and he has decided to reveal what he thinks, despite the current paradigm of out-dated beliefs that the only life to develop in the whole universe is on little old Earth... So now astronomers estimate 100 billion - trillion galaxies, 300 sextillion stars and certainly lots more planets than that, but most are still desperate to maintain our loneliness in a vast cosmic sea, when we are probably just a grain of sand on a vast beach. Recently, I have been thinking that NASA and friends are on some sort of 'soft disclosure' program, but I wonder if it's just not going too well. Btw, over at WUWT, a few of the more intelligent and educated thinkers have started to be concerned about WHY there are so many similar media stories on this subject. Skeptical science: meteorite aliens bring out the armchair experts Oh, it's a relief to come across real thinkers...

Scientists Dubious Over Claim of Alien Life Evidence in Meteorite
space.com, 7th March 2011
The building blocks for life are ubiquitous all over the universe as far as we can tell, but apparently, we are still supposed to believe that life only developed on Earth.... it's so ridiculous, it really is...

NASA says 'no support' for claim of alien microbes
Yahoo News, 7th March 2011
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top NASA scientists said Monday there was no scientific evidence to support a colleague's claim that fossils of alien microbes born in outer space had been found in meteorites on Earth. The US space agency formally distanced itself from the paper by NASA scientist Richard Hoover, whose findings were published Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Cosmology, which is available free online. [...] "The simplest explanation is that there are microbes in the meteorites; they are Earth microbes. In other words, they are contamination."

• Here is the research paper: Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus, online here
  
• Here is a large image of the supposed ancient bacteria trapped inside meteorites that fell to Earth Life in meteorites? Study stirs debate :

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New fissure opens up between Pu‘u O‘o and Napau Crater (Video & Pics)
Hawaii 24/7, 6th March 2011
A new fissure erupted between Pu‘u ‘O‘o and Napau Crater Saturday (March 5) causing a swarm of earthquakes in the area. Spatter is reaching 15-20 m into the air, above the trees.

Comment: I simply cannot keep up with all the new geological activity but there are lots of other websites that are keeping tabs. There is concern about a new uptick and quite frankly, it does seem that the warnings that the energy bombardment of our planet would dramatic increase seems to be directly reflected in geological activity.

Associated Press Raw Video: Kilauea Volcano Erupts in Hawaii
YouTube, 6th March 2011
"Scientists say an eruption occurred along the middle of Kilauea Volcano's east rift zone after the Pu'u O'o crater floor collapsed, and lava was seen erupting up to 65 feet high. (March 7)"

GIANT FISSURE / CRACK opens in the ground! Seagi Gulistan ,PAKISTAN - March 2011
YouTube, 6th March 2011
"A very long FISSURE / CRACK has opened in the ground in Seagi Gulistan Pakistan. there is NO MSM story on this AT ALL.. this is first hand video shot by one of my subscribers family in Pakistan."
Be patient, there are some long shots too revealing the extent of the cracks, hopefully there will be more video and a translation soon.

Guatemala - Out of control THERMAL ACTIVITY on video
YouTube, 7th March 2011

Lots of related geological articles over at Extinction Protocol: